Disciple Of The Three Kings [EN]: Chapter 64

The eyes were coldly sunken.

Lee Shin-woo, who was beside him, couldn’t possibly miss the burning rage within them.

“Stop it.”

Lee Shin-woo’s quiet voice echoed in Lee Ro-woon’s ear.

“Don’t do that.”

Lee Ro-woon had already returned to his usual self and spoke to Lee Shin-woo.

Lee Shin-woo had the hidden job of an Intervener.

He could interfere with the system, but in special cases, he also had the ability to interfere with the perceptions and emotions of others.

“If I had left you alone, you would have had to fight the Jongnam Divine Maiden from here.”

“I’m not so incapable that I can’t even control that much.”

At Lee Ro-woon’s words, Lee Shin-woo shrugged.

“What’s going on?”

Lee Shin-woo asked why Lee Ro-woon was suddenly bursting with anger.

In the past, his younger brother had been emotional, but the Lee Ro-woon he had met again seemed somewhat empty and didn’t show much emotional fluctuation.

Yet, such a Lee Ro-woon was showing emotion.

“I thought the possibility was extremely low.”

The reason why Jongnam brought Yoon Tae-sun.

“It seems to be related to the Void.”

“……!”

At Lee Ro-woon’s words, Lee Shin-woo’s eyes widened.

The Void.

Not many knew that name.

“Are you sure?”

Few also knew that the Void had shattered Dank.

The Void.

That was the reason.

‘Here…!’

Finding that place had changed Lee Ro-woon’s life.

A player who was about to become a High Ranker had become a slave in the corpse disposal site of Hwasan.

The colleagues he thought he could always rely on had betrayed him and abandoned Dank.

“The Void is…”

Lee Shin-woo said.

“Not here…”

Lee Shin-woo seemed to hold back his words, aware of the eyes around them.

“That’s right. It’s not here. But I definitely felt it.”

The strange sensation he had felt when he stepped on the Void.

And Lee Ro-woon’s moving gaze.

“Yoon Tae-sun.”

Jongnam, who brought that guy.

For all these puzzles to fit together, even if it was hard to believe, he had no choice but to believe it.

That this place was the Void, or a part of it.

The special dungeon he had found on the outskirts of Seoul.

It wasn’t a gate.

A new world that Lee Ro-woon had discovered.

Those who had stepped into that world that day had all become keys.

‘Yoon Tae-sun.’

He was the same.

“If this place is really the Void… it’s an opportunity.”

Lee Shin-woo said.

“An opportunity to find out why you had to become like that.”

As Lee Shin-woo said.

The new dungeon Lee Ro-woon had found, the Void.

It was clearly a part of the world belonging to Eun.

But it was just a pitch-black cave where nothing existed.

He didn’t even know what it was or what was there.

Because the Assembly had found out that he had found the Void, and his colleagues had sold him out.

After that, he couldn’t hear any more stories about the Void anywhere.

“For now, we should just follow what Jongnam does.”

Lee Ro-woon nodded in agreement.

In front of them, Baek Cheong, who was excited, was speaking in a bright voice to Choi Yu-ran.

“Yu-ran! You’ll show us, right?”

It was about Baran, the vanguard of the gate raid, taking the lead.

***

Special Gate.

A gate of S-rank or higher, and in fact, an attack force was needed for a special gate.

Guwoooooo!

Enormous and powerful monsters.

This special gate was where monsters that a single party couldn’t handle appeared.

“It’s a Giant Zombie.”

The opponent was a Giant Zombie.

Although a zombie was just a lower undead, it was different when the modifier ‘Giant’ was attached.

Hundreds, thousands, no, thousands of zombies were tangled together to become a single entity.

It was a monster that couldn’t be described with the word ‘zombie’.

“Team 3 will take the right leg!”

“The rest will protect Team 3!”

“Yes, sir!”

The regeneration power, poison, and the death aura of thousands of zombies were concentrated in a single entity.

Special Gate.

Gates of S-rank or higher were where such things appeared as normal monsters.

Tatatatat!

The hundred players moved quickly and took their positions.

“Move!”

They were focusing all their senses, unable to hide their tension.

Baran had continued to grow rapidly since Eun-ha had acquired dominance over Gyeonggi Province.

What was the biggest problem for player guilds?

It was the lack of experience.

‘The Murim [martial arts clans] control the growth of players.’

Using the Association, using the guilds, they placed the players at the bottom and controlled their growth.

They restricted gate raids and suppressed leveling up.

But Baran was different.

Eun-ha did not place restrictions on Baran.

That was why the Assembly looked at Eun-ha with suspicion.

“……”

As if venting all their past grievances, the players of Baran continued their raid without rest.

At the forefront, Choi Yu-ran was looking at the Giant Zombie with a heavy face.

This was the first time for Baran to raid a special gate, a gate of S-rank or higher.

‘But if it’s just a Giant Zombie…’

Baran’s hundred players would be able to handle it.

In the midst of tension, Choi Yu-ran finally opened her mouth.

“Now-!”

Perfect timing.

While the rest of the raid members were drawing the Giant Zombie’s attention, Team 3, who had made a wide detour to approach the Giant Zombie’s right leg, began to unleash all their firepower.

Kwakwakwakwang!

The magic players’ firepower attacks fell.

Pasut!

The close-range players who broke through the smoke began to destroy the zombie’s right leg.

Guwoooooo!

When the zombie tried to push them away, the rest of the raid members who were on standby also did not hold back their support.

In the midst of that, Lee Shin-woo’s eyes shone.

Lee Shin-woo and Lee Ro-woon, who were in the rear as reserve members.

“They’ve been well-trained.”

Lee Shin-woo said, looking at the guild members of Baran.

“The biggest weakness of players is the delay.”

The fatal weakness that appeared after using a skill.

Because it was not an ability they had built up through effort, it was a gap that occurred as a side effect of relying on their abilities.

In a battle against a Murim, it was a fatal weakness, but.

Guwoooooo!

When they formed a team, a raid, their true value was revealed.

The zombie’s right leg was crushed, and it began to lose its balance and fall.

“All-out attack!”

There were teammates, other players, who would compensate for the players who had a delay.

When a raid properly fulfilled its role as a raid.

‘Players exert power similar to the Murim’s combined formations or sword formations.’

However, there were not many players who could properly implement this method.

The laws created by the Murim of Eun through the Association, the distrust among players, and the reality of not being able to gain proper experience.

‘It hinders the growth of players.’

Also, accurately calculating the different delays of each player and making them move in practice was virtually impossible.

But there were a few places that had done it properly.

Among the well-known places was.

“It’s you.”

Dank.

“You trained them.”

Lee Ro-woon’s Dank had broken through the limits of players in a different way than the Cheong-ui Army created by the Intervener Lee Shin-woo or the Hong-ui Army created by the Variant Kwon Cheol.

“I only gave advice.”

The Adjuster.

That was Lee Ro-woon.

His power as a hidden job that could significantly reduce the delay of players.

Even though Lee Ro-woon had lost his power as a player, he still retained the senses from that time.

“Is it okay to show them?”

Lee Shin-woo asked worriedly.

The true form of Baran, it wasn’t just them who were seeing it now.

The Cheongcheonha Assault Team and the Jongnam Divine Maiden were watching together.

“Baran can’t even handle a single Giant Zombie right now anyway. That’s why the Jongnam Divine Maiden put them in the vanguard.”

To bring out everything they had been hiding.

To show why Eun-ha was protecting them.

So, they had no choice but to show it.

Also, this was.

“It’s also a provocation.”

Lee Ro-woon turned around and cast his gaze to that place.

Trembling.

There was a masked person who was trembling for some reason.

* * *

“Wow.”

Baek Cheong clapped her hands and admired.

Players.

They were treated as nothing more than insects by the Murim.

Especially, Baek Cheong had an even worse perception of them.

‘Vermin.’

They were beings who could not be found with loyalty or righteousness.

Beings who could turn their backs at any time.

They were the type to betray even their parents and family for profit, unlike the Murim who considered betraying and insulting their teachers as one of the worst crimes.

Such Baek Cheong.

“They’re good?”

She was genuinely admiring Baran’s hunting.

The movements that meshed perfectly.

The players who supported each other’s backs.

That subtlety was nullifying the delay, which was the biggest weakness of players.

But what Baek Cheong liked most was something else.

“It’s Yu-ran after all!”

The reason why all of that was possible.

It was that they had to be able to entrust their backs to their comrades without any hesitation or doubt.

A guild like a family.

A party like a family.

Those were the words that players used at any time.

But they rarely truly considered each other as family.

It was a scene she had seen countless times.

Unlike that, Baran’s movements were like one.

Like a hundred arms moving with one brain.

“Raid Captain.”

One of the Cheongcheonha Assault Team members who was standing next to her said worriedly.

“Their movements are…”

It seemed that he was worried because the players’ hunting method was too unique and amazing.

“Be quiet.”

Baek Cheong said in a cold voice to the one who had spoken.

“Are you scared?”

“It’s not that…”

“They’re showing something. There’s not much that impresses me.”

She was different.

She only valued what she had seen.

And Choi Yu-ran and Baran had passed the test.

At that moment, Baek Cheong, who had sensed something strange, turned around and asked.

“Insect. What’s wrong?”

It was because she had sensed that Yoon Tae-sun was trembling.

“Th, that is…”

“Are you envious?”

Baek Cheong said with a smile.

“You’re also a player, so you can’t help but be surprised when you see such a sight. But insect, remember this.”

Baek Cheong’s eyes turned cold.

“You’re an insect, and they’re people. Their value is proven by themselves.”

Yoon Tae-sun, who had sold out his comrades.

He was just a lump of unpleasantness that didn’t give Baek Cheong any impression at all.

He had been accepted into Jongnam out of necessity, and he had been brought here out of necessity.

But that was all.

“Are you really… going to take them?”

Another voice towards Baek Cheong.

Baek Cheong nodded and watched Baran’s hunting again.

“Of course.”

A simple answer.

“You know what the entry material is.”

The purpose of Jongnam’s visit to Korea was one.

‘The Void.’

To enter that place and obtain treasures.

The Void that Lee Ro-woon of Dank had found in the past.

It was shattered and divided after the Assembly had started the raid but failed.

After that, the Assembly, who knew the true nature of the Void, judged that it was better to bury the Void rather than open it, and divided the members of Dank, who would be the main keys, among some of the Nine Great Sects to prevent the keys from gathering.

That was how it had been forgotten.

‘Kim Shin-hong.’

The situation changed when that man from Hwasan died.

Hwasan said that an unknown intruder had killed him in the corpse disposal site, but.

‘That can’t be.’

It was obvious what the black foxes inside had done.

They must have been planning to eat the Void through the fragmented keys and the largest fragment.

So, Lee Ro-woon and Kim Shin-hong must have died around the same time.

‘Lee Ro-woon.’

Baek Cheong had a strange look in her eyes.

He was one of the few players that Baek Cheong had wanted to meet.

Kuuuuuung!