Disciple of The Three Kings [EN]: Chapter 71

The conversation he had with Yoon Tae-sun.

The face that changed in an instant.

“You…”

Baek Cheong spoke as if she couldn’t believe it.

“Is that Ro-woon?”

Ro-woon, the guild leader of Dank.

Dank was a name even Baek Cheong, who didn’t operate in Korea, knew, and she had thought she wanted to meet its guild leader, Ro-woon, once.

The reason was simple.

He was a man worth it.

A man who hadn’t even reached the high rankers yet.

Many didn’t know why the forces of Jongnam or Eun were interested in him.

It wasn’t because he had a hidden job.

‘The center.’

It was because he was the center.

An orphan with nothing, yet he became a player and confidently moved forward.

Yet, he didn’t sell his pride to Eun, which influenced many of Earth’s residents.

Even so, the reason Eun left him alone was because he remained the center for Eun as well.

A person who mediates disputes and does his best in the midst of them.

‘Hwasan… made such a person fall.’

It’s not that she didn’t understand.

The Heavenly Demon Tomb, its value to Eun, couldn’t be compared to just one player.

But now, the one who had fallen was standing where he had fallen.

“……..”

What did that mean?

Baek Cheong felt a chill run down her spine for the first time in a long while.

The one who returned to the fallen land.

And what if that person possessed overwhelming power unlike before?

Throb.

Her head throbbed.

One thing was certain.

‘A storm.’

A storm had arrived.

Could that storm shake the great castle of Eun?

Or would it disappear without overcoming the solid castle?

‘I…’

Baek Cheong, who came to Korea under orders to secure the Heavenly Demon Tomb.

But she had neither obtained the Heavenly Demon Tomb nor had she done anything but stir up Hwasan.

‘What should I do?’

What should she do now?

Baek Cheong unknowingly gripped the cracked Cheonhaboju [Heaven and Earth Treasure] tightly.

Buzz.

The Cheonhaboju vibrated and resonated faintly.

It gave her an answer.

“Jongnam…”

Baek Cheong began to speak.

“No, I, Baek Cheong, the Jongnam Divine Maiden, propose an alliance to Eunha’s Ro-woon.”

The owner of the Heavenly Demon Tomb, no, the Heavenly Demon Mausoleum.

If he was truly Ro-woon, he couldn’t be a member of Jeonjin.

“No.”

Baek Cheong spoke directly to Ro-woon, who had turned his head.

“I will propose an alliance to the Heavenly Demon.”

The Heavenly Demon Ro-woon.

“It seems you knew.”

Ro-woon said to Baek Cheong.

A prestigious sect.

Jongnam, the symbol of the righteous faction, one of the Nine Great Sects, and the Jongnam Divine Maiden, a major figure in Jongnam, was suddenly proposing an alliance.

It would have been fine if she thought he was from Jeonjin.

‘Heavenly Demon.’

Baek Cheong had clearly spoken that name.

That meant one thing.

“It seems that Righteousness and Evil have become one.”

It meant that the standard for dividing Righteousness and Evil had already disappeared.

The warning she had given about Hwasan was not simple.

“I’ll think about it and let you know.”

Ro-woon turned his head again without giving an answer.

In fact, Ro-woon’s heart was beating rapidly.

‘This energy… I need to check it.’

A strange light flickered in Ro-woon’s eyes.

***

Jongnam and Baek Cheong were sent out first by Ro-woon, who opened the exit.

That was what Baek Cheong wanted as well.

‘Hwasan will be watching. It needs to be sorted out.’

From the start, the reason she had aimed for the Heavenly Demon Tomb was because she had received help from a faction within the Assembly that shared Jongnam’s goals.

They had blinded Hwasan’s eyes, but now that time had passed, Hwasan would have noticed.

It was no different from Jongnam breaking the treaty they had made.

‘I thought Hwasan broke it first, but…’

Now that she had confirmed Ro-woon’s survival, she knew that Jongnam’s thoughts were wrong.

But nothing had changed.

Rather, now that they knew Jongnam had come out empty-handed.

‘Chaos will begin.’

Because those who held the keys would start to move.

‘Yuran, I’ll see you next time. We’ll be seeing each other often.’

Leaving those words, Baek Cheong led the Cheongcheonha members out.

What remained were Baran and Ro-woon.

“…….”

And the uninvited guest, Lee Shin-woo.

He wanted to kick him out as well, but Baek Cheong had said that Hwasan would be occupying the outside of the closed gate.

In that situation, Lee Shin-woo was showing himself?

It was a given that something interesting would happen.

That’s why he left him alone.

“Didn’t you say you didn’t want to get involved?”

Lee Shin-woo asked Ro-woon.

“Or are you taking care of me because I’m your older brother?”

At that, Ro-woon abruptly stopped walking.

“Don’t get the wrong idea.”

Lee Shin-woo involuntarily took a step back at the force Ro-woon emitted.

‘Just what…’

The change that had occurred in Ro-woon after he defeated Yoon Tae-sun in the Heavenly Demon Mausoleum was literally beyond common sense.

It felt as if he had become a completely different being.

But it wasn’t just that, Ro-woon felt sharp and edgy now.

“If you don’t have power, you’ll be swayed.”

When you don’t have power, you can’t help but be swayed by your surroundings.

You end up moving according to what the situation wants, not what you want.

Lee Shin-woo was a person who was capable enough to lead the situation to his advantage.

“If you have power, it’s not like that.”

But if you have power, you won’t be swayed.

No matter what he does, he can achieve what he wants.

“Remember. You need power to achieve any goal.”

After leaving those words, Ro-woon started walking again.

Ro-woon was carefully looking around as if he was searching for something.

Lee Shin-woo also kept his mouth shut and just followed him.

‘What is he looking for?’

He wanted to ask, but he couldn’t open his mouth.

Ro-woon’s face was filled with such deep emotion that even his older brother, Lee Shin-woo, had never seen before.

Then, suddenly, Ro-woon stopped.

“I found…”

The moment Lee Shin-woo was about to speak.

Whoosh!

A large purple flame began to blaze in front of Ro-woon’s eyes.

“Don’t look.”

At Ro-woon’s sharp voice, everyone involuntarily lowered their heads.

It was like an instinct.

‘I’ll die.’

Not from Ro-woon.

It was something in front of him.

It was the feeling of something that Ro-woon was blocking with the flame.

Shudder.

Among them, Lee Shin-woo was trembling.

“C, cough, cough!”

Even breathing was not free.

Although a player could hold their breath for nearly ten minutes, the energy he was feeling now was not simply stopping Lee Shin-woo’s breath.

A vague fear.

The feeling that something he shouldn’t know was in front of him.

Because he was an Intervener, the information that came through his ability.

Whoosh!

The flame wrapped around Lee Shin-woo’s body.

Lee Shin-woo’s complexion gradually began to return as he was enveloped in Ro-woon’s flame.

“Th, thank…”

Was it because his breath had returned?

Lee Shin-woo, who had relaxed for a moment, made a mistake that he would never normally make.

He raised his head.

At that moment, Lee Shin-woo felt a hallucination as if he was being swallowed by something vast.

Everything was crumbling.

The feeling of being sucked into a deep darkness.

The moment Lee Shin-woo was about to lose consciousness.

Thud.

A small weight was added to his shoulder.

“I told you not to look.”

Ro-woon, he had placed his hand on Lee Shin-woo’s shoulder and was directly protecting him.

“Wh, what is that?”

Where Lee Shin-woo was pointing, there was only the wall of flame that Ro-woon had created.

But Lee Shin-woo was pointing beyond it.

“And you… how are you okay?”

Lee Shin-woo opened his mouth, unable to hide his shock.

Ro-woon answered his question.

“Chaos.”

Its fragments were there.

* * *

The Heavenly Demon Tomb.

That’s why he had a glimmer of hope.

And that hope became a reality.

“Master.”

The masters who were scattered and sealed in various places as the dimension of Chaos collapsed.

Among them, Shin Yeo-wool, the Martial King, and the Heavenly Demon Tomb were inseparable.

Moreover.

‘It hasn’t been long since a part of the Heavenly Demon Tomb appeared here.’

It hadn’t been long since they found the traces of the Heavenly Demon Tomb, which had been divided after the failure to conquer it in the past.

As soon as they heard the news, Jongnam had moved.

It made sense in terms of timing.

It was the right answer.

The Martial King was here.

Roar.

The blood was boiling.

Thump! Thump!

His heart was pounding.

Deep within Ro-woon, the sealed Chaos was slowly crawling out and trying to reveal itself.

It was reacting to the Chaos that the masters had divided and taken before the dimension of Chaos split.

Clench.

Ro-woon clenched his fist.

“…….”

It wasn’t there.

Leaving Lee Shin-woo and Baran behind, he stepped into the realm of Chaos behind the flame, but he couldn’t find his master.

All that remained here were traces.

The traces of where his master had been sealed, and the traces of where his master had disappeared.

“Baek Cheong wasn’t the first one here.”

Jongnam wasn’t the first to know that the Heavenly Demon Tomb was here.

‘Someone knew first.’

And came here.

“And…”

Ro-woon’s eyes flashed a blue light.

“They found my master.”

He didn’t know what happened after that.

Whether they had awakened his master or what they had done.

But one thing was certain.

‘I can’t let them kill my master.’

No matter who it was, they could never have killed his master.

Because his master also had Chaos within him.

Ro-woon’s eyes gradually began to return to their usual languid state.

“Hoo.”

He took a breath and controlled his emotions.

“But I found it.”

The task of finding the traces of his masters, which had not progressed since his return.

He had found those traces by chance.

That small difference was meaningful to Ro-woon.

‘I know what I have to do.’

He wouldn’t move aimlessly like he had been doing.

Whoosh.

He had even completed the Heavenly Demon Divine Art.

The preparations were as good as finished.

It was the moment Ro-woon was about to turn back.

Ripple.

[You are qualified to be the owner of the Heavenly Demon Castle.]

[Would you like to acquire ownership of the Heavenly Demon Castle?]

A message appeared as space distorted.

He wasn’t surprised by the appearance of the expected message.

‘Heavenly Demon Castle?’

He was just puzzled by the message that appeared, calling it the Heavenly Demon Castle instead of the Heavenly Demon Mausoleum or the Heavenly Demon Tomb.

But the answer was already decided.

“Acquire it.”

He couldn’t leave a place where the remnants of Chaos remained, a place where the traces of his master remained.

[You can merge the Heavenly Demon Castle with the Blood King Castle.]

The merging of worlds.

The answer was the same.

Crack!

The world distorted and began to reveal its true form.

* * *

The Blood King Castle was changing rapidly.

Thanks to Ro-woon, the development of the Blood King Castle was dazzling.

Their finances, which should have been worrying about bankruptcy, had improved noticeably, and the construction was in full swing every day with the materials that were constantly pouring in through the transformation ability of Kang Han-cheol, who had become a dungeon keeper.

Boom!

A vibration was occurring in the Blood King Castle.

“Move!”

It might have been different before, but it was different now.

Everyone who was moving under the command of the Blood Cult Leader, Kang Han-cheol, began to evacuate.

It was a change that had already occurred several times.

It was clear that the Blood Demon had done something.

But this time was different.

Boom!

A vibration that was incomparably larger than before.

“Wh, what…!”

A mountain was rising behind the Blood King Castle.