Disciple of The Three Kings [EN]: Chapter 78

The Three Kings’ Disciple (79)

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The canyon where the ghostly wail had stopped.

“The Ghostly Wail Great Formation… it stopped?”

Lee Yong-jin said, as if he couldn’t believe it.

The Ghostly Wail Great Formation.

It was a great formation that had been with the Ghostly Sound Valley throughout its history.

In the past, when it was in Eun [a fictional world], it served to hide the Ghostly Sound Valley from the numerous forces of Eun, and at the same time, it was a barrier that protected the Ghostly Sound Valley.

However, after the world’s destruction and fragmentation, the Ghostly Wail Great Formation was nothing more than a prison that confined the assassins of the Ghostly Sound Valley.

A place where one could not escape without a certain level of skill.

It was no exaggeration to say that the assassins of the Ghostly Sound Valley became assassins to escape this canyon.

“How…”

Such a great formation had stopped.

All Ro-woon had done was throw a punch.

If one were to think that he had destroyed the formation, it would be unbelievable, but understandable.

However, what Ro-woon had done now was not destroy the formation, but stop it.

“Do you know about the Ghostly Wail Great Formation?”

He had twisted the axis of the formation and stopped its operation.

“Something like that.”

At Ro-woon’s voice, Lee Yong-jin’s eyes became even more dazed.

“Is it really you…”

He was about to say something.

Whirr.

The wind that had stopped began to blow again.

“It won’t last long. How about moving quickly?”

At Ro-woon’s words, Lee Yong-jin nodded.

There was no reason to delay any longer.

Swish!

He threw a dagger and moved forward.

Bang!

Kang Eun-ha and Jung Chi-soo were also able to follow Lee Yong-jin at a faster speed than before.

Of course.

Tap!

Ro-woon was just stepping through the air, crossing the center of the canyon.

Lee Yong-jin was now leading the way, followed by Ro-woon.

Behind them were Kang Eun-ha and Jung Chi-soo.

The canyon was truly vast.

“Something feels strange.”

Kang Eun-ha said as she moved forward with Jung Chi-soo.

“Tell me, Priestess.”

“This world is so big. It’s as vast as the Blood King’s Castle.”

Indeed, as Kang Eun-ha said, the size of the Ghostly Sound Valley was immense.

“You said the Ghostly Sound Valley doesn’t take requests, right?”

Such a vast world.

“How on earth do they maintain the world?”

After the world was destroyed and divided, the world needed a lot of nourishment to survive.

If there was no nourishment, the world would weaken and gradually lose its territory.

The Blood King’s Castle was originally a much larger world than it is now.

However, it lost territory in its isolated time, and even after the world’s gate was opened, it continued to disappear because it did not receive nourishment smoothly.

But how was the Ghostly Sound Valley being maintained?

“Wouldn’t someone be helping them?”

At Jung Chi-soo’s words, Kang Eun-ha nodded.

“That’s very likely.”

Although the Ghostly Sound Valley did not take requests, they had seen with their own eyes that their name and skills were real.

If so, there would be plenty of people who would sponsor them.

If they showed continued favor and received the help of the Ghostly Sound Valley even once, there would be nothing as reliable as that.

That means…

“I’m curious about who that someone is.”

It was possible that the person who called Ro-woon to the Ghostly Sound Valley was not the Lord of the Ghostly Sound Valley.

Swoosh.

Ro-woon, who had matched their speed, approached them and said.

“It might not be that.”

There was not much that had been revealed about the divided world, the nourishment of the world, or the survival of the world.

It had been studied countless times, and even in Eun, they had mobilized numerous scholars from Earth to try to understand the world, but it was not an easy task.

However, Ro-woon was different.

He understood the divided world better than anyone else.

“It’s possible that one person is maintaining the world’s nourishment.”

The existence of a single person maintaining this vast world.

The possibility that the world could be maintained by sustaining and injecting his life force.

Tap.

With those words, Ro-woon began to follow Lee Yong-jin again.

***

At the end of the canyon.

Surprisingly, there was a peaceful-looking village.

A village built in the style of Eun, different from the style of Earth.

“Wow.”

It was a beautiful and peaceful-looking village, so much so that one could not imagine it was a village where top-class assassins lived.

At the end of a canyon where the ghostly wail echoed, there was a village clustered on a wide meadow.

“This is our village.”

Lee Yong-jin said, pointing to the village with a proud face.

“Yong-jin hyung!” [hyung is a Korean term used by males to address older males]

Children who looked about half Ro-woon’s age greeted Lee Yong-jin happily.

“Why are you all gathered here?”

Lee Yong-jin replied with a sulky tone.

“It seems like you weren’t waiting for me, but for something else?”

At Lee Yong-jin’s words, the gathered children nodded their heads without hesitation.

“Chicken! Chicken!”

“Ramen!”

“What about hamburgers?”

The children grabbed Lee Yong-jin’s clothes and whined.

“Not this time.”

“Eeeek.”

“I’m on an errand for the Lord.”

At Lee Yong-jin’s words, the children pouted as if they couldn’t help it.

“But who are those people?”

“They’re the Lord’s guests.”

“Ah.”

Having grasped the general situation, they seemed to have lost interest.

Tap!

The children kicked off the ground and began to scatter in all directions.

“Amazing.”

Kang Eun-ha did not miss their movements.

She had noticed that the children’s movements contained the mysteries of speed and concealment.

Even if they had not reached the top class, those young children clearly had the qualities of second-class assassins or higher.

“From birth, this is all they learn. Well, they also learn farming and such, but from the children’s point of view, it’s no different from playing.”

Children learning the life of an assassin.

In this isolated world, that was all the children had to learn and play.

“I understand now.”

Kang Eun-ha nodded as she looked at Lee Yong-jin.

Lee Yong-jin, who was different from the assassins she knew.

The thick poison and killing intent of the assassins were not felt in his appearance.

‘If they thought of it as play since they were young…’

There was a clear gap between the assassins they thought of and the assassins they were thinking of.

But that was why she felt a chill.

These people…

‘Do they think of killing as a game?’

It meant that they were people who could think of and commit murder as a game whenever necessary.

Kang Eun-ha had many questions she wanted to ask, but she didn’t.

“The village is a bit unique.”

Ro-woon said, looking around the village.

“You noticed it too?”

“The shape of the village is spread out widely, centered around something.”

The shape of the village, which was circular with a castle in the center.

The center of the village was clearly a fertile pasture, but there was nothing visible there.

“It’s over there.”

Lee Yong-jin easily gave the answer.

“The Lord is waiting.”

* * *

“Here.”

Lee Yong-jin rummaged around and brought something to give to Ro-woon and the others.

Earplugs and blindfolds.

Some unknown herbs.

“……”

At that sight, Kang Eun-ha’s eyes filled with vigilance, and Lee Yong-jin shook his hands and made a wronged face.

“It’s nothing strange. I’ll do it too.”

Indeed, as soon as Lee Yong-jin finished speaking, he began to put on the blindfold over his eyes.

“It’s preparation to meet the Lord.”

“Not to see, not to hear.”

The meaning of the blindfold and earplugs.

“This herb is…”

Kang Eun-ha said, holding the herb.

“It’s a diluted version of Dreamy Mountain.”

Dreamy Mountain.

It was a type of sleeping pill that was used in the room to put Ro-woon to sleep, and it was known that even a Drake with strong poison resistance could be put to sleep with a handful of Dreamy Mountain.

“You won’t fall asleep, but it will make you feel drowsy.”

It meant that one should not even be clear-headed.

“I won’t use it.”

“But if you do that…”

“It won’t work anyway.”

With those words, Ro-woon put the Dreamy Mountain that Lee Yong-jin had given him into his mouth.

“Damn it. That’s why I failed.”

Lee Yong-jin looked dejected at Ro-woon’s appearance, who seemed fine even after time had passed.

With that, all preparations were complete.

Although they had blindfolds on, the blindfolds were not a wall for masters of their level.

This was because they could feel their surroundings through their senses.

“Follow me.”

As they followed Lee Yong-jin, who was leading the way, they could feel the villagers coming out to watch.

“The children’s appearance.”

Ro-woon said.

“They didn’t seem surprised by the guests.”

The isolated world of Eun.

They did not receive guests, even though the world was open.

This was because it could pose a great threat to the world if something went wrong.

However, the children of the village were not very surprised even at the mention of guests.

“It means someone comes often.”

It meant that there were regular visitors to the Ghostly Sound Valley.

Anyway.

‘Everything will be known now.’

At the center of the village.

As they were following Lee Yong-jin.

Squelch.

With the feeling of a ripple, Lee Yong-jin’s presence completely disappeared.

In front of them.

It felt as if something had devoured Lee Yong-jin.

Thud.

Even so, Ro-woon followed behind without hesitation.

The place they arrived at.

Woo-woo-woo-woong!

The huge energy felt from all directions caused a stinging pain as if their skin was being burned.

-You must not take off the blindfold. You must not take out the earplugs either.

Lee Yong-jin’s telepathic message.

Even so.

Swoosh.

Ro-woon took off the blindfold.

-W-what are you doing!

He also took out the earplugs that were blocking his ears.

-Then…!

Lee Yong-jin’s telepathic message stopped.

Beeeep-!

A wave that resonated in his skull began to directly embed itself in Ro-woon’s head.

The sight he saw after taking off the blindfold.

There were stone pillars placed in five directions, and in the center.

Thud!

A large stone pillar was embedded.

The pillars were emitting the energy that existed in the world and resonating, and due to that resonance, they were emitting a certain wave.

A wave transmitted through the ears.

That was why Lee Yong-jin had told them to wear earplugs.

And there was a person on the central stone pillar.

He was tightly bound, looking as if he had become one with the stone pillar.

It was as if he had been sealed.

-Welcome.

A voice that resonated in his head, piercing through the energy waves.

-Blood Demon.

At the clear voice, Ro-woon replied.

“Lord of the Ghostly Sound Valley?”

-That’s right.

The one bound to the stone pillar twitched.

His whole body was wrapped in bandages.

As he moved, the white bandages swelled and subsided strangely.

“A monster.”

At Ro-woon’s words, the mouth part of the bandages could be felt trembling.

It was probably laughing.

When Ro-woon looked around, Lee Yong-jin, Kang Eun-ha, and Jung Chi-soo were standing still.

-Don’t worry. They are also talking with me.

It seemed that they were directly connecting to their minds through the energy of the stone pillar and talking.

“……”

Ro-woon could feel it anew.

A chill.

The goosebumps on his arms.

Now that he had reached the peak of the Heavenly Demon Divine Art and the Blood Demon Divine Art, he was a being that posed a certain threat to him.

As he said.

‘A monster.’

It was the first time he was seeing it directly.

“They say there are monsters in Eun.”

In an isolated world, martial artists who had nothing to do but train would hone their martial arts in their isolated time.

Among them, outstanding martial arts were passed down, and there were those who reached the peak of those martial arts.

Those who had transcended time and become a part of the world.

The monsters of Eun.

“It’s my first time seeing one.”

He could feel that the person, the Lord of the Ghostly Sound Valley, was one of those monsters.

Grade A, Grade S, Grade SS.

The grades of strength that the residents of Earth had divided.

‘Hwagyung, Hyunggyung.’ [Terms for martial arts mastery in Eun]

The grades that Eun had divided.

The peak that made all of that meaningless.

“SSS Grade.”

A master of the realm of life and death.