Disciple of The Three Kings [EN]: Chapter 81

The Three Kings’ Disciple (82)

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‘The Hao Clan are betrayers.’

My masters rarely spoke of them.

Throughout nearly a hundred years of training, they never talked about their own names or their lives.

I only heard bits and pieces of stories that occasionally surfaced.

But the Hao Clan was different.

‘But they did not commit a crime.’

My master had only spoken about the Hao Clan once.

‘Rather, it was for my sake.’

That was all.

But I remember the feeling I had then.

The Hao Clan is not my master’s enemy.

They betrayed, but there must have been a reason.

Drip, drip.

The floor was soaked with blood.

“This, this can’t be happening.”

Blood was everywhere.

It was easy to guess what terrible things had happened here.

“There are… no survivors.”

Kang Eun-ha and Jung Chi-soo said after looking around the area.

This place where they were now was a branch of the Black City that had ties with the Ghostly Sound Valley.

They had come here with Lee Yong-jin to help the Black City, but all that remained were corpses.

“This swordsmanship…”

The corpses were covered in wounds.

By examining the cause of death, one could guess who the culprit was.

“It seems to be the Hui.”

Hui.

“We’re too late.”

Lee Yong-jin’s face turned pale at Lee Ro-woon’s words.

“There’s no way they could have moved this quickly.”

Lee Yong-jin said.

“What we heard was that the Hui were targeting the Black City.”

The Black City had requested help from the Ghostly Sound Valley.

“Still, I thought we’d have time… I mean, it’s the Black City, right?”

They occupied half of the Asian underworld.

Their influence and power were not to be taken lightly.

“And this is a secret branch.”

The Black City’s branch that had ties with the Ghostly Sound Valley was specially set up to protect the secrets of the Ghostly Sound Valley.

A special branch that did not engage in external activities and only connected the Black City and the Ghostly Sound Valley.

There was no way the Hui could have easily found the location of the branch.

“It seems there’s a traitor inside.”

Everyone nodded at Lee Ro-woon’s words.

Indeed, if there was a traitor, it made sense.

“There’s no way….”

Lee Yong-jin still protested.

“The Hao Clan’s unity is legendary. The reason why the Black City, an organization of darkness, can be maintained and active is because of that.”

Open factions unite their members with power and fear.

But the Hao Clan is like a religion.

They were united by a fanatical belief in the Clan Leader and a strong bond.

That was why the Black City was able to grow while dealing with so much information and darkness.

“There’s no such thing as absolute.”

Lee Ro-woon.

‘Because I’ve experienced it.’

The betrayal of friends he thought would never betray him.

That was what had sent him to hell.

‘The problem is…’

The Black City’s secret branch had been raided.

“If there’s a traitor, they must be quite high up.”

The traitor inside must have been quite high in rank.

And if so, it was highly likely that the Black City, or rather the Hao Clan, was in an even more dangerous situation.

Whistle!

A small whistle was heard from afar.

It meant that the Dark Blood Unit, which had been on standby, had detected someone approaching.

“We might be able to hear something.”

Lee Ro-woon headed outside.

***

“Help….”

Blood was seeping through his neatly dressed clothes.

“Please help me.”

A familiar face was lying there, looking at Lee Ro-woon with pitiful eyes.

A pale face, on the verge of death.

“Kim Eun-tae?”

“Y-you remember me.”

Kim Eun-tae.

The Dongdaemun branch manager of the Black City and the manager of Bar Pier was there, dying.

“I was lucky… to meet you in the place I came to hide….”

It seemed that he had come here by chance.

“Is the entire Black City under attack?”

He shook his head slightly at Lee Ro-woon’s words.

“N-no, it’s not.”

A voice that seemed to be approaching death.

“Only a few branches are being attacked as a warning.”

“The culprit is the Hui?”

“Y-yes….”

As a warning.

That meant that the Hui did not intend to eliminate the Black City while attacking them.

‘They’re going to use the Black City.’

If so, then Lee Ro-woon’s earlier deduction was close to the truth.

“There’s a traitor.”

The conclusion that the Hui was not eliminating the Hao Clan but using them meant that there was someone who could command the tightly knit Hao Clan.

“Th-that….”

Kim Eun-tae’s focus was blurring.

Kang Eun-ha quickly sprayed a potion, but it was useless.

If he could be healed with a potion, there was no way Kim Eun-tae, the branch manager of the Black City, would have fled here in this state.

To save him now, he would need the highest-grade potion, an elixir, or something equivalent.

“The Black City King….”

Everyone’s eyes widened at the words coming from Kim Eun-tae’s mouth.

“Betrayed… us….”

With those words, Kim Eun-tae was only breathing shallowly.

“His internal organs are all damaged. His system core is also unstable.”

Kang Eun-ha said, as if she was wrong, after checking his condition.

But Lee Ro-woon approached Kim Eun-tae and raised his hand.

“There’s still a lot to hear.”

It seemed that the occupation of the Black City was already somewhat complete.

If the Black City King had betrayed them, as Kim Eun-tae said, the chances of finding a Hao Clan member who would cooperate with them were extremely low.

A player who was also a branch manager.

If it was Kim Eun-tae.

“I’ll save you.”

He was highly likely to be of great help.

With his hand on Kim Eun-tae’s body, Lee Ro-woon.

Whoosh!

He ignited the embers of the sacred fire through his palm.

“How…?”

Kang Eun-ha asked with worried eyes.

Blood Demon, Heavenly Demon, no matter how great their power was, martial arts were a power to kill, not to save.

Unless the Blood Demon’s main body was injured, using that power to save others was….

“……!”

It should have been impossible.

“Did you know that the Ghostly Sound Valley is related to the Blood Cult?”

A question for Kang Eun-ha.

“N-no.”

She didn’t know.

Although she was the Blood Cult’s priestess, she actually didn’t know much about the Blood Cult.

“Don’t be arrogant that you know everything about martial arts.”

The martial arts of Eun [a fictional world] had developed over thousands of years since Shin Yeo-wool disappeared.

Just looking at the Lord of the Ghostly Sound Valley was enough to know that.

But it couldn’t be said that the direction and results were all good.

Unless many people developed martial arts together, martial arts developed in an isolated world had limitations.

Moreover, there was a risk that the direction would be wrong.

“Did you know the Blood Demon Divine Art?”

No, the Blood Cult knew that the Blood Demon’s symbolic martial art was the Blood Demon Art.

That was wrong.

That was why they didn’t know.

“Don’t limit the boundaries of martial arts.”

Whoosh!

The sacred fire enveloped Kim Eun-tae’s entire body.

“There are even people who have become gods through martial arts.”

Kim Eun-tae was engulfed in the sacred fire of the Heavenly Demon Divine Art.

But there was no sign of pain on his face.

Rather, his face looked so peaceful.

“The wounds! They’re healing!”

Kim Eun-tae’s body, which had not responded to potions, began to recover.

‘Manipulation of the body.’

That was the function of the Heavenly Demon Divine Art.

‘Observation of the interior.’

That was the function of the Blood Demon Divine Art.

If he could use those two things.

“I can easily save someone who isn’t completely dead.”

And if it was someone who was completely dead.

‘Later, maybe.’

He would be able to save them.

Sss, sss.

Kim Eun-tae, who had recovered and fallen asleep.

Slap!

Lee Ro-woon slapped him on the cheek to wake him up.

“Wake up.”

* * *

“Please help me!”

His voice was quite strong, unlike before.

“The Black City King… has betrayed the Black City.”

Kim Eun-tae, who had recovered, quickly spat out the story.

“The reason?”

“I don’t know.”

Kim Eun-tae’s face was filled with injustice.

“He wouldn’t do that….”

Originally, Kim Eun-tae didn’t even know the existence of the Black City King properly.

But he had become a stepping stone between Lee Ro-woon and the Black City King by chance, and in return, he was able to gain more information and a higher position.

Thanks to that, he was able to form a relationship with the Black City King.

No, even before that, the loyalty to the Black City King in the Black City was absolute.

“Where is the Black City King?”

“…He must be in the main world.”

The main world.

It meant the world of the Hao Clan.

This was the problem.

“Do you know how to get to the main world?”

Could he, a player, know how to set foot in the world of the people of Eun?

Especially the owner of half of the dark world of the Black City.

Would they have easily taught the player Kim Eun-tae the entrance to the world?

“I know.”

But Kim Eun-tae said he knew.

“Only formal members can become branch managers. To do that… I have to see the Clan Leader.”

“The Black City is a different group than I thought.”

“Well, if you think about Ha Se-min, it makes sense.”

Ha Se-min was quite a unique character.

“The problem is that there are Hui warriors at the entrance to the main world.”

“What?”

This time, even Lee Ro-woon was surprised.

“Are you saying that the Black City King even told them the entrance to the main world?”

Lee Ro-woon had not believed that the Black City King had betrayed the Hao Clan, but this time was different.

He thought it was possible for a unique person to tell someone from their own group about their world.

But to tell the Hui about the door was….

‘It’s the same as handing over the entire Black City.’

It meant that there wasn’t even a single safety device.

It was clear that the situation was more serious than he thought.

“It means we have to clash with the Hui.”

In the end, they had to clash with the Hui.

There had been a small trouble because of the Jongnam, but then and now were different.

‘Eun-ha.’

If a war started, Eun-ha would have to stand in front of it.

Was Eun-ha ready?

‘Not yet.’

She was growing at an amazing rate, but Eun-ha could not be said to have fully grown yet.

The moment they started a war with the Hui, the Hwasan [a martial arts sect] would move.

Could Eun-ha face the Hwasan?

Moreover, the masters of Hwasan.

‘There are monsters in Hwasan too.’

There were also monsters in Hwasan.

Monsters like the Lord of the Ghostly Sound Valley.

And it was known that there were three of those monsters.

Also, unlike the Lord of the Ghostly Sound Valley, who was trapped in the world, one of the monsters of Hwasan was.

“Outside.”

He was on Earth.

If he moved, Lee Ro-woon would face him.

But what about the others?

“…….”

It was too early.

He had warned the Hui, but that was under the assumption that there was still time.

Starting a war like this….

He chuckled.

Lee Ro-woon, who had been thinking that, let out a laugh of disbelief.

“What am I thinking?”

He was the one who had returned and thought that nothing mattered.

He was the one who had thought that it didn’t matter if the world was destroyed at any time.

But now he was worrying about someone and thinking about protecting something.

“Let’s go right away.”

At Lee Ro-woon’s words.

“I will follow you.”

“I will also call the Blood Sword Unit.”

Kang Eun-ha and Jung Chi-soo said that they would follow him without hesitation, even though they expected what kind of ending would come.

“No.”

Lee Ro-woon said to them.

“Just contact one person.”

Whether the world was destroyed or not, it had nothing to do with him.

All of this was just a game.

But….

“Now that my master has come, I have to protect the place I’m going back to.”

Eun-ha would not lead the way.

Someone else would face the Hui.

“Jump over here.”

Lee Ro-woon, who had made a call, said abruptly.