Disciple of The Three Kings [EN]: Chapter 97

The Three Kings’ Disciple (98)

097

It had been more than five years since Ro-woon entered the corpse disposal site of the Hwasan Sect.

A time now distant even in memory.

‘Mount Worak Gate.’

It was when he was attacking a gate with Dank’s guild members to level up.

After the gate attack was over, Ro-woon, who had sent the guild members back first, had accidentally discovered a collapsed girl.

‘What….’

A girl collapsed in the mountains.

Ro-woon couldn’t just pass by her strange appearance.

He rescued the girl and rushed her to the hospital.

‘No… way….’

The girl’s desperate voice as she woke up.

‘Potion….’

The girl, who didn’t want to go to the hospital and only wanted a potion.

How many strange things were there in this twisted world?

Ro-woon, feeling that the girl must have a reason, gave her a potion without taking her to the hospital.

He rented a room and stayed with the girl for two days until her condition improved.

When he knew the girl had recovered.

‘I have to go somewhere for a while.’

Ro-woon had to leave in a hurry after receiving a call from Dank.

Originally, he was going to take the girl with him, but she didn’t want to.

‘Name….’

The girl shyly asked for his name.

‘Ro-woon.’

Ro-woon left with only a short greeting, thinking he would be back soon.

When Ro-woon returned, the girl was gone.

“Back then….”

Ro-woon said, looking at Pile with a dumbfounded expression.

“That little kid was you?”

Little kid.

The girl Ro-woon saw back then was indeed a little kid.

Half of Ro-woon’s height, a face full of youthful innocence.

A girl whose face was too young to be considered a woman.

“That’s….”

Ro-woon looked at Pile, feeling embarrassed for the first time in a while.

Her face was.

Whoosh!

Like a beet.

She couldn’t hide her red face and turned her head away.

“I, is it really….”

She said in a strained voice.

“Is it you?”

It was the same for Pile, who couldn’t believe it.

***

It was the official Knights Templar test.

As a candidate for the leader of the historic Batella Knights, she had to take an entrance exam befitting her position.

‘Asia, the Silver Territory….’

An order from the Church.

‘A prophecy has been made that an indescribable darkness will descend upon South Korea.’

A small land she didn’t even know the name of.

‘Go and confirm the reality of the prophecy.’

Infiltrating that place was the official Knights Templar test Pile received.

Infiltrating the Silver Territory, which was in the middle of a war.

Pile had to hide herself.

‘Your circle will be sealed.’

All power is restricted.

In a moment of crisis, you can only draw out your power once.

But if you draw out your power, the test is over.

‘We have high expectations, Pile. Be sure to come back alive.’

The young Pile was sent to South Korea like that.

She followed the prophecy’s information and tracked down the darkness.

She arrived at a place called Mount Worak.

Pile tried to find traces of darkness there but failed.

Instead, she was attacked by monsters that had popped out of the gate.

‘Because of these things….’

Low-level monsters.

She couldn’t fail the test because of such things.

Her circle was sealed, but her body clearly remembered the swordsmanship and martial arts she had learned as a knight candidate.

She fought with her bare hands and won.

But she couldn’t avoid injuries.

When she collapsed and lost consciousness, she woke up.

‘……!’

It was behind someone’s back.

‘Just hold on a little longer.’

A warm voice.

It was her first time experiencing such a thing.

Having been raised as the successor to the Knights Templar leader, leaning on someone was unimaginable.

She, who always had to show her back, was looking at someone’s back.

Thump.

It was a strange feeling that Pile was experiencing for the first time.

The few days she spent with him.

‘Are you okay?’

Pile felt a strange emotion for the first time at his pure concern and his efforts to do everything for her.

He was leaving.

‘Name….’

She carefully asked for his name.

‘Ro-woon.’

She heard that name.

But.

“Y, you?”

How could this guy be that man?

“N, no way….”

That warm gaze is not that perverted, languid gaze.

That cozy and warm back is not that hard, stone-like body.

‘Are you okay?’

That voice and warmth.

That swaying hair is not that messy, grown-out hair.

“What do you mean no way? The person himself says it’s true.”

What is that tone?

“Anyway, it’s amazing. How did that little kid grow up so much? No, how did that little kid become the leader of the Batella Knights?”

A tone like a neighborhood thug.

“No….”

“So, you were looking for me because of that?”

“No!”

Pile stood up and shouted.

“That can’t be!”

“……?”

“My… my…!”

The moment Pile was about to shout.

Crash!

The hotel door was violently opened as if it was broken.

“Commander-!”

Goliath, he stood there, panting heavily.

Following him, Cainrich also entered the room, and they both took a stance to pounce on Ro-woon.

“Stop!”

Paladin Pile.

Her shout had great power.

Cainrich and Goliath stopped at her word.

“He’s not… an enemy.”

She didn’t want to admit it, but the man she met at Mount Worak Gate was the only one.

The only man who remembers her is him.

She couldn’t admit it, but she had to.

That guy….

“Commander! We’re under attack!”

Cainrich’s shout stopped Pile’s thoughts.

“What?”

“A barrier has been activated. It’s a barrier that covers the entire hotel!”

Pile’s red face turned as cold as the Arctic winter.

“Report the situation.”

She was not the little kid from Mount Worak in the past.

The leader of the Batella Knights.

Paladin Pile.

“The knights discovered the suddenly erected barrier and are currently trying to dismantle it!”

Pile’s face hardened.

‘I didn’t feel it.’

She didn’t feel the barrier while it was covering the hotel.

That meant.

“So, it was prepared before we arrived.”

It meant that the barrier had been prepared at the hotel before they even arrived.

Moreover.

‘High-level.’

The performance of the barrier itself was not negligible.

“Is it Silver?”

The Silver Territory.

Even though they had signed a peace treaty, the blood they had shed for each other could not disappear in an instant.

There was also the possibility that the comrades of those who had died at their hands on the battlefield were sharpening their swords.

“Go outside and help the knights.”

Pile ordered in a cold voice.

“I’ll take care of the rest.”

Before answering, their gaze turned to Ro-woon.

“…He’s the one I was looking for.”

At Pile’s words, Goliath and Cainrich were finally able to nod.

“The commander is the most important. Don’t overdo it.”

“Who do you think I am?”

With Pile’s words, Goliath and Cainrich ran out.

“Is it related to you?”

Pile asked Ro-woon, not as a little kid, but as a commander.

“No. I think I’m in a pretty unpleasant situation too.”

Ro-woon got up.

He said, staring at the empty space where nothing existed.

“Why is hyung [older brother] coming out from there?”

Ripple.

The space shattered.

In it, Shin-woo appeared.

* * *

In the hotel room where only Pile and Ro-woon were.

Shin-woo suddenly appeared.

It seemed that he had infiltrated the inside of the barrier through Shin-woo’s ability.

Swoosh.

Before they knew it, the rapier in Pile’s hand was aimed at Shin-woo’s throat.

“Who are you?”

A completely different attitude from when she was dealing with Ro-woon.

“…This is embarrassing.”

Shin-woo said, raising both hands to show that he had no intention of resisting.

“I didn’t expect my younger brother to be here.”

“Younger brother…?”

Her eyes turned to Ro-woon.

“It’s the same for me. Why is hyung coming out from there?”

Ro-woon was just as dumbfounded.

“This person, is he your older brother?”

Pile’s voice towards Ro-woon.

“He is my older brother. And….”

Ro-woon continued in a languid voice.

“He’s also the leader of the Azure Army.”

“Azure Army.”

Pile also knew about that name.

There was nothing more important than grasping information about the enemy in the war, and she couldn’t not know about a volunteer group that was making trouble for the enemy in the war.

“Are you the Azure Devil?”

“That’s right.”

Pile slowly lowered her rapier.

“It’s been a while, Pile.”

“What, do you two know each other?”

Ro-woon said in a dumbfounded voice at Shin-woo’s words.

“In the past, when Commander Pile was still a candidate, I helped her enter the country.”

It was such a coincidence.

Shin-woo, who was a volunteer.

“Were you colluding with the Church?”

“Colluding? I was just looking for a place to help.”

He had a connection with the Church for the liberation of South Korea.

“…….”

Pile with a complicated face.

Ro-woon with a dumbfounded face.

Shin-woo with a face that said, ‘What’s new?’

It was Shin-woo who broke the silence.

“This is not the time for this.”

The reason he came here was not just to greet an old acquaintance.

“The hotel is going to explode.”

Warning.

“An explosion can’t do anything to our knights.”

Bombings were common.

Even in the Einheart territory, it was something that happened countless times as people called for liberation.

Neither players nor knights were opponents that could be dealt with by mere explosions.

“It’s not that kind of explosion.”

Shin-woo’s face was heavier than usual.

“Red Bomb.”

Pile’s face was blank at Shin-woo’s words.

“It’s an explosion caused by conflicting the inner energy and the system core.”

“……!”

Only then did Pile’s face show panic.

“Red Bomb….”

It was something that was causing headaches even in the Einheart territory these days.

Something that could not be compared to ordinary bombs.

Now, it was banned by both Silver and Einheart and had been discarded….

“It has the power of a nuclear bomb.”

It was something with the destructive power of a nuclear bomb.

No, to be precise, it was not an object but a human.

And there was only one person in this world who could create it.

“Red Devil.”

Kwon Cheol, the leader of the Red Army, another volunteer group in South Korea.

* * *

Fiercely sunken eyes.

Red fighting spirit was rising in those eyes.

-The barrier activation is complete.

Reports were coming in every moment.

“Minimize civilian casualties.”

Soon after his order, an answer came.

-There are five personnel prepared. Even with the barrier, it will be difficult to completely block the aftermath.

Red Bomb.

It was the name of a new type of human bomb.

Humans who had been modified to be able to unleash extreme destructive power by using the power of the system core that repelled the inner energy.

They were the ones who could offer an explosive power equal to a nuclear bomb with their own lives as a sacrifice.

“Then….”

Clink.

The red wine, like blood, clinked in the glass he was holding.

“It can’t be helped.”

-We will activate it when the barrier is stabilized.

“Do so.”

He looked out the window and raised his glass.

A world that seemed peaceful.

“But….”

He said in a growling voice.

“There is no peace in this world.”

A voice filled with deep anger.

“Everything is.”

He brought the glass he had raised to his mouth and said.

“For the liberation of the country and for all of humanity on Earth.”

Soon after.

-Red Bomb, I will activate it.

A barrage announcing a grand festival was about to erupt.