Return of the Mount Hua Sect [EN]: Chapter 1054

The fighting stopped. Both groups stood still, but for different reasons. The ground around them was covered in blood from the battle.

“…Bishop…” Jeokil spoke. His jaw trembled. Someone who didn’t know him would think he looked weak and scared.

Jeokil’s job was to stop these enemies from bothering the Bishop. It was his duty as someone who served the Bishop and enforced his rules.

But he had failed. Now, their swords pointed at the Bishop. This made Jeokil feel a huge, terrible fear.

The Mount Hua Sect disciples had made Jeokil and the Demonic Cult members fail. Now, they looked at Danja Gang with strong interest. The Demonic Cult members with Jeokil also stared. Everyone looked at Danja Gang, who was standing alone in the broken place.

‘What is this?’ Baek Cheon thought, confused. His eyes showed he was puzzled. ‘That man is the Bishop?’ This man was very different from the Bishop Baek Cheon had expected.

The Bishop he remembered from the Northern Sea was like a monster. He seemed human on the outside, but inside he was huge and evil, not human at all. That was the Bishop Baek Cheon remembered.

But the person now… ‘He is different.’ He was tall and very thin, which looked strange and a little scary. He didn’t look like the inhuman Bishop Baek Cheon remembered. He looked more like a homeless person you might see on any street.

But… Baek Cheon shivered. He knew his first impression was wrong. His body felt it.

There was something huge hidden inside that normal-looking man. It was like a deep, dark hole that made him feel weak just by looking at it.

Baek Cheon bit his lip tightly and glanced around. The faces of those beside him were also pale and stiff. They were feeling the same thing as Baek Cheon.

Baek Cheon’s gaze stopped on Chung Myung’s back. Even facing the Bishop, his back showed not the slightest tremor.

Danja Gang slowly looked at the glass in his hand.

The red wine inside was dusty and cloudy now. It seemed to him that even though they had come to this land and taken it over, people who followed the Heavenly Demon were not meant to enjoy good wine.

Danja Gang looked at the glass for a long time without speaking. Then, he slowly raised it to his lips. He drank it all quickly.

The nice smell he expected was gone. It had lost its good smell and taste. Now it only tasted like dirt and dust, a disgusting drink.

But Danja Gang drank the disgusting wine anyway. He accepted the bad taste. He thought, what they usually drank was not much better than this.

He let the bad taste stay in his mouth for a moment. Then, Danja Gang slowly opened his hand.

Clang!

The glass fell and broke into many pieces.

“How sad,” Danja Gang said. He looked at the broken white pieces for a second. Then he looked at the two people in front of him.

A flamboyant clown and a cold swordsman in black martial robes.

Then, he took in the figures of those standing behind them and the Demonic Cult members staring with terrified faces. Danja Gang’s eyes were still too dark for anyone to guess his thoughts.

‘Can’t I even have a little bit of what you like?’ Danja Gang chuckled quietly. He knew that they saw him as just someone who came to take everything from them.

“B-Bishop!” Jeokil yelled, almost screaming, and fell to his knees.

“Bishop, you shouldn’t fight them yourself! Let me handle them!”

Danja Gang looked at Jeokil. Jeokil looked very bad. Danja Gang’s lips moved a little.

“Please forgive me for failing. Let me fix my mistake…”

“Step back,” Danja Gang said.

“B-Bishop.”

Danja Gang looked at Chung Myung and Jang Il-So, who were standing in front. He could feel different kinds of power from them. One was so pure it felt disgusting to him. The other was so strange and scary it made him feel sick. Their powers were completely opposite, like water and oil that can never mix.

But their eyes both showed the same thing: clear anger.

Danja Gang felt their strong anger coming at him. He slowly opened his mouth.

“In this place…” But he stopped. He realized he was about to talk to them like he wanted to have a real conversation.

He had spoken many words to people from this land before. But that was never a real talk. He was just telling them what he wanted. It was like giving orders, not talking.

But now, Danja Gang didn’t just want to give orders. He wanted to ask them something and listen to their answer.

Danja Gang closed his eyes for a moment. ‘I am changing,’ he thought. He couldn’t deny it anymore. No matter what happened, he could never be the same Danja Gang who left the Demonic Sect.

But… even then… Just then…

“You’re a young one.”

The swordsman in black, standing in front, smiled in a twisted way. His angry eyes stared hard.

“This is ridiculous.”

“Someone who has never even seen the Heavenly Demon is acting like he worships a Heavenly Demon that doesn’t even exist.” If Danja Gang was the person he used to be, he would be terribly angry at these words. Like the Demonic Cult members who were trying hard to hide their anger, but couldn’t show it to Danja Gang.

But, strangely, the Danja Gang now didn’t feel very angry at those words. He even thought they were almost true. He knew this showed his belief was breaking down.

That’s why he became interested.

“I want to ask you something, Swordsman.”

“I don’t think we are friends enough to talk to each other, are we?” Danja Gang chuckled quietly.

“You can think of it as a request.” When he said that, Chung Myung’s eyes showed something strange.

‘A hundred years…’ He was suddenly struck by how long that time was. He never imagined he would see a Bishop who would say such things with his own two eyes.

“Spit it out.”

A moment of silence passed. Danja Gang, who had been silently staring at Chung Myung and Jang Il-So, slowly opened his parched lips.

“…Why don’t you run away?”

“What?”

Danja Gang looked at Chung Myung without any emotion. “Someone as strong as you must already know. You probably understand.”

Danja Gang spoke like he was stating something everyone knew. “It’s clear I am stronger. You cannot stop me.” He wasn’t threatening them. At least, that’s how Danja Gang saw it.

“So why don’t you run? Why try to fight back? Why fight a battle you are sure to lose?” He thought they were being very foolish.

He knew they were strong. Even among the Bishops in his own group, it would be hard to find anyone as strong as them. But that’s why they should understand, now that they faced him, that they couldn’t win.

‘But why are their eyes so steady?’ Even with someone so strong and impossible to beat in front of them, why did they still stand firm? It was maybe a question without an answer, but Danja Gang had to ask it.

But the answer that came back was slightly different from Danja Gang’s expectations. What came back to him was clear ridicule.

“I’ve heard all sorts of idiotic questions. Did you Demonic Cult bastards just dig in the dirt in the backwoods and become thinkers or something?”

It was very rude and disrespectful to say to a Bishop. Chung Myung laughed loudly and asked Danja Gang instead.

“So what? Just because the enemy is strong, should we give up and obey?”

“…”

“Listen well, you moronic bastard. Cowards like you might tremble before a non-existent Heavenly Demon because you’re afraid of dying, but I’m the kind of person who would rather die than do that.”

“…You’re not afraid of death?”

“Of course I’m afraid, you moronic bastard.” Chung Myung laughed as if he was dumbfounded.

“But submitting is just more infuriating than dying. Especially to bastards like you.”

Just as Danja Gang was about to open his mouth, a faint humming sound pierced his ears.

“Huummm.”

Danja Gang’s gaze turned to Jang Il-So, who was next to Chung Myung.

His blood-red lips, drawn on a completely white face, formed an eerie curve.

“…You kept saying Bishop, Bishop. I wondered what kind of amazing person you were.”

Jang Il-So paused for a moment and sighed exaggeratedly.

“This is a bit disappointing.”

Danja Gang’s eyebrows twitched uncomfortably.

“Keep one thing in mind.”

Jang Il-So said in an eerily seductive voice. The ghostly aura on his face made even the great Danja Gang frown.

“The moment a person acknowledges that someone is naturally above them, they are finished.”

“…”

“That’s the difference between the ruler and the ruled. And I’m not afraid of the ruled. No matter how strong they are, it’s the same in the end. A human who chooses to submit.”

Clatter!

Jang Il-So’s rings rubbed roughly against each other.

“So, what kind of human are you?”

Danja Gang, who had been listening to Jang Il-So’s words, smiled quietly.

‘A human who is not ruled…’ He slowly shook his head.

“You don’t know.”

“…”

“You don’t know either. The answer I want is not with you. No… Perhaps I may not be able to get an answer from anyone in the world.”

A hollow voice leaked from Danja Gang’s mouth.

“Not ruled. Overcome. Resist.”

The more his muttering continued, the more Danja Gang’s face gradually distorted.

“Those are words that can only be uttered by those who have not experienced true fear, true greatness, true divinity.”

Black demonic energy flowed out from under Danja Gang’s feet. Darkness so thick that it seemed not of this world began to swirl around his feet.

“If you still intend to utter such words…”

Whooooosh! The demonic energy flowing from Danja Gang rotated faster and faster, soon turning into a massive vortex that writhed fiercely.

“I will show you.”

Danja Gang’s voice also gradually became rougher. His eyes emitted a terribly intense blood-red light.

“What true despair is!”

Kaaaaah!

Black demonic energy soared high into the sky like a black dragon.

Finally, a cry like that of a demon from hell erupted from Danja Gang’s mouth, who had thrown himself into madness. It was an overwhelming and shocking sight.

Before the terrifying spectacle of the demonic energy, the world began to be dyed with fear.