Weapon-Eating Bastard [EN]: Chapter 214

Weapon-Devouring Bastard – Episode 214

The warriors gathered were truly the elite of the Soongmoo Yi family.

The entire Four Gods Squad—Bloodhowl Squad, Darksword Squad, Skybow Squad, and Tortoise Shell Squad—the main force of the Soongmoo Yi family, was present, along with numerous other warrior groups and the bodyguards of each elder.

And that wasn’t all.

Upper-level warriors from each affiliated organization, including the elders who supported the Head Elder, were also present.

In effect, they possessed enough power to easily overthrow a decent-sized nation.

It was a display that offered a glimpse into the might of the Soongmoo Yi family.

In contrast, Yi Cheol stood alone.

His warrior squad, the Ironclad Squad, was in confinement, and he had no support from other direct family members or external forces.

Yet, Yi Cheol’s aura overwhelmed the Soongmoo Yi family’s forces.

“Charge!”

The Bloodhowl Squad, one of the Four Gods Squads, volunteered to lead the charge.

Yi Joong-gwan, the Bloodhowl Squad Leader who had taught Yi Cheol about the Sixth Sense long ago, brandished the relic-grade magic spear, Mokho, and stepped forward.

Or rather, he tried to.

KWA-AAAAANG!

Yi Joong-gwan was unable to maintain his balance and was forced to retreat by the torrent of black Oera [a type of energy] that erupted as the ultimate technique, Heavenly Net, was deployed.

“Kuh-ack!”

“Ugh-AAAAK!”

It was only because it was Yi Joong-gwan that he got away with just being pushed back.

Even though Heavenly Net wasn’t fully completed, some of the lower-level warriors suffered internal injuries or were thrown back by the mere aftereffects of the ultimate technique.

Just a few days ago, Heavenly Net required time to deploy, but now, a brief moment was all it took.

Yi Cheol connected his magic power to the numerous weapons floating in the air and issued a final warning in a chillingly calm voice.

“I have no intention of denying your will to not back down. However, as I have already warned, do your best to preserve your lives.”

And then.

Tu-hwack! WIIIIING!

With a sound like the air exploding, the final stage of the ultimate technique, Heavenly Net, was completed.

The dozens of weapons floating in the air began to emit their own light.

‘Was magic power amplified even further just now?’

‘This isn’t a skill a human can possess!’

The warriors facing Yi Cheol felt suffocated.

Just the aura Yi Cheol emitted was enough to make them tremble, but now, a tidal wave of Oera was erupting from the weapons floating in the air.

“Kuh-uhk! Bloodhowl Squad! Deploy the defensive formation!”

“Skybow Squad! Retreat to the rear!”

The leaders of the numerous warrior squads, including the Four Gods Squads, almost instinctively ordered evasive or defensive formations.

Not a single one gave an order to attack.

Even with three 3rd-level warriors and so many 4th and 5th-level warriors who were active on the front lines gathered, no one even thought of stepping forward.

Drrrrrr!

As if waiting for the warrior squads to deploy their formations, the numerous weapons floating in the air began to move.

Tu-woong! Kwang! Kwah-gah-gahng!

Like a meteor shower, numerous weapons swept through the surroundings.

Here and there, warriors who had reached a certain level of mastery detonated their Oera in an attempt to shoot down the weapons, but they were soon swallowed up by Yi Cheol’s jet-black Oera.

Koo-goo-goo-goo-goong!

The outer walls and main gate of the Soongmoo Yi family, which had never been destroyed since the Great War, crumbled and collapsed in less than a minute, and the ground shook as the foundations gave way.

The world was consumed by Yi Cheol’s Oera, which had turned jet black.

Like a tidal wave, or a storm.

The warriors of the Soongmoo Yi family were swept away by the raging black Oera, feeling only a sense of oblivion.

“Kuh-ah-ahp!”

Bloodhowl Squad Leader Yi Joong-gwan let out a scream-like groan and frantically unleashed the family’s secret techniques.

‘Has that young boy become like this…!’

Yi Joong-gwan coughed up the burning air that pierced his lungs and was barely able to protect the Bloodhowl Squad warriors from being swept away.

Yi Cheol had become a monster.

The boy who had learned the basics of the Sixth Sense from him a few years ago was no more.

Kwang! Kwah-gah-gah-gahng!

Those who blocked were thrown back like reeds, and those who dodged were soon swept away by the attacks of new weapons that rained down again.

Even in the midst of all this, Yi Cheol’s magic power showed no signs of diminishing.

Rather, Heavenly Net seemed to grow stronger over time, channeling the surrounding magic power to Yi Cheol.

‘How can such a thing be possible for a human being!’

‘We were mistaken.’

‘Kuh-uh-uhk!’

Everyone felt like they were having a nightmare.

Those with high levels of mastery were busy protecting their own safety and their comrades, while those with low levels of mastery were gripped by the fear of imminent death.

And.

In the midst of that carnage.

“Head Elder.”

Yi Cheol moved towards the Head Elder.

To end this fight.

* * *

This place was like the eye of the storm.

Even the Oera erupting from all directions couldn’t encroach on the small patch of land where Yi Cheol and the Head Elder stood.

‘This, this bastard’s power… is this the extent of it?’

Yi Cheol-joong stared into Yi Cheol’s eyes, his hand trembling as he gripped his staff.

Yi Cheol’s gaze.

He couldn’t understand why the sunset-colored glint in those endlessly calm eyes sent such a chill down his spine.

And because he couldn’t understand, Yi Cheol-joong could only guess at the level Yi Cheol had reached.

‘Could it be… did he open the door?’

Yi Cheol-joong felt a sense of utter despair as he realized this.

The door.

The final step of transcendence that only those who had reached the pinnacle of their path could open.

Had the bastard he had hated so much opened the door that he had longed for his entire life but had never been able to open?

“I can’t believe it! I can’t believe it! A filthy half-breed like you! How could you have reached that level! I don’t believe it!”

The Head Elder glared, drawing a sword from the staff he had been resting on the ground.

Sreureung!

It was the Heaven-Grade sword, Chamsa Sword, which the previous family head had personally bestowed.

As he stepped forward, a dark Oera spread across the ground.

‘He can’t possibly be relaxed after unleashing this level of skill. I’ll personally cut off his head!’

Yi Cheol-joong had already become a 3rd-level warrior a long time ago.

The Head Elder’s eyes flashed as he swung his sword towards the crown of Yi Cheol’s head.

Soongmoo Yi Family, Secret Technique Number 1.

Heavenly Severance.

A powerful strike that seemed to sever space itself was unleashed.

Or rather, was about to be unleashed.

“……!”

Hwiik! Kwang!

A jet-black weapon suddenly appeared in the empty air, blocking the Head Elder’s sword path midway.

The Head Elder’s Chamsa Sword, unable to even be swung properly, flew uselessly through the air and plunged into the ground.

“Kuh-uh……!”

Yi Cheol-joong clutched his wrist, gritting his teeth.

Then, he screamed.

“Just how did you reach that level!”

The Head Elder shouted in a cracking voice.

“What was lacking, what conditions were there that allowed you to surpass the level that even I couldn’t reach! What, what was it……!”

I looked at him as if he were pathetic.

“It’s the same reason I said earlier. It’s simply because you didn’t fight.”

“Fight? I have fought the most befitting of this family’s name!”

“Do you really think so?”

I looked at the Head Elder.

From the end of the Great War, through the post-war chaos, to his time with the Soongmoo Yi family as it became a global powerhouse, I retraced his history.

And I said.

“You didn’t fight. Despite your desire for power, you were satisfied with ‘just’ being the Head Elder. No matter how many hundreds or thousands of years were given to someone like you, you would never reach this level.”

“What do you know, spouting nonsense! I sacrificed myself! For the sake of the family’s stability! Because I was the Head Elder, the Soongmoo Yi family……!”

“You really don’t know anything. All you did was compromise and rationalize.”

Even my fellow disciples from the training hall knew this.

I easily deflected the Head Elder’s Oera, which he was detonating as if in a frenzy, and continued.

“If it were me, I would have achieved my goal even if I failed countless times, even if I had to risk my life. The family’s stability? Sacrifice? Things like that are not important to me. If I fail, I’ll just die. There’s no such thing as stopping halfway.”

Me, my eldest brother, my second sister, and even my third brother, whom I hate to admit it, all of us were people who worked hard, pushing ourselves to the limit, to achieve our respective goals.

We don’t know satisfaction.

That’s why we fight, continue to risk our lives, and eventually seize what we want.

Words like family stability or sacrifice are just excuses for those who bear the name of Soongmoo Yi.

“How dare you! Utter such! Outrageous words!”

Yi Cheol-joong spat out the words as if vomiting, and once again unleashed his magic power.

That magic power, as if proving the years Yi Cheol-joong had trained, was clearly reaching an amazing level.

But that was all.

Seogeok!

I lightly swung Black Night, cutting away all of the Head Elder’s raging magic power.

“Don’t come closer! You’re just a bastard! A lowly bloodline! How dare you!”

“A lowly bloodline, you say. Are you still saying such things even after coming this far? Did you have that much of an inferiority complex about your own status?”

In that instant, Yi Cheol-joong’s eyes widened as if they would tear.

“What, you……?”

“Did you think I wouldn’t know about you? I know that you were adopted into the main family from a branch family during the Great War. You resented bastards with ridiculous logic because of that, didn’t you? In terms of status alone, you and I are not that different.”

The Head Elder, Yi Cheol-joong.

He was an adopted son from a branch family who had entered the Soongmoo Yi family during the Great War, when status and birth were even more prevalent.

At that time, the Soongmoo Yi family was declining, and there was a shortage of talent.

In the midst of that, a talented individual appeared from a branch family, a man named Yi Cheol-joong, who showed great ability despite being from a branch family.

It was a time when status and bloodline were even more important than they are now.

The main family decided to adopt Yi Cheol-joong and give him an important position.

In that way, Yi Cheol-joong became a direct family member even though he wasn’t.

“You and I are different! How dare you, a lowly half-breed, utter such outrageous words!”

The blood vessels in Yi Cheol-joong’s eyes burst.

What Yi Cheol had said was Yi Cheol-joong’s sore spot.

“Die!”

Yi Cheol-joong detonated his Oera and charged at Yi Cheol.

Seugak! Kwang!

Black Night and Yi Cheol-joong’s hands and feet became entangled in a chaotic mess.

The attacks of Yi Cheol-joong, who had exploded with rage, were not fast enough to be easily avoided by Yi Cheol, who was deploying Heavenly Net.

Kwa-AAAAANG!

And Yi Cheol-joong’s Oera grazed Yi Cheol’s Black Night and struck his torso accurately.

Joy filled Yi Cheol-joong’s eyes.

Yi Cheol-joong retracted his outstretched fist and immediately tried to finish him off.

However.

“It’s light.”

Yi Cheol-joong felt a chill and looked up at Yi Cheol.

Yi Cheol had only a trickle of blood flowing from the corner of his mouth.

And then, the light of a sword flashed.

Seogeok!

A chilling sound of cutting.

Yi Cheol-joong stared blankly at his shoulder.

The fist he had stabbed into Yi Cheol’s abdomen, his arm, his shoulder… they were nowhere to be seen.

“Ugh, ugh! Keu-aaack!”

Yi Cheol-joong collapsed, spraying blood, and trembled.

I wiped the blood from the corner of my mouth and looked down at the collapsed Yi Cheol-joong.

“Adopted son, bastard, direct family, branch family… what does it all matter?”

“You, you, what…….”

……do you know.

The Head Elder, who was about to shout that, simply stared up at Yi Cheol with his mouth open.

There was no way he wouldn’t know.

Yi Cheol, at least, knew.

Because he had made him that way.

He tried to kill him because he was a bastard, he tried to discriminate against him, and he thought that was the way to protect the nobility and greatness of this family.

‘Ah, ah…….’

Yi Cheol-joong looked up at Yi Cheol, who was slowly approaching and pointing his sword at his neck.

“When did you become so broken? Head Elder.”

Yi Cheol-joong let out a hollow laugh.

‘Broken? Me?’

No, I, Yi Cheol-joong, am not broken.

I am always right.

I am another head of this Soongmoo Yi family.

Surely, that must be the case.

‘Since when. Exactly…….’

Was I satisfied with being the Head Elder?

Did I struggle to preserve this position?

Did I get through the day with self-rationalization and excuses?

Exactly, since when…….

Numerous emotions and complex thoughts swirled in his head.

And then, Yi Cheol-joong looked up at Yi Cheol.

“I, I, I…….”

This young man, who had never lost his dignity even in this situation and was facing him.

Before his eyes was the bastard he had so despised.

Around him were the screams of warriors.

And he was kneeling, groaning.

This was the result.

Everything was crystal clear.

Yi Cheol had won, and Yi Cheol-joong had lost.

In the Soongmoo Yi family, the winner was the answer.

Only then did Yi Cheol-joong realize his mistakes.

However, Yi Cheol-joong did not accept it.

“If only…… if only you weren’t here…….”

Yi Cheol-joong denied all the phenomena before his eyes and all of Yi Cheol’s words.

“If only you die! Everything will be over!”

Yi Cheol-joong detonated his Oera and pushed away Black Night, which was pointed at his neck.

And he swung his remaining arm at Yi Cheol again, but.

Seogak!

With another sound of cutting, Yi Cheol-joong’s other arm was simply cut off.

“Keu-uh-uh-uhk!”

Yi Cheol-joong, with both arms cut off, lay on the ground like a bug, groaning in pain.

“In the end, you were only that much of a person.”

I slowly gripped Black Night and placed it on Yi Cheol-joong’s neck.

“Both arms were for my past life’s share.”

The sharp blade of Black Night was aimed at the back of Yi Cheol-joong’s neck.

“Remember my face before you die, Head Elder. You are defeated by the bastard you so despised and looked down upon, and you will die pathetically.”

Yi Cheol-joong looked up at Yi Cheol’s face through his blood-soaked vision.

“Watch from hell. Watch me become the head of the Soongmoo Yi family.”

Puh-ook!

And the end came.

Yi Cheol-joong’s head rolled across the ground.

Death was more painful, more frightening, and filled with a vast darkness than he had imagined.

* * *

It was when the warriors were trying their best to defend against the ultimate technique that Yi Cheol had unleashed.

A moment was like an eternity, and it seemed that this hellish time would only end in death.

‘Now…… is the limit.’

Pik-!

It was the moment when Yi Joong-gwan, who had been wielding his spear most fiercely, was about to collapse.

Hwa-ahk!

A whirlwind erupted, and the roaring sound and the storm of black Oera that seemed to collapse the heavens and the earth disappeared as if washed away.

“Uh, uh?”

“Heo-uhk, heo-uhk…….”

Silence descended upon the crowd.

The warriors of the Soongmoo Yi family, who had been desperately maintaining their formations to save their lives, looked around in a daze.

The main gate of the Soongmoo Yi family, which had seemed eternal, had disappeared without a trace, and numerous warriors, whose life or death was unknown, were lying on the ground.

Woo-oong!

And in the silence, they saw that the numerous weapons floating in the air had suddenly begun to move again.

Heumchit!

The warriors, who had not grasped the situation, trembled, but soon the weapons flew through the air towards one place.

The center where all the events had unfolded.

There, only one young man stood tall, his sword hanging down.

“Ah…….”

The body of the fallen Head Elder.

And a little further away, the head that had rolled off.

Only then did they realize the situation.

The victor lives and seizes everything.

The loser loses even his life and rolls on the ground.