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Paang—
A faint wave felt in the distance. Ma Gwang-soo, who felt the power, turned his head and looked towards the mountain.
“Look how you dealt with it.”
I thought it would be a little overwhelming for both of them, but it seems like they handled it well.
After confirming that the only concern had disappeared, Ma Gwang-soo turned his head forward again.
“… … .”
Hair that had become bald and blood stained all over his body. The shoulder where the right arm was supposed to be was empty, and the dagger he had just swung was also lying on the floor in half.
Seeing the old man barely holding his breath, Ma Kwang-soo put the gray sword he had made in his right hand over his shoulder.
“I want to finish it soon too, but is there anything else I can change to a shadow other than the right arm? hurry up if you have I will cut it right away.”
The old man’s eyes twitched at Ma Gwang-soo’s urging, and then he smiled bitterly and muttered.
“That arrogant attitude is still there. Sword Demon.”
Sword Demon.
Hearing that old nickname, Ma Gwang-soo made a slightly startled expression and then narrowed his eyes.
‘If you know the old nickname, it means you’ve had a good career… … .’
Were there any similar guys among the guys you’ve worked with in the past? Ma Gwang-soo, who had been groping for a moment, suddenly recalled a name.
“okay. I thought I was used to some movement… … You were from the ‘Black Mak’.”
A group of demons that only appeared in the desert at night and hunted heroes mercilessly.
They were the culprits who transformed many desert areas into dangerous areas, but they were a group that was subjugated and disappeared long ago.
“… … I would have remembered Surprising, yes.”
“I remember all those who bothered me. But how are you alive? I must have killed them all with Ludwig back then… … .”
“At that time, it wasn’t the Ascension Festival, it was ‘Heaven and Sky’. Even if it’s an S-class, it’s not that difficult to avoid it because it’s a human after all.”
An old man talking about Ludwig’s nickname before becoming a complete winner. Ma Gwang-soo made a strange expression at that sight.
‘No matter how old he is, he’s not that lame… … .’
Rather, it was a time when he was more thorough than he is now because he lacked strength.
Ma Gwang-soo, who looked at the old man for a long time, sighed and shook his head.
“Well, that’s it. It looks like he doesn’t even want to talk about it, so let’s just end it here.”
“It’s gloomy, yes.”
“Can you do it alone? They’re talking nonsense and thinking of taking kids hostage.”
“… … !”
The old man’s eyes widened at the calm talk of Ma Gwang-soo.
‘I noticed the enemy’s movement… … ?’
After being suppressed, he would have moved over to space movement, and he would have infiltrated here, how did you know?
At that time, the old man was pondering whether he really noticed it or whether it was a psychological warfare to pressure him.
Chiling-
With the sound of a transparent bell, dozens of blue swords flew towards Ma Gwang-soo from all over the forest.
“What… … .”
Dozens of swords arranged neatly behind the Ma Gwangsu.
It was short, about 60 cm long, and had an elegant shape like a craft, but dozens of sacks had the same shape.
Even that alone was quite a mysterious sight, but the old man who recognized the essence looked at it with astonishment.
“The sword… … ?”
Creates a sword using swordsmanship.
Any high-ranking hero who is accustomed to handling swords in itself can do it, but creating dozens of them and controlling them individually is a different story.
‘… … Right. I just couldn’t become a finisher… … Was it that the technology was more advanced?’
When you were wasting your time The Red Army had already been pierced by those blue swords and annihilated.
The old man, who realized that, remembered why Ma Gwang-soo’s nickname was changed from sword demon to slayer sword.
‘If you see a broken sword, run away.’
A nickname recognized by mankind and Manma Wars to avoid meaningless battles and to save demons who can’t predict the enemy.
The old man smiled bitterly at the sight of the monster who stood shoulder to shoulder with the Ascension Festival before becoming a complete winner.
“You have to show the sword to escape… … .”
Dozens of blue swords were aimed at the old man.
Cheonchung Sword
blue light
Chiing-
Dozens of swords pierced the old man’s body with a gentle reverberation, and with the blink of an eye of Ma Gwang-soo, they naturally unraveled with magical power and disappeared.
Ma Gwang-soo, who saw this, went straight to the old man and tore off his tattered shirt.
profit
A black haze rose from all over the wound. Ma Gwang-soo, noticing that his body was getting messed up, frowned.
“Poison in bombs. I even put a curse on it thrifty.”
At the same time as he cut off his breath, he removed as much of the devices hidden in his body as possible, but his readiness seemed to be at a higher level than that.
Ma Gwang-soo looked down at the old man’s body with only the shell left, with a subtle expression.
“The only one who is this thorough is the tuner… … .”
From the puppeteer to the tuner? I don’t know if it’s a coincidence or not, but it was the first time in my life that a prospect had been involved with two of the seven evils in such a short period of time.
“Tt… … You’re annoying… … .”
I was going to go ahead and handle it, but I guess I’ll have to wait and see until I return to Babel.
Ma Gwang-soo, who had put the body in the subspace box, grumbled and walked into the forest again.
***
“Hmm… … .”
Black tucked neatly into the rim of the red spear blade.
Sehun Lee was slightly impressed with the neatly made pattern of the window, which was engraved by chance.
‘I’m sure he’ll engrave a magic circuit in one room.’
A phenomenon that occurs when the assimilation rate of the weapon reaches 90% or more.
It was at this time that the weapon often felt as if it were a part of the body, and he reached it in just one shot, and completed the unstable spear into a single spear.
“You can just use it like this. take it.”
As he ran, he looked at the place where the workshop, which had been handed over to the Gwanil Chang, was located.
“Isn’t it really nothing?”
“Because it is. Don’t worry… … Oh, I see you there.”
Leaving the mountain, Jinhwan Park’s workshop appeared, and in the yard, four undead assassins were confronted with two men.
A mark on the shoulder that proves that he is an instructor who has climbed the Seven Wheels and the uniform of the gates of Chōhwamun. Seeing that, Sehun narrowed his eyes.
“Are you acquaintances?”
“Instructors Kang Hyeon-woon and Jang Paul. Both of them are class A, and they are no less than Moonju’s direct subordinates.”
“Kang Hyun-woon… … Oh, is it him?”
An idiot who had come to check Seongha Yeom’s skills before, but only broke the spear and ate it. With a familiar face, Sehun looked at him with interest.
“Tt… … .”
Kang Hyeon-woon, who found the two, briefly clicked his tongue, then adjusted his expression to greet them.
“You are safe. I was worried that we might be late.”
“It’s annoying, so let’s just talk about the basics. Did Moonju send you?”
Kang Hyeon-woon’s eyes twitched slightly at Seong-ha Yeom’s direct question, but he nodded as if nothing had happened.
“Yes. Master Moon decided that it would be difficult for Master Seongha Yeom to deal with the salt hunter alone, so he sent me and Master Jean Paul to support.”
Jean-Paul, a tall westerner with short brown hair and over 2 meters in height, saw the two of them and bowed his head slightly to greet them.
“But you seem to be injured. Are you okay?”
Hyunwoon Kang and Paul Jang look at their body as if they are worried. However, Seong-ha Yeom, who realized that the intentions contained in the gaze were different, answered calmly.
“I am not going to die for you.”
“… … You’re joking too much. young master.”
Seong-ha Yeom indifferently turned her head to look at Lee Se-hoon at the appearance of Hyeon-woon Kang who responded with a sincere expression.
“Take out the Unwoldo.”
“Yes.”
Lee Se-hun, who took out Ahn Gil-hyeon’s Eonwoldo from the subspace pocket, pushed it forward, and Kang Hyeon-woon’s eyes widened when he recognized the weapon.
“that… … .”
“This is the ‘Yeomryongdo (炎龍刀)’ of the ex-instructor Ahn Gil-hyeon, who was excommunicated. This guy pretended to be a salt hunter and tried to attack the workshop. It’s just been dealt with.”
At Seongha Yeom’s explanation, Hyunwoon Kang put on a puzzled expression.
‘Ahn Gil-hyun suffered… … ?’
The hound, who was in charge of dealing with the ‘traitors’ who disobeyed Munju as an A-class hero, lost to the guy who became a teacher just a while ago.
At the unbelievable result, Kang Hyeon-woon’s eyes suddenly turned to the two spears held in Seong-ha Yeom’s hands.
‘It’s a weapon I’ve never seen before.’
Two short spears that do not look ordinary from the outside.
If both of them were heroic, and if Ahn Gil-hyeon looked down on Seong-ha Yeom’s skills and was careless, there is a possibility that he would have been harmed in vain.
‘There’s no way a trash like Park Jin-hwan could have made such a window. That’s… … .’
After realizing who made Seongha Yeom’s spear, Kang Hyeon-woon naturally looked at Lee Se-hoon, who was holding the Yeom-ryong sword.
When we first met, he was just a cheeky kid who said he was the head of the department, but now he has become a ‘supporter’ of Seongha Yeom, who has both fame and skill.
‘If this mission is known to the outside, both Seong-Ha Yeom and Se-Hoon Lee will get more attention than before.’
Kang Hyeon-woon realized that the situation was not good, and Moon-ju’s request came to mind.
‘If you see an opportunity, clean it up.’
If you hesitate here, everything goes wrong. The moment when Kang Hyeon-woon gave strength to the hand holding the spear and tried to look back at the two of them.
“Those eyes.”
Seong-ha Yeom looked at Hyun-woon Kang with a cold expression.
“You better stop rolling. If you don’t want to be ripped off.”
Seong-ha Yeom looking down with the ends of the two spears hanging down. Kang Hyeon-woon’s body hardened at the pressure he felt from that figure, and his eyes widened as he realized his reaction.
‘I… … Are you withdrawn from the front?’
Previously, he was just like a wild dog, but now he felt the ‘madness’ that would kill him even if he had to die.
Kang Hyeon-woon looked at him for a long time as he had changed like a different person within a few days, and then sighed.
‘You underestimated your opponent too much. Master Moon.’
If only three or four instructors had been sent, Seongha Yeom would have been able to be dealt with here.
After confirming that there was no way to deal with Seong-Ha Yeom, Hyeon-Woon Kang calmed the momentum and lowered his head.
“I will be careful in the future. And since I need proof to deliver to Munju, could you hand over the Yeomryongdo?”
“I do.”
tuung
Seong-ha Yeom, who turned the gwanil spear half a turn, lifted Yeomryongdo upward with the spear.
Whoo!
Yeomryongdo floated into the air. Seong-ha Yeom, who turned the spear half a turn at the sight, swung the spear as hard as she could with her eyes shining.
Snack!
The spear blade and the spear of Yeomryongdo were lightly separated.
“Take it.”
Tung!
The falling spear was kicked at Seong-ha Yeom’s feet, and Kang Hyeon-woon’s face was distorted at once.
“Now what… … .”
“Ahn Gil-hyun said he was close with Moon-ju, so even if he had a spear, he would be able to recognize him.”
“… … .”
A very meaningful word. Kang Hyeon-woon stared at him for a while, then looked at Jean-Paul.
“Let’s go.”
The two leave without saying goodbye as if it’s a waste of time anymore. Seongha Yeom looked at him indifferently and slowly opened his mouth.
“Go tell me.”
“… … .”
Seong-ha Yeom continued the story with determination and calm as the two stopped walking.
“Even if Master leaves me… … His will will continue to be proved through my spear.”
Even if Jin-hyeon Yeom takes him hostage and is eventually killed, he will never back down.
In response to Seongha Yeom’s declaration of determination, Kang Hyeon-woon calmly responded.
“Do not regret.”
The two of them walk back after saying those words. Seong-ha Yeom, who looked at him, looked at Se-hun Lee.
“You have that spear blade.”
“What… … .”
Sehun Lee was startled by Seongha Yeom’s promise to hand over the spear blade of Yeomryongdo, which was a hero-grade weapon, but then realized something and laughed.
“Are you saying you’re paying for this too?”
I didn’t know it in the past, but now this obvious method doesn’t work. Seong-ha Yeom looked at Lee Se-hoon’s question with an absurd expression.
“Since we fought together, we want to share the loot. Don’t you know such a basic thing?”
“… … .”
Lee Se-hoon’s face hardened at the unexpected answer, then he took a deep breath and smiled.
“okay… … Thank you very much.”
Having picked up the spear blade of Yeomryongdo that had fallen on the floor, Sehun Lee looked at the condition lightly.
‘Is it before it gets damaged? … Still, it’s not to the point where I can’t use it at all.’
Se-hun Lee, who decided to mix it with other ingredients next time, put it in his subspace pocket and looked at Seong-ha Yeom.
“So what are you going to do next?”
“We plan to join forces to prevent the use of neutrals as hostages. No matter how young Moon-ju is, he won’t be able to do something like this often.”
“I think the mission itself would be dangerous.”
“I plan to prevent monster subjugation by going out regularly. If you build up your achievements like this, you can reject the mission as many times as you want.”
“It’s a monster subjugation… … .”
Will there be any people who will accept Yeom Seong-ha, who is stalking him even at the gate? It should come out if you search for it, but you can’t be sure what you were aiming for.
‘I need people who have a clear identity and who won’t fall for Lee Won-ryong’s tactics.’
Se-hun Lee thought for a moment if there was anyone who could fit in, and then immediately thought of one person and asked.
“you. Do you know Professor Cassar?”
“There is no one who doesn’t know about the Akalkuf cadets.”
“I’m going to talk to him, so get introduced and participate. It will be much safer than receiving it through the chloride gate.”
“… … .”
Seong-ha Yeom looked at Lee Se-hoon’s story with a strange expression. You made a connection with that Yeongun sword and not with anyone else.
‘It’s good to have one resourceful… … .’
He doesn’t want to admit it, but he seems to be superior to himself outside of combat. Seong-ha Yeom, who for the first time genuinely acknowledged the merits not related to combat, looked at Lee Se-hoon.
‘And the window… … I received more and more.’
In particular, the price for the windows I received this time has piled up like a mountain as they promised to pay three times the price.
However, Se-hun Lee, who still does not want to accept it, made Seong-ha Yeom slightly uncomfortable.
‘Is this really a deal… … .’
In fact, it is not a situation where you are in debt by yourself and cause a unilateral inconvenience. When Seong-ha Yeom was thinking like that.
“And if you get a rare monster by-product from there, bring it to me right away.”
Sehun Lee calmly added the story.
“If there’s something good, I’ll take it instead of the money. okay?”
“… … .”
Sehun Lee emphasizes that it is a transaction, not help or sympathy. Seongha Yeom looked at it without saying a word and then smiled.
“Don’t worry. I will bring you something good.”
[A transaction with Daesang ‘Seongha Yeom’ has been established.]
[A bond stone is created for the target ‘Seongha Yeom’]
***
after everything is sorted out. The villagers from the evacuated village returned, and Park Jin-hwan, who was left alone, looked at his workshop.
“… … Is this the end now?”
In the meantime, I have stayed here just because I can concentrate well, but it is not a very good place to learn something.
‘It must be a thorn in my eyes when I go back to Yeomhwamun… … I’d rather go to Meister.’
Small and medium-sized artisans gather and interact with each other, and above all, since the pilgrims are the group that the pilgrims have promised to protect, even the master of the gate will not be able to easily touch them.
‘It’s an old man who only looks shiny, but he’ll accept it anyway.’
When Jinhwan Park, who had decided on a destination, was just about to pack up the studio.
“Excuse me.”
A shadow appeared at the entrance of the workshop.
“I came here to hear that the owner of this place is very good at making fire-attributed weapons… … Do you take orders?”
A middle-aged man with a gloomy face with long long hair reaching the middle of his head and a dark beard.
Inside the cloak, you could see that there were frayed light armor and a red scabbard all over the waist of the sword.
“I’m sorry. As of today, I have stopped working.”
“is it? It’s not easy to find someone who can make hero-grade weapons properly.”
Park Jin-hwan shook his head with a bitter smile at the man’s answer, which was full of regret.
“It’s all a thing of the past. Now, it’s a waste of whether or not to make it even after hanging on for half a year.”
In response to Jinhwan Park’s sincere response, the man looked at him quietly and then nodded.
“Then there is nothing I can do. Next time you get a chance, please do so.”
The man who left a greeting left the studio, and Park Jin-hwan, who was organizing his luggage again, suddenly remembered something.
‘The sword I was wearing on my back… … It looked like a hero grade.’
One possibility running through my mind. But Park Jin-hwan quickly shook his head.
‘You must have become too sensitive.’
If he was just a saltwater hunter, then why did he come to see him who only made spears?
Park Jin-hwan, who had organized his thoughts like that, arranged the luggage again as if nothing had happened.
“It’s bullshit again… … .”
The man who looked at him disappeared into the darkness.
