Chapter 123: The Four Heavenly Gates – Part 1
It was about a week after passing the trial of the Bright Sword that Lady Dang Yeo-eun and I emerged once more from the gates of the Two-Person Pavilion.
When we emerged through the stone gate, the cave passage remained shrouded in a faint green glow. Madman Mak Woo-jeon and Gayuak, consumed by madness, still wandered through it like ghosts.
Lady Dang Yeo-eun asked me telepathically.
– It’s been a month, yet they still move. They must have eaten nothing. Could that be because they’re also afflicted by madness?
I shook my head and replied.
– That can’t be right. If what the Master said is true, time inside the Iin-gwan must be different from here. He said time there passes about five times faster, so while a month has passed for us, for them it’s probably not even been a week.
– Ah, I see.
For the past month, we had been studying under the sword master Jeong Myeong-gang, learning the Moonlit Sword Dance from him.
A month meant our leave from the front lines had already ended. If we didn’t return quickly, we could have been treated as deserters.
However, time inside the Iin-gwan passed five times faster than in reality, so in the real world, less than a week had passed.
“Grrrr!”
At that moment, the red glow in Mak Woo-jeon’s eyes turned toward us.
The creature had finally spotted us.
“Kwaaang!”
The creature began charging toward us with ferocious speed.
The monster, Mak Woo-jeon, who had reached near-ultimate power and fallen into madness, capable of wielding strength almost matching the ultimate, was closing in on us.
