Chapter 98 Cipher Text (2)
Creating a spy.
It sounds like something that would only happen during a military dictatorship, but flip it around, and it’s entirely possible even in Hell’s Martial World.
‘This is why a judicial system without lawyers is so terrifying.’
That’s why I confidently brought all the Ijowon members with me.
Woo Je-jun, who remembered the incident from four years ago, spoke with a worried voice.
“If the Military Bureau’s scholars rise up en masse, even you, Captain, could be in danger.”
He wasn’t wrong. Given the nature of the Military Bureau, if news spread that a superior’s own brother had been captured, regardless of right or wrong, the scholars’ backlash would surely follow.
Moreover, Yang Ho-seon, due to his duties in the Military Bureau, was likely quite friendly with the warriors of the Inner Eight Palms Sect. It couldn’t be ruled out that he might bring all his martial artist acquaintances along.
Unless North Palace Baek intervened, if things escalated that far, my plan would almost certainly go awry.
Of course.
“If you defend a traitor who betrayed the city by clinging to the Ten-Horse Alliance, then you’re a traitor too.”
“What? A traitor to the city? Are you saying Yang Ho-jan is the Ten-Horse Alliance?”
With the evidence in my hand, if Yang Ho-jan is the Ten-Horse Alliance, not even the Military Bureau’s old man himself would dare challenge it.
“This time, I’ll have to teach those Military Bureau clerks a lesson.”
