Chapter 144
“Tukakat Purik Tahul Salkata.”
The old sage stepped forward and spoke.
The man, gripping his staff tightly, uttered words in an unknown language.
“Salchakga Tafuk O’chak-tu…?”
He raised a finger, pointing toward Ha Tae-seong.
Continuing to walk forward without pause, he halted at the intervention of the elder standing at the front.
A palpable tension hangs between the rivals standing face to face at close range.
“Taeseong, what do you think they’re up to?”
“I have no idea what his intentions are. This is my first time encountering a situation like this…”
Youngjin and Ha Taeseong kept their guard up as they watched the old Hoi-in.
His incessant chatter, yet complete lack of communication, only made things more difficult.
He even found himself thinking it might have been better to fight each other to the death like they had just moments ago.
“Hal-kak sal-sak.”
The old man slowly lowered his cane to the floor.
As if to say, ‘I have no intention of fighting you.’
Thud-.
Thud-thud-thud-.
Then the other warriors also lowered their weapons to the ground.
Then they took a step back, creating distance from their weapons.
“Is that what I think it is?”
“Yes… I think so…”
Clatter-.
Thud-.
Young-jin and Ha Tae-seong also disarmed.
If they had no intention of fighting, they figured they might as well try to talk things out somehow.
Even if the outcome was already certain.
Thump-thump-.
