Chapter 82

Chapter 82

Nam Gung-hyuk and Black Ho hurriedly flew out of the room.

“You said the greenery is moving, I’m sure.”

“……Unless it’s not true.”

It wasn’t that they’d gotten information about Salgye, it was that Noklim’s movements were a threat to Anhui.

“No, but is it really true, that the Green Forest sent the supply and demand of the bandits in the mountain range?”

Black Ho had forgotten about it. It had been two years ago.

“…… At that time, there were many people who were harmed by the Green Forest, and at the same time, they were threatening to take members of the Southern Palace hostage. I’m sure the Grand Duke was quite furious.”

“To say the least, that’s true! What a white light of the Green Forest, what a white light of the Unaesop Zone!”

Hearing those words, Black Lake realized that something was wrong.

Especially since he had just met Kwangseung.

A white light in the ranks of the Wu Nai Fifty Zones was an unimaginable horror.

“He looks like he’s up to no good, so be on your guard at all times,” he said. My curiosity is answered.”

The head of the Hubei branch of the Open Society told me that the Green Forest’s movements were unusual, that they were everywhere around Anhui, and that they had been preparing for a long time.

“If it’s aimed at the Grand Duke.”

“No, if they were aiming for you, they would have stopped them before they reached Anhui. That’s not true.”

He had a point. Black Ho nodded in agreement.

“You said it yourself, they’re after something. We must keep the Iron Swords, Wind Swords, and Thunder Swords at the ready, ready to move.”

“I think so, too.”

As they walked, their torsos kept leaning forward, a sense of foreboding that something was about to happen, even though they knew nothing would.

“……Green Forest Two King White Light.”

* * *

“You must have been pretty pissed off.”

“Every time. If King Tu hadn’t told me to keep an eye on you, I’d have ripped your head off. Child.”

Huang Bo Gyeom, Netherworld.

Still, even if she faced him again, she was unsure of her chances of winning. He was too strong, too powerful.

Now, more than two years later, I wondered if I had reached his level.

Putting my doubts aside, I looked at the three Inyoung in front of me.

“I see,” I said, ”that traveling in threes is the law of the forest.”

At those words, one of the elders, clad in a blood-red leopard skin, roughed up his bushy beard and bared his white teeth. I felt like a bear facing its prey, a black bear, a bear known for its ferocity.

The glint of blood in his eyes and the two hatchets at his waist were intimidating in their own right.

“Kid, don’t take it easy. You think you can scare us in your own backyard.”

The man who identified himself as Mountain Zhong Zhi Yak, Black Woong, shifted his gaze to Namgung Wall and Mr. Bai standing behind him.

He flinched.

The trembling of the Namgung Byeok was palpable as it faced the bloodthirsty glare. But he held his ground.

A snort.

“Futile.”

I took a step forward, exuding energy to quell the hostility that was building.

“If you’re as strong as you think you are, you can be assholes.”

“Well, well, well, you’ve got the order backwards. You’re the one who invited us here.”

“You threw them away anyway, and now you want revenge.”

Red Tiger, Green Tiger, White Tiger.

Three people are dead, and now they want to take revenge.

It was Black Hero who resolved my curiosity about their inexplicable behavior.

“You think we’ll go out of our way just because they’re dead,” he said, ”but you’ve touched the pride of the Two Kings.”

At those words, I felt a young killing intent and a strange loyalty in the eyes of Black Woong and the two generals, and my tongue dropped. Was it?

Had they been hovering around An Hui ever since the moment I sent the Red Horsemen’s payment?

Why?

Why shouldn’t he just target me directly?

“Why bother buying it? I’ve been in Shandong for a long time. It would have been easier if you had targeted me directly.”

“Let me explain. It was more important to hurt your spirit than to kill a hundred bees myself.”

As he speaks, Black Hero’s gaze turns to the South Palace Wall and Mr. Baek.

“To take away your most precious thing, that’s what it means.”

Kwak.

A killing intent surges through him.

“That was not easy. You’re locked up in Anhui Castle and you can’t even see your nose. But I waited. Patiently.”

Black Woong’s words made me feel even more anxious than the three men in front of me.

I wanted to face Baekwang, who had no face.

It was a maddening obsession. For over two years, he’d had his men watch over this place, targeting the South Palace walls, Mr. Baek, and my mother.

Only a truly insane person could do such a thing.

“That’s why I waited for this moment.”

“I’m glad. King Tu said we only had to deal with the two of them, but I was disappointed.”

I turned to face Black Woong, feeling the corners of my mouth tighten as if I were chewing on a grain of sand.

“I’ll deal with you and your two right here in Anhui Castle’s front yard. This will definitely serve as a warning. This will definitely serve as a warning to the Chang Tian Divine Sword.”

After saying that, the man named Black Woong didn’t speak at length anymore. As he drew the two hatchets from his waistband, I leaned down and raised my hand to the head of the South Palace Wall, who had never encountered a situation like this before.

“Wall, take your mother and step back. To that beautiful tree over there. Can you do it?”

I stroked its head.

“It’s …….”

It’s okay. It’ll be okay.

I heard Wall’s voice, a tremor of fear creeping into my smile.

“Trust your brother. I’ll protect you.”

I looked at Mrs. Baek, my mother, who was holding Walli’s hand tightly. My mother was also looking at me. This must have been her first time facing a situation like this, but somehow I could see in her eyes a determination to protect her child, rather than fear and panic.

I nodded.

“Yes, that’s what you should do. Please stay back with Wallie, and make sure you get to that beautiful tree, as I don’t want any harm done.”

“……The Grand Duke.”

“Don’t worry. I will protect you.”

With that, I turned away from the South Palace wall, which refused to budge.

“Have you said your final goodbyes?”

“Thank you for your patience.”

“I’ve waited more than two years for this.”

“I’m in tears, but what can I do?”

Thrrrr.

My eyes lit up as I drew my sword.

“White light,” I said, ”I must go to punishment for this moment.”

With a thud!

The ground on which Black Woong stood cracked and cracked, and a new type of lightning flew out, giving the illusion of an artillery shell.

Seeing the inky black aura coming towards his head, my sword instantly ignited with thunderous power.

Kwagagagagang!

“Don’t you dare speak the name of King Tu.”

“Don’t you dare. Don’t think you can get away with insulting my family.”

I will surely kill the three men in front of me.

My eyes filled with thirst, I see Black Woong’s axe aimed at my chest, and I roll onto my back, but another axe moves swiftly to slice through my upper body again.

I take a couple of steps, dodging the axes, and skillfully raise the tip of my sword to slice between them.

Kwang!

My palms tingled with each collision of my Thunderbolt Qi and Muk’s aura, but it didn’t matter. He’ll suffer as much as the counterforce I feel.

* * *

Under the majestic mountain scenery, with the fluttering bushes behind them, they began to collide with the Qi waves, and in the meantime, Black Wing let out an exclamation of admiration.

He suddenly realized why all the children of the green forest in Shandong had been wiped out.

Kwao! Kwao!

Seeing him face two hatchets, his own hatchet filled with dark-colored power, dozens of times, and not blink an eye.

‘Surely they couldn’t handle it.’

And so he did. When he slashed at their throats with his hatchet, a surge of thunderbolt energy would strike his shoulder.

When he tried to slash at his thighs, the sword of the lightly-built man who leapt to his feet stabbed him in the jugular with a dexterity that rivaled the strength of the dark colors.

The accomplishment of a young man, a young man who looked so young.

He was mysteriously fast and powerful. It was easy to see why King Tu had found the Grand Duke of the Southern Palace so intriguing.

But.

Quang!

The two halberds crossed and slammed into the earth, accelerating the momentum of the sword. The shoulder slammed into the young man’s abdomen, sending him flying like a cannonball, slamming him into the beautiful tree where his party was staying.

The fountain of the young man’s blood gurgled and spurted, and Black Woong pushed himself to his feet.

“You’re ……quite a fighter, I’m afraid you’re no match for any late-stage exponent, so die, you’re a hindrance to the Green Forest’s progress.”

Black Woong had fought thousands of battles as the right-hand man of King Bai Guang of the Green Forest. He had come to realize that if you can’t have it, you must cut off the limb.

He would kill. Must.

Jab, jab, jab.

The black warrior walks toward the young man. King T’u has told him not to harm this child, but for the first time, Black Woof is about to break his command.

“Even if King T’u punishes me,” he said, ”I must rip your head off.”

But.

“Are you so …… afraid of the future I’m going to paint?”

The young man smiled as he spoke.

The young man’s new body transformed into a handful of brain energy and disappeared,

Kwaaaaaaaah!

The young man’s new weapon, which had transformed into a handful of thunderbolts and disappeared, was now a glowing sword that was coming straight for him.

“……Crazy!”

Black Woong felt the world slow down for a moment. Even his own energy, which was accelerating to the limit.

He couldn’t imagine how he could have this illusion…… without accelerating even further!

In that slowed-down world, the young man’s thunder dragon, which had dodged all of Black Woong’s axe strikes, charged forward, slicing through Black Woong’s chest.

Kwang!

“I see.”

As Black Woong grunted, healed the wounds on his chest, and red blood slowly trickled down his lips, revealing the torn corners of his mouth.

“Weak.”

Black Woong gritted his teeth at the sight of the young man’s intense blood color contrasting with his white skin.