Chapter 62
Chapter 62
Ch. 62🔒 .｡.:✧ Blood Rain ✧:.｡.
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Translated By Arcane Translations
Translator: Chaos
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The tide of the battle had turned.
I realized this the moment the Silent Demon, Byeok Ri-seol’s left arm soared into the air.
In that instant, I felt the scent of blood begin to linger at the tip of my blade.
‘Have I taken down the enemy’s de facto commander with this?’
A smile naturally formed on my lips.
It felt as if all the frustration that had built up had been resolved.
I had been thinking of resolving the family’s affairs and quickly returning to Mount Hua, but the Heavenly Demon Divine Cult had unexpectedly shown signs of intervening in the family.
The reason I had endured until now was clear.
“Keuheueueut…!”
“……”
Perhaps because I had swung Falling Star and taken Byeok Ri-seol’s left arm.
The momentum of our allies, who felt that victory was in sight, began to grow even stronger.
“Ooh…!”
“I never thought he would be that strong…!”
Exclamations of admiration followed from all over.
Noticing this, I watched Byeok Ri-seol, who was quickly applying pressure to her left shoulder, for a moment, then my gaze turned cold again.
‘Seeing this through to the end is the top priority here.’
Byeok Ri-seol still had the strength to fight.
Even though she had lost one arm, as long as her right arm remained, she was not completely disabled.
But that didn’t mean she still possessed her former martial prowess.
“You, you bastard—! How dare you…!”
“It would be better to just die quietly.”
Peok—!
I shot out sword qi with Falling Star and at the same time threw a punch.
At that, Byeok Ri-seol was clearly flustered.
I continued to speak in a mocking tone.
“You’ll be discarded like a used dog anyway if you return to the Divine Cult like this, so why don’t you just die cleanly here and avoid being turned into a piece of meat by the Heavenly Demon Divine Cult?”
“……!”
“You should have known your place from the beginning…”
As I muttered that, Byeok Ri-seol’s eyes wavered greatly, as if she had finally grasped the reality.
She seemed to have realized how disadvantageous the current situation was for her.
In fact, to a martial artist, an arm was as precious as a martial artist’s life, even if it wasn’t the dantian.
In that situation, there was no way that the Silent Demon, Byeok Ri-seol, who had been unable to escape my defensive posture until just a moment ago, no longer had the capacity to turn the tide of victory again.
Whether she felt a slight sense of despair, or whether she was denying that emotion itself.
Byeok Ri-seol’s shoulder trembled for a moment, and then she bit her lower lip and shouted.
“You’re struggling against a few guards from the Tang Clan… what are you all doing! Help me kill this bastard right now—!”
“……”
“I don’t care what happens, stop that bastard even if you have to die—!”
At the opponent’s desperate shouts, I sneered.
It was close to a sharp, ear-splitting scream.
Noticing this, I immediately felt the momentum of several martial artists who were rushing towards me in response to Byeok Ri-seol’s command.
They were all ronin who had either sided with the Divine Cult or were already members of the Divine Cult.
Paat—!
At their momentum, as they aimed for my vital points in an instant, I finally stopped focusing all my power on Byeok Ri-seol, and as I swung Falling Star around, I spun and slammed my foot on the ground.
Kwang—!
The floor was half-destroyed and shook.
“Keuk…!”
“What terrifying internal energy…!”
The ronin stopped their rapid charge and gritted their teeth.
‘Let’s finish this quickly.’
To escape the situation, I had slammed my foot on the ground and was now slightly airborne, and I unleashed a merciless blow at them.
Hwoong—!
As I swung Falling Star, a sharp edge that had been keenly honed shot out from all directions.
“K-Heok…!”
“M-My leg…!”
I saw a scene of flesh being cut and blood gushing like a fountain.
It was no different from a blood rain.
“Your loyalty to your master is commendable…”
“Keuk…!”
“But to volunteer as a meat shield without any thought when you don’t even have the strength to protect anyone, I wonder if that’s the right decision.”
As I muttered softly, the momentum of those who had been rushing to aim for my vital points wavered for a moment.
They were nothing but meat shields while Byeok Ri-seol was stopping the bleeding and composing herself.
Feeling the need to quickly clear the enemies around me and behead Byeok Ri-seol, I rode the momentum and crushed them.
‘First, one of them…’
Seogeok—
About five or six of them had jumped at me to protect Byeok Ri-seol, but I beheaded the ronin who had the most outstanding skills among them.
“L-Leader…!”
“……”
Degururu—
I saw the head of the martial artist rolling meaninglessly on the ground.
Perhaps because he was an important person who led the ronin forces along with the Black Serpent, the momentum of those who were already afraid of me subsided even more.
At the pressure of the internal energy I was exuding, their eyes even began to show a glimpse of fear.
“S-Save me…!”
‘As if I would save you just because you say so…’
Puwak—!
The neck of another one who couldn’t even grasp the situation properly soared into the air.
“Keuk…!”
Watching them back away for a moment, I slaughtered them without delay.
Seeing me, with no emotion or hesitation on my face, Tang Hyeon‑cheol, battling the Black Serpent in the distance, could only speak in awe, as if sensing something.
“Truly a sword demon…!”
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‘No…! This doesn’t make sense. How can a delinquent from a trading company who hasn’t even been learning martial arts for two years… me…!’
Blood dripped from the sword that Eun Ha-seong was gripping tightly.
At his cruel appearance, which was reminiscent of a demon, Byeok Ri-seol, who was stopping the bleeding from her arm, shook her head and denied reality.
It was something that didn’t make sense even from a common sense perspective.
‘Even the former leader of the cult did not show such martial prowess at that age…!’
Byeok Ri-seol, who wanted to deny reality, trembled at the martial prowess of Eun Ha-seong, who was slaughtering the elite masters of the Heavenly Demon Divine Cult who were disguised as ronin in an instant.
‘It’s, it’s unbelievable…! I-I have to somehow report this to the higher-ups…!’
But Byeok Ri-seol’s thoughts could not continue any further.
Eun Ha-seong had been slaughtering the surrounding enemies with the goal of taking Byeok Ri-seol’s neck from the beginning.
The probability that he would delay any longer in dealing with the Silent Demon was close to zero.
Thump, thump—
Byeok Ri-seol’s eyes trembled for a moment as she watched Eun Ha-seong slowly approaching her.
In that situation, Eun Ha-seong opened his mouth.
“…Do you have any last words?”
“W-What did you say…?!”
“I mean, leave a will.”
“……!”
At Eun Ha-seong’s cold voice, which was as if he was certain of the opponent’s death, Byeok Ri-seol let out a breath as if she was dumbfounded.
Then she opened her mouth, her eyes wide.
“What a ridiculous bastard…! If you kill me here, do you, a delinquent who knows full well how the Heavenly Demon Divine Cult will react, really mean to declare that you’ll come and kill me—!”
“……”
“A mere master who has just reached the level of a peak master…! Dares to kill me, a cadre of the Heavenly Demon Divine Cult—!”
Byeok Ri-seol shouted in a fit of rage, as if it was absurd.
At her appearance, Eun Ha-seong, who was inwardly clicking his tongue, shook his head once and said.
“…Is that the end of your will?”
“W-What—?”
“Then, die there.”
Seogeok—
Eun Ha-seong swung Falling Star as it was.
At that, the head of the Silent Demon, Byeok Ri-seol, whose face was filled with disbelief, immediately soared into the air with a few drops of blood.
Jureureuk—
The body of the woman, with only one arm and her legs remaining, was precariously maintaining its balance, creating a strange scene.
Watching the bizarre scene, Eun Ha-seong thought.
‘For her skills, she was a master with considerable tenacity and venom… Still, she was stronger than the elder of the Tang Clan, Tang Hyeon-cheol, and about on par with Na Hee-rin of the Heavenly Sword Sect…’
After making that assessment, he, after confirming the death of Byeok Ri-seol, the mastermind who had been secretly active in the family, let out a long sigh.
In fact, this incident was as good as over.
‘The battlefield has already calmed down, and our allies who have seized the momentum are pushing forward…’
Swish—
As he looked around, Tang Hyeon-cheol, who had been fighting the Black Serpent, was already pushing the opponent with ease.
To avoid casualties in this incident as much as possible, he seemed to be refraining from using a dangerous ultimate move on the Black Serpent, who was only at the high-level First-Rate level.
Watching the state of the battlefield, Eun Ha-seong soon thought.
‘Then… it’s time to start negotiating with [that woman]. Still, she was one of the Six Kings who was in conflict with the faction that the Silent Demon, Byeok Ri-seol, belonged to… so maybe we can get through this without much damage.’
As the situation reached a point where more than eighty percent of the enemies had been subdued or slaughtered, Eun Ha-seong finally took a deep breath of relief.
“Huu…”
“Hmm, it seems everything is settled now.”
“……”
Tang Hyeon-cheol, who had subdued the Black Serpent, was approaching where I stood.
At Tang Hyeon-cheol’s words, Eun Ha-seong couldn’t help but smile foolishly.
At Eun Ha-seong’s reaction, Tang Hyeon-cheol tilted his head and asked.
“…What is it?”
“Hmm, strictly speaking, it’s not over yet.”
“What? What do you mean…”
It was at that moment.
Thump, thump—
Eun Ha-seong sensed the presence of someone walking leisurely from the entrance, not from the half-destroyed roof.
Barely noticing it, he smiled bitterly and shook his head.
“……!”
Tang Hyeon-cheol also noticed the presence and flinched.
As if he fully understood the reaction, Eun Ha-seong muttered.
“…Unfortunately, there’s still one left, Elder.”
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