Chapter 76
Chapter 76
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Translator: Ryuma
Chapter: 76
Chapter Title: Necromancer of the Sword Clan
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“H-Hiiiik!”
Madate Heitaro shed tears as his body trembled.
Right now, Shuv was carefully adjusting her attacks so as not to kill him.
Because of that, Madate Heitaro writhed on the ground like he was being fried in a pan.
Crack! Crack!
“Gaaack! Huergh!”
Shuv mercilessly whipped Madate Heitaro with a lash wreathed in black flames.
Each time, a sharp crack rang out, followed by Madate Heitaro's screams echoing through the air.
She had already doubled his sensitivity with her Enchanting Demon Eye.
“Don’t kill him.”
Shin Yu-hyun shook his head as he watched them.
Shuv tilted her head and asked,
“Is there any reason to keep these vermin alive?”
“We need to find out their base of operations in Korea. And...”
The Chelhwadan was a notorious terrorist organization operating across Asia.
Drug trafficking, human trafficking, human experimentation on superhumans—you name it, they did it all.
Every vile crime imaginable.
But above all, there was one thing Shin Yu-hyun couldn’t forgive.
“To think they’d use magic beasts. Traitors to humanity.”
Shin Yu-hyun glared coldly at the suffering Chelhwadan executives.
Since their first appearance, magic beasts had been humanity’s sworn enemies.
They created no-go zones where humans couldn’t survive, and dungeon gates could open anywhere at any time, spilling forth hordes of beasts. Humanity lived in constant fear.
And yet, these scum had used magic beasts to raid his clan.
It was just like those Getia bastards.
“Beat them enough to keep them alive. You can pull out nails and teeth if you want.”
Shin Yu-hyun had overheard what they’d tried to do to him just moments ago.
His creed was simple: an eye for an eye.
He planned to give them exactly what they’d intended for him.
“Leave it to me. I’ll make them beg to talk.”
Shuv flashed a seductive smile, her eyes gleaming. With her Demon Eye, it was more than possible.
She could manipulate sensitivity, after all.
Pain sensitivity included.
“Alright, first...”
Shin Yu-hyun picked up the crystal device Madate Heitaro had been holding.
“How do you control this thing?”
He held it up in front of Madate Heitaro and Ishii Hideki.
“D-Don’t make me laugh! When my men get back, you’re all...”
Ishii Hideki spat in fury at Shin Yu-hyun’s words.
They had indeed brought the Genji Squad, Chelhwadan’s elite ninja unit.
Its leader, Hattori Genji, was a formidable fighter who could infuse his sword with draconic energy.
With the Genji Squad here, they could carve up these three punks.
Ishii Hideki glared at Shin Yu-hyun with eyes burning in rage.
But Shin Yu-hyun just smirked.
“Yeah... I wonder if they’ll even show up.”
“What?”
“Your men won’t be coming. I already took care of them.”
“What the hell does that...?”
Ishii Hideki blinked in confusion.
Before arriving here, Shin Yu-hyun’s group had spotted the Chelhwadan assassin unit.
Ninjas hidden in the shadows of the trees, about twenty strong.
Shin Yu-hyun had summoned skeleton soldiers from Ka-mang-i’s shadow and surrounded them.
Most were mid-4-star superhumans, but they wouldn’t escape the encirclement. They’d be wiped out soon enough.
Right after, Shin Yu-hyun had rushed here to the executives.
To subdue them before they noticed.
“And you still haven’t figured it out? Shuv.”
“Yes.”
Shuv, who’d been toying with Madate Heitaro, stepped in front of Ishii Hideki at Shin Yu-hyun’s call.
“No matter what you do, we won’t say a—Gaaargh!”
Suddenly, Ishii Hideki convulsed, screaming in agony.
Shuv had tripled his sensitivity with her Enchanting Demon Eye.
Now, the pain from his arm—snapped earlier by Choi Jung-hoon—felt three times worse.
Subjectively, even more excruciating.
“Don’t you dare crawl up to me, you filthy insect.”
Shuv looked down at him with beautiful yet icy eyes.
Shuv Rani Gdu, one of the Seven Arcs and ruler of the Ghost Gate.
She showed mercy only to Shin Yu-hyun, the Immortal King’s successor.
To enemies, she revealed her demonic nature.
The only mercy she offered foes was death.
She was a true devil.
‘S-Scary...’
Her cold demeanor made Choi Jung-hoon break out in cold sweat without realizing it.
As a 5-star superhuman, he could sense her overwhelming power instinctively.
He’d even seen her summon a massive sword from thin air and drop it on a 5-star boss, the Red General Ant.
“How do you stop this thing?”
Shin Yu-hyun asked Ishii Hideki again.
Right then.
Tadak!
A sound came from below the cliff at the edge of the hill—like someone scaling the wall.
Pop!
Moments later, a figure leaped into the air from the cliffside.
Clad in a black hooded coat and mask.
It was Hattori Genji, leader of Chelhwadan’s elite ninja squad.
‘Broke through the encirclement?’
Shin Yu-hyun was surprised but shook it off.
He hadn’t seen anyone like him in the ninja squad.
Probably off on other business and just returning.
Having leaped up so suddenly from below, he drew the dragon sword from his back mid-air, fully exposed.
Unlike Ishii Hideki and Madate Heitaro, who’d spoken Korean, Genji chanted in Japanese.
“Flowing Dragon Roar... (Ryujin no Genou Ku... )!”
⟨ Dragon Ascending Sword ⟩
Whoosh! Slash!
In that instant, Shuv’s black flame whip wrapped around Genji and yanked him inward.
“Huaaaagh!”
Genji was helplessly dragged and slammed into the ground.
“What the? Why’d he jump in alone?”
“Just a fly.”
Shin Yu-hyun and Choi Jung-hoon stared in disbelief.
“What should we do with him, Master?”
“Capture him, just in case.”
“Yes.”
Genji, the ninja squad leader who’d been Ishii Hideki’s hope.
He’d tried a blatant ambush and got caught by Shuv.
“Now, shall we talk?”
Shin Yu-hyun looked down at Ishii Hideki with cold eyes.
Then, a forgotten detail hit him.
“Oh, right. Let’s start by pulling teeth. Open your mouth.”
The Chelhwadan hid suicide poisons or bombs in their teeth.
Seeing Genji captured, Ishii Hideki spilled the crystal device’s controls without resistance.
Not that he had a choice—Shuv had amped his sensitivity fivefold before yanking his suicide teeth.
With the instructions, the clan raid incident came to a close.
They controlled the crystal to halt the magic beasts and sealed the artificially twisted dungeon gate.
That evening.
“You’ve done us a great service.”
In the Heaven-Splitting Sword Clan’s Clan Leader’s Hall meeting room.
The clan members had gathered for a council.
“Just doing what needed to be done.”
Shin Yu-hyun bowed slightly to Shin Sung-hyun, the Grand Dharma Protector.
Absent from the meeting were Clan Leader Shin Sung-il, eldest son Shin Cheol-min, and eldest daughter Shin Yu-ra.
They were tackling a 6-star raid dungeon—days away from returning.
Raid dungeons teemed with deadly magic beasts across vast expanses.
Solo or small parties meant certain annihilation, so raid teams numbered in the dozens.
With Clan Leader Shin Sung-il away, Grand Dharma Protector Shin Sung-hyun acted as proxy.
“Without you, the damage would’ve been worse. And we wouldn’t have known who dared attack our clan.”
Shin Sung-hyun was usually mild-mannered.
But now, he ground his teeth in fury.
The magic beast raid had claimed superhuman lives from the clan.
Worse, they’d assumed it was a dungeon stampede accident.
But Shin Yu-hyun exposed Chelhwadan as the culprits.
The clan now thirsted for vengeance.
“Proxy Leader! What’ll we do about those Chelhwadan scum?”
Shin Tae-yong, a mid-50s Dharma Protector, slammed the table.
He and the other protectors and elders raged at the Chelhwadan’s beast raid.
“We can’t let it slide. They’ll pay for touching the Heaven-Splitting Sword Clan.”
An international crime-terror syndicate daring to hit one of Korea’s Four Great Houses?
Shin Sung-hyun and the clan wouldn’t overlook it.
But there was a hitch.
“The problem is we don’t know their base location.”
Shin Sung-hyun frowned.
Chelhwadan’s compartmentalized structure hid their Korean ops perfectly.
That’s where Shin Yu-hyun stepped up big.
“Didn’t we capture their executives? We can squeeze the info from them...”
“We’d find the base, sure. But it’ll take time, they say.”
The captured Chelhwadan execs were under interrogation right now—in the Clan Leader’s Hall basement, by the Black Shadow Unit, the leader’s direct intel arm.
Being grilled, boiled, fried by experts.
Human rights were a luxury for international crime-terrorists.
In superhuman society, villain groups got extralegal measures—no legal protections.
They didn’t respect law or rights anyway.
Superhuman society wasn’t that humanitarian.
Survival meant power first.
Besides, these Chelhwadan used humanity’s enemies—magic beasts—to massacre clan members.
Casualties had mounted.
Calling them traitors to humanity wasn’t exaggeration.
So the clan tormented the execs relentlessly.
“Leave the intel gathering to us.”
Shin Yu-hyun spoke up.
All eyes in the meeting room turned to him.
“You? How?”
Shin Cheol-jin, who’d been silent, snorted and cut in.
“She can get it.”
Ignoring Shin Cheol-jin, Shin Yu-hyun addressed Shin Sung-hyun and the elders.
The clan members looked at the woman beside him.
A beauty like a goddess.
Shuv.
Since the proxy meeting began, they’d been stealing glances at her.
Shin Cheol-jin especially ogled her openly.
“Shin Yu-hyun. Isn’t she too good for you? How about sending her to our Vermilion Bird Hall for the clan?”
Shin Cheol-jin still refused to acknowledge Shin Yu-hyun—not rationally, but emotionally.
His emotions clouded judgment; he smirked as if Shin Yu-hyun didn’t exist.
And now, trying to poach Shuv for his own hall?
‘He can’t handle her.’
Shin Yu-hyun stared at Shin Cheol-jin in disbelief.
And then.
Rumble...
An immense killing intent erupted from Shuv.
“Insolent lower lifeform. I serve only the Immortal King, Shin Yu-hyun. Not inferior trash like you.”