Chapter 76
Chapter 76
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Translator: Ryuma
Chapter: 76
Chapter Title: Appointing the Chairman
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Leading the absorption plan for the Night Slaughter Society were Myung-su, Muhee, and Jin-cheol. The scheme progressed steadily, step by step.
However, even combining their heads, Jin-cheol and Myung-su concluded that the massive organization's system was too complex to swallow whole easily.
With one sole exception: becoming the Chairman.
A simple yet difficult method.
Myung-su opened his mouth with a grave expression.
"To become Chairman, we'll have to start another war."
That would make fully absorbing the Night Slaughter Society impossible.
Because no one could predict who would die and who would survive in the process.
But Myung-su's words struck Yong-un as odd.
"Didn't you win over the hearts of Gold Slayer, Earth Slayer, and One Slayer?"
Myung-su bowed his head at Yong-un's question.
"They said they'd follow our choice for the survival of the Night Slaughter Society."
"And Wood Slayer will follow Muhee's decision as well."
Yong-un's gaze turned to the Supreme Spirit Sorceress, Muhee.
Muhee bowed her head and spoke.
"Yes, my will is Wood Slayer's will."
The opinions of all the living elite assassins in the Night Slaughter Society had been unified.
This only amplified Yong-un's bewilderment.
"Then what's the problem?"
Myung-su shook his head at Yong-un's question.
"Fire Slayer and Water Slayer didn't die. So to integrate their factions, war is inevitable."
Fire Slayer and Water Slayer.
The absence of these two elite assassins would lead to conflicts of opinion with the dozens of bases under their command.
This would naturally force a war to select a new Chairman.
"If I'd known that, I wouldn't have killed them..."
No one could refute Yong-un's lament about killing elite assassins on a whim.
The power Yong-un possessed had already transcended the common sense of ordinary people or Hunters—it was supernatural strength.
Irritated by this conundrum, Yong-un paused in thought before shouting to everyone.
"Just hold the election for Chairman."
"Pardon? That would mean losing dozens of bases under Fire Slayer and Water Slayer, along with hundreds of assassins and their intelligence network."
Yong-un shook his head decisively at Myung-su's worried voice.
"Doesn't matter."
"We can't guarantee how long it would take to recover from that."
"Proceed. I don't care if we don't recover."
"Pardon?"
Myung-su's face filled with confusion at Yong-un's bold declaration.
Losing two elite assassins was one thing, but losing the dozens of bases they controlled was another entirely.
The Night Slaughter Society might end up like a five-piece cake missing a massive slice.
Then the entire system they'd maintained could collapse like a domino line with key blocks removed.
But Yong-un shouted confidently to everyone once more.
"Proceed. And the moment it starts, the Night Slaughter Society will change its name."
All listened intently to Yong-un's command.
And Yong-un laid out the framework for absorbing the Night Slaughter Society.
"Soul-Annihilating Ghost Slayers. We'll fold the Night Slaughter Society into it."
However, aside from the framework, incorporating the Night Slaughter Society into the Soul-Annihilating Ghost Slayers would halt all their ongoing training—a fatal issue.
But Yong-un's next words quelled even that concern.
"Appoint Muhee as Vice Ghost Soul and have her sit in the Night Slaughter Society Chairman's seat at the same time."
Everyone's common sense twisted once again.
The Supreme Spirit Sorceress becoming Chairman?
The Supreme Spirit Sorceress was merely a support role, serving the Chairman and carrying out orders.
She had no assassin training whatsoever and zero aptitude for it. Muhee waved her hands frantically, her face flustered.
"N-No, but I..."
Perhaps due to the unexpected response.
Muhee's face paled.
Yong-un placed a hand on her shoulder and shouted for all to hear.
"Proceed just like that. Muhee, you come with me for a moment."
Handing such a major position to Muhee, who was little more than a hostage.
Like Muhee, all of Yong-un's subordinates looked shocked, but they soon nodded in acceptance.
In this situation, they needed to grow stronger per Yong-un's orders, and Muhee was the only one who could control the Night Slaughter Society.
"Kyaaah!"
Muhee screamed.
All the subordinates looked toward her, but she had already vanished with Yong-un.
No doors or windows had opened.
Despite the magical disappearance marked only by her scream, the subordinates continued their conversation as if nothing had happened.
"Then I'll inform the elite assassins."
"I'll check with Unwoo Guild what kind of support they can provide."
"Il-gwi-hon hyung, can me and Sam-gwi-hon noona go back to training then?"
"The Dragon Army can't help much, kekeke. Hey, Tiger General! How about a spar with me?"
"Sounds good! At the Dragon Army's place?"
"Tiger General Master! Sword Tiger Captain!"
With the garden chasing gleefully after Sword Tiger and Tiger General—who bolted out like playful kids—the meeting concluded.
"Good grief! They're not kids anymore!" ◇◇◇◆◇◇◇ Taking Muhee to Convergence Valley, Yong-un met Wood Slayer again there.
But unlike before, Wood Slayer showed no hostility.
He naturally cleared the way into Convergence Valley, dragging Muhee along.
Muhee immediately shouted.
"This won't work!"
"It will."
Yong-un responded nonchalantly to her cry.
"It won't!"
"It will."
Muhee was at a loss for words at Yong-un's reply.
But only briefly.
"Since everyone calls you Supreme One, I'll call you that too. You don't know much about the Night Slaughter Society, but the Supreme Spirit Sorceress..."
"Nothing's impossible. It's just that no one's tried."
"That's not it! If I become Night Slaughter Society Chairman, my spirit sorcery powers will vanish. Then all spirit sorcerers will lose theirs, and the Society will naturally collapse."
There was a reason why even exceptionally talented Supreme Spirit Sorceresses never coveted the Chairman's seat without brainwashing.
Just like the first Chairman's brainwashing of the elite assassins.
The first Supreme Spirit Sorceress had imposed special measures on future Supreme Spirit Sorceresses and all spirit sorcerers.
An suggestion passed down along with their powers to all generations.
It stated that spirit sorcery wouldn't activate without a Chairman and that obtaining the Chairman's insignia would instantly erase all spirit sorcery abilities—a vicious curse.
"I see."
A Night Slaughter Society without spirit sorcerers wouldn't be the Night Slaughter Society anymore.
It would just be a group of assassins, nothing more or less.
But even hearing this, Yong-un shrugged indifferently.
"Do you know why I followed you and surrendered? To protect the Night Slaughter Society. If you push this, I'll die before letting it happen."
At Muhee's resolute shout, Yong-un chuckled and pulled something from his bosom, tossing it to her.
Muhee caught the slowly arcing palm-sized object instinctively.
And screamed.
"Kyaaaaah!"
She jolted as if she'd grabbed something forbidden. In her hand lay a small object like a large gold coin, engraved with the Hanja for "Hwe" (Association).
Seeing the fallen "Hwe" insignia, Muhee trembled, covering her mouth.
"That guy handed it to you, right? Is that the Chairman's insignia?"
It was the insignia Night Slaughter Society Chairman Kim Myeong-ik had given Yong-un right before being buried in the rock.
The Chairman's insignia.
The Supreme Spirit Sorceress Muhee, receiving it, could hardly believe the reality.
"Wh-Why on earth..."
Just holding the insignia sealed Muhee's fate.
No— the entire Night Slaughter Society's fate.
All her spirit sorcery powers would now vanish.
But.
"Any problem?"
At Yong-un's casual tone, Muhee's eyes welled with tears as she glared venomously.
She then summoned the black-and-white aura unique to spirit sorcerers.
"I'll kill you."
The spirit energy of the first Supreme Spirit Sorceress, possessed only by her successors.
It enveloped Muhee's body, shaking the surrounding formations.
Convergence Valley's supreme formations, reacting solely to the Supreme Spirit Sorceress's spirit energy and will, emanated thick auras.
"I'll kill you!!"
She gathered all that power to attack Yong-un.
But Yong-un, watching without stirring his own demonic energy, glanced at the humming formations and remarked offhandedly.
"That's the power you said would vanish?"
"...?!"
Muhee's teary face turned to shock.
"Huh...?"
The thick spirit sorcery aura blatantly filled the surroundings.
Even the faint illusions visible to Muhee's eyes.
"If used well, it'll be useful for the Soul-Annihilating Ghost Slayers."
"H-How..."
The spirit energy, which should have vanished upon touching the insignia, now radiated even stronger.
Wondering if the insignia was fake, Muhee glanced at it on the ground.
The Chairman's insignia quivered in response to the spirit energy.
"It's real..."
Not fake.
Definitely real.
Then why hadn't her spirit energy vanished?
Before she could ponder further, Yong-un appeared at her side, dropping the insignia back into her hand.
"N-No! ...?!"
She tried to fling it away desperately.
But Yong-un's firm grip kept it resonating with her spirit energy in her palm.
"What...!"
The spirit energy didn't vanish.
It pushed back even stronger against the aura emanating from the insignia.
Stunned by the unbelievable scene, Muhee blanked out.
Yong-un released her hand and said.
"Prevision Phantom Eye."
Muhee's eyes widened.
Fixating on Yong-un, she clearly recognized the term.
"Any other spirit sorceress might have lost their spirit energy, as you said."
"What do you..."
"You're different. I saw it back in my Murim days. No mind control spells or suggestions work on those with Prevision Phantom Eye or Foresight Eyes."
Yong-un smirked as he spoke.
Muhee wouldn't know her current appearance.
Her eyes—one white, one black—deploying the Prevision Phantom Eye simultaneously.
Yong-un had realized it the first time he saw Muhee.
A serene calm, as if foreseeing such an event.
And overreacting dramatically to trivial matters.
He'd seen that type before in the Murim Alliance.
Foresight Eye wielder, Palcheon the Taoist of Huashan.
That Taoist from Huashan had been the most troublesome general against Yong-un in the Upright-Demonic Great War.
Moving his warriors as if reading Yong-un's moves perfectly—it infuriated him.
When captured, Yong-un tried using mind control and suggestions to exploit his abilities but failed.
"You're the same."
At their first encounter.
Yong-un had boldly cast mind control on Muhee to read her thoughts.
But she showed no reaction.
'That confirmed it.'
Muhee was just like Foresight Eye—foresight-wielding, tricky but desirable.
"How does it feel?"
Even Yong-un's sincere mind control was useless against a Prevision Phantom Eye owner.
Such a person falling for this mere suggestion?
'Ridiculous.'
Yong-un crossed his arms, eyeing the insignia in Muhee's hand intently.
Then asked.
"Night Slaughter Society Chairman and Soul-Annihilating Ghost Slayers' Vice Ghost Soul. Up for it?"
Muhee, dazed, stared at the insignia in her hand and slowly opened her mouth.