Sword God Reborn

Chapter 255 : Cheon Mubaeck's Way, the Assassin's Way

Cheon Mubaeck quietly looked at the gatekeeper.

A special-grade assassin of the Wolya Faction.

This man was a special-grade assassin. As he had said, there were twenty-one assassins in the medical hall.

If even this gatekeeper were to be killed, there would be exactly twenty-one corpses.

It wasn't a lie.

"Gatekeeper. So the probability of you dying has dropped below fifty percent."

"..."

"I am generous, and as Young Lady Zhuge here has said, I am a good person, so I will tell you a way to lower the probability of you dying. Tell me. Why are there only this many assassins here? And why can't I see the face of that great King of Assassins?"

Twenty-one assassins.

Among them, the only special-grade assassin was this gatekeeper.

Compared to the huge scale of the Yudang Medical Hall, it was an absurd number of people.

At the very least, a mansion of this size was a place where at least a hundred people could stay.

And that was the minimum. If you considered the miscellaneous personnel who managed the building, cleaned, and cooked, the number would increase even more.

The problem was, this was all of them.

There wasn't a single person who wasn't an assassin.

That was the reason why Cheon Mubaeck had immediately changed his plan and picked a fight with the gatekeeper the moment he had infiltrated this place.

'There were too few presences.'

No matter how skilled an assassin was at hiding their presence, very few were caught by Cheon Mubaeck's qi sense.

Feeling something was strange, Cheon Mubaeck had immediately drawn his sword and turned the tables.

"This isn't the main base, is it? Gatekeeper."

"The main base? That's a story from a month ago, your news is late."

As the gatekeeper sneered, Zhuge Seol-ah's face turned pale.

The information was wrong.

Cheon Mubaeck dug his ear as if he were annoyed.

"That's too bad."

"It is too bad. From now on, you'll have to live on edge even when you sleep, eat, rest, and relieve yourself. It's very too bad. Because the Wolya Faction will be aiming for your back at any time."

"No, it's not that that's too bad, but that the Wolya Faction is too bad."

"What?"

"Actually, I thought that if I just raided the main base, it would collapse and the forces would be reduced, or they would split and fight among themselves, so they wouldn't be able to care about the affairs of the martial world. Then I was going to leave them alone. I'm not a murderer, so why would I kill all those assassins?"

The gatekeeper's body stiffened as he realized the hidden meaning in his words.

"That's too bad. Really. If it's like this, I'll have to raid and burn down every single base to find the main base. Tsk, tsk."

The gatekeeper gritted his teeth.

A truly arrogant statement that he would destroy all the bases and kill everyone.

But with the martial power he had shown so far, the gatekeeper had no choice but to believe.

That it could actually happen.

It would have been better if this were the main base.

The King of Assassins should have been here.

Then he could have stopped this madman's killing spree here, and the Wolya Faction could have survived.

"Now, tell me. If you have even a little bit of camaraderie, tell me where the main base is, gatekeeper. That is how you and your comrades will live. You're pissed off too, aren't you? The bastards who live in luxury at the main base never know the hearts of the guys who are rolling on the front lines. Just kill the main base guys and save the Wolya Faction, gatekeeper. I am generous."

"I don't know either."

Cheon Mubaeck quietly looked into the gatekeeper's eyes.

The gatekeeper felt a powerlessness that drained all the strength from his body.

It was so deep that the moment he met it, he felt as if everything was being sucked in.

Cheon Mubaeck clicked his tongue.

"It's a pity. Gatekeeper. You really don't know. If that gaze were an act, you should have been the King of Assassins, not a special-grade assassin."

Cheon Mubaeck said so and immediately swung his sword.

A light like a flash of lightning cut through the space, and a bright red stream of blood shot up.

Only after a moment had passed did the gatekeeper's head fall with a thud.

Although it was a scene of a person dying, no one flinched.

Rather, they were even in awe.

"The Heavenly Dragon Sword Hero's blade gets deeper and sharper as time goes by. I don't even dare to try to block it."

Although Gok Ji-heum muttered quietly, the warriors in the crowd all nodded.

Cheon Mubaeck shrugged his shoulders and said.

"Since it's come to this, I think I'll be quite busy."

"...Squad Leader-nim, I'm sorry. The plan and information I had set up were different."

"No, no matter how much information power the Hanamun and the Beggars' Sect have, I didn't think we could find it so easily. Whether it's the main base or not, it's a good thing that we've at least captured a base like this."

As Cheon Mubaeck, unlike his usual self, comforted Zhuge Seol-ah, the atmosphere around them became strange.

Hwangbo Sung glanced at Tang Su-gun and So-hang and exchanged glances.

"Was he always such a kind man?"

"The person who would mess with your head with verbal abuse and control your body with violence if you made a single mistake during training..."

"He discriminates against people too much."

"Shut up. I can hear everything. You idiots."

Cheon Mubaeck, who had quieted the surroundings, immediately revealed his plan.

"You idiot."

"Yes."

"Yes."

In an instant, Tang Su-gun and Hwangbo Sung answered at the same time. A chuckle flowed from the surroundings. They used to rush at him as if they would kill him if he called them idiots, but now the two of them were answering at the same time as if it were a given.

Cheon Mubaeck pointed at Hwangbo Sung among them.

"Contact the Righteous Alliance immediately and find out the situation of the Namgung and Gyo guys and share the information."

"I understand."

"You Tang family guy."

"Yes."

"Go to your main family for a bit."

"Yes?"

"There can't be only the Yudang Medical Hall in Sichuan. If there's a big spot, there will be a very small related organization in the vicinity. Guys who are so small that they aren't even caught by the information network of the Hanamun or the Beggars' Sect."

"You're saying there are guys who aren't even caught by the information network?"

"The herb gatherers who supply medicinal herbs to the medical hall, the woodcutters who supply wood, the merchants who supply food, do you think all these guys are ordinary? No matter how much of a cell organization it is, there is always a string that connects the dots. We'll squeeze these guys."

"Ah..."

"This is Sichuan, and with the influence of the Tang Clan, the Beggars' Sect and the Hanamun can't dare to touch them in Sichuan. Tang Su-gun. This is a job you have to do."

"...I understand."

"And the rest will strike the identified bases with me for now."

"Will it be alright if Tang Su-gun and I are absent?"

As Hwangbo Sung interjected with a worried look, Cheon Mubaeck looked at him as if he were looking at a strange guy.

Who was worried about whom?

"Did you hit your head while fighting an assassin?"

"No... that's not it."

"After you contact the Righteous Alliance, go to the Tang Clan. I'll take care of things and go right away."

"I understand."

"We'll go as a small elite force. Me, Young Lady Zhuge here, So-hang, and Gok Ji-heum. The four of us will launch a surprise attack, burn, and kill."

"Umm? Me too?"

Gok Ji-heum pointed at himself with an awkward voice. Cheon Mubaeck asked back with a blunt face.

"Did you really come all the way from Fujian to here just to do a disguise?"

"..."

"Did the great Hanamun's leader really come all the way here just to do one disguise? Is your peerless martial art a disguise technique?"

"...Ahem. Of course I have to help. The Heavenly Dragon Sword Hero is fighting assassins, so as a hero of the martial world, I can't just stand by!"

"Let's focus on moving quickly. Ah, let's not kill them all, but let one or two of the weakest guys escape."

"Are you going to track the ones who escape?"

At Zhuge Seol-ah's question, Cheon Mubaeck shook his head.

"The ones who escape will be minions, so they won't know where the other bases are."

"Then why...?"

"Rumors will spread."

"Rumors?"

"The survivors who have directly witnessed the bases, which were like iron walls and which no one had dared to attack for fear of retaliation, being broken and destroyed will spread the rumors. Even if they don't know the location of the other bases, the strings that connect the bases will approach to see what's going on."

"Ah..."

If the damage to the bases continued to increase, and rumors filled with fear spread, causing the assassins to become agitated.

The probability of the King of Assassins coming out first, unable to bear it, would be higher than Cheon Mubaeck finding the main base.

If the King of Assassins died, and all the special-grade assassins died?

The Wolya Faction, having lost its focal point, would split. They would each fend for themselves, so it would be chaotic for a while, and they would not be able to interfere in the upcoming fight with the Blood Demon Valley.

'And... if possible, I should catch a bigger fish.'

Cheon Mubaeck did not say it at this place.

The King of Assassins.

Catching the one with the moniker given only to the pinnacle of assassins was also a major event. How could such a big shot be easily beaten?

But it was not Cheon Mubaeck's real goal.

'Just a mere King of Assassins.'

At best, an assassin who aims for an ambush in the darkness.

'The Wolya Faction, which has painstakingly come into his hands, is in danger of being completely dismantled. Will the Blood Demon Valley really just stand by?'

A faint smile appeared on Cheon Mubaeck's lips.

From the news transmitted from the demons of the Sword Sect who had infiltrated the Blood Demon Valley, Cheon Mubaeck was able to grasp the internal situation of the Blood Demon Valley to some extent.

The ruler of the Blood Demon Valley, the One-Star.

'Blood Buddha. You fake damn monk. I'll see for myself how much your skills have improved.'

Cheon Mubaeck's eyes flashed.

* * *

The men in black in the darkness spoke, blended into the shadows.

"In Sichuan, the Yudang Medical Hall has been hit. In Gansu Province, the Yuchun Escort Agency, the Haenae Merchant Group, and the Ilhyangru have been broken."

"All three in Gansu Province?"

As a surprised voice came from the opposite side, the man in black who was reporting let out a groan and nodded.

"The one who went to Gansu is Namgung Jincheon."

"Then it's understandable that they were hit."

"The Yukhwawon in Guizhou Province has also been hit."

"Who's on that side?"

"It's the fledglings led by Gyo Mun-cheok of the Gyo Mun Clan."

"Was the fledgling of the Gyo Mun Clan that skilled?"

"The elite warriors of the Righteous Alliance are supporting them from behind."

"The Righteous Alliance has come out openly."

The man in black who was answering sighed and turned his head.

His gaze fell on the old man who was sitting on the main seat, maintaining his silence.

Although all the men in black gathered here exuded an unusual presence, the old man had no presence at all.

He had no presence, as if he were buried in the darkness.

But the moment the old man's pale lips opened, the hall was consumed by the old man's presence.

"That fledgling called the Heavenly Dragon Sword Hero has gone completely mad. He's running wild, not knowing the fear of the world, with the Righteous Alliance on his back."

The slow voice was that of an ordinary old man, as if he were just lamenting.

But the men in black felt a tingling sensation all over their bodies and stiffened.

The man in black cautiously refuted.

"The Heavenly Dragon Sword Hero is strong. The previous request from the Blood Demon Valley also failed, and he is now taking the offensive. Three special-grade assassins have died at his hands."

"All three were in a head-on confrontation."

"Huh?"

"It is the law of the assassin. If you are discovered while in hiding, you should not attempt to fight, but flee. The fact that they noticed the hiding means that they far surpass the assassin's skill. And yet, they attempted a head-on confrontation, so how foolish is that?"

"..."

It wasn't wrong. Assassins do not engage in a head-on confrontation with martial artists. They only assassinate at a decisive moment after a long period of hiding.

If their hiding is discovered, they flee and bide their time. It is the law of the assassin.

However, the events so far were different.

'At the time of the first Blood Demon Valley request, the number of assassins was immense. There were two special-grade assassins and twenty elite assassins. Even if they were discovered, even I would have attempted an adventure.'

In fact, at that time, the internal evaluation of the Heavenly Dragon Sword Hero within the Wolya Faction was also, although highly evaluated, the established theory was that he could be killed.

And the subsequent Yudang Medical Hall incident was a completely different situation. Because Cheon Mubaeck had known it was a Wolya Faction base and had openly attacked.

"To catch that bastard, you have to catch him the assassin's way. You have to make a hole in his neck with a sword in the darkness. That's how it should be done."

The old man said so and bent his waist.

"From now on... we will respond the assassin's way."

The old man's eyes flashed murderously.

The King of Assassins' order was immediately transmitted to all the assassins belonging to the Wolya Faction.

"Carry out unlimited assassinations on all personnel related to the Heavenly Dragon Sword Hero."

(End of Chapter)