novelraw Chapter 122 : Those Who Wield Flying Swords
Chapter 122 : Those Who Wield Flying Swords
Nameless felt the words 'thank you' to be very unfamiliar.
For him, who had lived his entire life as an assassin, there was no word more distant than 'thank you'.
A scene as unfamiliar as the unfamiliar word.
Nameless, who felt a strange sense of incongruity, quietly flicked his fingertips.
The first-class assassins of the Nameless Pavilion, who had received the signal, moved first.
They held swords painted black and rushed at Jin Sohyun, crossing between the silver threads.
The blade in the shadow.
This was the phrase that represented the assassins of the Nameless Pavilion.
And as if to prove why they were the blade in the shadow, assassins emerged from the darkness.
Their blades accurately aimed for Jin Sohyun's vital points.
"I don't have time, so I'll finish this quickly."
Just before the blade pierced his skin, Jin Sohyun's figure disappeared.
‘Incredible speed! But this area is covered with silver threads, so his movements will not be free.’
Nameless knew that Jin Sohyun's lightness skill was as outstanding as his flying sword technique.
That's why he had first created a barrier with silver threads to restrict his movements.
No matter how fast he could move, as long as there was a spatial constraint, the range of his movements would inevitably be narrowed.
Nameless's gray pupils moved busily.
‘Where is he? Where did he run to?’
While he was chasing the disappeared Jin Sohyun, the assassins melted into the darkness.
They widened their field of vision to find their target, who had disappeared somewhere.
At that moment.
Thwack—!!
A flash of light that flew from somewhere pierced the assassin's body.
The assassin died without even letting out a scream of agony, let alone a groan.
Following that, the assassin next to him was pierced in the neck by a blade that had fallen from the sky and died.
‘Above!’
The assassins all looked up at the sky.
But there was no one there.
‘…Where is he?’
While the assassins who were chasing Jin Sohyun were glaring at the empty air, flying swords that flew from between the trees attacked them.
‘They’re coming!’
The assassins raised their swords and blocked the flying swords.
The flying swords were fast and strong, but they were also elites that the Nameless Pavilion had raised with great care.
It was the moment the assassins who had deflected the flying swords were taking a short breath.
A hand that emerged from the darkness grabbed the assassin's neck.
‘He’s one of us.’
The assassin realized at that moment.
That Jin Sohyun, who had appeared from the shadows, was one of them.
But his realization had no meaning.
Crack—!
The assassin, whose neck was broken, collapsed.
"This is ridiculous."
Nameless, who was watching the fight between the assassins of his pavilion and Jin Sohyun from a distance, even felt a sense of absurdity.
This was not the fight he had expected.
He had thought that Jin Sohyun, like the Ten Flying Blood Demon, would proudly reveal himself and kill the assassins using his powerful flying sword technique.
And in the process, the special-class assassins were scheduled to step forward through the openings that were revealed.
But contrary to their expectations, Jin Sohyun did not show himself.
He toyed with the assassins, hiding himself in the darkness like an assassin.
‘His lightness skill was unusual… to think that he had a lightness skill and stealth technique similar to an assassin…’
Jin Sohyun was like a well-trained assassin.
His movements were stealthy, and there were no restrictions on the flying swords that left his hand.
The flying swords, which freely swam as if riding the wind and killed the assassins, could not be avoided or blocked.
If they tried to block the flying swords, the hidden Jin Sohyun would personally appear and break their necks.
"Now I understand. Why the Grand Commander of the Heretic's Path Alliance was so afraid of you."
Nameless seemed to understand belatedly.
What Mu Yu was afraid of was the variable that the existence of Jin Sohyun possessed.
But he was wrong.
What the Heretic's Path Alliance should be afraid of was not the variable of Jin Sohyun's existence.
What they should truly be afraid of was Jin Sohyun's abnormal strength.
"We're changing the plan. Prepare the Black Hand Heavenly Net."
At Nameless's instruction, the men in black who were waiting moved busily.
They openly revealed themselves and pressed Jin Sohyun.
‘There are many of them, but their skills are terrible.’
Jin Sohyun realized that although there were many of them, their skills were terrible.
‘If so… let’s take care of them at once.’
He put his internal energy into the two flying swords and shot them quickly.
The two flying swords, which contained the power of the Lightning Flash, were shot at the assassins.
The assassins who discovered this spread their two arms wide.
Then, a black net spread wide and wrapped around the flying swords that Jin Sohyun had sent.
The moment the flying swords were caught in the net, the assassins, who had taken out stakes with rings from their bosoms, began to drive the stakes into the net.
Thump thump thump—!!
"I didn't think of this...!"
It was the first time.
He had met an enemy who tried to catch his flying swords with a net.
The assassins of the Nameless Pavilion had installed silver threads everywhere to deal with Jin Sohyun, who used the flying sword technique, and had brought nets and stakes to seize the flying swords.
"Push forward! Don't give him time to think!"
At Nameless's shout, the assassins moved more nimbly and threw poisoned hidden weapons from all directions.
Jin Sohyun, who could not carelessly throw his flying swords, frowned and moved his body to avoid the hidden weapons.
‘I don’t have time!’
Jin Sohyun had no time.
In a situation where he did not know the situation of his family, his feet were tied up by the Nameless Pavilion.
‘I have no choice!’
Jin Sohyun put all the remaining flying swords in his sword sheath and gripped the flying swords in both hands.
In the meantime, the assassins who had come close threw their swords.
The sword strikes unfolded by the first-class assassins had sharp sword qi.
Facing this, Jin Sohyun caught his breath and moved the flying swords in his hands.
Chwareureureu—!!
The two flying swords began to move as if they were dancing.
And the face of Nameless, who was watching this, was strangely contorted.
"That's...!"
The two swords moved, drawing different forms.
The sword in his left hand, in the form of a fast sword that left afterimages, struck the assassins' swords, and the sword in his right hand, mixing variations and feints, dealt with the assassins' swords in the form of a phantom sword.
It was surprising that he was unfolding the swordsmanship of different forms at the same time, but the problem was that those two forms were also familiar to Nameless.
"It's definitely the swords of Jongnam and Huashan."
The Taiyi Splitting Light Sword of the Jongnam Sect.
The Plum Blossom Sword of the Huashan Sect.
Jin Sohyun, who had unfolded the swordsmanship of two prestigious sects at the same time, struck the hilts of the flying swords with his palms and sent them flying.
Thwack— Thwack—!!
The flying swords were retrieved at the same time as they were stuck in the hearts of the two assassins whose chests were open.
Jin Sohyun, who had retrieved the flying swords, once again unfolded a sword dance and pressed the assassins.
The moment their chests were open or an opening was seen, the flying swords, which were shot as if they were deflected, flew without fail.
"Get a grip! Don't be fooled by the form! That's not a proper swordsmanship!"
‘Oops! Did he find out already?’
He had only followed the form, and the swordsmanship, which did not contain the subtlety, was very clumsy if you looked at it properly.
But thanks to that, Jin Sohyun, who had succeeded in killing more than ten assassins, caught his breath and looked around.
‘The number isn’t decreasing.’
Jin Sohyun counted the presences of the assassins surrounding him and raised his internal energy.
In the meantime, Nameless, the master of the Nameless Pavilion, was feeling a chill, which was unlike him.
‘Get a grip? It’s not a proper swordsmanship, just imitating the form?’
Nameless burst into a hollow laugh as he reflected on the meaning of his own words.
"That's not normal."
No, could that even be called a human?
No matter how much it was a swordsmanship that only followed the form, it was virtually impossible to unfold two swordsmanships with the left and right hands at the same time.
If that were possible, why would the swordsmen of many prestigious sects unfold only one swordsmanship?
Two swordsmanships.
And they were the swordsmanships of sects with different dispositions.
It was impossible for one person to unfold them at the same time.
No, it should have been impossible.
Because there had never been a being who could do that until now.
‘…I have to kill him. I must kill that brat!’
Only then did Nameless realize the true meaning of Jin Sohyun's smile.
Those words and smile were not a bluff.
Jin Sohyun was genuinely happy to see the Nameless Pavilion that had come to him.
Because it had saved him the trouble of going to them himself.
"I will definitely kill him here."
Nameless, who had his hands behind his back, let his two hands hang down.
His ten fingers danced.
At the same time, the silver threads surrounding Jin Sohyun began to move.
***
"How many have been taken down?"
"All ten of the assassins who were deployed in the first wave died without being able to cross the wall."
Seolpyeong took in the huge manor of the Jin Family with his eyes.
A high wall that seemed to not allow any intrusion from the outside.
Of course, well-trained assassins could cross any high wall.
But the problem was the man who existed beyond the wall.
‘Ten Flying Blood Demon… his reputation is not in vain.’
The five absolute masters who were known to shake the landscape of the Central Plains martial world with just one person.
The title that meant them was the Five Great Masters of the Central Plains.
And one of them, the Flying Heaven Sword Hero, Kang Cheon.
The Jin Family, which he was guarding, did not allow any outside intrusion.
"Kang Cheon has ten flying swords. He won't be able to kill dozens at the same time. Deploy them all!"
"As you command."
The number of assassins deployed in the second wave was twenty.
And immediately, the rest of the assassins followed.
A total of forty assassins crossed the wall of the Jin Family at the same time, and among them, ten were struck by flying swords that flew in in the blink of an eye and fell to the floor.
But the thirty surviving assassins finally crossed the wall of the Jin Family.
‘They’re scattering.’
As the assassins scattered in all directions, Kang Cheon, who had retrieved his flying swords, flashed a quiet blue light in his eyes.
"To try to run away from me. The attempt was good, but."
Kang Cheon's blue light emitted an even brighter light.
"That's all."
The ten flying swords that had soared into the sky fell.
Kwagagagagang—!!
With a huge explosion, the assassins were blown up without even being able to hide their figures.
In the first place, the speed was unavoidable, and the energy contained in the flying swords was too powerful.
Kang Cheon, who had killed about half of the invading assassins in an instant, sent his flying swords flying as soon as he retrieved them.
The flying swords, which contained the power of the Lightning Flash, flew with a blue lightning.
Thwack— Thwack—!!
One person per sword.
Kang Cheon, who was killing the assassins one by one, threw his tenth flying sword at an assassin who was secretly hiding and heading for the inner building.
Thwack!
The flying sword was accurately stuck in the assassin's waist.
The assassin could not move his limbs.
It was because the nerves connected to his lower body had been severed by the flying sword.
Kang Cheon approached the fallen assassin and first pressed his acupoints to prevent him from committing suicide.
"You must keep my words in mind from now on."
"Kkeu... kkeueueuk!"
As soon as Kang Cheon's words were finished, the assassin struggled and then died with a short groan.
"A high-level suggestion? This is why dealing with assassins is the most troublesome."
Unlike martial artists who value their lives, assassins do not value their own lives.
This was due to the education of the assassins, which was no different from brainwashing.
With the death of the last assassin, Oh Yoran appeared.
"Is that the last one?"
"Yes."
"Hmm... it seems these people didn't know that Elder Kang was at the Jin Family. To think they would send assassins so openly."
"That's why something is strange."
"What is it?"
"Although the number of assassins is not large, they are not unskilled either. And they are certainly not the kind of people to be thrown away like this."
Kang Cheon's eyes, which had been thinking for a moment, widened.
"This, damn it!"
"What's wrong?"
"The ones they were aiming for was not the Jin Family..."
Kang Cheon seemed to have belatedly realized the reason they had sent the warning letter.
"They were aiming for Sohyun from the beginning! Sending the warning letter was to keep our attention here!"
Only then did Oh Yoran's face turn pale as she understood the meaning.
"Sending the assassins after sending the warning letter first... was to buy time!"
"Sohyun probably received a similar warning letter and is on his way here now! There's no time!"
Kang Cheon, who was about to leave the manor at once, stopped in his tracks.
"You said there's no time!"
"What if... this is also a trap?"
What if it was a trap designed in two layers, as Kang Cheon had said?
He could not rule out the possibility that other assassins would raid the Jin Family after Kang Cheon had left.
If that happened, the safety of Jin Seomok and his family would be in danger.
In a situation where he could neither do this nor that, Oh Yoran raised the large flute to her hand.
"I'll block them. I'm not as strong as Elder Kang, but I can block the assassins."
"Madam Oh..."
"Trust me this time."
Kang Cheon, who was conflicted, closed his eyes once and then opened them and said.
"I'll be counting on you."
"Yes."
As Kang Cheon ran over the wall of the Jin Family at a high speed, Oh Yoran's gaze was fixed on the wall of the Jin Family.
At the same time, the Martial Marquis, who had been waiting, appeared with the escort warriors.
"I think I understand the situation. We will help too."
"The opponent is an assassin sent by the Heretic's Path Alliance. It will not be an easy fight."
"It was our job to do in the first place. However, we received the help of the two of you because we lacked the skill. So from now on, we will also risk our lives."
Oh Yoran, who felt the determination of the Martial Marquis and the escort warriors who were risking their lives, nodded her head and took a light, deep breath.
The time was passing from evening to dawn, past midnight.
There was still quite some time left until dawn.
Oh Yoran's heart pounded violently.
***
"Kang Cheon has left the manor."
"He noticed faster than I thought."
Seolpyeong stared at the direction Kang Cheon had left with a dry gaze.
Seolpyeong, who had moved his gaze back to the Jin Family, raised his hand and said softly.
"Then let's start... breaking the manor in earnest."
(End of Chapter)