The Regressed Young Master’s Guide to Living on Easy Mode

Chapter 121 : Learning the Correct Way to Use the Profound Other (8)

A single person stands still with his fist extended.

Heavy lumps of iron were hanging all over his body, enough to make one's breath catch just by looking.

The weight was so heavy that the stone floor he was standing on was deeply indented.

"Phew."

He exhales a long breath and extends his opposite arm.

At that, sweat drips down to the floor. Splash. There was a small puddle on the floor formed by the sweat.

Just then.

"Mad Demon."

At someone calling his name, the Mad Demon, who was training, raised his head and looked at his opponent. There was the Demonic Brain, whom he hadn't seen for a while.

The last expression of the Demonic Brain in the Mad Demon's memory was a face filled with indescribable frustration. But now, he looked more refreshed than ever.

"Demonic Brain, are you okay now?"

Thump, thump!

As the Mad Demon removed the iron lumps he was wearing, they embedded themselves in the floor, and dust rose in the hall for a moment. The Demonic Brain briefly distanced himself and then raised his hand to stop the approaching Mad Demon.

"Huh?"

Seeing that, the Mad Demon tilted his head. A tight hug between friends who hadn't seen each other in a long time was a symbol of loyalty.

"You stink. Go wash up. I have something to say."

"What is it? Just say it here now."

The Demonic Brain said what he had to say and left. The Mad Demon just grinned at the Demonic Brain's rude behavior. The kid who didn't talk was talking. The kid who only stayed in his room came out. Above all, the light in the eyes of the kid whose eyes had been dead had returned.

The Demonic Brain had come out into the world again. The Mad Demon was now going crazy with curiosity about the reason more than anything else.

What on earth had made the Demonic Brain come out into the world again?

The Mad Demon quickly washed up and moved his feet. The place where the Mad Demon was currently staying was the Demonic Ghost Unit, one of the military units of the Divine Cult.

As the Mad Demon entered the territory of the Demonic Ghost Unit, the members all looked at the Mad Demon and paid their respects.

"The Demonic Ghost Unit greets the Unit Leader."

The Mad Demon casually accepted their greetings and asked.

"The Demonic Brain is inside, right?"

"Yes! That's right!"

"Alright. Train hard."

"Yes, sir!"

As he entered the unit leader's office, the Demonic Brain was sitting in a chair as if it were his own room, with his feet on the table, eating peanuts.

Normally, one would get angry if someone else was like that in their own room, but the Mad Demon just grinned again, pulled out the opposite chair, and sat down.

"So, why did you call me?"

The Demonic Brain swallowed the peanuts in his mouth, straightened his posture, and opened his mouth.

"Mad Demon, what would you do for the Captain?"

"Me? Hmm... If the Captain were alive, I think I could have given my life for him once. Because that's loyalty. Why are you suddenly asking that?"

"I've come to collect that life. Mad Demon."

"Huh?"

To the Mad Demon who asked back without understanding, the Demonic Brain said.

"The Captain is alive. Mad Demon, you will have to desert the Divine Cult as of today."

He didn't ask for any reason.

He didn't make any excuses.

That day, the Demonic Ghost Unit Leader, Mad Demon Gu Gwang-hyeon, deserted the Divine Cult.

And now, the Mad Demon was laughing and crying in front of two people.

"Sword Demoness!"

A friend who had suddenly disappeared one day.

-If you go there, you will be able to meet familiar faces. Don't worry about the remaining family. I, the Demonic Brain, will take responsibility and protect them.

And one more person.

There was a person he thought he would never see again.

As expected, the feeling he had felt in Gansu at that time was not wrong.

"Captain!"

How much must he have suffered outside for his hair to have already turned white?

"Mad Demon? Why are you here?"

The Mad Demon answered, hiding his pitiful heart as much as possible.

"Hehe. I deserted!"

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I looked to the side with a heavy heart.

The Sword Demoness was walking with a blank expression.

I looked to the other side. The Mad Demon had been walking with a grin on his face since a while ago.

Being like this, it felt like I had gone back to the old days.

There was a slight feeling of beautification, but at that time, just having the three of us like this felt like we had everything in the world.

Of course, it's good now too. Left Mad Demon, right Sword Demoness, what a reliable combination.

Beings who are my children and friends, whom I am not ashamed to present anywhere.

They grew up well. They grew up very well. But, although I'm not a parent, as a parent, when I see my children go astray, I can't help but feel a heavy heart.

Just because this dad deserted, why did you guys too!

Why did you throw away the dream job that everyone wants and roll into this shithole with no dreams or hopes?

The Sword Demoness's eyes meet mine, and she smiles brightly.

"Sigh."

She has no worries. She's happy.

But seeing that smile, a smile naturally spread on my face as well.

The Mad Demon's eyes meet mine, and he grins again.

"Phew."

The kid has only grown in size, but he's still the same innocent self as before. But seeing that again, a smile spreads on my lips again.

Yes. I have to get a grip! Otherwise, who will feed our kids!

Just trust this dad. No matter what happens, I'll make sure our kids never go hungry.

"By the way, Captain, where are we going now?"

"You came without even knowing that?"

"Yeah. The Demonic Brain said that if I waited here, the Captain would come."

For our innocent Mad Demon, this dad will do better from now on!

"We're going to Tianzhu."

"Why there?"

"There's someone we need to find."

"Who?"

I didn't have a plan either. I don't know his name. I don't know his appearance. To be more precise, the Divine Monk said that his appearance changed every time he met him. It was believed that he had learned something similar to face-changing art. There was only one thing I knew about him.

"The abbot of Leiyin Temple, Great Master Dharani."

We were now on our way to Tianzhu.

A desert appeared on the way. At first, I was in awe of the vastness of the desert I was seeing for the first time, but now I was on the verge of fainting from the endless sand.

The sand pit called the antlion's den that we encountered on the way, we were almost sucked in and died.

What made it most difficult for us was the desert environment.

"Captain! My master is over there!"

The Mad Demon seemed to be seeing a mirage again. I gave the Mad Demon a refreshing punch. One might say that I could have just shaken him awake, why hit the kid, and other such carefree things. I too had previously woken the Mad Demon from a mirage nicely.

But the Mad Demon had reached a level where he could not be shaken internally by a normal shock while I wasn't looking. So I had no choice but to punch him.

His brain had to be shaken for him to barely regain his senses, which were possessed by this heat.

The Mad Demon's dazed eyes, which were buried in the sand, returned to normal.

"Why is my jaw so itchy? Did a bug bite me? By the way, Captain, where are we?"

"In the middle of the desert."

It had been seven weeks since we entered the desert. Is there an end to it?

"Jae-ha, there's a camel over there."

This time, I looked at the Sword Demoness with a genuinely fearful heart. Unlike the Mad Demon, the Sword Demoness could be said to have set foot in the realm of entering the divine.

This was the same as having a little taste of the Profound Realm. That's how much the Sword Demoness's mental strength was beyond that of an ordinary person.

For such a Sword Demoness to see a mirage? Unlike the Mad Demon's case, to wake up the Sword Demoness, I had to shake not only her body but also her deeper, inherent mind and body. Unfortunately, I had to give her a shock to the point of causing internal injuries...

"Huh? It's a camel."

Strange. I could see a camel too. Don't tell me I'm also caught in a mirage. Then it becomes very serious.

I rubbed my eyes again. I could still see the camel. I said to the Mad Demon.

"Hit me."

"Yeah!"

The Mad Demon gave me a refreshing punch. I didn't ask him to hit me this hard, but I spat out the thick blood that came out of my mouth onto the sand and raised my head again.

"Huh?"

I could still see the camel. This time, I said to the Sword Demoness.

"Perform the Sea Wave Style, First Form, Hegemon's Flash with only 20% of your strength with the hilt of your sword and hit my stomach."

"Alright."

Thwack!

No! But they don't hesitate at all. At the same time as feeling hurt, a tingling pain that rang in my dantian rose to the top of my head. My slightly dazed mind became sharp. I raised my head again.

I could still see the camel.

This meant only one thing.

That camel was our oasis.

"Catch it!"

If we let that camel go at this point.

Something hard was caught on the sole of my foot as I stepped on the sand. I could tell without looking now.

The sand was blown away by the wind, revealing what was embedded inside. A white bone.

"If you don't want to die, catch that camel!"

The camel, as if it had noticed us, suddenly started running. Its speed was damn fast.

The Mad Demon ran and then collapsed.

"Captain, I have no strength. I want to drink water."

The Sword Demoness was gracefully flying. But it was in the opposite direction. That's right. The Sword Demoness was seeing a mirage.

"Damn it!"

Am I the only one I can trust!

I temporarily released the restriction on the internal energy in my body.

A moment of vitality.

The maximum I could exert my true strength without putting a burden on my body was about 1 second.

Swish.

I kicked off the ground and flew into the sky.

And in the air, I extended my arm towards the ground and spread the Green Water like a prison near the camel.

The camel that was running in the desert stopped as if it had hit an invisible wall. A bewildered expression. I pulled the Green Water and got on the camel's back.

The camel briefly resisted the unidentified being that had gotten on its back without permission, but it became docile when I lightly shot out my killing intent.

"Caught it!"

Now we could live. To be more precise, we could rest on the camel when we were tired and take turns walking.

Moreover, there were four large barrels hanging on the camel's side.

When I opened the first barrel, it was full of water.

The second barrel was also full of water.

The third barrel was full of food.

"Hehehe."

Laughter came out on its own.

It had been a week since we had put water and food in our mouths after entering the desert.

All we had eaten during that time were insects and lizards that roamed the sand.

Splash!

The cold sensation I felt when I dipped my hand in! I could finally feel that this was real, not a mirage. Tears streamed down my face.

An unbearable desire to quench my thirst with that cold water right now washed over me. But I couldn't drink alone. I wasn't the only one who had suffered. I'll enjoy this joy with the Sword Demoness and the Mad Demon later. Besides, there was enough for the three of us to eat.

I opened the last, fourth barrel.

"What is this?"

Inside was an unconscious woman.

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The desert is harsh to all living creatures.

During the day, the intensely shining sun heats up the world. At that time, all living things hide themselves from the world.

At night, a wind that feels like it's cutting through flesh, incomparable to the day, rules the world. This is also harsh, but compared to the day with its unrelenting heat, it was a gentleman.

Even in that, a food chain existed.

No! Because it was harsher, this law of the jungle was even more prominent.

The Mad Wind Unit.

A plundering group that exists in the desert.

They were, in name and reality, the strongest beings in the desert.

The place where they were now, unfitting for a desert with only sand, had huge walls and buildings collapsed.

At their feet, numerous corpses were strewn about.

"Pah."

Someone spits out the sand that was carried by the wind.

He looked at the man under his foot and opened his mouth.

"I told you to give me a little more."

The man opened his mouth with his eyes wide open.

"Didn't I tell you that's all we can give!"

Just then. A group of people was coming this way.

"Unit Leader! There's more food here!"

"There's silver here too!"

The man called the Unit Leader put strength into his foot on the man under him. Crack. The man's face was buried in the sand.

"I don't like lies."

The man shouted, regardless of whether sand was entering his mouth or not.

"That's the minimum amount of food for our people to live on!"

The man called the Unit Leader glanced around and let out a shallow laugh.

"Hehehe. Then since there are no living people now, it's not needed. Isn't that right?"

The man under him shed tears of blood.

"You vicious bastards! Do you think you can live on after doing this! Heaven will never forgive you!"

The man called the Unit Leader picked up the man who was buried in the sand. And he opened his mouth, making eye contact. His pupils, unfitting for the current situation, had a dead look, as if he felt no emotion, rather than the joy of plunder.

"You're right. We can't live like this forever. In this world with only harsh sand. So we're going to try to escape from this hell."

The scattered subordinates were gathering, carrying various spoils of war.

He still looked at his subordinates with dead eyes and opened his mouth.

"Did you find the trade item?"

"It's not here either."

"Let's go to the next place."

"Yes, sir!"

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The woman woke up.

"You scoundrel! How dare you! Hey! Is anyone there!"

The kid had no manners, so I gave her a little lesson. Of course, I didn't do it myself, I had the Mad Demon do it.

I didn't hit her, I just had her do a light horse stance with the Mad Demon for about one shichen.

"Name?"

"It's Fatima!"

A person is the culmination of effort. Look, she can speak so politely, so why was she like that before? Tsk, tsk.

(End of Chapter)