novelraw Chapter 95 : Feeling the Waves (2)
Chapter 95 : Feeling the Waves (2)
The moment the ship was wrecked, the face of the Crown Prince, who had proudly introduced this ship, came to mind.
Baekgyeong? Do whales these days break in half when they hit a wave?
If the Crown Prince were right in front of me, I would have planted a cool punch on his face, but unfortunately, he was not here.
He was truly a lucky bastard.
"Aaaargh!"
"Help me!"
"My foot is stuck! Someone help me!"
The situation was nothing short of a living hell.
"Everyone, don't panic, get on the lifeboats!"
"Grab onto anything nearby! If you get swept away, it's over!"
"Aaaargh! I don't want to die!"
"Help me!"
Some were acting as calmly as possible while maintaining their composure, but most people were not.
"What the! That bastard Crown Prince! Didn't you say the ship wouldn't break!"
Someone lost their reason and started cursing. It was Namgung Mu-gwang.
I activated all thirteen great meridians arranged in a row.
Originally, the maximum number of great meridians I could have was twelve, but in the fight with the lightning boy, I had gained enlightenment from the 2-dimensional space to the 3-dimensional space and was able to increase it to thirteen.
Although it was still an incomplete enlightenment.
The energy flowing from each great meridian resonates and grows in power.
Booooom!
The released energy envelops the entire ship.
As a result, the ship is temporarily isolated from the outside.
This was similar to the Flame Zone that the Heavenly Demon had shown me before. To be more precise, it was just me roughly imitating it in my own way.
Moreover, this was a technique that I would not have been able to imitate in the first place if I had not had enlightenment about the 3rd dimension, or more precisely, about the boundary.
Therefore, I couldn't help but have a huge question right now.
How on earth did the Heavenly Demon perform such a difficult thing as if he were breathing? I could only think that he was a real monster.
For reference, of course, I was not the Heavenly Demon. Therefore, the time I could maintain the space isolated from the world was limited to 10 seconds.
Within that time.
Swish.
I had to save everyone.
I kicked off the ground.
I grabbed the scruff of a person floating in the air and threw them onto the lifeboat.
I grabbed the trouser leg of a person being swept away by the waves and threw them onto the lifeboat.
I cleared the debris from a person trapped under the wreckage and threw them again.
Saving, throwing, saving a person who had fallen into the sea, throwing, throwing, throwing, throwing... throwing.
The time it took to save everyone in my sight was 9 seconds.
It was close, but I was just able to make it in time.
Just as I was about to kick off to get on the lifeboat myself, I heard a very small voice.
"Please save me!"
There was still one more person.
The reason I hadn't felt that person's presence was because my proficiency in creating a boundary was still too low, and therefore the boundary was incomplete, and the typhoon was relentlessly raging, and so on, a small mistake that occurred due to a combination of complex circumstances.
The boundary was gradually breaking.
Through the gap, the rainstorm and waves were relentlessly rushing in.
The internal energy I had left was just enough to kick twice.
Swish.
With one kick, I reached the person who was being swept away to the sea. The moment I grabbed that person and was about to kick off again, I could tell.
That with the internal energy I had left, I could only move the weight of one person.
The boundary had already been broken for a long time.
The rainstorm was hitting my face, and my body was gradually sliding towards the sea along with the tilted ship. I could see a wave bigger than the ship crashing down on top of it.
Creak!
The ship, which had been split in half, tilted completely.
The bisected ship stood vertically in the sea and sank.
Soon, it would sink along with the ship.
There was no time to think, and the action followed immediately.
"Bite down hard."
At my words, the sailor nodded his head violently, and I could see him clenching his molars. I immediately threw the sailor towards the lifeboat.
"I got him!"
Fortunately, the sailor landed safely on the lifeboat.
"Now it's just you!"
"Hurry up!"
"There's not much time left!"
"What are you doing? What are you doing! You'll die if you do that!"
I could see the people on the lifeboat calling me.
Fuck. I want to go there too.
But now, I didn't even have the strength to move a single finger.
Crash!
The ship sank completely, and the ship was shattered by the waves. The whirlpool that was created at the same time swallowed my body.
I sank into the sea as it was.
***
"Is he alive?"
"Is he alive?"
"Is he breathing?"
"Ah, just stay still. I'm checking now."
"What a way to talk for a young kid."
"Tsk, tsk. Kids these days have no manners."
"Cough, cough!!"
"He spat out water? Is he alive?"
"It seems he's still far from becoming a water ghost."
The first thing I saw when I opened my eyes was a shabby prison-like space and the people crowded inside.
"Are you awake?"
When I turned my head to the side, there was a kid with a grimy face.
Gasp, gasp.
I tried to speak, but my voice wouldn't come out.
"Water! Does anyone have water?"
"Eh! We don't have enough for ourselves, how can we give any?"
"That's right! It can't be helped! It's a miracle he's even alive!"
"How can people be like that!"
The kid protests. The adults around him turn away from the kid.
"We have to live too!"
"Do you think we want to be like this?"
One by one, people turn their backs on the kid. It was like watching people who had come to see a spectacle and were leaving without a second thought after they had seen everything.
I tried to move, but I had no strength in my body.
As I was just rolling my eyes, I saw that this was a prison. Just then, the kid took the water bottle hanging by his side, opened it, and tilted it towards me.
Only a single drop of water fell from the water bottle.
"I'm sorry, this is all I have."
A single drop of water that entered my mouth.
With that, I began to circulate my internal energy little by little.
"Ugh..."
A little bit of my voice, which hadn't come out, came out.
"If you just bear with it for a little while, I'll go out and get a full bottle of water."
Then, the kid turned his back and glared at the adults who had gone to the corner.
"Hmph!"
"Ahem!"
The adults avoided the kid's gaze.
It's good that I survived... but my body won't move, where is this, and who are they?
Clang!
Just then, with the sound of the iron door opening, the atmosphere inside the prison darkened in an instant.
The kid also quickly went to the wall and bowed his head deeply.
Thud, thud.
Someone was coming this way. He soon grabbed the iron bars of the prison roughly.
I wanted to turn my face and check, but unfortunately, I couldn't move.
However, at the end of my vision, I could see a greatsword hanging by his side without a scabbard, covered in caked blood.
"Haaawk!!"
The voice that was heard was that of a man.
"What? This bastard, I picked him up because he was strange, but he's alive?"
Clang!
The man opened the prison door without hesitation. It was as if he thought the people inside were no threat to him at all. And the people, to get as far away from the man as possible, pressed their bodies tightly against the wall in the cramped prison. Seeing that, the man sneered and approached Yoo Jae-ha, who was lying on the floor, and kicked him with his foot.
"Good. We were short on slaves, so we can just put this bastard in. Hehe.”
The man, who had laughed sinisterly, turned around and then then suddenly burst out in complaint.
"Fuck! Just because he's my superior? Slaves die when you beat them sometimes. Who cares? We can supply as many slaves as we want. That bastard, he was also demoted and kicked out to this place. Acting all high and mighty."
The man got angry and then stared intently at one place.
"Heeheehee. I'm in a shitty mood, so I've decided on you for today. Let's get beaten up a bit."
"No, please."
"Don't worry. I'll only beat you to the point where you won't die. Or should I choose someone else instead of you? You decide."
The person pointed out by the man was the kid.
The kid looked at the people around him, but they all just looked at the floor, and no one made eye contact with the kid.
Seeing that, the man cackled.
"Heeheehee. Idiots."
The man grabbed the scruff of the kid's neck and dragged him out. The kid had neither the strength nor the stamina to withstand the man's power.
"Huh?"
Just as he was about to leave the prison, the man looked at his ankle.
A hand was grabbing his ankle.
"What? This fucking idiot?"
The man raised his other foot to break the wrist that was grabbing his foot.
"No! That person just woke up!"
The kid, seeing that, closed his eyes tightly and screamed. And although he knew that if he did this, he would be beaten more later, he couldn't just stand by and watch someone who had just survived be treated like this.
Crack!
Soon, the sound of a bone breaking was heard, and a scream echoed through the prison.
"Aaaargh!"
Thud.
The kid felt the hand that was grabbing the scruff of his neck loosen. His two feet, which had been dangling in the air, touched the ground.
"My ankle! My ankle!"
The man was sitting on the floor, clutching his ankle. The man's ankle was bent in a direction that would never be possible under normal circumstances.
And the man who had been almost half-dead until just now, Yoo Jae-ha, was slowly getting up.
"What a worthless piece of trash."
Thud.
Yoo Jae-ha approached the bewildered kid and greeted him.
"Thank you for the drop of water. If you hadn't helped me then, I would have surely died."
"Yes?"
Yoo Jae-ha, passing by the kid who was expressing his confusion, approached the man who had fallen on the floor.
And then, after breaking the remaining other ankle,
"Aaaargh!"
He grabbed the face of the screaming man and slammed it into the ground.
Crack!
"Where is this?"
***
"Water."
At a single word, the people in the prison all hand over their water bottles.
After choosing one and drinking all the water in the water bottle, he continued the interrogation.
"Name."
"It's Dok Man-chung."
"Affiliation."
"..."
"Affiliation."
"..."
"Has this bastard forgotten my treatment?"
Crack!
One of his balls burst.
"Aaaargh!"
"Affiliation."
"Under the Black Heaven... 10th unit... sir!"
"Sir?"
"...Yes, sir."
I tried my best not to show a shock expression.
"I see. So it's the Black Heaven."
"What were you doing here?"
"..."
"Has this bastard forgotten treatment again?"
Crack!
The other ball also burst.
"Aaaargh!"
"What were you doing here?"
"In the salt fields... using slaves... I was collecting money..."
"Why?"
"..."
"Ah, me! I should just kill this bastard and ask someone else. There are plenty of people to ask anyway."
"I-I'll talk! It's to take over Hainan."
"Is Hainan some neighborhood alley? And the Sword Empress is holding out there?"
At my question, Dok Man-chung, who had turned from a man into a woman, said in a confident tone.
"The Sword Empress will die soon."
If someone else had heard this, they would have scoffed.
But right after hearing the words 'Black Heaven', I had to try my best to pretend to be calm and not reveal my true feelings.
-Young Lord, I have uncovered the mastermind of this incident.
-Isn't it the Orthodox Faction guys again? The only ones who would do something as crazy as burying hundreds of ordinary people alive are the Orthodox Faction guys.
-Unfortunately, not this time.
-There are other guys who would brazenly commit such a crazy act in broad daylight? Haa! The world is truly coming to an end. So who is it?
-It's the Black Heaven.
-I've never heard that name before. Military Advisor, didn't you make it up?
-It's a fact that the Lord himself found out by capturing one of their spies. And the Lord himself has given the order. They are a force that may bring a great crisis to the martial world, so the Young Lord himself must lead the troops and annihilate them.
-So where are they?
-They are on an island in the sea.
-Any other information?
-That's what the Young Lord has to find out from now on.
-Haa! If you say so, I have to do it.
This was something I had experienced in my 4th year after becoming the Young Lord.
And it was also the first failed operation.
The number of troops deployed in the operation was a total of 200, consisting of the Peak and the Transcendent Peak.
Among them, the number of deaths was 125, and the number of casualties was 50.
After that, no trace of the Black Heaven could be found anywhere.
And today, I found it.
Grin.
Yoo Jae-ha's face contorted like a demon.
(End of Chapter)