novelraw Chapter 99 : Feeling the Waves (6)
Chapter 99 : Feeling the Waves (6)
This is the fourth island.
As we moved from island to island, the number of slaves increased.
On the first island, there were 20 slaves, on the second island, there were 40 slaves, on the third island, there were 80 slaves,
And on the fourth island, there were over 100 slaves.
Naturally, as the number of slaves increased, the number and martial prowess of the guards to watch over them also increased.
On the first island, the guards were nothing more than third-rate and second-rate, but when we reached the fourth island, they had surpassed the Peak.
So the kid was quietly behind me.
The number of guards that appeared was over 50.
"What's that bastard?"
"I was bored being cooped up on the island, but at least there's an event like this. Hey! I'll take that bastard's head."
"It's okay to kill him, right, team leader?"
They all had at least one scar and tattoo on their faces, and they had pictures drawn all over their arms and legs.
Anyone could see that their appearance and way of speaking were like a gathering of criminals.
Huh? There were actual criminals too.
Isn't that guy the one who killed 10 ordinary people who hadn't even learned martial arts and then disappeared?
I wasn't originally reluctant to kill, but it seemed I could do it with more peace of mind.
"Excuse me."
"Wow, you're not even trembling after seeing us? A pretty interesting guy has come this time. If it's an act, you'll be the best con man, and if it's real, I'll acknowledge your guts."
"Thank you for the compliment. Are all the slaves here?"
"This bastard is really interesting. Why? If there are more inside, are you going to save them too?"
"Yes. Since I'm here anyway, it's more comfortable to save them all at once so I don't have to come back."
At my words, everyone starts to laugh.
"Heeheehee. Wow, what a crazy guy!"
"Hehehe. Kid, do you think you can get out of here alive?"
"A guy who can't even take care of himself always gets his head blown off for meddling in other people's business. Kid, don't underestimate the martial world."
"Thank you for the compliment and the advice. So, are there more inside? Or not?"
Should I just kill them all and, although it's annoying, find them myself?
Just then, the guy with one ear cut off opened his mouth.
"There are no more. The slaves you have are all on this island."
"Really?"
"Yes."
Oh! A pushover... no! There was a good person too.
"Thank you for telling me!"
I expressed my sincere gratitude to the nameless one-eared man who had answered my question. And as I straightened my back, I kicked off the ground.
The distance with the one-eared man narrowed in an instant.
I could see the one-eared man's eyes widening in surprise. The one remaining ear of the one-eared man was pricked up. I once again expressed my gratitude to him for saving me the trouble.
"Goodbye!"
Slice! The one-eared man's head fell to the ground.
"Shit! What the! Kill that bastard now!"
As blood spurted, the guards all rushed towards me.
I half-closed my eyes.
I expand my senses.
The future vision showed me the future one step ahead.
Three attacks coming down from above to cut my head.
A total of six attacks, one thrusting from the front and two cutting from the sides.
A total of nine attacks aiming for my neck.
Two attacks, an axe and a spear, coming from behind.
Twenty hidden weapons flying. Their trajectory was drawing towards my thighs, ten each.
A total of three people hiding underground, looking for a chance to assassinate.
And so, a total of 43 attacks poured down at once.
Boom!
I first stomped on the ground I was standing on.
"Keoheok!"
As a scream came from underground, the ground was stained with blood.
Immediately, I bent my back and dodged the attacks flying towards my head and neck. At the same time, I pulled my arms and stretched them up. The tension spread wide and sent the swords flying. I thrust my sword nine times into the space that appeared between them.
"Aaaargh!"
Someone was stabbed in the mouth, heart, head, and stomach. Screams vibrate.
I cleanly closed my ears and immediately rolled to the side to dodge the attacks coming from behind. And as soon as I got up, I spread my legs in a zigzag shape and shattered the jaws of the guys behind me.
Crack!
"Aaaargh!"
It was noisy, so I picked up a stone lying on the floor and stuffed it into his mouth.
"Keoeoeok."
And I snatched the axe and spear that the guys behind me were holding and threw them into the air.
Stab! Thud!
An axe was embedded in someone's head, and a spear was stuck in someone's stomach.
I immediately kicked off the ground.
Thud, thud, thud!
Twenty hidden weapons were embedded in the spot where I had been.
I spun my body and scattered my sword.
I lightly cut the eyes of the guys nearby, and as a bonus, I used the Thousand-Pound Drop to break their backs.
Crack!
"Aaaargh! My back!"
"I-I can't see! My eyes!"
As soon as I landed on the ground, I kicked off the ground and reached the guys who had thrown the hidden weapons. And I scattered my sword.
Slice!
Pop! An arm flew into the air.
Rumble, rumble, a head rolled on the ground.
Thud, a masterless leg flew.
I flicked the blood off my sword and exhaled.
"Phew."
When I looked back, there was no one standing properly.
Clap, clap, clap!
The sound of applause from somewhere.
I turned my head towards the sound.
There was a guy who looked a little stronger than the guys I had just faced.
"A natural movement, as if you knew what would appear in front of you. It's the future vision that only those who have entered the Transformation Realm can obtain. Excellent! I've never seen anyone use future vision so perfectly before! As expected, you're worthy of invading this place alone. Yes!"
"Who?"
I had known for a while that there was one more person inside. I thought he was trying to run away, so I just left him alone to use as bait to hunt the remaining loaches of the Black Heaven, but... I was grateful that he had appeared in person, and at the same time, I was annoyed at the thought of having to find a new bait.
"Ah! I am Hong Yu-geom, the general supervisor of this place."
"Ah! The murderer of the Shanxi Jin family?"
"Hoo! It's been decades, but you know about that! Amazing!"
Although it was a small and medium-sized sect in the martial world, the Shanxi Jin family, which had been maintained for a good 100 years, was annihilated in a single day.
Without leaving any survivors.
The culprit was the Hong Yu-geom, Jin Ak-gun, who was right in front of me.
I thought he was hiding somewhere, but he was in the Black Heaven.
"I'm quite interested in the incidents of the martial world."
"In this martial world teeming with insects, meeting someone who knows your past is a great fortune."
"Is that insect you're referring to yourself?"
"Hehe. You're a funny friend."
"You have a long tongue. In the end, you were afraid of the pursuit of the martial world, so you tucked your tail and got stuck on an island like this."
"Friend, if you want to live long, you should choose your words carefully. It's a piece of advice from a senior in the martial world."
"Yes. If you're scared, tuck your tail and run away to an island where no one is. I've heard the advice of a senior in the martial world very well."
"I thought I had met a friend I liked for the first time in a long time, but it's a shame. I've also received something here. You'll have to die now."
Why did he talk for so long if he was going to kill me in the end?
The opponent's martial prowess was at the Transformation Realm.
It seemed I had gotten almost all the information I could get, and now it seemed there was no more business. Although there was no nutritious information at all.
"Well, since the self-introductions are over, goodbye."
From the moment I heard the words 'Black Heaven', I never thought that there would be only this many people, with only this much martial prowess.
The ones I had experienced before my regression were stronger than I thought, and the hidden power they had was beyond imagination.
A master of the Transformation Realm... I had fully expected there to be one.
Swish.
I kicked off the ground. The time that had passed until now slowed down even more.
"You're... fast!"
The opponent's surprised eyes come into view.
In the slowly flowing time, I was momentarily lost in a thought.
The scale of this salt field slave operation was too large for it to be just for making money.
And to even deploy a master of the Transformation Realm?
Anyone could see that this was a very important place, so no noise should be made here.
It was not hard to guess that the intentions of the higher-ups were behind it.
Above all, the salt business was strictly illegal, prohibited by the country. In other words, to buy and sell it, there had to be a merchant in the middle to manage it...
I decided to stop thinking here. Because the Demonic Brain would take care of this kind of thing on his own.
I drew my sword as before.
Slice!
Although the Transformation Realm was a bit of an unexpected variable, it was not a level I couldn't handle.
I did cut his neck. The problem was that it wasn't me who had cut it.
A single sword, no! A saber, pierced through his neck and came out.
It was heading straight for me.
In an instant, a thrill ran down my spine.
Even though it was in the middle of a fight, I hadn't noticed the opponent's approach.
An attack coming from outside the range of my senses.
I immediately twisted my neck to dodge...
is what I thought.
Whoosh!
Suddenly, the saber drew a zigzag and bent as if it were a living creature.
I rolled on the floor to dodge the sword.
Slice.
The saber grazed my cheek. If my reaction had been a little slower, it would have been my neck that was cut, not my cheek.
"Hoo! You dodged this?"
Hong Yu-geom's head was rolling on the ground.
Thud.
Soon, his body falls powerlessly to the floor.
I raised my head and looked at the opponent.
A messy beard that hadn't been shaved.
Disheveled hair and slightly peculiar vertically slit pupils.
Clothes that seemed to have been thrown on carelessly.
I felt like I was facing a wild beast, not a person.
He grinned.
With that one move, I was certain.
The opponent was on a different level from before.
The momentum felt was at least at the Transformation Realm or higher.
I thought that this place might be more important than I had thought.
"You'll die if you do that?"
At that moment, a sharp premonition was felt from behind my neck.
The opponent in front was not doing anything.
Another attack coming from outside the range of my senses.
'Is there one more master of that level?'
Without time to think, I reacted as my instincts told me. And I didn't take my attention off the opponent in front.
I turned my body.
A single sickle had reached right in front of my pupils.
Whoosh!
The sound of a thin and slender wind being pierced.
The sickle was not one.
I expand my senses.
A little slower than the sickle in front, another sickle was flying in a wide arc from a distance that was completely beyond my normal senses.
If I hadn't perceived this, I would have deflected the first sickle and then had my head pierced by the second flying sickle.
I raised my sword from bottom to top and deflected the first sickle, and clang! Immediately, with a shout, I deflected the second sickle that was flying in with a time lag from top to bottom.
However, the moment I deflected the sickle, my wrist was slightly sprained.
"What's with the weight of this sickle..."
"Hoo! To deflect two sickles that each weigh a hundred pounds, that's amazing."
Another man was standing next to the man who had just appeared. The two sickles that had been deflected had returned to that man.
Looking closely at the end of the sickle, something like a thread was tied to it. It seemed that what I had heard earlier was the sound of the thread.
Also, seeing that the thin thread could withstand the enormous weight of the sickle, it didn't seem to be an ordinary thread.
Above all, the martial prowess of the newly appeared opponent also seemed similar to the previous man.
A cold sweat ran down my back.
It was then.
"If there's an obstacle, it'll just get in the way of the fight, right?"
Without any preparatory motion, the opponent kicks off the ground. By the time I perceived it, he was already in front of the kid.
"Mister?"
The kid called me, and I immediately threw the knife I was holding.
Swoosh!
Clang!
A sickle that had flown from somewhere deflected the flying knife.
Seeing that, I clenched my molars and immediately kicked off the ground.
In my eyes, I could see a huge saber being swung.
'It's late!'
I connect the scattered great meridians into one. And I twist it.
Infinity is created.
And so, a total of three infinities are completed. The energy begins to circulate.
The surroundings begin to slow down.
Crackle!
Lightning qi flows through my feet.
The fourth form of the Reversal of Heaven, the Reversal of the Situation.
Thun───────.
At that moment, whoosh! The sickle gets tangled in my foot.
I can feel the thin thread tightening on my skin and the heavy weight.
Squeeze.
With a clench of my teeth, I put strength into my foot.
The thread dug into my skin, but I didn't let go.
It was then.
Swoosh!
A single sword flew through the air.
Clang!
The saber was sent flying. I released the strength from my foot.
The kid felt a soft touch on his face. Soon, his body flew into the air, and his body was caught by someone else. He felt a hard, unpleasant touch on his face, different from before.
"Noona! I was right, wasn't I? My intuition told me it was this way!"
"If you chatter one more time, I'll rip that mouth of yours first."
"Hic!"
The man who had caught him whispers.
"What's with the temper, right?"
"W-who are you?"
The kid first asked who had saved him. The man answered.
"My intuition is telling me. That you and I will have a deep connection."
Although it had been less than 10 seconds since they had met, the kid thought he knew what the noona with the soft touch had said earlier.
'I want to rip his mouth.'
The Rakshasa Divine Maiden, Eun Ga-yeong, and one extra had arrived.
(End of Chapter)