novelraw Chapter 6 : Chapter 6
Chapter 6 : Chapter 6
Chapter 6 - Yongho Fortress (2)
Jaun, glancing at the blankly standing Fortress Master, drew up his energy.
‘Once I’ve taken action, the only thing left is to silence them by killing everyone. Since there are many people, I must reduce their numbers as quickly as possible.’
Jaun, vanishing from the spot like smoke, appeared where the bandits were gathered in a swarm.
─ Slash
The sword glint flashed.
With one move from Jaun, three or four bandits sprayed blood and collapsed to the ground.
‘First, from this side.’
Except for the Fortress Master and the two giants, the rest were just bandits with big builds.
Jaun, deciding to first deal with the bandits who weren't a big threat but would be troublesome if they fled, threw himself again.
“Ack!”
“Keo-heok.”
Against Jaun's sword wielded with determination, the bandits had no choice but to offer their necks defenselessly.
The Fortress Master, confirming the bandits constantly falling to the floor, came to his senses in an instant and extended his fist with all his might toward Jaun.
“You bastard! Stop!”
Along with the Fortress Master's shout, a powerful fist strike shot toward Jaun.
─ Boom
The sound of compressed air exploding rang in all directions, and leaves and dust flew about.
─ Thud
Jaun, who blocked the Fortress Master's rapidly flying fist strike, stopped in his place.
Jaun, waving away the fluttering leaves with his hand, turned his head and looked at the Fortress Master.
“You…… what kind of bastard are you.”
A situation where he lost his sworn brother and about fifteen subordinates due to a momentary carelessness.
The Fortress Master's eyes began to burn fiercely with anger.
“I am a guard hired by the Moyong Family, but what you are trying to do is quite annoying, you see.”
At Jaun's words spat out casually, the Fortress Master ground his teeth.
“Little brat. I don't know how you escaped the poison smoke, but you will lose your life due to that luck. I will cut off your head and drink that blood, tear your limbs apart and throw them as food for mountain beasts to soothe my younger brother's vengeful spirit!”
Sparks flew from the eyes of the Fortress Master, who glanced at his sworn brother's body sprawled on the floor.
“What are you doing! Drag that kid in front of me right now!”
“Catch him!”
At the Fortress Master's words, the bandits, who only then grasped the situation, rushed toward Jaun all at once from all directions.
There were still quite a few bandits remaining.
Jaun, looking around once, kicked the ground.
Demon Shadow Step unfolded from Jaun's feet.
Jaun, who hid his body in the bandits' shadows and narrowed the distance in an instant, revealed himself in the center where the bandits were gathered.
[Blood Flower Death Shadow Sword]
The sword technique most suitable for dealing with multiple enemies among the Heavenly Demon Divine Art revealed its form.
Jaun's sword began to sway brilliantly in all directions as if blooming flowers.
Subsequently, afterimages of the sword densely filled the path Jaun's sword had passed.
Ten steps to the left.
Jaun moved while swinging his sword, and the afterimages of the sword filled the path he had passed.
[Blooming]
Jaun burst his energy in all directions in an instant.
At the same time, the shadows of the sword filling the surroundings shot out rapidly in all directions.
─ Pa-a-at
From the places where the shadows of the sword passed, the bandits' blood soared up all at once.
“W…… What?”
The Fortress Master looked at the soaring blood with bewildered eyes.
Again, Jaun's sword began to move, and blood flowers bloomed ceaselessly in the air by Jaun's sword, which cast the shadow of death.
“……What on earth is this.”
The Fortress Master, watching Jaun slaughter dozens of bandits in an instant, opened his mouth wide.
Still, he had selected and brought only the kids worthy of being called elites in Yongho Fortress, but there was no bastard who could withstand a single move from that kid.
Even he himself couldn't properly grasp the kid's movements.
The Fortress Master's expression hardened.
‘This is nonsensical!’
Although he was wandering here and there in the Central Plains due to circumstances now, he was once the Action Captain of the Yongho Fortress Main Headquarters, the right arm of the Green Forest King.
‘I received considerable recognition even within the Green Forest, and received evaluations that I could sufficiently face the elites of the Nine Great Sects alone…….’
He was dumbfounded by the fact that he couldn't properly grasp even the movements of that small boy now.
‘Such martial prowess at that age.’
He had never heard of it in his life.
Even the Blade Dragon of the Peng Family and the Sword Phoenix of the Emei Sect, who were making names for themselves as rising stars, wouldn't be able to show as much martial prowess as that boy.
Moreover, a guy with such martial arts is merely a guard warrior of the Moyong Merchant Group?
Confusion filled the Fortress Master's head.
─ Chwa-ak
As blood burst out in all directions once again, a smile appeared on Jaun's lips.
‘Good.’
He had fought one-on-one duels with his father to the point of sickness, but a duel with multiple opponents was a first.
However, his body moved as he thought, and the enemies' heads fell off as he thought.
Even as the movements repeated, the sword path became stable.
Among the clustered bandits, the space to extend the sword was clearly visible.
‘With smaller force, faster.’
With minimal movements, he took the bandits' lives one by one.
Amidst the blood flowers blooming in all directions, Jaun's consciousness became increasingly clearer.
Jaun was growing one step further in this battlefield filled with blood now.
“Cheon-mang. Catch that bastard.”
He couldn't just watch any longer.
The Fortress Master spoke to the giant next to him with his teeth clenched tight.
The giant, who was trembling with clenched fists, sprang forward immediately upon hearing the Fortress Master's command.
“This dog-like bastard!”
The giant called Cheon-mang rushed at Jaun.
Cheon-mang, who shot in at tremendous speed, extended his fist toward Jaun.
─ Boom
A massive fist strike flew toward Jaun.
‘Uh?’
The giant's martial arts level was higher than Jaun expected.
Because of that, Jaun, whose reaction was slightly late, narrowly avoided the giant's fist strike.
‘Let’s finish these guys first.’
Jaun rushed at the bandits who were gathered aside and trembling.
─ Pa-at
A tremendous amount of blood belatedly gushed out from the chest of the bandit Jaun's sword had passed.
The bandits watching that spectacle stepped back hesitantly with pale faces.
“Everyone back off!”
At the words of the giant called Cheon-mang, the remaining bandits backed off all at once.
Jaun raised his eyes amidst the pool of blood and looked at the approaching Fortress Master and Cheon-mang.
“My younger brother's life price is expensive. I will tear you to shreds, chew you up, and on top of that, cut off the limbs of all those Moyong Merchant Group bastards over there and throw them as food for mountain beasts!”
Cheon-mang's tightly clenched lips trembled with rage.
“So you should have quietly robbed the cargo only. If you did, I wouldn't have gone this far.”
Jaun, scattering the blood on his sword to the floor with a chwa-ak, raised his eyes to look at the Fortress Master and Cheon-mang.
At that moment, the sight of Eun-wol squirming behind the Fortress Master and Cheon-mang, rubbing her eyes and lifting her head, entered Jaun's eyes.
“Ugh…….”
[Quietly.]
Jaun's telepathic message rang in Eun-wol's head.
Eun-wol, who was getting up, flinched, looked around, widened her eyes, and covered her mouth.
Jaun's telepathic message continued into the pale Eun-wol's head again.
[Don't draw attention needlessly, just stay still. Without making a sound either.]
Eun-wol hugged her trembling body tightly and nodded slowly.
The Fortress Master, sensing a presence, turned his head back, and Eun-wol, who made eye contact with the Fortress Master, froze on the spot instantly.
“Ptu!”
Cheon-mang spat on the ground.
“How did that bitch wake up again?”
“Don't mind her. We must catch that brat first.”
At the Fortress Master's words, Cheon-mang turned his head forward again.
“Little brat. Prepare yourself. You and that bitch behind you. I will skin both of you and hang you at the entrance of Mount Gillim.”
The Fortress Master, who was glaring at Jaun with burning eyes, sent some hand gesture to Cheon-mang.
Cheon-mang, confirming the Fortress Master's hand gesture, nodded.
Cheon-mang raised his left hand up, and the Fortress Master raised his right hand up.
It was the two people's combined attack.
The stance taken by the Fortress Master and Cheon-mang was the stance of the Dragon-Tiger Fist, learned only by the high-ranking executives of the Yongho Fortress Main Headquarters.
─ Crack
Simultaneously as the two took their stances, a massive energy surged in and began to press down around Jaun.
Splitting the fierce spirit emanating from the two people, Jaun slowly raised his sword forward.
“Come if you want.”
“That bastard…… catch him!”
The Fortress Master shouted to Cheon-mang while glaring at Jaun with burning eyes.
─ Hu-u-u-ung.
In an instant, a huge wind blew, and subsequently, Cheon-mang's massive body shot toward Jaun.
Cheon-mang, who approached Jaun's side in an instant, reached for Jaun's nape.
‘Oh, quite impressive……?’
Avoiding Cheon-mang's hand approaching faster than thought, the Fortress Master's massive fist popped out from behind.
─ Whoosh
Jaun's clothes, narrowly avoiding the Fortress Master's fist that flew in aiming for the opening, were swept up in the fist wind and torn off.
“Kya-a-a-ak!”
Eun-wol, seeing Jaun's clothes tearing, screamed in shock.
Jaun's balance was slightly disturbed by the Fortress Master's fist, which possessed stronger power than expected.
Not missing that moment, Cheon-mang's fist strike flew in subsequently.
Jaun, whose balance was shaken, couldn't completely avoid the following fist of Cheon-mang.
─ Kwa-ang
Jaun, quickly raising his sword, blocked Cheon-mang's fist.
A crunching sound rang out from his whole body due to the shock.
“Ugh…….”
A groan escaped from Jaun's mouth.
Because the poison energy still remained, the flow of his energy kept getting cut off.
Because his mind was urgent, he moved first without burning all the poison energy, but the remaining poison energy was stronger than he thought.
Moreover, the following attacks were all tough fist strikes.
For Jaun of a light build, the compatibility was not good to face them without internal energy.
‘I should have moved after getting rid of all the poison first.’
Thinking of them as simple bandits and not preparing sufficiently was a mistake.
“Tsk.”
Jaun clicked his tongue.
Jaun, who hurriedly drew up his energy, raised his sword forward.
‘The energy carried in the fist strike is not ordinary. Dodging is best for now.’
Jaun quickly captured the movements of the two people rushing in.
It was a combined attack aiming for the upper and middle parts simultaneously.
At the same time as the two extended their fists, Jaun bent his body deeply enough to touch the floor.
─ Whoosh
The Fortress Master's fist grazed past his head, and Cheon-mang's fist touched Jaun's shoulder and passed.
─ Thud
Jaun's left shoulder turned blue in an instant.
Jaun bit his lip tightly.
To draw up demonic energy properly, Eun-wol behind him bothered him somehow.
Eun-wol is Orthodox.
And she belonged to the Five Great Families.
Even if she didn't learn martial arts properly, his father said that children of the Five Great Families receive various education from a young age.
Therefore, the possibility of Eun-wol noticing demonic energy wasn't nonexistent, and eventually, Jaun gave up on drawing out demonic energy.
‘I was just careless until now. So there is no reason to use demonic arts either.’
Jaun took a deep breath.
Jaun hadn't only received demonic arts from Jeong-cheon.
Since there might be battles with the Murim Alliance and the Sado Alliance in the future, he had learned various martial arts to a high level in preparation for that.
Of course, not as much as the Heavenly Demon Divine Art, but
There were many martial arts to bring out against bandits.
‘It’s just a little annoying, but sufficient.’
Jaun quickly raised his sword and advanced forward.
─ Hu-ung
Jaun, avoiding the two people's fist strikes surging in once again, rolled as he was and swung his sword forward.
Cheon-mang turned his body to avoid Jaun's sword, but he couldn't catch up with the speed of Jaun who had made up his mind properly.
─ Slash
A deep cut appeared on Cheon-mang's left flank.
“This little brat!”
Cheon-mang, confirming the blood flowing down from his waist, shouted loudly with an excited face. Subsequently, Cheon-mang, taking a stance, kicked the ground as he was and rushed at Jaun again.
─ Roar!
In an instant, the cry of a beast burst out from Cheon-mang's mouth.
The Seventh Form of Dragon-Tiger Fist, Tiger Coveting Earth Eating , leaping with four limbs on the ground.
Cheon-mang's massive body, containing the profundity of the Thousand Pound Weight, fell right over Jaun's head.
Cheon-mang's body, which jumped in with all his might, filled Jaun's vision.
‘Eh. This is bad.’
It would have been easier if the opponent used a sword.
However, an opponent pushing with strength and physique like this was bound to be tricky in a situation like now where there were many restrictions.
Jaun hurriedly retrieved the sword extended forward, twisted his body as he was, and extended his left fist.
Haze rose around Jaun's body as he drew up his energy.
And soon, the energy that looked like haze wrapped around Jaun's hand in a round shape.
─ Kwa-ang!
Jaun's fist touched the solar plexus of Cheon-mang who was pouncing.
The energy Jaun drew up poured into Cheon-mang's body, but his weight was beyond imagination.
─ Crack
A strange sound was heard from Jaun's arm.
It just had to be the left arm that was hit by the giant's blow that struck back.
The energy meridian connecting from the shoulder to the arm was not intact.
Added to that was the remaining poison energy, so the flow of energy kept getting cut off.
Jaun's left arm, unprotected by internal energy, made a crunching noise again.
He felt strength draining from his arm in an instant, but Jaun clenched his teeth and pushed his internal energy in as he was.
“Keo-ok…….”
Cheon-mang, looking down at his solar plexus which was deeply indented, raised his head as if he couldn't believe it and looked at Jaun.
Cheon-mang, who was glaring at Jaun like that, tried to raise his arm to attack once more, but his body, whose internal organs had already become mush by Jaun's fist strike, didn't listen to its master.
Watching the light rapidly fading from Cheon-mang's eyes, Jaun looked down at his left arm.
‘……Is it cracked?’
Sensation in his left hand was faint.
Jaun let out a hollow laugh and furrowed his eyes.
‘Truly embarrassing.’