novelraw Chapter 94 : Chapter 94
Chapter 94 : Chapter 94
Chapter 94 Same Bed, Different Dreams (7)
“Alliance Leader. What do you mean by moving the entire Sado Alliance?”
A young man who had been leaning against a wall in a corner as if bored raised his head.
As the young man turned his body, the long saber tied to his waist swung back and forth.
Pan Bing-yeong, startled by the young man's voice, stared at him with her mouth open. I, thinking her reaction strange, quietly sent a telepathic message.
[Who is he?]
Pan Bing-yeong, snapping out of it at my message, scanned the surroundings and replied.
[……He is the second-in-command of the Sado Alliance. Mad Dragon Gu Ma-jin. He is the martial artist who achieved rejuvenation after the Alliance Leader. He is famous for being taciturn, so this is the first time I have heard his voice as well.]
“Noisy.”
At the same time Gu Ma-jin snapped his head toward us, a blade-like energy wave surged toward us.
At the sharp momentum that instantly enveloped my body, I stepped back two paces without realizing it.
When I turned my head, Pan Bing-yeong had already slumped to the floor, her body trembling.
To the level of catching even another's telepathic message.
Gu Ma-jin, the second-in-command of the Sado Alliance, was a master of the Transcendental Peak Realm, far beyond the Peak Realm.
‘This feeling…… it has been quite a long time since I felt it after meeting the Sword Immortal.’
I, who barely calmed my legs that were trembling against my will, looked at Gu Ma-jin and grinned.
“Ho. You are smiling?”
The moment Mad Dragon, who was looking at me with an absurd expression, was about to move his step, the Alliance Leader's voice was heard.
“Mad Dragon. Stop.”
At the Alliance Leader's words, the young man whipped his head around to look at the Alliance Leader.
“Sigh. This is annoying. Why on earth are you playing along with the games of such brats?”
“……Even if we have achieved rejuvenation, we have merely forcibly extended the lifespan granted by heaven for a short while. No one knows when our energy will scatter and we will return to a handful of dust.”
“So?”
“The ones who will lead the next generation will be those brats. Therefore, I thought it would not be bad to experience firsthand what they are thinking and what plans they have.”
“……What kind of nonsense is that.”
Mad Dragon, with a frown, looked back at Pan Bing-yeong and me once more and then spoke to the Alliance Leader.
“So. Why did you call us here?”
“I heard something interesting and made a promise. I said I would move the Sado Alliance if he entertained me.”
“Heh. Simply for entertainment…… you made a promise with the Sado Alliance at stake? You have gone senile.”
When momentum began to rise from the body of Mad Dragon looking at me, the Alliance Leader clicked her tongue with a tsk.
Then, the Alliance Leader's mouth opened as she looked at Mad Dragon.
“Blood Cult.”
The moment he heard the Alliance Leader's words, Mad Dragon's body stopped on the spot.
“According to that child's words, it seems the Blood Cult has moved again.”
Mad Dragon spun around toward the back.
And along with a sudden flash of light, the front of my eyes suddenly turned white.
“Ugh!”
When I came to my senses, I saw the figure of Mad Dragon holding me by the throat.
“……Is that true?”
The deep eyes of Mad Dragon, whose end could not be known, shot into my eyes.
As the strength in Mad Dragon's hand began to increase more and more, the Alliance Leader, who was watching the scene, let out a sigh.
The vision of me, caught by the throat by Mad Dragon, gradually blurred.
The Alliance Leader, confirming that the strength was slowly draining from my body, spoke.
“Stop it. No matter how much you do not like it, that brat is a guest I invited.”
“……Have you truly gone senile with age? Blood Cult? How on earth could those guys move again? And you really believe this kind of nonsense?”
Mad Dragon, looking back and forth between the Alliance Leader and me, threw me onto the ground just like that.
Mad Dragon, who glared at me for a while as if dissatisfied, turned his body and walked back to the corner.
Then, leaning his back against the wall, he glared at me with sharp eyes.
“Brat. Recite to me again what kind of nonsense you told the Alliance Leader. Just what did you see to tell such a preposterous story about the Blood Cult's resurgence?”
“Huff. Huff.”
I gasped for breath and stroked my neck.
I almost reached for my sword without realizing it.
A chilling feeling down my spine.
At that sensation I had felt for the first time in a long while, I struggled to calm my pounding heart.
After catching my breath for a moment, I slowly stood up and looked at Mad Dragon.
I, who stroked my neck and cracked it with a thud, laid out the story I had told the Alliance Leader again in detail.
“…….”
The expressions of the martial artists who heard my words, which continued for a long time, changed diversely.
The expression of Mad Dragon, who heard all my words, was also frozen hard.
“……It is quite a detailed story. You even know things that could never be known unless you had experienced them firsthand.”
“I have also looked into it in my own way, and there is no lie. The items brought from the Ghost Blood Sect are indeed used in the rituals of the Blood Cult, and I have confirmed the discovery of an altar in the Murim Alliance as well.”
Mad Dragon, who was lost in thought with a serious face, ruffled his hair messily.
“Tsk. If those words are true, things will become quite annoying in my later years. What on earth were those idiots of the Demonic Cult thinking when they brought in the Blood Cult?”
Mad Dragon growled, showing his teeth.
“Those brats, seriously. Even if they get hit hard once, they forget everything completely after just a hundred years. They cannot believe it unless they see it with their own eyes.”
“Heh. Even we, who saw it with our own eyes, are forgetting, so is there a need to mention the other children? Speaking of which, did we see the end of the Blood Cult when we were about that age?”
At the Alliance Leader's words, Mad Dragon spat on the floor with a thud.
“I do not really want to recall that wretched memory.”
Mad Dragon kicked the floor once and looked down at the saber at his waist.
Mad Dragon, who was lost in thought for a long time, let out a small sigh and then raised his head again.
“Well, fine. Blood Cult…… that is enough of a reason for you to trade for moving the Sado Alliance. I understand that. But if such a thing happened, you should have told us sooner. You enjoyed the brat's antics alone, and now you want us to clean up the mess?”
The old woman standing nearby patted her waist and grinned.
“Hoho. A person like you, Mad Dragon, who has no interest in the affairs here, would not have known, but there has been quite a commotion in the Sado Alliance because of that fellow. I also went out to take a look to see what all the fuss was about, and it was quite a sight. That fellow, even compared to Ice Rakshasa, would not fall far behind.”
Hearing the old woman's words, Mad Dragon whipped his head around.
“Grand Elder. That Ice Rakshasa is the foremost talent in the Sado Alliance. That brat is at that level?”
“He is at a considerable level even at a young age. If things go well, it seems he could step into the Peak Realm within five years.”
“Ha.”
Mad Dragon, who was checking the truth while looking into the old woman's eyes, shook his head.
“Tsk. No, if such a thing was happening, you should have told me! You were all leaving only me out and having fun among yourselves?”
As Mad Dragon grumbled, the Alliance Leader spoke with a laugh.
“How am I supposed to talk to a fellow who wanders outside the Sado Alliance all the time and cannot even be contacted properly? And you, do you not remember that you have been absent from almost all the Elder meetings recently?”
Mad Dragon turned his head and avoided the Alliance Leader's gaze.
“Since you acted that way, you missed a good spectacle. From what I see, that fellow has not even revealed his true skills yet. He might be on the verge of the Peak Realm.”
At the Alliance Leader's words, Mad Dragon slowly turned his head with his mouth agape.
“Alliance Leader. Have you truly gone senile? A fellow who is only sixteen or seventeen at most is on the verge of the Peak Realm?”
“Yes. That is how it looks to me. So do not interfere while not even understanding the situation properly and just watch quietly. I need to have an important talk with him.”
The Alliance Leader, after answering Mad Dragon's question, turned her body toward me.
And after looking at me for a long time without a word, the Alliance Leader spoke.
“Brat. I intend to move the Sado Alliance as promised.”
“Thank you.”
Hearing the expected answer, my expression became much more relaxed.
I made a deep fist-and-palm salute, and Pan Bing-yeong, standing beside me, also bowed her head toward the elders.
“In addition, I would like to propose another trade from this side.”
“A trade?”
When I raised my head, the Alliance Leader slowly nodded.
“Yes. How about we set conditions and exchange one more thing each, just as you did last time?”
“……What do you mean by that? May I hear the details?”
At my words, the Alliance Leader organized her thoughts and slowly turned her body. Looking piercingly into my eyes, the Alliance Leader replied in a quiet voice.
“You, move over to the Sado Alliance. If you move to the Sado Alliance, I will support you with at least double what I have planned now.”
After being lost in thought for a moment, I shook my head left and right.
“I am sorry, but for now, I do not wish to change my affiliation.”
A sharp energy sparkled in my eyes.
“There are still things I must obtain from the Murim Alliance.”
The Alliance Leader, confirming my gaze, nodded and grinned.
“Things you must obtain from the Murim Alliance. Yes, so you are going to be honest, eh?”
The Alliance Leader stared at me intently and grinned.
“Fine. Since it seems you are also going to speak honestly now, I will also speak honestly.”
The Alliance Leader looked back and forth between Pan Bing-yeong and me.
“I have also done some background checks on you. I have also thoroughly read all of Ice Rakshasa's reports that I had shoved away without reading properly. At first, I thought you grew up in the Murim Alliance since you were young because they said you belonged to the Demon Study Hall, but as it turned out, it has not even been two years since you joined the Murim Alliance.”
The Alliance Leader, who slowly walked to the bookshelf, continued her words while pulling out various books.
“The report was not that detailed, but I understood roughly what kind of story it was. To summarize simply, the child of a betrayed member of the Demonic Cult is struggling to bring down the Demonic Cult. Well, it is a very common story, and considering the current situation of the Heavenly Demon Divine Cult, it is something that could sufficiently happen.”
The Alliance Leader, who flipped through a few pages of a thick book, closed it with a THUD.
“Looking at the situation like that, it explained why you are properly learning the martial arts of the Demonic Cult. But there is one very strange thing.”
The Alliance Leader tapped her own head tap tap and paced around the bookshelf.
“If it is information I can find out, that fellow Jegal of the Murim Alliance must certainly know it too. And yet, those fastidious Murim Alliance fellows are keeping you? Even while going as far as to lie that you belong to the Demon Study Hall?”
The Alliance Leader tilted her head and approached me closely.
“That was the only mystery that remained unsolved. Just what they are trying to gain from you that they are keeping you while taking such a risk. And why they sent you to our Sado Alliance to move us somehow.”
The Alliance Leader grinned as she looked at me and then thrust the book she brought toward me.
It was a book with no words written on the cover.
Although it was a book without a proper cover, it seemed to be a book read quite diligently, as thick fingerprints were smudged all over the pages.
I looked at the Alliance Leader once and slowly opened the book.
‘Is this, the Sky Severing Thunder Sword?’
Before even flipping through a few pages, I could tell that this book was written for the purpose of countering the Sky Severing Thunder Sword.
Although it was crude, it was a book that recorded the characteristics of most forms in detail with quite a lot of effort.
As I raised my head with a surprised expression, the Alliance Leader continued her words.
“Are you surprised? Actually, I was surprised too. To think you, of all people, would have a connection with that fellow.”
The Alliance Leader, who shook her head, slowly lowered her hem and turned her back.
In the middle of her back, a scar that looked like a deep diagonal sword wound was situated.
“Sword Demon. And the Sky Severing Thunder Sword. I have a bit of an ill fate with the owner of that martial art. The fellow who made the scar in the middle of my back is the very owner of that martial art. This did not disappear even after rejuvenation.”
The Alliance Leader, who turned her head and grinned, straightened her clothes and turned her body back around.
“Seeing the duel between you and Ha-rin yesterday, I was greatly surprised on one hand, but seeing the Sky Severing Thunder Sword you performed, I was able to find the clue to the problem that remained unsolved until the end.”
The Alliance Leader approached me, raised her fist, and gave my chest a THUD.
“You. You are the hidden disciple of the Sword Demon, right?”