Chapter 156: The Knight Won’t Forgive the Golden Sun (5)

The sword that unleashed the plum blossom crumbled like sand, its Sword Power had been completely exhausted by that attack. But, Lee Han didn’t feel sad at all. After all, the sword was the western assassin’s not his.

Its completion level is not bad.

Originally, the Plum Blossom Sword would exhaust him tremendously, but the one he just used was a whole different technique compared to the usual. Its difference was like the difference between a chicken and a duck.

What was the difference?

Being able to fly is already a big difference.

It was a small but at the same time, huge improvement.

Lee Han no longer felt tired after using the Plum Blossom Sword a few times.

…No, to be exact, he was able to replenish his physical and mental power as quickly as he consumed it.

The reason this was possible was probably because…

My training is useful…

If the status window guy had seen it, he’d have said that this was all thanks to the physical and mental boost from traits like [Vajrayana] or [Indomitable], but Lee Han tended to ignore such game-like explanations.

He was living in reality, so his strength, stamina, and skills were just the product of effort, not the skills of a game. The same went for the Plum Blossom Sword. He trained his body like crazy, and he had grown more than before, making it possible for him to use it in succession.

Not only that, it was also faster and sharper than when he first used it.

I can probably use it twenty times more.

Whoosh-!

Convinced that he could easily use the Plum Blossom Sword twenty times in a row, Lee Han picked up the sword he had taken and swung it again. It was a pretty good sword, so the Sword Power wasn’t bad. Thanks to that…

Whoosh-!

The number of fluttering plum blossoms was also considerable.

Crunch-! Crunch-! Crunch-!

“!!?”

“-·-!”

“-·-·-Euu‥-?!”

The assassins cried out in pain, but they couldn’t speak properly, perhaps because their tongues had been cut off.

“You guys are different kinds of twisted, you know that? You got healthy tongues, why did you cut them?”

Lee Han lightly chided them, but they didn’t have the leisure to answer him. After all, as Lee Han talked, the plum blossom petals that swept through the assassins’ skin pierced through their heart and other organs.

The attack was literally the equivalent of getting assaulted by thousands of bullets.

This was the true power of the plum blossoms; the outstanding penetrating and cutting power.

However…

“Still, you guys aren’t so shabby.”

Crack-!

The Plum Blossom Sword was strong, but as long as their eyes and bodies could adapt, they could easily get around it. That showed how his technique still had a lot of shortcomings.

Still…

“I’ve cleaned up all the weak guys, it’s manageable now.”

“-‥-!”

About half of the fifty or so guys were torn apart, while the other half suffered from serious wounds or were bleeding, but the bleeding wasn’t severe enough to kill them. The surviving assassins were emitting intense hostility and murderous intent toward Lee Han.

However, Lee Han strangely didn’t feel threatened at all. He never let his guard down no matter how weak his opponent is, but for some reason they were…

“So slow.”

“!!”

—Are they looking down on me?

Paang-!

The moment Lee Han kicked the roof, he instantly appeared behind their backs. From his moves, it was clear that Bending Body Launch had naturally integrated into his movements.

This was the result of his training ever since the battle in the Tunnel. Now, he could use Bending Body Launch as easily as breathing.

Slash-!

Hunting the assassins felt really simple to Lee Han, like an owl hunting a mouse.

“-‥-44-·-1!”

Is he the one giving orders among them?

As soon as one guy realized that there was a big gap between them and Lee Han, he gave the others an order. In an instant, the assassins’ momentum changed, and three of the surviving assassins rushed at Lee Han.

Then…

Booom-!

They ‘self-destructed’.

Indeed, they charged towards Lee Han and used their bodies as bombs.

Using their own lives to eliminate their opponent; their determination would make anyone’s spine tingle. Of course, their move wasn’t a laughable move either. Stimulating one’s Combat Technique to explode one’s body meant that even their bones and flesh would explode like a claymore mine, eliminating the target.

Its power was stronger than most bombs. No matter how skilled a knight was, they wouldn’t be able to avoid major injuries in the face of such an attack.

That was the ‘common sense’.

However…

“Tsk. Disgusting…”

Thud-!

“…”

“Why do all assassins use such dirty methods… Tsk.”

Common sense only applied to weaklings, not to him. There wasn’t even a single scratch on his body; his clothes were just a little dirty and torn.

His body, which was visible through his torn clothes, was…

“…How could you have such a body…?”

The only one among the Hassassins with an intact tongue was the first to ask such a question.

What an astonishing body.

A body as miraculous as ‘steel’, one that made him wonder if it was really human skin.

Such a body… Wouldn’t only an ogre or a troll that trained their muscles could get it?

The assassin wasn’t sure. After all, he had never seen ‘something like that’ before. He even suspected that the knight in front of them had received illegal procedures, just like them.

“…Such a thing should be impossible to achieve through natural process.”

There was a fatal weakness in using their organization’s secret technique: they became distant from human form. Normally, parts of their skin would change to resemble the skin of a monster, but there was no trace of that on his body.

And Lee Han, who received such an evaluation.

“Do you think I’m like you?”

He snorted.

Illegal procedure, my ass.

“I spent more than 12 hours a day training my body to create this body.”

It was through his tearful effort that he could use Bending Body Launch and Vajra Body as if they were passive skills. Their belittling attempt to dismiss his efforts as an illegal procedure made a frown appear on his brows.

“Why don’t you tell me? Does the so-called illegal procedure make you do this?”

Bang-!

He punched the air.

It was a sudden, rather aimless movement from the assassins’ perspective. They could only tilt their heads in confusion.

Crunch-!

“!!?!”

But soon enough, they had to open their eyes wide again.

Thud…

Because one of their comrade’s heads had turned into a crushed tomato and he died instantly.

-Hitting a Cow Across the Mountain.

He threw his punches indiscriminately, but the assassins couldn’t block them. Then again, an invisible fist was coming at them like a cannonball, how could they block it?

“Block it.”

Every single time, Lee Han kindly announced that he was going to throw a punch before punching the air again.

Just like that…

Crunch-!

The number of assassins whose heads became tomatoes increased, and it was enough to make the assassins who had endured cruel and thorough training ‘bewildered’.

“I’ve even announced my attacks. Why couldn’t you block them?”

He thought he was being kind, but unfortunately, no one among the Hassassin saw him as such.

Thud-!

The assassins had all turned into Dullahans; every single one of them had lost their heads.

“…Vicious guys.”

Even though it seemed like he had dealt with them easily, Lee Han knew. The only reason why that was the case was because they were dumbstruck by his techniques.

Starting with Plum Blossom Sword, Bending Body Launch, Vajra Body and finally, Hitting a Cow Across The Mountain.

All of them were techniques that the assassins had never seen before, so they had no choice but to be defeated by him without having time to adapt.

It’s cowardly, but who cares.

I’m originally a coward anyway.

Nevertheless, it didn’t mean the assassins were easy opponents. Especially considering that they didn’t hesitate using that suicide bombing, a surprising and extremely cruel technique. If it wasn’t him who took that blow…

“Actually, no, they’ll be fine.”

Lee Han thought that the situation would have been resolved even if he hadn’t personally interfered like this.

After all…

“As expected, you’re amazing, Sir Totle. You made my support seem meaningless.”

There were other guys guarding the area, too.

“…You aren’t from Tristan, so which one are you Galahad? Or Lionel?”

“Galahad, Sir.”

“Really?”

Besides the ones Lee Han killed, there were quite a few assassins roaming around.

That crazy tanned guy probably hired a truckload of them because he had so much money. However, Lee Han only stopped those coming from the east and didn’t care about the rest, because he knew that there were quite a few people working to protect the children besides himself.

Judging from the presence he felt from the west, the area seemed to be guarded by Tristan.

Which meant, the ones who guarded the other two directions were none other than…

“Oh, right, I remember you. You’re one of the black masked people who came over when the chick first became my neighbor, no?”

“…You still remember what happened back then?”

“My memory’s bad, but my body is strangely good at remembering things. I can’t really remember faces well, but I remember people’s spirits well.”

“That’s amazing…”

Galahad’s Shadows.

It had been awhile since Lee Han saw them. The last time they saw them was when Irene Windler became his neighbor half a year ago.

“I fought for nothing… If I knew you guys were here, I wouldn’t have bothered.”

Tristan and Galahad.

They were probably the guard knights dispatched to protect the Female Bear and the Mage Chick.

They did a good job.

Meanwhile those white cats…

The other families did something like this to prevent any possible crisis from happening, but Pendragon…

Seriously, so embarrassing. Just what is that elder sister doing?

Since the princess he knew was the furthest from being incompetent, she shouldn’t have failed to predict this kind of situation.

Regardless, this outcome was actually embarrassing. After all, that place was his workplace, whether he liked it or not.

“Hahaha, you didn’t fight for nothing. Among the assassins that Sir Totle faced, there was the strongest one. If you hadn’t taken care of him, the damage on our side would have been significant. Or worse, our defenses might have been breached.”

“You don’t have to flatter me…”

“I’m being honest. As expected from someone who didn’t hesitate to nag the duke.”

“…You were there too?”

“Yes. I think you were cool back then, Sir.”

“I see. You are one of the people who saw my dark past.”

Lee Han ended up letting out a bitter laugh. The knight was one of the spectators who saw his dark past, which was the time he arrogantly nagged the duke.

However, the Galahad’s knight just laughed happily.

“Haha, Sir Tortle is probably the only one who calls that a dark past. In Galahad, they call you ‘BMWSNA’.”

“BMWSNA…?”

“It’s an abbreviation for ‘Brave Man Who Spares No Advice’. After all, it’s an impossible feat to criticize His Excellency the Duke. Aside from the deceased God of War, no one had achieved that. Hahaha.”

“Ughh…”

That was a hell of a shabby nickname.

Is it an insult or a compliment?

Lee Han scratched his cheek, but he knew that the Galahad knight didn’t seem to hate him, at least, seeing as they approached him with favor.

However…

“…That guy’s a different story.”

He couldn’t please everyone.

Crackle-!

In the distance, a spear pierced through around 10 assassins in one go. It was just an omnipresent, basic spear that represented the meaning of the word Spear.

However, the moment the plain-looking spear was swung, it turned into a destructive ballista that could pierce through anything.

It was a spear technique that would evoke admiration from the onlookers. If the most ideal ‘stabbing’ movement existed, Lee Han would have to admit that it was that one, even though he didn’t want to.

That was how perfect it was.

The knight who performed such a perfect stab was someone that even Lee Han knew.

“His stabbing is an art, but that guy got a shitty personality.”

“…Haha.”

The knight from Galahad ended up laughing as he heard Lee Han’s words.

He just found the situation funny.

After all, the guy who got insulted, his vice-captain, said these words when he saw Lee Han fight.

-His personality might be bad, but he’s still a formidable fighter.

They both acknowledged each other while insulting each other.

While watching that, the knight from Galahad thought.

Are all the skilled guys…

Similar to each other?

He genuinely found them funny.