episode_0048

Daeungchae is a very common mountain fort for bandits.

Although Chaeju and Bujaeju were close to the peak, they could be called experts, but the members below them were nothing more than thugs.

But that was enough to make a living by looting up until now.

Because the back is the Green Forest Alliance.

Even though the Green Forest Alliance is a confederation of bandits and rascals, it is still a major force and one of the pillars of the martial world, so it is a strong force to have as support.

“Who is that?”

“Man? What man is here?”

So the two sentries standing guard at the entrance to the mountain village were chatting nonsense, and their eyes widened as soon as they saw the doll approaching them.

Even though he ruled out the possibility that someone would dare to invade Daeungchae, a part of Nokrim Chilsipchae, he was curious first.

“Stop! This is Daeungchae! What business have you come to see the elders of the main building?”

But that was only for a moment.

As long as they are approaching straight towards them, they must fulfill their duty as sentinels.

Meanwhile, one of the sentries checked the face and swallowed.

He is wearing a rather luxurious martial arts uniform and carries a sword on his waist, so he is definitely a martial artist.

Although his face was still young, his appearance was so beautiful that it could be said that he was worthy of being called a nobleman.

In this world where the roles of men and women are reversed, it is natural for women to turn their eyes to a handsome man.

“Hehehe, it looks like you’re lost. If you pay me, I can tell you how to get down.”

“Of course we don’t get paid for it. Hehehe!”

The sentries passed out trivial tidbits of farmland, with muffled laughter.

This wasn’t a joke, it was almost sexual harassment, but they didn’t think for a second that the boy in front of them would pull out his sword.

This is the Daeungchae belonging to the Green Forest Alliance.

But the boy, Yeonjin, didn’t get angry at dirty jokes like the men of this world, or take them lightly like a worn-out ronin.

Rather, he just made a subtle expression.

“This world is definitely normal, but why does it make me shiver and feel disgusting when I hear it?”

“What are you mumbling about? If you want to know the way, come here. Maybe. If you talk to this old man for a while, he might tell you?”

“I was planning on going even if I had to strip naked and beg you not to come. Don’t rush me like that.”

Yeonjin responded nonchalantly and approached him, one hand still on the hilt of the knife.

As they approached, the eyes of the two sentries widened slightly at the sight of a beautiful appearance that was not easily seen in this area.

Choaaaak-!

The sword flashed with the sound of something being scattered.

As the pure white line was engraved, red blood gushed out beyond the white light.

The gushing blood could not defy gravity and fell naturally, and with its momentum it splattered all over the fence where the sentries had been standing guard.

“Ugh, crap-.”

A person who is stabbed or cut usually does not scream.

Instead, I just roll around on the floor, clutching my neck, with the wind howling as if my life was fading away.

Yeonjin’s gaze, which was looking at the two sentries who were growing colder, turned to the bell hanging next to them.

“This is what happens when the sentry doesn’t stand guard as he’s supposed to.”

It was a story that the sentries lying on the dirt floor, holding their severed necks with their eyes wide open, would have felt resentful to hear.

Even if he is a martial artist, he is at most a junior officer. Who would have imagined that he would invade Daeungchae alone?

But Yeonjin struck the bell with the back of her sword instead of those sentries.

What the heck-!

When the bell was rung, instead of the clear and majestic sound of a temple bell, a loud noise echoed throughout the mountain village.

“Who are you!”

“Who dares to come to Daeungchae without fear!”

“These kids, didn’t they accidentally ring the bell while sleeping?”

As the loud bell rang, the bandits came out of the mountain one by one.

Yeonjin thought that the sight was very similar to a beehive being stirred up and the bees running out, buzzing, and looked at the bandits who had run out without saying a word.

“Those two?”

A middle-aged man holding a large object the size of a human body, and a snake-eyed man next to him.

Unlike the rest of the bandits who are no different from ordinary people, the prayers of these two are definitely worthy of being called expert.

I heard that the Chaeju and Buchaeju of Daeungchae are almost at their peak, so no matter where you go in the martial arts world, you can always hear the title of master.

Yeonjin, who was looking at the young man and the snake eyes, quickly kicked the ground.

“Hey, Chaeju and Buchaeju! Let’s fight this one-on-one instead of using the kids as meat shields!”

With his left hand holding the sword, and his right hand holding the sword wave tightly, he quickly rushed forward, cutting through the wind.

And yet, he ran straight towards the middle-aged man and the snake-eyed man and shouted.

The bandits who were suddenly attacked in the middle of the night by a red beetle were just watching with dumbfounded faces.

That’s the nature of bandits.

You can tell he’s a master just by looking at the way he runs, cutting through the wind in an instant.

So, rather than rushing in and dying in vain, the first thing to do was to hand it over to the best mountain vegetables, Chaeju and Buchaeju.

“How dare you, a little puppy!”

Fortunately, the owner of Daeungchae was able to quickly grasp the situation even while carrying a large bundle of goods on his back.

Even though he habitually let out a grumble, he confirmed that the two years he had been waiting for were rolling around on the floor.

Should I fight or should I run away?

Just looking at the way he runs, you can tell he is no ordinary expert.

Should I abandon the mountain and run away to survive on my own, or should I fight one-on-one like the boy said and see if it’s worth it?

While Chae-ju was worrying, Yeon-jin barged in without her knowing.

While he was thinking about it, Yeonjin barged in and swung her sword.

As the beginning of the Bokma Yeorae Sword, the sword’s blade shone like the sunset, preemptively taking the direction where Chaeju could dodge.

“Oh my!”

In an instant, the great Chaeju swung his sword like a thunderbolt and cut off its trajectory.

The fan owner’s already narrow eyes narrowed even more as he gasped in surprise.

Like the saying, “that vegetable goes with that rice,” Chae-ju, who had been thinking of running away until just now, also had the two words “run away” in her head.

There’s nothing new about it.

This is the average level of loyalty among bandits.

Since the debt collectors and debtors are like this, it is not a problem for them to just stand there and watch the underlings running towards their boss.

Chae-ju, who had barely secured a safe space by swinging his sword with a great swing, spoke in a trembling voice, feeling a sense of crisis that he could have been killed in a single second.

Unlike just before when he was making a fuss about what happened to the puppy, his tone of speech became more polite.

“Who on earth are you? This is Daeungchae, affiliated with the Green Forest Alliance. What grudge do you have against us that you killed my subordinates and attacked me!”

“Is this Chaeju?”

“That’s right. I swear I haven’t done anything to deserve a grudge or favor, so what kind of outrageous behavior is this!”

Instead of continuing the attack, Yeonjin asked back with a crooked face, and Chaeju’s voice grew louder.

Even if you die and wake up, you won’t be able to do it with your skills.

In that case, at least if they emphasize their background as the Green Forest Alliance, they will see a hole in their survival.

At times like these, didn’t you regularly pay that expensive bribe to the Maeng to sell your name?

Then Yeonjin snickered.

“So why did you do such bad things?”

“What, what?”

“Actually, the job of a bandit is a bit like that. You’ve never accumulated any favors while working in a job that involves robbery and murder? Isn’t that a bit of a stretch? The favors you’ve accumulated over the years alone would probably be enough to fill this mountain village.”

It wasn’t really a complaint.

I just pointed out that it doesn’t make sense to say that the bandit didn’t do anything to deserve a favor.

In fact, Yeonjin wasn’t the type of person who fought for justice against the world.

They are an ordinary group of people whose first priority is selfish desires, and in the process, they passively do good or commit evil.

It is a behavior close to that of a petty bourgeois that can be seen anywhere, but if we are to be exact, the current behavior is similar to picking up trash that catches the eye on the street.

It falls into the category of good deeds that are done passively.

“Wow, the Green Forest Alliance is behind us! Are you not afraid of the Green Forest? You seem to be a disciple of a famous school, but why did you come here and act so rudely when we have never met before─”

“Have you ever heard of Chopyeongchae?”

“Chopyeongchae… … ?”

Chae-ju’s mind quickly turned to Yeon-jin’s sudden question.

Chopyeongchae is a person in the same industry in Shaanxi.

And then I remembered that just a little while ago, I heard the news that Chopyeongchae had burned down completely, leaving not a single cornerstone behind.

I heard that the beast even killed the patrolman dispatched by the Green Forest Alliance, but what was special about the beast was that it was young, almost like a boy.

Chae-ju’s eyes grew wide as she thought about this.

“No way!”

“It’s said that Seolma originally caught people.”

Yeonjin, who responded nonchalantly, rushed forward again and swung her sword covered in sunset-colored aura.

The first meal of the Seven Treasure Lotus followed immediately.

Seven steps, moving gracefully, the sword is swung with the illusion of a lotus blooming at each step.

The godfather is a heavy weapon that can fully utilize its destructive power if it has innate divine power, but it is slow compared to a thin and sharp single-edged sword.

In the midst of all this, Yeonjin, somehow, attacked the great master from the front with a thin sword as if she was going to break his blade.

To begin with, the sword is wrapped around the sword body, and whenever there is a collision, the center of gravity is cleverly shifted to protect the blade from damage.

Boom! Kwaang-!

He had only taken four steps, but each time the sword and the great master clashed, there was a loud noise like a shell exploding, and sweat poured down from Chae-ju like rain.

“Oh, one ran away.”

While Chae-ju was desperately concentrating to block Yeon-jin’s attack, she saw Yeon-jin looking away.

As I followed Yeonjin’s gaze, who was naturally looking elsewhere, I noticed the back of the debt collector, who had been silent, already a long way away.

“I, I’ll just leave that fucking bitch alone!”

“Is this the average loyalty of bandits?”

A secretive and bold maneuver that even Yeonjin couldn’t notice.

It was a moment to exclaim in admiration at the thirty-six strategies that were faithful to Sun Tzu’s Art of War.

Chae-ju’s expression, which had been filled with anger, turned into despair.

“No!”

“What can’t be done?”

Exactly the moment Yeonjin took seven steps.

As the accumulated conflict wore off, Chae-ju staggered and her head was blown off.

Roll, roll.

The neck that had been attached to Chae-ju’s body just a moment ago rolled on the floor, and the bandits that had poured down like a swarm of bees scattered again like a swarm of bees.

“Chaeju got hit!”

“Run away!”

Meanwhile, there wasn’t a single bandit who rushed to avenge Chaeju.

And Yeonjin didn’t feel the need to kill the bandits who had lost their will to fight and were running away, so she pushed away Chaeju’s collapsing corpse.

“This is all work, it’s work.”

Yeonjin grumbled and took out the fire extinguisher.

As I blew wind into the bamboo tube, a spark was lit.

The fire that had started to burn like that was spread to not only the fence but also to various buildings used by the bandits, and the pyrotechnics began.

After finishing the massive fireworks display that burned down an entire mountain vegetable, Yeonjin shook her hands.

“This is more of a hassle than I thought.”

Yeonjin turned around without any hesitation, taking in the sight of the dried-out wooden buildings burning.

Anyway, since Yu Ye-hyang and Seo Cheon-woo are waiting behind you, it’s not dangerous and it’s just a little bit of a hassle.

Daeungchae, one of the seventy-two Nokrimchae, burned down along with Chaeju’s death.

Complete downfall.

And starting with the fall of Daeungchae, three more Nokrim Mountain Cottages in the Hubei region were burned down within a few days.

In the process, there were five masters of the Nokrim, from the top level to the top, who were defeated by Yeonjin.

Including the Chopyeongchae, four mountain villages were destroyed and six masters were killed, so even if it was a large-scale defense force like the Nokrim Alliance, the damage was not small.

General Towang Jang-gwan was so angry at the increasing damage reports that he rolled his eyes.

“Did you hear that?”

“Is someone attacking the green forest?”

“You said four mountain vegetables were already burned?”

The rumor spread naturally because of the bandits who were scattered in all directions.

There is a rumor that a young boy with a talent that is beyond his years burned down four mountain villages in the Nokrim Forest by himself.

In addition, there was a rumor that the boy had learned the actual swordsmanship of Shaolin.

As the saying goes, a horse without legs can travel a thousand miles, and the rumor began to spread like a snowball.

The young swordsman’s fame was growing rapidly in proportion to the speed at which someone’s heart was breaking.