episode_0077

“Wow, this has become quite troublesome. What’s the Vermilion Bird doing here?”

A chaotic battlefield.

A blue-haired man with sharp eyes leisurely observes the scene within the fierce battlefield, where “pandemonium” would be a fitting description.

The Great Sage Who Subdues the Seas, the Demon King Gyoma, clicked his tongue while looking at the collapsed Blazing Emperor Fortress.

Despite being some distance away, he could clearly feel the intensely burning flame of life, the power of its origin.

Of course, it had weakened compared to what he remembered, but it would be a difficult opponent for his current self, unless he was in perfect condition.

“Normally, I’d rush in with glee, but not now. I have a favor to fulfill, so let’s try to work hard.”

He brushed himself off and stood up, his eyes gleaming.

For this assault, he received the infiltration route to this place from a helper, and a large number of Beastmen Alliance members participated in the attack.

However, the forces present here are also formidable.

“It’s clear just by looking that we’re outnumbered. I wondered why they wanted me so badly, but now that they’re being pushed back like this, of course they’d want me. Kkya haha hat.”

Whoosh.

And so, a wave moved.

A wave like a natural disaster, something that human power could not handle.

A silently approaching wave that devours everything.

Kwakwakwakwang!!!

“Kyahahaha! Olay! Olay!! Kyahahahat!!!”

The Demon King Gyoma’s spear is wielded wildly.

Gyoma’s strong energy, reminiscent of a blue wave, indiscriminately sweeps across the battlefield, mercilessly slicing through enemies.

“Hiek?!”

“R, run away!!!”

The most natural power that a demon king possesses.

The power to overwhelm and subjugate others spread in all directions, and martial artists were seized with terror.

However, fleeing in terror did not guarantee survival.

Rather, those foolish individuals who chose the cowardly option of running were swept away by the waves of energy, their limbs pierced and bleeding.

“Is there no one who can stop me!!”

Shwick!!

“?!”

An invisible dagger flies towards the rampaging Demon King Gyoma.

A dagger with a threatening power that could send even Gyoma himself to the afterlife if he were hit in his current state, approached silently.

If it wasn’t Gyoma himself, he certainly would not have been able to avoid it and would have met his death.

Kaang!!

He barely managed to deflect the dagger with his spear, but Gyoma grimaced at the distinct tingling in his hand.

“Kheu…. What did this bastard throw? My hand is shaking from blocking it.”

“Are you the Great Sage Who Subdues the Seas?”

“Are you talking to me? That’s right. I’m the Great Sage Who Subdues the Seas, Demon King Gyoma. I’ve introduced myself, so you should too, right? Who are you?”

“I don’t think you would recognize my name even if I told you…. My name is Dang Seol-pung, the head of the Sichuan Dang Clan and the one known as the Venomous Paragon.”

The Demon King Gyoma raised the corner of his lips at the word “Venomous Paragon.”

One of the key figures he had heard about before coming here, and… his goal in coming here.

Having confirmed his target, Gyoma opened his mouth, relieved that he no longer needed to engage the Vermilion Bird far away.

“I see. So you’re the Venomous Paragon. I’ve heard a lot about you. I heard you’re quite strong, is that right?”

“Hmph…, well…. I am strong.”

Swish.

Dang Seol-pung said confidently and put both hands into his wide sleeves, hiding them.

This was the preparation stance taken by the martial artists of the Dang Clan when engaging in a serious fight.

It was a posture that gave the opponent a considerable sense of pressure, as they could not know what kind of hidden weapon might pop out from the unseen sleeves and target them.

Therefore, among martial artists, there was a famous saying that if a member of the Dang Clan hides their hands, they should immediately leave the area.

The Demon King Gyoma, who did not know much about humans or the Dang Clan, could tell that Dang Seol-pung was no ordinary person just from the previous attack, so he raised the corner of his lips and took a stance.

If he was in perfect condition, it might not matter, but in his current state, he would have his head pierced if he was careless when facing this man.

“…Come.”

“Kyahahahat! Come at me all you want!!”

Dang Seol-pung’s hand moved.

At that moment, a small light flashed, and the sound of something cutting through the air was heard.

‘Khuh, this bastard…. How many hidden weapons did he throw in that instant?’

The Demon King Gyoma smiled fiercely and moved his spear.

Kang! Kakakakang!!!

Strong energy like a blue wave collided with the hidden weapons wrapped in invisible energy, scattering into bluish halos like waves crashing against rocks.

In addition, Gyoma felt his arm tingling with each collision and took a step forward to close the distance.

“?!?”

Pabababababat!!

But at that moment, as if he had prepared a trap, even more hidden weapons than before poured down madly.

Kang! Kakakakang! Pubut! Kang! Kang! Kang! Puhpuhpuk!!

“Are you crazy! When did you set up all these traps here!”

“A master of hidden weapons should not spare any preparations to maintain distance from the enemy.”

He succeeded in blocking some of them, but he couldn’t block them all, and several hidden weapons pierced the Demon King Gyoma’s body.

And the moment the hidden weapons pierced the Demon King Gyoma’s body, the match tilted to some extent.

“Keuheok!….”

Poison spread instantly.

His body was already a mess, so the effects of the poison spread quickly, and blood flowed from the Demon King Gyoma’s mouth.

“I heard about you in the reports. You fought Jang Cheon-woo, a hero from another country.”

“That’s right…, it was quite fun.”

“I know his strength. I could also tell from your coughing just now that your condition isn’t very good after the fierce battle with him.”

Dang Seol-pung took a stance once more.

“You cannot defeat me. Great Sage Who Subdues the Seas, lament your foolishness in standing before me in such an imperfect state of health.”

Pabababat!!!

A rain of hidden weapons poured down at the same time.

What was most annoying was that the strong energy contained in those hidden weapons was not uniform.

Some were strong, and some were weak.

But there was no way to distinguish them, so he had to parry even the weak attacks with strong force.

Wasting the opponent’s strength little by little was the skill that symbolized the Dang Clan, who handled poison.

Kang! Titititing!! Teoeong!! Kaang!!!

The moment he gave even a little less strength to the spear that blocked the hidden weapons, the hidden weapons pierced through his energy and pierced his body.

And every hidden weapon that pierced his body contained a powerful poison without exception.

Even though he was harboring so much poison that an ordinary human would have died several times over….

“Kyahahahaha!! Good!! Good!!! I thought that hero was strange! But I was wrong!! There was another human like that! There was!”

“…Keuk.”

Rather, he began to rampage wildly.

Kwang! Kwang!! Kwangkwangkwang!!!

Blue light energy exploded.

Each time he swung, several hidden weapons were swept away by the waves of strong energy and bounced off.

At the same time, the Demon King Gyoma fearlessly approached Dang Seol-pung.

As if not caring about his own body, he rushed like a zombie who didn’t feel pain, not caring whether the hidden weapons flew towards him or not, as long as they didn’t hit vital areas like his head or heart.

‘Distance!….’

To create distance, he had to prevent the opponent from approaching.

To prevent them from approaching, he had to inflict pain on the enemy. Something like, ‘If you come any closer, you’ll really die!’

But if you threaten someone who cannot die with death, what meaning would that have?

Dang Seol-pung had no way to create distance from the Demon King Gyoma, who was rushing at him without caring about his own wounds at all.

“Heuep!!”

“Hoo?! Are you going to show me something?! What are you going to show me this time!!”

Therefore, Dang Seol-pung gathered all his energy in one place.

Green light, all of Dang Seol-pung’s energy gathered in one place and was contained in a single sharp hidden weapon.

“You’re trying to make up for quantity with quality! But if I just avoid that, then that’s it, right? You have a plan, right?!”

“Don’t worry. You won’t be able to avoid it easily!….”

A still incomplete technique.

But if he didn’t complete it here, he would die.

In that extreme situation, the Venomous Paragon took a step.

He took a step outside the realm of his stagnated realm.

『Venomous Paragon Secret Technique』

“One Life(一壽)”

Pheet!

The hidden weapon left the tip of the Venomous Paragon’s hand.

The Demon King Gyoma sharpened his senses and was able to confirm the start of that hidden weapon.

Perhaps it was because he had gathered his senses to the extreme, but the Venomous Paragon’s actions and the speed of the fired hidden weapon were too slow.

‘At this rate, it would be impossible to hit it. Then I’ll have to evade…, um?’

His body would not move.

No, to be more precise, the moment he normalized the time within his body to move the nerves in his body to move, he would not be able to handle the speed at which the hidden weapon was fired and would be pierced through.

‘Could it be?!….’

It was a hidden weapon that had surpassed human speed, accelerated to the limit, and reached the realm of the gods.

The extreme of an unavoidable hidden weapon technique.

‘This bastard!…, he was more crazy than I thought!!!’

“You bas!….”

Teoeong!!! Kwaaaaaaaaang!!!

“Be pierced.”

As if a bomb had exploded, it pierced the Demon King Gyoma’s body, and the strong energy exploded as it was.

Dang Seol-pung, having confirmed that sight, knelt down.

“Haa…, haa….”

In order to create extreme acceleration, he had to use all of his energy to barely reach it.

That’s why it was incomplete.

Once he used it, there was nothing he could do.

“Father!!”

“…Young Clan Leader?”

“Are you alright!”

At that moment, the Young Clan Leader rushed to him.

The sound of fighting around him had decreased, so had the situation been somewhat resolved?

“You really defeated the Great Sage Who Subdues the Seas! That’s a great achievement!”

“Yes. It is.”

“That won’t do.”

Pook!

“!”

“As expected…, you are strong, Father.”

And at that moment, Dang Seol-ryun pierced Dang Seol-pung’s heart with a small hidden weapon.

“You, bas! tard!….”

“Farewell.”

Kwang!!!

And at the same time, a dragon soared from the place where the Demon King Gyoma had been slammed.

Dragon King Ananta.

He revealed the Demon King Gyoma’s true form, but it was already too late.

“This is troubling. Great Sage Who Subdues the Seas. You should have finished off my father for sure.”

[He was stronger than I thought.]

“…Yes, he is. My father is strong.”

[So you stabbed your father after all.]

“Of course, I didn’t kill him. The Beastmen Alliance will need the Imuugi’s blood. Isn’t it necessary to have a gift to give to a friend who will rule this country of Yeom together in the future?”

At those words, Dragon King Ananta was silent for a moment.

Then he opened his mouth.

[Well, that’s none of my business. But I’ll have to eat that guy.]

“…What do you mean?”

[The damage is greater than I thought. For recuperation, the energy of an excellent martial artist would be enough for some emergency treatment.]

“So, you’re saying you’ll absorb my father’s energy to recover?”

[Yes. After all, even if he is dragged away by the Beastmen Alliance, he will live a life of humiliation while having his blood drawn. Don’t interfere, as this is my respect for your father, who put up a good fight.]

“…Do as you please.”

After all, he didn’t have the ability to stop Dragon King Ananta.

Therefore, Dang Seol-ryun stepped aside.

And Ananta opened his mouth wide and swallowed Dang Seol-pung in one gulp, then ascended straight into the sky.

“I’ll have to report that Father is dead. I’ll be busy from now on. I’ll have to firmly grasp the Dang Clan…, give some useful martial artists to the Beastmen Alliance to create the Four Poisons…, and rule the country of Yeom with that power…. I’m really going to be busy.”

And so, the massive assault that would later herald the beginning of the war between the Beastmen Alliance and the country of Yeom.

The Blazing Emperor Fortress overthrow incident was concluded.