episode_0216

Whatever the external situation, nothing special happened in Seomhwachon. But even so, it was impossible not to prepare at all.

I sent a letter to Nam Chae-hyeon, the director of Changwoon Hall, through the postal mail.

A few days after I sent the letter to the person who had previously given me the Eight Immortals, his reply arrived.

If Do-ol, one of the four evil spirits, has awakened and is coming down from the north, Teacher Yu’s judgment will be correct. According to Taoist records, those who are untrained are bound to be influenced by powerful beings.

Still, the impact on the warriors and soldiers will not be that great, so it is good not to feel burdened. If you’re feeling uneasy, give the amulet I sent along to the amuletist in Seomhwachon to make the same thing. If you use that talisman, you will be able to block the effects of evil and evil.

I checked the enclosed amulet. It is an amulet that has never been seen in the bright moon of heaven.

It’s stable. Is this name because it can calm the mind and body?

As soon as I checked the amulet, I went outside with Chaejin.

“Where are you going?”

“I need to meet Changju.”

When I explained the contents of the letter I received from Nam Chae-hyeon, Chae-jin nodded with admiration.

Although Chaejin had a lot of experience in martial arts, he seemed to have little knowledge of areas such as Taoism and witchcraft.

“I guess you didn’t know that part either?”

“Haha. Just because I am doesn’t mean I know everything.”

There was no such thing as stability in the Heavenly Moon.

Perhaps because chaos had already taken root, people were accustomed to anxiety and violence even when they were not affected by evil or evil.

But things are different now, so we can’t use the bright moon as a standard.

After talking with Chaejin, I arrived at the government office and headed straight to Changju.

“Hmm? What are you doing?”

Normally, Changju would have been concentrating on using the talisman, but she was divining with an unusually serious expression. She was fiddling with the container containing the hexagrams and examining the hexagrams on the table, and raised her head at the sound of my voice.

“Welcome. What’s going on?”

“I would like to ask you to mass produce this.”

I held out the stabilizer and she glanced at it and tilted her head.

“I think this was written in Changwoon-kwan’s style. Did you have any connection with the governor?”

“We met briefly before. But is mass production possible?”

“It’s not impossible if you have the materials. Let’s see…”

She wrote down the ingredients she needed on a piece of paper. When I checked, fortunately, it was a product handled by a commercial store.

When I told him I would send it to him as soon as I got back, Changju nodded and focused on the hexagram he had drawn again.

“By the way, do you know how to do fortune telling?”

“It’s clumsy, but roughly.”

“What do you mean?”

Changju smiled bitterly.

“We looked into the future of the island village. Listening to the stories of the people who came to buy me amulets, I realized that the atmosphere was chaotic these days.”

“So? What are the results?”

“It’s not good.”

Changju spoke clearly and Chaejin’s expression frowned. Changju smiled at her.

“The future is not fixed anyway. Fortune-telling simply means seeing possibilities. However, the name Seomhwachon appears unclear in that possibility.”

Chaejin’s expression darkened at Changju’s explanation. That’s why I patted her on the back and said,

“It’s probably not exactly wrong.”

“Oh? Why?”

“Currently, steps are in progress to change Seomhwachon into Seomhwaseong. Therefore, it is natural that there is a high possibility that the name Seomhwachon will disappear.”

“Ah. Is that so?”

“And…”

If I fail, Hongseongsan Mountain’s spiritual energy will overflow, and neither the Iron Blood Emperor nor Daoul, who accepted it, will be able to leave Island Fire Village alone.

One way or another, the name Seomhwachon will eventually disappear.

“And?”

“Nothing.”

“The first of the two things that annoys people is stopping while talking.”

“If I have to explain it, there will be an attack from the Sanghyeuldan, and there is a high possibility that Dool, one of the evil evil men, will join in that attack.”

“Huh. Hongryeon talked about it, but it was Dool…”

Changju’s expression, who was close to Hong Seongmoon and seemed to be talking separately about this or that, also darkened. I smiled at her.

“Don’t worry. Because we have already prepared everything.”

After saying it clearly, I turned around.

“See you next time.”

When I returned to the guesthouse, I closed my eyes and thought. There were many ways to catch Dool in the Heavenly Moon. While I was thinking about the best fighting method for the current situation, Chaejin came up next to me.

“What are you thinking like that?”

“Thoughts on how to catch Dool.”

“You know that too?”

“Because there were many ways to catch Dool in the records. However, it will require a lot of power.”

“How much?”

well. At the very least, Hongseongmundo should all be on the side dealing with Dool.

I don’t think Dool ate all the monsters there. He will probably attack the island village using the monsters he has accepted as his subordinates. They will be comprised of the martial arts warriors of the Murim Alliance who are staying in Seomhwachon, the monster hunters who are based here, and the general warriors.

“Even if Sword Saint participates, all Hongseongmun have to attend?”

“Ah. That’s not it.”

The Sword Saint should stick to the side that deals with the Iron Blood Legion.

“…Uh. Why?”

“Because I want to reduce the number of people who are needlessly sacrificed.”

It reminded me of the last time I fought the new Black Dragon. Just like back then, my ‘if possible’ disease always hoped for the best outcome, even if it meant consuming a lot of resources.

What I want is to reduce the number of people who die as much as possible.

For that purpose, I was prepared to spend some of the assets I had accumulated so far.

You can save money, but you can’t bring back a dead person.

Chaejin stared at me and shook her head.

“Really. I always think it’s too much.”

” Planning strategies is the job of the wise man, and actually fighting is the job of warriors like you. Those who provide rear support cannot express dissatisfaction.”

“You can do that much.”

“Haha. If I don’t think it will work, I will do it.”

There’s no way you’d think it wouldn’t work, though. I laughed and Chaejin shook her head as if she couldn’t stop it.

I contacted the prefect and invited him to the office. Originally, it would have been right for me to go, but since there was so much information, it was better to talk about it here.

The mayor who came into the office sighed deeply at my opinion.

“No, let’s go through that trouble again?”

“You can rest after working hard. Hahaha.”

“Even if you like a person too much, there is a problem.”

“But you’ve already succeeded, right?”

“Queuuu…”

The Hyeonryeong groaned and then sighed deeply.

“That’s right. I understand for now. But this time, I’m not confident either.”

The county commander once again accepted my request to lead the battle in a way that minimizes manpower consumption and damage. That person is also a really nice person.

“If you need anything, we will support you.”

“Do you have a lot of money?”

“There is no such thing.”

“True. Then…”

At the last secret martial arts competition, talented people were selected as military officers. In order to raise them and use them as unit commanders, what was needed was proper martial arts skills and equipment.

“You can do anything with martial arts… but in the end, the equipment is the problem.”

Better weapons and armor.

And things like war horses.

The county commander said that there are defense facilities that have been prepared to elevate Seomhwachon to Seomhwaseong, so all you have to do is prepare them.

I thought so.

I placed the separate slip on his hand.

“…Did you calculate that I would need this much?”

“I thought so.”

“Huh…”

The Hyeonryeong smiled bitterly and stood up.

“Thanks to Teacher Yu, I will do my best.”

“If you want to go higher, shouldn’t you do that much?”

I smiled at the wise man.

“Lord Island Hwaseong.”

“If I become the lord of the castle, do you think Mr. Yu will remain as just a guest lord? I heard it from General Cheon. He said he will be promoted to government office soon.”

“Yes. What.”

“Be prepared.”

Laughing mischievously, he let go of his threat and walked out.

haha. I’m looking forward to that.

***

It was a night without even the moon.

A large man with strangely shaped tattoos on his face looked around.

What was in his hand was a wooden sword. He calmly walked with it and stopped at one point.

“Is that the center of the territory?”

Something was walking out of the darkness with a rough voice that sounded like stones were grinding together.

It was not a darkness created because it was night, but a darkness led by that hideous, ominous being.

The man slowly turned his head.

The being that led the darkness was a monster with a tiger-like body and a human head.

The man grinned when he saw the monster’s impressive body with sharp fangs exposed in its large mouth.

On the monster’s body, which was made of yellow fur, there was black fur, as if it had been there since birth, with a pattern that blasphemed heaven and revered evil.

It was Dool, one of the four evils.

Even though he was a monster, he was intelligent enough to use human language, so the man was not afraid even when faced with even more clever and vicious monsters.

He just slammed the wooden sword down on the floor without saying a word.

It was that moment.

The wooden sword turns red and begins to emit ferocity.

Dozens of stems slowly bloom from the wooden sword and a tree begins to form.

At the same time, Dool chuckled as the tattoos not only on the man’s face but also all over his body became darker.

“Going wild and absorbing corrupted spiritual energy to gain strength. Aren’t humans more like monsters than me?”

The voice was a mixture of ridicule and ridicule.

The man made a mockery of Do-ol, who was laughing like he was going crazy because it was funny how humans were trying to abandon themselves as human beings.

Mok Gwan-yeong, the iron-blooded tree, responded calmly.

“Stop making useless jokes. More than that, are you ready?”

“Ah. Yes.”

Dool smiled leisurely.

As the spiritual energy of this place disappears, confusion increases, and through this, monsters will appear.

One meal of your own.

“It’s soon.”

okay. It’s coming soon.

The Iron Blood Emperor laughed coldly as he thought about his strength, which had become stronger based on the spiritual energy he had absorbed from the north.

Soon.

He took the enormous spiritual energy of Mt. Hongseong that those idiots had left behind, and took it for himself.

It will lead the world into chaos.