Absolute Regression Chapter 204

Episode 204 You guys, be patient.

As the sword dance drama relieved the suffering of the frontline workers, money that had not existed before appeared.

“I forgot. I have some money saved up on the Continental Battlefield.”

“how much?”

“It’s about four hundred thousand nyang.”

“Did you collect a lot?”

The front line also revealed the secret language of the continental battlefield. Go-wol also took note of that and wrote it down.

The 800,000 nyang of fresh vegetables were added to the 400,000 nyang that Ilseon had saved up separately. Together, they had already collected 1,200,000 nyang. Then, Ilseon blinked with an angry face.

Switch to the second line again.

“You only gave us 50,000 nyang all this time, but you took 400,000 nyang all by yourself?”

Rather than feeling sorry, Ilseon looked like he wanted to say something in rebuttal, but Ah-hyeol was so overcome that he couldn’t say anything.

“Il-seon has more wealth. I know that he bought gold and hid it away.”

The front line couldn’t hide its embarrassment. It seemed like they were trying to pretend not to know about that gold until the very end.

As Yiseon scored with his own gold, Ilseon blinked nervously. The two began a war of blinking.

It’s the front line’s turn again.

“I was going to say something about gold too. Please do it for me!”

“That won’t do. If you feel wronged, don’t forget and take good care of it. Also, the second immortal might try to make a living with your assets.”

The first line completely gave up on property. The idea was that as long as they survived, they could accumulate as much money as they wanted.

“I have some land that I bought.”

“How many square meters?”

“It’s quite a lot.”

In fact, it was something that started out as a way to gain information rather than property, but the two were mistaken about the situation. From the Geommugeuk’s perspective, it was a welcome situation.

On the other hand, the more Ilseon’s assets came out, the greater Leeseon’s sense of betrayal became.

“Brothers are all alone!”

Actually, I thought I could eat it. But what makes me mad is that I ate it without saying anything.

The next line of defense refuted this.

“Don’t you know that it was thanks to me that you earned even 50,000 nyang? If it weren’t for me, you would be stabbed to death in a gambling house right now. Kyaak, shoo!”

It was a relationship built on loyalty, but it fell apart in an instant.

In this way, the two people revealed all the assets of the dead Samseon and Saseon. They only thought about how to look good to Geommugeuk and survive. Leeseon also had a desire for revenge, wanting to kill Ilseon.

With no more assets to show for it, Geommu-geuk pressed for a blood transfusion from the two people.

The two people who had been swearing at each other whenever it was their turn fell asleep.

Geommugeuk said to Gowol.

“Tomorrow morning, take the two of you and go around the battlefield and recover all the property.”

“all right.”

Until then, I was thinking of just leaving the two alive. The front line might have taught them the battlefield secret code incorrectly.

Geommugeuk asked the leader of Pungcheon.

“Please help me with the military tomorrow.”

“Okay.”

The leader of the Pungcheon sect nodded obediently.

“I thought you were going to swear at me? You even squeeze bad guys like this to make money.”

“Do you know how much Go-wol and I suffered with that money you squeezed out?”

“sorry.”

“I wasn’t trying to be fancy. I meant that the bad guy’s money was being put to good use.”

It seemed that with this infusion of fresh funds, the work of organizing an information organization could be completed to some extent.

“I heard from Gowol what kind of people those guys are. Why are you letting those guys sleep? Hang them upside down!”

“Okay, when you wake up I’ll start pulling out your fingernails.”

Of course, it was a joke. Any evil ends with death. That was the fixed rule of the sword dance. Not for them, but for myself.

After finishing his conversation with the leader of the Pungcheon sect, Geommu-geuk approached Kwon-ma. He was just looking up at the moon as if he didn’t care about this matter.

The swordsmen stood side by side and looked up at the moon together.

“Do you know what I felt during this trip? I’ve been living a life too immersed in martial arts. I’ve spent my whole life training, and my whole life fighting.”

One day, Geommu-geuk told Ian something similar. He told him not to live a life that was too focused on training. Kwon-ma is regretting that now.

“I just realized that this is the first time I’ve looked up at the moon for so long. Does that make sense? I’ve never seen the moon in my entire life.”

The gaze of the swordsman turned together towards the moon.

“Please enjoy life from now on.”

“That’s what I was going to do.”

If he could keep his word, if Kwon-ma could take a step back from his martial arts… … maybe he could really break the cliff. As life changes, so does martial arts.

* * *

The next day, Go-wol and the leader of the Pungcheon sect took Ilseon and Yiseon to the battlefield. The secret message he had given them was accurate. They found not only the money, but also the gold that had been entrusted to them, and organized and recovered other assets.

The front line amassed this much wealth in just a few years, which meant there were more victims.

Ilseon and Yiseon tried to say all sorts of things to impress Gowol, but Gowol did not listen to a single word. Instead, the person who spoke to them was the leader of the Pungcheon cult.

Of course, they pretended not to hear those words because they were just choosing unpleasant words like, “You’re going to the most painful hell of hells,” or “I made a bet on which of you two will survive.”

After most of the assets were settled, Geommugeuk sat the two people down in front of him again.

“Okay, so now I should tell you about Jeonju?”

Ilseon thought that his life or death would be determined by this answer.

‘You can’t tell everything! But you can’t show any sign of hiding it either!’

That was the point. The problem was that I didn’t know much about Jeonju.

‘How should I package this so that I can buy it?’

I glanced at the second line next to me. Still, I thought that since he didn’t know anything about this story, I definitely had to score some points here.

‘I can buy it. I have donated much of my wealth, and if you give me information about Jeonju, I will buy it!’

Ilseon took a deep breath and opened his mouth.

“I only saw Jeonju once.”

“when?”

“It was the first time I held his hand.”

“Do you know who he is?”

“I don’t know. There was a curtain between him and me, so I couldn’t see his face. But I knew one thing for sure. Judging by his voice, he was a man of considerable age.”

“I guess I’ll have to go find a man who looks quite old. How many of them are there in this world?”

Ilseon was embarrassed by the mockery of the sword dance and quickly added.

“The people that Kwon Ma-nim killed yesterday were Gwigeompalsu. Gwigeompalsu would never act only for money, so Jeonju is not just someone with a lot of money. He must be the head of a large sect or someone with great power.”

At that moment, Lee Sun blinked.

The front line spoke quickly.

“There’s no need to let go of the blood. He doesn’t know anything about Jeonju.”

“So what should we do? Do you have better information?”

At Geommugeuk’s words, Yiseon blinked his eyes even faster.

The sword dance subdued the first line’s blood and then released the second line’s blood.

Then, words beyond expectations came out of Lee Seon.

“I even spoke to the person in person, in a place without a curtain.”

Then, Ilseon, who had been subdued by Ah-hyeol, blinked and groaned as he tried to speak. It was a strong signal that everything he was saying was a lie.

“Tell me more.”

“It was the very day that I met him. I was waiting for Il-seon to come out from the coachman’s seat in the yard of the manor. After a while, Jeon-ju came out first. But I saw him bow his head slightly to the coachman as he got into the carriage. It was definitely a polite gesture.”

The front line was struggling and groaning so much that it even relieved his bleeding.

“That’s a lie! Why does Jeonju greet the groom?”

“It’s true. I saw it clearly.”

It got noisy when two people could talk at the same time.

“That’s a made-up story. If that had happened, you would have told me then. Why didn’t you?”

“What did you say? You think you were fooled by a servant like a retard? You think Jeonju is really like a coachman? Then what do you think you would have done? You would have beaten me up and told me not to do anything. Right?”

The front line couldn’t refute it, because that must have actually happened.

“You little punk! Where did you get your tricks from? Do you want to live such a cowardly life?”

“Cowardice? Where did that come from? Was it something made up from your dirty symbol?”

I motioned to the front line to be quiet, then spoke to the second line.

“Keep talking.”

“I even chatted with the groom while I was waiting. He was an ordinary person. He had a nice, round face and, oh! He had a tattoo on his chest. I happened to see him when he bent down.”

“What kind of tattoo is it?”

“It was a golden pig tattoo. It was so amazing to see a pig tattooed on a person’s body that I still remember that tattoo vividly!”

The front line stepped forward, as if they thought it was giving some important information.

“This guy is good at lying. Don’t trust him. He’s trying to survive by doing all kinds of things… … .”

Phew!

The first line that was in front of Lee Sun disappeared. His face was shattered by my blow, and he was lying in the distance like a corpse.

Lee Sun looked at me in surprise. Her shock soon turned to joy.

“I survived!”

He felt like he was flying.

“After all, that guy is the worse one. It’s right for you to die last.”

For a moment, Yiseon flinched. The meaning of dying later must mean later, when he gets old and old, right? But that was not the case. The eyes of Geommugeuk looking at him were cold.

“Please save me!”

“From the start, the four of you committed an act that made it impossible for you to survive. Just be satisfied with letting you go.”

“Who are you?

Phew!

Lee Sun flew to where the front line was and died.

The Sword Master had no hesitation in eliminating them. He did not expect them to reform, nor did he reveal his true identity to the Demonic Cult and give them the grand meaning of dying.

When I turned around, Kwonma was walking towards me.

“Weren’t you planning on taking down the guys behind it too?”

“you’re right.”

“But can I kill them all?”

“I figured out who was behind it.”

A round figure, a golden pig tattoo on his chest. A person I knew well before his return. Sometimes he was a coachman, sometimes a construction worker, sometimes a tavern attendant. He enjoyed hiding his identity. And at the same time, he was an extremely greedy person.

“I need my father’s permission to kill him.”

Kwon-ma was surprised by Geommu-geuk’s words.

“Who the hell are you?”

A person’s name came out of Geommugeuk’s mouth.

“This is Ji-saeng (池生).”

Kwonma immediately thought of one person.

“No way? The golden pig of the Apostolic Alliance?”

“Yes. That’s him.”

“He’s behind this?”

Kwon Ma’s expression hardened. It wasn’t because his opponent was a Jisaeng. It wasn’t because his opponent was a member of the Apostolic Alliance. It was because Jisaeng was a loyal subordinate of one person.

He is the most favored person in the Apostolic Alliance and the leader of the Extreme Troops, the elite organization of the Apostolic Alliance that only receives orders from the Apostolic Alliance.

The second in command of the Apostolic Alliance, Yeol-han.

Ji-saeng was one of the four most beloved followers of Yul-han. His subordinates swore loyalty and tattooed themselves on their chests. Ji-saeng is said to have tattooed a golden pig and sworn to make money that would never dry up throughout his life.

“That money ended up going to Yalulhan.”

Geommugeuk felt that fate had led him there, and not just because of this incident.

Wild.

He was the enemy of one person. He was a person with a deep connection to the Geommu Theater, and that person was Ma-ui.

The person that Ma-ui had asked to kill while practicing Shinan-sul was none other than Yeol-han. Although he hadn’t mentioned the name directly, Geom-mu-geuk already knew about it.

Yulhan killed his family in front of Ma-ui. Since that day, Ma-ui has lived only for the purpose of killing Yulhan. When he heard Ma-ui’s request, he had promised that he would act when he had the ability. Now, he felt that the time had come.

Kwonma noticed that I wasn’t going to give up.

“You can’t be rude!”

“Why not?”

“If you touch it wrong, war could break out.”

“There will be no war. There will be commotion and chaos, though.”

“You’re serious.”

In the past, the demon asked his father to kill him, but his father refused.

Because Yulhan, who had the absolute trust of the Apostolic Alliance, was a person who had more significance than just being a villain of the Sapa.

“I thought the mastermind behind this was the most evil. He hid in the dark and used his lackeys like Ilseon to suck the blood of the youth until he died. In a few days, Jisaeng will probably report that all the gods are dead. Then Jisaeng will create more gods and repeat the same thing. Even if Jisaeng dies, another Jisaeng will take his place.”

These are the exact kinds of people. They are the absolute evil that Geommugeuk thinks they are.

An evil that cannot be touched by the government and that ordinary people cannot even approach.

My father once asked me, “What do you think magic is?” At that time, I answered like this.

-I think it is our school’s unique belief to fight against absolute evil.

He believes that the great evil that even the sect cannot do anything about is the magic that he thinks of. He thinks that those evils should tremble at the mention of the magic cult. That is the Cheonma Singyo that he wants to create.

“If you were a normal person, you would have no choice but to step back and endure it. But we are not normal people, right? Don’t we have to endure it? The reason I trained and worked hard to the death was so that I wouldn’t have to endure it in times like this. Why should we endure it? Those guys should endure it. Stop harassing people and stop being annoying.”

Kwon-ma stared at Geommu-geuk without saying a word. Geommu-geuk also stared at him without saying a word.

Given his personality, Kwon-ma was the person who would respond best to this persuasion, but given his relationship with his father, he was also the person who would respond least.

Finally, breaking the long silence, Kwonma announced the end of the journey.

“Let’s go back to the church. This is the end of our farm trip.”

The journey that started suddenly ended suddenly. But the disappointment was over. Kwon-ma turned around on his big back and added something unexpected.

“All the demons will have to show up to get permission from the leader.”