Absolute Sword Sense Chapter 288

<Episode 94 He's Back (2)>

'That's it. He's back.'

Only one being came to Jo Seong-won's mind.

-Thump, thump, thump!

My heart raced at the sight of the black figure approaching, engulfing the eastern part of Songjahyeon Village in darkness.

When I first met him, I never imagined he would become such a monster.

But the sight unfolding before his eyes was enough to make anyone feel fearful of him.

“This can’t be happening!”

The elder disciple couldn't hide his embarrassment.

Dozens of open-air paraders running towards the east side of the street.

The open-minded people who had been raising their morale by shouting to forget their fears rushed into the darkness and soon collapsed like puppets whose strings had snapped.

I had no idea what was going on.

'How could this happen when I didn't do anything…'

The black shadow was just walking towards me.

However, none of the open methods that rushed in could get close and collapsed.

What's more suspicious is that the villagers who were there all turned around as if possessed and went inside the building.

Every time, the lights in the building went out.

Now it was only about thirty yards to the front of the house they were in.

“Ark! We must take action, either by running away or by confronting him!”

The elder doctor urged Jo Seong-won, who was lost in thought.

Jo Seong-won barely came to his senses at that shout.

'What should I do with this?'

It was definitely him.

If they were approaching like that, engulfing the eastern side of the village in darkness, they would have been furious.

If he had shown up at a branch of the Blood Cult, they might have thought he had betrayed them.

'…….Fuck.'

It was stupid to assume his death.

He was one of the Eight Great Masters and one of the Five Great Evils.

He was convinced that if there was no news from such a monster for seven months, then something must have gone wrong.

Of course, I didn't cross the line because I was thinking of an emergency.

'Is there any room for excuses?'

Even though I wanted to talk about something, it was an awkward situation because he came as a blood horse.

The means of openness do not know that they are loyal to him.

If you run to make excuses in that situation and get down on your knees, you will have to step down from your position as the ark's captain.

'If you run away…..'

That's the worst that can happen.

If that happens, he will be convinced that he has betrayed you.

Anyway, escaping is virtually impossible.

How can you escape from someone who uses the sword flying technique?

The elder doctor urged him on.

“The ark must be decided!”

Jo Seong-won bit his lips tightly.

'……There's nothing I can do.'

In any case, it was his fate to die in the scheme of the previous owner, Hong Gu.

It was he who made himself into this ark.

Since I had sworn allegiance to him as the leader of the Blood Cult, I was always prepared for a situation where I would have to give up my position whenever he wanted.

“Elder of the.”

"ark."

“Let’s go.”

The elder doctor thought that Jo Seong-won had made up his mind because of the voice that contained some kind of determination.

The opponent is a monster who has defeated all the enemies without lifting a finger.

There was no hope that just me and the Ark could do anything against such a monster.

As a member of the party, how could I abandon my colleagues?

You had to keep your beliefs even if it meant risking your life.

“It seems that the old man saw the ark well.”

Jo Seong-won's heart ached at the words of the elder doctor.

He himself was not going to fight.

But the elder doctor seemed to think that he was going to burn the last one.

'I'm sorry for disappointing you.'

He will kneel before him.

Otherwise, all means of openness will die here.

Jo Seong-won jumped down from the roof without saying a word.

And then I went out through the main gate of the house towards the east street.

The elder disciples followed him.

'It's a tremendous sense of pressure.'

I saw Inyoung walking in the darkness.

It was dark, but as we got closer, the face became clearer.

'Face?'

But it wasn’t the face of Jin Yun-hui that he knew.

It was my first time seeing you.

'Is it a human face mask?'

There was a chance that it was someone else, but that didn't seem to be the case.

He was the only one who could demonstrate the miraculous power of defeating enemies without even lifting a finger.

Although the elders were watching, Jo Seong-won tried to kneel down as he had prepared.

“Jo Seong-won……”

-thud!

'!?'

Jo Seong-won turned his head at the sound he heard from the side.

The elder monk was lying on the floor.

“Elder of the?”

Despite his calls, the elder monk did not even wake up, snoring.

I fell asleep in the blink of an eye.

It was the moment when Jo Seong-won turned his head in surprise.

-puck!

“Ugh!”

A flying kick to the stomach sent his body flying backwards more than a dozen feet.

It happened so quickly that I couldn't protect myself with my internal energy.

Jo Seong-won, who was rolling on the floor, vomited out a handful of blood.

'…….I've become stronger.'

It was obvious that I had reached the realm of superhumans.

However, he also constantly practiced the Hangryong Eighteen Chapters and reached the highest level by eating the spirit tablet that was given to the Arks of Openness.

I tried like crazy not to embarrass myself in the ark, but it felt like my whole body was going to shatter with just one kick.

'Was the master who climbed over the wall this strong?'

It was to the point where I was skeptical.

-Slurp!

Before he knew it, he appeared in front of him.

As I raised my head, I saw the bone structure of his face twist and change.

Soon, it became the face he knew.

'ah!'

As expected.

It was definitely him.

Jo Seong-won urgently fell to the ground, bowed his head, and shouted.

“A lowly believer comes to pay homage to the Blood Demon, the leader of the Blood Sect!”

A voice came to him as he was shaking his head.

“Why do you beat a hawk?”

I got goosebumps all over my body.

Jo Seong-won looked embarrassed and raised his head, trying to make an excuse in a hurry.

“My lord. Of course, you may misunderstand, but…."

-puck!

“Ugh!”

Before he could finish his words, his body was kicked in the shoulder and flew up, crashing into the wall of the empty house he was using as a temporary base.

-bang!

My whole body felt like it was going to crumble.

Jo Seong-won, who was pinned against the wall, barely raised his head.

Jin Woon-hui was walking towards him with a scary face.

At that sight, Jo Seong-won's face became dark.

“My lord, my lord!”

“Bite this hard.”

* * *

I sat on the porch of the empty house and looked down at Jo Seong-won, who was covered in bruises.

Jo Seong-won, kneeling, looked half-exhausted and out of his mind.

He was the one who got beaten up like this the day he first swore loyalty to me.

Memories of that time must have come back vividly.

“You really made it into a mess, my lord.”

Asong stuck out his tongue.

After beating up the guy Jo Seong-won and asking where Asong was, he brought her out himself, who had been detained in the warehouse of the house.

He didn't know Asong because he was going to the Ark's inauguration ceremony.

If there was even a single hair on Asong's body that was injured, he would have been more upset, but fortunately, he was unharmed.

“I hope that guy didn’t torture you or something?”

“Torture? They didn’t touch me in any particular way, they didn’t give me food or sleep, but that’s it…”

"what?"

When I raised my eyebrows, Jo Seong-won shouted in embarrassment.

“I really didn’t know!”

“Tsk tsk.”

I looked down at the mirror once more and clicked my tongue in disapproval.

The only reason it ended like this was because the guy didn't cross the final line.

The guy told me that he had leaked information to the Martial Arts Federation in advance, without intervening in their large-scale operation to wipe out the Blood Cult branches.

As a result, it seems that the branches of the Blood Cult that Jo Seong-won obtained information from escaped safely before being wiped out.

Of course, he admitted that he could not help all the branches.

-I've already made a hole for myself to live in.

I know.

At first glance, he seemed incredibly naive as a spy, but he has improved a lot since then.

All of this is probably in preparation for my return, if there's even a slight chance of it happening.

“Haa….haa….”

I looked at Jo Seong-won, who was constantly watching me.

It seems that they have gone to great lengths to avoid direct conflict with the Blood Cult while acting as an open ark.

-What would you do if you were really dead?

well.

I guess I was just walking a tightrope in the middle and observing the situation.

Even if I disappear, there are still people in our school who know the guy's true identity.

It was a situation where it was difficult to change one's mind rashly.

-Can you believe it?

It's annoying to see it halfway through, but the guy is an ark of openness.

Unless it was top secret, it was not something to be easily thrown away, as it could be used to obtain information about the Martial Arts Federation and, conversely, to disrupt information.

I stared at the guy, walked forward, stopped in front of him, and asked.

“Why did you leak information to help the branch people and then lie in ambush here to capture the believers?”

“……Openness also plays an important role in the Martial Arts Federation. If such openness is openly opposed to the conquest of the bloodline, or rather the main school, and does not participate, then suspicion will arise.”

“Was it to avoid suspicion?”

“I’m sorry. I wanted to give the impression that I was helping the Federation in some way.”

He spoke to me as if I had committed a mortal sin.

At this I chuckled and laughed.

And he reached out his hand towards the guy.

“You’re starting to look like a spy now.”

Jo Seong-won looked at me with trembling eyes.

“Master?”

“I should have punished you more for seeing the liver in the middle, but since you held your ground as best as you could, I’ll let this pass.”

"…….thank you."

-closely!

The guy took my hand with a relieved look on his face.

I helped the guy who was kneeling up to sit down on the porch again.

Jo Seong-won said that to me.

“I will return to the main school with my lord.”

“No. I have to continue to play the role of the ark in that spot.”

“……Is that true?”

“Is this a joke?”

If the guy who needs to control the opening moves with me, the utility decreases.

It would have been more useful to stay put and gather information like I did now.

“Why do you think I would have put all the means of opening up to sleep?”

"ah!"

Only then did the guy realize my intentions and let out a small exclamation.

I didn't put them to sleep to show off the power of the Jeongyo Hwanui Gyeong.

It's just that they didn't cause any harm because they were guys that had to be used.

And it might seem like he's just venting his anger, but the reason he made Jo Seong-won look like that was to make sure he wouldn't be suspected.

“We don’t have time, so let’s get to the point.”

“Now to the main point?”

“Before those sleeping beggars wake up, I need information on what has happened so far. Cut out all the useless parts and tell me the situation of our school and the Murim Federation.”

You need to know what happened in the past seven months.

Since the Song Ja-hyeon branch had withdrawn, the person in charge of the Ark of Openness was Jo Seong-won, who was in charge of the Ark of Openness, and was the right person to inform them of this right away.

The guy said this as if he was embarrassed by my order.

“I don’t know the details of what’s going on inside our school.”

I guess so.

Starting from the Yangtze River, a significant number of branches have withdrawn or been destroyed by the Martial Arts Federation.

It is difficult to get information about what is going on at the school unless you contact them directly.

'hmm.'

Actually, this was a question.

Too many branches of our church have been affected.

If it was one or two, then it wouldn't matter, but if the branch was hit by almost a third of the damage as Jo Seong-won said, then there must have been some kind of information leak.

Of course, Jo Seong-won strongly denied this and denied it.

'Who leaked it?'

Most of the traitors in our school have been identified.

But the fact that this situation has broken out means that another traitor has infiltrated the group, or that there really is a traitor within the group.

We'll be able to find out more about this once we return to our school.

“Just tell me what you know.”

At my words, Jo Seong-won carefully opened his lips.

“My lord… do you know that Iljon is dead?”

'!!!'

For a moment, I doubted my ears at those words.

Iljon is dead?

A unit of the Iljon Bloodshed Inspection System.

Excluding me, he was the strongest person in the school.

Before I disappeared, I was keeping an eye on the Taegeuk Sword Master Jongseon Jinin, one of the Eight Great Masters, at the border between Guangxi and Hunan provinces.

For a moment I was speechless with shock.

[I will dedicate my life to protecting the new church that you will create. Please allow me, an old man, to become its leader.]

What he said to me echoed in my head.

It was Iljon who said he would give me strength.

The news of his death was so shocking that my heart sank with sadness.

'……Is it my fault?'

Seven months gone.

I hoped that nothing major would happen in the meantime.

But I didn't know that something this terrible could happen.

Between the shock and sadness, anger began to well up deep in my heart.

-Ugh!

“Is this the Taegeuk sword?”

Jo Seong-won shook his head at my question.

I couldn't control my anger and raised my voice.

“Then who did that?”

“……Taegeuk Sword Master Jongseon Jinindo has also died.”

"what?"

What the hell is this?

It was thought that the Taegeuk Sword Master Jongseon Jinin of the opposing faction had killed Iljon, but he also died, so I don't know what on earth is going on.

What on earth happened in the past seven months?

To me who was dumbfounded, Jo Seong-won spoke in a meaningful voice.

“Both were killed by the most horrible murders.”

'!!!'

The worst of murder.

He is one of the five great villains known as the worst butchers.

ⓒ Hanjungwolya