I Reincarnated as the Crazed Heir Chapter 55

Episode 55: Good Nutrition

The headquarters of the Myunggyo is Cheonsan. There is no one in the world who does not know this.

However, the reason why the subjugation failed time and time again was because it was impossible to find where it was staying among the numerous peaks.

There was once a foolish general who led a large army from the royal palace all the way to the deep mountains.

He was not stupid to begin with. He requested the emperor to launch a campaign to suppress the Ming sect and received support from an army of 80,000 men to launch the campaign.

We mainly explored the northern part of Cheonsan, where the Myunggyo mainly appears, with a reasonable possibility in mind.

Many of the horses collapsed from exhaustion, and the soldiers suffered from hunger and cold.

‘They must be there. Don’t hesitate. Walk, walk! For His Majesty the Emperor.’

However, whatever his confidence was, he pushed on without looking back, confident that he would be at the highest peak.

And the moment when the will finally reaches its end and the summit is reached.

‘Isn’t this the mountain?’

He made an unprecedented remark and the 80,000-strong army was annihilated.

Of course, much of this story has been told countless times, and much of it has probably been reduced.

But one thing was certain.

‘If I hide here, even a million troops won’t be able to find me.’

The beauty peak that unfolded before my eyes was truly mystical and unique.

The thick fog surrounding us swayed as if it were alive, almost as if it was tempting us to come closer.

“Everyone, be extremely careful. Entering the fog zone is absolutely prohibited.”

The shouts of Danjiho, who was walking in the lead, rang in my ears.

This was already the third time. That much fog was a target of attention.

The role of the rope received at the outpost was also related to this. Starting from the front, the rope was stretched out to the last member of the group, and all members in between wrapped it around their hands and walked.

This may be to prevent any possible departure.

Perhaps the Tomb of the Sword is also a memorial to those who were lost in this fog.

‘I can’t feel any movement.’

Even if I raised my whole body’s senses, the moment I touched the fog, it bounced off as if I was blocked by a wall.

Even though I had reached the realm of the flower world, I had no idea what was inside.

It was accurate to say that it was uncharted territory.

“Never touch it. Never deviate from the designated path!”

As we climbed, the slope got steeper and the fog obscured the path in a jumbled manner.

If you had just climbed straight up, it would have taken less than an hour, but now you have to walk in a zigzag pattern, and there were many cases where you left the path and just stuck to the rock face.

At some point, the once bright sunlight was swallowed up by fog and became as dark as the wilderness.

“I’m staying here tonight.”

After climbing for quite some time, Danjiho finally stopped in front of a cave located halfway up the mountain.

As I looked around, I saw that most people had let go of their ropes and were slumping to the floor.

He looks obviously tired, perhaps because he had to concentrate a lot.

“Your Majesty, are you okay?”

Danyarang approached him with an embarrassed expression and asked. Judging from the slightly bloodshot pupils, it seemed like he had had quite a hard time.

“I’m not a woman, and this is the first time I’ve been tempted by a mountain peak.”

When I bring up the subject lightly, Danya bursts into laughter and sits down.

“You want to touch it, you want to enter it. It constantly tempts you, so it’s called the Peak of the Lost Woman.”

“Well done.”

He sat down next to me with a sly smile. He said it lightly as a joke, but it wasn’t a lie.

As I looked down the path I had come up, I could see at a glance the fog swallowing up even the darkness.

It was so obscured that it was impossible to guess how it had come up.

“Was the Beauty Peak like this from the beginning?”

“well…….”

Danyarang said she had no memory of ever living here.

When he was discovered by the Mu-geom-dae, he was in a deep sleep, and it is said that he was taken in by the princess’s kindness.

Even though his memories are limited to the Mugeumdae, he was treated as a foreigner, so his life must have been uncomfortable.

I patted Yarang’s shoulder, who smiled bitterly, and didn’t ask any more questions.

“It’s meal time!”

At the entrance of the cave, Jo-won waved his hand and shouted. Although his voice was quite loud, there was no echo in the mountains. Even that seemed to have been swallowed up by the fog.

“let’s go.”

“yes.”

I headed to the cave with Danya.

As I got closer, I could see recessed marks here and there, as if the ground had been dug up.

“What are you doing?”

When I asked the assistant standing next to me, he didn’t answer and just looked at the hole and stamped his feet.

I frowned and looked around. Everyone had a similar reaction.

After a while.

“shit…….”

Shigang rose from a deep hole, venting his discontent.

Judging by the foul words pouring out of his distorted face, it seems like something is not going as planned.

“Are you short on food?”

When Danjiho asked with a hardened expression, despair appeared on everyone’s faces.

Come to think of it, I hadn’t brought anything except a sword for a two-day stay. Not even the common drinking water.

“Boss. It looks like you little badgers have all been taken advantage of.”

Danshikang spoke with a very serious tone. Then sighs began to spread from all around.

“Ah… … I guess I’ll have to starve for two days.”

“I have really bad luck.”

Why are you looking at me when you have no luck?

Let’s take a look at the reaction. It seems like everything is resolved within the training at Miinbong Peak.

It seems like the hidden badger was the main food.

“What do we do now, Captain?”

Everyone turned their attention to Danjiho. There was also an expectation that he would definitely find the answer.

Slowly his mouth opened.

“… … Everyone has no choice but to get enough sleep and delay fasting as much as possible.”

Is that all? Are there no other options?

Despite Danjiho’s absurd remarks, everyone swallowed their regret and collapsed on the floor.

I was so dumbfounded that I grabbed Danjiho and asked him.

“Is that all?”

“… …What more did you expect?”

“Is there anything to eat when I go up?”

“Miinbong is a high mountain and the cold is so intense that it would be difficult for even a single tree, let alone a cub, to survive there.”

“so?”

“Of course there’s nothing.”

Danjiho spoke with an annoyed tone, as if asking why he kept asking.

“So you’re telling me to train in the cold for two days while starving?”

“There is no one in the assassination squad who would die from starvation for two days.”

“It’s dangerous training.”

“It’s something that can be overcome with a strong spirit and inner strength. Do you think you climbed without that much confidence? It’s ridiculous.”

When I see you smiling, I am not in my right mind. I am ignorant and reckless. If you fast for a long time, your body’s metabolism will collapse and it will affect your original energy.

Especially in mountainous areas where the cold is severe, your vital energy will be consumed even faster.

So isn’t it basic to bring at least a wall clock?

It may seem odd, but as someone who studied medicine, it was something I simply could not understand.

Since ancient times, the meaning of training has been not in enduring extreme situations, but in finding a method.

I shook my head and approached the pit.

“What are you doing now? Didn’t you hear what the captain said to get some sleep?”

When I look back, Dan Taeyong asks while wiggling his cross scar.

“Let it be, it’s funny. Someone who used to eat five-flavored pork all day long says he can’t stand hunger no matter what. Do you know? He might find something all night long. Hehe.”

Danshikang was talking next to me, and the eyes of the crew members were filled with contempt and ridicule. Even the tongue-clicking tone sounded unpleasant.

But I didn’t care and jumped into the pit and said calmly.

“Yeah, I found it.”

“What, what?”

People around him were startled and ran towards him. Danjiho also opened his closed eyes and ran out.

“Hey, no way… … .”

“Death penalty, right?”

“f*ck. There really was nothing.”

Danshikang waved his hand and said no to Yeokman and Danbong, who were looking at him with suspicion.

And when he came towards me and stuck his head out, I raised my hand towards his face.

“Wow!”

Danshikang shouted and took three or four steps back. And in that place.

“Swoosh, swoosh!”

Layers of red and black, a devil-like, angular face, and a black tongue cut off in the middle.

I was holding in my hand a poisonous snake that was so nauseating that just looking at it made me sick.

“Uh, crazy… … . A human-faced snake… … !”

Although badgers are natural enemies of snakes, it seems they were unable to stop the venom of the snakehead.

This is probably why Danshikang said, “I was hit” rather than “I didn’t have it.”

“Hey, what are you doing now?”

Taeyong asked me, even stammering his words, unlike before.

Not only that, everyone’s faces are filled with shock.

“What are you doing? I found something to eat.”

“Put that… put it down quickly.”

“why?”

“Put it down and talk. No, kill me. Quickly!”

I blink and look around. Everyone is slowly approaching me while keeping a distance from me.

“If you’re hungry, go down and catch some. There’s a lot down there.”

“no way……?”

Danshikang ran over and examined the hole, as if he had been shocked.

At some point, the pit was filled with human faces, and it looked like rippling waves.

“I, I… I would have blocked it with a rock?”

“I cleaned that up.”

“Uh… … Why?”

“You should eat something.”

“Come to your senses now… … huff!”

When Danshikang rushes towards him and thrusts his face again, he gets frightened and steps back.

How can someone who is known as a scholar of a famous school be so scared of a small thing?

“Little Leader… … The poison of the Inmyeonsa cannot be tolerated unless it reaches the extreme level. If you are bitten… … In less than half an hour, your internal organs will melt and your entire body will emit poison, leading to death… … .”

As Dan Ji-ho continued to ramble on about things he already knew, I cut him off, stuck out my chin, and said.

“Give it to me.”

“… … What are you talking about?”

“The string I brought earlier. Give it to me.”

Danjiho looked at me with a puzzled look, but I waved my hand with a serious expression. Then, as if possessed, he handed me the string.

As soon as I received it, I wrapped my arms around the snake’s neck and said:

“Venomous snakes produce venom from the sac glands in their jaws and squirt it out through their teeth. Among them, the human-faced snake can be made into a pretty nutritious meal if you tie its head for a short while, as its venom quickly drains away. Well… … .”

I pulled the string tightly while everyone watched.

Then the human-faced monk’s head swelled up to the size of a fist, and his eyeballs popped out.

At the same time, he stuck out his tongue and dripped poison with an even more hideous appearance.

Phusssss.

A terrible, stomach-puking stench spread.

“It doesn’t smell that good though.”

“Ugh… … .”

“Whew!”

Most people just frowned and didn’t react at all, but some faint-hearted people retched upon seeing the human-faced people huddled together in the pit.

“Right now… … You want me to eat something like that?”

Danshikang muttered as if he was in a state of disbelief.

Crack! I took a big bite of the human-faced snake’s head and chewed it. Crack, crunch.

“omg!”

Gulp. I answered with the corners of my lips raised, wiping away the dark red blood on the corners of my mouth.

“Why? Are you scared?”

This is a battle of pride between the Myunggyo Cheoksaljo and the Murim Alliance’s Pungryongdae.

Pungryongdae ate more too.

“Ugh, huff… … . No way… … . That’s just… … . Go get him.”

“Ugh! Me? Why? I’m not hungry. I can stand it.”

“Hey kid, if you tell me to go and get him, then get him! We are… … a squad of assassins.”

“No, shit! But that’s a bit… … .”

“Shut up and catch it all!

Whether crying or roaring, when Danshikang looked up at the ceiling and shouted loudly, everyone pulled out their Sling swords and started to catch the Inmyeonsa in the pit.

I shrugged, took another bite, and said,

“The special dish is good. Enjoy your meal.”

Crack. The sound of it snapping was refreshing.

“Ugh… … f*ck… … Cult leader… … You vicious bastard… … Ugh!”

I also hear words of thanks every now and then.

That’s how the first night of Miinbong passed.