Reincarnation of the Fist King Chapter 54

< The King of Fists Plays with Firecrackers with the Dead >

The black man they met at the inn and the brothers who killed the inn owner entered the old shrine cautiously.

The crew had already gathered. As the youngest quietly closed the door and sat down at the end, someone asked him a question.

“Did anything happen on your way here?”

The youngest responded calmly.

“Yes, there wasn’t any.”

A man brought a large map and laid it on the floor, and the leader said:

“Everyone, gather around.”

The leader explained, pointing to the map.

"The short-term objective has changed. Head to the hilly valley. Wait there, and when you see the later indexes returning to their respective forces after the Yongbongdaeyeon ends, kill them."

"yes."

“Since it’s a route that Pyo-guk uses frequently, they just let them go.”

"yes."

"There are at least three sects in the Murim Alliance that must pass through the Gureung Valley. Similar operations will unfold elsewhere. The Sword King has disappeared from his hiding place."

The leader looked around at his team members and said.

"Therefore, the operation to kill the later indices and throw the Murim Alliance into chaos is integrated with the operation to lure out the Sword King, who suddenly disappeared from his residence. Do you understand why the operation changed? The target is still the Sword King."

"All right."

"Of course, the Sword King won't confront us. We don't have the skills to do so. We just need to faithfully serve as bait. Wherever it is, if the Sword King sees Baekdo's junior, he won't ignore us."

The masters of the magic world gathered together and the operation to surround and destroy the top-level masters of Baekdo was carried out again.

It's a method of removing only famous masters and then disappearing again.

They were literally bait.

If successful, they would quietly bide their time, whether it was six months or a year, gathering information and preparing for their next prey. Since their target was the Sword King, their superiors had no reason to be concerned if they died in his absence.

The leader was about to say something when he looked outside the old shrine and put his finger to his lips.

“······.”

After a while, the sound of something passing in front of the shrine was heard.

It was a split second.

The leader nodded toward the youngest member of the group and headed outside the shrine. As the youngest member walked out, holding a broom beside the door, the leader spoke to the member who had accompanied him.

“You didn’t bring anything, did you?”

"no."

The youngest, emerging from the old shrine, looked down the mountain path to the left. Danwoo-seong, who had passed the shrine, was returning, but he hadn't yet noticed.

The youngest was sweeping away a spider web that had fallen from the eaves with his hand.

After a while, a rustling sound was heard in the thick forest, and Danwoo-seong suddenly appeared, leaning against a tree and looking at the youngest.

A young man was seen clearing cobwebs from an old shrine, and a carriage appeared to be carrying a token next to the shrine.

The youngest, who had been clearing away the cobwebs, returned to the old shrine and whispered to the leader.

“They’re watching openly. What should we do?”

“Is there one person?”

"yes."

The youngest turned his head back for a moment, looked at the approaching Danwoo-seong, and then reported back to the leader.

“Come here.”

The leader sighed.

"Why on earth? Myeongil and the three of you spread out and check outside to make sure no one else approaches, and Juhwan and the four of you kill them and then…"

At this time, the youngest spoke facing inward.

"Sir, I'm asking you all to come out. I'm not an ordinary man."

The leader stopped talking and stood up.

“Everyone, get out.”

The leader, who was walking, hit the head of the last member of the group who had joined.

puck!

“이 개새끼야. 뭘 달고 온 거야.”

I don't know the exact story, but I thought the two of them had an accident, so I hit them.

As the captain went outside, a young man was standing with his arms crossed, without a sergeant's sign.

The leader looked Danwooseong up and down and asked.

“What’s going on?”

Danwoo Seong looked at the faces of about ten people and replied.

“I was wondering what to do in an old shrine.”

The leader replied.

"We are the representatives of the Counter-Pyo State and the Strugglers. We were resting on our way back. It was a stranger's shrine, so I felt bad. If you're involved, I apologize. I could even give you some money."

Danwoo-seong deliberately spoke informally, nodding towards the downhill slope.

“I’ve got the money. I’m looking around the area because there are dead people in the inn down the street.”

The leader replied with a frown.

“The inn people? Well, it’s strange, but why would we kill the inn people?”

Danwoo Seong asked.

"Then, can you tell me where they belong? They all seem to be from the same gang."

The leader replied.

“I told you it was a countermeasure country.”

“This is the first time I’ve heard of the countermeasures office.”

“There are more than one or two countries. Do you know all the countries in the Central Plains?”

Danwoo Seong asked with his arms crossed.

“Why are you answering so harshly?”

The one who was truly prickly and rude was Dan Woo-seong. The tendons on the captain's forehead couldn't help but bulge. The captain sighed deeply and scratched his head. No matter how I looked at him, he wasn't an ordinary man. I thought he was deliberately picking a fight. He was even more enraged because he hadn't heard anything from his subordinates.

It was a situation.

Danwoo-seong said this while looking around at those who claimed to be the signatories.

“Who here ate noodles today? Hand?”

There was no way the guy who killed the innkeeper would have cleaned up the bowl of noodles.

Danwoo-seong asked again, observing the men's expressions.

"doesn't exist?"

The leader glared at the youngest as if he was going to kill him and then spoke to Danwoo Seong.

“······There isn’t any.”

Danwoo Seong looks at the leader······.

The leader, who had been retreating, took cover behind another member of the group and threw the wooden barrel he had taken out of his arms onto the floor. His entire body dispersed into black smoke and disappeared.

The leader swore at the place where he had disappeared.

“I said no. You crazy bastard. Kill me.”

In an instant, the crew surrounded Danwoo Castle. Danwoo Castle looked around at those he surrounded, thinking.

'They're different from back then.'

In his past life, all those he had faced were swordsmen. They were practitioners of different martial arts. As smoke rose from the wooden barrel, those surrounding him also began to swirl in black smoke before dispersing.

It was a magical art of the old demonic series that I had not seen in a long time.

The old magic technique deals with formations, illusions, illusions, clones, poison, soul capture, and stealth.

Danwoo-seong looked around and heard footsteps.

Perhaps because they were a trained organization, they heard footsteps coming from the north, south, west, and east simultaneously.

Several layers of perimeter defenses had been built.

The leader seemed to be widening the gap. Meanwhile, various weapons were being pulled out.

The sound of swords and swords being drawn was familiar, but there also appeared to be circular weapons and chain-link weapons. Judging by the situation, this meant there were secret weapons as well.

As someone rolled another wooden barrel onto the floor towards Danwoosung, the area quickly filled with black smoke.

Danwoo-seong, who was looking around, spoke as if making a request.

“I can’t see you very well. I understand, so don’t run away.”

Danwoo-seong checked the moonlight.

The moonlight was clear, so it wasn't a magical battlefield that bathed the entire area in illusions. It was a localized illusion.

It didn't matter if there was poison mixed in.

Because Danwoo Seong was clearly aware of the efficacy of Baeknyeonjeonghwasam after taking it himself.

At low levels, not being able to see enemies would be a problem, but once you reach a certain level, this doesn't matter much.

Anyway, the sound of footsteps, fluttering clothes, and moving weapons will replace the sight.

As the black smoke grew thicker······.

Danwoo Sung stamped his right foot on the ground.

It's a thunder leg.

Kwaaaaaaaah!

The ground Danwoosung had stepped on shook, and dust rose into the air. Then, black smoke billowed from the shockwave, and he charged at those who appeared to have their skin peeled off in places.

Let's erupt the brainwaves forward······.

The three flew through the air with a thud, then rolled on the ground, fully revealed.

The flying brainwave struck the old shrine and erupted with another loud noise. Danwoo Sung then released the bladed brainwave he'd wrapped around his hand in a large, semicircular motion. The thick, billowing black smoke split evenly into two. In the meantime, two men's heads were severed and blown away, and someone, a sergeant, was killed.

I blocked it with a rope and rolled around on the floor.

Danwoo Sung reached out and pulled, and a sword blade appeared as if sucked into the air. Then, Danwoo Sung's fist flew towards his opponent's face.

The opponent is sent flying backwards as the face is hollowed out into the shape of a fist.

Danwoo-seong nodded, then grabbed the wrist of someone who had pushed past his shoulder and twisted it while injecting brain energy into him.

“Kuaaa …

As a scream erupted and a man appeared, Danwoo-seong dragged his wrist and stepped on his neck with his right foot.

Stop.

Then, Danwoo-seong soared into the air.

A bunch of dark weapons passed by with a whizzing sound, then struck the bodies of those engulfed in black smoke with a thud.

Danwoo Seong, who had landed on the ground, moved while watching the direction in which the dark energy had flown.

“Don’t run away.”

Then, Danwoo Seong, who had been using his lightning-quick technique, heard the footsteps of the person running away and chased after them for six or seven steps before kicking a rock on the ground.

As the stone flew through the wind, a man fell with a thud!

He was the leader.

The fallen captain suddenly stood up and pulled out the dagger at his waist.

Then, as soon as Danwoo-seong caught the iron chain flying from the right, he pulled it while injecting brain energy, and as soon as he grabbed the head of the man who flew at him, he blocked the dagger thrown by the leader with the back of the man's head.

Phew!

The leader ran away again.

Somehow, the sight was similar to the sight of the Black Swordsman running away.

As soon as Dan Woo-seong pulled the dagger out from the back of the dead man's head, he threw it at the chest of the fleeing captain.

The moment the dagger's blade flashed and shone due to the lightning, it pierced the captain's chest and flew for a long time before it was embedded in a thick tree and trembled.

Danwoo-seong looked back.

The survivors were breathing heavily. Most of them were injured. Some had been cut by blades, while others had one side of their bodies paralyzed by the brainwave.

The black smoke had already dispersed, and they had no internal energy left to maintain their illusions.

The moonlight was still shining down on them.

Under the moonlight, Danwoo-seong trampled the wounded to death.

Thud! Thud! Thud······.

While he was performing a confirmation kill, he found a young man struggling in pain and said this to Dan Woo-seong.

“I ate the noodles. I originally planned to just eat the noodles······.”

Danwoo Seong looked at the young man from the magic world and replied.

“Okay. Where do you belong?”

The young man said with a smirk.

“Us? We belong to Gangho.”

Danwoo-seong's foot landed on the youngest's face.

After the last thud, the surroundings became quiet······.

After Danwoo-seong knelt down, he quietly listened to the surrounding sounds.

I was eavesdropping on the breathing of survivors and the footsteps of those fleeing.

Danwoo-seong got up and walked among the corpses, then came out of a broken old shrine with a map in his hand and examined it under the moonlight.

There was nothing displayed.

The bodies contained only small change and a flare. However, upon examining each body, I discovered that each one was carrying a flare.

'They're bait in operation.'

Danwoo-seong collected all the flares the corpses had, put one in his bosom, and looked up at the night sky with a bright moon.

I was thinking of playing with firecrackers by myself.

Firecrackers were fired in various directions in the hopes of causing the operation to be cancelled.

One room to this sky.

One room to the sky over there.

One room back, one room forward.

Fireworks flew in all directions, lighting up the night sky with a booming "bang bang bang bang." A moment later, Danwoo-seong set off flares indiscriminately in all directions, then watched the fireworks with Madou, who was watching from somewhere.

The fact that the flare exploded in such a mess was also a signal that all the baits were dead.

<The King of Fists Plays with Firecrackers with the Dead> End

ⓒ Eugene Sung