Chapter 67 – Hwajeongmuk

A 35-story building, the main building of Golden Bird in the middle of Seoul.

Kwaaang-!!

The huge building was slowly collapsing with a series of explosions, barely maintaining its basic structure.

What’s happening?!!
Kyaaak–!!
Did a monster come?!
Shit! What is the association doing…!

It is reminiscent of a civil war scene. Fortunately, evacuation drills were in place as this was the era, so there were few casualties.

When all the crowds dispersed, the only thing left at the scene of destruction was the Awoken who were confronting each other at a distance of several tens of meters.

Oh oh oh…

Balto, starting with Yang Ha-yeon.
Karun’s elite and the president of the association, Lee Man-seong, were urgently summoned.
And even Yeongmu-mun, who signed a defense contract with the Chinese Federation.

The atmosphere is shaken and the surrounding buildings are crumbling due to the clash of deaths between SS-class Awakeners, who are called superior one by one, and non-rankers.

Even now, in the building, large concrete fragments could not overcome gravity and fell, making a mess in real time, but no one here cared about it.

‘Things went wrong.’

Anghyayeon grinded his teeth.

Dozens of warriors wearing uniforms with a mountain range symbolizing the unified Yeongmumun on their chests.

Before her party waited nearby and took action, the soldiers of Yeongmumun came out of the basement of the building and slaughtered all the remnants.

If this continues, Balto’s settlement in Korea will become difficult.

‘It’s not just that.’

Yang Ha-yeon turned her gaze to the burly warrior in front of her with her arms crossed arrogantly.

“So you’re saying that Yeongmu-mun won’t back down after all?”

“Yes.”

“Even before the connection with the central world, the owner of this land is Korea. Now you guys are breaking the conventions of the guardianship contract.”

“Where is the origin of the blood? History changes depending on the interpretation of the event and where the perspective is placed. And in the multifaceted interpretation, it is the victorious politician who dominates the majority that ultimately determines history.”

‘These bastards…’

Hwajeongmuk, Ryucheong’s brother-in-law, and the representative of the rankers dispatched from Yeongmumun to the Chinese Federation, his teeth were gnashed at the endless arrogance of his words and actions.

In other words, he judged Korea not as a country but as a provincial city of the Chinese Federation based on an arbitrary interpretation.

And according to that judgment, it is not against the custom for them to stay in this land.

“It is also us who killed those unknown bugs. Yang Ha-yeon We are not your guild. We have this justification.”

Yang Ha-yeon wanted to rip off Hwa Jeong-muk’s mouth, who laughed and spit out sophistry, and pulled out the heads of Ryu Cheong and Ahn Geon-soo, who was hiding somewhere.

‘It’s a shame that I can’t do that…’

However, they have a long enough history to be able to assert their innocence even in Pango. The central world must have a huge infrastructure to match it.

If it was an enemy of that level, it would be okay to consider it as a rite of passage as Balto with the existence of Yuchun, but there are more gigantic enemies with accumulated silver circles such as Masacre, Black Seonja, and Hyeongseong in the wings.

In a situation where no instructions were delivered from the wing command, it was a big issue to arbitrarily initiate action.

“And did you say Balto? It doesn’t seem like a guild in this land, I haven’t heard of it, but it must have been based in the central world. If you didn’t sign a guardianship contract, wouldn’t it be you who should step down?”

‘He talks a lot of bullshit.’

What is the history and what is the cause? After all, the reason for such an irrational confrontation is the difference in power.

Taking her Yang Ha-yeon’s silence as her tacit approval, Hwa-jeong-muk laughed at her and turned her head to Man-seong Lee, who was silent with her eyes closed.

“What does the president of that association think?”

Hwajeongmuk, who seems to be less than forty, considering that he is an outstanding awakened person, but there was no respect in his tone.

Hwajeongmuk’s attitude of ignoring the position Manseong Lee held in this land and the minimum ethics had already concluded that they were predators.

“…”

– What are you thinking?

Yang Ha-yeon heard her insult and sent a telegram to Lee Do-gyeong, who was silent with her eyes closed.

– His words are sophistry, but he is not wrong. An era of chaos. People are more likely to choose survival over national identity. If we can’t solve it properly here, the Chinese Federation will try to swallow this country with Youngmumun.

-…

-I still don’t know how this happened. I’m just guessing what’s going on in your wings.

For him, the current situation was just embarrassing. That’s why Yang Ha-yeon couldn’t say anything at Lee Man-sung’s accusatory transmission.

-Unless you come up with an appropriate solution, as the president of the Awakened Association, I can only choose one thing.

-What do you mean?

– Take your time. In the meantime, bring me an answer.

It is common in the central world for the vested interests of a region to sign a contract with a transcendental person in order to survive. This is also in the same context.

Even if you don’t like the existence of Yuchun since you built a nest in this land, Manseong Lee has to wait for an answer about this situation.

After clearing all his thoughts, he opened his closed eyes.

“The transmission was quite long. Okay. Are you done talking?”

That confident attitude that the answer was fixed was very intrusive, but Lee Man-seong decided to put up with it for now.

“What do you want?”

“Hmm. He didn’t look like such a stupid old man…Did he not understand what I said?”

“I got it. That’s why we want to negotiate.”

“…”

“From my point of view, you are illegal residents, but as long as you have the cause of defeating the villains who attacked Seoul, I will give you the upper hand in negotiations. However, if I wished for more… I would not be able to return safely from this land.”

Lee Man-seong is the president of the Awakened Association. No matter how much I endured it, I had no intention of giving up everything and giving up even the minimum dignity that the state should have.

“Is this old man crazy?!”
“Do you know who we are?!”
“Stop.”

In response to Lee Man-seong’s near-provocation threat, the warriors of Yeongmu-mun took a posture as if they would attack at any moment, but at Hwa-jeong-mok’s beckoning, they returned to their original positions as if nothing had happened.

Unlike mercenaries who have a lot of freedom in coming and going, Lee Man-seong narrowed his eyes at the appearance of an organization with a clear hierarchy.

‘Is it true… That it’s a historical no-nonsense…’

“Haha! That cheekiness. Originally, I would have hit the sutra, but let’s skip it this time.”

‘That’s funny. It won’t pass.’

In the place where Hwajeongmok’s eyes were directed, there was a man with a full body of black who was looking at the rolling masked head with a distraught expression.

‘I don’t know who he is, but… Thanks to him, things didn’t go to worst.’

Yurhim. A high ranker who was counted as the 8th sword of Berenduke, the sharp momentum that he unconsciously exuded made it impossible for the warriors of Youngmumun to act recklessly.

No question It’s a good word, it’s a traditional family. After all, it’s just a group of butchers that go out well. No matter how formal he pretended to be, he couldn’t hide the vulgarity of a wild, raw, weak-willed diet.

In fact, without him, Hwajeongmok would not have been just spitting out words. Given the ranker’s superiority in numbers, he might have used force right away.

“Then let us state our requirements as a condition of resigning.”

“It’s a condition for leaving…”

That’s not even funny. After all, isn’t it like admitting that being here is wrong? It was clear that Hwajeong-muk knew that too, seeing as he smiled as he twisted the corner of his mouth.

‘They see us as water.’

“First of all…”

Excluding the small things, there were a total of four requirements that Hwajeongmuk said. And Lee Man-seong’s eyes became cold when he heard the conditions.

“Do you think we will accept those conditions?”

“Where is the problem with this proposal?”

“Everything. Every single thing you said matters.”

1. Designate Incheon as an independent safety zone where extraterritorial rights exist.

2. Contribute to the stabilization of the China Federation, an ally.

3. Add your strength to killing the named turtle dragon sleeping in Harbin.

4. Activate exchanges between academy students.

“It is clearly revealed that he will take the dark side of this land and steal the present and future of the Awoken people.

The Chinese Federation, which has taken control of Incheon with the help of the Golden Bird, will turn this country into a mess in the shadows, and will place its awakened people on the front lines against the numerous monsters that exist on the continent.

That would include the academy’s elites, who are still learning for a long time.

The word is an ally, but this is no different from treating a vassal state.

However, negotiation is a process of discussing what to add and what to subtract.

– Chairman of the Association, please be patient. I got a call from wing command.

There, just in time, came the long-awaited answer.

‘Patience is my specialty.’

Lee Man-seong thought that if he waited for a while, he would not have to listen to such a fucking sound.

That is until Hwajeongmuk opened his mouth indifferently.

“That is the sorrow of a weak country.”
“…What did you say?”
“It means to be grateful for being recognized as a nation and to accept the proposal. If it weren’t for the alliance of the country ruled by the priest…”

Hwajeongmuk looked up and down at Yang Hayeon, who was concentrating on the terminal, and gave a gloomy smile.

“It wouldn’t have ended just like this.”

“…”

Yes, these are the Central World bastards. Those who endlessly put down the opponent the moment they stigmatize them as being weaker than themselves…

I had forgotten about it because I had been away for a long time. That way of thinking, regardless of good or evil, is very natural there.

Koo Goo Goo…

A heavy mana soared from Lee Man-seong, who had no intention of enduring this level of insult.

At the same time, the will to fight, which had subsided once, rose.

“Old man…What are you doing?”

“What? It means I won’t listen to the stories that will make your ears rot. So when you put out the agenda and let go, go back quietly.”

Hwajeongmuk frowned at Lee Manseong’s murderous, gloomy voice.

“…That uncivilized people who dare to oppose our Yeongmumun…”

“Shut up, Liu Cheng’s henchmen.”

“…What?”

“Why not? Isn’t it proof that you are wiping the back hole of Liu Qing, who is inferior in terms of skill and distribution, but is not even from Pango?”

“…”

Lee Man-seong’s gaze, which contained Hwajeong-muk, contained a clear sense of ridicule.

Lee Man-seong did not give up his patience without thinking. It was because she had already completed her analysis of the person named Hwajeongmuk through a conversation that was not like a conversation, and decided that it was okay.

“I pretend to be crazy, but in reality I am ignorant. But the pride of being a monk is great.”

At first, I thought he was the kind of person who uses his brain, but just seeing that he makes a proposal that doesn’t even look like this without hesitation, he has no intuition to look at the situation.

It is highly likely that what he said plausibly so far was Liu Cheng’s scenario.

In addition to that, excessive meaning is given to the forces to which they belong.

“Isn’t that why you were abandoned by your master? To be used as a chess word for priests.”

Such blind Patriots are also excluded from the organization.

“You…”

Hwajeongmok, who was stabbed in the middle, hardened his complexion.

Lee Man-seong knows Liu Cheng. There’s no way that sneaky bastard couldn’t have foreseen this situation. In other words, he must have intended to use his death penalty as a sacrifice in the first place.

And there must have been permission from his teacher, Yeongmumunju. It’s like using it in moderation and throwing it away.

‘What they want is not Korea, but the seeds of conflict that Youngmumun can invade in earnest on the dimension of Earth. And the ultimate goal is…’

“Hwa Jung-muk, but you play a fairly important signal flare. What a sacrifice of independence from Pango. Isn’t it the perfect role for you who blindly believe in Samun?”

One of the typical ways to devour lesser dimensions seen in the central world.

It’s not that uncommon to move a nest out of the world of the deceased as strong and strong as it is.

“This guy!!”

“This wormy thing!! What kind of nonsense is that for the young mumun 8 disciple!!”

“Shut that mouth!!”

It is impossible to know the inner circumstances of Yeongmumun, but just looking at that unconcealable children’s song, Manseong Lee can know that he is not wrong.

Haha!!!”

Hwa Jeong-mok stopped his subordinates who were about to run out as if he could not stand Lee Man-seong’s provocation, laughed like a madman, and then closed his mouth coldly.

“Ha ha… Ha… You old thing… Do you want to survive after provoking me like that?”

“You are the one who recklessly committed rudeness.”

“No, that is the natural right of the strong. A scumbag like you can never know or have it for the rest of your life.”

Koo Goo Goo…

Magical power filled with the intent to kill gushed out of Hwajeongmuk.

“Release! Guard!”

“”Yes!!””

Calling two of his aides, he pointed to Yurhim, who had a cold look in his eyes.

“Take a few guys with you and block the author for a while. I’m going to slit this cheeky bastard’s neck and go back. Liu Qing… I wonder what kind of expression he will make.”

The fists of Hwajeongmuk began to form clearly.

“”I take orders!!””

The moment when a battle is about to break out in line with the unmanned soldiers of Yeongmumun.

“No, you don’t have to.”

“What?”

“What is it? It’s already too late.”

Yang Ha-yeon, who was quietly looking at the terminal, raised his head and looked at Hwa-jeong-muk as if he felt sorry for him.

“Poor human. If he had gone back in moderation, his life would have been spared…”

“Did these… Bitches go crazy in pairs…?”

Fast…

Grinding their teeth when the bugs, who had to struggle to survive from now on, showed a relaxed attitude.

“Dare!! Confident that he did some mercenary work in the central world…!!”

Creepy-

He couldn’t finish talking.

It was because his hair stood on end at an incomprehensible presence he had never felt before.

Sky.

I slowly raised my head towards the place where the presence flowed.

There, a golden meteor opened up the night sky and fell vertically. The location is now the main building of the Golden Bird Guild, where only the skeleton remains.

The scene of the meteor reaching the top was slowly captured in Hwajeongmuk’s eyes like a slow video. And after that.

Kwaaaaang-!!!

A shock wave shaking the heavens and the earth spread throughout Seoul.