Chapter 47 – Chapter 10 (2)

“They don’t know pain! Hit their heads or cut off their limbs! Don’t scatter and fight as a team of at least three!”
“Yes!”

When the battle began, Seol-Lin Hong led the second group following her and headed towards the Jiangshi.

“Move!”

Shouting at the struggling Doyeong members, she spun her spear while stepping on her steps, and then fired her spear at her head at once.

Pagagagak!!

As the centrifugal force of the spinning spear was maximized, one of the Jiangshi’s head was pierced, and he fell down while pouring dead blood.

‘Kuu! Harder than steel!’

It’s no problem for a normal person, but when she felt the recoil from her strong body through her hands, her expression slightly distorted.

“Their bodies are harder than steel! When the opportunity arises, pour all your strength into a single blow! Ordinary attacks won’t work!”

Hong Seol-lin, who felt that the strength of Jiangshi was stronger than steel, shared information with her teammates and gave new instructions.

While fighting the Jiangshi like that, she felt something strange.

‘Who is the swordsman?’

Having caught a glimpse of a fight with someone in a black suit wearing a mask earlier, she checked her surroundings.

Kakakakakang! Cheek!

And she was able to find a black masked man and a swordsman sharing a sword near the cave.

‘Fast!’

The sword attack is really fast, and he swung his sword menacingly as if to show what a sharp attack is.

However, surprisingly, the black masked man was receiving such an attack from the sword.

To be precise, he was being pushed back by the sword attack, but he made a threatening surprise attack intermittently while defending steadily.

A high level of battle that cannot be seen even with money.

‘Are you trying to guard the entrance to the cave?’

Some of his skills improved, but the masked man gave the impression that there was something important in the cave, so he was absolutely blocking the swordsman from entering.

Looking around, Doyeongdan and Jujakdan, who have been able to afford it, are working together to defeat the Jiangshi one by one.

‘Then!’

The identity of the masked person is unknown, but there must be something important for a person with such skill to protect.

If done well, at least the probability of the masked person being distracted by the swordsman cannot be ignored.

“Gyusam! Gongdo! Follow me! There is a high probability that their identity is hidden in the cave!”
“Yes!”
“All right!”

After becoming leader number 2, Seol-Lin Hong called out the two Suzaku members who were in love with her skills and obeyed orders well, and rushed into the cave, ignoring the Jiangshi.

Cacan! Get a card!

‘Okay, now slowly… Hmm?’

The Masked Man, who made a plan to retreat into the cave while blocking Geomhu’s attack and have the imperfect Jiangshi cause an explosion to explode Geomhu, was obviously taken aback by Hong Seol-rin’s group who were aiming for the cave.

‘Shit! Little pikes!’

At this rate, the trap to catch the sword will be triggered by the small fish.

In addition, he made an escape route in the cave that only he knew, so he had to enter the cave whether or not he failed to lure him after the sword.

Originally, there were separate Jiangshi blocking the cave, but the problem was that Doyeongdanju Yongjeo reduced the number of Jiangshi with unexpected activity.

Yongjeo, who was ignored by a young unknown soldier like Jincheon, became angry that he had been quiet all this time.

Because of this, he had to bring in even the Jiangshi, who should have been fighting harder than usual and blocking the cave, to show that he was not yet to the point of being ignored by the young guy.

This was not an easy part to find out, and even if they knew, the Pacheonhoe, which did not regard it as important, would have planned it as usual.

In any case, the crack created by Yongjeo’s struggle resulted in Hong Seol-lin’s sudden action.

Caang!

“Stop!”

The masked man slashed the sword of the sword with force and rushed towards Hong Seol-lin and his party, who were trying to enter the cave.

“Haha!”

Hong Seol-rin, who had been preparing from the beginning, swung her weapon along with Kyu-sam and Gong-do because the purpose was not to enter the cave from the beginning, but to create an opening for the masked person.

Kakacak!

The moment when the masked man, who easily cut off three weapons, was about to swing his sword to kill Seol-Lin Hong and his party,

“I must have looked funny.”
“!!”

Swordsman heard a lifelike voice from behind the masked man.

“Urg!”

Awesome!

“Ouch…!”

The masked man hurriedly turned his body to defend against the sword attack, but the sharp sword strike of the sword slashed his side first.

‘Knife… After… Like this… Until… Strong… You…’

Lastly, he thought that the sword blade would be the biggest obstacle to the meeting, and as soon as he strongly bit his molars, he closed his eyes with the sensation of his consciousness melting into darkness.

‘It’s single… !’

Geomhu, who had cut his side deeply, but had kept his hand so that he could live if he stopped the bleeding quickly, stuck out his tongue at the poisonous mind of the masked man who bit his dogma as soon as he thought about the possibility of being captured.

However, because of that, there was a reason to check inside the cave and find out the information of those who did this.

An organization with such people would pose a great threat to Murim.

“It was a good decision, but it was risky.”

After sweeping the blood off the sword into the air, the swordswoman realized why Hong Seol-rin had acted this way, and praised and warned her at the same time.

“I thought it was a worthwhile gamble because the situation would end once the swordsman took care of the masked man.”
“Heh, yes. If you’re a Murim person, you should be that bold. Instead, find a way to lure them in a safer way next time.”

She smiled at the fact that Hong Seol-rin, whom she had noticed, had good guts and good judgment.

“We’ll check the inside of the cave! Because the people who created the Jiangshi are hiding inside or we can erase their traces.”

If you think about it with common sense, it seems safe to kill the Jiangshi with the swordsman, and investigate carefully with the Jujakdan and the Doyeongdan.

However, since both the rightist faction and the secular faction are ostracized and marked as Moorim-gong if they make Jiangshi, those behind the masked person will try to erase their traces at all costs.

So, it was urgent to check the information that would allow us to find out the identity of the enemy, even if it was a little better, before the masked people in the cave erased the traces.

“I’ll go with you. If there’s a master like this, it’s dangerous just for you.”
“Yes!”

Hong Seol-lin entered her cave with two of her own men.

The swordsman assisted them from behind and kept them safe, so the three men became more energetic and entered the cave.

Of course, there were no special signs at the entrance, so we had to head deep inside.

‘What? I can’t see anything, but I can feel a strong morale.’

The swordsman could not hide her doubt as she felt a fraud as if she was in close range.

‘Something must be suspicious. It is dangerous to search inside the cave.’

“Pause for a moment…”

However, before she could get her word out to stop, her trap was activated.

Wow!

“Kyaaak!?”
“Whoa!”
“Ugh!”

Suddenly, a strong force like a magnet pulling iron from the inside began to hold Hong Seol-lin’s feet off the ground.

“This level of jinbeop!?”

Swordsman, who had escorted the people of the Zhuge family to make an important battle in the battle against the Demonic Cult, was taken aback that a battle of such power had come from such a place.

‘Is this a trap!?’

“Kwaaaaak!”
“Kyaaaaak!”

While Geomhu was surprised, the Jiangshi, who had been hiding by other tactics, began their activities and rushed at them.

The Jiangshis ran at a high speed, unlike the stranded party, as if this strategy didn’t work.

There is only one purpose given to the Jiangshi.
By all means, get close to the living.

In a situation where there was no magician controlling them, even if they gave complex orders to the Jiangshi, they would not understand, so they were only ordered to stick close to the living people unconditionally.

“These bastards!”
“Ahh!”

They couldn’t lift their feet, but their upper bodies were free, so those who followed Seol-Lin Hong swung at the Jiangshi who were running towards them with a lot of energy.

With the belief that if you endure a little bit, the swordsman will be able to do anything, whether it’s to shoot a sword ring or not.

Geomhu also checked for other traps and prepared to help Hong Seol-lin’s party.

However, their hopes were dashed in vain as the Jiangshi’s bodies swelled up.

Bubbly Bubbly!
Phew! Puff!

Gyu-sam and Gong-do couldn’t even scream and their upper bodies were blown away by the Jiangshi who exploded as their bodies swelled in an instant.

The only traces of them were lumps of flesh that were mixed with the Jiangshi and blown away.

“Gyusam! Gongdo!”
“Self-destruct!?”

Hong Seol-lin screamed at the death of two subordinates.
Geomhu panicked at the unexpected explosion.
If he had encountered an explosion of this size without any countermeasures, the Sword Master himself would not have been safe.

At that time, something unexpected happened to Pacheonhoe, who set up this trap.

Simplicity and honesty! Woo support!

The ground that could not withstand the strong explosive power of the Jiangshi began to crumble.

“Kyaaaaagh!”

All of a sudden, he was trapped in a camp and couldn’t move, but from there, a Jiangshi ran towards Hong Seol-rin.

If this continues, he will die like Gyu-sam and Gong-do.
However, when the Jiangshi explodes, they are trapped in the collapsing ground.

‘Then I’d rather have a slightly higher probability!’

“Sorry! Sword…!”

Phew!

“!?”

Hong Seol-lin, who was in her javelin stance, pouring bets into her spear, witnessed the sword ring flying beside her own head and bursting into her Jiangshi’s body.

“There is no need to be sorry. This is my judgment.”
“Sir Swordsman…”

A swordswoman who replaced Hong Seol-rin, who tried to break her Jiangshi in order to save her own life.

She deliberately put her hand first so that her Hong Seol-rin would not feel guilty.

Quarrrr!

As the ground collapsed, the two people, who were bound by the Jinbeop, fell toward a hole where nothing but darkness existed.

Rather than screaming and crying out for her unsightly life, Hong Seol-lin, half resigned, closed her eyes, hoping that she would not die painfully.

‘Jincheon… !’

Lastly, she harbors resentment and longing for Jincheon, who suddenly disappeared.

-Fortunately, he won’t die.-
“Yes?”
-Be careful not to get water in your nose.-
“네? 그게 무슨…”

떨어지는 와중에 차분한 검후의 전음을 들은 홍설린은 대체 무슨 말인가 싶어 되물으려던 찰나,

Pung duong! With a plop! With a plop!

“~~~~~~~~!!”

Suddenly entering the cold water, she stirred her limbs and panicked at the sudden situation.

‘What is this? Cool! Water? Lived!?’

She held her breath and swam across the water.

“푸하앗! 켈록! 켈록!”

Suddenly, she went into the water and coughed and coughed up water.
As she calmed her breathing and looked up at her, she found the ceiling of the cave through a small hole.

‘The entire floor has collapsed, but looking up from here, it looks very small. 만약 지하수가 흐르지 않았더라면…’

If so, she would have become a blood clot herself.
Thinking so, Hong Seol-rin, who felt chills, heard the swordsman’s voice.

“Light. Over there.”

검후의 목소리에 주변을 두리번거린 홍설린은 그녀의 말마따라 빛이 반짝이는 곳을 발견하였다.

The two of them had no answer even once they were here, so they started swimming towards the light.

Quadruped!

“이런! 빨리 움직여!”

Hearing the sound of something collapsing from above, the desperate swordsman made him swim quickly.

With a plop! With a plop! Chew!

With the sound of collapse, huge chunks of stone poured down to the place where Geomhu and Hong Seol-lin were.

The two people felt the waves of heavy stones, swimming quickly and moving to the place where the light was, and fortunately found a land that could be taken.

“Those who are thoroughly thorough. A self-destruct attack with a Jiangshi isn’t enough, to collapse the cave itself.”
“Was it a trap?”
“Yes. The masked man made me not going to the cave all the time. If you weren’t you, I would first enter the cave …

After that, I knew without saying anything.

“You saved my life. If I were alone, I would have exploded with the Jiangshi before the ground collapsed.”
“I survived thanks to the sacrifices of Gyu-Sam and Gong-Do.”
“그래, 그 두 사람의 희생, 잊지 말자꾸나.”

The two of them paid a moment of silence toward the two soldiers who had been blown up by the Jiangshi.

“By the way, what is this light? It seems to come from above… Huh? Maybe…?”

Hong Sullin was surprised to find the source of light that was so bright that she could distinguish things.

“야명주! 이렇게나 많이!?”
“엄청난 숫자의 야명주… 나조차 이만한 숫자는 처음 보는데…”

Yamyeongju.
스스로 빛을 내는 구슬.
그 희귀함에 하나의 가치가 엄청난 무림 세계의 보물.

하지만, 진천이 이 모습을 봤다면 미친듯이 절규하며 이렇게 외쳤을 것이다.

‘Ah! It’s all over! 방사능에 피폭되서 뒈질거야! 무림 세계에 와서 방사능 피폭으로 사망이라니! 방사능 피폭으로 사망이라니이이이!’

자체적으로 발광성을 가진 방사성 원소들 중에 가장 유명한 것은 라듐과 우라늄이 있다.

당연히 두 물질 모두 방사능을 방출하기에, 각별한 관리가 요구되는 물질들이다.

In other words, at this brightness, all of these numbers of fighters are radium and uranium, which will release a significant amount of radiation.

스스로 빛을 내는 보석과 관련된 설화에는 갑작스런 죽음, 원인모를 병, 저주를 받는다는 내용이 많이 있다.

옛날이야 모를까, 현대인의 관점으로 보면 당연히 방사능 피폭에 의한 결과가 분명하다.

그녀들이 살아남으려면 이 세계의 법칙이 다르거나, 야명주로부터 멀리 떨어져야 하리라.

“Anyway, I hope there is a road following Ya Myung-ju… Um?”

Geomhu, who was wringing water from his clothes, looked at the inside of the cave and had a puzzled expression.

“Is this…A door?”
“Yes? A door?”
“It’s made of stone, but it’s definitely a door.”

Is there an artificially made stone door in this cave?
The two nodded at each other, carefully gripping their weapons and opening the stone door.

The two men, who had predicted with a very high probability that it was the hideout of those who made the Jiangshi, made up their minds to fight, opened the door strongly, and went inside.

However, what greeted them was a very low-probability possibility.

“Swordsman-nim, this is…”
“Yes, someone lived there. A very long time ago.”

It was the traces of someone’s life and the weight of the years piled up on those traces.
The two searched inside, trying to find something.
And Seol-Lin Hong found her old booklet.

“There is a book here.”
“A diary would be nice. You’ll find a hole to get out of.”

The two began to check the contents of the booklet through the shining light of Yamyeongju here as well.

The content, if her jincheon saw it, would allow the will of her world to find out who she was and why she had fallen for her.

– Yeonja who discovered this place. The old man…-

He found the hiding place of the hermit master and got the chance to learn the martial arts established by the hermit master.

If he had been with Jincheon, he would have eliminated the option of only a small number of people entering the cave during the battle.

Or maybe Jin-chun got this opportunity after he saved Hong Seol-rin from her danger.

But now, for some reason, those ‘blockages’ are gone.
In other words, this giyeon has been there for her from the beginning of her life.

Hong Seol-rin, who read the booklet with Swordsman, began to see her eyes light up whenever she read her contents.

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