Silver Dragon Chronicle, Episode 24
“I don’t know who the bastard is, but if I meet him, I won’t let him off.”
“How dare he, to the Leader…….”
The Taecheongdan members were grinding their teeth as they patrolled.
“I only killed a bad guy……. Do they not know that he was a bad guy?”
Jehwa muttered as he watched them from the roof.
In his heart, he wanted to flip this place upside down in one go. Then they would all jump out, and he could catch them all at once.
But Sawollin had told him not to, and Un Wonnam had said the same.
Watching the backs of those patrolling, Jehwa soon hid his body in the darkness.
The next day, this time three ordinary disciples lost their lives.
“What……. Could this be some grudge?”
Those who died today were the ones who had been close to No Yeongjun.
“What grudge could the late Leader No Yeongjun of Taecheongdan have had? Isn’t he someone who entered the Gonryun Sect as a child and never once stepped foot outside?”
“But still…….”
Something was strange for this to be a mere coincidence.
At that, the higher-ups of the Gonryun Sect let out sighs.
“What on earth is happening?”
When night fell, Do Taein—who had mastered the Jonghak Geumryongsu and possessed strength that ranked among the best within the Gonryun Sect—furrowed his brow. The plans he had laid out long ago were going astray one by one.
“I must inform the main cult quickly.”
“Found you. But what do you mean by ‘main cult’? What cult? Some pseudo-cult?”
Do Taein, who had been running via lightness skill to a secluded place to send a carrier pigeon, stiffened instantly at the voice coming from behind.
A boy stood there, looking at him with chilling eyes.
“Who……. are you?”
“Heh……. Who do you think I am?”
“The one who’s been killing the main sect’s disciples these past two days was you!”
Do Taein suddenly shouted at Jehwa.
“Heh? Main sect? I think I just heard ‘main cult’……. When did it change to main sect?”
Seeing Jehwa speak with a wide grin, Do Taein snorted and shouted.
“What nonsense!”
“Well, whatever……. Blood Cult……. Die.”
“Hmph! To think you would treat me the same as the disciples you’ve killed until now, how foolish! I am an Elder of the Gonryun Sect! I shall punish you for daring to kill the sect’s disciples!”
Do Taein yelled and rushed at Jehwa, and seeing him, Jehwa smiled brightly and raised his hand.
‘Foolish brat!’
Seeing Jehwa trying to take his attack head-on, Do Taein inwardly scoffed.
A young brat who hadn’t even come of age absurdly dared to try and receive his attack head-on.
‘You’re a dead man with this!’
Do Taein, inwardly convinced of Jehwa’s death, shouted.
“Die!”
Kwagagagang!
But Do Taein was looking at Jehwa with a shocked expression—no, at Jehwa’s hand.
More precisely, he was looking at Jehwa’s hand gripping his own hand wrapped in Gang energy, and at that, Do Taein was at a loss for words.
“You’re the one who’s going to die.”
Thwack!
“Urk!”
Jehwa’s fist fiercely struck Do Taein’s abdomen.
“Ugh……. *Cough!*”
Do Taein rolled on the ground, vomiting blood and twisting his face in agony.
“No matter how much you hide, you can’t hide the rotting stench of you lot, Blood Cult.”
Looking at Do Taein collapsed on the ground, gasping in pain, Jehwa spoke with an impish smile.
‘Where on earth did such a monster appear from…….’
Although the sound of the explosion had rung out, by the time people rushed over, he would no longer be of this world.
‘I need to buy time. I’ll just use the main cult’s martial art for a very brief moment. I’ll pin it on that bastard!’
If he used the Blood Cult’s martial art, he would become stronger, but even so, he couldn’t dare conceive of defeating the boy Jehwa.
Since it had come to this, he had to use that martial art to buy time.
And then he could pin everything on that damned bastard in front of him!
“Hyeollyong Gwangjo!”
Dark red Gang Qi surged up from Do Taein’s hand.
“Oh? Are you finally getting serious?”
Jehwa smiled as he looked at Do Taein using the Blood Cult’s martial art against him.
“But the fact that you’ll die doesn’t change.”
Boom! Crack!
“Kuak!”
Jehwa’s silver Gang Qi and Do Taein’s dark red Gang Qi clashed, and then Do Taein’s pain-filled scream rang out.
And he looked at Jehwa with wide eyes.
‘What the hell!’
What is that bastard’s true identity? Did such a monster really pop out of nowhere?
‘Dangerous! This brat……. Very dangerous!’
Do Taein realized instinctively.
The boy before his eyes was dangerous enough to threaten not merely his own safety, but the safety of the entire Blood Cult!
“Y-you, what is your identity!”
“Me?”
Jehwa, smiling brightly at Do Taein who was shouting with wide eyes, gathered a bundle of silver Gang Qi in his hand and said.
“Eun Jehwa.”
And with those words, he crushed Do Taein with his Gang Qi.
“Kuaaaaaak!”
Do Taein’s desperate scream resounded throughout the entire Gonryun Sect.
“Th-this is…….”
“E, Elder Do Taein…….”
“Wh-what the hell…….”
Sect Leader Won Eundam looked at Do Taein’s corpse with a blank expression.
Do Taein had been one of the people he trusted the most.
Seeing him become such a miserable corpse, Won Eundam was devastated.
Moreover, Do Taein was a powerhouse even within the Gonryun Sect.
With such a powerhouse turning into a corpse in such a miserable state, the Gonryun Sect would fall into even greater chaos.
At that time, no one realized that someone was disappearing amidst that chaos.
***
“Do Taein is dead too.”
“That makes five……. And all within three days.”
“The ones who fell yesterday had considerable skill, but they weren’t ones to worry too much about. But No Yeongjun and Do Taein are no pushovers. Especially for Do Taein to fall like that……. This is more serious than I thought.”
Ten people were talking in a dark secret room.
A boy was sitting in the highest position among them.
The name of the boy, who looked like he couldn’t even kill a single ant, was Hyeol Mayeong. He was the young cult leader of the Blood Cult who had entered the Gonryun Sect ten years ago.
“Ugh, how pathetic……. You can’t even handle a single enemy?”
“Y-Young Cult Leader…….”
The remaining nine trembled at Hyeol Mayeong’s words.
Those here were experts who could immediately strike up an enormous evil reputation if they went out into the Central Plains martial world.
But the small boy before their eyes was a monster who surpassed them. A heaven-sent genius among geniuses who possessed tremendous martial might at the young age of just eighteen.
At the terrifying aura felt from that boy, everyone in the secret room unknowingly swallowed dry saliva.
“Well, it is just a single enemy……. He doesn’t look easy. However, I shall give you one more day.”
In that instant, Hyeol Mayeong narrowed his eyes.
“If……. among the people here……. even a single one of you is killed by that enemy again……. we will leave the Gonryun Sect. Of course, only after thoroughly destroying it and drenching it in blood. And we will return to the cult and hold you all strictly accountable.”
The boy’s appearance as he spoke while smiling joyfully was utterly cruel.
At the naturally overwhelming pressure, the nine people unknowingly bowed their heads deeply.
Cold sweat was already flowing down their bodies like rain.
***
With even an Elder having been murdered, the Gonryun Sect’s vigilance was further strengthened.
Even for Jehwa, if the vigilance was strengthened to this extent, it was difficult to move.
Jehwa, who had been wandering the Gonryun Sect for a while, climbed onto the roof of a main building and fell into thought.
‘Should I just leave today?’
As Jehwa was muttering inwardly like that, he suddenly made eye contact with a boy walking below the building.
‘That’s…….’
A boy his age, but he was definitely the strongest among those he had met so far.
Just as killing intent arose in Jehwa’s eyes……. the boy took something out from his bosom and blew it.
‘Hm?’
Hyeol Mayeong was hiding his identity among the Gonryun Sect’s warriors and acting like an ordinary disciple. But in reality, his martial power already surpassed the Gonryun Sect Leader.
As he was patrolling leisurely, he suddenly frowned at a strange feeling.
And their eyes met. A boy looking at him with chilling eyes.
Cold sweat began to flow down Hyeol Mayeong’s entire body.
‘That’s him!’
Realizing that the boy his age before his eyes was the Blood Cult’s enemy who had killed the Blood Cult’s spies like himself and turned the Gonryun Sect upside down, Hyeol Mayeong felt goosebumps rise all over his body.
‘What is his identity!’
Shouting that inwardly, Hyeol Mayeong immediately took out a horn from his bosom and blew it.
Piiiiiiik!
“There’s a suspicious person on the roof of that main building over there!”
At those words, the warriors’ gazes turned to the roof.
“Capture him!”
As countless warriors climbed onto the roof and rushed straight at him in an instant, Jehwa frowned and lightly swung his hand.
Swish!
“Kuk!”
Even from that lightly swung fist, the warriors felt tremendous pain and rolled around on the roof.
It wasn’t some special technique.
It might look somewhat flashy, but its essence was simply swinging a fist crudely to create a shockwave.
A simple, crude method that was easy in principle, yet by no means easy to execute.
And taking advantage of the warriors faltering from that attack, Jehwa rushed at Hyeol Mayeong with a smile full of malice.
“Die!”
Seeing Jehwa charging at him in an instant, Hyeol Mayeong’s eyes went wide.
Kwagagagagagang!
“Intruder!”
At the sudden booming sound, the warriors of Gonryun Hall ran toward the source. And their faces were all dark.
The booming sound could be heard clearly even from afar, as if a thunderbolt bomb had exploded……. If the opponent had something like a thunderbolt bomb, it would be a disaster.
The warriors who arrived at the scene all had shocked expressions.
The ground was deeply sunken as if it had received some tremendous impact, and in the center of the hollowed-out ground, a boy stood proudly.
“Is that boy……. the culprit behind this incident?”
Won Eundam, who had also rushed over upon hearing the explosion, said with a surprised expression.
A boy who hasn’t even come of age turned the Gonryun Sect upside down? Was that even possible?
“Are you……. the criminal who killed the disciples and Elder of the Gonryun Sect?”
“Gonryun Sect?”
Won Eundam flustered as he looked into the eyes of Jehwa, who cocked his head.
His eyes were too clear. That was why they were so indifferent, and also cruel.