Silver Dragon Chronicles: Episode 66
“Hah! Sister Yuhwa! How did you get hurt like that!”
“Ah! Horan, something came up.”
“It was these bad men! Huh?”
In an instant, Kaberyeon approached from behind Baek Horan, grabbed her, and placed his claws against her neck.
“Agh! How rude, what do you think you’re doing!”
“You must serve as a hostage until I escape.”
Kaberyeon spoke, cold sweat streaming down his face at Baek Horan’s shout.
*Lord Marekran might not know, but I can never escape from here.*
Escape might be possible to some extent with Marekran’s abilities, but he stood no chance at all. In other words, he too needed a hostage to flee.
But Kaberyeon’s action was, in a word…….
“Wow, that’s insane!”
It was insane.
Just as Hong Yuhwa spoke in admiration and Kaberyeon’s body flinched……
*Shhk!*
“Huh?”
Before he knew it, the arm that had been holding Baek Horan was severed from his body.
“How rude.”
Cheeks puffed out, Baek Horan held arm-length blades in each hand. Seeing her, Kaberyeon’s face went blank.
“Die.”
*Shhk!*
Once again puffing out her cheeks, Baek Horan slashed the throat of the blank-faced Kaberyeon, and he died on the spot.
*Puhwak!*
“Uwaaah! Blood!”
Horrified at the blood shooting into the sky, Baek Horan quickly backed away from Kaberyeon.
Marekran’s face hardened once more.
“That girl is…….”
“Ah, a child who will one day become your enemy. There are a few more besides her.”
Hong Yuhwa grinned.
“We aren’t just taking a beating over here either. I’m telling you not to ignore us!”
At those words, Marekran let out a deep sigh.
“We’ll have to wait and see about that.”
“You don’t need to wait and see—you're dying here for now. Jehwa, kill him!”
“Okay.”
The moment Hong Yuhwa’s words fell, Jehwa charged at Marekran.
“Yah!”
*Boom!*
Marekran lightly dodged the punch Jehwa swung. When Jehwa frowned at that, he threw a bullet condensed from demonic energy at her.
*Boom!*
“Uwak!”
Jehwa was sent flying by the explosion that occurred in an instant.
“Get it together!”
Watching that, Hong Yuhwa shouted with glaring eyes.
“Don’t shout while giving orders!”
Ignoring Hong Yuhwa, who flinched at her shout, Jehwa gritted her teeth fiercely.
“You’re dead!”
Shouting like that, Jehwa began creating and firing ice spikes.
“Drop dead! Kyakyakyakya!”
“Do you think you’re some kind of demon? Please don’t laugh like one.”
Seeing Jehwa laughing like a madwoman with an expression full of ecstasy, Marekran let out a light sigh and used magic.
“Reflect.”
*Tong-deo-deo-deong!*
“Kyaak! Why are these coming back!”
Seeing Jehwa panicking at the returning ice spikes, Hong Yuhwa shouted.
“Are you doing a comedy routine right now? I told you to just blow them away!”
“Ugh, you’re really noisy!”
Jehwa dealt with the returning ice spikes one by one with her fists, irritated.
“You two get along well.”
“Get along my ass!”
“You cannot catch me.”
“Heh, you speak confidently.”
Jehwa smirked at Marekran’s words and lowered her stance. Soon, cold energy began gathering around her.
Thus, Jehwa naturally, as if she had known it all along…… used it once again.
“Dragon Slayer Fist Technique, Extreme Killing Blow…….”
“No way…….”
Watching Jehwa muttering softly, Marekran’s eyes grew wider and wider.
“Dragon Ghost Blood War!”
*Kwagagagagang!*
*Kwa-aaaang!*
Massive energies burst from Jehwa’s fist and began surging toward Marekran.
Seeing clumps of silvery dragon demonic energy emanating a dark red glow, which emitted strange sounds and felt eerie and ominous just to face, Marekran clenched his teeth and leaped.
*How can a human body use the Dragon Slayer Technique!*
Marekran’s face hardened as he ground his teeth and dodged the Dragon Slayer Technique.
*It’s following me?*
The energy he had dodged began chasing Marekran.
“You can’t dodge that! It’ll follow you until it hits!”
As Jehwa giggled and spoke, Marekran’s face hardened even further.
“Was there something like that among the Dragon Slayer Techniques?”
Hong Yuhwa also looked surprised, marveling at it.
“I dunno. I just could use it?”
It seemed Jehwa had used it without even knowing what it was.
Meanwhile, unlike those two relaxed individuals, Marekran was truly in a living hell.
*If I strike it down, it’ll explode right there.*
Those types of energy clumps would explode on the spot if struck recklessly.
*I must block it!*
If he couldn’t dodge, he had to block it head-on.
The moment Marekran prepared and was about to block the Dragon Ghost Blood War!
“Peekaboo!”
“……!”
Jehwa suddenly appeared before his eyes. At that, Marekran’s face turned pale.
“Eat this!”
*Kwagagagagang!*
Grinning broadly, Jehwa poured dragon demonic energy all over Marekran.
“Ahahaha!”
She looked at the staggering Marekran, smiled brightly, and withdrew.
“Kuek!”
As Marekran staggered, his face contorted, the Dragon Ghost Blood War struck him.
*Kwagang!*
“Kuaaaaah!”
With the explosion, Marekran screamed.
“After taking such a devastating hit, he can’t be unscathed, right?”
“If he’s unscathed, what kind of person would he be?”
“Well, he’s not a person but a demon, but…… let’s gloss over that.”
Hong Yuhwa and Baek Horan conversed with relaxed faces.
“He didn’t die.”
Jehwa tilted her head as she looked at the blood-soaked Marekran. Seeing that, Marekran’s body trembled.
*I see no openings.*
She was an opponent with no gaps to escape through. She seemed to move thoughtlessly, but she was blocking every opportunity to flee.
When Marekran bit his lip tightly, an opening suddenly appeared in Jehwa. So Marekran sought the cause.
*A human…….*
What created the opening in Jehwa was precisely a human woman approaching from afar.
Without hesitation, Marekran gathered demonic energy and sent it flying at the human woman, and in response, Jehwa blocked the demonic energy.
*Kwang!*
Jehwa shattered the demonic energy headed for the human woman, Sawollin, with her fist, and glared at Marekran with cold eyes.
But by then, Marekran had already escaped far away.
“It’ll be hard to catch up.”
Jehwa frowned slightly at the sight. Along with her, Hong Yuhwa’s face contorted mercilessly.
“We lost him!”
They had let escape the one who would be the biggest hindrance.
Naturally, Hong Yuhwa’s anger turned toward Sawollin.
“Hey, you idiot! Why did you suddenly pop out like that!”
“W-what did I do! I just heard an explosion and came to check!”
“And that’s why we lost him! Ugh, so annoying!”
Sawollin flusteredly stepped back at the sight of Hong Yuhwa roaring at the top of her lungs.
“Unnie, stop. No matter how useless she is, you shouldn’t say such things.”
Baek Horan said, pulling at Hong Yuhwa’s sleeve.
“What do you mean useless!”
Sawollin protested loudly at those words.
Jehwa frowned as she watched the three women bickering.
“Ah, so noisy!”
Iseolhye, who had come with Sawollin, blankly muttered beside Jehwa.
“Try to quiet them down a bit.”
Jehwa said a word as she looked at Iseolhye speaking with a displeased expression.
“Shut up.”
At those words, the three women fell silent together.
“What on earth happened here?”
When Sawollin crossed her arms firmly and asked Hong Yuhwa, the latter let out a light snort.
“It’s none of your business.”
“This is the Heavenly Demon Divine Cult. If something happens here, of course it becomes my business, don’t you know?”
“…….”
Hong Yuhwa frowned at those words and looked at Jehwa, but the latter was only focused on her snacks. Seeing that, Hong Yuhwa let out a deep sigh and spoke.
“Even if you know, it’s not something you can resolve.”
“Then with the cult’s power at least…….”
“It’s not something even I can resolve.”
Sawollin, who had been about to fall into thought, looked at her at Hong Yuhwa’s words.
“You know what kind of person I am, right?”
She knew all too well. She had almost died! She wielded fire at will, was tremendously strong, and killed people without hesitation. The woman named Hong Yuhwa was a truly terrifying being standing right before her.
“I…… know. I almost died because of you.”
Hong Yuhwa let out a deep sigh at Sawollin’s words.
“Good thing you remember. Listen well. The reason I came here was to deal with traitors. They were all weaker than me, and of course weaker than the guards who protect me. But now it’s different.”
“What?”
“Four who are a bit weaker than me, four who are as strong as me, and two who are stronger than me.”
“…….”
Sawollin’s face hardened at Hong Yuhwa’s words.
“And they’ll probably keep getting stronger, right? This matter has already slipped from my hands. I need to request help from where I was. But even that is not easy right now.”
There is only one gate connecting the Demon Realm and the Central Plains. It takes a month to open it. If they are attacked by those bastards in the meantime and the gate is destroyed, it’s over. It takes a year to recreate the gate.
“The place they’re taking over now is the Blood Cult. They’ll probably try to kill people indiscriminately, right?”
Since they grow stronger through things like blood and resentment, that would be more than enough.
“For now, to stop that, I’m going to gather all my subordinates here. They’re at my level or stronger, so they’ll be helpful.”
Including Heukhwa, she had four guards in total. All of the guards possessed strength equivalent to a Demon Count. Their actual rank was Demon Count as well.
“What is this, it’s not like the world is ending.”
“It probably won’t end. But the worst-case scenario is a massacre of humans.”
If they tried to destroy the world, the Four Guardian Beasts would step in.
But the Four Guardian Beasts didn’t seem to take this matter very seriously yet. That was why they sent their successors.
“Horan.”
“Yes, unnie.”
“Can you call the other three successors too?”
“Huh?”
“Even if I gather the guards, with Jehwa and you added, that’s seven. We’d need three more to face ten, wouldn’t we?”
“Yeah, okay. I’ll call them.”