Chronicles of the Silver Dragon – Episode 74
Crack!
Jareukeon’s head snapped sharply to the side.
But that was all. Aside from that, he had taken no other damage.
"What the hell is this bastard……"
Just as Jehwa made a look of disgust seeing that……
Swish-
Jareukeon lightly raised his hand.
Thwack!
And he swung that hand, smashing Jehwa’s head.
Thud! Screech!
From that attack, Jehwa flew as he was and crashed into the ground.
"Geh!"
For a moment, feeling his head go blank, just as Jehwa tried to rise from his spot……
Stab!
"Gurk?"
Something pierced Jehwa’s right chest, and blood flowed from his mouth.
"Krrgh……"
What was piercing through his right chest was Jareukeon’s hand. Jehwa struggled desperately to pull it out.
But his entire body trembled violently, and no strength entered his hands.
Stab!
"Ghk!"
Thud!
The moment Jareukeon pulled his hand from the chest, Jehwa fell to his knees as he was.
"……"
Sawollin huddled against the abruptly blowing wind.
"The wind is chilly today."
Blowing out white breath, Sawollin looked up at the sky.
"I hope nothing’s wrong."
Thump……. Thump……. Thump…….
The instinct that had warned of danger moments ago clung to Jehwa’s life. And that thing ended up awakening something extremely dangerous within Jehwa.
"Kraaaaaaaaah!"
Even vomiting blood, Jehwa roared toward the sky. Even though a hole had been put in his right lung, his momentum seemed capable of tearing everything apart.
That Jehwa sprang up from his spot and glared at Jareukeon with terrifying eyes.
"You damned rotten bastard!"
He bared his teeth at Jareukeon and showed hostility.
At that unexpected situation, Jareukeon made a dumbfounded expression and laughed.
"Kekekek! Has he gone mad?"
Jareukeon himself had gone mad due to the demonic nature of the Demon God’s jewel, but he still clearly possessed an ego and reason.
He did not act recklessly like the being before his eyes.
"Shut up, you rotten bastard! It hurts!"
Seeing Jehwa growl and emit thick killing intent, Jareukeon’s face hardened stiffly.
‘What is with this guy?’
He was similar to before, yet something was different. In Jehwa’s eyes, something akin to a dragon’s instinct to kill and destroy writhed and squirmed.
Instead of the innocence seen briefly earlier, now nothing but ferocity had taken root.
‘Could it be a different personality?'
"You aren’t the Eun Jehwa from just now, are you?"
"Ang?"
At Jareukeon’s question, Jehwa curled up the corner of his mouth and scoffed.
"How should I know? That’s not what’s important right now……"
Jehwa’s face contorted savagely.
"It’s killing you!"
Boom!
"Hahahahaha! Die! Drop dead!"
A bright, cheerful laughter came from Jehwa.
If Jareukeon was a madman who killed people for no reason, then this one was a lunatic who killed people out of boredom.
Jareukeon realized that Jehwa was currently an extremely dangerous existence.
"The one dying is you, not me!"
Jareukeon muttered with a face full of madness and fired magic at Jehwa.
Boom!
The magic that directly hit Jehwa caused a tremendous explosion. Watching that and bursting into laughter, Jareukeon instantly hardened his face upon seeing ice spikes flying from within the explosion’s dust.
Crack-a-crack!
Jareukeon threw his body aside, and the ice spikes embedded instantly in the spot where he had been.
"Got you!"
At the voice heard from right behind him in that instant, Jareukeon’s face was colored with shock.
"Y-you bastard!"
The Silver Dragon Prince, Eun Jehwa, was on a completely different level. Speed, strength, and his ability to use power were all incomparable to mere moments ago.
"T-this is the power of the same person?"
Unlike Jareukeon, who had received powerful strength instead of going mad when awakening the Demon God’s jewel, Jehwa had nothing at all.
Yet his strength was as different as heaven and earth, as if he had become a completely different person from before.
"It’s just that idiot can’t properly handle his own power! Silver Demon Fury! Release!"
Boom!
"Kuaak!"
Jehwa, who had grinned, used Silver Demon Fury.
"……"
Seo Ryongseon and Marekeuran turned their heads in the middle of battle.
"This is……"
"It’s Eun Jehwa."
An enormous aura had just surged from Jehwa.
"Hey."
When the battle between the two briefly entered a lull, Jehwa appeared. At that, Marekeuran tensed greatly.
‘Could it be that the Silver Dragon Prince’s power has surpassed Jareukeon’s?'
If so, then they would be the ones losing this fight.
"Let’s go."
While Marekeuran was tensed, Jehwa said with a slight grin.
"What? Why?"
"Shut up and follow me."
Seeing Seo Ryongseon furrow his brows, Jehwa made a fierce expression, grabbed him by the collar, and started running. At that sight, Seo Ryongseon tilted his head but obediently followed as told.
When they reached the entrance of the Blood Cult at tremendous speed, a massive aura surged.
"Tch! If only my body were in proper condition, I’d have had a proper fight."
Looking at Jehwa making a disappointed expression, Seo Ryongseon looked at the place where the aura was surging with a hard expression.
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!
Then, a huge explosion echoed from within the Blood Cult.
"That fight, didn’t you win it?"
Jehwa and Seo Ryongseon, who had escaped from Seojang in an instant. And shortly after, when they had just arrived at Singang, Seo Ryongseon asked Jehwa with a puzzled expression.
"Ang?"
At Seo Ryongseon’s question, Jehwa’s eyes flashed as he looked at him.
"You……. aren’t him."
At that sight, Seo Ryongseon spoke with a stiff face, and Jehwa simply burst into laughter.
"Kikik!"
Jehwa with silver hair and silver eyes clearly looked different from the usual Eun Jehwa.
The usual Jehwa had somewhat odd and pure sides, but the Jehwa before his eyes now was destructive and violent.
Moreover, radiating fighting spirit and killing intent from his entire body, he was so rough that it seemed he would explode at any moment if touched the wrong way.
"A fight worth having went down the drain because of that idiot! Damn it, I got stabbed in the right chest, so it’s pretty hard to breathe right now!"
Though he didn’t look like he was having much trouble breathing at all.
"If I had kept fighting like that, we probably would have died together. Ah, I really don’t like this."
Seeing Jehwa mutter with a scowl, Seo Ryongseon made a strange expression.
"It seems you have multiple personalities?"
"Three."
Jehwa grinned at Seo Ryongseon’s question and said.
Currently, three egos were coexisting within Jehwa.
The ego of the Silver Dragon Prince, Eun Jehwa; the ego of the human Jehwa, who was the current master of the body; and finally, the ego containing the primitive instinct of the dragon.
Thus, three egos came to coexist in Jehwa’s body.
"Word came from Hyeolgwi; the Blood Cult has been turned upside down."
As Hong Yuhwa spoke with a satisfied expression, Yeom Johwi snickered and added.
Jehwa and Seo Ryongseon are truly tremendous fighting strength.
"It should be about time those two returned."
As Ji Ugyeom tilted his head, Baek Horan replied.
"Don’t worry, Brother Ugyeom. Those two are strong."
Just as Ji Ugyeom was about to nod at Horan’s words said with a broad grin……
"Were you talking about us?"
Then, Seo Ryongseon’s voice was heard.
"Oh, they’re back!"
Yeom Johwi welcomed them happily with a smile.
But Seo Ryongseon let out a deep sigh and looked behind him.
"Huh? Brother Ryongseon, why do you look like that?"
Feeling that Seo Ryongseon’s expression was unusual, Yeom Johwi asked with a puzzled expression.
"No, it’s nothing."
"Huh? What’s wrong? Anyway, Jehwa, good work too."
Tilting her head at Seo Ryongseon’s reaction, Yeom Johwi greeted Jehwa brightly with a smile.
"What, you damned wench? Who are you pretending to be close with?"
"……"
At Jehwa’s extremely fierce words, Yeom Johwi’s face hardened stiffly.
"Ahaha! D-do you have something to be angry at me about?"
"Not really."
Jehwa answered Yeom Johwi’s question with a cold scoff.
"R-Ryongseon oppa, what’s with this guy?"
Yeom Johwi asked Seo Ryongseon with a tearful face.
The usual Jehwa might throw a punch if something displeased him, but he wouldn’t show hostility to people like this.
"Jehwa oppa, what’s wrong?"
Baek Horan also asked with a puzzled expression, but Jehwa merely snorted coldly.
"Huh?"
Baek Horan, who had always seen only the bright Jehwa smiling during her long time here, found this side of him unfamiliar as well.
Naturally, it couldn’t help but be a considerable shock to her.
As Baek Horan started to whimper, Seo Ryongseon finally spoke.
"Why don’t you give the body back already."
"I refuse."
Jehwa answered with a smile full of malice at Seo Ryongseon’s words.
"What, what’s with you? Did you eat something wrong? Did that water snake feed you something weird?"
"H-Hey, Princess."
Frowning at the somehow strange Jehwa, Hong Yuhwa spoke, and Jehwa grinned and waved his hand at her.
"You, who are you?"
Hong Yuhwa asked with her face hardening at that sight.
"You almost died by my hand and you forgot me? This is sad."
Hong Yuhwa had clearly almost died by Jehwa’s hand once before.
But that wasn’t the Silver Dragon Prince Eun Jehwa, nor the human Eun Jehwa, but a different being.
It was Jehwa who had lost his reason and run amok.
"You……"
Hong Yuhwa’s eyes widened greatly.
"What happened to the original Jehwa?"
"Hmm, he’s probably sleeping?"
As Hong Yuhwa shouted with her face scrunched up, Jehwa smirked and said.
"Wake him up."
"Why should I?"
"Wake him up."
"……"
Frowning at Hong Yuhwa’s eyes that had sunk coldly.
‘What?'
It was words that felt like a power he couldn’t dare defy.
‘That demon wench.'
In that instant, Jehwa grabbed Hong Yuhwa’s neck and raised dragon demonic power in his other hand.
"Kek! Why suddenly like this!"
"Jehwa oppa!"
Everyone shouted with startled faces at Jehwa’s sudden outburst. Only Ji Ugyeom made his characteristically vacant face.
Jehwa, who had grabbed Hong Yuhwa’s neck, frowned.
‘My heart is…….’
It would be simple to kill the demon before his eyes right now. She wasn’t even resisting, so if he simply stabbed her neck with his hand, she would die.
Yet his heart refused to do so. Though he was currently in control of the body, the original owner was that guy sleeping right inside the body.
Jehwa released Hong Yuhwa’s neck and spoke.
"Did you think I couldn’t kill you?"
Hong Yuhwa shrugged her shoulders at Jehwa’s words said with a frown.
"It’s a life that Jehwa had saved three times over anyway."
Jehwa frowned even more at Hong Yuhwa’s words.
"And if I’m in danger again, Jehwa will save me."
"That’s a completely baseless statement."
Jehwa grumbled.
"Saving a princess in crisis is the natural duty of a prince."
"What nonsense."
Frowning, Jehwa sneered at Hong Yuhwa who spoke with a slight smile.
"What! Why do you keep sneering like that! You ill-tempered bastard!"
"Noisy."
Jehwa spoke with an annoyed expression to Hong Yuhwa who was shouting loudly.
"I’m off to wake that stupid bastard now."
A body he couldn’t completely dominate anyway; possessing it was nothing but tiring.