Absolute Sword Sense

[Side Story Episode 3: Those Looking for Him (3)]

‘Grandpa?'

Because of the sudden sound, King Hyeokcheon could not understand the meaning.

Just a moment ago, he thought these women were targeting the priest Jin Woon-hwi.

But suddenly, what are you talking about, Mr. Uncle?

“...What on earth are you talking about?”

At his words, Baek Hye-hyang raised one eyebrow and said.

“you. “Isn’t this the death penalty for Unhwi?”

“That’s right.”

“Then it’s your uncle.”

Hyukcheon’s eyes widened at her words.

If what she said now is true, it means that Baek Hye-hyang, the Sword and Blood Witch, was married to Unhwi.

At that moment, his eyes turned to the Ice Queen, Seolbaek.

She also said that he was my uncle.

‘no way?'

Hyukcheonman’s mind became complicated.

It made me wonder if they were making fun of me.

Baek Hye-hyang, the Sword and Blood Witch, was a member of the Five Great Villains, and Empress Seolbaek, the Ice Han Empress, was a member of the Eight Great Masters.

Are they the wives of Jin Woon-hwi, his priest?

I couldn't believe it.

“......Are you making fun of me now?”

Seolbaek smiled and said those words.

“Are you teasing me? If you are the death penalty of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry, you are like a great father to me, so please speak comfortably. “If possible, it would be better if you call me Mr. Jesu.”

Even as he said it, Seolbaek's face brightened, as if he felt good about being called that name.

Looking at her like that, Baek Hye-hyang shook her head and snorted.

“You like Jesu.”

“Why do you want me to call you sister-in-law?”

“What about my sister-in-law? “Do you think you want to be called Mr. Jesu at that age?”

When Baek Hye-hyang said that she was attacking him because of his age, Seolbaek glanced at her with cold eyes.

The air around him gradually became colder and his breath came out.

As Baek Hye-hyang also raised her energy, a red haze appeared.

‘What on earth are they doing?'

Suddenly, the two of them started arguing like enemies and seemed ready to compete at any moment.

It was difficult for Hyukcheonman to understand this situation.

What on earth did you hear?

“...If these two women are the wives of my priest...what do you mean by seeing the end of what they said in the guesthouse?”

At his words, Baek Hye-hyang spoke without taking her eyes off Seol-baek.

“Ah, I have to see it through to the end. “Who will be at the top?”

“Higher rank?”

I was puzzled, but this time Seolbaek spoke in a murderous voice.

“Why don’t you be disappointed by hearing it directly from the master’s mouth, and just be satisfied with the third place for my younger brother?”

“I don’t know who is talking. No.sun.bae.”

“You again!”

With a sharp cry, Seolbaek extended his sword towards her.

Baek Hye-hyang also countered the chilling day with a day full of the energy of Daeragong Hyeolcheon.

-Paang!

When the two women clashed, a strong wind pressure occurred.

In the aftermath, a crack appeared in the floor, and if Hyeok-man wasn't an expert who had overcome the barrier of being a superhuman, he might have been thrown out with internal injuries.

‘Should I stop him?'

But for some reason, I felt like I shouldn't intervene, so I backed away from Shinhyung.

Then, someone's voice came into his ears.

[Nangwang. Don't be too surprised.]

‘Huh?'

He was Nanmadoje Seogalma, the triad of blood religion.

[Nanmadōje?]

[I guess you know Nobu.]

[Can you leave me alone?]

[......It happens often. Don’t mind.]

[Often?]

Hyukman frowned.

Normally, when women fight, it's a fight, but when it gets to their level, it's a disaster.

Even now, the wind is blowing so hard that the trees are threatening to break.

[...Is it really because of my priest that they are fighting?]

[That's right. Hmm.]

Seogalma cleared his throat, as if it was strange to say something like this.

Hearing Seogalma's voice of affirmation, Hyeokcheon stared blankly at the two women who were now competing.

“Ha...”

What is this empty feeling?

It wasn't a feeling of disappointment due to a misunderstanding.

Someone pushed themselves to extreme situations in the West Region for a year to overcome their limitations.

However, not only has someone earned the title of the best in the world in just one year, but the women who are said to be the best in the current martial arts world are fighting over owning him.

A boy who was his student came up to him and spoke cautiously to him.

“Um...Master, are you okay?”

Even though he wasn't, he was a boy who inspired his teacher.

I'm worried that I may have been disappointed for no reason.

But still, I wondered if he, who was a master of the eight great masters and the king of the ronin, would be greatly affected by something like this.

However, Hyukcheon’s mutterings were heard in the boy’s ears.

“...I was very blessed. Priests.”

‘Ah...'

Her teacher was also a man.

The fighting spirit I felt from my teacher said it all.

* * *

Deep in the mountains.

A forest so thick that not even sunlight can enter.

As a result, the dark mountain path has an eerie atmosphere.

A middle-aged herbalist, carrying a scythe and a hoe on his belt and carrying a hoe, was leading the way along the mountain path.

Behind him, a young man wearing a bamboo hat who was picking his left ear with his little finger and an attendant carrying luggage were following him.

The herbalist who was guiding said.

“The road is really rough, isn’t it?”

“That’s true. “What kind of bushes are so thick?”

A person who appeared to be a servant spoke in a rough tone, sticking out his tongue.

The herbalist answered.

“A mountain road requires a lot of people to come and go for the road to become smooth, but that’s because there are no people. “It must be so because even herbalists like us don’t come here often.”

“Ugh. “The sun hasn’t set yet, but everything is dark and eerie. It looks like a ghost is coming out.”

There was even fog forming every time we went a little bit inside.

It seemed that this place was not called the Three Major Prohibitions for no reason.

There were signs posted everywhere in the direction of the gorge of Kirin Mountain where they were walking, warning them not to enter from the beginning of the mountain, warning them sternly.

The servant continued to grumble.

“Of all the places, why did you ask me to come here?”

At this, the young man sighed and smiled.

“Why are you scared?”

“Aren’t you scared, Master? “If you come alone, you’ll be embarrassed.”

“It’s a world where everyone lives. “I don’t even know what to do.”

“yes yes. “You are truly amazing.”

The servant shook his head.

The herbalist said, laughing heartily while watching their conversation, as if it was amusing.

“How did you two come here?”

“What can I do? “I came because our master said there was something he was looking for.”

“Is there something to be found in this mountain, which has many places with many warnings not to enter, saying it is dangerous?”

People who live near Kirin Mountain never even come around here.

The rumor was that it was a sinister and ominous place.

A young man wearing a bamboo hat opened his mouth.

“Have you ever heard of Seomok Hancheol?”

“Seomokhancheol?”

“I heard that a long time ago, a unique Hancheol was discovered in a cave in the canyon here, and it is called Seomok Hancheol.”

“oh. exactly?”

“I understand that Hancheol can only be obtained in the cold northern part of the country, but I heard that it used to be available here in Kirin Mountain as well.”

“Confucius is truly courageous to come to such an ugly and dangerous place to save it.”

When the herbalist praised the words as if they were great, the young man said as if they were nothing special.

“It must be something special.”

“There is no harm in being careful in everything.”

“So I am receiving directions from you.”

This herbalist was the only person from the nearby village who came here to collect medicinal herbs.

The herbalist spoke in a rather serious voice at the young man's words.

“Maybe it’s because you’re young and you don’t know what happened here.”

“What happened?”

“Well, he’s probably not even from this area, so there’s no way he would know. Hehehe. Now that things have come to this, would you like to hear a story from the past?”

“A story from the past? “Are you trying to tell me something scary?”

The servant asked with a frown.

The herbalist seemed to be amused by such a reaction and spoke as if to scare her.

“If it’s scary, it must be scary.”

“no. Why should I say something like that in a place like this...”

At this, the servant waved his hand and tried to tell him not to do it.

But the young man wearing the bamboo lip spoke as if he was interested.

“That would be fun. “Tell me about it.”

“You really are....”

“Shh.”

“Ah-oh.”

The attendant pounded his chest with his fist as if he was frustrated.

Anyway, the young man insisted that he talk.

In response, the herbalist said, holding up a sickle and cutting down the bushes blocking the way.

“I don’t know if it’s the mid-season or what, but they say that in the past, there were a lot of precious herbs growing here and a lot of wild animals, so people from herbalists to hunters wandered around.”

“Do you know since when this place became banned?”

“It’s a story only locals here know. A long time ago, some wounded Taoist monks passed through our village and hid here at Kirin Mountain.”

“Taoists?”

“exactly. “I heard he’s a guru from a place called Mt. Mt. Maksan.”

“......Mosan faction?”

“Oh oh. That's right. I think it was a similar name. “It’s a story I heard when I was very young, so it’s hard to remember.”

The Mosan sect was once a Taoist sect that went extinct while helping Jin Sang-je oppress the central plains.

They are a sect that is more proficient in magic and magic than other sects, and their veins have been completely cut off since then.

However, the young man became even more interested when he heard that some of the survivors were hiding here.

“Please continue talking.”

“At first, the villagers didn’t think it was a big deal. I heard that the Mosan faction is also a martial arts faction. Is it only a day or two that the martial arts people are covered in blood?”

The young man nodded as if he agreed with that statement.

The herbalist moved forward and continued speaking.

“But the problem came after that. “About a month after the Taoist monks hid in the mountain, the villagers noticed something strange.”

“Strange fact?”

“Not one of the herbalists or hunters who went into the mountain came back.”

It was more suspicious than strange.

This happened after the Taoists of the Mosan sect arrived.

“They said they wouldn’t come back… So what did you do?”

“Would you have stayed quiet when the men in your family didn’t come back? “The whole family came here to look for them.”

“Did you find them?”

“Unfortunately, they also could not return to the village.”

“.......Everything disappeared?”

“ah! They say only one person came back alive. However, the injuries were so severe that he lost his life not long after.”

Should we say that it came back alive?

“But if he had come back alive, it would have been revealed how it happened. “Is this what the Mosan sect masters did?”

In response to the young man’s question, the herbalist shook his head and answered in a heavy voice.

“How can I really explain this?

“...Isn’t that what the Taoist monks of the Mosan sect are like?

“That’s it. They say he said something strange before he died.

“Strange words?

“...He said he saw strange beings drinking human blood in the forest.”

At those words, the attendant frowned and trembled.

He hated stories like this.

“They say the story was so absurd that no one believed him.

Of course, it was a story that was hard to believe.

According to what he said before he died, the monsters who drink people's blood are so powerful that they can tear a person in half with a simple swing of their hand.

“Even if you didn’t believe it, who would want to go into the mountain when so many people have disappeared? In the end, the villagers decided that they could not solve the problem on their own, so they filed a complaint with the government and requested an investigation. So what do you think happened?”

The herbalist asked again.

In response, the young man with bamboo hair who was stroking his chin spoke.

“Seeing as it is still called a prohibited area, isn’t it something we couldn’t solve back then?”

“That’s right. Among the soldiers, none came back alive. “More officers were mobilized and we searched several more times, but the result was the same.”

“Didn’t they all come back?”

“exactly. “Even the martial arts people, who had quite a reputation, went into the mountain to solve this case, but none of them came back alive.”

When the situation got to this point, people thought there was no other way.

Even the soldiers of the coffin and the martial arts people cannot solve the problem, so how can they bring back those who have disappeared?

It is said that every time people entered, the only traces left behind were blood stains like dew on the leaves of the forest.

As a result, the gorge on Kirin Mountain came to be called Blood Forest and became infamous as one of the three major prohibited areas.

“Isn’t this a truly creepy story? “Maybe there really are monsters that drink human blood living in this cursed forest.”

The young man who was quietly listening to the herbalist suddenly asked.

“But I have one question.”

“You should ask.”

“According to what you said, no one has ever entered this forest and escaped safely. How did you manage to dig up herbs?”

-Stop!

The herbalist stopped in his tracks at the young man’s question.

The forest covered in darkness was hideous and extremely gloomy.

The herbalist who stopped suddenly burst into laughter.

“Hahahahahaha.”

Seeing him laughing like crazy, the servant muttered as if he couldn't understand.

“Has this person lost his mind?”

-Startle!

I could hear the bushes shaking and rustling all around me.

Some unknown beings were surrounding the area.

The feeling was quite different from what it felt like.

“Young master, this is....

At that time, the herbalist who had been laughing for a while stopped and said to them.

“It’s been a while since I came here, so I got excited without realizing it. “I see you made such a ridiculous mistake.”

The herbalist slowly turned around.

Unlike before, he had his back turned and had an arrogant look on his face.

“I’ve been their watchman here for a long time, and once I get here, the tension eases.”

“warden?”

A watchman refers to a servant who guards a certain place and does work.

The herbalist who referred to himself as such said with a grin.

It's become a daily routine to scare people who come here every time.

A herbalist who never loses his smile because he is so happy.

A young man from Juklip spoke to him.

“...It was a loss.

“He seems like a pretty smart young man, but what can I do with this? I just realized it now. Hahahahaha.

The herbalist laughed at them.

Then he raised his hand and made a signal.

-Pusssss!

Then, a large number of scattered monsters with yellow eyes appeared from the bushes.

All of its teeth were sharp and sharp, making it a human.

“Krrrrr.

Even an animal-like sound came out of his mouth.

The herbalist spoke in a triumphant voice.

“What would it be like to see with your own eyes the vampire monsters you’ve only heard about? Do you feel like your heart will explode?

“.......

‘Hehehe.'

Seeing them unable to say anything, the herbalist was sure that they were scared.

It's a sight I see all the time, but this time is the most exciting.

It was a moment of watching a person trembling with fear dying.

“Welcome to the Three Great Bans of Blood. And goodbye.”

-Papa papap!

As soon as those words were finished, the monsters moved all at once.

It screamed and rushed at the two people as if they were vicious animals.

It was that moment.

-Just right!

The young man with bamboo lips lightly snapped his fingers.

At that moment, the monsters that were running stopped on the spot with blank faces.

‘!?'

The herbalist was dumbfounded by the unknown sight.

“What the hell is this…”

“There’s nothing particularly surprising that makes my heart explode.

“what?

Although I couldn't understand what was being said, the young man with bamboo hair waved his hand lightly.

Then, the heads of dozens of monsters exploded all at once.

-Kwasik! Kwasik! Papak!

“Anit!

It was a sight I couldn't believe even when I saw it.

He killed them all without even touching them.

What was even more surprising was that many of these monsters' heads exploded, causing blood and brain marrow to splatter in all directions, but the area around the young man in Juklip was blocked as if there was an invisible barrier.

‘Am I really a human?'

It wasn't the dead monsters, but the person in front of my eyes was the real monster.

The frightened herbalist stepped back and said.

“Who the hell are you?”

In response to his question, the servant, not the young man, shrugged his shoulders and said,

“oh my. Do you think our master, who even killed a dragon, would be defeated by those blood-sucking monsters?

“Gyoryong? Could it be?

The herbalist's face turned pale.

A young man gently lifts a bamboo pole towards him.

‘!!!'

He is said to be the pinnacle of the current martial arts world.

It was Jin Woon-hwi, the best sword in the world.

[Side Story Episode 3: Those Who Seek Him (3)] End

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