“Where’s the Captain?” Seo Ryeong asked Yorim.
The captain had disappeared from their sight. Suddenly, for so reason, he hurriedly ran up to the highest place and jumped sowhere. This wasn’t their original plan.
“He seems to be moving alone.”
“Huh? What about the plan?”
“Well… I don’t know.” Yorim raised his hands and shook his head.
Seo Ryeong looked in the direction their captain had disappeared. Seol-Hwi suddenly broke into the square and moved away from them in the blink of an eye. This didn’t seem good. What can they do if he got caught like that?
“Well, there has to be a reason.” Jeok Song approached them from the side. He looked around at the others and spoke in a low tone. “If he is moving differently from the plan, then…he found a way to get there faster and safer.”
“Why did he do that? Without telling us?” Yong Jin, too, ca up to where they were.
It was a situation they couldn’t understand.
“Moving alone or moving in a group - Which one do you think has a higher probability of success?”
“…”
“…”
No one answered.
It is difficult to infiltrate the enemy’s place alone and succeed in assassination - even for Seol-Hwi, who was so formidable in martial arts. It’s why they moved as a group.
Even if he succeeds in the assassination without any plan, his abandoned crew could be in danger, or sothing else could happen to fail the mission.
When everyone was silently thinking,
“Well, let’s see. Baek Yang-chun is moving to his residence.”
“…”
Everyone turned towards the voice that had broken the silence.
It was Imugi. Unlike them, he was calm, and leaning his back on the wall.
“What do you an?” Yong Jin asked, and Imugi shrugged his shoulders.
“No. It’s too obvious. We know it’s better to move in groups, but do you think the captain doesn’t know that?”
“…”
“Even so, why is he moving this fast? I can only think of one thing. I think he noticed sothing.”
“…”
They didn’t say it aloud, but everyone agreed. What is required for assassination is strong martial arts, limitless patience, and self-control.
And patience and temperance crumble helplessly in the face of ti.
An assassination mission is difficult to complete as ti increases.
“Well…a human is no book. They can do things differently than what they were intended to.”
Even if Seol-Hwi managed to enter the residence of Baek Yang-chun and hid until he could assassinate the target, sothing unexpected could always happen. Baek Yang-chun could change his mind and drink instead of ditating. Maybe he could co from eating or doing sothing else, and the mission would fail.
It was reasonable to think that this was the case. But still…
“Then he should have said sothing. But the captain just suddenly left by himself to find the target. Why didn’t he tell us anything before that?”
Everyone nodded in agreent with Seo Ryeong’s words, Imugi too.
“How should I know? But there is sothing I noticed….”
The answer was quite simple.
“Did the captain run away so quickly that we can’t catch up to him?”
“…”
Seol-Hwi jumped over the gate and entered the courtyard of the four joined buildings.
The passing ti had slowed with the simulation happening, and he knew that this ant an enemy would co.
Three this ti!
One by one, the presence of the enemies was revealed in front of him.
First, soone was opening the door in the upper right. Next, a little to the front, Seol-Hwi saw soone opening the main gate. And finally, from above, a person standing guard at a post turned their gaze to Seol-Hwi.
The simulation pointed out that all three were risky.
There were four illusions of Seol-Hwi created. Three ran towards the person who opened the door in the upper right corner. The illusion silenced him when he opened the door by covering his mouth and then cracked his neck.
After that, the three illusions’ movents changed.
The first jumped onto the rooftop, went up to the roof of another building, and leaped behind the man who opened the main gate.
The second leaned against the edge of the wall, waited for the guard to approach, and then ambushed him.
And the third ignored them, stepped onto the wall of the building, and ran away.
None of the three illusions had a commonality. It had to be because of the guard looking down from the watchtower.
The fourth…
Seol-Hwi looked at the last illusion.
Unlike the other three, this one turned around and walked leisurely. So, the guard opening the door in the upper right notices him. After that, the illusion runs into the guard who opened the gate.
The simulation ends there.
▶ Remove the person who opens the door on the right. After that, go up to the roof. ▷ Remove the person who opens the door on the right. After that, take advantage of the situation. ▷ Remove the person who opens the door on the right. After that, run to the gate and avoid the sight of the guard on the watchtower. ▷ Turn around, walk slowly, then counterattack.
I’ll bet on this one!
Seol-Hwi wasn’t worried.
He didn’t know how to get out of this situation because the last simulation ended unclearly, but he had to try. Rather than a safe way, he thought a dangerous one would bring him a solution.
Seol-Hwi chose the 4th option. He did the sa movents that he was shown. With his back turned, he began to walk. And as expected, the person who opened the door from above noticed Seol-Hwi. Seol-Hwi ambled and moved a few steps before he heard,
“You there! Stop!”
“Stop! Who are you?”
The guards were yelling at him behind his back. Seol-Hwi was about to answer, but he saw sothing shocking.
“…?!”
The guard in the watchtower was looking elsewhere. At that mont, Seol-Hwi knew. This was his chance!
He imdiately leaped and went for the neck of the man who was closest to him.
Next, before the body even fell down, he covered the mouth of the second man and thrust his sword into the man’s chest.
The two guards were eliminated in an instant.
But was it because of the excitent that arose in the fight?
“…!”
The man from the watchtower was now looking at Seol-Hwi, his face flushed with shock. And the mont he was about to shout…!
He collapsed.
Seol-Hwi’s sword pierced straight through his heart.
Ah! The ti!
Seol-Hwi looked at the tir as he was trying to retrieve his sword.
32…31…
He thought he had lucked out, only to see this. His concerns began to rise once again.
Should he go retrieve the sword he threw? Or ignore it?
No. To reach my full potential…
Seol-Hwi moved the corpses into a dark place and pulled his sword out of the third corpse.
25… 24…
The estimated ti and the remaining ti were exactly the sa.
If I go through this door…
The mont he was feeling relieved, ti slowed down again.
An enemy? Soone is coming!
A faint shadow could be seen. Two people - and they seed skilled enough to feel what happened a couple minutes back. The current location was right next to the residence of Baek Yang-chun. So, maybe, these are guards protecting him.
This ti too, the simulation responded. And three illusions appeared.
The first climbed over the gate and jumped down to ambush them. But the enemies were prepared; there were several fights with the two, and one was killed.
The illusion didn’t fight until the end, and the mission failed.
The second waited by the door. This ti, as soon as a person ca, he attacked and succeeded in taking one down. But he was countered and suppressed by the other guard.
Shit.
The last illusion…it was a scene where the ambush happened right away as the door opened; their resistance was stronger. The two guards were ready to rush at him. After several fights, one died.
All illusions ended with a ti-out. And,
▶ Do it yourself.
This was the only option left.
What kind of nonsense…?
Seol-Hwi felt scared, but he knew what this ant. The simulation didn’t find an answer.
It ans it had nothing to do with Seol-Hwi’s martial arts or techniques. This was a failure, so Seol-Hwi needed to decide what to do on his own.
What should I do?
Ti began to flow again. Seol-Hwi headed to the door. Behind it are two guards, the strongest enemies he could et here.
How do I handle this?
In an instant, he thought of all the martial arts he had. Techniques that could surprise the enemy. But all of them…
Were intended to be used in a fight.
Suddenly, a person’s face appeared in Seol-Hwi’s mind. The man he killed a while back.
“Hey. What are you doing behind the door?”
Instead of a surprise attack, Seol-Hwi began talking.
“…!”
“…!”
The two guards on the other side of the door were surprised.
Of course they’d be. Seol-Hwi was using the Latent Image Projection technique to turn his face into the man he killed.
“There’s an intruder….” Lowering the sword he had drawn from its sheath, the taller of the two guards answered Seol-Hwi.
“You’re right. There is one.”
Seol-Hwi shoved his sword right into the throat of the front man and ran to the one behind.
“Uhk?!”
His opponent tried to resist, but it was too shocking and sudden. Due to the montary hesitation, Seol-Hwi used that chance.
Hitting the man in the stomach and chin, Seol-Hwi used both hands to break the man’s neck.
Two bodies fell to the ground.
Numbers popped up. Seol-Hwi recovered his sword from the fallen guard and swept the two corpses aside.
10…9…
He was running out of ti.
Seol-Hwi crawled under the path and moved in the shadows to reach his destination.
“Huk…”
Things popped up in front of him, and there was this unknown ‘3rd Person Eye’.
However, he didn’t have the energy to rejoice in his success.
It was because of the person who entered through the door.
Baek Yang-chun…!
He saw a few words co into view.
The location of the enemy, the movent of guards, the guarding post shift ti, and the number….
Ti kept flowing. anwhile, Baek Yang-chun crossed his legs and began to sit. As expected, he was cultivating his energy. More ti passed.
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