Chapter 8
Mok Gyeong-un’s pupils, unmoving like those of a dead person.
As it was the first ti seeing a living person with such eyes, diviner Myo-sin couldn’t take his gaze off those eyes for a mont.
‘How can a human have such gho…’
However, he soon ca to his senses at soone’s voice.
“What? What is this?”
It was Guard Go Chan.
Guard Go Chan, who had guided Mok Gyeong-un, was baffled by the sight of the Manor Master’s room, filled with red threads strung with silver coins.
He had found it strange that there was no one around the main building.
But who was this person, and what bizarre act was he performing here?
“Excuse . Who are you, and here…”
“He doesn’t seem to be a physician.”
Mok Gyeong-un said, looking around the room.
At this, diviner Myo-sin waved his hands in a hurry and said,
“I don’t know who you are, but didn’t you receive a ssage from Madam? This is an important mont, so please leave imdiately.”
“Madam?”
“It’s a mont that shouldn’t be disturbed.”
It was indeed a truly important mont.
In the midst of controlling the strange phenonon invading the Manor Master’s heart, the killing intent had interfered due to the interruption.
In this situation, the killing intent would rather make the strange phenonon even stronger.
“Please leave at once!”
There was no ti to waste.
At Myo-sin’s urging, Guard Go Chan frowned and muttered,
“Could he be a diviner?”
“Whew. That’s right. I’m a diviner, so quickly…”
“What’s wrong with him?”
At that mont, Mok Gyeong-un pointed to the bed with his chin and asked.
Diviner Myo-sin turned his head.
“Cough, cough!”
There, soone was coughing with their back arched like a bow.
“M- Manor Master?”
‘Manor Master?’
Mok Gyeong-un made a puzzled expression.
The condition of the Manor Master he saw for the first ti was bizarrely strange.
His back was arched, his chest facing upward, and his throat was moving up and down, looking quite painful.
“No. Why is the Manor Master like that?”
“Leave! Hurry up and leave!”
Myo-sin shouted and tried to push Mok Gyeong-un and Go Chan out the door.
Right at that mont,
Gulp!
A loud swallowing sound ca from the Manor Master, audible to everyone.
Looking at the Manor Master, his back was still arched like a bow, but the bulging of his throat that had been moving up and down disappeared.
The Manor Master’s expression, which had been painful, seed to ease.
But suddenly, the Manor Master, who had his eyes closed, opened them wide.
“Oh? Manor Master?”
Could it be that the Manor Master had regained consciousness?
Then, Myo-sin let out a small, rough sound.
“shit!”
He hurriedly took out a talisman with the character “壓” (Suppress) written in red from the pouch at his waist and tried to rush towards the Manor Master, who seed to have awakened.
Then, the Manor Master’s head suddenly turned to the side in a strange manner.
Creak!
‘!?’
Go Chan’s eyes widened.
The Manor Master’s horrifying eyeballs were not just bloodshot but dyed red except for the pupils.
Amidst that, with his back arched and his head turned in such a way, it was even spine-chilling.
At that mont, diviner Myo-sin ford a single-handed seal with his left hand and chanted an incantation.
“皆兵…皆..兵….皆..兵…臨…..皆….臨…兵…”(So bullshit)
Swish!
The yellow talisman wrapped around Myo-sin’s right fingers straightened out stiffly.
With the talisman stretched out like this, Myo-sin tried to attach it to the forehead of the Manor Master, whose head had turned.
However,
“Kaaah!”
The Manor Master let out a strange sound and shouted.
“Ugh!”
As the resounding shout echoed like a roar, Myo-sin staggered and was pushed back.
The shout affected not only him.
Go Chan also montarily covered his ears due to the pain in his eardrums from the sudden scream.
‘I- Internal energy was infused.’
The Manor Master was a master of internal martial arts, so his internal energy was profound.
Naturally, his scream had to be infused with internal energy, and the vibrations caused pain to those who heard it.
Go Chan, who had been covering his ears, looked at Mok Gyeong-un.
But,
‘This fellow hasn’t even cultivated internal energy, yet he’s unaffected?’
Mok Gyeong-un was just slightly frowning.
Did he simply endure the pain?
In the mont of bewildernt, the Manor Master, who had shouted, turned his head and straightened his back, trying to get up from the bed.
However,
Bang!
The red threads tied to the Manor Master’s wrists and ankles tightened, making him unable to stand properly and leaving him in an awkward posture.
Sizzle!
A faint haze and a pungent sll flowed from where the red threads were tied.
“Kaaaaaah!”
The Manor Master, with his bloodshot eyes, howled like a beast, not a human.
Then, he pulled his right hand with all his might.
At that,
Thud!
The open door was torn off, and the red thread snapped.
“shit!”
diviner Myo-sin, who had been staggering due to the shout, couldn’t hide his dismay.
He had firmly secured the red threads, but because they had opened the door and entered, his work was ruined.
Bulge! Bulge!
Black blood vessels bulged on the Manor Master’s bloodshot forehead and face.
‘To be possessed by a strange phenonon.’
This is what they call being possessed.
Now that it had co to this, finding out the location of the Manor Master’s seal and secret manuals, as requested by Lady Seok, was out of the question.
Clang clang! Snap!
Amidst the dismay, the Manor Master tried to break all the red threads strung with silver coins.
“Ugh!”
It was not a situation to question the request or anything else.
diviner Myo-sin rushed towards the Manor Master once again, trying to attach the talisman to his forehead.
However,
Thwack!
“Ugh!”
With a casual swing of his hand, the Manor Master sent Myo-sin rolling on the floor.
‘Wh- What strength…’
Myo-sin was utterly perplexed.
Those possessed by strange phenona do beco stronger than ordinary people, but this was incomparably different.
He had no strength left to hold down the Manor Master.
Snap!
The red thread tying the Manor Master’s left wrist was about to break.
diviner Myo-sin shouted at Mok Gyeong-un and Go Chan,
“Y- You two, help . Hold down the Manor Master so he can’t break the threads!”
“Hold him down, you say?”
Although he couldn’t understand the situation, Go Chan could tell that it was serious.
There was no ti to think it over in his head.
Go Chan hurriedly rushed towards the Manor Master.
Mok Gyeong-un did the sa.
“Is it enough to just hold him?”
“Even if you hold him, never make eye contact, and if you feel your hands getting cold and a chill down your spine while holding him, let go no matter what!”
It was quite an ambiguous piece of advice to hear.
Anyway, if they didn’t hold down the Manor Master now, sothing terrible would happen, so Go Chan didn’t ask any more questions and quickly grabbed the Manor Master’s freed right arm.
Grab!
He wanted to grab the fixed left hand, but he couldn’t bring himself to ask Mok Gyeong-un to do it.
But here, a problem arose.
The Manor Master was said to be weakened, but he was a master of internal martial arts who could not be matched even by Captain Gam.
The strength of such a Manor Master was too much for even Go Chan to handle.
Smack!
He easily shook off Go Chan’s hand and instead grabbed his wrist.
“Huh?”
Snap!
The grip of that hand was so strong that it felt like his wrist would break at any mont.
In a panic, Go Chan instinctively tried to twist the Manor Master’s wrist using the Grappling Hand technique.
Tap!
At that mont, the strength of the Manor Master’s hand gripping his wrist weakened.
“Huh?”
He wondered why, but Myo-sin had already attached the talisman to the Manor Master’s forehead.
And forming a hand seal, he chanted an incantation.
“————————!”
Tremble tremble tremble!
As the talisman was attached, the Manor Master’s body convulsed.
Taking this opportunity, Go Chan tried to remove the Manor Master’s hand gripping his wrist.
But the mont he tried to remove it, the grip strengthened again.
Crack!
Go Chan’s wrist was twisted and broken.
The bone pierced through the flesh and protruded out.
“Aaaaargh!”
A scream burst out from Go Chan’s mouth.
It was remarkable that he endured it despite the bone not only being broken but also protruding out.
But when the blood oozing from the pierced flesh touched the Manor Master’s hand,
Squirm squirm!
The strange phenonon that had bulged out in black, centered on the heart, began to move to the Manor Master’s right arm with a surging montum.
“Eek!”
As it rushed to the wrist at a trendous speed, Go Chan was terrified.
Then, Myo-sin chanted the incantation once more with greater force.
“——————————–!”
At that, the strange phenonon squird and strongly convulsed between the wrist and the elbow, going back and forth.
Guard Go Chan urged, trying to sohow remove the Manor Master’s hand.
“P- Please, do sothing!”
“With the killing intent mixed in, the impurities have beco too strong. Just endure a little. If the strange phenonon spreads, you’ll be in danger too.”
“No, if you had said that earlier…”
Squirm squirm!
At that mont, the strange phenonon that had been going back and forth tried to rush to the wrist again.
“Gasp!”
The startled Go Chan tried to twist the Manor Master’s hand that wouldn’t let go of his wrist using the Seizing Hand technique to escape.
Swish! Slice!
At that instant, sothing unexpected happened.
The Manor Master’s wrist, which had been holding Go Chan’s wrist, was cut off.
‘!?’
The one who had cut off the wrist was none other than Mok Gyeong-un.
In Mok Gyeong-un’s hand was a sharp sword, one of the items hanging on the wall.
Go Chan was utterly perplexed.
Although it had been perilous due to the strange phenonon, he had never expected the Manor Master’s wrist to be cut off.
diviner Myo-sin felt the sa way.
‘Cutting off the Manor Master’s wrist? Just who is this guy?’
The Manor Master was the head of Yeon Mok Sword Manor, yet there was not a mont of hesitation.
Squirm squirm!
As the wrist was cut off, the strange phenonon that had climbed up to that point tried to move back to the Manor Master’s body.
‘That’s it!’
Another opportunity had arisen.
If the strange phenonon targeted the heart again, he could control it with talismanic techniques and sohow suppress the rampaging energy along with the killing intent.
However,
Slice!
Just as the strange phenonon was about to pass the elbow and move towards the shoulder, Mok Gyeong-un suddenly swung the sword and cut off the arm below the shoulder before the strange phenonon could climb up.
diviner Myo-sin was so surprised that he shouted in shock,
“You! You!”
He wanted to say sothing, but he was so dumbfounded that he was at a loss for words.
To him, Mok Gyeong-un said nonchalantly,
“Isn’t it better than trying to send it back through the body?”
Thud! Thud!
The black blood vessels in the severed arm of the Manor Master on the floor wriggled and thrashed about like a fish out of water.
On the other hand, the color was gradually returning to the Manor Master’s pale face.
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