Chapter 52. Connection (2)
The spear qi, which could be called the symbol of a peak master.
Laughter flowed out on its own.
Yes.
The past few days had been too peaceful.
On the way to Heavenly Sun Village, there were no Black Thugs or mountain bandits who could be called masters.
How could I not be delighted to et an enemy who might be helpful for my training after so long?
The enemy's thoughts seed a little different, though.
“You're laughing?”
The man who had been smiling slyly frowned.
“How dare you laugh after seeing the spear qi of this Blood Shadow Ghost Spear elder. I wonder if you're a fool who can't recognize spear qi, or a madman. Let's find out.”
The man still pointed his spear at and gave an order to his subordinates.
“Don't kill him, we need to find out who's backing him. However, you just need to keep him alive, so it doesn't matter if you cut off an arm or a leg.”
A peculiar word was mixed in.
Backing, what did that an?
But I soon lost interest.
I could find out after killing a few of them and torturing them.
The n in black who jumped out of the bushes. Eleven of them, who seed to have been sent by the Black Market, surrounded us from all sides and approached.
And at the mont the distance narrowed to so extent.
When one of the n in black let out a shout, several of them charged at once.
“Attack!!”
Through my wide-open eyes, I could see several strands of trajectories embroidered in the air.
I twisted my upper body minimally to avoid the blade flying towards my shoulder, and was about to take a step diagonally and thrust my sword towards the enemy in the front left.
But the mont I took a step, a new trajectory appeared.
A trajectory that grazed past the side of the enemy I was aiming for and pierced straight through my thigh.
Phat!
Right after I hastily stepped on the Eight Trigrams Flying Stream Steps and took a step to the right.
Swish!
A sharp spearhead pierced through the place where I had been.
It was the spear of that peak master who called himself Blood Shadow Ghost Spear or sothing.
“Hoh.”
The man had an interested expression.
At the sa ti, he once again aid for the gap between the n in black and thrust his spear.
This ti, his spear was imbued with blood-red spear qi.
It was an attack that was burdenso to clash with directly. anwhile, from the side, a man in black was swinging his sword.
I swung my sword to parry the man in black's sword and unfolded the Eight Trigrams Flying Stream Steps.
Slice.
I managed to avoid the spear by a hair's breadth, but the hem of my clothes at my side was cut off.
Clang! Clang!!
The sound of tal clashing rang out continuously from behind.
It was the sound of Nam Geon getting beaten up diligently.
“Indeed, they said you've achieved Blade and Sword Immunity. It seems it wasn't just a rumor.”
The Blood Shadow Ghost Spear, who muttered that, stepped on a footwork and moved his position as if to get out of my sight.
It wasn't easy to follow his movents because the n in black positioned on all sides were taking turns swinging their swords or blades.
It would be a different story if the n in black were complete amateurs, but all eleven of them had skills that could be called first-rate.
But whether the opponent was a peak master or eleven first-rate masters, they would die if they were stabbed with a knife all the sa.
After watching the movents of the n in black for a mont through the trajectories visible in the air.
Slice!
At the cost of my forearm being lightly cut by the blade swung from the right, I succeeded in piercing the neck of one of the n in black in front of .
Right after that. A chilling slicing sound ca from behind.
Slice!
It wasn't the sound of Nam Geon finishing off a man in black. If it was a sound made by Nam Geon's Mother's Affection Sword, it would have been a crushing sound.
“O-older brother!”
Sohyang calls for Nam Geon with a pale face.
A faint stream of blood was flowing from Nam Geon's side.
It was a wound caused by the Blood Shadow Ghost Spear's spear qi.
“I-it's okay. I, I can endure this much.”
“B-but……. B-because of .”
It seed his side was cut by the spearmaster's surprise attack that aid for an opening while he was trying to protect Sohyang.
I glanced over and fortunately, the wound wasn't deep enough to damage his internal organs.
It seed he had managed to avoid a serious injury by twisting his body at the last mont.
After that, their movents changed slightly.
While they were launching a coordinated attack on us, they would swing their weapons at Sohyang in between.
Naturally, my and Nam Geon's movents were bound to be restricted.
Curses were about to spew out on their own.
It wasn't because of their cowardice.
It was natural for trash to fight like trash. I wasn't stupid enough to complain about sothing like this.
The problem was that I wasn't used to this kind of fight. To fighting while protecting soone.
It was because the before regression always traveled alone.
Even after I started traveling with Sohyang, I had only faced weak opponents, so I hadn't recognized that there was such a problem.
That was right.
The reason I was angry was not because of their cowardly thods.
It was anger at myself for not having prepared, even though I knew full well that the trash would co out cowardly.
But I couldn't just get angry like an idiot and die.
If I hadn't prepared, I just had to start preparing one by one from now on.
First, I decided to take care of Sohyang, who must have been surprised by the sudden situation.
“Junior Sister!!”
“Ye-yes, Senior Brother.”
“We will win anyway!! So watch carefully! Watching is also a part of training!”
I had no talent for comforting soone.
So, this was the best encouragent I could give.
Yes. It was a crisis she would have to face at so point anyway if she was going to be involved in Jianghu.
It would be a good experience for Junior Sister.
“How dare this brat look away!”
A man in black glares and swings his blade.
At the sa ti, a piece of trash was thrusting his blade towards Sohyang from the right.
I sharply twisted my body and thrust my sword towards the right.
Two slicing sounds rang out at the sa ti.
Slice!
The sound of my sword piercing the neck of the Black Thug who was aiming for Sohyang.
Slice!
And, the sound of a blade grazing past my back.
A smile naturally forms at the burning pain I feel on my back.
“Hehehe. Yes. I just need to kill them one by one.”
If I just focus on protecting Sohyang, I'll run out of strength and die.
I just had to be prepared to take a few stabs, avoid the vital points, and kill them.
Just in ti, Nam Geon also succeeded in crushing a man in black to death with his Mother's Affection Sword.
Slice.
Crack!
While his forearm was cut by the Blood Shadow Ghost Spear's spear.
It seed that fellow had also changed his strategy to sacrificing flesh to take the bone, just like .
Ah, co to think of it, that was the only way that guy knew how to fight in the first place.
Nam Geon, who had crushed one man in black, endured the pain and shouted loudly.
“We, we fight well! Hyang, don't worry!”
I nodded my head on its own.
I glanced at the remaining eight n in black and the Blood Shadow Ghost Spear behind them and said.
“Well, let's see who dies first.”
After that, a bloody battle continued.
The n in black periodically swung their weapons, aiming for Sohyang.
In the process of protecting Sohyang, the wounds on my and Nam Geon's bodies increased.
But I no longer focused solely on defense.
Slice!
While another wound appeared on my forearm.
Crack!
I finally succeeded in piercing the heart of one of the n in black.
“Eight.”
As I counted the remaining enemies and grinned, the n in black around flinched.
Whether their pride was hurt by that fact, they belatedly contorted their faces and charged again.
“How dare a brat laugh at us?”
“I'll rip you to shreds!!”
The smile on my lips deepened.
It wasn't because it was the life-and-death struggle I had longed for.
I couldn't help but laugh at how ridiculous they looked.
“I don't think that's sothing for guys who are making a big fuss in a group just to catch one brat to say, is it?”
As expected, trash was strict with others and endlessly lenient with themselves.
After dodging or parrying the swords and blades swung by things less than insects for a mont.
The girl's shout ca from behind.
It wasn't a scream for help from a girl in crisis.
“Older brother!! Your eyes!!”
A shout with unexpected content.
Soon, the sound of tal rang out.
Clang!
Nam Geon suddenly offered his thanks.
“Th-thank you, Hyang!”
It seed a Black Thug had avoided the Blade and Sword Immunity and aid for Nam Geon's eyes.
What was surprising was that Sohyang had noticed it and warned Nam Geon.
I had told Sohyang to watch the fight, but I hadn't said it expecting sothing like this.
I wondered if a true genius was on a different level.
It had only been about ten days since she started learning martial arts.
She was a girl who couldn't join this fight because of her pitifully weak body and internal energy, but it seed her eyes and insight were keeping up with the flow of the battle.
“I guess I don't have to worry about what's behind .”
My mind felt much more at ease.
I swung my sword towards the trajectory I saw.
Clang!!
Sparks flew from the clashing sword, and the trajectory of the blade aiming for my forearm was deflected to the side.
A sword art that utilized the subtlety of yielding. It was a technique made possible thanks to the thod of using my eyes that I realized during the duel with the forr Azure Sword Sect's Leader.
The deflected man in black's blade collides with another man in black's sword that was flying in from the side.
Soon, while the sound of tal rang out.
Clang!!
I quickly twisted my body and thrust my sword to the left.
A blade was flying in from there as well.
It was too late to completely dodge and counterattack.
I didn't expect that in the first place.
With the mindset that it was enough as long as I didn't die, I minimally twisted my upper body and thrust my sword.
Slice.
Crack!!
While my shoulder was cut by the man in black's blade, my sword pierced his throat.
“Seven.”
A sound of sothing being crushed cos from behind.
Crack!!
I knew without looking.
It was Nam Geon's work.
“Six.”
While I was counting, Sohyang's shout ca.
“Your side!!”
Slice!
Following that, a sound of sothing being cut burst out, and Nam Geon's voice, clenching his teeth, was heard.
“I-it's okay. I, I can endure this much.”
Glancing over, a wound had appeared on Nam Geon's forearm.
It seed he was cut by the Blood Shadow Ghost Spear's spear qi as a price for killing one of them.
I thought it was thanks to Sohyang's shout that he was cut on the forearm instead of the side.
At that mont. The Blood Shadow Ghost Spear shouted with a displeased expression.
“It doesn't matter if you kill them, so fight properly! Once you kill one, it will be easy to subdue the other one anyway!”
Soon, a change occurred in the movents of the n in black.
Until now, they had only aid for places that wouldn't be fatal if pierced, like arms, legs, or sides. But now, they began to swing their weapons, blatantly aiming for vital points.
Naturally, that target included Sohyang.
The wounds piling up on my body naturally increased.
There were only six left, but neither I nor Nam Geon was in a normal state.
But I had no intention of giving up.
“Even if I die, I have to clean up all the trash before I go. Of course.”
Right after I muttered that and dodged the sword of a man in black aiming for my neck.
A sudden shout ca from the side.
“You scoundrels~!! Tornting children in broad daylight like this!!”
At the sa ti, a man unfolded his movent art and charged towards the man in black.
With the man's sudden entry into the battle, a crack appeared in the movents of the n in black.
“Haat!”
The man swung his sword at one of the n in black without hesitation, and the man in black's posture, caught by surprise, crumbled.
The man pressed the man in black whose posture had crumbled, and the gazes of the n in black were montarily directed towards that man.
It was a brief mont, but in a real battle, a guy who misses that mont would have nothing to say even if he died.
I swung my sword without hesitation towards the man in black on the right who had been looking away.
“Foolish bastard.”
Slice!
The man in black's neck is cut off, and blood splatters.
Beyond the red vision, the scene of the man cutting down the man in black he had first attacked ca into view.
I threw myself, unfolding my movent art at full power.
It was because the Blood Shadow Ghost Spear was about to thrust his spear towards the man who had suddenly joined the battle.
“Tsk.”
Whether he noticed charging, the Blood Shadow Ghost Spear who had been aiming for the man turned his body and thrust his spear at .
As soon as the trajectory was embroidered in the air, the spear flew at a trendous speed.
Thanks to quickly twisting my upper body as soon as I saw the trajectory, I was able to dodge it by a graze.
After successfully capturing the Blood Shadow Ghost Spear's attention, I let out a shout.
“Nam Geon! I'll take this one, you protect Junior Sister!”
If there was no peak master, it was unlikely that Nam Geon would die or be seriously injured.
The problem was that it would be difficult for Nam Geon to protect Sohyang alone, but now there were only three n in black left. Moreover, with the man who had suddenly intervened, there would be no major problem.
A spear flew at my head in a surprise attack.
Swish.
The spearhead passed by with a graze. The flesh in front of my cheekbone was lightly cut, and blood flowed down my cheek.
“Do you think a brat like you can face alone?”
At the Blood Shadow Ghost Spear's words, laughter flowed out on its own.
“Hehehe.”
It was difficult to concentrate fully on the sword because I had to protect Sohyang.
“I don't think that's sothing a coward who was hiding behind his subordinates should say, is it?”
But now, I just had to focus on killing that cowardly peak master.
Moreover, thanks to shedding a moderate amount of blood, my head felt refreshed.
That fact was quite delightful.
“Co on, coward. Try to push back. I said, try to lead there!”
Because while killing trash, I might be able to see that slow world again.
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