A little while after I and the martial artists had taken our positions in front of the Shi-yue Pavilion and waited.
As if the door was slightly opening, won began to co out of the door in a line.
Although they all had no makeup on and were wearing plain clothes, judging by their extraordinary beauty, they seed to be courtesans.
As many as dozens of won went out like that. Even after the flow of people stopped, we waited for a long ti, but no one else ca out.
"Hwi-ya. It seems they've all gone out."
"It seems so. Shall we start moving now?"
At my words, Senior Brother Uncheol nodded his head.
Right now, Senior Brother Uncheol is playing a very important role.
In fact, right now, apart from , Senior Brother Uncheol, and Senior Brother Unjeong, the other martial artists are people who don't even know how to fight properly.
But since Senior Brother Unjeong is inside now, in reality, only I and Senior Brother Uncheol have to lead these martial artists.
But I'm not going to move with them, but I'm thinking of first finding and facing the martial artists who are relatively skilled among those who are guarding the Shi-yue Pavilion.
So for now, Senior Brother Uncheol has to be their leader.
"You rember what I said before we left, right?"
"Yes. I rember everything. You an that I should stand at the forefront of them and not let the enemies slip behind if possible?"
"That's right. Those martial artists are people who have to protect the Shi-yue Pavilion even if we leave. Although it will be difficult to save everyone, we have to try to save even one more person."
"Yes. I understand what you an."
Senior Brother Uncheol nodded his head with a firm face.
Senior Brother Uncheol, who has a particularly strong sense of responsibility, exerts a greater power when a situation like this, where he has to protect soone, arises.
Although it is also my sincere wish that he protect the martial artists of the Shi-yue Pavilion, that order will allow him to exert his potential even more.
"And Uncle Mo Yong-hae. Please co next to ."
"Yes. Martial artist."
"You, uncle, will go in at the forefront with . If there is anyone you know at the Shi-yue Pavilion, please try to persuade them to lay down their weapons and surrender. And if a martial artist from the Red Snake Gang cos out, please tell right away."
"I understand."
I looked at Senior Brother Uncheol again and said, "After I open the door and go in with Uncle Mo Yong-hae, you will follow right away."
"Yes. I will."
"Good. Let's go."
I imdiately began to move my steps towards the Shi-yue Pavilion.
The feeling of walking on a brothel street at this hour is really strange.
Although it is broad daylight with the sun in the middle of the sky, the world is as quiet as if day and night have been reversed.
Since it's a surprise attack during the day, should it be called a day attack instead of a night attack?
Since it's impossible for the courtesans to have locked the door when they ran away, when I pushed the door slightly, it opened lightly.
Although a rather loud noise was made, no one ca out to see, perhaps because everyone was asleep.
I asked Mo Yong-hae, who had followed closely, "Let's leave the occupation of the brothel to Senior Brother Uncheol, and we'll go to the lodgings where the martial artists who are guarding this place are staying. Where should we go?"
"This way."
Uncle Mo Yong-hae started to run ahead first.
While running for quite a while, I feel the presence of many people moving behind .
It seems Senior Brother Uncheol has started to enter with the martial artists.
And I soon reached a pavilion.
A place that looks like it could hold dozens of people at a glance.
I untied the sword from my waist with its scabbard and slowly walked to the front of the door and began to raise my energy.
"M-Martial artist, what are you trying to do now..."
"Since it's a pavilion where only n live, I have a feeling the sll will be strong, so I don't want to go in. If I don't go in, I'll have to make them co out, right? Uncle. Cover your ears."
And then I strongly struck the iron hinge with the scabbard.
The mont a sound as if a gong were ringing echoed, Uncle Mo Yong-hae, even though he was covering his ears, was greatly shocked and staggered greatly.
At the sa ti, the nurous presences felt from inside the pavilion.
"What. What's going on!"
"Did a thunderbolt bomb go off?"
And n began to pour out of the entrance like a swarm of bees.
Most of them were well-dressed, but among them, there were also those who were completely bare-chested.
And it seems almost everyone ca down here in a hurry without even taking their weapons.
"What. Brat. Did you do this?"
"What kind of outrage is this in broad daylight? Are you in your right mind?"
"No matter how boring life is, do you know where this is and are you playing such a life-threatening prank!"
The n who found shouted at .
As if they were not Unorthodox Faction guys with no roots, every single word they spat out was vulgar.
There is nothing they can't say to a slender and weak-looking boy like .
"Uncle. All those people are martial artists from the Red Snake Gang, right?"
"Th-That's right. Martial artist."
Uncle Mo Yong-hae answered, trembling.
At that ti, soone recognized him and said, "Older brother! That bastard is the guy who works at the Flying Dragon Inn. He's the one who ca here a while ago and talked nonsense about returning the brothel, and we beat him up."
"What? He must have been stronger than I thought. To be alive after being beaten like that."
"He's also a guy with comndable courage. To co here again."
At that ti, a large man with a smooth expression ca up to .
"Hey. Brat. You have to speak well here. Did you co here following that uncle behind you? To say sothing about returning the Shi-yue Pavilion?"
"What if I did?"
"Then there's no choice. I'll have to dote on you and then kill you."
"Really? Then what if I say I'll go back as I am?"
"Then go back quietly as you are..."
The big guy who was talking hard couldn't finish his words and fell backward.
Because I had strongly stabbed his solar plexus with the end of my scabbard and he had fainted.
"Everyone. If you quietly leave the Shi-yue Pavilion and disappear, I won't kill you. I'll try to save you as much as possible, but when I fight with so many of you like this, it's inevitable that I'll fail to control my strength."
"Wh-What did you say?!"
"What is this bastard saying now?!"
I turned around and whispered to Uncle Mo Yong-hae, 'Hide behind there,' and then I imdiately kicked off the ground and jumped into the middle of the martial artists.
"G-Grab him!"
"This son of a bitch!"
The martial artists of the Red Snake Gang get tangled up trying to catch . I gracefully slipped through them as if swimming with the Flowing Cloud Lightness Skill and began to feed them a blow of the scabbard one by one in the order of the closest.
I hit the guys' heads, faces, solar plexuses, and waists with gusto.
Since they were guys with poor martial arts, the guys who were hit by my scabbard even once either fainted or had their bones broken, and they were unable to fight.
For guys of this level, there is no need for techniques or sword forms.
It's just a matter of stabbing an attack into a place where a gap is visible.
"Grab him. Grab him!"
"Surround him at once! The enemy is just one kid!"
Although they shout at the top of their lungs, if they want to catch by shouting, they will have to learn the Lion's Roar of the Shaolin Temple.
In the first place, the difference in the footwork we have learned is huge. Even if they try to attack all at once, the hole for to escape looks very large.
Even in the midst of that, I steadily reduced their numbers one by one.
Because the number of enemies was being reduced so smoothly, I rather began to feel anxious.
'This, are all the small fries gathered here, and are the strong ones sowhere else?'
When I think about it now, there are two places where the strong ones might be.
The first is if they are using a different pavilion, not this one.
In that case, they might hear the sound of fighting now and co this way, or they might appear on Senior Brother Uncheol's side.
By now, Senior Brother Unjeong, who had infiltrated the Shi-yue Pavilion first and made the courtesans run away, would have joined, so my worries are a little reduced, but that's still better. Because I can quickly clean up this place and join them.
But the problem is the second. The case where the strong ones are gathered at the Red Snake Gang where my master, Senior Brother Unsik, and Senior Brother Unmi went.
Although I took more martial artists who used to work at the Shi-yue Pavilion, they are not really of much use, so my master and the two senior brothers have to face them, but the distance is surprisingly far, so I can't go to help them quickly, and it's an ambiguous situation.
For now, I have no choice but to defeat them even a little faster.
When I knocked down about thirty people in an instant, the remaining martial artists began to be greatly agitated.
They are also people who live by eating sword rice in the martial world.
They must have already realized that my martial arts are incomparably stronger than theirs.
They began to get tangled up, shouting sothing at each other.
So were still telling to catch and kill , and so were starting to run away in a hurry.
But at that ti, one voice ca into my ears.
"Get the gang leader right now. The gang leader. He's a master we can't handle with our strength!"
The mont I heard those words, I was able to realize two things.
First of all. For now, there is no master in the brothel that I need to worry about.
Perhaps there isn't one at the Red Snake Gang either. Because usually, a small-scale Unorthodox Faction like this is mostly a group composed of one sect leader with quite outstanding martial arts and the dregs under him.
And second.
'Go Mun-tak is not at the Red Snake Gang, but here at the Shi-yue Pavilion.'
Although my master had expected Go Mun-tak to be at the Red Snake Gang and had gone there, I was rather pleased with this situation.
Because I wanted to catch the guy with my own hands.
No, to be precise, it's because I wanted to face him directly.
'He said he was a disciple who had received direct instruction from the leader of the Evil Way Alliance, right?'
I don't know what his original skills were, but if he suddenly beca so strong after returning from the leader of the Evil Way Alliance, I might be able to guess what kind of martial arts the leader of the Evil Way Alliance uses just by facing him.
If I can find out the identity of the leader of the Evil Way Alliance first, I might be able to prevent the disputes that will happen in the future.
Now a larger number of martial artists than before are starting to run away.
I didn't chase after all of those who were running away and catch them.
Because the Unorthodox Faction guys with no roots value their own lives the most, and it's obvious where those guys will run to.
'Yes. Run to your gang leader.'
I deliberately pretended to be busy fighting and slowly followed the ones who were running away and began to knock them down one by one.
After following them for a long ti, the entire brothel began to beco noisy.
From a place not far from the entrance I had co in, I hear the sound of people fighting and shouting.
It seems they are also starting to fight over there.
Although I have knocked down dozens of martial artists here, since Senior Brother Unjeong had found out first that most of the employees working here were martial artists who had learned martial arts, my senior brothers should absolutely not be careless.
"We're finally here. Gang Leader! Gang Leader!"
And so, at the point where there were less than ten martial artists running away in front of .
A not-so-large pavilion appeared in front of , who had co quite deep into the brothel.
Judging by the reaction of the martial artists who were running away, it seed that this was the residence where the Red Snake Gang Leader, Go Mun-tak, was staying.
"Good. Hurry up and call your leader."
I stopped chasing the guys and stood there and waited.
Because I felt an ominous and huge energy emanating from that building.
I can tell without having to check with my eyes.
That the Red Snake Gang Leader is in there.
'Really... his energy is stronger than I thought...?'
To be honest, it's unexpected.
To be able to feel his presence already even though I'm quite far from the pavilion ans that he is a considerably strong martial artist.
Of course, he's not as good as the forr Changjiang Water Fortress leader I faced a while ago, but his skills seem to be better than the Black Society leader.
"What's going on?"
At that ti, a person walked out of that pavilion.
He was quite tall, and his slender body seed to be able to move nimbly.
"Gang Leader. It's an enemy. That guy has knocked down all of our brothers!"
As a subordinate shouted urgently, he stared at .
"Who are you?"
"I... let's just say I'm a passing apostle of justice. You, you forcibly occupied the Shi-yue Pavilion, right?"
"Hoo-hoo. I don't know who you are, but I think I know who your colleague is."
"My colleague?"
"Was it the third son of Minister Jeong?"
I was slightly surprised and my eyes widened.
He saw my expression and, as if he had thought that was the case, he smiled and said, "I investigated the back, and it was too perfect. It was so perfect that I couldn't help but be suspicious. And your energy... it's very similar to his."
I also smiled back at him.
And I drew the sword that I had never drawn before from its scabbard and said, "Then, shall we see the skills of the disciple of the leader of the Evil Way Alliance?"
A little bit of strength began to enter my body.
Now, it was not a playful fight like before, but the beginning of a real life-and-death battle.
(End of Chapter)
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