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Chapter 166
Chapter 166. A Sea of Blood Spreading through Sichuan (2)
“Daaaamn it!”
The reason I had despised the higher-ups of the Murim Alliance in my past life was not simply because of my inferiority complex.
The hypocrisy of the vested powers was nothing new, and capable people craving authority was not something that had begun yesterday or today.
The problem was that those bastards’ incompetence harmed me.
W̌ е̊ b̆ṅ о̇ v̌ ẽľ Е̂ n ům а̀
The Sojeong Squad, affiliated with the White Wolf Pavilion, where lower-ranking warriors gathered.
Not the Murim Alliance main force.
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Not even a proper unit.
Nothing more than a side branch.
Their incompetence reached even me.
Those bastards gave orders, and we merely followed.
Е̄n̂u mа .і̀ ď
They were the ones without ability, yet we were the ones who died.
Honestly, if they were this incompetent, one could regard them as Demonic Cult spies and it would not be strange.
The reason I was fighting the vested powers like hell in this life was because I hoped this kind of bullshit situation would not happen again.
Rather than watching Junior Brothers and comrades return as corpses once more because of some stupid order from above.
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I had reached the point where I thought it would be better to throw myself into the Demonic Cult and smash the Murim Alliance with my own hands.
‘They really are amazing bastards.’
W еb̆n o v̆ еl Е̇ n̄û m̀ а
The members of the Righteous Path Association within the Elder Council led the Nine Sects and One Gang toward Sichuan.
In the middle of that, as withdrawals from the Righteous Path Association accelerated because of the Soul-Destroying Formation incident, they apparently wanted to draw unaffiliated people into the Righteous Path Association, so they swept up everyone remaining at the academy and went to Sichuan.
“They really are amazing bastards.”
I had blocked them and blocked them again, telling them not to do such stupid things, yet they squeezed through the gap and started digging with a shovel anyway.
Fine, let us say there is nothing to be done if the Righteous Path Association goes to Sichuan and dies.
Yes, that is something you bastards chose, and it is your bastards’ disciples who die!
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If you destroy yourselves through such idiocy, how could I stop you?
But damn it.
Why take Murong Jae-hwa and Eun Seol-ran too!!!
I simply could not tolerate the way their nuisance spread everywhere.
In my past life, Murong Jae-hwa was someone who held back the Demonic Cult for a long time during the Murim Alliance’s Great Retreat, and Eun Seol-ran was the person who later laid the foundation for the Murim Alliance to establish itself in Bukhae.
If my plan failed and this life also became a Tide of the Demonic Path just like my past life, those two were the final hope who would at least preserve the vital spirit of the Orthodox Path Murim.
Е ñ ù m̂ á . ìd
Leaving aside the fact that they were precious younger siblings to me.
What those bastards were doing now was no different from using the deed to the house, the final bastion left behind by our ancestors, as kindling and swinging it around in a round of fire-spinning.
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If I considered the tragic future, even setting fire to the entire Murim Alliance right now and burning every hall to the ground would cause less damage than those two dying.
‘Ah! I really feel like defecting to the Demonic Cult.’
Suppressing my frustration, the first place I ran to was Buk Won-pyeong’s office.
“The Academy Head is currently traveling outside.”
Е n̈ u̇mа̀
Perhaps I had been too excited, because I had even forgotten that I had sent him to the Taeul Sect.
To begin with, if Buk Won-pyeong had been at the academy, he would have stopped the Righteous Path Association from moving.
“Young Master Jin, are you all right?”
Seong Mo-ran asked with concern.
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“…….”
Was I all right? I was not all right at all.
Е̇ ň ü mā
The reason the damage in Sichuan had been so great was partly because the academy students had not been prepared for the Unorthodox Path witchcraft, but if one had to pick the greatest reason, it would be the lax operation of the units.
In that insane operation to divide into ten groups and search for the culprits, the Corpse Mountain Blood Cult simply opened its mouth and swallowed the academy students like someone waiting beneath a persimmon tree for persimmons to fall.
If I assumed that the Command Center was no different from back then, then the immediate issue was finding which of those ten units Eun Seol-ran and Murong Jae-hwa belonged to.
“Among the recent information I received from Hao Gate, there was talk that those appearing in Sichuan were not ordinary beings.”
My party flinched in surprise at my words.
Since they had encountered the Demonic Cult in the past, their sense of tension was different.
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“Then…… Then…… We have to stop them.”
At Seong Mo-ran’s words, Namgung Seon-hwa shook her head.
“They will not listen to us, Sister.”
Seong Mo-ran’s eyes rose sharply.
“Why did those bastards take our innocent younger siblings with them?!”
I barely stopped Seong Mo-ran, who looked ready to draw her sword and run straight to Sichuan.
Е̊_nú m̄а̇
“The urgent matter right now is first figuring out where Jae-hwa and Seol-ran are.”
If those bastards obediently shared their unit assignment information, that would be one thing, but as if they would.
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We had to search for them directly until our feet sweated, but that was impossible alone.
It would be better to simply nullify the event itself.
Yes, nullify the event itself…….
“……Huh?”
Е̇n̆ ũ_m̀ а̂
“What is it? Do you have a good idea?”
“I think…… there is a way.”
“What way?”
If that side used a loophole, then this side could use a loophole too.
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“It will not be a perfect solution, but we should be able to save the two of them.”
The Murim Academy belonged to the Mantongbu.
Wе̃b̀n о̌ v̈el Е́n̂ ũ m̃ ȧ
If the Academy Head was absent, the person in charge of the Mantongbu would command the Murim Academy.
That meant it would be over if the Mantongbu issued an order prohibiting the event.
‘Of course, it will not be easy.’
Jegal So-myeong was already being heavily checked by the Elder Council.
It was only natural that he would not want to engage in a war of nerves with them.
In that case, I had to obtain at least an order that allowed me to bring back Murong Jae-hwa and Eun Seol-ran.
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And I would have to take even only my party and go save them.
There was no time to delay, so I immediately went to the Murim Alliance’s Mantongbu.
“Hm? What brings you here?”
Maeng Ju-won of the Mantongbu still had something like dark soot smeared under his eyes.
“Where is the Grand Strategist?”
Despite my urgent question, Maeng Ju-won still wore a vacant expression.
Wẽ b̂nо̂ v̆ êl Én̄ú m̄ а̀
“The Grand Strategist? He went to his main family not long ago.”
“Yes?”
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Where did a man called the Grand Strategist of the Murim Alliance find the time to go home! And why now, of all times!
“The Regular Exam is over, so he took a vacation for the first time in nearly a year. Do you have some business with him?”
The Mantongbu’s chain of command was simpler than expected, so when the Grand Strategist was absent, the position passed to the next rank.
In other words, the current head of the Mantongbu was,
Еn̊ úm̀.а̀
“Department Head Maeng Ju-won.”
This pitiful Maeng Ju-won before my eyes.
“Right now, the academy students have gone out for an event without even receiving the academy representative’s approval.”
“……Mm, is that so?”
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“This is an incident that violates the Murim Alliance’s strict Alliance regulations.”
Maeng Ju-won was still leisurely.
Enum å
“Of course it does. But did the members of the Elder Council not accompany that event? You know that, by precedent, this kind of thing is simply overlooked. Why are you suddenly acting like this?”
Maeng Ju-won spoke with the expression of a public official so worn down that there seemed to be nothing left to wear away.
“I understand how you feel. You must hate the sight of those old men from the Elder Council stepping forward now. But what can be done? Some matters must be overlooked because there is no choice.”
“…….”
“Moreover, can you not tell by looking? Those old codgers proceeded with the matter at lightning speed while the Grand Strategist was away. It means they were aiming for this from the start.”
Maeng Ju-won, who did not understand the seriousness of the situation, patted my shoulder.
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“It cannot be helped, can it? Just close your eyes and let this one pass. After they return, you can flatten their noses with another event.”
No, that was not the problem.
Our children were going to die.
“Then could you at least write an order telling Murong Jae-hwa and Eun Seol-ran, who were forcibly mobilized for that event, to return to the academy?”
“Hm?”
“I do not want those two attending that event.”
Ê ň u m̌a .i d̀
“…….”
Maeng Ju-won put down the documents he was holding and stared into my eyes.
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“What are you scheming?”
“Yes?”
“It is only an event they went on as though it were an outing anyway. Once time passes, they will return on their own. If they are your people, participating in that event will not make them their people, will it?”
Ah, how frustrating.
Е ṅu mа . і̂ ď
I could not reveal everything and say that the Corpse Mountain Blood Cult would appear in Sichuan.
“……I am afraid the Righteous Path Association will be a bad influence on them.”
“…….”
Maeng Ju-won changed his vacant expression, glared at me, and shook his head.
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“No.”
“Yes?”
E n.u̇ m̃ ă
“I said no. Go back.”
“No, why?”
“Did I not tell you? This event is an event personally planned by the old men of the Elder Council. If I interfere with their event, could I, a mere Alliance member, endure it?”
Maeng Ju-won picked up his documents again and turned his back to me.
So that was how it was?
Telling Maeng Ju-won to deal with an organization that even Jegal So-myeong was reluctant to oppose was no different from telling a lower-ranking warrior to deal with the Heavenly Demon Black Sword Unit.
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“……How nice would it have been if you had listened to me earlier?”
Hm?
Did I hear wrong?
“What did you just say?”
“……What do you mean?”
“Did you not say something just now like, ‘If you had listened to me earlier……’?”
Еn ůmа. i̊d̄
Maeng Ju-won tapped the innocent documents with his finger.
“……Why are you eavesdropping on my muttering?”
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How was that muttering? I thought someone had spoken right into my eardrum.
“……What do you want?”
Maeng Ju-won’s eyes began to shake violently.
They were eyes like the Traceless Divine Thief standing before gold and jewels, unable to control his own hands and about to pick up the gems.
Ŵеb ṅо v ěl̆ Е n̄um̂а
“A-Ahem. What do you mean, what do I want? I have no such thing.”
Look at that. At this rate, he was going to tear up all the documents.
He was trying hard to turn his head away, yet somehow his eyeballs were staring straight at me.
Seeing his eyeballs roll that far, if things went well, they might even show the back of his head.
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“If you tell me what you want, I will think about it.”
“Ahem, ahem!”
È n̈ŭm̈ á
Maeng Ju-won cleared his throat for a long while, as though phlegm were caught there, then opened his mouth.
“Come both days during your holidays, and on weekdays, come to the Mantongbu two days after your academy schedule ends.”
“…….”
What was this? Had he finally gone mad from working too much?
“What are you telling me to do at the Mantongbu?”
“What else? Learn the work in advance and practice it.”
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Why would I do that?
“I will not do it.”
“Then it will be difficult for me to write the order too.”
“…….”
I stared fixedly at Maeng Ju-won.
He was pretending to be calm, but the tips of his feet were trembling rapidly.
En̆ ũḿа̂
He was trying to act as uninterested as possible, but he was worried he might miss out.
Novice gamblers with a moderately good card always looked just like that.
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I stood up from my seat.
“Understood.”
Maeng Ju-won’s eyes widened sharply.
“I suppose I will simply skip without permission and go bring them back.”
W̄ẽb́ n о v е l̄ È nů m̃ ā
“Huh? Do you not know that unauthorized absence can be grounds for expulsion from the academy?”
“I know. I will simply finish my mandatory service and return to my sect.”
“Without remaining in the Murim Alliance?”
“I am a person extremely thirsty for wealth and glory. If I become an officer, there may be a time when I pass through the Mantongbu for promotion, but if I am not an officer, there is no reason for me to remain in the Murim Alliance.”
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“…….”
“I apologize for taking your time. Then I will be going.”
Еn̂ u m а̄
I said that and took a step toward the outside.
Maeng Ju-won quickly grabbed my sleeve.
“Now, now, my good man! Why are you so hasty? Fine! Come only both days during your holidays.”
Trying to bluff against me, who used to cheat at gambling among the Sojeong Squad thugs?
“One day during my holidays. I will come, handle the work perfectly, and return.”
“Fine! While you are learning the work, two days. Once I think you have learned everything, you will only do one day. I cannot concede any further either.”
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Maeng Ju-won abruptly turned his body away as though making a threat.
I fell into thought for a moment.
It was a shame to lose one of my honey-sweet days off, but conversely, when I thought about being able to make trouble for the disobedient Nine Sects and One Gang or the Five Great Clans from within the Mantongbu, it was not necessarily a bad deal.
“Very well. Then please write the order canceling the event held by the Righteous Path Association without fail…….”
“Good! In addition, I should issue an arrest order for the Elder Council’s anti-Alliance conduct, correct?”
Before I could even finish speaking, Maeng Ju-won excitedly rummaged through the documents.
Wẽ bn_о́ v̄ѐ l Ĕ ṅum̃а
No, did you not just say that you could not endure it as a mere functionary?
“……An event cancellation order will be enough.”
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“Mm…… Well, I suppose even I would find it hard to preserve my life if I made enemies of all the Nine Sects and One Gang.”
“…….”
“Ah, right. Do you not need warriors? How about around one hundred elite warriors? With that many, you could threaten them into stopping the event, could you not?”
As though he wanted to show the power of the Mantongbu, Maeng Ju-won brought over all sorts of documents by type.
Е̇ n ǔ m̃ā . ĭd̊_
“…….”
What was this man? Did he have no concern for consequences?
At any rate, there were no ordinary people in the Murim Alliance either.
When I delivered the Mantongbu’s leave pass and the event cancellation order to the academy, the academy administrators and instructors showed troubled expressions.
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As soon as the second semester began, the representative and the representative executives all said they were going outside, so it was an absurd situation for them as well.
But what could they do? This side had the Mantongbu’s order.
Ӗn̆ ûmа .іd̈
To begin with, if they did not want to face this kind of situation, they should not have listened to the Elder Council’s opinion either.
“How did you get something like this from the Mantongbu?”
Namgung Seon-hwa examined the order several times as though she could not believe it.
“That is…… a sorrowful story.”
One of my days off was gone.
I looked at my party and asked.
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“I obtained the order, but there is a possibility that the Elder Council will ignore even this. Those who are uncomfortable with this situation may withdraw. ……Hey, Eun-ho, stay still. Unless you want to be beaten. The Taeul Sect is automatically participating.”
I said it out of consideration for Namgung Seon-hwa and Seong Mo-ran, but the two women’s answers were fierce.
“What are you talking about?! Even if we have to fight a battle, we have to bring them back.”
“To begin with, we must not forgive anyone who does not obey an order from the Mantongbu.”
Seeing the two of them being so proactive made me smile for no reason.
“Good. Then let us prepare immediately.”
W̄ е b ṅ оv̀ е l Е n um̌ã
The preparations ended swiftly.
We gathered in one place with our arms and emergency rations.
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“First, please take one of these each.”
I handed out a small leather bag to each person.
Those who had been tending their swords received the items, checked the contents, and asked.
“I understand what the signal flare is, and these are a necklace and a talisman, yes?”
W e b n̄ o v ẽl É n ú mȧ
The necklace was made from the White Fragrance Jade I had entrusted to Jang Do-won.
Since the Corpse Mountain Blood Cult was also, in its own way, one branch of the Demonic Cult, they used sinister Spell Arts that scattered one’s calm mind.
Like Demonic Qi, if one was exposed for a long time, not only would one’s calm mind be damaged, but aftereffects could also remain, and one might spend one’s entire life seeing illusions.
Rather than blocking the attacks of the Corpse Mountain Blood Cult directly, we would need to focus more on not being taken in by those bastards’ sinister Spell Arts.
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It was lacking compared to the Demon-Purging Four-Spirit Beads, but at the very least, it would be better than continuously chanting the Demon-Subduing True Mantra like a madman.
“The talisman is the Demon-Subduing Talisman of the Mount Heng Sect. You should use it to guard against any possible demonic or unorthodox arts.”
Ẅ е ḃ nо̆ṽ е̃l̇ Ѐ n u_m̀ ǎ
Namgung Seon-hwa looked at the talisman with a stunned feeling.
“A talisman from the Mount Heng Sect is extremely expensive…….”
“If we step forward to save someone, it would not do for us to be injured instead, would it?”
When we had finished all preparations to depart like that.
The personnel Maeng Ju-won had sent arrived at the academy.
“…….”
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I could not close my mouth when I saw their faces.
“I am Gu Jeong-ryong, Hall Master of the Victory Tiger Hall.”
Since Maeng Ju-won said he would send an appropriate group, I had expected something around the level of the Black Martial Pavilion or the Red Phoenix Pavilion.
‘This fellow just went and fired off something enormous.’
The Victory Tiger Hall, of all things.
Even within the Azure Dragon Pavilion, it was the strike force most optimized for attack.
W̊ ѐḃ n о.v̂е́l_ E̊ nù_m̂ а̄
He had sent the people who appeared when the Black Path invaded the Murim Alliance.
Was he telling me to have a round with the Elder Council?
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‘No, to begin with, was this even a position that could move just because the Mantongbu Department Head told them to move?’
Even Grand Strategist Jegal So-myeong carefully considered the interests of each organization when sending out detachments.
Of course, if I thought about the fact that we had to face both the Corpse Mountain Blood Cult and the Elder Council if we encountered them, having the Victory Tiger Hall come was good, not something to dislike.
The problem was the worry over whether they would truly listen to me.
Е̊n̆ūm̄ӑ . і̆d́.
“You say we are moving to Sichuan?”
Gu Jeong-ryong’s expression was not ordinary.
No matter that he had received a dispatch order from the Mantongbu, he likely did not want to listen to the orders of a junior academy student.
“Yes.”
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“How will the unit be organized?”
“We will grasp the location of the academy students who have gone to Sichuan and move at once.”
Wê b n̊ о̊v е̂l Е̂_nů mа̀
“……We are a group primarily composed of people with strong martial arts. You know that, yes?”
“We will conduct the search. Hall Master, you need only help us enforce the order.”
“Are you telling us to stay still and then oppose the Elder Council?”
“Would that be difficult?”
“……If it is an order from the Alliance, we must follow it.”
Oh? Was he someone fairly reasonable?
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“However, I will leave command and all responsibility to you.”
“…….”
So he was saying he would not take responsibility. Of course.
From my perspective, it was actually a welcome situation.
Having a war of nerves with the Victory Tiger Hall in the middle of this would cause severe losses.
We still lacked personnel, but it was not to the point that they were unusable.
Е n̊ ù m á .і̀ d̃
The most important thing was to deliver the Mantongbu’s order to the Elder Council on the other side and create justification for canceling the event.
The lack of military force was only a secondary issue.
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We began moving quickly, without anyone needing to go first.
We crossed the vast grounds of the Murim Academy and reached the academy’s main gate.
At that moment, there was a voice calling me from one side.
“Representative Jin So-un.”
En̈ umа́ .і̊d
“…….”
Someone I was never pleased to see approached.
“I am busy. What is it?”
I gave off discomfort in waves, but the person who had come acted leisurely.
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As expected, they were people I did not like.
“It seemed the academy representative was about to do something, so I came to see.”
En̈um̆ а .і̆ d
“This matter has nothing to do with the Twelve Peak Citadels, so please return.”
Cheol Sun-jik continued speaking with that glossy face of his.
“Even so, can you not hear us out for a moment?”
“……Hear you out?”
Clearly, this was happening because I had not cracked his skull during the Regular Exam.
If his skull had been cracked once, he would not dare hold up a busy person so casually.
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This time, with the resolve that I would crack his skull if it was truly useless talk, I looked at him.
But then, “May we move together with you, Representative?”
“…….”
Cheol Sun-jik smiled with an intent I could not grasp.
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