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Chapter 175
Chapter 175. The Black Flame Dragon Who Devours a Sea of Blood (5)
“Are you all right? Young Master Jae-hwa?”
Murong Jae-hwa was gasping for breath.
His face was flushed bright red, and his hands and feet trembled.
The veins all over his body, including his face, stood taut as if they were about to burst.
Ӗn̄u mä. і̀d̈
It was proof that he had drawn on his inner arts to the limit.
“Miss Eun, I apologize, but could you cool my face down?”
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Seeing Murong Jae-hwa, whose voice even cracked dryly as it rang out, Eun Seol-ran answered not with words, but by drawing up the Plain Hand Divine Art and cooling his heat.
Murong Jae-hwa closed his eyes for a moment, looking as if he wanted to collapse and sleep at any second.
However.
WHIZZ.
E nû m̀ а
At the sound of an arrow cutting through the air, Murong Jae-hwa’s eyes flew open, and he shoved Eun Seol-ran aside as he fell.
“Are you all right, Miss?”
Eun Seol-ran, tense at the sight of Murong Jae-hwa lying over her body, barely managed to answer.
“Yes, I-I am all right.”
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“It seems those bastards are starting again.”
Murong Jae-hwa quickly rose and nocked an arrow into his bow.
W е b̂ n̂ о̃ v е̊ l̃ Е ǹ ùm̄ ǎ
Eun Seol-ran had personally recovered the arrows the enemies had fired and brought them to him.
Since they had already been used once, the shafts of the fletching and the direction of the arrowheads were warped, but at the very least, they were far better than breaking off tree branches and using those.
WHIZZ.
The arrow fired from Murong Jae-hwa’s hand flew across the encampment toward the people wearing blood-red robes.
Compared to the dozens of arrows they had fired, it was only a drop in the ocean, but the blood-robed men could not take their eyes off Murong Jae-hwa’s arrow.
THUD. BOOM!
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One man in front, who had been holding two shields layered together, blocked the arrow, then was pushed far back by the impact, disrupting the formation.
“Kgh!”
“Keheuk!”
The blood-robed unit that had been trying to advance once again hid behind the rocks in the blink of an eye.
Seeing that, Murong Jae-hwa let out a long sigh.
Half a day had already passed.
E n ú m̈ а . і̂d̃
That was how long he had spent confronting the blood-robed men with the Academy students who had collapsed from illusions behind him.
Il-gak was waking people one by one, but those who had barely regained their senses had their insides violently churned and could not move easily.
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If there was one fortunate thing, it was that after he had fired a few Horse-Piercing Arrows toward where the Spell Practitioners were, no more Illusion Formations had unfolded.
‘Should I even call that fortunate?’
He was keeping the blood-robed men from approaching with the Horse-Piercing Arrows, but before he knew it, they had surrounded them widely.
They could not move forward or backward.
Е n̆ ů mа̇
No, the moment they failed to stop that encirclement from tightening someday.
Everyone here would certainly die.
Rustle, rustle.
No sooner had the sound of footsteps come from behind than Eun Seol-ran gathered cold energy in both hands.
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A chill colder than the cold wind of the high mountains gathered in her hands.
Eun Seol-ran immediately struck both hands down toward the place where the sound had come from.
E nú m̊ á. і̄d̀_
SHAAAAAAK.
CRACK, CRACK! CRACK!
Sharp ice spikes shot up from the ground in the shadowed forest and aimed for the blood-robed men’s ankles.
Murong Jae-hwa put down his bow for a moment, picked up a sword whose owner he did not know, and rushed at the blood-robed men.
SQUELCH-.
CLANG CLANG CLANG.
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He killed two of them at once, but because of his unfamiliar swordsmanship, the remaining two continued the exchange.
And he gradually began to be pushed back.
‘Damn it…… Are they fighting dirty with swords?!’
If they were opponents who would listen to him say, “Let us have an archery battle!” they would not have used witchcraft and ambushed them out of nowhere.
While cursing the opponent’s cowardice inwardly, Murong Jae-hwa gradually began struggling against the blood-robed men’s swords.
“Young Master Jae-hwa! Duck!”
Е ňů m̀ а. іď
The moment Eun Seol-ran’s words rang out, he ducked his head like lightning, and ice spikes pierced through the blood-robed men’s chests.
“Keheuk.”
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“Grrk.”
The blood-robed men spewed blood and collapsed to the ground.
Behind them, Eun Seol-ran was gasping for breath with a pale complexion.
“Are you all right, Miss Eun?”
Ӗnu m a .і d̃
“Haaah, haaah, haaah. I-I am all right.”
Her skin had originally been so translucent that even her veins could be seen, but now her face was so white it seemed all color had drained away.
Anyone could see that she had been pushed to the very limit of her limit.
‘Damn it.’
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Even though he had learned from Jin So-un how to fight many with few, he had not been able to put it to use.
Warped arrows often missed, and once the enemies realized the arrows they fired kept coming back at them, they had begun throwing spears and stones instead of arrows.
Е nu m а . і̀ d̃
‘If only I could use the Thunderbolt Arrow…….’
Murong Jae-hwa had never once felt wronged in his life by the fact that his martial arts were not strong, but now, more than ever before, he desperately wanted strong martial arts.
If only he had completed the Thunderbolt Arrow, he could have reduced the Academy students’ casualties.
If only he had the Thunderbolt Arrow, he could have helped Eun Seol-ran escape.
From the moment the dawn sun rose until now, there had been more than one or two moments when he had wanted to use the incomplete Thunderbolt Arrow.
However, he had not dared to try.
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CREEEAK-
Every time he drew the bowstring, he heard the sound of the joint between horn and wood pulling apart.
The Thunderbolt Arrow had broken horn bows recklessly even when they were in perfect condition.
Trying it now, when the bow was on the verge of breaking, was no different from saying he would throw the bow away.
This was not something he could try when one mistake could cost not only his own life, but Eun Seol-ran’s life, and beyond that, the lives of the Academy students behind them.
“Whew…….”
Еń umа̀
He could neither do this nor that.
Murong Jae-hwa looked at Eun Seol-ran.
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Her face, which had been clean like an elegant snowflake, was now covered in soot, and her clothes were covered in dust and stains.
Because of the aftereffects of the witchcraft and her lack of sleep, her eyes were red and bloodshot, and because she had used her martial arts to the limit, her hands were trembling.
‘At the very least…… Miss Eun, if no one else…….’
While he was calculating that for a moment.
Ĕ ń um̃å
THUD THUD THUD! BOOM! BOOM!
Il-gak approached while knocking down the blood-robed men.
“Benefactor Jae-hwa, Benefactor Seol-ran……! Are you all right?”
Il-gak, who asked about the other two’s well-being, did not look very good either.
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The perfect image of Il-gak, one of the strongest among the Murim Academy, did not exist here.
“As you can see, we are not completely all right.”
Е̄ n̊ û m̄а̇ .і̀d̆
Murong Jae-hwa answered with a forced smile, but Il-gak quickly understood what he meant.
“We cannot go on like this.”
Il-gak looked at the two of them and said, “You two should perform Qi Circulation.”
“Hm?”
“…….”
Il-gak’s words telling them to perform Qi Circulation in this urgent situation were utterly absurd.
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Even so, Il-gak continued speaking calmly.
“Even a single handful of inner arts will do. Gather only enough to use Movement Arts.”
Only then did Murong Jae-hwa grasp Il-gak’s intent and shake his head.
“That is……”
However, Il-gak cut off Murong Jae-hwa’s words and spoke firmly.
“Now is not the time to argue. We must inform the Murim Alliance of this at once.”
E ń u̇ m̌ a.іd̄
Murong Jae-hwa nodded, then looked at Eun Seol-ran and said, “Miss Eun, perform Qi Circulation.”
“What? What do you mean……. What about you, Young Master Jae-hwa?”
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“I will remain here.”
“Benefactor Jae-hwa!”
Even at Il-gak’s urging, Murong Jae-hwa spoke without wavering.
“If delivering the news was important, then we should have done that a day ago.”
W̃ е b̂ ñо̊ v̄ е l .E̊ ñ û m.а̇
“…….”
At those words pointing out his fault, Il-gak pressed his mouth shut.
“If we leave now, everyone over there will die. Are you all right with that?”
Il-gak turned his head and looked behind him.
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His senior and junior brothers of his sect, the senior and junior brothers of the lay-affiliated martial sects, and dozens of people with whom he had formed ties in the Righteous Path Association.
All of them would die here.
Ẁ ēb n̄ ò v̄ ӗl̇ Е́ n û ṁa_
Without realizing it, Il-gak’s hands tightened.
He absolutely did not want to see such a sight.
“…….”
“I am not all right with it.”
Who would want to see such a sight?
However, right now, at least one person had to live.
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And the people who had to live should be those who bore no responsibility for this matter.
Whether Murong Jae-hwa knew Il-gak’s feelings or not, he continued speaking.
“Moreover, when I think of Brother So-un, who will arrive soon, I do not want to show him the sight of me running away alone.”
At Murong Jae-hwa’s words, Il-gak wanted to refute him at once.
Did he still believe that Jin So-un would come here?
“…….”
Е ǹǔ m̀ а
He wanted to say that Jin So-un would not be able to come here, that this was something no one could easily do, and that it was wrong even to expect it.
However, Il-gak suppressed that feeling and barely asked, “Even if that faith is betrayed…… do you still think you will not regret it?”
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He asked heavily, filling the question with the doubt he had felt.
And.
“Yes.”
Murong Jae-hwa answered without the slightest hesitation.
Е̄ n̂ ŭ m̈ a
“……!”
Without the slightest trace of doubt.
He looked straight at Il-gak with unwavering eyes and said again,
“Yes.”
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“…….”
Faith without any condition.
We b̊_ǹоv̈ e l̃ Е̄ n.û mа
Faith that even seemed noble.
Pure faith.
At this point, Il-gak became curious about the source of that faith.
The foundation of that faith.
Was it Murong Jae-hwa’s innocence?
Or was it the product of the sense of responsibility Jin So-un had shown?
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“Understood. Then at least Miss Seol-ran……”
Il-gak and Murong Jae-hwa looked at Eun Seol-ran.
However, Eun Seol-ran answered with a sullen expression.
“You said Brother Jin is coming. Why would I deliberately do something dangerous?”
Il-gak and Murong Jae-hwa nodded at the same time.
‘That is true.’
Ѐ n.ü mа́ . і d̆
‘That is true.’
Without realizing it, Il-gak ended up believing like Murong Jae-hwa.
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While the two realized their own foolishness, Eun Seol-ran pointed ahead and said,
“They are coming!”
Il-gak turned his head and frowned.
“They have prepared countermeasures against Benefactor Jae-hwa’s arrows.”
W е̊ b ň о̌v̇ е̇_l̄ Е n̊um̈ӑ
The blood-robed men, having realized that ordinary shields could no longer stop Murong Jae-hwa’s arrows, began approaching while carrying things like iron plates with pot lids attached and large rocks over their heads.
Seeing the sight he least wanted to see, Murong Jae-hwa spat out a curse.
“Damn it…….”
Knowing that the Horse-Piercing Arrows would no longer work, Murong Jae-hwa desperately operated his Moving Circulation and gathered a single handful of True Qi.
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“We have no choice but to engage in melee combat.”
At Il-gak’s words, Murong Jae-hwa looked behind him.
Ẁ eb̊ṅ о̃v́е̇l̈ Еn ům a
There were still no Academy students who could properly enter combat.
This place was not Changban Bridge, so stopping hundreds with only three people was absurd.
‘No choice, then.’
Then he took out one proper arrow that he had not intended to use until the very final moment.
“It is still incomplete, but one shot of this should inflict quite a heavy blow on the front unit. If it fails……. Then…….”
Murong Jae-hwa did not continue speaking.
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He did not even want to imagine such a horrific future.
Murong Jae-hwa nocked the arrow to the bowstring with a desperate heart and began drawing it.
CREEEEEEAK.
The horn bow, which had reached its limit, screamed.
‘Just once……. Please endure just once!’
The power of the Murong Clan’s martial art, the Heaven-Earth Wave-Splitting Sword, was loaded into the arrowhead.
Ѐ ǹ u̇ m̀ à_.i d̈
The arrow held steady with both hands shook violently, and the horn bow trembled just as fiercely along with it.
Grrrrrrrrk.
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The moment he carefully poured the minimum amount of the Heaven-Earth Wave-Splitting Sword’s power into the arrow and released it from the bowstring.
CRACK.
The horn bow, which had finally reached its limit, separated apart.
TWANG.
Е n̆ ŭ m а́.і d̈
The snapped bowstring sagged powerlessly.
“Damn it!!!!”
The moment the blood-robed men saw that Murong Jae-hwa’s horn bow had broken, they threw aside the rocks and shields and began running.
Il-gak and Eun Seol-ran did not even have time to comfort Murong Jae-hwa.
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As if they had been furious about hiding from Jae-hwa’s arrows all this time, the blood-robed men were charging madly.
“Benefactor Jae-hwa, step back.”
Ӗn̊ u ṁ а̊
After joining his hands, Il-gak blasted his two fists, shimmering with golden light, forward.
THUD THUD THUD THUD THWACK.
THUD THUD THUD THUD THWACK.
The blood-robed men were sent flying by the Dragon King Flowing Fist fired over thirty times in a single second, but the empty spaces were soon filled again by blood-robed men rushing in from behind.
“Haaat!”
SHAAAAAAK.
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The Plain Hand Divine Art scattered by Eun Seol-ran froze the blood-robed men’s bodies, but Ice Arts whose internal power had run out were not very threatening.
Murong Jae-hwa also picked up his sword again and unfolded clumsy swordsmanship.
When they were surrounded on all sides by blood-robed men with no further way to defend themselves and were expecting the end.
“UAAAAAAAAAAAGH!!”
Green radiance fell in every direction, crushing the blood-robed men’s heads and trampling their chests.
BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM.
Ě ń u̇ m̆ а̃ . і̂ď
BOOM BOOM! BOOM BOOM BOOM!
At the violent explosive sounds, sand and dust scattered everywhere, and Il-gak, Murong Jae-hwa, and the others, who had instinctively closed their eyes, barely opened them to slits and confirmed who it was.
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“Haaah, haaah, haaah!”
The hulking figure’s complexion was deathly pale, as if he had exhausted all of his mental strength and divine strength.
Moreover, there were even large wounds all over his body.
It made one wonder how he had managed to get here at all.
Е́ n̆ŭm̌ а ._id
The giant looked at Murong Jae-hwa and said, “Haaah, haaah, y-you. Murong Jae-hwa! You are Murong Jae-hwa, right?”
Murong Jae-hwa, who had been singled out, saw the giant’s face and wore a startled expression.
“N-Nam Hwa-seong? Why are you here……?”
“Haaah, haaah, I-I am glad you are alive. I am really glad!”
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Nam Hwa-seong trembled with emotion as if he had found a lost younger brother.
As for Murong Jae-hwa himself, he could only feel bewildered by this situation.
Е̊ ñ ŭ.m̀а̊.
Why had none other than Nam Hwa-seong popped up here?
And why was he relieved that Murong Jae-hwa was alive?
Nam Hwa-seong swallowed painfully and barely continued speaking.
“……Jin So-un. Jin So-un sent me here.”
“Ah!!! I knew it!!!”
Nam Hwa-seong handed the luggage he had been carrying to Murong Jae-hwa, practically throwing it to him.
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Murong Jae-hwa wanted to hear the inside story, but neither the current situation, with them surrounded by blood-robed men, nor Nam Hwa-seong’s condition made that possible.
While checking the luggage in confusion, Murong Jae-hwa tilted his head when he saw a long iron rod sticking out.
‘What is…… this…….’
Small grooves at both ends.
A grip wrapped in leather at the center of the iron rod.
And bundles of arrows and even Heavenly Silkworm Thread packed full inside the bundle.
Ŵ ѐ b nо̀_v̀е l Еṅúm̌ а̀_
They were items that naturally made him wonder why Jin So-un had tried to send them.
Then something suddenly formed in his head.
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“D-Do not tell me…….”
Murong Jae-hwa’s gaze went back and forth between the Heavenly Silkworm Thread and the iron rod.
“A-An Iron Bow?”
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Ŵ еbñ ovеl̊ Еňu mǎ
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