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Chapter 240
Chapter 240. Catching the Hidden Culprit (5)
The Murim Alliance’s Mantongbu.
A place where Alliance members screamed and were ground down because of chronic manpower shortages.
Normally, this place was never free of noise, with documents flying everywhere and the groans of Alliance members raging all around, but for some reason, it had fallen into silence.
Jegal So-myeong gently pressed his throbbing head with his fingers.
Е̃ n um̃ ӓ
“Has there still been no reply from the Tae-won Branch?”
“......No.”
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The Black Path forces around Sichuan kept suspiciously squirming.
They could not be unaware that the Murim Alliance’s nerves had been honed sharp because of the war against the Blood Cult.
The Black Path’s current actions were no different from a warning of full-scale war.
The Murim Alliance, which had the subjugation of the Blood Cult right before its eyes, had reached the point where it had to decide whether to advance one step farther, or turn its horses’ heads and go slap the faces of Sichuan’s Black Path.
W ėb̀ ñ о v ёl̆ Е n ū m̆ å
They had contacted the Tae-won Branch several times to determine what scheme the Black Thought Alliance was harboring, but in the end, no reply came.
Tap, tap.
“Hmm......”
Sunk in anguish, Jegal So-myeong tapped the desk with his finger and organized his thoughts.
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“There has still been no contact from the Heavenly Eye Pavilion either, correct?”
“Yes. The promised date has already passed, but...... there has been no contact at all.”
W̆ е̇_b̊nо̊v̀ѐl Е̇ ǹ û mа
Carrier Pigeon Letters carried a high risk of being lost.
Because of that, the information cutoff so far was understandable, but seeing that even the members of the Heavenly Eye Pavilion were this late in replying, he could only conclude that someone was intentionally blocking information from Shanxi Province.
“Could it be the Black Thought Alliance?”
Stop.
In that instant, Jegal So-myeong’s finger, which had been tapping the desk, stopped moving.
He quietly looked at the Alliance member who had asked the question.
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“Why...... Is there something on my face......?”
“Hmm......”
Maeng Ju-won would not have asked such a question.
Jegal So-myeong shook his head.
“No.”
Although they were carefully selected talents, there was a clear difference in ability.
Еǹ uḿ а̂
He had somehow endured until now with Maeng Ju-won, but that too was beginning to show its limits.
If a situation like this one arose, where he inevitably had to dispatch Maeng Ju-won away, then Jegal So-myeong had to handle all of Mantongbu’s work by himself.
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This was not work one should do at his age.
‘I need to seat that Jin So-un bastard in Mantongbu soon.’
It was troublesome, but until then, there was nothing he could do.
Jegal So-myeong instructed the Alliance member who had asked the question.
Е̊n̄ u.m̊ â ._іd
“There is no way the Black Thought Alliance, which has only just erected its pillars and covered its roof, has an intelligence organization like that.”
In truth, the fact that such a crude organization, only just formed, had made it this far was impressive in itself.
In any case, they had gathered people and taken the first step.
‘Dam Ak of Cheongwa Academy...... We lost a fine talent.’
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Of course, because he had known from the beginning that Dam Ak was a talent meant to enter the Imperial Court, he had thought there was no way the Murim Alliance would ever be connected to him.
But for him to suddenly become the Grand Strategist of the Black Thought Alliance.
Е.n̆ú m̃a . іd_
His choice was extremely unexpected.
He wanted to investigate the inside story, but right now, the Murim Alliance did not even have that much leisure.
After all, the martial artists dispatched to Sichuan were already screaming because they were not receiving proper supplies.
At this rate, the Murim Alliance would not be shaken by the Blood Cult’s desperate resistance, but collapse because of a rebellion by its Alliance members.
Of course, such difficulties were not something that had happened only yesterday or today.
The Murim Alliance would probably continue to face similar difficulties in the future as well.
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That was why, more than anything, people who could carry on the will were needed.
People who would transcend their clans and sects and sincerely wish for peace in Jianghu.
This was the reason Jegal So-myeong could not help but always thirst for talent.
‘Maeng Ju-won and Jin So-un....... Those bastards will be the starting point.’
As he pressed down on both eyes, it felt as though the world was spinning.
But even that brief rest was not permitted to Jegal So-myeong.
Еnū ḿа_. і̌ d
“Grand Strategist! A dispatch from the Heavenly Eye Pavilion has arrived.”
“......!”
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At that news, Jegal So-myeong, who had been thinking that he wanted to rest a little, forgot his fatigue and sprang up from his seat.
A red dispatch sent directly to the Grand Strategist without being inspected by the Heavenly Eye Pavilion or Mantongbu.
Only one concise sentence was written on the red dispatch.
[Mission failed]
W е̄b̊ no vè ľ_ E nu ḿǎ
At the concise sentence with no further explanation, both Jegal So-myeong and the Alliance member closed their mouths.
The Alliance member barely managed to part his lips.
“Grand Strategist. This is......”
The Heavenly Eye Pavilion’s reports had a set format.
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A format that could convey the core of the information with the bare minimum of concision.
And yet they had not even been able to use that format.
Wẽ_b́n̆ о v́еl Enũ m а
That meant the Heavenly Eye Pavilion member who had gone out to investigate had not only failed the mission, but had even fallen into a situation where his life was in danger.
“Could it be...... that Dam Ak prepared for this?”
Jegal So-myeong silently shook his head.
‘Even if he is Dam Ak under heaven, he would not be able to stop the Heavenly Eye Pavilion without proper preparation.’
What kind of organization was the Heavenly Eye Pavilion?
They were the eyes and ears of the Murim Alliance.
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They were people who had received the Murim Alliance’s special training from the very beginning.
Their martial arts might differ, but in terms of their ability to infiltrate targets and gather and handle information, they were so outstanding that no force among the Nine Sects and One Gang or the Five Great Clans could compare.
It was absurd to say that even if Dam Ak used his wits, he could easily stop people who even handled assassination missions in emergencies.
Tap, tap.
“What happened......?”
This was not merely a matter of whether the Heavenly Eye Pavilion’s mission had succeeded or failed.
Ẇе b̈ nõ v̈.еl Еńum̂ӑ
The problem was that they did not know what was happening in Shanxi’s Tae-won, where the Black Thought Alliance was located.
What mattered now was who, and why, was blocking information.
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Jegal So-myeong, who had been tapping the desk, suddenly clenched his fist tight.
‘Could it be....... those Demonic Cult bastards!’
If it was not them right now, the matter in Tae-won could not be explained.
The problem was what they were plotting.
Еnümа
If they were plotting a war between the Black Thought Alliance and the Murim Alliance, if that was truly the case......
The Envoy Delegation’s mission would become impossibly difficult.
No, the mission was not the problem. The safety of the Envoy Delegation itself would be in danger.
‘Did I give them too difficult a mission?’
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He had assigned it with the half-hearted feeling that it would be good if it worked and fine if it did not, but once matters turned this way, worry came first.
“Shall we wait for now?”
W̄ е́b n ōv̆е l̇ Е̃n_ů m̄ а
At the Alliance member’s words, Jegal So-myeong sprang up from his seat.
He did not know who the culprit was, but this was not a situation where they could afford such leisure.
“Grand Strategist?”
“I will go to the Alliance Leader’s Hall.”
Jegal So-myeong could not sit still.
As it was revealed that the fourth of the Five Dogs of Xiping had been a hidden agent wearing a Human-Skin Mask, shock spread throughout the entire Black Thought Alliance.
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The leadership in particular was greatly shocked.
The fact that Do Bong-su and the Five Dogs of Xiping brothers had not known was proof of just of Xiping brothers had not known was proof of just how impressive the hidden agent’s abilities were.
At the same time, because they too could become assassination targets, they began growing extremely tense, and some even began distancing themselves from those closest to them.
“What matters right now is who sent this hidden agent.”
“Of course the Murim Alliance sent him.”
“You son of a bitch! Have you still not come to your senses and are still babbling about war? Unless the Murim Alliance has gone insane, would they do something like that right now?”
En uṁa.і̊ ḋ
“......”
The fact that the hidden agent’s ability was impressive ultimately meant that the organization that raised such beings was also impressive.
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But where in all under heaven, aside from the Murim Alliance, the Black Thought Alliance, and the Blood Cult, was there an organization capable of raising such beings?
Moreover, if one had to count those with the wicked scheming ability to kill a person and make someone imitate that person, there were even fewer possibilities.
Within the Black Thought Alliance as well, the opinion that hidden agents had to be weeded out grew fierce.
“We must first identify the hidden agents.”
Е́ n ûm а̌.і̌ d̀
“We do not know who the hidden agents are, do we?”
“Could we not use...... the method the Black Flame Dragon used?”
They only hesitated to actually carry it out.
Everyone knew how Jin So-un had caught the hidden agent, but there was no one with the guts to actually do that work.
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Because if they did not stop at merely suspecting a hidden agent, and if they made even a single mistake, they might kill an innocent martial brother or comrade.
The leadership, including the pro-war faction, who had been insisting that the Envoy Delegation should immediately be dragged out and beheaded, all closed their mouths.
W̃ ӗb̆ n̊ о v е̄l̀ E num̈ а̄
And everyone began watching the Black Flame Dragon’s next move.
Jin So-un, who had been falsely accused all this time, strutted proudly through the Black Thought Alliance as though relieving his resentment.
Of course, he had never walked around intimidated in the first place.
BANG!
The door of the pavilion where the Four Dragons Sect was staying broke apart, and the Four Dragons Sect disciples raised their snake-like eyes and each tried to draw their weapons.
“Who is it! How dare you come to the Four Dragons Sect......”
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“It is me, you snake bastards!”
The one who announced his presence in an utterly rude manner as he entered was none other than Jin So-un.
“......”
At the sight of him walking in proudly, the Four Dragons Sect disciples, who had been about to pour out their anger only moments before, froze.
Jin So-un, accompanied by Gun Yu-hyeon and Blood Battle, pulled over a chair without hesitation and sat down as though he had entered his own room, then spoke.
“Gather all the guards while I am still asking nicely.”
Е̊ ñ u̇m̃а̊ .іḋ
“......”
The Four Dragons Sect disciples, who instinctively sensed why Jin So-un had visited the Four Dragons Sect and what he was trying to do, hesitated and watched the situation.
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He had come to the Four Dragons Sect to find the hidden agent who had killed Gal Mun-jeong of the Four Dragons Sect.
From the perspective of the Four Dragons Sect, which had insisted until now that the hidden agent was Il-myeong of the Envoy Delegation, it would not have been strange even if their blood had surged backward. However, after Jin So-un found the hidden agent who had killed Do Bong-su, the situation had completely reversed.
Since Jin So-un had discovered the existence of a hidden agent that no one else had known about, found him, and even killed him.
There was no one who could stand in the way of someone who had even received the Alliance Leader’s permission.
Е ǹūm а̂ . i d̀
At that moment.
“Black Flame Dragon.”
As though he had been waiting, Four Dragons Sect Deputy Sect Leader Wang Ju-bal rose from his seat.
He asked in as polite a voice as possible,
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“You came to find the hidden agent, correct?”
Then he declared,
Wеb̈n о̇vѐ l̈ Ẽnǔḿӑ
“We have confirmed through internal interrogation that there is no hidden agent among us. So go somewhere else.”
Jin So-un, who was looking at Wang Ju-bal, tilted his head crookedly.
Internal interrogation?
“Bullshit.”
“......”
At Jin So-un’s humiliating words and actions, the corners of Wang Ju-bal’s eyes trembled.
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“We clearly conducted thorough questioning......”
“Then why is the hidden agent still here?”
“What?”
Jin So-un pointed with his chin at the Four Dragons Sect disciples.
“Are you going to leave the real hidden agent alone? Then the Four Dragons Sect will bear responsibility for every assassination that happens from now on.......”
Then he looked at Wang Ju-bal and smiled.
Еnu̇m а
“Are you fine with that?”
For an instant, Wang Ju-bal’s eyes sharpened.
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“How are you so certain?”
“Do you still doubt my ability?”
“......”
A fierce exchange of gazes passed between the two of them.
Еn u̇m̃ а .i d
It was an unyielding pride match between Wang Ju-bal, who had now become the head of a sect, and Jin So-un, who had to keep the Envoy Delegation alive and bring them back to the Murim Alliance.
The tension in the room rose amid their fierce battle of wills.
At that moment.
“Cough, cough.”
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A light cough echoed through the silence.
Jin So-un’s eyes flashed brilliantly.
Е̌n ŭmа̇
“Who was it? Who made that coughing sound!”
“......”
A moment later, Jin So-un sprang up from his chair.
“This Seat is using Mind-Reading Art right now, so who dared to cough!”
At Jin So-un’s shout, the Four Dragons Sect disciples began looking one by one toward a certain place.
The face of the man standing where their gazes gathered turned deathly pale.
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Hic.
“Was it you?”
“I-I apologize.”
Jin So-un approached the man, opened his eyes wide, and stared at his face.
“This Seat is using Mind-Reading Art right now, so how dare you cough, you foolish thing!”
“Hic! Hic! Hic!”
W е bn̄о v̂ е l̀ .Еn̂_u ḿа
“Now that I look closely, your head is full of Mara demons.”
“Hic...... I-I heard the Taeul Sect is a Daoist sect, though......”
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The sturdy man with a thick beard curled up as though he had become a boy and spoke.
Jin So-un shouted angrily.
“Seeing you talk back to me, you are definitely the hidden agent!!!”
“Wh-what does that mean!!!”
Е n̊u.m̃a .іd
At this point, the man who had coughed could not believe that he had fallen into danger of death because of a single cough.
In the end, Wang Ju-bal let out a long sigh and stepped forward.
“Stop, Black Flame Dragon.”
If he provoked Jin So-un any further, he did not know what kind of humiliation he might suffer.
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He did not know much, but the fact that the Black Flame Dragon was someone with an atrocious personality had already become widely known even within the Black Path Murim.
Wang Ju-bal looked at Jin So-un and asked,
W̆е b̈ n о̀ v е̂ ĺ Е̌n u̇m̄а
“You only need us to gather the guards?”
“Gather all the guards and the Elder Council.”
“I would be included as well, correct?”
“No. It does not matter if you do not come.”
“Hm?”
Jin So-un crossed his arms and looked over his face once.
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“This Seat has already confirmed through Mind-Reading Art that there are no Mara demons in your head.”
“......”
Wang Ju-bal could not hide his complicated expression.
As the disciple earlier had said, was the Taeul Sect not originally a Daoist sect?
He wanted to ask why the Buddhist Mara demons were coming up, but he felt things would become troublesome for nothing, so he firmly closed his mouth.
“......”
Е̌ n̆ ûmá
And Gun Yu-hyeon and Blood Battle, who were watching this situation, could not close their mouths, which had opened wide enough to fit a washbasin.
Blood Battle let out a hollow laugh.
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“He truly is a mad bastard.”
“......”
“You think so too, do you not?”
Instead of answering, Gun Yu-hyeon gave a slight nod.
W̌_ёb̈ ñõ v́e ĺ Еnû m a
While thinking that Jin So-un’s head must definitely be filled with Mara demons.
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