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Chapter 335. Division (2)
Blood flowed.
Screams ran rampant.
Weapons shattered, and mounds of earth torn apart by palm force exposed their innards.
Avici Screams.
It wasn't called Avici Screams for nothing.
Ё ń um̆ а̌
Those who'd been comrades yesterday, rivals, friends — today they'd become enemies, pointing blades at one another.
The Righteous Path Association and the Orthodox Path Association had split, and the Orthodox Path Association and the Twelve Peak Citadels stood against each other, yet in everyday life they'd traded idle jokes.
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On good days, someone would take their spare coins and share drinks regardless of faction.
Saying someday I'll beat you all, saying it'd probably take three cycles at least.
That was who they'd been to each other.
And now that same "each other" was trying to kill.
Ёñüm̂а̊
They swung swords so as not to die, and the palm force they unleashed left deep wounds.
No one could remember how it had started.
Why the fighting had broken out.
All they knew was that each group had suffered something terrible, and after returning, they'd found the cause of that terrible thing in each other.
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"That is enough!"
An admonition brimming with Buddhist power rang out, but everyone merely flinched — no one stopped.
Ẽ n̆um̆ а .їd
He hadn't known.
That enlightenment held no power whatsoever in the face of mortal peril.
He came to know.
That instead, he'd drawn every eye onto himself.
That he'd made every arrow point his way.
"There's Il-gak!"
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His attempt to intervene had inadvertently shifted the epicenter of the battlefield.
The Righteous Path Association members, who'd been fighting desperately against the Orthodox Path Association and the Twelve Peak Citadels, began rallying behind Il-gak.
Facing a clearly fractured front, Il-gak shouted in alarm.
"No! Benefactor Geum, why are you coming this way?!"
"Venerable Il-gak! If we don't repel them now, we could all die!"
"No, what is this......! Stay away!"
Ẽ n u ḿa.і̄ ḋ
How could it even make sense for Academy students to fight each other? With instructors absent, was there truly no one who understood how dire this situation was?
"The Righteous Path Association has rallied around Il-gak!"
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"Combined attack, now!"
"Take down Il-gak first!"
Il-gak and his companions, who'd been watching the fight from the sidelines, had suddenly become its focal point, and though Il-gak had no desire to fight, he had no choice but to draw on his inner arts despite never intending to.
'As gently as possible......'
Ѐ num а.í d̈
Further escalation would only deepen the chaos.
He needed to subdue as many people as possible, calm their hearts, and then resolve the situation.
Il-gak deployed the Counterbalancing Art against the Academy student charging at him, trying to block the attack.
But.
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"Die, you baldy!!!"
At the moment he tried to ease up on his strength, a certain word(?) caused it to surge instead, and.
Wӗb n оv ӗl Е̊ n ū_m̀ а
WHAM—
......The result was the Academy student getting driven deep into the ground.
'Oops!'
"That is, what I mean to say is......!"
"Gurk!"
Seeing the Academy student cough up blood and collapse, a startled Il-gak tried to explain himself.
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"I-it's a misunderstanding! This is because of Benefactor Jin, who always teases me in normal times......"
But those watching the scene ground their teeth as if they hadn't heard a word.
"Righteous Path Association or not, for a Shaolin Temple monk to use such excessive force......!"
"This proves it! This whole thing was definitely orchestrated by the Righteous Path Association to kill us!"
"No more holding back! Attack!"
The wave of attacks that followed left Il-gak too busy deflecting to even attempt an excuse.
É nù m̂ а̀ .і̇d
No matter how great the gap in skill, his opponents were still fellow Academy students.
The Combined Attack Formation they employed wasn't something even Il-gak could easily suppress.
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And naturally, the Righteous Path Association wasn't about to stand by and watch.
"Help Venerable Il-gak!"
"How dare they look down on the Righteous Path Association!"
Whether he wanted it or not, Il-gak had become the epicenter of the battle, and he was forced to put more and more strength into his hands.
Е̂n̆ ů m̈ а
'Th-this isn't how it's supposed to go!'
With Il-gak's involvement, the fighting only intensified. What had been a three-way brawl was rapidly devolving into the Righteous Path Association versus everyone else.
"AAAAARGH! I'll kill you!"
"I'll make sure you die!"
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The exchange that had started as mere insults grew heavier with killing intent, and the fierce killing aura coursing through the battlefield finally created a situation where people were aiming for vital acupoints.
In that desperate moment where he could neither advance nor retreat.
W̄ е̂ b nȯ v̊ е l̇ Е n û ma
—What the hell are you doing, baldy?!
The voice of the very culprit who'd always teased him and cost him his Immovable Mind at the most critical of moments.
"Benefactor Jin?"
That voice, always brimming with delinquent energy even on normal days, now rang out loaded with even more heated emotion.
—Do you really think now is the time to be fighting amongst ourselves?! Is that really all you amount to, baldy?!
Il-gak shook his head vigorously.
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"I-it's a misunderstanding, Benefactor Jin. I never."
—Then what the hell is going on?
What......? Could he hear his voice? In the middle of this pandemonium?
There was no time to pursue the question. Things were far too urgent for leisurely thinking.
"I tried to calm them down and talk, but no one can control their emotions......"
—For someone trying to calm things down, you seem awfully enthusiastic about it.
Ѐ n u mа
"B-but Benefactor Jin, you can see for yourself. This isn't a situation that can be stopped just because someone tells them to......"
—It's not that you couldn't stop them. Your beatings were just too weak.
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"What do you......"
At some point, the Sound Transmissions stopped coming.
Instead.
"YOU SONS OF BITCHES!!!!"
Ё n u̇mа̇ ..і́ d
A thundering Lion's Roar echoed across the entire Black Forest.
Every gaze followed the sound upward.
A man in a black martial arts uniform came flying through the air and dropped right into the center of the battlefield.
THUD.
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Even at Jin So-un's sudden appearance, the Academy students weren't fazed.
They merely thought one more enemy had been added.
Е̌ nŭ m а. і́ d
The problem, however, was......
"Jin So-un! I'll kill you!"
"I'll kill you!"
"Jin So-un! You won't get away with this!"
All three factions were denouncing Jin So-un as the enemy.
Seeing that, Il-gak could only click his tongue.
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'Benefactor Jin made an arrogant miscalculation.'
Had he thought the Academy students would stop fighting just because he showed up?
There were still so many people at the Murim Academy who refused to even acknowledge him as Representative.
Jin So-un revealing himself here was a blunder.
It would have clearly been more advantageous to use his shrewdness by appearing after the fighting had run its course.
Whether he knew that or not, Jin So-un growled with savage eyes.
Ӗ nûm а̂
"Kill who, exactly?"
He dodged the sword of an Academy student swinging for his head, then immediately swung his own.
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WHAAAAM—!
He'd struck with the flat of the sword, of course, but the sound was so loud that the Academy students rushing in from all sides flinched in surprise.
Several white teeth and a spray of blood burst from the victim's mouth.
But Jin So-un's hands didn't stop there.
Ē n̈.u m̊ å
"You're going to kill me?"
THWACK!
He kicked the collapsing Academy student's abdomen upward, then proceeded to batter the most painful spots on the body.
GYAAAAAAARGH!
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As if bones were being wrenched apart and nerves shredded to ribbons — the Academy student let out a scream incomparable to being cut by a sword and crumpled.
At that savage spectacle, the Academy students who'd been charging at Jin So-un froze in their tracks.
W ebn̆о̊v e l̈ Е̇n̂u m а
But this time, Jin So-un moved first.
"How dare you say you'd kill me!!!"
At the sight of Jin So-un charging in like an evil spirit, sword blazing with scarlet light, the terrified Academy student tried to backpedal — but it was too late.
"Where do you think you're going?!"
CRASH—!
The upward blow to his abdomen carried such force that the Academy student's body went airborne, breath stolen by agonizing pain.
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WHOOSH—
But the body that should have been launched like a cannonball was snatched back by the Flying Dragon Claw extending from Jin So-un's left hand.
"Gurk! N-no!"
A descending fist from Jin So-un sent two teeth flying as the man was slammed face-first into the ground.
"YOU BASTARDS!!! IS THIS THE TIME TO BE FIGHTING EACH OTHER?!!"
A booming voice accompanied the start of a flat-of-the-sword beating.
Е n üm̄a . і d̈
GYAAAAAAAAAARGH!
Just like before — a pain far worse than being cut by a blade, as if every nerve were being scorched — the Academy student screamed.
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Before long, the fighting had subsided, and people began to watch Jin So-un.
"W-wait, that's Jin So-un. Shouldn't we stop him?"
"......You do it."
While they passed the buck to each other, Jin So-un had already pounced on his third victim and begun another merciless beating.
Е n ůmӓ . і̌ d̊
"IS THIS THE TIME TO BE FIGHTING EACH OTHER?!!"
GYAAAAAAAAAARGH!
The third victim went to meet the Founders, screaming all the way.
"YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT'S HAPPENING IN THE BLACK FOREST AND YOU THINK FIGHTING EACH OTHER IS THE ANSWER?!!!"
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GYAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH!
The fourth victim foamed at the mouth and passed out.
Ӗńu m̃ а̄
"STOP FIGHTING!!! STOP FIGHTING, I SAID!!!"
"A-all right!"
UNGHAAAAARGH!
The fifth victim threw down his weapon and surrendered, yet still lost two more teeth.
"STOP IT, YOU BASTARDS!!! THIS ISN'T THE TIME TO FIGHT EACH OTHER!!!"
"W-we stopped! We stopped, so Jin So-un, you should also......"
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"Your eyes(?) still look vicious — stopped my ass!"
"N-no!!"
GYAAAAAAARGH!
The fighting had long since ceased after the successive screams of agony, but......
Jin So-un's beating didn't end until an eighth victim had been produced.
Eventually, Jin So-un's gaze turned toward a sweat-slicked, glistening bald head.
Ѐ ǹǔ m.а̌
"If you're going to break up a fight, at least do it properly."
"......"
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Il-gak, watching the man march over and vent his displeasure beside him, thought.
'N-Namu Amitabha......'
He felt deeply, profoundly confused about whether that beating had truly been to stop the fight, or merely to vent frustration.
***
Ŵ е́b̄ n о_v̇ ӗ l Е̃ň ũ m а
The base camp, which had been engulfed in chaos with everyone trying to kill each other.
After barely(?) breaking them up, the first piece of information I heard was bleak.
"The instructors never arrived?"
"We also searched for the instructors the moment we got here, but couldn't find them. We asked the first group to arrive at the base camp as well, and they said they hadn't seen the instructors either."
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Il-gak's words deepened my concern.
I'd thought the instructors would be here since I hadn't seen their corpses on the way, but......
Еńu̇m а
Where on earth had they gone? Had they been killed?
But there was no time for leisurely deliberation.
There was even more bleak information.
The second piece of bleak information concerned the red flashes that had gone off in the Black Forest.
"So it was an ambush."
And not by Demonic Beasts — by humans.
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Moreover, most of the squad members who'd fired the red signal flares hadn't yet made it to the base camp.
"That's likely what escalated the fighting."
"Wait, why?"
They'd been ambushed, and then fought amongst themselves...... No matter how I thought about it, that wasn't sane.
"A survivor testified that the attackers' martial arts closely resembled those of Mount Hua......"
"......Are you sure?"
Ѐ n̊.u mã
I couldn't shake my doubt even as I listened.
What reason would Mount Hua — no, the Righteous Path Association — have to attack the Twelve Peak Citadels inside the Black Forest?
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"We can't be certain. The sole survivor who made it back alive said only the word 'petals' before losing consciousness, and hasn't woken up since."
Cheol Sun-jik, who'd been leaning against a boulder with his arms crossed, added.
I shifted my gaze to him.
"Why were you just sitting still?"
Ě nŭm̊а̊
"If you want to speak, you should make sure the other person can understand you. Representative Jin."
"You could have stopped this fight, easily."
Cheol Sun-jik uncrossed his arms and shrugged.
"There was no reason to."
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Why was he even more insufferable today?
"Besides, who knows — maybe the Righteous Path Association wanted to use this opportunity to eliminate the Twelve Peak Citadels. The cleanup was sloppy, sure, but still."
W еbnоv̀ ė l Ê ñ ū ṁ а
"......The Righteous Path Association has never entertained such thoughts."
"If I were a Righteous Path Association executive, I'd plan something like this without Venerable Il-gak. I'd leave him out entirely."
"What do you mean by......"
"Because there'd be no reasoning with him."
"......"
Why were they about to start fighting each other too?
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Don't tell me they expected me to break it up again.
I raised my hand and stopped the two.
"That's enough. Nothing's been confirmed yet—"
"Strictly speaking, the incident started with the Righteous Path Association."
"Hm?"
"I heard the Righteous Path Association went out on a Divine Spirit hunt. Because of that, the Divine Spirit's curse has spread, and now every creature in the Black Forest is trying to kill us. Isn't that the situation?"
Ӗn̊ũm_а . і̃ d
With every cold word from Cheol Sun-jik, the Righteous Path Association members' faces twisted severely.
"They hid their own wrongdoing, eliminated their political rivals — when you look at it that way, this might have been the perfect opportunity for the Righteous Path Association."
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The Righteous Path Association members, who'd been listening from a distance, hurled curses and pushed back.
"What kind of bullshit is that?!"
"What would we have to gain from......?!"
The unknown breeds anxiety, and anxiety spreads and curdles into anger.
Ẇ.е b̀.ñ övеľ Ëñū_m а
The swollen anger was about to become a blade and embed itself beneath each other's skin.
'Is this what they want?'
Their experience was lacking, leaving them unaccustomed to crisis.
Yet conversely, in terms of martial prowess, they far exceeded ordinary warriors.
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The terror of the encroaching unknown, and the fragile psyche soaked in that fear, would soon conjure an imaginary enemy that didn't exist.
Hadn't the fact that things had already progressed this far been proven?
Wёb̃ n̆ о̆ vĕ l̇ En̊ ū m а
'We need to get out of this state, fast.'
If this razor-sharp tension wasn't relieved somehow, chaos would engulf them again soon.
And when it did, it wouldn't end with just injuries — people would die.
Once that happened.
'There'd be no coming back.'
I refused to be toyed with by a scheme this crude.
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I drew a deep breath.
"STOOOOOOOOOOP!!!"
At the Lion's Roar with everything I had, everyone clutched their ears in pain.
"Enough! Do you all want another beating?!"
"......"
I had to resolve this before their minds fell apart again.
Ѐn ũ m̊а̇.і̇ď
"Nothing has been confirmed yet. So stop jumping to conclusions and do what needs to be done. Form scouting parties. Everyone else treats the wounded. And build a wooden palisade around the base camp."
"The Righteous Path Association is being accused as the culprit right now. You think we can just let that slide?!"
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Sure, it had to be frustrating. Being blamed and side-eyed for something you didn't do — I understood how much that stung.
"Do you want to get beaten like those guys earlier?"
"......"
Ah, my inner thoughts and my words just swapped places.
En̂u m ǎ
But it wasn't important, so let's just move on.
"Do you think this is a good time to be pleading your case? Think calmly, coolly, rationally, and then act!"
"Calmly and rationally......?"
He looked like he found that hard to accept, but I ignored it.
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"Move it, quickly. The sun's already setting!"
Those who'd been dragging their feet started moving once Il-gak and Cheol Sun-jik did, falling in one by one.
E nū mâ
The wariness toward each other hadn't lifted yet, but at least it was far better than letting them hold blades to each other's throats.
As expected, they couldn't even finish half the tasks I'd assigned before the sun set.
The Southern Fist Sect members and the scouting party returned with nothing of note.
There was much to consider — formulating a plan going forward, searching for other survivors, establishing contact with the instructors — but my head simply wouldn't work.
'I'm exhausted.'
Thanks to not sleeping throughout the march, I closed my eyes for just a moment.
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But a sudden hand shaking my shoulder jolted me awake.
"Eldest Senior Brother!"
"Mmh? What is it? No...... what time is it?"
From outside the shelter came the sounds of weapons clashing and screams once more.
"Are those bastards fighting amongst themselves again?"
Those damned fools, I swear I'm just going to break every last—
E n̂ù mа̌
"That's not it...... We're being attacked."
"What?"
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"It's an ambush."
Behind Eun-ho, whose eyes trembled with unease.
"GYAAAAAAAAAAAARGH!!!!!!!!"
A blood-curdling scream — incomparable to anything heard during the day — echoed on and on.
Ẇ_ě.ḃ ńо v̆еl Е̄n̆ŭm̄ a
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