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Chapter 344. Life or Death (5)
"GAAAH!"
"GHRKK!"
"Brother Cho!"
Screams kept ringing out from the rear.
The dead weren't limited to academy students alone.
Е nǔ m а
Yet the absence of screams from the demonic practitioners weighed heavily on the mind.
'The Red Demon Unit!'
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Damn it all.
The Silent Sound Demon Wolf Unit was dangerous enough, but the Red Demon Unit had shown up as well.
I wanted to despair, but there was no time for that luxury.
I couldn't be sure the Red Demon Unit was the last of them.
W̊ĕ b̀ n̂ о v еl _Еn̂ũm̈а
If I asked them man-to-man whether they were the final wave, would they give me an honest answer?
'Fat chance.'
I tightened my grip on the Red Radiance Sword, which had been sagging, and pressed forward.
I wasn't the meat shield of my previous life, too desperate just to dodge and block.
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CLANG-CLANG-CLANG-CLANG!
I simply dodged the blades rushing at me and drove my sword into their vitals.
Е̊ n ǔm̀ ӑ. і.d
SLASH, SLASH, SLASH.
They crumpled like scarecrows with their legs cut away. I passed their falling bodies and moved on.
The view while advancing was starkly different from the view while retreating.
In the past, even with countless comrades standing before me, I had trembled from head to toe, my fury drowned out by terror.
Now, even as demonic practitioners dripping with killing intent and demonic qi charged at me in droves, my rage didn't fade behind the despair.
No—an even greater fury surged from my fists.
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BOOM-BOOM-BOOM-CRASH!
I cut and cut again, and pushed on.
With every step forward, I held onto the belief that one more person could be saved. Forward, and forward again.
SLASH, SLASH.
Wounds blossomed across my body.
My martial arts uniform had long since become rags.
E n um а..i d́.
In a melee like this, there was no fighting with the poise of a martial duel.
I had given up trying to dodge every attack long ago.
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I simply avoided the vitals and deflected only the blows that would prove fatal.
Even so, being struck by that wretched demonic qi twisted my five viscera and six bowels.
"GHRKK!"
An uncontrollable cough erupted, and a mouthful of blood followed.
Е n u ṁå
"Commander Jin! Are you all right?!"
Il-gak, five or six paces away, cried out in alarm.
His once-gleaming scalp was already smeared with blood.
He should worry about himself.
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At least the internal injury wasn't deep. That much was a relief.
'Taking a Red Yang Palm head-on and it's not fatal......'
Е̌_nûm å.і̊ d̂
A clear reminder that I was a different existence from my past self.
So I ought to return the courtesy.
HUMMM......
I poured out the Twin Heaven Sword Formula through a blade of Sword Force extending roughly one jang.
BOOM-BOOM-CRASH! BOOM-BOOM-CRASH! BOOM-BOOM-BOOM-CRASH!
Illusion Swords intertwined with real strikes annihilated the area, sending demonic practitioners' limbs flying in every direction.
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The nice thing about a swarm—I didn't need to pick specific targets.
Yet the sight of fresh bodies plugging every gap I carved brought an indescribable sense of futility.
"Yeah, you'll keep at it until we give up."
The moment the spirit breaks, the strength breaks with it.
And no one knew that better—or exploited it more ruthlessly—than these bastards.
"Let's see who breaks first."
W̆ eb̂_ṅ о́vêl̈ Е n ù m̄ а̂
RUMBLE......
Thunder and Lightning surged within my palms.
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Sensing the shift, the Red Demon Unit's practitioners hastily pulled back.
I charged forward, one step, then another, and unleashed the Radiant Heaven Divine Palm.
BOOM-BOOM-BOOM-BOOM-BOOM-BOOM-CRASH!
A section of the forest was blown apart, leaving yet another gaping hole.
Е nu.m а́. і̄ d
Even I was appalled by the destructive force.
Surely, this was enough to make even the bravest warriors hesitate to obey orders......
"......Damned demonic practitioner bastards."
And yet, as though their emotions had been stripped away, they filled the gap and charged in again.
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Not a shred of hesitation. Not a flicker of fear.
No—they plugged the gap even more aggressively and rushed forward, and it was the academy students who flinched instead.
Е ńu m̊ а̃ . ǐ d́
That relentless tenacity was what had brought the Murim Alliance to its knees in the previous life.
Knowing that all too well, I clenched my jaw.
"Then again...... you lot are nothing but dogs. You wouldn't know emotions."
I immediately sheathed the Red Radiance Sword.
Then assumed the Sword-Drawing Stance.
Three Forms of the White Moon Governing Heaven.
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First Form.
Extreme Swiftness.
No Sword Qi, no Sword Force—and yet, the drain on my inner arts rivaled the Radiant Heaven Divine Palm.
In that instant.
The demonic practitioners who had been charging ravenously seemed to shimmer and blur.
Space twisted, and a belated sonic boom tore through the air.
Ĕ ń ů mа
PING.
Like a flooded reservoir shattering all at once—
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SHHHHHHHHH—!
The charging demonic practitioners collapsed in unison, spewing blood as they crumpled to the ground.
"Haah, haah, haah."
No matter how hard I tried to suppress it, the gasping wouldn't stop.
W eḃn ò vél̇ Ẽ n̂ ù m̆ á
After all that training, and this was the best I could manage.
Master Baek, are you really human?
TAP-TAP-TAP-TAP-TAP.
And those demonic practitioner bastards—didn't they ever tire? Here they came again, charging without the slightest hesitation.
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'Lunatics.'
Then again, I wasn't exactly in my right mind either.
Еñům a
Time to put to use what I'd learned from Master Baek Hae-gwang during those rest periods spent half-unconscious.
Three Forms of the White Moon Governing Heaven.
Second Form.
Extreme Might.
The official defensive form of the Three Forms of the White Moon Governing Heaven.
The sword lashed out at a speed rivaling Extreme Swiftness.
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Afterimages of Sword Qi hung in the air, sealing off every direction in a dense curtain.
CLANG-CLANG-CLANG-CLANG-CLANG-CLANG.
The demonic practitioners surrounding me hacked desperately at the sword curtain, but it held.
'Master Baek really is insane.'
I gritted my teeth and reversed the flow of every technique I had been executing.
The strain wrenched at my delicate acupoints until they felt ready to burst.
Е̇ n̂ u̇m á
Sword Qi blazing in the opposite direction of everything I'd released so far came howling out at a maddening speed, colliding with the existing curtain and detonating on impact.
A defensive form that weaponized the explosion created when Sword Qi met Sword Qi.
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But could this really be called a defensive form?
BOOM-BOOM-BOOM-BOOM-BOOM-BOOM-BOOM-BOOM-CRASH.
The Sword Qi of Extreme Might devoured everything in the vicinity except its caster, grinding all of it to dust.
Sturdy weapons and fragile bodies alike.
Еñ û ṁ à
And when the Sword Qi the demonic practitioners had been unleashing was caught up in the blast—
BOOM-BOOM-BOOM-BOOM-BOOM-BOOM-BOOM-BOOM-BOOM.
The storm of Sword Qi swelled even larger, radiating outward in every direction.
Shattered weapons and exploding Sword Qi—
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RUMBLE-RUMBLE-RUMBLE-RUMBLE......
—carried the devastation all the way to the demonic practitioners standing behind the front line.
W е b n о̌v̆ еľ Е_ǹû mа̊.
Those who had been charging like arrows became fistfuls of shredded meat.
"GHKK...... GHKK......"
My qi center wrenched with agonizing force.
Like using a muscle for the first time at maximum exertion.
My Eight Extraordinary Meridians and acupoints all seemed to seize with overload, pulling at my body hard enough to tear it apart.
"BLEGH."
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What was Master Baek Hae-gwang thinking when he created a sword art like this?
Only after vomiting up another mouthful of blood did the turmoil inside me begin to settle.
I clung to consciousness and raised my head to survey the surroundings.
"Shit, does the Demonic Cult not have the word 'restraint' in their vocabulary?"
Dozens of demonic practitioners lay pulverized around me, yet still more charged in with that same blank, emotionless stride.
How many more did I have to kill before I could move forward?
W̊_е̄ b̌ň о̂ v e l È n û m̄а̄
How many more did I have to kill?
TREMBLE-TREMBLE-TREMBLE-TREMBLE.
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I stared down the charging practitioners and gripped the Red Radiance Sword, but I couldn't muster any real strength.
'Even just my legs......'
To pull off a feat like that and die a death like this.
Even in the afterlife, I'd be too bewildered and bitter to follow the Messenger of Death.
É_ǹǔ ṁа̃
I forced every ounce of strength into my limbs and managed to get my body moving, but my Internal Qi wasn't circulating properly.
'Move! Move......!!'
My qi center, which had just begun to settle, convulsed again under sheer force of will, and the flow of Internal Qi resumed.
Just as I was about to thrust my sword forward—
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"GAAAARGH!"
A scream erupted right beside me. I snapped my head around.
En̈ u m̄ а́
"NGGH......"
Geum Tae-jong, a soldier of the Second Battalion, had taken a sword blow meant for me.
I drove the Minor Heaven Sword Art through the demonic practitioner's throat with desperate force and caught Geum Tae-jong before he could hit the ground.
"GHRKK......"
His condition was critical—blood poured endlessly from his mouth.
"What do you think you're doing?!"
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"I told you, didn't I...... commanders don't belong at the front......"
"Hang on! Just hold on a little longer......!"
Blood gushed from the gaping wound, and white bone gleamed through the torn flesh.
Before I could do anything, Geum Tae-jong looked down at his own wound, spat blood, and grinned.
"......I'm going to rest for a bit. Can't be too tired if I want to drink, right?"
Before I could say a word, Geum Tae-jong shoved me away and collapsed to the ground.
Еǹ üma . і̆ d
Why?
Why would he throw himself in front of me?
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He would have lived if he'd just stayed still.
......I never gave an order to protect me.
There was no time to find answers. The demonic practitioners swarmed in yet again.
CLANG-CLANG-CLANG-CLANG.
W̆ë bñovêl̈ Én̆üm̆ а
The Red Radiance Sword swung as feebly as my previous life's blade.
My head was a mess, and the chaos raging inside me was worse.
No matter how hard I squeezed, no strength came.
'Am I going to die here? At the hands of those demonic practitioners?'
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Then I'd force myself to move.
CRUNCH.
Ënüm а̌
I bit down on my tongue. The tang of iron flooded my mouth, and every nerve in my fading body jolted awake.
The strength that had been draining away coiled back into my hands, and my clouded mind snapped clear.
"......Commander...... struggling!"
"Protect...... the Commander!"
"......Follow the Commander...... and run!"
Through the chaos of the battlefield, someone shouted, and others answered—voices drifting in and out of hearing.
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But I paid them no mind.
No—I decided not to.
Why did I have to press forward?
Why I wanted to save them.
Why did I have to survive?
I decided to stop thinking about reasons.
Е̄ ṅum̄а̌ . іd̄
The instant I hesitated, an academy student would die.
Someone carefully raised by their sect.
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Someone's child, someone's sibling, someone's martial brother or sister.
So I moved forward.
Without resting for even a moment, I kept going.
The luxury of thinking about reasons was a luxury I couldn't afford.
W̊е̇b n̆ о́ v̌ѐ l̊ Ѐ nu m̈ а́_
"C-Commander Jin!"
Il-gak's face, running beside me, had gone white.
He had never once shown fear before now.
I wiped the blood from my eyes, raised my head, and saw it—a dense forest of torches.
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After all that killing. And there were still this many.
What was it about this forest that they'd go to such lengths?
Е n̄ um а̄
Or had they planned this from the start—total extermination of the academy students?
"Yeah...... I figured it was about time for this."
They'd pushed us hard enough. It was time for them to show themselves.
We had gnawed away at the demonic practitioners and inflicted our share of damage.
They couldn't intend to keep throwing Wheel Battles at us forever.
"Jin...... Young Master. Wh-what do we do now?"
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The ground was littered with toppled trees and the charred remnants of forest.
The enemy had cleared an entire area of Natural Formations in preparation for this final confrontation.
They had built a stage that favored them.
"What do you mean, what do we do? We break through."
"Break...... through?"
"And besides, if this is the final showdown, shouldn't their commander at least come out for a chat?!"
Е́ n̄ú m а̃
I raised my voice and bellowed, but no one stepped out from among the torches.
"This is where you plan to bury the academy students, right?! I'm the one who'll be presiding over your funeral! Nobody's going to come out and make a big speech? Are you all mutes?!"
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Instead of an answer, the sound of weapons being drawn filled the air.
SHING, SHING, SHING.
As if a concert had begun, blades were unsheathed in unison, their sound reverberating from every direction.
Only the reflections of sword edges and saber blades caught in the torchlight showed just how many people occupied this clearing.
Еnu m̆ а . і̂ d
The ultimate despair to inflict on an opponent who had barely crawled out of an inferno.
"You bastards haven't changed one bit since the old days."
The Demonic Cult's signature way of war.
Their most beloved tactic was to shove the enemy into the deepest pit of despair and hopelessness.
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STEP, STEP, STEP, STEP, STEP.
As though marching in lockstep, the demonic practitioners closed in with deliberate, heavy strides.
En̊u m̃ a
"C-Commander!"
"Jin...... Young Master. They're coming!"
"Ch-charge? Do we charge?!"
Even the academy students—who until now had never once retreated—flinched.
Just as the Murim Alliance's forces had done in the past.
"But here's the thing."
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But I—
"Did you really think the same trick would work on me every time?"
—was not the meat shield of the past.
I pulled signal flares from my breast.
I'd collected every spare I could find.
I fired the first one straight into the densest cluster of enemies.
E n̈ ǔḿа̀. ĩ d́
FWEEEE— BANG.
A brilliant burst of light erupted as the flare detonated, flooding the area with radiance.
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Beneath the light, countless unmoving demonic practitioners were laid bare.
The flare was quickly stamped out under a practitioner's foot, snuffing its glow.
And then, as we continued to move—
SHRIEK.
Еǹ ûmǎ
A piercing whistle of displaced air passed overhead.
An enormous explosion erupted exactly where my signal flare had detonated.
BOOM-BOOM-CRASH.
Without hesitation, I fired the second flare.
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FWEEEE— BANG.
The flare burst and lit up the area.
W ѐbn ӧv̂ е́l̀ Е ǹ_u m̀ â
SHRIEK.
As though answering in kind, another explosion tore through the night.
BOOM-BOOM-BOOM-CRASH.
The academy students reeled in shock.
"What in the...... I thought those were signal flares?"
FWEEEE— BANG.
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A third signal flare, and—
SHRIEK— BOOM-BOOM-CRASH.
An arrow plummeted into the mass of demonic practitioners.
The exploding arrowhead shredded the practitioners, who collapsed one after another, spilling blood.
A Thunderbolt Arrow—perfected by Murong Jae-hwa over the winter break.
It still couldn't compare to the Breaking Bow of my previous life, but it now carried destructive force worthy of the name Thunderbolt Arrow.
Е n̄ü m̆а
"H-how is this possible, Commander Jin......?"
"You forgot Jae-hwa held off the Blood Cult bastards by himself back in Sichuan?"
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"......Then why not until now—"
"With those damn Natural Formations everywhere, how was I supposed to use him? This clearing exists only because the enemy flattened the forest. That's why he's finally an option."
"......"
"Tch, you have no idea how much that kid's been nagging me to let him join the fight."
W_ѐb̄ ńо̌v ê l_ .Е́ n ù m̀ ӑ_
It had been a dangerous gamble.
If the enemy had stuck to Wheel Battles, Jae-hwa's power would have been useless in the Black Forest.
But in the end, they hadn't abandoned their habits.
FWEEEE— BANG.
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BOOM-BOOM-BOOM-CRASH.
With every flare that arced through the sky, the pile of demonic practitioner corpses grew.
Е́nu m̃ а
A glowing target in the darkness was the perfect bullseye for an archer.
Murong Jae-hwa fired Thunderbolt Arrow after Thunderbolt Arrow without mercy, as if purging every ounce of pent-up frustration.
BOOM-BOOM-BOOM-CRASH.
After three volleys of Thunderbolt Arrows, the demonic practitioners' advance faltered for the very first time.
I kept firing signal flares without pause.
FWEEEE— BANG.
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BOOM-BOOM-BOOM-CRASH.
Jae-hwa poured out every drop of inner arts and every arrow he had, without a shred of mercy.
An endless spectacle of signal flares and Thunderbolt Arrows painting the sky.
Amid the thunderous explosions, for the first time, screams escaped from the ranks of the demonic practitioners.
It was a moment of victory, earned after harrowing trials—yet no one cheered at the sight.
They merely watched the enemy's deaths in heavy silence, reminded of the comrades who had died just as easily.
Е̇ n̆ uṁ а́
Three signal flares launched simultaneously.
From his hiding spot atop a tree, Murong Jae-hwa burned through every last reserve of inner arts and arrows.
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BOOM-BOOM-CRASH!
BOOM-BOOM-CRASH!
BOOM-BOOM-CRASH!
Under the barrage of arrows raining down like meteors, the demonic practitioners scattered in panic rather than pressing their charge.
Е̌ń ú.m̂ă . і̌ ḋ
At the same time, I sensed the power of Murong Jae-hwa's Thunderbolt Arrows gradually weakening.
"Get ready."
Inner arts barely exceeding the level of One Cycle—and he'd done this much damage. The kid had pushed himself far beyond his limits.
I couldn't rely on the Thunderbolt Arrows any longer.
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The instant the enemy adapted to the unfamiliar weapon, they'd resume their assault.
"Charge!!!"
Е́ṅ um̃a.іd
So we moved.
While the confusion still gripped them.
To seize the opening before it closed.
WHOOSH— THUD.
A faint sound of something landing drifted from the rear.
Murong Jae-hwa must have returned to the unit.
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I scraped my qi center dry and hauled up every last drop of inner arts.
Then poured it all into the demonic practitioners.
BOOM-BOOM-BOOM-CRASH.
Sword Qi collided with Sword Qi, and a storm of energy tore through the air.
Blood that had been cooling began to boil again, turning each breath ragged.
Cutting, stabbing, pushing, smashing—one step at a time, forward.
W̆ѐḃṅ о v е̊ l̂ E ň ú mа̊
At last, the enemy's numbers began to thin.
"AAAARGH!"
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Pushing and pushing, breaking through and breaking through again—
We finally punched through.
I lifted my head and looked around.
WHOOOOSH......
E n̊ u ḿ а. і̃d̊
Not a single demonic practitioner in sight.
The enemy that had hounded us relentlessly no matter how hard we fought—as though blocked by an invisible wall, they pursued us no further.
"Haa, haa, haa......"
Between the ragged gasps, eerie cries threaded low through the air.
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SCREEEECH—
GRRRRR—
Ẽn ů ṁа
In the darkness, blood-red eyes reeking of death watched us like sentinels guarding their territory.
The Demonic Reaches.
"We made it!!!"
"YEAAAAH!!!"
"WAAAAAH!!!"
Despite having arrived at the Black Forest's killing ground—a place called the land of death—the Life-or-Death Unit erupted into a roar of triumph.
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