Chapter 330

Chapter 330

It feels like slicing one’s nose with a blade.

“Damn it. Somehow it’s colder than the Great Desert. Ugh.”

Area C. Seolgwi’s monster realm.

A man who unwittingly spat out curses at the rushing bitter cold involuntarily shivered once and fastened his collar. And at that sight, the man beside him involuntarily asked a question.

“The Great Desert is…… cold? I heard it’s a place like a scorching hell.”

“You call that a statement?”

Hearing the sorcerer attached from the Murim Alliance side to deliver strategy ask as if puzzled, Muheuggaek, one of the Chilryun members, let out an empty laugh. A question lacking even a bit of common sense about deserts.

“Originally, deserts are hot during the day and cold at night. The desert weather is such that if you go out and sleep at night, you could freeze to death. It seems Central Plains people don’t even know such things.”

“Yes, well…… we don’t have many occasions to see deserts in the Central Plains, right?”

“…….”

“We can’t help but lack common sense.”

“How boastful. Damn it. Sending some slippery fellow from who knows where.”

He tried to overcome this bitter cold by getting angry, but there’s no answer when the other party flows past it like water.

“Anyway, this monster realm is troublesome.”

“Is it?”

“Yes.”

At Muheuggaek’s words, made with a rascal-like thought done matter-of-factly, the sorcerer blinked. And at that sight, Muheuggaek continued his explanation.

“I don’t know if you’re feeling it, but internal energy hardly moves inside this monster realm.”

“Pardon? But isn’t everyone moving well?”

“I’m not talking about internal energy inside the body. I’m talking about the internal energy in the air. Well, unless you’re a madman thinking of operating pupil techniques in this situation, you wouldn’t know.”

That doesn’t apply to him. Because.

The reason Muheuggaek’s alias became Muheuggaek is that he doesn’t come to the cult enough to leave traces within it.

The reason he doesn’t come inside the cult enough to leave such traces is because Muheuggaek’s martial arts are extremely specialized in detecting external dangers or abnormalities.

“Internal energy has the nature of trying to assimilate with its surroundings.”

“…….”

“As long as you’re breathing, the internal energy currently flowing inside your body will gradually show movement trying to assimilate with external internal energy. Do you know what that means?”

“Doesn’t it mean even internal energy inside the body will solidify?”

“Right.”

The more excellent one’s internal energy manipulation, the more delayed that time will be, but if internal energy inside the body tries to assimilate with external internal energy, ultimately even internal energy inside the body solidifying is a determined matter.

In a state where there’s no passage of internal energy, that is, if one stops breathing, it could somehow be resolved, but people can’t stop breathing and live, can they?

“Damn it, it’s the type of monster realm that must be attacked as quickly as possible through a swift decisive battle…… the gap in strength is painful. How did all the Chilryun members who know how to fight all leave and die?”

“Hoaaaam. Can’t be helped, can iiit?”

“Cheongong. You bastard.”

The air.

At the sight of a child floating while lying on a strange wooden plank, Chilryun’s Cheongong, Muheuggaek frowned and raised his arm to shake the wooden plank. Then Cheongong spoke leisurely with his back firmly attached.

“Don’t—do—that—! Doesn’t the ride quality worsen from shaking? I’ll get motion sick!”

“A combat situation might break out soon, so how long are you planning to ride on that? Bringing such a strange object.”

“It’s not a strange object. It’s a convenient object I can lie on anytime, anywhere.”

“Should I let you lie down forever?”

“Alright. I said alright……”

Cheongong, who forcibly came down from the wooden plank at Muheuggaek’s nagging, stretched big and said languidly.

“They’re swarming dizzyingly.”

“Swarming, what……”

“Right. A damn situation.”

Muheuggaek, who answered while ignoring the sorcerer’s words, frowned while concentrating internal energy in his eyes. Numerous presences caught by energy sensing.

“Distance to the core?”

“Well, in a straight line it seems about ten li.”

“Ten li. How long do you think it would take to break through?”

“If we push straight in from here, it would take about a full day and night.”

“That means at least half the people here will die.”

“Wouldn’t it?”

“What kind of shitty place is this?”

“Don’t ask me.”

“Huu. We’ll have no choice but to leave dismantling the monster realm to the detached unit at the rear.”

While seeing Muheuggaek, who put disgraceful language in his mouth, kneel on one knee on the ground and close his eyes, the sorcerer blinked. Muheuggaek’s actions where it’s certain he’s doing something, but what exactly isn’t clearly revealed.

“What are you doing now……”

“He’s constructing his own position.”

“Position…… you say?”

“Yes. That fellow’s trivial skill.”

Cheongong let out a slight laugh while slyly perching his rear on the flying wooden plank and continued speaking.

“That fellow’s martial art is quite a peculiar kind, you see. If he doesn’t first explore the surrounding environment before fighting, he can’t exert his full power.”

“……There’s such a martial art?”

“It’s not a versatile martial art. No, should we even consider that actual martial arts?”

If the Sado Alliance Leader Mumyeong dominates the battlefield using all weapons, Muheuggaek literally makes the battlefield itself his own and dominates it.

“When that fellow fails to properly do that, he’s just a fool who’s only quick on his feet. Even five of him wouldn’t match me.”

“……Is Cheongong-nim strong among the Chilryun?”

“No, it’s simply that that fellow is weak.”

“…….”

From a warrior’s perspective who must be ready to fight anytime, anywhere, Muheuggaek’s martial arts are literally no different from trash. The difficulty is extremely terrible, and it even bears a huge weakness.

However,

“Nevertheless, there’s a reason that fellow rose to the Chilryun. Do you know why?”

“……Why?”

“Because once that preparation is finished, there are few among the Chilryun who can block that fellow.”

If trying to block alone, perhaps only Ilryun could manage it?

“Are you finished with preparations—?”

“Finished.”

Along with his words, Muheuggaek, who opened his eyes that had been closed and lifted his knee from the ground, frowned and brushed off his hands.

“Damn it, since the internal energy is solidified, it’s not easy. It feels much more restricted than usual.”

“How much did you dominate?”

“About a five-zhang radius.”

“Isn’t that sufficient?”

“Insufficient. You’ll have to cover the rest.”

“Cover……? What does that mean? Where did you learn such a crooked word again!”

“It’s a word from a country even farther west than the Western Regions. It means if there are ones that escape, you have to block them.”

“Ah, if it’s that.”

Uuuung!

“Isn’t that not even difficult?”

Cheongong, who burst into a chuckle, spread his hands wide and the snow that had been piled around was pressed down firmly and gradually refined into the form of spears. Then Cheongong asked quietly.

“The operation is to rampage here as much as possible to draw attention.”

“Correct.”

“If we rampage at maximum output, how long would it take? I haven’t seen that detached unit called Uicheon, so I don’t know how long it would take. But didn’t you see?”

“Well, it depends on the situation, but……”

How long would it take?

“If we can’t draw out the monster realm’s master, probably about a full day and night.”

“Ooh, still similar to breaking through from the front. If we can draw out the monster realm’s master?”

“Half a moment.”

“……That fast?”

“That much. I didn’t see any angle I could win facing them head-on.”

I can be certain. That’s a monster.

‘Even if they’re not a monster yet, they’re one who possesses a fragment of a monster.’

I can understand why Daehwalbul is wary of that person called Uicheon. Even if they’re not as strong as Daehwalbul right now, Uicheon is clearly a being who seems like they’ll soon surpass Daehwalbul’s stronghold and evolve into something beyond.

‘Fortunately, that monster is on our side now.’

Isn’t that the only good fortune in this shitty situation?

Muheuggaek, who briefly gauged the appearance of Uicheon he saw on the martial stage, exhaled white breath while looking forward. A pure white snowy landscape where nothing is visible, the presence of monster groups gradually gathering below the snow.

“This is what you call making a feint to the east and attacking the west.”

“What does that mean?”

“To put it simply…… it means if you get hit first and get angry, you don’t even notice someone picking your back pocket.”

“Ooh.”

To make them angry enough that they don’t even notice their heart being robbed, you’d have to give them a solid first punch.

“Half.”

“Mm?”

“Let’s aim to eliminate that much before the monster realm is completely robbed.”

“In half a moment?”

“Sufficient.”

While feeling the presences gradually approaching, Muheuggaek, who showed a grin, clenched his fist tight and thrust it forward. And.

Kureureureureu—!!!

Finally, the moment the presences hidden below the snow approached five zhang in front of Muheuggaek.

“Bang.”

Along with Muheuggaek’s utterance, the clenched fist opened.

——!

Along with tremendous shock waves.

The snowfield scattered.

***

Well, they’re doing it quite grandly.

Paaaaang—!!!

“Why did you stop?”

“Mm.”

As Baek Risan, who harbored puzzlement at my appearance stopping while advancing by cutting through the front, threw a question, I shook my head and swung Uicheongeom once more. Simultaneously, part of the snowfield being cut away.

“I just touched a presence for a moment.”

“What was there?”

“Probably the battle has started.”

“Battle…… the front? Something feels all the way from there to here?”

“Don’t glare like that. It’s only possible because the martial arts of those at the front are peculiar.”

At Baek Risan’s appearance glaring at me as if saying what kind of nonsense is that, I shrugged my shoulders and let out a chuckle. Muheuggaek’s martial arts were unmatched in strangeness, just as I’d heard.

‘Did they say it’s martial arts like thunder bombs?’

Among the Chilryun, the one with the most internal energy is Muheuggaek.

When I heard those words, I speculated that Muheuggaek’s martial arts would be martial arts that could most efficiently project the greatest internal energy in a manner similar to the Namgung Family’s martial arts. Suppressing opponents based on one’s strengths is the foundation of martial arts.

However,

—Strictly speaking, it would be a bit different. That child’s martial arts are, how should I say, like thunder bombs planted in the ground.

—Thunder bombs…… you say?

—Yes. Thunder bombs that can be detonated anytime.

Martial arts that can plant energy mines within all space in the ‘reach’ they’ve dominated and detonate them at will.

Since martial combat doesn’t exist, Muheuggaek’s martial arts are ambiguous to even call martial arts to begin with. Should I say they’re based on martial arts to be called sorcery, but stray too far from martial principles to be called martial arts?

“Since they’re rampaging over there, this side will become much more comfortable. Let’s hurry.”

“Got i……”

Seususeu!

Baek Risan, who was answering my words, suddenly grimaced as if sensing something and placed his hand on the sword at his waist. Baek Risan asking me in a voice that sank low.

“They’re here?”

“Seems so.”

“Where are they?”

“I don’t know either. If I spread energy sensing here, it’ll assimilate and freeze solid.”

“…….”

“And I can’t use eye techniques based on Cheonroesin either.”

That’s the troublesome point about this monster realm. It’s covered with snow higher than one’s head making it hard to find where opponents are, and moreover, it makes it impossible to spread energy sensing.

“Can’t be helped. Should we wait until they attack?”

“There’s no need to do that. The enemies’ purpose will be to drag out time.”

“But we don’t even know where the opponents are, so how……”

“Isn’t it simple?”

As if that’s difficult.

I grinned at Baek Risan’s question and lowered Uicheongeom diagonally downward, and Baek Risan blinked. And at that moment, blue flames condensing along my shoulders.

Hwacheonsinryu

“If we don’t know where the opponents are.”

Pokryu

“We just blow everything away.”

——!!!

One sword strike.

“That martial art……!”

Seeing me blow away half the snowy landscape before our eyes with just a single strike, Baek Risan opened his eyes wide.

“That’s my martial art! You martial art thief!”

“……Hmm.”

Well, what’s so wrong about family sharing?

“Can’t we share a bit?”

“That’s the same as this? Don’t use it first before getting permission!”

How strict.