Episode 573
Kuuuung!
Karun stamped his foot roughly. A sound full of frustration and anger shook the garden of the main building.
“Damn it!”
Even after stamping his foot several times, he gritted his teeth as if his anger did not go away.
“Hold on a little.”
Balder sighed and walked to Karun’s side.
“I feel bad too, but I can’t help this. “Why don’t you take care of the guy who became Grand Master at the age of 21 and hit the head of the Yonghyeongeomju?”
He frowned, asking why he was doing this even though he knew everything.
“Do you feel dirty?”
Karun glared at Balder and twisted his mouth.
“You idiot. “Wipe the smile off your face and say something like that.”
“Uh, um…”
Balder hastily touched the corner of his mouth.
“Are you still unable to come to your senses after being so humiliated by that young bastard?”
“That’s not it….”
“Of course, it is a good thing that the family’s reputation increases and its divinity rises. But!”
Karun chewed his lips and continued speaking.
“The target is Raon of the collateral world. “He’s like a monkey who doesn’t even know what kind of bug he comes from!”
“Uhm….”
“Besides, he’s out of our hands now.”
“Escape?”
“It means that he is not someone you or I can control and manipulate, but rather an enemy with whom we can compete for the top spot. “Is your head still spinning?”
He tapped his head with his finger, telling me to reconsider the situation in which Glenn and Aris took care of Raon.
“Ah, so…”
Balder’s lips trembled as if he had finally felt a sense of crisis.
“If you move now…”
“It’s already too late.”
Denier, who popped out from behind a bush in the garden, waved his hand lightly.
“what?”
“Have you heard the rumor that your father teaches swordsmanship to Raon himself? That’s real. “He also taught it for quite a long time.”
Denier leaned back against the pillar in the garden with a light smile.
“I warned you before. “My father is already looking at Raon as one of the successor candidates.”
“Oh no! “You’re too young!”
Balder shook his head, thinking it didn’t make sense.
“It’s not even Sylvia, it’s Raon! “Does it make sense to have to compete with my nephew to be the head of the family?”
“You might like it more when you’re younger. As the youngest Grand Master on the continent, you have also accumulated some cooperation. If Raon becomes the head of the family, our family’s popularity and recognition will increase significantly, right? “I guess I’m not bad.”
Denier shrugged his shoulders leisurely.
“Seeing as you brought up the story of life and death with your father today, I think you will receive Raon as your direct successor on January 1st of next year and immediately declare yourself a candidate for successor. “What do you think, brother?”
“….”
Karun did not answer Denier’s question, but only gave a crumpled look.
“Why are you looking at me so scared when I’m not even Raon?”
Denier laughed and turned his back.
“What I want to say is, don’t wake up the hive by touching Raon for no reason. You know that if your sister makes a fuss, there’s no one to stop her, right? “Let’s live quietly.”
He waved his hand lightly and left the garden.
‘Denier…’
Karun narrowed his eyes as he looked at Denier who had disappeared into the darkness of the garden.
‘What are you thinking?’
* * *
Raon’s fingertips trembled as he looked at Glenn’s sunken eyes.
‘It must have been difficult….’
This is something anyone can say, but no one has ever said. The short words Glenn said melted the black lump that had been clogged in my chest until a moment ago.
‘I guess I wanted to hear that.’
Now I can understand why I wasn’t very happy when I received the gold medal and injury from Glenn in the Gaju match.
Now, I think I wanted to find mental rest, not material compensation.
‘I have become weak too.’
No, it’s not that I’ve become weak. Maybe this is what makes me human.
My previous life as an assassin was no different from the life of a doll with strings, killing if I wanted to kill and kidnapping if I wanted to kidnap.
Because he lived his entire life as a hunting dog with a leash, he never felt betrayed by anyone.
Thanks to the ring of fire, even when he was killed by Derus while preparing to escape after removing his brainwashing, he did not feel betrayed because he did not trust him. I was just angry.
But this life was different. I met many people and shared my heart and soul with them all.
The same goes for Rektar. Because I regarded him as my grandfather and learned swordsmanship and life, the unexpected feeling of betrayal pierced me even more deeply.
“You tend to have good fortune.”
Glenn calmly looked away. He looked at the lake and continued speaking calmly.
“The children who bullied you when you were young have sincerely repented and become subordinates who can support you, and your teacher has become a boss who can risk his life for you. They won’t change their minds no matter what you become. “There is no need to mention those in the annex.”
“….”
Raon nodded slightly. As he said, the members of the Gwangpungdae, including Buren and Marta, asked for forgiveness for their childish mistakes from their childhood, and Rimmer, despite being lazy, gave each swordsman appropriate training.
It is not wrong to say that Sylvia, Helen, and other members of the annex are also blessed with happiness because they are people who can spend their lives together.
“The reason you are having a hard time right now is because for the first time, you felt the betrayal of someone you thought was a good relationship with you. Anything is difficult at first. “If it’s a betrayal, it’s bound to hurt even more.”
Glenn nodded as if he understood that feeling.
“Hmm…”
Raon savored his appetite, feeling as if Glenn’s back, which had seemed far away, was getting a little closer.
‘It’s unexpected.’
I thought Glenn would just yell at me, but I didn’t expect him to comfort me with words like that.
“Those who approach you with favor cannot always be good. “It’s not common to see someone like Balder who is completely exposed inside and out.”
When Glenn gave the example of Balder, there seemed to be a faint smile in his voice.
“Follow me.”
He snapped his fingers and walked across the lake toward Bukmang Mountain.
It seemed like he was walking normally, but he moved forward as if he had transcended space, and even when he walked, he couldn’t catch up.
Glenn stopped at a wide open space at the beginning of Bukmangsan Mountain.
Tsk.
He broke a small twig from the bush and gave a chin gesture to Raon.
“Unsheath your sword.”
“yes?”
“When your mind is busy, it’s better to move your body without thinking.”
Glenn lifted a branch and pointed it like a sword.
“Show me what you meant by becoming a Grand Master.”
“Hmm….”
Raon tightly gripped the blade of the Jecheon Sword and looked at the tree branch that Glenn had lifted. A few leaves swayed in the night wind.
‘You mean to spar with me?’
I have received Glenn’s teachings many times, but I have never shared a sword with him. It was a miracle among miracles.
“You asked me to clear my head, so can I give it my all?”
“Otherwise it has no meaning.”
“Then…”
Raon pulled out the Jecheon Sword and the Requiem Sword with trembling hands.
“I’ll be right there.”
He grabbed the two swords backwards and drove them into the ground, opening the world of imagination.
The heat and cold that arose in the lower half of the match quickly rose to the middle and upper half of the match.
My vision turned pure white, and a stronger and sharper image than the previous sword world stretched out towards the world.
A strange golden sun and silver moon rise behind my back.
The golden light of the sun seeped into the divine sword clutched in his right hand, and the silver moonlight ripened from the magic sword rising from his left hand.
Thanks to Dan Sang-jeon, who grew to become a Grand Master, new changes were also brought to the divine and demonic swords.
“It looks reasonable.”
Glenn nodded with a calm expression.
“Come.”
Raon used Glenn’s words as a spark and jumped right in front of Glenn.
He went at a speed that was enough to tear out the grass on the ground, pouring down the flames of the divine sword and the frost of the magic sword.
The two swords wielding the dual sword technique broke and fell, creating a powerful wave.
Ssssssssssssssssssssssshh!
Glenn held out a tree branch so thin that even a child could break it towards the flames and frost that filled his eyes.
Wow!
A series of huge explosions erupted, causing the surrounding bushes and trees to scream, but the branch that Glenn was holding did not shake in the slightest. It was a sight that was hard to believe even when seen with one’s own eyes.
“It’s worth considering its power. “Please continue.”
“yes!”
Raon stamped his left foot and dug into Glenn’s left side.
‘Ordinary attacks don’t work.’
It is impossible to pierce Glenn’s defense from the front. I had to aim for places he couldn’t defend.
Cheeeeee!
I stepped on the three treasures of Taehwa. As if flowing water, it naturally moved to the right rear of the Glen and deployed Jeokseom and Seoriyeon at the same time.
The red-hot rays and blue blade advanced in time, targeting Glenn’s blind spot.
“The moment you stop thinking, the fight is over.”
Glenn smiled slightly and put a tree branch on its side. The tree branch he lightly stirred struck away the enemy island that advanced first and blocked the two blades of the frost kite that dug in behind it.
‘I don’t even know what you did.’
Time seemed to pass by only for him.
Raon chewed his lips and used Taehwabo. I folded the space and advanced and stabbed the divine sword and the demonic sword in front of Glenn’s nose.
Young flames and frost spread out at the tip of the sword like a kaleidoscope, enveloping Glenn’s whole body.
Cartoon baller Cheonhwa.
Jeokseom36gyeol.
He used two swords to strike sixty-six times with one sword. A terrifying sword strike aimed at a total of seventy-two directions at the same time, targeting the vital points of Glenn’s body.
“You feel more relaxed playing with your hands. Both speed and power have improved.”
Glenn briefly praised the swordsmanship he had previously criticized and then waved a tree branch.
A soft but firm wind spread out and instantly broke the flow of the Red Island Thirty Six.
Coo coo coo coo!
Raon gritted his teeth and strengthened his legs to avoid being pushed away by the wind that seemed to push not only his body but also his soul. The divine sword and the magic sword produced thicker flames and frost as if responding to my will.
Hahaha!
Once again, I entered the space in front of Glenn and raised my divine sword and demon sword towards the tree branch.
The two blades scraped the ground and struck both ends of the tree branch.
But even though he was exerting all his strength, the tree branch Glenn was holding did not shake.
“Let’s try it a little rough.”
Glenn twisted his wrist. A red thunderbolt erupted from the tree branch, crushing the flames of the divine sword and the frost of the magic sword.
Don’t fall in!
However, Flame and Frost did not lose their own shine even though they were pushed unilaterally by the terrible brain power.
“I see.”
Glenn looked down at the divine sword and the magic sword and nodded slowly. The eyes seemed to be shining softly.
“Your choice was to not give up. “It was a sword that never broke.”
Just by crossing swords a few times, he realized what kind of determination I had to become a Grand Master.
“Then attack more properly so that your flame does not go out.”
“of course!”
Raon burst into spirit and rushed in. The magic sword caught up with the divine sword’s trajectory, creating a flash of red and blue light.
Kuwaaaa!
Two orbs of brilliant light extended towards Glenn. He let out a faint smile in front of the powerful wave of force that was roughing up the ground.
“We have achieved some degree of mastery of swordsmanship.”
Glenn lightly lowered the tree branch like a child playing. A wave of red light rose from the tip of the thinly swaying tree branch, blocking the two light rings.
Aaaaaaaaagh!
The strong sword built by the divine sword and the magic sword melted in front of the shaking leaves without even being able to reach Glenn.
‘also.’
Because I had anticipated this situation, I exhaled and raised both swords again. He took a step closer to Glenn and used the Flame Dragon with his divine sword and summoned Hwaryeong with his magic sword.
Kuwaaaa!
The moment he blocked Glenn’s back with the blue Hwaryeong, he let out a flame.
Glenn, who saw the golden flame, smiled slightly and stretched out a branch.
Kuwaaaa!
The fire dragon’s roar could not pierce the path drawn by the leaves and died out in vain.
Cheeeeee!
Raon took advantage of the gap where the heat from Yeomnyonggyeol turned into a haze and entered the right side of the glen.
I approached him and thrust the final blade of the Divine Demon Harmony.
Raon Sieghart style swordsmanship.
Type 6 Divine Demon Harmony Link Unit Blue-Red Invincible Sword.
The glen was covered with a radiance of flame and frost that split the sky and the earth.
“It’s a good sword.”
For the first time, Glenn let out a soft exclamation and lifted up the tree branch.
A red thunderbolt shot up from the center of the tree branch and collided head-on with a stream of blue-red invincible swords.
Hahaha!
The fearsome thunder energy, flames, and frost collided to shake the earth, but the ground on which Glenn was standing did not shake in the slightest.
However, a leaf fluttered from the branch he was holding and fell to the ground.
“Ha…”
Raon sat down with a sigh.
‘Is it just one leaf?’
I just laughed when the result of my best efforts was a single leaf attached to a tree branch.
-It’s not just one leaf.
‘What does that mean?’
-It means that you did it in your own way.
‘huh?’
Surprisingly, Lars did not laugh and muttered something whose exact meaning was unknown.
“Hmm…”
Glenn looked at the fallen leaves and then headed toward the bush. When he brought the branch he had broken back to its original place and rubbed his fingers together, the branch naturally stuck together as if it had never been broken in the first place.
“That…”
I opened my mouth without realizing it because I never thought that the tree branch I broke would stick again.
“If there is a sword that can kill, there is also a sword that can save. “It’s not that long ago that I became enlightened, so I’m not surprised.”
Glenn lightly tapped the branch that had returned to its original state and looked at Raon.
“okay. “Are you a little relieved?”
“yes? Ah yes….”
Raon nodded absentmindedly.
‘I completely forgot.’
While sparring with Glenn, I forgot about Rektar and felt refreshed, as if my stuffy heart had returned to normal.
“You think too much. “Sometimes you need to clear your head.”
“I’ll keep that in mind.”
“They say it’s been sorted out.”
He clicked his tongue briefly and looked up at the night sky.
“He didn’t seem like the kind of person who would commit betrayal, even to me.”
Glenn shook his head, feeling a little disappointed.
“Hey…”
Raon looked at Glenn and briefly raised his hand.
“I have something I want to tell you.”
“what?”
“Actually…”
Rektar told me what he had done and the situation.
“is it.”
Glenn didn’t say it was nonsense and nodded calmly.
“I will find out first. But it doesn’t change the fact that he is our enemy.”
“I know.”
“Then it’s done.”
He nodded and turned his back.
“Let’s just go.”
“Oh thank you for today.”
Raon bowed his head to Glenn with sincerity.
“It’s just a reward for your performance on this mission.”
Glenn let out a somewhat cold voice and left in the direction of the main building.
“Haaa….”
As soon as Glenn’s appearance disappeared, Raon lay down on the ground and let out a cool breath. It was harder than when I lay down in my room, but I felt at ease.
“Good.”
* * *
Glenn did not return to the family battle. He was watching Raon, leaning his back against a tree rising halfway up Bukmangsan Mountain.
“It must be difficult.”
Raon didn’t know why he was having a hard time and suffering.
That child pretends to be cold-hearted, but because he grew up sharing a lot of affection with people, his feelings of betrayal toward Rektar must have been deeper and greater.
‘Not all people are good. And not everyone is evil.’
I created this event because I was worried that Raon would alienate others due to his feelings of betrayal, but it seemed like he was throwing up quite well.
‘You will be able to overcome this.’
Glenn narrowed his eyes when he saw a leaf that had fallen at Raon’s feet.
‘By the way…’
You created a great sword world.
Raon’s sword system, which I saw in person, exceeded my expectations.
It has excellent power and durability, and its biggest advantage is that it is still unfinished.
‘No, rather than being incomplete, I would say it is growing.’
Raon’s sword world captures his image exactly. This means that as the top division grows, the sword world also grows together. Raon’s sword system had endless possibilities.
In fact, Raon’s sword skills grew even while sparring.
The proof was that one leaf fell from the tree branch that had predicted Raon’s power and maintained its original shape with appropriate intention.
‘And…’
Glenn closed his eyes.
‘That golden flame.’
The flames reflected on Raon’s sword contained a pale gold color within the red color. A golden flame that appeared only once in Sieghart’s long history. The fire of the first head of the family permeated Raon’s soul.
“The path that suits you is not paedo.”
Glenn slowly lifted his eyelids.
“I will take away the world’s malice and shame. “Raon. You…”
He smiled as he looked at Raon with his red gaze filled with affection.
“Walk on the straight path.”
