Episode 303 A swordsman in his left hand and a swordsman in his right.
The moment Sado was hit on the head, I was secretly surprised.
“….”
Because it didn’t seem like there was much damage. But what was even more surprising was that Sado’s internal energy, which felt like a huge wall, was momentarily cut off.
I was able to recognize it because I was competing with the apostle. If so, this means that the apostle must first send internal energy into the body to make the sword unsinkable.
Until now, the apostle had been pretending to receive the Sword Demon’s sword with sloppy gestures and actions. His actions were apostolic, but the basis of his martial arts was pure inner strength. Of course, it doesn’t seem like this guy built his skills in the right way.
The sword demon struck the top of the apostle’s head again with the handle of the bright sword.
puck!
Why do I want to laugh like this?
When the four great evildoers clung to him, the apostle’s weakness was revealed.
Is this just luck?
Or is it the result of several overlapping stories?
It was a secret that could not have been discovered if the battle had been fought only with internal strength, and it was a secret that would have been difficult to discover even if the battle had only been fought with a sword or a sword.
The essence of this fight is nothing more than an apostle, whose inner strength is much deeper than ours, using his inner strength to suppress us.
It is clearly not a perfect sword invulnerability.
Brief music erupted again.
Pow!
I felt like I was hearing drumming music every time the sword demon struck the top of the apostle’s head with his bright sword. I took advantage of the opportunity when the sword demon struck the top of the apostle’s head and completely converted the internal attack into an offensive attack.
Could there have been such a perfect collaboration?
Originally, it would be a shame for the four of us to fight against one person, but the four of us are not the Four Great Saints anyway, so we don’t care about such things.
Sado also seemed to have lost his concentration and mind, and the colored magic ice ball slowly dyed Sado’s shoulders white.
Moreover, since I had been holding on to the apostle’s arm from the beginning until now, I had no intention of letting him go.
After harvesting gold and silver balls, I added ice balls in the middle of winter, like fanning a burning house.
puck! puck!
The Sword Demon struck down the Light Sword like an axe, like a trusty woodcutter chopping firewood.
‘good night.’
I wanted to pour out a lot of words of support and concern to the Sword Demon, but I held back for a moment because I had to continue the offensive.
Anyway, the apostle was captured by the four great evildoers.
This guy will die soon.
If I had come to Baeksa Island alone like I did in my past life, I would have probably fought with the apostle and jumped into the river and been chased by a military ship. Strangely enough, if one of the four of us had been lacking, we would have won but would have been seriously injured.
But now, while holding Sado by his inner strength, he carried out a one-sided assault.
puck! puck! puck! puck! Wow…!
Now, blood was flowing out of the apostle’s mouth, his eyes were red and bloodshot, and his arm and shoulder, which were being pushed by the ice ball, were completely frozen.
Even in the midst of this, the apostle smiled awkwardly and said to me.
“Munju.”
“why.”
“Please save me. I have a lot to tell you. “It’s the same with martial arts.”
Perhaps because he couldn’t hear the conversation clearly, the Sword Demon narrowed his brows and moved his head slightly, stopping his movements.
I said to the apostle:
“It was a lot of hard work. Now go meet your subordinates.”
“yet again.”
“The parents of the girl found at the auction house were abused by your subordinates. “I can’t save you.”
“What on earth do those parents have to do with you?”
“The child was made a disciple of the Four Great Wickeds. They should have done a good job cracking down on their subordinates. “Let’s keep smashing the eldest brother’s head.”
The Sword Demon looked at the apostle with black eyes and spoke in a low tone.
“…I am the first master.”
Then, the handle of the sword of light fell on the top of the apostle’s head.
puck!
I couldn’t help but laugh.
“right.”
I watched the demon’s expression change emotionally from beginning to end. The apostle’s strength was now in a state where I could handle it on my own, and the demon demon noticed this as well, so the demon demon struck the apostle’s head with his right hand.
puck!
“I am the second master.”
My internal energy was dispersed while blocking the Sword Demon’s attack, and I pushed the ice ball into the gap.
Since I was persistently disrupting the apostle’s inner strength, I had no choice but to look at the demon. The demon made eye contact and struck Sado in the back of the head.
grasp!
“It is the fourth master’s revenge. “Take one more hit.”
puck!
The devil hit me hard too. I burst into laughter. If the Sword Demon’s condition is restored, this fight will be a great victory. Next, the sword demon raised the sword of light and struck the apostle’s head with the black, ghost-engulfed handle.
A thud was heard, and the apostle’s head was suddenly smashed, and the four of us were covered in blood.
At that moment, my tension seemed to have pushed into Sado’s body, causing Sado’s Danjeon area to break like a watermelon and fall to the floor.
We let out a long breath at the same time and withdrew our hands.
The fight wasn’t easy, but the result is always simple.
Because this is death.
The Sword Demon asked us.
“Is he dead?”
The devil answered.
“Yes, Master.”
The Sword Demon let out a low sigh and sat down cross-legged, looking tired. As I slowly closed my eyes, my dark eyes, which were uncomfortable to look at, were also covered by my eyelids.
I said to the sword demon.
“I have to have a lucky breakfast.”
The Sword Demon shook his head and spit out black smoke from his half-open mouth. I sat down without taking a single step and looked at the Sword Demon.
“hmm.”
The Demon Demon and the Color Demon also sat in the muddy blood and looked at the Sword Demon.
Suddenly, the Sword Demon shook his head and asked while touching his ears with both hands.
“Disciple.”
“yes.”
“Are you hearing the echo?”
The devil answered.
“We can’t hear. “Master.”
The Sword Demon nodded.
“okay.”
What does Geomma see and hear? He looked like a person who had fallen into hell alone. Being able to talk to us in that hell seemed like our only hope. Since he was not a man who complained or showed signs of weakness, it was impossible to predict the sword demon’s condition just by imagining it.
Suddenly, the Sword Demon tilted his head back and lowered it, causing nosebleeds and bloody tears to pour out at the same time.
The Sword Demon took a deep breath and then spoke.
“The sword of light is commonly said to be a sword with a ghost attached to it. It’s a sword that doesn’t need to exist in the world. I received the attention of the Sentai Sword Demon of the old Headquarters and forcibly bonded with them. This is because I survived the life-or-death battle of those who were eligible to receive the Sword of Light at the time. There was no way to break the bond from the beginning, or it would only end if I died. Only when it was time for him to die did he hand over the Sword of Light to me. I remember that look. He should have died long ago. As soon as the Light Sword was handed over to me, he aged rapidly. “What state am I in now?”
The devil answered.
“Master, you have not changed.”
“If I absorb a soul with a bright sword and engrave that spirit sword energy back into my body as a demonic text, I too will achieve sword invulnerability like the apostle. If you gain something, you will also lose something. I don’t know what the side effects are. However, I wondered what use it would be to become stronger like that. “It’s something my pride didn’t allow.”
I looked at the sword demon blankly.
It sounded like he was contemplating whether or not to accept the spirit that was now attached to him. In fact, it seemed like a state that had no choice but to accept it.
How can you live with a spirit attached to you?
If that condition persisted, it would not be a matter of survival. They were hearing sounds that we couldn’t hear.
I said this after thinking and worrying about the sword demon’s condition as if it were my own body.
“Even magic tricks cannot overcome nature.”
The Sword Demon answered with his eyes closed.
“What does that mean?”
I recited without words what I felt while seeing the man named Geomma.
“If my eldest brother had been a disciple of a good family or a prestigious family, he would have become a master of the field or a master of the Baekdo by now. Magong couldn’t change his eldest brother’s gentle personality and nature. Rather accept the spirit. If possible…”
“….”
“Could you carve a demonic pattern on one of your arms or lock it up?”
Even though I said this, it was really nonsense advice.
The Sword Demon asked me.
“Are you talking about the hand that holds the sword?”
I answered in a calm tone.
“You can’t do that because you are a swordsman.”
“….”
“Can you do the opposite hand?”
The Sword Demon stayed still for a moment with his left hand raised and then asked.
“…In this hand?”
I nodded.
“A swordsman in his left hand and a swordsman in his right hand. “Withdraw the spirit in your left hand and hold the sword in your right hand.”
I don’t know if this makes sense.
This is because I don’t know much about magic in the first place. Since you’re giving advice about something you don’t know, you probably don’t know the outcome.
However, for Kang Ho-in, the hands are the second most important body part after the Danjeon, and therefore, they are also the body part that must be handled most skillfully.
Among martial arts, there are many methods.
The palm is the most efficient medium for transmitting inner energy and is a body part that can do more than we realize. Even for people who have not learned martial arts, it is almost an instinct to place a hand on the stomach when suffering from colic. This is because we know that the palm transmits heat most efficiently even without internal energy.
It seemed better for the spirits to be trapped in the Sword Demon’s left arm than to encroach on his mind or entire body. This is not advice because I know magic well, it was just intuition.
As the Sword Demon was lost in thought with his left hand raised, the Color Demon looked at the saddened corpse of the apostle and spoke.
“The apostle. It seems that he has learned a martial art that renders a specific area invulnerable to the sword with overwhelming internal strength. So, it is nothing more than a technique that can be used with the whole body to strike the sword by instantly applying tension. It may seem like a play on words, but in reality, it seems that the sword was not invulnerable. “The flow of my energy changed blatantly.”
The Sword Demon slightly nodded his head at his disciple’s words.
So, the demon was talking about whether it would be possible to adopt the apostle’s method and bind the spirit to his left arm.
The Sword Demon wiped the blood flowing from his face with his left hand. It seemed like the wrong act of a priest preaching a subversive religion offering red blood first. However, Geomma has already left the church and is a man who tries to walk towards the bright side even though he is on the wrong path.
The Sword Demon muttered as he clenched and unfolded his hands with a tired expression.
“…Take my arm. “More than the last barrel.”
Black energy began to gather in the Sword Demon’s left hand, like the tension of external energy. As the black light unraveled into a thread, it began to encroach on the Sword Demon’s left hand, and the color gradually became darker, as if ink was seeping into the veins.
The black energy that started from the palm spread out like a spider web and advanced to the Sword Demon’s left arm.
On the other hand, the death energy clinging to the Sword Demon’s various places faded and the color of his left arm became darker, as if trying to balance it out.
The Sword Demon suddenly opened his black eyes and looked at his left arm.
When the color of the eyes gradually returned to human, the traces of the spirits engraved on the left arm spread like a devil’s pattern, and even the nape of the Sword Demon’s neck was engraved with the traces of the spirits.
Just as a person who had been holding his breath returns to his original complexion, the Sword Demon’s complexion gradually became brighter.
How on earth did they do it?
We looked at the Sword Demon without saying anything.
Because he was still expressionless, he couldn’t tell whether he was looking at the swordsman or the devil.
The Sword Demon, who was staring at the hand he was clenching and opening, touched the left nape of his neck and said.
“…If it spreads any further, I’ll have to cut off my left arm.”
The three of us laughed at the scary statement that he would cut off his left arm. I told my eldest brother.
“A one-armed swordsman is much cooler than a devil consumed by spirits. Rather good. “Can I cut it for you?”
The Sword Demon, who was listening to me, grinned.
“Not now.”
The color demon asked.
“Master, are you okay?”
The Sword Demon nodded.
“It feels like the strength of the Sword of Light has been reduced by half. “It’s uncomfortable, but that’s enough.”
The Demon Demon spoke to the three of us.
“Let’s go take a shower. “The smell of blood is strong.”
When we looked at each other, we were once again covered in blood. The color demon got up first and raised the sword demon. The spirit was resolved for now, but the Sword Demon was exhausted, like someone who had escaped from a pit of fire.
We followed the Sword Demon’s slow pace, climbing over the corpses and heading toward the lake. Baeksa Island was in such disarray that it was uninhabitable for the time being. But there didn’t seem to be any major problems. Because it will regain its shape while it rains and the wind blows.
The four of us took a dip in the lake.
The red blood was washed away.
My eyes were half closed while I was washing away the blood. Looking around, I saw a corpse with a severed arm lying at the water’s edge. It appears that he died while trying to escape on a boat.
As I was looking at the ship in good condition, it seemed like there was a lot of loot.
First, if the high-ranking craftsmen who had fled to Baeksa-do became boatmen again and traveled around the East Lake, Sado would be able to recover the wealth he had accumulated. This wasn’t something we could do. This is because it took a long time and was a hassle.
After forgetting about cleaning up afterwards, I lay down on the water.
I was so sleepy that I couldn’t stand it.
I felt like I would fall into the water if I fell asleep like this, so I barely moved to land and then stretched out to the main body.
I spoke to the Four Great Evils with my eyes closed.
“I’m going to sleep for a while.”
The voices of the Demon Demon, the Color Demon, and the Sword Demon continued one after another.
“Close your eyes.”
“tight.”
“Lay down. I’ll light a bonfire nearby.”
A bonfire…
I could feel the warmth just imagining it.
