Side Story Episode 84. Demon and Jeong (2)
It was half an hour after the battle ended when the I and Lee armies, who had advanced with minimal troop maintenance, met Yang Baek-ho and the three armies.
“Are you here?”
“seventy… … is it… … .”
Yang Baek-ho’s eyes wavered as he looked at the group of workers.
Lee Cheon-sang bowed his head.
A brief silent prayer, that was the end. Lee Cheon-sang also knew that there was no need to say anything.
Yang Baek-ho, who was quietly watching the workers, sighed.
“I will rest here. “We should all spread out, rest, and take care of the injured.”
The damage to a group was worse than it seemed.
The number of surviving yakshas was seventy, but among them, exactly twenty were seriously injured.
Among those twenty people, seven lost their lives as soon as the tension was relieved. The prognosis for the remaining thirteen did not seem to be good. No, to be honest, the chances of surviving until the end of the mission were not even 100% likely.
“It will hurt.”
The wound on the severed arm was very ugly. Although the bleeding was stopped, a lot of enemy knives, poison, and dust got into it.
Uduk!
The Yaksha’s face was severely distorted. The pain was indescribable as they tightened the area right above the cut wound.
“The wound is so tattered that I have to intentionally make it necrotic and cut it out. Gather as much demonic energy as possible here and prevent necrosis beyond this level.”
“All right.”
It was a method that could not even be attempted by someone who had not mastered internal skills to a certain level. All kinds of unpleasant energy was already flowing through my veins and tormenting my body.
“Don’t give up.”
Lee Cheon-sang’s voice was as indifferent as always.
“Even if you end up dying like this, you must resist until the end. “That’s what life is like.”
The eyes of the yakshas wavered.
Lee Cheon-sang’s words sounded like he was saying that it would be difficult to avoid death even if this were the case.
“People like me live too.”
But what he said next made the hearts of the yakshas cry.
“I am a heartless bastard. Still, I live. It’s not because there’s no reason to die. “Because I know that as long as I’m alive, I have to live.”
Lee Cheon-sang saw the Yaksha.
His face was pale, and there was a shadow of death under his eyes.
“If you have no reason to die, live. “If you have a reason to die, just die as you are.”
“… … .”
“wait a moment. “If necrosis starts, I will cut it out.”
It is an exaggeration to say that these words come from a person whose emotional changes are minimal, or even non-existent, so they make the listener even more solemn.
“Get out of the way.”
Yang Baek-ho appeared behind Lee Cheon-sang and looked around at the seriously injured.
A dark shadow appeared on his face. From his perspective, it was because they were hopeless.
Rather, it was an incredible feat just to march this far with such wounds.
What on earth made them move even after receiving fatal injuries?
“Everyone, please sit cross-legged.”
Yang Baek-ho sent his magical energy to the gravestones of the seriously injured and helped them with their luck.
It was not a simple guidance of internal power. His demonic energy, which had reached its peak, was directly penetrating into his body, burning away unpleasant energies such as poison and turbidity, or expelling them out of the body.
That alone will increase the survival rate to some extent. but… … .
Yang Baek-ho wiped his sweaty forehead.
‘Even so, half of these… … .’
Half of them will die. That’s at least half as well.
Yang Baek-ho turned around.
“Princes gather together.”
After a while.
Four people gathered at a small distance from the troops and sat down.
“It’s my fault.”
Yang Baek-ho’s face was full of regret as he confessed something that he found difficult to say in front of his subordinates.
If you say something like this in front of your subordinates, your morale will die. It might be peacetime, but now it is wartime. It was impossible to put a candle to the heated atmosphere. For the mission, not for them.
“It would have been better if we had kept waiting.”
“Who would have thought smokeless scent would disappear?”
“Each person was faithful to their task. “Isn’t that enough?”
Gwi-chang and Yul-jeok-san’s words were not simply intended to comfort Yang Baek-ho.
Anyway, all missions involve death. It is only natural that if you are going to hold on to someone else’s lifeline, you have to risk your own life as well.
Yang Baek-ho was a person who knew this better than anyone else. However, seeing them show such weakness once again was understandable for the two of them to be embarrassed.
“yes.”
Yang Baek-ho, who was quietly looking down at the ground, took a deep breath.
“What if I regret it now?”
There are so many experiences of losing colleagues, comrades, and subordinates.
Some people say that the more sad experiences you have, the stronger your heart becomes.
Wrong. It’s not that the heart has hardened, it’s more like just letting it go.
After entering Protestantism, he wandered for a very long time. He had few former allies, and although he had led his own troops, he was not in a state to care about those around him in the first place.
In fact, I had lost dozens of ‘my subordinates’ for the first time in a long time, so it was natural for me to feel mixed. As a result, it was even more so because he could be seen as having lost it due to his own arrogance and misjudgment.
“Is Ilgunju okay?”
“it’s okay.”
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Lee Cheon-sang’s voice was no different from usual.
That voice made Yang Baek-ho return to his usual self. Regardless of his emotions and feelings, his subordinates also show such a calm appearance, and as a superior, he himself should not be immersed in depression.
“The first judgment was a mistake. But, Lord Ilgun, your judgment was right. It must have been difficult, but they faced them and fought well.”
“I just made a reasonable decision.”
“Yes, I guess so.”
If we had just waited quietly, then perhaps a group of losses would not have occurred.
However, there is nothing more meaningless than the assumption of ‘what if’. In that situation, Lee Cheon-sang made the best judgment and achieved meaningful results at the same time.
“How was it there?”
Yang Baek-ho was lost in thought for a moment in response to Lee Cheon-sang’s question.
“hmm.”
After organizing his thoughts, he told me everything about what he and Yuljeoksan had experienced and what they had seen.
“Shaolin… … .”
Except for Gwi-chang, who had already heard the story, Lee Cheon-sang was the last to hear of Shaolin’s existence.
“I heard that Shaolin is located in Songshan, Henan.”
“That’s right.”
“It is said that its influence extends throughout the entire Wulin region, but was it possible to reach all the way to Fujian?”
“Absolutely not. “Officially.”
Officially.
That was the important part.
“This church also secretly infiltrated many believers into the north. There are people who have learned magic, but there are also people who have not. It’s probably the same over there too. “We are constantly watching each other and watching each other’s reactions.”
“But this is not about seeing a reaction.”
Lee Cheon-sang’s eyes deepened.
“You can have your subordinates attack this side, but the fact that the Shaolin headquarters master showed up and even resorted to assassination can be interpreted as a direct provocation.”
Guichang nodded.
“I also agree with what Ilgun-ju said. “Although they are said to be close to each other, it is not an ambiguous area, and the fact that they entered deep into the opponent’s camp and attacked them is a clear provocation.”
Yuljeoksan sighed.
“They weren’t ordinary guys. however… … “I think differently.”
Lee Cheon-sang and Gwi-chang looked at Yuljeoksan Mountain.
Yuljeoksan nodded and said.
“Shaolin is not stupid. No matter how disorganized our school is currently, it is difficult to understand in many ways how they can attack Mine so deeply and show off.”
“So, isn’t this a provocation?”
“Still, it’s strange. “Wouldn’t it be great if a Shaolin leader or a squadron expert personally brought in at least one hundred and eight arhats? Isn’t this a bit too weak to be a provocation?”
“Hmm.”
It wasn’t wrong.
It was difficult to think about it because it was a surprise to those who encountered it, but looking at it calmly, it was absurd to talk about provocation with that much force.
The coolness of Yuljeoksan, who felt strange even though he had directly encountered it, was remarkable.
“Of course, there may be other great Shaolin masters out there. But I think that’s not very likely.”
“Why do you think that?”
Yuljeoksan saw Yang Baekho.
Yang Baek-ho nodded.
“If there were more and stronger experts, there is no way my demonic energy would not have been able to catch them.”
“… … !”
“Of course, we cannot rule out the possibility that there are experts who can fool even me. But it’s literally just a possibility. “If such a person came all the way here, there is no way our school’s informants could not have caught him.”
“Well, I see.”
At that time, Lee Cheon-sang opened his mouth.
“It’s the same.”
“what?”
“Whether it is the former master of Shaolin, the best master, or the enemy ship master of the time, it is normal for our school’s informants to have noticed. Regardless of distribution and strength, the name Shaolin itself carries that much weight.”
“… … !”
“How skilled are our school’s informants?”
The answer came from Gwi-chang.
“It can be said to be the best in the southern martial arts.”
“okay.”
“No matter how chaotic our school is, the skills of our informants do not decline. At least because no one knows how important their existence is to us.”
“Then, this reasoning is possible.”
Lee Cheon-sang stamped a tree branch on the ground and roughly drew a mountain and a roof.
The mountain is Cheonmasingyo Bridge, and the roof is Homa Sangdan.
“Our school’s information power is the best in the south, so there’s no way we wouldn’t know that Shaolin monks came to Fujian.”
“But it showed up.”
“That’s right.”
Lee Cheon-sang drew a dotted line between the mountain and the roof.
“There is one important thing here.”
“hmm?”
“It is not correct to think that we did not know or that the headquarters of the Protestant Church did not know.”
“… … !!”
The eyes of the three people were greatly shaken.
Yes. They thought that Protestantism could not know something that they themselves did not know.
If it’s such an important issue, they think there’s no way the Protestant church won’t give them information. Since it was Shaolin and no other place, this was a natural flow of thought.
“The university did not provide us with information. “Just like before.”
“B-But the other person… … !”
“And then the smokeless scent was cut off.”
“… … !!”
Lee Cheon-sang drew a small circle on the mountain. I also drew a small circle on the roof.
And below the dotted line, a straight line was drawn connecting circles.
The dotted line is the Yasha Command’s movement path, and the straight line is… … .
“There is someone who is in secret with the Homa Sangdan or Shaolin.”
“What!!”
“It won’t be easy to communicate with Shaolin. “I think there is a high probability that it is Homa Sangdan.”
“… … .”
“in other words.”
Lee Cheon-sang said, breaking a tree branch.
“The first is that Shingyo did not give us information, and the second is that there are people who are in secret between Shingyo and the Homa Sangdan.”
“then… … ?!”
“A person who can handle the information of Shinsyo, and a person who wants the Yasha Commandery to be annihilated.”
Lee Cheon-sang’s eyes sparkled.
“And a person in power who can perfectly carry out post-event processing. “It can be seen that he is the one behind this mission.”
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