The World of Sound - Chapter 123
Only Krnovel
123
“Eun-gong!?”
“Kkeek!!!”
“What?!”
Cheonhwa was pierced by the stone statue’s giant sword.
Blood was spurting out and internal organs were spilling out, as if he had avoided it by using something like a Lee Hyung-hwan device.
At the sight of that shocking sight, the three of them all turned to look at him and screamed, and Cheonhwa’s head, which was spitting out blood, slowly turned towards them.
“Why, what’s going on?”
“… … ?”
However, surprisingly, the words that came out of Cheonhwa’s mouth were extremely calm.
Instead, they ask them back as if nothing happened and as if they were not hurt at all.
What on earth is going on?
Is Cheonhwa playing a prank? Or does he not even realize that he has been tricked?
While I was panicking, the statues came at me more violently, but fortunately, I was not attacked like that.
That’s why it was more confusing.
Because Cheonhwa was hit by an attack that they could have easily blocked and avoided.
Because it was such a miserable state that I couldn’t even think of trying to treat it.
“Eun-gong. My stomach, my wounds… …!”
“Stomach? Hurt?”
When Bukgungyeon pointed to the wound with a trembling voice, Cheonhwa finally looked down at her neck.
Only then did he seem to realize something, and he answered in a still calm voice.
“Oh, this? What am I saying? It’s nothing.”
Wheeze-
Then something amazing happened.
When Cheonhwa brushed it off with his hand as if it was nothing, his gruesome wounds disappeared as if they had been washed away.
As if it never existed in the first place.
“Because it wasn’t there originally.”
“yes?”
It sounds like a pun, but it was true.
Because the statues they are dealing with now exist but do not exist.
“Is it okay if we play around here?”
For those who still had expressions of not knowing, Cheonhwa allowed them to see with their own eyes instead of explaining it to them.
He sharply played the wind chime and scattered the energy of the formation that had spread throughout the space.
dissonance.
By disrupting the laws of energy flowing through the area, the effectiveness of the formation was paralyzed.
It would have been possible to destroy it rather than just stop its effects, but there was no reason to do something like that.
“… … Huh?”
Then something amazing happened.
The numerous stone statues that had been attacking us just a moment ago have disappeared.
No.
It didn’t exactly disappear.
In the distance, I could find stone statues lined up just like they were at first.
“Really, an illusion?”
It was a fantasy.
The hostility and military spirit that the statues radiated exerted a tangible force on them through the power of formation.
That’s why he was able to remain unharmed even though Cheonhwa had pierced his body.
“That’s true, but if you believe it exists, it will exist. If it had been hurt, it would have remained that way.”
Then, does that mean there was no need to confront them from the beginning?
It’s right and wrong.
If you pierce through everything like a thousand flowers and deny its existence, you will not suffer any harm, but the moment you have even the slightest doubt, your mind will be struck and you will suffer damage just like in real life.
Bukgungyeon, who realized that fact, felt a cold sweat run down his spine.
If he, as well as the other two spirits, were fooled by him, then it meant that virtually all the martial arts people would be fooled by him.
If it weren’t for Cheonhwa, I would have been like those who were trapped in the Hwanhonjin near the entrance, struggling, exhausted, and injured, just trying to exert my strength on my own.
“What are you doing? Run.”
At that moment, the voice of Cheonhwa woke them up once again.
The power of this formation was neutralized only while Cheonhwa continued playing.
Cheonhwa took the lead and ran towards the passageway beyond the common area, and Bukgungyeon and the two spirits, who realized the situation late, also started to walk quickly.
I ran as fast as I could to avoid being trapped in the illusion again if I was late.
“Thank goodness!”
“Why, why is it like this?”
Wow!
As soon as they left the cave filled with statues and entered a new passage, Bukgungyeon hugged Cheonhwa.
Rather than saying she hugged him, it would be more accurate to say that she pulled Cheonhwa’s face to her chest, but either way, it was an embarrassing situation, so Cheonhwa stuttered a little.
“I really thought you were in big trouble. I didn’t think it could be, but… … Anyway, I’m really glad you’re okay.”
Knowing Cheonhwa’s power, I thought it couldn’t be true, but I believed it because I saw it with my own eyes.
Bukgungyeon’s heart was pounding so hard that he could hear it still pounding.
“Uh, um. Thanks for worrying about me?”
Normally, I would have scolded him, but I could feel his sincerity, so I couldn’t criticize him and awkwardly expressed my gratitude.
Even if it wasn’t an illusion, it was unpleasant to think that I would be treated by those kinds of people. But it was because they were truly concerned and worried about me.
“Ahem. Then should we keep going? It seems like we still have a long way to go.”
Cheonhwa, who was released from Bukgungyeon’s embrace, took the lead again, looking uncharacteristically flustered.
Although it didn’t work on him, the previous strategy was indeed fierce, but he knew better than anyone that this was only the beginning, that it was only the beginning, so he became alert again.
I slowly entered, further and further down the passage.
But this time, I walked a little further ahead to avoid getting caught up in them and used the Shicheon method to penetrate their interior.
And after a while, we were greeted with an amazing sight.
“castle?”
What I clearly entered was an entrance that looked like a cave in the mountains, but what appeared was a huge castle.
At least a castle of a fairly grand size and a proper structure that seemed like it would be home to the royal family blocked their path.
“Hoo.”
“Eun-gong. Over there… … .”
As Cheonhwa was looking around in awe at the amazing sight, Bukgungyeon discovered something and pointed with his hand.
Stone statues.
It was the same statues they had seen earlier.
Below the castle gate and on the castle walls, the stone statues surrounding the castle, as if guarding it, exude an ominous aura.
Bukgungyeon looked slightly intimidated at the sight.
It’s scary because it’s happened to me once already and I didn’t get out of it by my own strength.
Just in case the same thing happens twice.
“This makes it more likely that it’s the Emperor’s side… … .”
But Cheonhwa was fine.
At least he has confirmed that their methods don’t work on him, and he has no fear whatsoever if something else comes out.
That’s why I wasn’t intimidated at all by seeing so many more statues than I had seen before, but rather looked at them with interest.
Giant castle and soldiers.
Looking at this alone, it seems closer to the emperor’s tomb than the tomb of the Heavenly Demon.
The composition of the castle where the emperor resided and the soldiers guarding it was quite intertwined.
The only thing that made me unsure was their appearance.
The appearance of the soldiers made into stone statues is different from that of ordinary soldiers.
“It looks really weird.”
At first, I thought it was a shape like the twelve zodiac signs, but the more I looked at it, the more it looked like something strange and difficult to see.
So then what is it?
A spirit? A demon? A monster? Or is it the food spirit I saw in Haenam Island?
Anything is not human.
It was still difficult to erase the name of the Demonic Cult because it had a dirty and horrible appearance similar to that of a vicious demon, perhaps to intimidate and frighten the intruder.
It may be a prejudice, but they had faces that were quite fitting for the name of the Demonic Cult.
So, it seemed like we would have to wait a little longer to find out what this place was all about.
“Are you okay?”
They hadn’t posed any threat to Cheonhwa’s party yet, but it was clear that something would happen if they got close enough.
So, before using his power, Cheonhwa asked Bukgungyeon and the two spirits.
“Kiyut!”
“Woooooooooooooooo!!”
“I will… I will try. No, I will do it.”
The question is, can we win this time?
It wasn’t much different from before, but now that we know what it is and how it works, what matters is their will.
If you still have any doubts or fears, you will suffer the same fate, but if you can overcome them, you will be able to see through the truth just like Cheonhwa.
Then the first ones to answer were Noeryeong and Muo.
The guys competed and confidently answered, and finally Bukgungyeon showed his determination and showed his will to try.
He still looks a little uneasy, but at least he won’t get hurt, so it’ll be okay.
That is, unless you mistake your allies for enemies and run wild.
“Be careful. It looks a little different this time.”
With him, Cheonhwa strode forward first.
I threw myself lightly into the formation created by the ominous aura.
Wedge-
At that moment, the stone statues on the wall moved first.
Without warning, they started shooting arrows to kill the intruders.
“You’re playing with dangerous toys.”
But this time, Cheonhwa did not stay still.
In the past, he would just watch without flinching even when the greatsword of the stone statue stabbed his stomach, but now he would immediately step on the statue’s shield, twist his body, and either block or catch the flying arrows.
The reason is simple.
Because it was real.
You could also see it as a kind of psychological warfare. They make you suffer through illusions, and then when you think it’s an illusion again, they mix in a real attack to cause damage.
Then the other person won’t be able to tell what’s real and what’s an illusion.
Once those doubts, cautions, and fears start to sprout, it’s over.
By then, you will have already been completely under the spell.
All that awaits is an ending where you struggle alone, exhaust yourself, and die.
“Is that a blue obsidian or something? Is it money rotting away?”
But Cheonhwa was different.
From the beginning, there was no such thing as an illusion in the world he saw.
Since he had an eye that could read the essence of the target, he could not be deceived by a crude illusion created by the true spirit, and even an arrow mixed in with illusion could not reach him.
Of course, the arrow was not fired from the statue, but was fired by an organ.
“I rather like it!”
Even that arrow wasn’t an ordinary arrow.
These were made by infusing arrowheads with purple obsidian, which is said to be able to easily pierce through even thick steel armor, to increase their penetrative power, or by infusing arrowheads with metal extracted from azure stone, which has the property of dispersing natural energy, to enable them to destroy self-defense weapons.
If you collide with those two arrows flying together without knowing it, or if you overconfidently take them with your body, you will suffer a great defeat.
But for that reason, the value of each and every one of them was immense.
If it falls into the hands of someone who specializes in archery like the Blood Archers, it will become a fearsome weapon.
Of course, since they were made to deter intruders, the size of the metal used in each arrow was small, but it was clear that if collected, they would have tremendous value.
So Cheonhwa was happy and accepted them.
He could have rushed in and destroyed all the institutions and statues if he wanted to, but instead, he just avoided them and let them spit out all the arrows they had prepared.
“See? Okay, now it’s your turn.”
“……yes?”
Cheonhwa, who had been collecting arrows for a while, suddenly turned around and quickly slipped out of the formation again.
Then he urged Bukgungyeon and the two spirits to enter the formation.
“Isn’t this a good environment for practice? There will probably be a lot of these guys up here, so it would be better to make sure you do your best here. If you don’t have confidence, just stay here. If you can’t do it, you’ll just be a burden up here.”
It was a pretty firm and cool statement.
But it wasn’t wrong.
The number of stone statues guarding the gate and the walls was so great that the stone statues we first encountered looked like nothing more than soldiers guarding a guard post.
What about the inside?
There may be more statues waiting for them than what they have seen so far, and there may be some dangers lurking in addition to the machinery, and if they can’t overcome the illusions cast on the basic statues, then they will truly be a burden, as Cheonhwa said.
Therefore, it could be said that Cheonhwa did them a great favor by simply showing them with his body that what awaited them inside was not just a simple illusion.
“Muing!”
“Crunch!”
“Yes. I will try to do it.”
Knowing that, Bukgungyeon strengthened his resolve.
After taking a deep breath, I slowly walked into the formation with the two spirits.
“Oh, and don’t damage the arrows as much as possible! You have to scrape them all up without missing a single one!”
Behind them, Cheonhwa’s cheers, not cheers, continued.
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