Who threatened Cheonma Hara with a knife - Chapter 405



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Who threatened to call me Cheonmahara with a knife? Episode 405

Holy War (5)

“Gulp.”

The soldier near the command podium swallowed dry saliva without realizing it.

Before he knew it, his body was drenched in sweat. Thanks to being assigned near the command podium, he hadn’t even fought properly yet.

It was inevitable.

The fighting taking place near the command podium was far beyond his understanding.

Right then.

Crunch.

The enemy leader’s sword was stuck in the side of their commander-in-chief, the governor.

‘when…?’

To his eyes, which were nothing more than ordinary soldiers, the process was invisible.

There was a series of flashes of light, and only the final result was visible.

Still, he was a soldier who served on the border, so he had mastered the basics of martial arts. If it were the world of martial arts, he would have been considered second-rate, but in his eyes, it was a fight he couldn’t even dare to chase.

As the man who had pierced the governor’s side stepped back and gestured, the sword that had been lodged in the governor’s side was sucked into the man’s hand.

It was a sight almost like magic.

Is that why?

Even though it was the commander-in-chief of our army who had suffered the attack, the soldier still had a bewildered expression on his face.

That wasn’t all. All the soldiers nearby who had formed a siege to prevent the man from escaping had blank expressions on their faces.

At that moment, a faint groan woke them up.

“Ugh… .”

It was the groan of the Western Army Admiral.

As the sword stuck in his side was pulled out, he coughed up blood again in pain, and only then did blood start to flow out little by little from his side.

“Master!!”

“Come to your senses!!”

“Hey, hey!! Call the doctor!!”

The surviving generals near the governor each shouted.

The soldier felt strange.

I wondered if those generals had eaten something wrong.

‘Even if Hwa-ta comes back alive, it’s obvious that he won’t be able to survive.’

Even to him, who had only been working at the border for about five years, the governor’s condition was already hopeless.

But why are these generals talking such nonsense in this situation?

An unrealistic situation. Even though the commander-in-chief was dying, strangely, extremely realistic thoughts were coming to mind.

As if trying to avoid thoughts that should not come to mind.

A sound was heard that stimulated the ears of the soldiers who were watching the foolish actions of the generals.

It was the sound of footsteps.

The soldier rolled his eyes, his neck still intact, as if he had a broken neck.

The young man who killed the governor was walking.

His sword was imbued with a bloody aura.

Somehow, the soldier intuitively knew.

That bloody aura must have been made up of the governor’s blood.

The moment the soldier realized that fact.

Pot!

The man disappeared again.

Followed by.

Crunch!

An eerie, cutting sound began to resonate.

“Lord, kill me!”

“I told you to kill that guy!!”

Generals shouted urgently here and there, but the soldiers who always followed their orders were unable to take a step.

And soon, silence came.

Suddenly, there was not a single living human left near the podium.

There was one person left.

A young man covered in blood who personally killed all the generals in the vicinity.

Strangely enough, despite the blood covering his entire body, there wasn’t a single drop of blood on his sword.

The soldier knew.

When the last general’s head was cut off, I saw the general’s blood being absorbed into the sword.

Not only did he kill hundreds on his own, he also annihilated governors and commanders. He wielded a terrible demon sword that greedily devoured blood.

Can someone like this really be called a human?

That’s why there wasn’t a single living being nearby.

So then, what should we call that non-human being?

Suddenly, the terrible lyrics he had heard from the enemy attacked his hearing again.

“Gwang! Myung! Gwang! Myung! Cheonma Shingyo!!”

They were fanatics wandering in search of God.

If so, that being will be the god they follow.

‘Evil spirit? Demon spirit? God of death?’

The soldier who was wondering what to call that being realized belatedly.

The being that had dealt with all the nearby prey was looking at him.

Only then did the soldier realize.

Why was I having such a silly thought?

‘Die. Die. Die. Die. Die. Die.’

It was something his instincts were forcibly ignoring.

‘Save me. Save me. Save me. Save me. Save me.’

The indescribable fear of facing an entity that one cannot dare to confront.

The lips of the being that looked at him with eyes that showed no emotion opened.

The soldier somehow felt like an evil spirit awaiting sentencing in front of King Yeomra.

The sight of that being opening its mouth passed by so slowly.

On the contrary, countless past experiences quickly flowed through the man’s head.

Kaleidoscope was a human survival instinct. In the moment between life and death, it was an act of looking back on all of one’s experiences to find a way to survive.

But, even if I looked back on my entire life in a flash, there was no way to fight against that being.

The speed at which I look back at the sights I have already seen is getting faster and faster.

‘Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please.’

A pain comes over me, as if my brain is burning.

The survival instinct was not confined to the brain.

All of his body’s muscles were pushed to their limits for survival.

Every muscle in my body tenses up and every bone screams.

The heart began to beat madly, trying to provide strength beyond its limits.

Thud! Thud! Thud! Thud!

In a world that had become infinitely slow as the revolving lantern began to move, only the rapid and intense sound of the heart stimulated the soldier’s hearing.

The soldier’s heart and brain were about to explode on their own.

Finally, in a world that had slowed down, that being opened its mouth completely.

“He who lays down his weapons and surrenders will be spared!”

For the first few seconds, the soldier could not understand what the being was saying.

Because those were the words of a being beyond understanding.

But his brain, which was desperate for survival, urgently recognized the meaning.

‘Ahhh. God have mercy… .’

Just a brief moment of relief.

‘Oh, you should quickly throw down your weapons and surrender!’

Once again, fear gripped his mind.

One, there was no need to worry.

Iron Fist.

The man’s muscles, which had been strained to the limit, had already released all the tension and thrown his body to the floor.

* * *

“He who lays down his weapons and surrenders will be spared!”

Immediately after Ilmok shouted with all his might, silence fell around him for a moment.

Iron Fist.

Similar sounds rang out from all directions.

A significant number of the soldiers surrounding the area knelt down and surrendered.

‘Hmm. The reaction is faster than I thought?’

I thought there would be a bit more resistance, but I didn’t expect him to kneel so quickly.

There was a bit of a misunderstanding.

They didn’t kneel by their own will. They just gave up and fell to their knees.

The weapons were also the same. Their hands had lost their strength and they could no longer hold their weapons.

“hmm?”

Then, a strong, irritating smell wafted out.

Even though his sense of smell was numbed by the smell of blood from having killed hundreds, Ichimoku could tell what that smell was.

Someone had peed on themselves. It seemed like someone had peed even harder.

“Tsk.”

As Ichimoku lightly clicked his tongue, a hiccup sound rang out from all directions simultaneously.

They all looked at each other with expressions of fear.

“Heeeeek!”

“Save me! Save me! Save me! Oh my God! Oh my God! Jebaaaal!”

Some soldiers were already so frightened that they went mad, and some even died from bursting hearts.

Ichimoku, who couldn’t understand why they were doing this, gave up trying to understand and just moved his body.

There was no time to observe strange people here.

As Ilmok swung his sword in the air, a bloody sword energy shot out and cut off the head of the already corpse governor.

Following this, Ilmok pulled out the spear that one of the soldiers had dropped, using Heogongseopmul.

And then he threw the spear and pierced the head of the governor who was rolling on the ground.

‘I don’t really feel like it, but I can’t help it.’

Ilmok, who had stuck the governor’s head on the spear, hung the spear on his back and shouted again.

“The governor is already dead!! Throw down your weapons and surrender!! I will show mercy to those who surrender!!”

Since all the soldiers around him had already thrown down their weapons and surrendered, Ichimoku continued to attack with great force and screamed loudly.

Ilmok did not want the innocent to shed blood. And the majority of those fighting here were innocent, whether they were allies or enemies.

Ultimately, there is only one way to reduce innocent bloodshed and bring this terrible war to a close as quickly as possible.

The task was to deal with the enemy’s general and receive the enemy’s surrender.

“This can’t be happening….”

“The governor was hit….”

As Ilmok shouted with his spear hanging over the governor’s head, an uproar began to break out all over the battlefield.

The sound of fanatics singing can be heard continuously from the front.

The power of the Cheonmasin Cult warriors, who swing their weapons wildly in all directions and slaughter soldiers.

In addition, when news spread that the governor had been killed, their morale plummeted in an instant.

At that moment, as if driving a wedge, Ichimoku shouted something a little different this time.

“Those who wish to drive out the wicked eunuchs who are disrupting the country, lay down your weapons and surrender!!”

In response to his shout, the sages a few chapters away shouted with all their might.

“Anyone who throws down their weapons and surrenders will be spared!!”

“If you want to survive, surrender!!”

From the beginning, Ichimoku had no intention of killing them all.

Even if we won the war, our losses would inevitably increase if we killed all 80,000 enemy soldiers.

It was necessary to encourage surrender in order to reduce friendly casualties and increase the number of troops by absorbing captured soldiers.

Besides, they had a good cause.

When the commander first came forward to try to persuade the commander, it was also to make the soldiers aware of this point in advance.

At the shouts of the men and women, the soldiers nearby began to put down their weapons one by one and kneel.

It wasn’t just because I was impressed by their cries.

‘They are monsters.’

‘Ah, if we fight any longer, it’ll just end in a dog’s death.’

It was because of fear.

A battle where they lost the initiative from the start. Even the screams of their allies were the only thing they could hear from the surroundings, so their morale was already in shambles.

‘That, that’s right! As they say, I, the bad guys, are those eunuchs!’

To those who were terrified, the justification that Ichimoku and Dojihusa had insisted on was quite a strong temptation.

However, not everyone chose to surrender.

“Those who fall to the rebels will have their entire family destroyed!!”

“Hey you guys!! Take up your weapons and attack them right now!!”

As the soldiers retreated in fear or threw down their weapons and surrendered, the mid-level commanders of the Western Army Command who were present at the scene shouted.

Crunch!

There even arose those who cut off the heads of retreating soldiers.

Even if it was just a single shot, if he were to hunt down and kill each and every general among tens of thousands of troops, even ten bodies would not be enough.

Again, a general in front of me shouted and swung his sword at the terrified soldiers.

“The words of those traitors… .”

Crunch.

Before his sword could reach the soldier’s neck, an arrow lodged itself in his head.

It was Jeong-Hyeon’s work.

“Those who surrender will be spared!!”

“Put down your weapons and surrender!”

The warriors of the Cheonmasingyo also shouted and urged surrender, and they hunted down and slaughtered enemy commanders who were shouting everywhere.

Especially for commanders who are located far away.

Wedge-shaped.

puck!

Including Jeong Hyeon, Baek Cheon, and Baek Un-hak, the Baek clan’s warriors were hunting with bows and arrows.

The biggest reason for this was the death of the governor.

After seeing the governor’s head hanging on the window, Eunuch Gong not only gave up chasing Baekwoonhak, but also changed direction and fled by surprise.

It was already apparent that the momentum had completely passed.

Naturally, his classmates also started to run away like crazy, chasing after that ill-mannered eunuch.

The warriors of Baekunhak and Cheonmasingyo also chased them at first.

“Hey you guys! Why don’t you take up your weapons right now!!”

In the face of the cries of mid-level commanders forcing death upon soldiers everywhere, Baek Woon-hak ultimately chose to stabilize the battlefield instead of chasing his fellow soldiers.

Because that was the most important mission that Ichimoku had asked me to do from the start of this war.

Following the Ilmok and Sibi, the Baekunhak and Cheonmasingyo warriors also began to slaughter the commanders in earnest, encouraging them to surrender, and the wave of surrender spread like wildfire.

The sound of weapons being thrown down and kneeling echoed throughout the battlefield.

Naturally, the sound was also heard by Nanju-gun, who was giving himself over to madness and humming hymns.

“Yeah, I won.”

“We won!!”

“Oh my god!!!”

Having won the temple, they lifted up their weapons and began to shout to their god.

“Heavenly Horse has arrived!!”

“Manmaangbok!!”