Who threatened Cheonma Hara with a knife - Chapter 456



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Episode 456: Karma (1)

One corner of the story.

The basement of the emperor’s bedroom.

A secret space created when the previous emperor passed away and Taegong came to the forefront to support the current emperor.

Five people were in the space that could only be entered by activating the engine.

Commander of the Royal Guard and Comrade of the Royal Guard. Commander of the Central Army. Taegonggong.

Finally, there is a man wearing a yellow dragon robe who appears to be middle-aged.

Oddly enough, the man had a hazy look in his eyes that didn’t suit the Hwangryongpo.

He was a puppet emperor who was subdued by the power of medicine and sorcery.

The commander of the central army, who was looking at the emperor who looked like a soulless person and the royal seal in the emperor’s hand, soon opened his mouth with an anxious expression.

“Is it really possible to win the war this way?”

The commander of the Golden Guard and his comrades frowned.

“Are you saying that you don’t trust the trap that Your Majesty has prepared right now?”

“This trap was prepared to target the Heavenly Horse. Anyone who enters will not be able to get out alive.”

After entering the military and rising to a certain position, the Central Military Commander learned of Taekonggong’s existence and became close to him.

And the commander of the Golden Guard and his comrades who have been in Taekonggong’s eyes since childhood and have grown up under Taekonggong’s constant support.

There was a strange gap between them.

“Ahem. It’s not that I don’t trust the power of the trap. The problem is this. In order to use this trap, we lost all of our troops.”

They repeatedly lost battles and retreated. In order to lure the enemy to this place.

Even if the inner wall of the fortress were blown up now, the last remaining troops in the fortress would be wiped out.

Taekong-gong frowned at the remark that seemed befitting of a military general.

“Why are you talking nonsense? Here, His Majesty the Emperor and the royal seal are with us. After all, the people of the Central Plains belong to the Emperor. If we can just wipe out the Demonic Cult masters with this trap, we can just recruit the people again and launch a counterattack.”

To Taekonggong, the people of the Central Plains were simply beings who had to follow orders. Nothing more, nothing less.

Starting with the Demonic Cult Rebellion, and now that rebellions are occurring all over the Central Plains, his thoughts have not changed.

No, because I lived with such thoughts, I could not understand the people who dared to cause trouble, and I planned to kill them all.

The Central Military Commander also lived with similar thoughts.

The reason he was able to secure a position in the military from a young age was because he came from a powerful family.

But as a general, I couldn’t help but have doubts.

‘… With riots breaking out everywhere, is it really possible to conscript new soldiers?’

The commander-in-chief couldn’t bring himself to ask that question.

It wasn’t just because I was afraid of dying at the hands of Taekonggong.

‘We’ve already come too far.’

There was no way back anyway.

When the commander of the central army closed his mouth, there was a brief silence.

“I clearly confirmed that they were approaching the inner wall….”

Taekonggong thought, why is it so quiet?

If a full-scale battle were to break out inside the castle, noise should have been heard here as well.

When the noise got closer, the prepared organ was activated in this room, and the entire inner castle was set to explode.

As the silence grew longer, an ominous feeling began to bloom in Taekonggong’s mind.

thud!!

Along with the loud noise, the vibrations were felt all the way to the basement where they were hiding.

Taekonggong looked at his hands with surprised eyes.

‘You haven’t activated it yet?’

Just as I was thinking about that question, explosive sounds rang out one after another.

thud!

thud!

thud!

Those who were present looked at Taekonggong with surprised expressions.

“Did you activate the engine!?”

In response to the commander of the Golden Guard’s question, Taekonggong shook his head.

In the midst of all this, explosive noises continued to resonate from all directions, and the room they were hiding in was constantly receiving harsh vibrations.

How long did we just look at each other with confused expressions?

As the seemingly endless noise and vibration subsided, Taekongkong pressed various parts of the room to activate the engine.

Squeak.

Then, the door protecting them opened with a friction sound.

However, the dirt and rocks created by the explosion were blocking the road.

“Tsk.”

Taekong Gong lightly clicked his tongue, pulled out his sword, and swung it, and a blast of strong energy poured down, sweeping away the obstacles.

Pot!

Taekonggong carried the emperor, who was holding the jade seal, and flew into the air.

Others who had been watching each other also followed Taekong and performed lightness techniques.

Immediately afterwards, Taekong-gong emerged from the underground and soared into the air, and a panoramic view of the surrounding area came into his eyes.

It was as if the organ-clogging system had really been activated, as the once-fortress area had been reduced to ruins.

Taekonggong’s face crumpled without mercy.

Beyond the inner castle walls, only the remains remain.

He could see the cultists and thugs he hated the most, and the reverse gang forming a large circle.

Those who he had tried to kill in order to achieve the grand plan he had dedicated his entire life to.

“Heavenly Horse has arrived!!”

“Manmaangbok!!!”

Surrounding himself in reverse, he began to advance.

* * *

Ilmok, who had been left behind in the encirclement due to Wi Jin-hak’s dissuasion, looked at those who had risen into the air.

‘Is the author the emperor?’

Thanks to Hwangryongpo, it was very easy to recognize.

At that moment, an old eunuch floating in the air swung his sword in the air with a devil-like expression.

As the wind swept across the sky, the energy spread out like waves and scattered in all directions.

“Haaaah!”

Wi Jin-hak easily countered the waves of energy by wrapping black flame around the Heavenly Demon Sword, but the problem was those who rushed in with him.

“Ugh… .”

Some people managed to block the attack by barely forming a strong will, but were bounced off while spitting out blood, while others were unable to block it and fell down with their bodies split in two.

“!!”

The moment Ichimoku, who was startled, was about to step onto the battlefield, someone grabbed his shoulder.

“It is the leader’s order. Your Majesty, please rest here.”

It was Zhuge Liang.

He stopped me and then suddenly shouted.

“Tell them to form a tight siege so that not a single one can escape!! I will leave the job of hunting those guys to the leader and the experts!”

His command was immediately spread in all directions.

Those who could not even withstand the combined might of Taekonggong stopped their charge and formed an encirclement, and only those with outstanding skills stepped forward.

In the meantime, Jin Ha-yeon opened her mouth to face Il-mok, who still had an anxious expression.

“We may not be able to compare to the divine power of the Left Commander, but if you are truly anxious, we will allow you to join the battle. So, please, Left Commander, please wait here in safety.”

As if agreeing with her words, the other three sages also looked at Ilmok with serious eyes.

Ilmok forced himself to swallow his sigh and said.

“Please.”

The women bowed their heads once to Ilmok and then flew towards where the battle was just beginning.

As Ilmok continued to look at the battlefield with an anxious expression on his face, Jegalmun spoke to him.

“It is important to run with your body, but it is also very important to plan the game. In that sense, it is safe to say that more than half of this game was planned by the Left Commander. Now, from the military’s perspective, how about watching with ease to see how the game you have planned plays out?”

Zhuge Liang also acknowledged Ilmok’s achievements.

No, rather, because I was in the military, I understood it even more precisely.

It didn’t simply mean merit in battle.

The story of Taekonggong’s plan to destroy the martial arts world being revealed.

A skill that mediated between the Cheonmasingyo and the Jeongpa faction, who were at odds with each other, and brought them into an alliance, even if only partially.

Lastly, he killed Shin Seung, who had thrown the war into chaos.

It was hard to believe that one person could have so much influence in a war where hundreds of thousands of people were fighting.

After a moment of hesitation due to Zhuge Liang’s dissuasion, Ilmok asked again.

“Your Majesty, you must have always been watching the battlefield like this, so I would like to ask you. Have you ever felt uneasy?”

“Hahaha. It would be a lie if I said I wasn’t anxious even once. Even if you think the odds of winning are above average, isn’t it true that things don’t always go as planned?”

After saying that, Zhuge Liang smiled and added:

“But, very rarely. When things go exactly as the head of the household had envisioned in his head. When things go perfectly according to the plan I had laid out. The pleasure I feel then is incomparable to anything else. Hahaha.”

Zhuge Liang pointed to the place where the battle was taking place with a fan.

“Look. The plan that the head of the household and the left sergeant have laid out together. No matter how you look at it, doesn’t it seem like everything will go according to plan? Even if the left sergeant is missing, our forces are strong.”

Ichimoku, who felt a little less anxious, calmly looked around the battlefield.

Other masters of the Cheonmasingyo, the Central Army Commander, the Commander of the Royal Guard, and his commanding comrades were fighting, and Wei Jinxue, led by Jie Wang, Huang Boyue, and Qingmok Jinren were attacking Taekonggong together.

The man who had planned to wipe out all the martial artists was instead being defeated by the Cheonma Shingyo and the martial artists of the Central Plains.

At that moment, Taekonggong swung his sword at Wei Jinhe, and Wei Jinhe took a step back due to the impact. The Silver Mirror, which had not been seen until now, appeared.

It was not that he attacked Taekonggong to help Wei Jinxue.

Oddly enough, the Silver Guardian was swinging his sword at the Emperor, who was standing near the Duke of Tai.

“Yes, Inooom~!!”

Taekong Gong, who was startled, flew quickly to protect the emperor instead of striking Wei Jin-hak repeatedly.

As if he had been waiting for this moment, the sword swung by Seo Wan-pyeong, who had been hiding, passed through Taekong-gong’s arm.

Crunch.

Ichimoku’s head nodded automatically.

‘As expected, Eunwigakju thinks differently.’

How dare you think of aiming for the emperor, not the prince.

I thought that perhaps it was because I had lived for decades assisting Cheonma and the cult leader that my perspective was different.

As blood flowed from Taekonggong’s forearm, who had withstood the attacks of several masters, the spirit of those attacking him grew stronger.

In addition, Eunwigakju and Seo Wanping once again used their stealth skills and continued to aim for the emperor, distracting Taegonggong’s mind.

As I watched that scene, I felt the remaining sense of anxiety inside me slowly disappear.

A snicker and a laugh came out.

‘… I was being crushed without even knowing it.’

If you think about it, he wasn’t this kind of man in his past life either.

I’ve always preferred to work moderately and rest moderately.

I never wanted to live a life where I went to the battlefield even though I was a returned soldier, saying I wanted to save at least one more person.

The continuous battles taking place in various places. The war that killed hundreds, thousands, and sometimes tens of thousands of people every day was driving him forward.

With the pressure that if I rest, others will die.

‘I see. Now that I’ve worked enough, I guess it’s okay to rest a bit.’

As my anxiety completely subsided, the tension that had been weighing on my body released and I felt much more at ease.

Ilmok turned his head slightly and looked at Jegalmun.

‘While I was rolling around like crazy on the scene, you were doing this great thing all by yourself.’

That’s what I thought.

Now that the war will be over soon, I think I’ll just take it easy and live a life of giving orders.

at that time.

A loud explosion echoed from the battlefield.

bang!!!

When I turned my head, I saw Taekonggong, who looked like a beggar with messy hair, swinging his sword in all directions like a madman while protecting the emperor.

At the moment when those who had been attacking him momentarily retreated due to the limited-time, wild outburst.

The madman’s eyes, bloodshot, were focused straight on Il-mok.

“One look!! I will definitely kill you!!!!”

The cry of a madman who has discovered his mortal enemy who has destroyed his grand plans.

As expected of a eunuch who has reached a high level of sophistication, even though he is quite far away, his murderous intent is felt tinglingly.

“Wow.”

Ilmok muttered with a hollow laugh.

“It’s not scary at all.”