Raon narrowed his eyes as he looked at the crumbled pieces of gold stone.
‘It wasn’t just Cartoon Ball and Glacia who moved just now.’
Not only did the two energies move directly, but even the energy of the requiem sword strapped to the back of his waist permeated the golden stone.
When those three energies flowed inside the golden stone, the last thing that moved was a ring of fire.
The six rings surrounding the heart resonated and tried to unite Manhwagong, Glasia, and Yogi, but the golden stone broke because it could not withstand its mighty power.
“Umm… .”
Vulcan’s hands trembled as he picked up the sparkling orb.
“This is the first time in my life that I have seen Geumgyeol move on its own.”
I slowly caught my breath as I looked at his gold glittering with five colors. It was my first time seeing Vulcan so embarrassed.
“This is Geumgyeol.”
Raon narrowed his eyes as he looked at the marble held by Balkan. A mysterious energy flowed from the shiny bead, as if it were the king of metals for no reason.
“okay. The golden rule is that this guy amplifies all energy. I like your energy that makes it shine like this… .”
“Ugh!”
When Vulkan held out the gold coin and spoke, Haran, who had been lying down next to him, got up and crawled over.
“What the hell are you saying, using cold and heat at the same time! “How did you break the golden stone?”
He widened his eyes as he looked at the finely split gold stones.
“I thought you passed out.”
He was struggling because it hurt in the area where he was hit, so I knocked him unconscious for a while, but I think he woke up when the golden stone broke.
“Inspiration! “What kind of monster have you brought here?”
“Shut up and sit down!”
“Wow!”
Vulcan hit Haran on the back of the head, causing him to kneel on the floor.
“If you go somewhere and talk about what you saw today, I will break your head off with my own hands.”
“Oh, no… . You are so cruel to your son… .”
“Answer loudly and quickly!”
“I will not! “There is no place to talk!”
Haran screamed and told me not to beat up the patient.
“This guy is stupid, but he has a big mouth. “He won’t have to worry.”
Vulcan rolled the golden ball in his palm and smiled slightly.
“All right.”
Raon nodded. Even though he had no martial arts skills, he was able to stand alone against the prince and knights of the Kingdom of Tulan, so he was somewhat trustworthy.
“Don’t do something shameful that takes advantage of other people’s weaknesses!”
Haran grunted and turned his head. She was rubbing the back of her head as if it still hurt.
“Then let’s continue. “A little while ago, you moved cold, heat, and another energy, right?”
“yes. However, I didn’t move… .”
Raon took out the requiem sword he was wearing on the back of his waist and held it out in front of him.
“Is it a magic sword…? .”
With just one look, Balkan realized that the requiem sword contained a demon.
“yes. “This is a sword made by Artisan Kuberud.”
“what? “He made the magic sword?”
He looked down at the requiem sword as if he did not understand.
“How can that stuffy guy make a magic sword…? .”
“There were circumstances. In Siren Village in the southern part of the continent… .”
Raon lowered his eyes and told the story of how Kuberud created the requiem sword.
“I see. “Then I understand.”
Balkan nodded, saying he understood now.
“Is that sword sleeping right now?”
“You will remain quiet unless I ask you to or unless you meet a White Blood Cult.”
Except for moving on its own today, the requiem sword did not move as if it were asleep. As if they were gathering their strength to take revenge on the White Blood Cult.
-If only the small creatures could gather their strength. It is so low-class that if the king lifts a finger, he will immediately crush him.
Lass twisted his mouth as he looked at the requiem sword.
Ugh!
The requiem sword trembled, as if telling it not to be funny, and raised a ghost.
-joy!
Ras snorted and crushed the requiem sword’s magic with cold energy.
-This is the difference in rank. If you ask my king, I will take revenge on you.
‘If you are pushed out of power, is your status low?’
-Of course. Power is the level, the level of existence.
‘Then you are also of lower rank than me.’
-W-What do you mean? Why would the king treat a human like that?
‘You’re always pushed around and crushed by me.’
-Ugh… .
Lars opened his mouth as if he had nothing to say.
‘Low level demon king. ‘Please stay quiet.’
Raon stroked the requiem sword and looked down at Ras.
-Hey, you bastard!
Ras could not bear it anymore and brought out cold and anger and pushed into the mana circuit.
Gooooo!
Raon casually blocked the powerful attack with the ring of fire, Manga Ball, and Glacia and sheathed the requiem sword.
“The sword is a sword that contains the temperament of ‘living the devil.’ However, depending on its use, the magic sword can become a divine sword or a magic sword.”
“It means that in the end, it’s up to me.”
“okay. The resentment against that sword is so deep that even I can see it. “Please help me not to be eaten by that energy and to achieve requiem as the name suggests and return to my original path.”
“All right.”
Raon held the requiem sword tightly and put it on his waist.
“You can do it.”
Vulcan smiled softly and patted his shoulder.
“Hmph, someone would think that’s my son.”
Haran crossed his arms and pouted.
“shut up!”
“Ugh!”
As Balkan rolled his eyes, Haran shrugged his shoulders and stepped aside.
“Raon. “Would you like to touch this?”
Vulcan held out the gold he was holding in his hand. Unlike before, there was no five-colored light and it was a black color. She nodded and took the gold coin in her hand.
Wooooow!
As soon as I touched my hand, five lights flashed from the gold, creating a sound as clear as a sword and trembling.
“Huh!”
“Huh, as expected… .”
Haran shook his hands in shock, and Vulkan laughed.
“Why are you doing this?”
“Geumgyeol has fallen into your energy. “It means I want to make you my master.”
“Do you really have an ego?”
“It’s not about the ego. “It’s instinctive, like a flower opening its leaves toward the sun.”
“hmm… .”
Raon licked his lips and looked at Geumgyeol. Currently, three energies are swirling inside to block Lass, and Geumgyeol seems to like those energies as he continues to light and tremble.
“Can I put this on my sword? No matter the price… .”
“Not required. “You guy.”
Balkal chuckled and waved his hand.
“It’s an item that already has an owner, so I don’t mind giving it to you. However, the quantity is a bit lacking.”
“sheep… .”
He’s right. It was a bead large enough to be held in one hand, so it was not enough to make a dagger.
“It’s a small amount to harmonize two metals that match your energy, let alone make a sword.”
“If you say harmony… .”
“Don’t you use both cold and heat? In order to properly demonstrate the two energies, the best way is to mix the two metals and finish them with gold. “There is fine iron on the hot side, and silver iron on the cold side, but there is not enough gold to join the two.”
Vulcan let out a small sigh as if he was disappointed.
“Not Eun Hyeong-cheol, you can use this!”
Runaan, who had been quiet, held out the box containing the cold blood he was holding on his chest.
“I’ll give everything that’s left after making my sword to Raon.”
“Really? This is the highest level among cold-blooded people… .”
“are you okay,”
Without any hesitation, she said she would give it in cold blood.
“It doesn’t matter if you’re okay with it… .”
Balgan nodded and looked at Raon. It was as if he was asking what our relationship was.
“I am a colleague.”
Raon shrugged his shoulders.
“Kuhm, then only gold and geothermal heat remain.”
Vulcan slowly stood up and straightened his back.
“First of all, I’ll take a look at Geumgyeol. “Go to Mount Skelei and see why the geothermal temperature has decreased.”
“All right. Then, just one guide… .”
“You are there. “A guy with nothing to do.”
He pointed to Haran, who was trying to crawl out.
“100 million!”
“He’s been running around the neighborhood red-handed since he was young, so he knows the geography well. “Take him with you.”
“Ah, why am I going! I’m so inspired right now that I’m going to get to work… .”
“Write.”
“I’m going, I’m going!”
Haran stood up and nodded.
“Runan.”
“huh.”
Raon went out of the workshop with Runan.
“I’ll be back.”
“There is no need to solve the problem, so please be careful.”
“yes.”
I nodded and turned around.
-You bastard! How long will you ignore me!
‘I didn’t ignore it.’
How can you ignore the cold that pierces your entire body and the anger that makes your heart pound? I was just enduring it, pretending like nothing was wrong, with the three energies swirling around.
-good night! Let’s get to the end today! I will tell you how high the status of this king is!
‘It’s no use.’
Ras summoned all his energy to attack the wall created in the mana circuit, but Mangagong and Glacia were made stronger and blocked everything.
Coo coo coo coo!
A battle of numbers and strength took place simultaneously inside the body, but Lars could not win either of them.
-Ugh! This king does not give up… .
Just as the guy was about to explode his remaining energy, a message appeared before his eyes.
[You have endured the interruption of .]
[Sensing ability has increased by 1 point.]
[You endured the pain with courage.]
[Your physical strength has increased by 1 point.]
The referee appeared, declaring Lars’ defeat.
-also? Holy shit!
Lars blinked and fell backwards.
‘If your status is low, you should be humble.’
Raon smiled coldly as he looked at Lars lying on the bracelet.
***
“Hehehehe.”
Rimmer hummed and knocked on the door of the throne room.
“Matriarch!”
Unlike usual, Glenn’s voice was not heard, and Roen came out from inside and bowed his head.
“The head of the family has gone out for a while.”
“yes? “I thought you caught a disease that would kill you if you went out, didn’t you?”
Rimmer waved his hands as if it made no sense.
“It’s been a while since I saw you move in person.”
Roen smiled slightly.
“Where have you been?”
“He didn’t reveal his destination, but said he would go out for a while and return around evening.”
“You can’t just send it away! What happened to the matriarch… “There is no way.”
Rimmer swallowed dry saliva. She has no one to touch Glenn and she will see hell if she does.
“I moved with the Heavenly Sword Master, so you don’t have to worry.”
“Well, then.”
Like himself and Roen, the Heavenly Sword Master is a warrior and super-strong person who has been with Glenn from the beginning. He could be trusted if he went with her.
“Matriarch, what brought you here?”
“I came to report this and that. Raon and Runan have left, Buren is locked away, and Marta is training hard… .”
“If that’s all, I’ll tell you.”
“and!”
Rimmer tightly grabbed Roen’s shoulder as he tried to turn away.
“Well, my monthly salary… .”
“That would have been paid in advance.”
“I wish you would give me money in advance. Or you can just lend me some money!”
“Well, actually, the head of the family left a message.”
Roen smiled and took Rimmer’s hand away.
“Message?”
“He said that if Mr. Rimer ever talks about an advance payment or asks to borrow money, he will personally come and have a ‘warm conversation.’”
“Well, conversation… .”
Rimmer swallowed dry saliva and stepped back. Talk is conversation. It was obvious that the fist would come first.
“Roen. “You can keep that much a secret between us.”
“of course. I can keep it a secret as much as I want, but… .”
Roen gently pointed upward.
“Are they going to be okay?”
“ah… .”
Rimmer frowned as he looked at the Cheongeomdae swordsmen hiding on the ceiling. Cheongeomdae only listens to Glenn. It was not someone I could communicate with.
“Isn’t there a saying to enjoy the present? The correct one comes later. The fun is in the present. I will choose a later conversation.”
Rimmer did not back down, but stretched out his hand.
“Hmm, even if I give you an advance, it would be impossible to get it from him.”
“Isn’t it a martial arts challenge to challenge the impossible?”
“Hehe.”
Roen smiled slightly as if he liked the answer and placed a bag of gold coins in Rimmer’s hand.
“thank you! “I will bring victory today!”
Rimmer turned his body and even used footwork to escape the family battle.
“I see the reaper.”
Roen narrowed his eyes as he watched Rimmer’s back moving away. She somehow felt like the Shinigami’s shadow was smiling.
“by the way… .”
Roen opened the door to the throne room again and let out a voice mixed with laughter.
“I guess you would have arrived by now.”
***
Haran led Raon and Runan up Mount Skelei.
“Please come up quietly. “If you hear a loud noise, the surrounding monsters will come rushing in.”
Although I was well aware of the terrain where monsters did not come, I had to climb up quietly because there were some guys that were sensitive to sound.
‘by the way… .’
I slowly turned around and saw Raon.
‘A prosecutor chosen by Geumgyeol himself.’
Even though it is the king of metals, it is nothing but lifeless iron. I have never heard or seen a piece of iron without any soul vibrate to choose its owner.
“Well, what are you going to do about that?”
Is it because I saw a scene like the legend of a blacksmith? Although he is quite young, he no longer speaks informally.
“That’s it?”
Raon tilted his head as if he didn’t know what he was talking about.
“Didn’t you make a bet with me?”
“I will take care of that. “Because I decided to listen to anything.”
“Well, even if it’s too severe or takes too long… .”
“It’s ‘anything,’ including all of those things.”
“Profit, I can’t accept that! With one bet, you can get a leash… .”
When Haran was about to shake his head, Raon pulled out his sword. He came towards me, radiating a cool aura.
“Now, wait! There’s no point in brandishing a knife just because you said no! I’ll do everything! Doing it all… Ugh!”
I blocked my front with my hand and closed my eyes, but there was no pain. Only a few drops of sticky muddy water fell on her head.
“what… .”
When I opened my eyes, green blood was flowing from Raon’s sword, and next to me were three giant fly-shaped monsters, cut in half and dead.
“Re, Red Fly… .”
They were vicious insect-type monsters that lived in hot areas such as deserts or volcanic regions and sucked the body fluids of living things.
“Okay, thank you.”
Haran lowered his head. She thought it was attacking her, but the Red Fly behind her was blocking it.
“It gets annoying when the guide dies.”
Raon casually said some harsh words and smiled.
‘radish. ‘He’s a scary guy.’
Not only did that one move save his life, but he also warned him not to talk nonsense. He wasn’t the type of psychological warfare a 17-year-old could do.
“But these guys.”
Haran narrowed his eyes as he looked at Red Fly.
“They usually don’t come here… .”
The road I’m taking now is a place where monsters haven’t traveled for over 10 years. It is strange that not one, but three appear together.
“Just as there was a change in geothermal heat, there would have been a change in the monsters’ ecology.”
Raon, who was behind him, came forward and continued speaking.
“From now on, I will take the lead.”
“You don’t know the geography of this place, do you?”
“I don’t know the geography, but I can feel the energy. I think I know where the problem occurred. “It’s pretty serious.”
He looked up at the top of Mount Skelei and narrowed his eyes.
“Runan. “Watch my back.”
“huh.”
The silver-haired swordsman, who was so quiet that one might have thought he was a doll, nodded.
“Then let’s go again.”
Raon walked ahead. He did not speak, nor did he show me a map, but in this complex he followed straight the ley line from which the volcanic heat descended.
‘her.’
Haran let out a sigh.
‘You sensed what the problem was here?’
Even I wasn’t sure, having lived here my whole life, but my mouth dropped when the guy who first arrived said he knew where the problem had come from.
‘That must be a lie, right?’
I didn’t think so, but Raon’s steps were full of confidence. He climbed straight up the mountain without a single stumble.
That’s not the only surprising thing.
Raon seemed to be waiting for the monster to appear, as if he could sense all the signs around him, and cut off his head with a single sword.
Zika Orc, famous for his ferocity, lost his head without even swinging his axe, and the fire-breathing Flame Snake also split its body into eight pieces and fell like fallen leaves.
The same was true for the child named Runan behind him.
Five Gray Scorpions possessing heat poison rushed at them at the same time, but they were immediately frozen by a spray of intense cold.
‘I can’t believe I was at this level at the age of 17. ‘Is this the real Sieghardt?’
Haran swallowed dry saliva. His heart warmed when he saw Sieghardt’s younger, but proper driver, like a man with a screw missing like Rimer.
‘I think I know why that old man told me to watch it properly.’
I thought I knew why my father told me to keep my eyes on Raon and Runan.
When I saw the powerlessness of those young guys, I immediately wanted to grab a hammer and hit any metal.
For the first time in a long time, Haran erased the word gambling from his mind and wiggled his hands as if he was holding a hammer.
***
As Raon climbed the mountain and cut down the monsters, he kept thinking about the sharp sword.
‘Something is missing.’
I pulled out a sharp sword and drew it on my head from the soft sword technique, the mad sword, the swordsmanship of Manhwagong, and the swordsmanship of Tarkan, the prince of the Kingdom of Tulan that I met a while ago, but the quick sword did not come out at the speed I wanted.
‘I don’t know what I’m missing.’
I thought that if the form of the sword technique and swordsmanship were refined a little more, an extremely fast swordsmanship would be created, but it did not work out well.
“Krarak!”
Four Zika Orcs appeared from the right and charged in with huge axes raised. She was full of the will to tear humans apart in one fell swoop.
Sigh!
Raon raised his wrist slightly and drew his sword diagonally. The energy that bloomed from the swordplay fell as if it would split the space.
“Krarara… .”
The orcs fell with their heads on the ground without being able to reach them. Looking at their expressions, it seemed as if they had died without even knowing that they had been cut by a knife.
It was a sword strike so fast that Zika Orc, who had excellent senses, didn’t even know he had been cut, but Raon’s eyes were filled with regret.
‘Speed is speed, but the direction has changed.’
If you only think about speed, you will not be able to cut at the correct location and will give yourself an excuse for a counterattack. Speed and accuracy had to move together like magnets.
Raon climbed the mountain following the geothermal flow, combining and weaving the pieces of the quick sword one by one.
After climbing the mountain for nearly half a day, I was able to arrive at the place where the explosive energy that I felt below lingered.
“This place has gone up too much. The place where there was always a problem with the ley line was a little further down… .”
“quietly.”
He blocked Haran’s mouth and pointed ahead when he asked to go to the place where there was usually a problem.
Coo coo coo coo.
In the center of the ridge where the haze was blooming, there was a small rock hill that looked like it was made of sharp rocks piled on top of each other. The hill murmured very slowly, as if it was breathing.
“hmm? “Was there a hill like that here?”
Haran said it was strange and scratched his beard.
“Because it’s not a hill.”
Raon took a breath and pulled out his sword. The moment the deadly force was unleashed, the hill rose up and created a powerful storm of flames.
Quaaaaa!
Something raised its head above the massive wave of flames that spread across the ridge. It was a gigantic fire demon with a two-horned dragon’s head and a turtle’s shell.
Gooooo!
The force emanating from the red-hot eyes, blocking the setting sun, had already far surpassed that of the monster.
“Re, Red Dragon Turtle!”
Haran, who made eye contact with the huge monster, fell backwards without realizing it.
“Well, this is my first time seeing something that big. “What kind of monster is distracting me?”
He quivered his lips, saying it was nonsense.
“It’s a distracted red dragon turtle… .”
Raon, with his sword slung over his shoulder, flashed blue in his eyes.
“I think there’s a lot to gain.”
