Chapter 514 – Just grab it once.
Yes, your mother’s blood is right.
My heart sank at the words that came out of my father’s mouth.
“What did you say?”
I asked again, wondering if I had heard it correctly.
It had to be that way.
It was because the story I just heard was too big to ignore.
‘Is it your mother’s blood?’
Of course, I was my mother’s child.
no.
‘It doesn’t matter if it’s not.’
Honestly, it didn’t matter if it wasn’t true.
I was also thinking a little bit that it wasn’t true.
I heard that my mother was a disaster that befell the entire generation.
That meant she wasn’t human.
It meant something outside of humans, like a blood horse or a heavenly horse.
I was thinking that there was a possibility that I wasn’t her blood relative.
Still, still, it doesn’t matter.
‘Even if I am not my mother’s blood.’
Because I was her child.
The winter road we walked together, holding hands and holding my little sister in my arms.
I haven’t forgotten those days when I could endure the cold thanks to the warmth of those hands.
So it didn’t matter.
It was a irrelevant matter.
‘What did you just say…?’
If I were to say here that I wasn’t my mother’s biological child, then it would have to go back to whose family’s son I was, so things would get a bit complicated.
Even though he wasn’t his father’s son, anyone could tell that he was his father’s son.
Whatever it was, it was all good.
That’s why the confirmation that it was really the mother and child was actually a welcome thing.
The important thing is why it is being said now.
And that too while looking at my changed appearance.
“Now… what does that mean?”
“…”
Looking at my strange appearance, which anyone could tell was strange, I thought of my mother.
Even the way he speaks with longing seems strange no matter how you look at it.
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The meaning of such words is this.
‘You said you saw this kind of thing from your mother too.’
It’s a somewhat dumbfounding statement.
What does it mean that my mother also had this kind of appearance?
Leaving aside my father’s longing, these were quite cold words to me now.
I knew someone who had the same vibe as I do now.
‘No, to be exact, there are two.’
I’m not sure about one of them, so I’ll just leave it alone.
On the other hand, there is another person who is confident.
‘Blood Demon.’
I hate to admit it, but it definitely happened.
That damn feeling that was laughing at me.
I could feel that arrogant and hateful gaze and look in my eyes.
I thought this part was a matter of blood.
The blood energy that the Blood Demon had planted in my body was completely absorbed and shed, so I have an atmosphere similar to that of the Blood Demon.
That’s what I thought.
‘If only my mother had felt this way.’
That’s a bit of a problem.
The reason is.
The blood horse was a disaster. My mother was a disaster too.
I have something that gives off the same feeling as those two.
[Aesong-ah.]
As his thoughts deepen, Noya intervenes urgently.
Anything beyond this should be a warning that it’s dangerous.
But that didn’t stop my thinking.
Yeonilcheon’s words come to mind.
-You are a disaster.
A statement that I passed over as a joke.
No, I tried to let it go, but the words got stuck in my heart.
It’s becoming increasingly clear.
Am I really a disaster?
Those damn thoughts started to fill my head.
In the meantime.
In the meantime.
You know what’s even more fucking annoying?
I also think that even if I were a disaster, it wouldn’t really matter.
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‘What the heck… Are you crazy?’
It hadn’t even been a year since I decided that at least it wouldn’t be a disaster.
But. What is this situation now?
It was truly horrifying to think that it didn’t really matter even if it was a disaster.
Is this also an effect of shedding?
This sucks.
There’s no way it’s okay. What the fuck is okay about it?
I wanted to slap myself in the face right away to bring me to my senses, but I held back because my father was in front of me.
Come to your senses. This is going to be really fucked up. Isn’t it? Is it already fucked up?
“Third.”
“…!”
I barely came to my senses at the sound of my father’s voice.
Now was not the time to be lost in thought.
What was significant was that the story about my mother came out of my father’s mouth.
I’d like to ask you about this again.
“I’ll go up first.”
“… yes?”
I had to make a dumbfounded expression at the words my father blurted out.
You’re saying it’s going up?
“Suddenly?”
At my words full of absurdity, my father raised his head and looked at the ceiling.
“It looks like the head of the Tang clan has arrived.”
They say the Poison King has arrived outside.
When I heard that, I also burst into laughter, but I felt nothing.
All I feel is still emptiness.
‘Is it because of what’s outside?’
I think it was called Hwarinseong.
The power to change the color of the sky and make noise disappear.
As long as it’s floating, it can’t detect the opponent’s presence either?
What kind of principle is it that allows such a shape to appear?
When a sudden curiosity crossed my mind.
My father walked past me.
Are you really planning on going up like this?
“Just a moment, Father. The conversation is still….”
As I try to move my body to grab my father, his gaze turns to me.
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“You are not qualified yet.”
I had to frown at my father’s words.
Conditions?
“… What qualifications do you have? What qualifications do you have to hear about your mother?”
Does that mean I should get a seat at the cow bar? If that’s something you have to do for me anyway, then you can at least tell me.
I’m getting annoyed and about to blurt out something.
“Have you forgotten what we talked about last time?”
My father cut me off and said:
“Obviously, it was said to reach the composition.”
“…!”
“You haven’t reached it yet.”
If you want to know where your mother is, you have to raise the level of Guyeonhwaryun Gong.
Does this also count as a condition for hearing this story?
‘This sucks.’
It’s so damn hard to just listen to the story.
Now that we have reached Chilseong, when will the composition reach its peak?
It’s so far away.
Even if I tried not to feel impatient, it was too far away.
‘… It’s a place I barely reached in my previous life.’
Due to the rough nature of the chemical industry, it is extremely difficult to handle and master it.
Even with all that bet, it’s reached its limit, so how long will it take to do it the standard way?
‘I guess I’ll go back.’
It’s hard to figure out.
How many years? A few years would be fortunate. Even now, I have reached this level by eating up all the experiences and connections from my past life.
‘But I can’t just throw it away and go back to how it was then.’
A solid foundation built up to now.
If we go back to our previous lives and build on the basis of betting, everything will return to nothing.
I know from past experience that raising the level is a meaningless act, so I can’t do that.
So I was thinking of just throwing a tantrum and asking to know.
‘That too… won’t work.’
You can tell by looking into your father’s eyes.
It’s a determined look in her eyes that says she will never tell anyone unless it touches her composition.
There is no way.
Because it was something I couldn’t ignore and ask them to tell me.
When you can handle it, you have to do it.
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I just found out that I’ve killed the Heavenly King, so how can I open my eyes?
I held it in for a long time.
As I was holding back on asking something I really wanted to ask, my father shifted his gaze again.
After seeing my father like that, I decided to ask something else.
“… But, you know.”
He pointed behind him with his hand.
“That… No, why is that person just leaving…?”
My father slightly turns his head at my words. To where my hand is pointing.
Whoosh whoosh… .
There was a heavenly being still engulfed in flames and burning.
“…”
The expression on my father’s face changed as he watched that.
I saw it clearly.
I’m talking about the look on my father’s face that makes me think, ‘Oh no.’
… You must have forgotten, right?
You burned it like that?
‘No… I guess so.’
No way. Surely my father would have forgotten.
My father, who had been looking at the Heavenly King for a moment, quickly turned his head as if to erase the momentary hesitation.
“… Just leave it alone. It won’t take long for the fire to go out.”
I looked into the flames of heaven at my father’s words.
‘If you don’t turn it off, does that mean there’s a reason you have to keep leaving it like that?’
You clearly said earlier that it was for burning something.
‘What were you trying to burn?’
Burn something other than flesh.
I didn’t understand what it meant. Was it that the secret weapon my father used had other uses?
Ttukbuk.
As I was thinking about this, my father walked towards the entrance.
Should I follow?
What should I do? Such worries cross my mind.
at that time.
“Wait here. I will bring the Poison King.”
“Yes…? Me?”
You want me to wait while looking at that burning heavenly being and the elders?
My father’s words struck me as somewhat strange.
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If the Poison King has decided to come, why don’t we just wait?
I see the formation that was blocking this entrance.
‘… I think my father tore it up.’
After crushing and pounding and doing everything, it seemed like I could find it right away if I just knew where it was.
So I was thinking that maybe we could just wait together.
“Isn’t there something to find out here?”
“…!”
I had to swallow my breath as the words suddenly came in.
My father had noticed this a long time ago.
That I have business in this space.
‘… Oh, my.’
Along with what the Tang Dynasty Emperor said.
This is a space that seems to be related to the plan to create the Cheonmujiche.
No, I’m sure it would be like that.
If not for that, there would be no way they would have created something so deep, let alone covered it up with such a thick system.
Even.
‘Something about the atmosphere is different.’
The poison that was felt from the moment I arrived.
Plus, the corpse of a monster can be seen vaguely beyond the back.
Now, the space was guarded by betting and speculation due to the battle, but there was something else going on.
‘That doesn’t mean….’
Father’s words that he must go outside and face the Poison King.
I felt like I knew the hidden intention there.
I’ll buy you some time.
‘Find out what you need to know?’
I was sweating as I tried to figure out my father’s intentions.
I wondered how far he had grasped the truth. Feeling my heart grow cold, I took the example first.
“… thank you.”
“…”
Pot-!
I can hear sparks flying.
When I raised my head, my father was already gone.
As I was staring blankly at the empty space, Shin Noya spoke to me.
[I figured it all out.]
“… That’s right.”
Well, I should have just waited quietly for you to come back.
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Moving around uselessly only caused problems.
“… Tsk.”
He clicks his tongue once and takes a step forward.
What I got caught was what I got caught for. Since you said you’d make time right away, I had to find out what I needed to find out.
The place I headed to was in front of the elder who was still shivering.
“Ugh… That… That…”
The elder is shaking as if he has lost his mind.
No matter how I look at it, the condition is not good.
“Ugh… ugh… huh…”
The already old man looks even more frail.
I sighed slightly as I looked at it.
“That’s too bad.”
It was a pity.
Now that it has come to this, there is nothing I can do or say.
I wanted to make it like this.
“It’s such a shame, isn’t it?”
I ask, lowering my gaze, but the elder just looks at me as if he is afraid.
“Monster… thing… monster…”
“monster?”
Are you talking to me? Or to your father?
Both would be similar.
The meaning is different though.
‘I wonder if I can find out anything.’
The elder has already lost his mind. I wonder if it’s acting, but I don’t think it is.
What on earth did I do to get this messed up?
In this situation, even torture won’t work.
‘Then, should I catch the other guys who are in agreement and ask them?’
It is unlikely that only the elders participated in the work.
No matter how influential he was, he didn’t seem like a great person to that extent.
I think things might get a little annoying.
“huh?”
I noticed something strange about the trembling elder.
He appears to be holding something tightly in both hands.
what?
It looks like it’s holding something.
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I reached out to check it out.
“Ah… No…! This… This much…!”
He started to rebel as he noticed that the elder was trying to take it away.
It’s annoying.
“Should I just tear it off with my arms?”
“…!”
The elder’s body stops moving at the words he blurted out in annoyance.
“Tear… Uh… tear? Ah… in Andre…”
Are you reacting to the words “rip your arm off”?
Why?
Anything is fine.
Because what was important was that you reacted.
“That’s right. If you don’t give it to me, I’ll tear your arm off.”
Oh, of course, it’s not a threat or anything.
If you don’t give it to me, I’m really going to tear it apart.
There was no time to bother arguing with words.
I wonder if the elders realized that what I said was true.
He stretched out his hand with a face crushed by fear.
What are you holding that makes you react like this?
In the meantime, the fist he was holding did not open.
so.
Pitter-patter!
“Kkaaaaaaah!”
He grabbed the elder’s wrist and crushed it.
A scream bursts out, piercing into my ears.
I felt like breaking the mouth too.
My hands started to loosen and I could see the object I was holding, so I decided to move on.
“What is this?”
I tilted my head as I looked at the fallen object.
It was a jewel. A small jewel at that.
Why was I holding onto something like this?
I picked up the jewel that had fallen to the floor and examined it more closely.
“I don’t think there’s anything more.”
At that moment, I thought it was just a jewel.
Woof-!
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“…!”
The jewel in my hand suddenly began to vibrate.
Even the energy inside is seething and spreading out in all directions.
As the energy passes by, the body reacts in its own way.
It was terrible.
Not only is the poison contained within it enormous, but the amount of energy moving as if it were struggling is also enormous.
“… her.”
Looking at this, I could be sure.
There’s something about this gem.
I immediately thrust the jewel at the elder.
“what’s this?”
Even though he asks what to say, the elder still acts dumb and shows that he is not in his right mind.
Still, the eyes were staring intently at the jewel.
“hmm.”
This way, you won’t be able to get the right information.
Even if the body was broken, it was inevitable that the mind was broken.
Do I really have to catch another guy?
As those worries crossed my mind, another thought occurred to me at the same time.
There was one way.
It’s just not a very pleasant method.
“… Still, I guess I should check.”
Indeed, I wonder if it can even affect the parts that have lost their minds.
It’s better than not trying.
Now was not the time to measure this and that.
Swish-.
“Crunch…!”
I quickly grabbed the elder’s neck.
Thump-!
My heart was pounding loudly.
The energy spreads.
At this, I felt my pupils getting hot.
The energy tied to the heart passes through the hand and seeps into the elder.
“Keuuuuuuuuuuuu!”
The sudden energy causes Iljang-ro’s body to shake violently.
I kept pushing my energy without stopping.
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The body of an elder who slowly and steadily eats away at my energy.
I felt it and sent my intentions into the air.
[From now on.]
This is someday.
[It’s your sky.]
It was similar to the method used by Cheonma.
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Hanam.
Deep underground beneath.
A place where the cold air blows so cold that even the air freezes.
There was a young man lying there with his eyes closed.
The young man was lying as if he was dead.
Woof… .
“… hmm.”
I opened my eyes to a sudden sense of strangeness.
The woman standing next to him flinched.
Because it wasn’t time for my master to wake up yet.
The woman carefully examines the young man, as if keeping an eye on him.
The young man had his characteristic red eyes gleaming, and the woman could see them through him.
For some reason, the owner is smiling.
“Ugh… .”
The young man, the blood horse, did not stop there and even burst into laughter.
How could it not be so?
“That’s fun.”
The blood demon sweeps my chest with his hand.
So I could feel it more clearly.
It’s disconnected.
One of the deeply tied connecting wires snapped!
I treasured it so much and tied it up carefully, but it just broke like this.
“Who did this?”
He thought about it for a moment, but the blood horse already knew the answer.
In fact, he headed to Sacheon. That is the territory of the Tang clan.
Then, was it the work of the Tang family? No, they don’t have this kind of power. It wasn’t even worth suspecting.
The value of the current party is no different.
“That’s where the kid was headed.”
The place where the person you are paying attention to is headed. That’s it.
Could this really be a coincidence?
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I didn’t think it was a blood horse.
also.
“I hope not.”
I hoped that wasn’t the case.
If the child had grown strong enough to cut his own thread, that would have been all I could ask for.
Even for the paradise you dream of.
“Dancer.”
“yes.”
The dancer answered the blood horse’s call. The blood horse was not looking at the dancer.
Much further than that.
I was looking at a very distant place.
“Contact the shaman.”
And he laughed.
The blood horse was feeling it.
It is truly said that paradise is just around the corner.
“I think things could be done a little faster.”
