Chapter 1575 – 1575. Saint Unicorn
“Heh heh. You’re holding up pretty well? Let’s see if you can keep it up even with your arm cut off and your eyeballs burst. Do you want to feel what it’s like to have your brain physically scrambled?”
“Try it if you can.”
Goshuk frowned as if he didn’t like my confident attitude. He had apparently evolved his abilities and gained regenerative powers after eating the red gem, turning his skin white, but the long, large scar on his face hadn’t regenerated.
“You think I can’t? I don’t die even if I’m stabbed in the heart!”
“More importantly, where did you get that red gem? Let’s share the good stuff. Is the ability evolution permanent? Or is it temporary?”
I was very interested in the red gem that Goshuk had eaten. If it was true that abilities could evolve, I was very curious about what would happen if the game app evolved.
“You damn bastard! You’re just bluffing. I was going to play with you a little before killing you… The Tyrant Fist Sect will be here soon, so just die already!”
He raised the sword in his hand. He was about to stab himself in the chest without hesitation. But I moved first. I stabbed my thigh with the Hwaryeon Blade, self-inflicting an injury.
Blood gushed out of my thigh along with intense pain. At the same time, Goshuk suffered the same injury on his thigh.
“Kuh-ahhh! You bastard…!”
Certainly, Goshuk’s wound was shallower than mine. But that didn’t mean it wasn’t dangerous. Even small wounds could become dangerous if they continued. So, I needed to push him before his wound healed.
Thwack!
I stabbed the Hwaryeon Blade into my other thigh.
“Aaaahhhh!”
I was the one who had hurt myself, but it was Goshuk who screamed in pain. In reality, I was probably feeling more pain. Even if the wounds were the same, mine were bigger and deeper.
I guess it’s a difference in familiarity. I had become accustomed to pain while dying. Maybe the influence of Absolute Mind was also a factor. But what about the other guy?
‘He doesn’t have Absolute Mind, and he hasn’t been in fights like this as a daily routine.’
Goshuk writhed in pain, grinding his teeth. He was trying to commit suicide to escape the pain and end this battle. Of course, I wasn’t going to stand still. I cut off my own left arm with the Hwaryeon Blade.
Swish.
The feeling of my arm being cut off was awful. But the other guy would feel even worse.
“You crazy bastard!!”
I examined Goshuk’s left arm. Unlike my cleanly severed left arm, his arm was barely hanging on. Dangling. Every time he let out an angry shout, his barely attached arm would shake. It would have been much better if his arm had just fallen off cleanly.
“Tell me where you got that red gem you ate. Then I’ll kill you cleanly.”
“Shut up! This is my power! And I’m the one who has the upper hand!”
Goshuk prepared to stab himself in the heart with his trembling hand.
There was hesitation.
A very brief moment of hesitation just before he was about to stab his heart. Maybe he thought he might die himself since he had so many injuries now.
“What are you doing? If you’re going to do it, do it properly.”
I stabbed the Hwaryeon Blade into my abdomen. I moved the Hwaryeon Blade slowly. The sharp blade of the Hwaryeon Blade cut through my intestines, mixing them up.
“Kuh-ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!”
Goshuk let out a terrible scream that was incomparable to anything he had done before.
This was hard for me too. I gritted my teeth and swallowed my screams. I had no intention of collapsing on the floor like him and writhing like a worm.
“Okay! I give up! I give up, so stop! Stop it!!”
I pulled the Hwaryeon Blade out of my abdomen. Pieces of my cut intestines came out with the blood. I regained my fading consciousness. Death was right in front of me. I could only hold on for another minute or two at most.
I staggered towards the fallen Goshuk. Goshuk looked up at me with eyes that seemed to be looking at an incomprehensible monster.
“Tell me.”
“The elixir was a gift from a party cadre.”
“So that’s what you call it, an elixir. Did you get the elixir from a dungeon? Or did someone make it?”
“I don’t know! I just received a few as a bribe! All I know about the elixir is that it temporarily evolves your abilities and body when you take it!”
It was obvious that he was trying to stall for time. Even now, his wounds were healing.
“Who is that party cadre?”
“I don’t know.”
“You don’t know? Are you kidding me right now? You give bribes to someone you don’t know?”
“The party cadre’s broker contacted me first! He was ridiculously strong, so I trusted him without suspicion. In fact, things have been going smoothly since I met the broker.”
“Didn’t you even investigate who that broker was?”
“Why would I? Things were going well, so there was no need to make an enemy of the broker. Oh, you know what? It was that broker who suggested we expand into Korea! It wasn’t a bad idea, so I accepted it.”
I narrowed my eyes.
I wasn’t getting the information I wanted. The more I talked, the more annoyed I became.
‘So, this guy was just a hunting dog being used. The one who gave him the elixir… it couldn’t have been a gift. Is it some kind of experiment?’
Goshuk didn’t seem to realize that he was being used. I felt my heart slowing down, almost stopping, and asked him.
“Give me the elixir.”
“Your voice is different from before. Heh heh. You’re dying, aren’t you?”
“I said, give me the elixir.”
Goshuk chuckled. Had he suddenly gone crazy? No. He had realized that my heart wasn’t beating.
“I don’t have the elixir! The one I just ate was the last one I had! What, are you jealous? If you’re so upset, try killing me! If you can!”
Goshuk, who had been lying on the floor, got up. Some of his wounds had healed.
“I knew you were at your limit. Just die already!”
Goshuk took his sword and stabbed himself in the abdomen. I got a wound in my abdomen.
[Death Resistance has been activated. You will not die for the next 15 seconds.]
I straightened my body, putting strength into my legs just before I collapsed. It wasn’t that I couldn’t move while Death Resistance was activated. It was because I wasn’t dead until the 15 seconds were over.
Goshuk’s eyes widened as he looked at me. He seemed to sense something was wrong.
“Why, why aren’t you collapsing? You should be at your limit?!”
“Because I’m not at my limit.”
I held the Hwaryeon Blade in my only hand. And without hesitation, I started to hurt myself. First, I stabbed the Hwaryeon Blade into my chest. I pierced my heart, which was no longer beating.
“Kuh-uhhh!”
Blood gushed out of Goshuk’s chest. Despair filled his face. He had a premonition of his inevitable death.
I continued to swing my blade.
“You, what the hell are you…”
I pierced my own neck, burst my eyeballs, and finally, I embedded the Hwaryeon Blade in my head.
And before Death Resistance ended, I used Complete Recovery.
[Complete Recovery is being used.]
I wondered if he would recover too if I recovered, but thankfully, the dead guy didn’t recover and died. I glanced at his corpse and turned away. Son Ga-yeon and Ryu Ja-young were still fighting, so I had to help them.
When I joined in, the battle became one-sided. The flow of the battle, which was already in our favor, shifted decisively towards us.
“Yujin, are you okay?”
“Do you have some kind of special artifact?”
After the battle was over, Son Ga-yeon and Ryu Ja-young asked me. They had also felt something strange after seeing my fight. I gave them a vague answer.
“It’s like a hidden trump card. Don’t ask me for details. We won, so that’s all that matters.”
With this, my revenge was over.
Although I had missed Noh Ji-soo of Five Sads, I decided to end this matter here.
‘I’m a little concerned about the broker that guy mentioned.’
Strictly speaking, the broker wasn’t a target for revenge. It was Goshuk of the Yellow River Sect who had tried to kill me.
‘If I try to go after that broker… I have a feeling it’ll be more troublesome than dealing with the Yellow River Sect.’
This is Korea.
Even though I was concerned about the ‘elixir,’ I had no intention of going around looking for that broker.
While I was thinking about this and that, Son Ga-yeon was examining Goshuk’s corpse. Goshuk’s skin, which had turned white after eating the elixir, had returned to its original color. She took something out of Goshuk’s jacket pocket.
My eyes widened when I saw it.
“Noona, that’s…”
“It’s the stone that the kid used in Korea. The stone that took us to the Pylon’s domain. He probably planned to use this to escape from here after taking his assets.”
“Damn it. I should have asked him where he got that too.”
Unlike me, who was clicking my tongue, Son Ga-yeon was calm.
“It’s okay since we got our hands on this. If we investigate, we’ll find something.”
We went upstairs.
The battle between the Tyrant Fist Sect and the Yellow River Sect was one-sided. It was obvious. It was absurd to compare the Yellow River Sect, which was just a drug organization made up of a bunch of nobodies, to the Tyrant Fist Sect, the best guild in China.
We helped the Tyrant Fist Sect.
•••
The Yellow River Sect was destroyed.
However, the outside world didn’t know about the Yellow River Sect.
The media was controlled.
China was still a communist country, and there was nothing the Communist Party couldn’t do in China if they set their minds to it.
The Tyrant Fist Sect didn’t refuse media control. The less attention the Yellow River Sect got, the easier it would be for them to swallow the Yellow River Sect’s assets. I also welcomed media control. If it was revealed that I was involved, it would become troublesome.
I could have returned to Korea right away, but I still had some business left. On the other hand, Son Ga-yeon was urgently looking for a flight to Korea.
“Sorry, my family keeps urging me to come back… I have to return home right away. What about you, Yujin?”
“I have some business with the Tyrant Fist Sect. I’ll probably return to Korea tomorrow or the day after.”
“Really? Then see you later.”
Son Ga-yeon left. I saw her off at the airport and then went to the Tyrant Fist Sect.
It had been a long time since I had met Ryu Cheong-seol and Ryu Ja-young, and I couldn’t just leave without doing anything.
When I arrived at the Tyrant Fist Sect, I faced a giant. A man with a huge height of over 2.2m. He was Ryu Gi-cheon, the head of the Tyrant Fist Sect and an S-class hunter in China. His eyes widened when he saw me.
“Is that you, the guy I saw a few years ago? You didn’t have the look of a martial artist back then, but now you’ve become a master!”
