Pat. Pat. Pat. Pat.
There was a human figure flying fast like a swallow. Although the face and the body were covered with a mask and the clothes, they fit tightly, revealing the curves of the body.
Tatak!
The figure staggered as they quickly made their way through the forest. Their breathing felt rough, and the strides felt like they had been going for too long which made their legs tremble.
Ugh… I couldn’t get away still.
It was Seo Ryeong.
A little while ago, tired from overworking, she felt it when she was asked for help.
There was this stranger hovering around her. And so she got away right then.
Moving between the buildings when she ran to the roof, she used up her internal energy to use her footwork.
Yet she continued to feel insecure. The gaze that was following her still continued to follow her.
A warrior, an expert at that…
It was a level of strength she could not imagine yet.
It was her first time going through something like this. Even though she thought she was being bullied, as time went on, she felt like she could not get out the trap they laid.
Sniff!
She checked it through her nose and thought that maybe she could smell something.
But she could not smell anything. If this was a technique they used to cover up their scent, then what was this?
This time!
Pat
Making a sudden turn, she entered a pile of straw which she could see at the corner of her eyes. She definitely felt out of the place now.
The unpleasant feeling which chased her until then had vanished entirely.
“Phew.”
Seo Ryeong, who had been halfway in the straw pile, walked out cautiously. Then took her mask off and touched her forehead.
“Am I out?”
She tried to catch her breath by taking another step. There were people who were moving.
Step.
“Is that it?”
“Right. When we were in Central Plains that time, I was under Seol-hwi. And he was in charge.”
“In charge. Then why is he like this?”
“As if I know.”
“…”
These old people. No, they looked like old people.
One had this hunched back and another was talking to the other
“…Ah.”
Looking at them, Seo Ryeong groaned as she realized who one of them was. Among them, she did not know the other one, but she knew who one with the hunched back was.
Myo Hong, the Greedy Ghost.
It was said that he was one of the 12 Zodiac Warriors who was said to be the fastest in the sect.
He, who spoke of stepping back from the lines four years back and lived in recluse, seemed to be walking around for some reason.
Why are these people…
Seo Ryeong could not understand it at all. There was no time when she had gone to meet with the two men. And there were no past encounters with them either.
Even so, they were trying to pursue her and kill her.
“Hey.”
This hunchbacked old man, who was beckoning to Seo Ryeong, raised his voice enough to reach her.
“Just give up. Let us not strain the bodies of each other.”
“…Huh.”
The corner of Seo Ryeong’s lips went up. The other old man who saw it laughed and said,
“Huhu, that wench. Can she still not figure this situation out?”
The gray haired man with his teeth missing, it should be hard to laugh, but he was fine.
He was Ban Gok, and it was rumored that if he decided to follow someone, he could find them even if they were 3,000 li away with only the smell and sound of them moving.
And he was following her?
He was one who knew of the concealment technique which hid the appearance or distorted the appearance of the pursuer and a stealth technique which used nature around him to conceal his body.
In addition to being a warrior who knew the three techniques, his martial arts was at Peak Demon for a long time.
While there was a moment of stillness—
Puak!
Seo Ryeong quickly jumped and began to run from the old people with all her might.
She move around 10 feet—
“…!”
She felt something sounded awkward and she twisted her entire body at the same time. At that moment—
Dududud!
Numerous sword energy blades passed her by narrowly.
“…!”
If she tried to block or avoid them after waiting to see them, it would have been instant death for her.
“Oh! You avoided that?”
Tuk. Tak!
As she slowed down to avoid the attack, this hunched old man appeared right in front of her.
Crack
Two daggers shone. One of them was a pale jade color.
Perhaps he used his hand to win.
“Ehh. Hands shaking from old age.”
Tuk
Seo Ryeong was the opposite. At the corner of the path she had to retreat, she stood there.
“Oh, it looks much better close up. Should I not kill her and just make her my concubine?”
“You think the same?”
On the other side, Mok Hong smiled.
But before their laughter faded.
“Fuck. A twisted and deluded old man.”
“…!”
“…!”
Seo Ryeong cursed at them and raised her internal qi to her max. At the same time, she felt her senses sharpened.
Swish
The older people were both above her level.
The one second attack she did was not an energy shot but an assassination needle.
“This wench! You will come to your senses once you have your skin peeled!”
“I will break that body first!”
The first move was from Ban Guk.
Euk!
His footwork, which was well known, helped him get closer to Seo Ryeong in an instant. And there was a gleam in her palm.
“Euk!?’
Phew!
As he was about to use a technique to take her down, he was shocked. It was lately confirmed that the assassination needle from Seo Ryeong had poison in it.
“Die!’
Seo Ryeong raised her hand and the dagger in her hand cut right into the man’s head.
Puak!
The sound from it made it seem like it was a clean hit, but by the time she felt that there was no change in the expression of the old man who was hit by the dagger, she felt it.
Swish!
And the man disappeared from right in front of her.
Illusion?
Seo Ryeong looked up in an instant, and as expected the man was up. However, despite taking another dagger into her hand, she could not hit them.
It was because the hunched old man reached her.
“Kuak!”
As swift as the footwork, the momentary rush felt swifter than before.
Kakang!
She barely blocked it.
Holding the dagger in her hand, she put it at her right shoulder and left hand crossed at the time of the attack.
The old man was shocked.
“You. This woman?”
Even the old man was surprised. What Seo Ryeong just did now was Full Body Demonic Arts.
This was a martial art which specialized in defending against close range attacks.
Kakang! Kang!
She pushed the old man back, but her offense was not that good.
Trthgud!
It was because Ban Guk, who leaped into the air, was now falling down. And the crisis she was in did not break.
“Haha, haha…”
Seo Ryeong caught her breath in between.
Two old people.
Two different directions.
She had no strength left. And this was the last thing she managed to do.
Swish!
But then something shocking happened.
Swish! Pak!
“Kuak!”
“Auk!’
The old man who had reached a distance had to step back and the one in the air had jumped back three times.
Uh?
Subsequently. Two lines of energy shots hit the place they were in just a moment ago.
It was spear energy and blade energy.
“Are you fine?”
“The body?”
“Are we too late?”
Wheik
Surrounding her, three warriors came.
It was Yorim, Jeok Song, and Yong Jin.
“Everyone… what are you doing! Why aren’t you running!”
Seo Ryeong was more worried at the sight of them. The two old men were a lot stronger than them.
Even if they all fought together, they could not subdue the two.
“What good would running do, captain?”
“Well… it wouldn’t be too long before we get caught again, right?”
The voices of the party entered her ears,
“Haa…”
Seo Ryeong nodded.
If they were being targeted, then the same was bound to happen no matter where they went.
She did not know if the other units were dead or not.
“Oh you scared me.”
Perhaps because of the sudden attack, Ban Guk was patting his heart.
However, Myo Hong said looking at the men who joined the fight,
“Who are these people? He didn’t mention anything about…”
“Well… they seem pretty swift right? Honestly, I was surprised. I was told that the commander and captains from Hidden Truth… it seems like the information wasn’t all perfect.”
“Right, don’t waste the time like before and kill them at once.”
The two decided and clearly judged that they did not need to waste time around those who did not even touch Peak Demon.
It seemed like they could not have fun with so many though. Even a mouse would bite the nose of a cat when pushed too much.
“Okay then.”
Shhh.
Myo Hong gave a signal, and Ban Guk nodded.
Pat!
And then looking back again they leaped into the air towards Seo Ryeong.
“I take the lead!”
“Me too!”
Yong Jin and Jeok Song ran ahead to the enemy.
In this case, the defensive position felt better. Because the opponent was in the air, it was easy to calculate the time of attack.
But Yong Jin and Jeok Song did not know that the old men were skilled in footwork.
Swish! Pat.
Yong Jin and Jeok Song, the speed of the old men was a lot more than they expected, and they were swift.
Wheing! Hisss!
“Uh…?”
Then came this bizarre change. After the two old men struggled a few feet, they began to move again in the air.
“This..”
“Do not panic! Chase till the very end!”
Yong Jin and Jeok Song missed the target, but they did not get hit either. They too moved their bodies and immediately threw the sword energy and blade energy.
Wheeik! Ssssask!
“…!”
But here too, they felt this twist.
Ban Guk had turned his body and destroyed both the energy attacks.
“Hehehe… how dare…”
And Myo Hong approached Seo Ryeong in a relaxed manner.
Haaah!
He swung his spear swiftly from the side, but the movements of Myo Hong were swift.
“Kuak!”
Moreover, he was an expert in footwork, so he could avoid the spear, and at the same time he approached Yorim and used a palm technique. He was able to get close to the woman.
Jang!
Seo Ryeong had no intention of being taken down. So she threw something faster than before and it hit his chest.
“…Kuak!”
At that moment Myo Hong had misjudged it because he felt so confident in his footwork, he decided he could avoid anything.
As a result, several grains of sand were thrown in his face with force, and his face contorted in the pan.
He realized what this was, the Broken Soul Sand.
“This stinky bitch!”
When he realized that he was poisoned by an insignificant ant like her, his anger grew to the peak. Then, at Seo Ryeong because his last movement failed, he rushed ahead.
To grab her face and break it.
Tak
“Ah!”
But he could not succeed in it.
At a distance of exactly five feet, they retreated.
Kwaaang!
This storm of energy unlike before came right ahead of Seo Ryeong, and then there was this figure which cut in.
Seo Ryeong looked at him.
“You are…?”
One of the Seven Messengers, called as the core strength of the Earth Demon appeared here.
“Black Spear Demon Soul Ma Taryong! We finally live…”
In particular, the face of Yong Jin brightened.
He smiled and looked at the two old men.
And then his face had hardened.
These old men should be shocked.
“Hehehe.”
“We won.”
The old men were smiling. In particular the old man without teeth was smiling.
And at some point—
Sshhh
On the other side, as many as a dozen old people appeared. Unlike the two old men who came after them, they seemed very well kept.
“Elder…?”
Among them, someone mumbled after seeing the black and brown bloody clothes worn by the elders of the sect.
Right—
A dress unique to elders with white flames and black clothes.
“You did good, Myo Hong, Ban Guk.”
And the old man standing ahead seemed like the one to represent them.
Ranked 17 of Demonic Sect, and a Supreme Demon warrior—
The appearance of Jeok Su-yang, the Poison King Hall Leader.
