FS-novel Chapter 248 : The Last Command
Chapter 248 : The Last Command
“He’s here… he’s here!”
The curved swords in Akdongji’s hands trembled.
At that sight, Churyeonghoe also became tense.
No, in the first place, dozens of swords were floating in the sky as if they had their own will.
Would there be any martial artist who wouldn’t be mesmerized by that magnificent sight?
“What, what the hell… is that bastard?”
“It’s the Flying… Sword Ghost.”
The men of the heretic path were greatly surprised when they recognized Jin Sohyun.
The Flying Sword Ghost, who was known to have been defeated by the Blood Demon, seriously injured, and had fled, had returned to the battlefield.
Jin Sohyun’s eyes were directed at Ma Seongun and Cheon Yerang, who was in front of him.
“Are you concerned about this girl?”
Ma Seongun asked and stretched out his hand towards Cheon Yerang.
“Then take her.”
“I will.”
Ma Seongun’s eyes widened slightly.
Because Jin Sohyun, who had been far away, had appeared in front of him.
‘He’s gotten faster.’
Jin Sohyun, who was already fast with the Shadowless Ghost’s Shadowless Divine Step, had become even faster.
He held Cheon Yerang and appeared where Cheon Gasung and Cheon Yusin were.
“Here.”
“Ah, th-thank you.”
The White Sword Unit Leader, So Wigyeon, received Cheon Yerang from Jin Sohyun and had a dazed expression.
“Young Master Jin.”
Cheon Yerang called Jin Sohyun to say something, but he had already left.
Jin Sohyun’s next destination was where the Five Evils were gathered.
“Uncle Namgung…”
Jin Sohyun stood in front of Namgung Muhyeok, who was standing with a hole in his body.
Although Masok, Churyeonghoe, and Akdongji were on both sides of him, he didn’t seem to care.
‘He’s fast!’
The Five Evils were astonished at Jin Sohyun’s unbelievable speed, and they had to grip their weapons and raise their internal energy without even realizing it.
Their thoughts were the same.
‘I have to kill him in one breath.’
Pride was not important.
To survive, they had to kill Jin Sohyun here and now.
And the beginning of that was Akdongji.
He spread his curved swords in both hands and let out a strange cry.
“Jin Sohyun!”
To forget his fear, Akdongji shouted Jin Sohyun’s name and rushed in.
The two curved swords fiercely rushed in and tried to press down on Jin Sohyun’s shoulders.
At the same time, the man who held a thrown spear like Masok, Giyangil, once again raised his thrown spear and raised his internal energy.
‘I will kill the Flying Sword Ghost and be recognized.’
Giyangil resented Masok, who did not recognize him.
That’s why he held his thrown spear and aimed at Jin Sohyun.
It was to thrust the thrown spear into the gap created by Akdongji’s attack, just as when he had defeated Namgung Muhyeok.
‘Now!’
Giyangil aimed for the moment Jin Sohyun blocked Akdongji’s attack and sent his spear flying.
Of course, Churyeonghoe and Masok were not just playing around either.
They too had finished their preparations to attack Jin Sohyun, following Akdongji.
Masok held his spear.
Churyeonghoe was about to play the zither she was carrying on her back instead of the bell.
All of this happened as naturally as flowing water.
“Hyaap!”
Just as Akdongji’s slash was about to reach Jin Sohyun’s body, a sword fell from the sky.
The sword, which fell like a thunderbolt, pierced Akdongji’s solar plexus and went on to pierce the thrown spear that Giyangil had sent.
The spear, made of mixed black iron, was shattered like bamboo, and the sword was stuck in the ground only after piercing Giyangil’s chest.
Only one sword was needed to kill Akdongji, one of the Five Demon Fiends, and Giyangil, who had killed numerous righteous path martial artists with the Dragon Throwing Killing Fiend’s spear throwing technique.
“Keu… keueuk…”
Jin Sohyun passed by the slowly falling Akdongji.
Until then, Masok and Churyeonghoe could not dare to move.
Gulp—!
Dry saliva was swallowed on its own, and the heart pounded fast.
Thump— thump—!
Every time Jin Sohyun got closer, their hearts pounded even harder.
So much so that Churyeonghoe had to grab her heart and let out a painful breath.
Jin Sohyun, who had passed even Masok and Churyeonghoe, faced Namgung Muhyeok.
“Uncle.”
Namgung Muhyeok’s faded gaze followed Jin Sohyun.
“Let’s go.”
Jin Sohyun supported Namgung Muhyeok and turned around.
The place his feet were heading to was where Namgung Seoru and Namgung Seong were.
“There’s no time. Go find a doctor as soon as possible.”
Namgung Seoru hurriedly nodded her head and tried to leave the battlefield with Namgung Seong, supporting Namgung Muhyeok.
The men of the heretic path, who could not just let them go, blocked their path, but swords fell like thunderbolts on the heads of the men of the heretic path who were blocking the way.
Kwang— kwang—!!
The swords, which contained the power of the Explosive Flying Sword, blew away dozens of men of the heretic path in a single breath.
“Damn it!”
“Get away!”
Following the path that Jin Sohyun had made, Namgung Seoru and Namgung Seong left the battlefield, supporting Namgung Muhyeok.
Following that, Jin Sohyun looked around the battlefield widely.
“…”
He didn’t know exactly what had happened, but he felt like he knew to some extent.
‘I was late.’
The Heretic Path's Alliance Leader had warned Jin Sohyun using Wiso.
That if he was late, many people would die.
He had run without a break after hearing the warning, but he was late.
By the time Jin Sohyun arrived, numerous righteous path martial artists had already been incinerated in the huge explosion.
Jin Sohyun stared at the hand of a dead martial artist buried in the ground.
Until the moment of death.
The martial artist had not let go of his sword.
“You’ve worked hard.”
Jin Sohyun took the sword held in the dead martial artist’s hand in his place.
He was not the only one who had died holding a sword.
Numerous righteous path martial artists who had gone to war with the sole intention of protecting the righteous martial world had not let go of their weapons until the moment they died.
Jin Sohyun picked up the swords that contained their will one by one.
The number grew from one to ten.
As it grew from ten to twenty, the number of swords following behind Jin Sohyun gradually increased.
“Ma Seongun.”
With the will of the righteous path martial artists in both hands.
Jin Sohyun and Ma Seongun faced each other in the middle of the battlefield.
“You don’t die unless your neck is completely cut off, do you?”
He had clearly cut about half of Ma Seongun’s neck.
No matter how strong a martial artist was, with a wound like that, he would have had to recuperate as if he were dead for several months.
But Ma Seongun showed a recovery power that was on a different level from other martial artists.
“You should know by now.”
Ma Seongun said.
“That as long as one of us, you and I, is alive, this fight will not end.”
Jin Sohyun nodded his head.
As Ma Seongun had said, as long as one of them did not completely disappear.
Their fight and the war between the righteous and heretic paths would not end.
“You’re late, Jin Sohyun.”
At that moment, Ju Cheon appeared on the deeply dug pit.
He appeared with the martial artists of the alliance and clapped his hands.
“I finally see your face.”
“Heretic Path's Alliance Leader.”
Ju Cheon personally came down into the pit and walked.
It was a heavy yet light step.
Ju Cheon stood next to Ma Seongun, faced Jin Sohyun, and said as if he were impressed.
“I think I know why our Great General Manager tried so hard to kill you.”
A huge pressure that he had not felt even when the entire righteous martial world had attacked was felt from a single martial artist.
“I think I also know why Ma Seongun was obsessed with you.”
Jin Sohyun raised his flying sword as if he had nothing more to say.
At that, Ju Cheon shook his head and raised both hands.
“The war ends here.”
“What?”
“You are surely strong. But… do you think you can fight and win against all of us?”
Behind Ju Cheon, the martial artists of the Heretic Path's Alliance were intact.
The poison men of the Poison Sect were still emitting a strong poisonous qi.
And there were still four of the Five Evils left.
“What is standing in front of you is the entire heretic martial world.”
As Ju Cheon had said, what Jin Sohyun had to face alone was the heretic martial world itself.
Nevertheless, Jin Sohyun did not retreat.
Rather, he gripped his sword even tighter.
Someone approached Jin Sohyun’s side.
“It won’t be a big help… but I’ll join you.”
It was Moyong Susu.
She was not the only one.
Peng Sopyeong, Zhuge Myeong, Hyeok’ugun, Oh Seolhwa. Unbang, Godurim. Sangsuk, Yu Oseon. Mujin, Dohye.
The disciples of the Blue Dragon Daoist Temple and the White Tiger Daoist Temple stood with Jin Sohyun.
Following them, the few surviving righteous path masters, including Gu Daepil, stood shoulder to shoulder with Jin Sohyun.
“I am the sect leader of the Beggars' Sect, Gu Daepil.”
“I am Jin Sohyun.”
“Young Master Jin…”
“Fortunately… you are safe.”
Although his appearance did not match the word ‘safe’, Hwang Jichun was alive anyway.
The surviving group of the righteous path joined Jin Sohyun.
Nevertheless, they were still no match for the heretic path.
Tadat—!
At that moment, a group of martial artists came running from the north.
They were the martial artists of the Qingcheng Sect and the Emei Sect, including Cheongheo Jinren and Jeongu Satae.
“Young Master Jin! You are safe!”
Cheongheo Jinren joined Jin Sohyun with a bright face.
Following them, as Jeongu Satae and the nuns of the Demon Subduing Sword joined, the power of the few righteous path martial artists increased slightly.
The newly joined martial artists were not all of them.
Wanderer appeared.
In the past, they were people who had tried to kill Jin Sohyun and the Blue Dragon disciples, but now their blades were aimed at the heretic path, not the righteous path.
And at their center were Wiso and the Hao Sect.
Following them, bandits holding flags, unlike their usual selves, appeared one after another.
The flag of the Green Forest fluttered in the wind, and numerous bandits appeared with Kang Seopyeong in the lead, swinging axes and broadswords.
“The Green Forest is here too!”
Kang Seopyeong discovered Jin Sohyun standing on the battlefield and laughed loudly.
“Hahaha! Yes, there’s no way our general fortress master would have died so easily.”
Kang Seopyeong, who had come running in a single breath, stood next to Jin Sohyun, just like Gu Daepil.
And so the few surviving righteous path martial artists and the young late-stage prospects.
The Hao Sect and the wanderer.
Even the bandits of the Green Forest.
People who could never get along became one and gathered their strength.
Ju Cheon, who was watching this, looked at Jin Sohyun with a strange gaze.
“Isn’t it amazing, Ma Seongun.”
“…”
“People who don’t get along like water and oil have gathered for just one person. They have raised their swords to fight, even though they know they can’t win.”
For just one person. And because they believe in him.
“Retreat. This is my last command to you.”
“……!”
Ma Seongun glared at Ju Cheon, flashing a deep blood-red light.
Although it was a gaze that felt like he would kill him right away, Ju Cheon didn’t care.
“Retreat. I will create a bigger and more splendid stage for you.”
“This is the last time. Never again… command me.”
“Of course.”
Ma Seongun glared at Jin Sohyun once and then turned his back and left the battlefield.
At this, as Jin Sohyun took a step forward, Ju Cheon stretched out his hand and stopped him.
“I know you want revenge, but as you know, once a fight starts, everyone except you will… die.”
Jin Sohyun could not refute his words.
In fact, if a fight started and he was fighting Ma Seongun, it was clear that all the remaining people would die.
But that point confused Jin Sohyun even more.
“You know that and you’re just going to let us go?”
“If you hadn’t appeared, I would have killed everyone here. But since you have appeared… I am trying to stop the fight. If I fight you like this, the heretic martial world will suffer damage that is difficult to recover from.”
“Is that the reason?”
“Hahaha!! Of course not.”
Ju Cheon, who had been laughing loudly, smiled slyly and said.
“Because that seems more fun.”
Jin Sohyun, who did not like Ju Cheon, who played with people’s lives for fun, gripped his sword tightly.
“Listen carefully, hero. Until now, we were the challengers, but now it is your turn to challenge us. Do you want revenge? Do you want to drive the heretic path out of the Central Plains? Then… challenge us. Not in a state of being wounded, bleeding, and broken… but in a state of being fully prepared, challenge me and the Heretic Path's Alliance.”
With these words, Ju Cheon turned around with his hands behind his back.
Following him, the men of the heretic path also began to slowly retreat.
Jin Sohyun gripped his sword tightly as he watched the retreating Ju Cheon.
‘Is it right to let him go here?’
What if more people die in the subsequent fights?
What if he can no longer stop Ma Seongun?
These worries led Jin Sohyun.
The moment Jin Sohyun, who had made up his mind, stretched out his left foot, a familiar voice was heard from behind him.
“Jin Sohyun!”
Jin Sohyun, who had turned around at the call, was able to face Gwak Myeong, who had appeared in a battered state.
“Retreat for now…!”
“But!”
“No! There is something you need to know.”
Gwak Myeong grabbed Jin Sohyun’s shoulders with both hands and said earnestly.
“Believe me… the words I am about to tell you… are much more important than the current fight.”
At Gwak Myeong’s earnest request, Jin Sohyun had no choice but to put down the sword he was holding.
The winter wind passed by Jin Sohyun.
On the battlefield where the heretic path had left, only the corpses of the dead remained quietly.
And three months passed.
(End of Chapter)