Translator: Wan ED/PR: Solarin
38. Youth training camp (10)
Hwang Myeong-ho’s main mansion.
Late night, a long time after Eun-ho’s descendants fell asleep.
Baek-ho sat on the sofa and stared at the hologram.
Eungwang School’s students and his friends faced crisis and were fighting, but Baek-ho couldn’t move from here.
Immediately after the Clash of Different Worlds, the instant Baek-ho informed Heavenly God that he lost his True Name, Heavenly God, in great anger branded him as ‘Prisoner of Divine Realm’ and locked him inside the divine realm.
He stayed behind under the pretext of protecting Eun-ho’s descendants and defending the divine realm, but in fact, he was left at the mansion just because he couldn’t step out of the divine realm.
…. Woof!
The Divine Beast, which couldn’t stay quiet at Baek-ho’s feet and was circling around, clung onto Baek-ho’s leg.
It seemed that the Divine Beast was curious if there weren’t any new news.
However, because no report came yet, Baek-ho had no way to calm the Divine Beast’s mind.
“If you’re so worried, why you didn’t send him off?”
Keuk….
The Divine Beast moaned as if it was bothered that it couldn’t send off Jo Uisin, who was going to face danger.
Baek-ho spoke coldly.
“If you want to be of help to Jo Uisin, recover your strength quickly. The current you cannot be sent outside the divine realm.”
The Divine Beast, who heard those words, contemplated, and then ran with weak steps.
In its teeth, the Divine Beast held one of the elixir pouches, made by the Nok tribe, which were abandoned in the drawing room from the day Jo Uisin visited.
“Decided to drink it?”
Woof!
After Baek-ho, who heard the Divine Beast’s reply, opened the pouch and poured the elixir into the bowl, the potent smell waffled over.
For a moment, the Divine Beast staggered, but it put its nose into it with a resolute face and started to drink.
“Okay, drink it all.”
As if the elixir’s flavor was difficult to bear, the Divine Beast stopped drinking for short moments, to howl and prick its ears, or to straighten its tail and tremble.
Baek-ho observed the Divine Beast’s battle, neither urging nor encouraging it.
When the Divine Beast drank the entire elixir, without leaving behind a single drop, Baek-ho gave it its favorite snack and petted its head.
***
The most powerful character among the characters recorded in the Player’s Trajectory was the ultimate version of Baek Ho-gun.
But the power matched the risk.
The ultimate version of Baek Ho-gun, in which the debuff of ‘Wrath of Heavenly God’ disappeared, was usable for only 3 seconds.
But the possible usage time in the ordinary mode with the debuff was longer.
At least long enough to be used against that Ung.
Paaa!
Today the moon was particularly bright, but the radiant brilliance of the light was so dazzling it dispersed the moonlight.
The light of permission bestowed by Heavenly God flooded the surroundings.
“This- this is the light of Heavenly God…!”
The right hand of the Ung tribe’s head was shocked.
He, who sent unceasing and heavy attacks, stopped for a moment for the first time.
“Did the Heavenly God bestowed a blessing to a human? Could it be? There is no way that Heavenly God has the energy to spare on something like that!… Wait, Jin? You were a human until a moment ago, how are you displaying the power of a Jin now!?”
His face gradually distorted.
“… No, if ‘something like that’ happened, then there should be a way for ‘opposite of that’, right?”
‘Something like that’? ‘Opposite of that’?
I heard the words I couldn’t comprehend, but it was not a time to relax and ask about such things.
‘I’ll hear the details of the story when I’m done!’
Claang!
The Nine Iron Teeth Rake’s black teeth and the great sword the Ung tribe’s right hand lifted, clashed and a shock wave exploded.
But the shock wave, emitted by his great sword, was suppressed by Baek Ho-gun’s superpower wave and could no longer harm me.
Cling, cling-cling-cling…!
As the Nine Iron Teeth Rake and great sword clashed without leaving a gap, the sound of metal rang out.
The quality of my and that guy’s superpower wave, and our physical strength, were equal.
‘If so, it’s enough for me to overpower him!’
It was an ‘equal’ situation, as I currently could use but one hand only, as I was supporting Sawol Seeum with the other.
At the time when I trained at the Silver Training (Eunryeon) Hall, to raise my proficiency and hear the Nine Iron Teeth Rake’s voice, Baek Ho-gun faced me with one hand, to ‘look after me’.
I saw enough of the methods of one-handed combat to be sick of it.
If I’m not outmatched in terms of strength, then it was no different from winning.
Claaaang!
It was the Ung tribe head’s right hand, who swung his great sword first to widen the distance.
He swung the great sword and sped up the fierce attack, but a knife-like wind emitted by the Nine Iron Teeth Rake, which knocked off the blade of the incoming great sword, cut his cheek.
Swish!
Droplets of blood flowed from the wound, which looked as if he cut himself with a razor, and dripped down his cheek.
The Ung, which saw the first blood, pounced at me with a blend of confusion and rage in his eyes.
I adjusted my grip on the Nine Iron Teeth Rake and lightly responded, holding the rake askew.
Claaang! Clang! Claang!
A sharp and heavy sound rang out as the blades met again a few times.
While swinging, swirling and paring with the Nine Iron Teeth Rake, which felt a few times lighter than usual, I gradually narrowed the distance.
Between dark sparks jumping from the two blades, our eyes met.
“… It’s not a great sword, so I recognized it late, eh? You’re a bastard who studied under Baek-ho, huh!”
Did this opponent know Baek Ho-gun?
But it would be stranger if the Ung tribe’s head’s right hand, who had been in this world for over five thousand years, didn’t meet with Baek Ho-gun even once.
“I already expected one of the Ho tribe bastards to come out here…! But why are you holding a fork and not a great sword!?”
By all odds, it seemed that this guy thought about me as a Ho, who was Baek Ho-gun’s disciple.
But the fact that he couldn’t recognize Taishang Laojun’s treasure, though the Nine Iron Teeth Rake’s appearance changed quite a bit, when I heard its voice, was considerably embarrassing.
He was deluding himself on his own, but I decided not to trouble myself with correcting him.
“There is no reason to answer.”
“… I’ll make you open that arrogant mouth.”
I saw the Ung, who fell for my provocation, gather the superpower wave.
It seemed that he planned to activate a derivative skill of Swordsmanship or some lethal move to deal damage with one hit.
He thought of capturing me perfectly, in exchange for giving up on a secret move.
Saaa…..!
The vortex of the wind and superpower wave concentrated on the Ung’s great sword.
I held the Nine Iron Teeth Rake, but I didn’t actively take a defensive posture.
“Toothless white tiger’s greenhorn, will you be able to take my technique?!”
When the superpower wave’s current reached its peak.
I didn’t miss the moment and activated Baek Ho-gun’s skill.
⟨Using active character’s skill ‘Brilliant Gaze’.⟩
The phrase different from the message ‘⟨Skill ‘Brilliant Gaze’ activated.⟩’, which opened when I was using ‘Brilliant Gaze’ as Jo Uisin, floated up, and the superpower wave started to gather in my eyes.
Kwaaa!
In the vision that turned white, I could clearly discern the prey.
In that changed vision, it seemed that the time was passing particularly slowly around me.
‘This is level 10 of Brilliant Gaze, huh…!’
That level’s output couldn’t be compared to my Brilliant Gaze.
In addition to stopping the careless Ung’s movements, I could clearly see the opponent’s weak points.
“Uh, how is there this much power in Brilliant Gaze!”
As the Ung loaded the superpower wave, which he had wrapped around himself for a basic body protection, into the great sword, he couldn’t move.
When fighting a Ho tribe member, he should be keeping in mind the existence of Brilliant Gaze, but he wouldn’t anticipate I would be operating the Brilliant Gaze of the Myth category Ho’s standard.
“Keuk…!”
The movements of the Ung, who took the Brilliant Gaze with his body, noticeably slowed down.
Now came a choice.
Should I aim for his vital points and activate a fork?
Or should I use Baek Ho-gun’s Gwangrim and summon the special weapon to hunt Ung, ‘Bear Hunting Claw’?
If I summon Bear Hunting Claw, the available time usage of the Player’s Trajectory will be drastically decrease, but if I could make that guy incapable of combat, it wasn’t a bad choice.
‘There are many things I have to hear. I can’t let him die until he is incapable of combat and opens his mouth.’
I brought the Nine Iron Teeth Rake to Ung’s neck.
As I prepared to activate the Forking, the Nine Iron Teeth Rake hummed in response.
I saw the Ung, who sensed a high density superpower wave forming on the blades, grit his teeth.
“Drop the weapon.”
“Ku-euuk, kuahaha! You not only resemble that white tiger in the eyes but also in softness, huh…!”
He was teasing his stupid mouth, as it fell outside the Brilliant Gaze’s range.
As if he didn’t get the position of the Ung tribe’s head’s right hand for nothing, he didn’t drop his weapon until the very end.
Seeing how the strength entered his frozen joints, he was clearly showing intention to attack, even if he was seriously injured, the moment I release Brilliant Gaze.
“Keuh, hey, what you think you’re going to do? I won’t drop my weapon!”
What to do? Should I shoot him with a fork and leave him half-dead?
As Zhu Ganglie was hit by the fork and endured, this guy probably wouldn’t die even if he had been hit by the fork.
When I was about to activate Forking.
A flash of light passed before my eyes.
Uuduk!
Shining golden mana swirled violently and swallowed the Ung’s right arm.
“…!”
The sleeve was fine, but as the content wasn’t, blood and mangled flesh were visible under the long sleeve.
Even though the Ung wriggled in pain, his scream was swallowed.
Thanks to his right arm being crushed, his great sword fell and rolled on the ground, and the superpower accumulated in the great sword dispersed.
“If you’re not going to drop your weapon, then I can destroy your arm, eh?”
In the darkness, I saw the golden eyes and hair shine.
It was Hwang Jiho.
“You, you…!”
“Long time no see, impostor. I knew well that you don’t know shame and are impudent, but you also have no fear, huh? You’re still holding a great sword to play Baek-ho’s imitation? With such poor imitation, you’re aiming for a divine realm student?”
Looking at his wide open mouth, I guess he had no idea Hwang Jiho would come to this training camp.
Actually, it was hard to think that the indifferent to the worldly affairs and lazy head of the Ho tribe, would be playing hard under the status of a student.
“He is not Baek-ho’s official disciple. Not to mention reaching Baek-ho’s level, you were outdone by a human, who sparred with him only a few times.”
“Human? You’re saying this is a human?!”
“A bear barking sounds is so unpleasant, eh?”
Uuduuk!
Golden mana crushed Ung’s left leg.
According to Hwang Jiho’s intentions, the Ung shut his mouth.
Even though his arm and leg ended in such a state when he was fully conscious, I could clearly see the impostor bluffing to not scream in front of the tiger.
The Ung couldn’t open his mouth anymore and was just glaring at Hwang Jiho with eyes full of loathing.
‘But you meant that by impostor?!’
It was ridiculous to call it Baek Ho-gun’s imitation.
The great sword art of that bastard called the Ung tribe’s head’s right-hand man, was worthless compared to the skill of Baek Ho-gun who he saw on the smartphone and personally faced against in the Silver Training (Eunryeon) Hall.
The only point of similarity was that he was also holding a great sword.
It was quite a shame. If only Baek Ho-gun didn’t have a brand of the divine realm’s prisoner, he would come here to educate him.
‘I should have beat him up before Hwang Jiho came.’
When I couldn’t repress my regrets, Hwang Jiho used a violent method of tightening the Ung’s neck with mana and blocking his windpipe, to make him faint.
Seeing the Ung completely unconscious, I released my Gwangrim and applied homeostasis with the recovery item, when a pricking gaze poured at me.
Hwang Jiho, who confirmed that the bleeding on my right arm and left leg stopped, spoke:
“.. Let’s join Jeok-ho, Kim Sinrok and that game dragon.”
Hwang Jiho dragged the Ung on the ground with mana, while he walked ahead of me.
“Jo Uisin, when this ends, we will have a lot to talk about.”
“… Talk about what?”
I think I knew what words would come out, but I was troubled to ask myself.
“About the reason why the Heavenly God’s light descended from the sky and you using Baek-ho’s power.”
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Translator’s note: … Jo Uisin’s right arm and left leg were hurt. Hwang-ho crushed the Ung’s right arm and left leg… … …
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