Chapter 108
The sect leaders of the One Gate, Three Clans, and Two Manors—including Lee Jagyeom—were to each use a Three Breaths move. If Commander Seong could withstand them all, they would withdraw.
Under normal circumstances, there’d have been no reason for them to accept such a wager.
Even for martial artists, promises had their time and place.
But they had no choice.
Because beside Commander Seong stood Jang Mujin—the Hidden Hermit Swordsman.
And though faint, the patriarch of the Shin family, Shin Janghu, had also raised his sword toward Lee Jagyeom of Jeogan, prepared to stake his life.
But the crucial one was Jang Mujin.
The very same Jang Mujin who had played a final Go match with Unwi before his departure to Frozen Sea Province—and who had wished to repay that kindness.
He belonged neither to the Martial Alliance nor to the Sacheon Alliance, but even so, he declared:
“If you do not accept Commander Seong Yangho’s proposal here, then I, Jang Mujin, will declare myself an enemy of the Sacheon Alliance and kill you all.”
In the end, Lee Jagyeom of Jeogan had no choice but to accept Commander Seong’s proposal.
He had come all the way to Yangryeong and couldn’t afford to return empty-handed. And if Commander Seong were to die during the Three Breaths, they’d at least have taken out a martial artist in the Ascension Realm—so there was no loss.