Chapter 288 : Jaseung, Truly Finishes It
Chapter 288: Jaseung, Truly Finishes It
Those were mechanisms from hell.
Every time they passed a hallway, every time they turned a corner, a victim inevitably appeared.
When the group that started with fifty arrived in front of the building’s main hall, only fifteen remained.
Considering the martial prowess of his subordinates, it was too great a sacrifice.
It was because they had faced only mechanisms, not even people. It was the result of forcing a breakthrough to avoid stalling for time.
Mountain did not regret the sacrifice of his subordinates.
This fight was a race against time.
If reinforcements came or if Lee Jaseung arrived here, everything would be at an end.
He had to kidnap Lee Jaseung’s child before then. As long as he could secure the child, it did not matter if all his subordinates died.
No, rather, it might be better if these bastards all died. The fewer people who knew the secret, the better.
“There is an entrance leading to the basement in the main hall.”
Mountain entered the main hall while receiving guidance from the subordinate who reported.
An unexpected person was waiting there.
It was none other than Rain. Mountain was momentarily startled by his unexpected appearance, but soon asked with a sneering expression.
“Have you come to stop me?”
“Yes.”
“Lee Jaseung forgot about me, and I forgot about you huh.”
Those words felt as if he were asking, ‘Now what are you forgetting about?’
“Move aside.”
“I cannot do that.”
Himself, Water, and Water’s older brother, Ho Yeonshin, were in a state of having consumed the poison Lee Jaseung gave.
If he did not stop Mountain in a situation where he was trying to kidnap Lee Jaseung’s child, he would be killed by Lee Jaseung immediately, let alone getting the antidote.
But if he blocked him, Lee Jaseung would let them live.
This matter was the last chance to escape from the affairs entangled with Lee Jaseung and Mountain.
“I already knew you were a traitor.”
“You knew... then why did you just leave me be?”
Mountain spoke with an angry expression.
“Because I did not know you would stand in my way. Just what is the reason?”
His words were right. If it were his former self, he would not have stood in the way even if he could not obtain the antidote.
But now was different from then.
Water. He wanted to save her.
He wanted to save Water and wanted himself to live as well. After, he wanted to build a remaining life with Water.
“I intended to kill you after this matter ended anyway.”
Rain’s heart ached because he knew Mountain’s coldly spat words were sincere.
When Mountain gave an order to the men standing behind him, ten of them stepped forward.
The skill of one was clearly weaker than Rain’s.
But they were skilled enough to sufficiently kill Rain if ten of them joined in a concentrated attack.
“Eliminate him and follow immediately.”
Mountain walked away coldly. He decorated the end by not even giving a single glance.
Mountain was angry. He was angrier at the fact that he missed such a possibility than the fact that he was blocked at such an important moment.
Rain felt conflicted in his own way. It was because he did not know it would end in this way with him, at the very least.
Ten men surrounded Rain. They intended to join in an attack and hack him to pieces with ten swords.
It was right then.
Swish, swish, swish-swish!
Hidden weapons flew in from their left and right. Three men fell to the fast and powerful hidden weapons.
The startled men turned their bodies toward the direction the hidden weapons flew from.
Rain threw his body without missing that chance.
Rain’s sword went to pierce the chest of the man standing in front.
Clang, clang!
The man drew his sword and blocked Rain’s attack.
The other men could not help their comrade. A man and a woman had lunged from the left and right where the hidden weapons had flown from.
Seven against three.
Not to mention Rain, the man and woman who lunged to help him were also superior in skill to Mountain’s subordinates. In particular, the skill of the man who intruded was overwhelming.
They were not a trio that could be handled by a number of seven.
One by one, the men fell. Every time one fell, the speed at which the next fell gradually increased, and before long, all ten men fell as corpses.
It was a natural result. The man and woman who helped Rain were Water and her older brother, Ho Yeonshin.
“Are you okay?”
Rain nodded at Water’s question.
This time, she spoke to Ho Yeonshin.
“Thank you, brother.”
One person entered the place where the fight had ended.
It was Dan Woobin.
“Here is the promised antidote.”
Arriving here, Dan Woobin had not simply stayed hidden just because it was a hideout. While maintaining the mechanisms, he was using the Three Eyed Pavilion to meticulously observe not only Lee Jaseung’s fight at the Murim Alliance but also Mountain’s movements.
When he received a report that Mountain had summoned his remaining subordinates, Dan Woobin immediately made contact with Rain and Water.
He set the condition that he would give the antidote if they helped him.
The three people had rushed over immediately and performed the roles they were assigned brilliantly.
Dan Woobin disappeared through another passage immediately.
Now only three people remained in that place.
“Brother, I will give my farewells here. Please be at peace.”
Water intended to leave the Jianghu together with Rain just like this.
Ho Yeonshin looked at Rain with a slightly disapproving gaze. Even though he was the person his younger sister liked, for some reason, he wasn’t fond of him. Well, he probably would not like any man who came for her.
“Live happily and well.”
“I will visit you some time in the future.”
“Right.”
Water smiled and reached her hand out to Rain.
“Let us go.”
Rain held that hand and glanced at the passage where Mountain had disappeared. A thought occurred for a moment whether it was okay to just go like this, but the quick witted Water read that heart.
“It is a matter out of our hands now. Let us just go.”
Rain nodded. He was a person too soft even compared to her. He intended to live while listening well to her words from now on. That would be a wise life.
He was so grateful to Ho Yeonshin for letting him leave with his sister so obediently.
“Thank you, brother-in-law. I will surely visit next time.”
Ho Yeonshin nodded without a word.
Rain and Water left that place first.
Ho Yeonshin, left alone, let out a light sigh.
He also wanted to just leave. He wanted to forget the Heavenly Demon Sect and the Nine Divine Demonic Arts and go to a place where no one knew him to live ordinarily.
He had no confidence in learning the Nine Divine Demonic Arts to grand mastery, and even if he learned it, he had no confidence in reviving the Heavenly Demon Sect.
But... he also did not have the courage to leave.
He walked away from that place with heavy footsteps.
* * *
Mountain said nothing throughout the time he descended to the basement via the mechanism.
‘There is still a chance of winning.’
The experts he was currently carrying were five.
Shortly after, about ten experts would join after taking the next mechanism.
If there were fifteen, he would be able to face almost any enemy.
As long as Lee Jaseung’s daughter was down here.
When the mechanism opened, a hallway unfolded again.
‘These tiresome mechanisms.’
In the process of reaching the door at the end of the hallway, three more people lost their lives.
Before long, Mountain opened the door and entered.
The baby was there.
But despair filled Mountain’s face.
“Just how?”
The person holding the baby was precisely Lee Jaseung.
“Are you asking how I arrived faster than the message? That’s because I ran faster than the message, of course.”
The thought occurred that there was no way that could be the case.
‘Is it perhaps a fake?’
But since Lee Jaseung could completely hide his presence, one could not grasp the truth through the opponent’s presence.
It was right then.
Another person walked out from one side. It was Baek Seolyoung.
Upon seeing her, Mountain despaired. As for Lee Jaseung, there could be a fake since he was the Alliance Leader, but there was no way there was a fake of her too. The distrust remaining in his heart vanished cleanly.
Since Lee Jaseung had come, everything had come to naught.
Even Dan Woobin entered that place.
“I have eliminated everyone who was on the upper floor.”
At his report, all hope vanished.
“Please spare us.”
Lee Jaseung’s gaze glanced at Mountain’s subordinates and he spoke.
“Whom?”
Mountain knew well what that meant.
Swoosh, swish.
Mountain swung his sword consecutively. The remaining two subordinates fell while bleeding. He was truly one who regarded his subordinates as consumables.
Mountain looked at Lee Jaseung and spoke.
“Me, please let me live.”
Dan Woobin, who was watching, spoke coldly.
“You have lots of yearning for life I see.”
The warriors of the Black Way Alliance who were standing by came out and pressed his blood points.
In an instant, suspicion brushed through Mountain’s mind.
‘Why did he not suppress the blood points personally?’
If it were Lee Jaseung, he would have suppressed him by flying a finger wind with the flick of a finger.
‘Because he is holding the baby?’
The thought occurred that perhaps that was the case.
Just then, Lee Jaseung handed the baby to Baek Seolyoung. Baek Seolyoung, who received the baby, walked with hurried steps toward the place she had entered from.
Then Mountain shouted.
“Wait!”
Baek Seolyoung stopped her steps. Mountain, who was looking at her, stared wide eyed.
“You’re a fake!”
The appearance of Baek Seolyoung holding the baby was somehow awkward. Not suppressing the blood points personally earlier was also strange.
Riiiiiip.
Lee Jaseung peeled off the human skin mask from his face. Inside was a completely different person with a similar skeletal structure. He was precisely an individual acting as the fake Lee Jaseung.
The Baek Seolyoung who was next to him was also the same. She was also a fake. She had learned almost everything about her perfectly, but she had not been able to learn even the act of holding a baby.
Dan Woobin scolded Mountain with an angry face.
“Did you think you could just come in and take her if the Alliance Leader and the Great Lady were not here? Just how do you see me?”
Mountain distorted his face.
“Dammit! Dammit all!”
Dan Woobin nodded once to the woman who had taken the role of Baek Seolyoung instead.
She moved her steps again while holding Seol.
Then Mountain spoke as if shouting.
“If you move even one step, everyone dies!”
Red energy flowed from Mountain’s body and even his two pupils began to be dyed red.
He was trying to use a self destruction technique.
Dan Woobin was startled. It was because one could not use a self destruction technique while having one’s blood points suppressed.
Yet it was possible. Mountain’s last card, the only move one could use even if inner Qi was suppressed; its power was enough to blow this entire space away.
“Everyone commit suicide before I blow it all up right now! If you commit suicide, the baby lives!”
Dan Woobin realized that it was not a simple threat.
“Now!”
Startled by the momentum of trying to blow it up at any moment, Dan Woobin shouted.
“No! I will commit suicide! So stop!”
There was no time to think. Even if he died, he had to save Seol for now. Believing that Lee Jaseung would save her later.
Dan Woobin raised his hand and tried to strike his own crown. The rest of the fake warriors also raised their hands.
A touch and go situation! But then, a low single word was heard from behind.
“Just tell him to blow up.”
Everyone was startled and looked at the place the sound came from.
Lee Jaseung was walking into that place.
“Aaaaah! My Lord!”
Dan Woobin shouted in delight. Truly, it felt like grabbing a lifeline in a pit falling into hell.
Mountain, who sensed that the opponent was the real Lee Jaseung, shouted paroxysmally in terror.
“I’m really going to blow up!”
“I said go ahead.”
“Hmph! You think I cannot blow it up? Don’t make me laugh! No matter if it is you, you will not be able to protect everyone. Hmph! Whom do you intend to save and whom do you intend to kill?”
Dan Woobin shouted.
“My Lord, save only Seol!”
The fake Lee Jaseung and fake Baek Seolyoung shouted in succession.
“We are okay.”
“It is an honor to die like this!”
Mountain spoke with a sneer.
“Hehe, you will kill your subordinates to save your child. Selfish bastard!”
Mountain’s two eyes became redder. He activated the self destruction technique. Since Lee Jaseung appeared, he could not survive now anyway.
Naturally, he would save the baby.
It was regrettable to die like this, but he would have to be satisfied with dying together with that strategist bastard and the fake pair.
Then, Lee Jaseung spat out words of unknown meaning.
“I will save you.”
“What?”
The next moment.
A transparent protective Qi barrier was created around Mountain’s body.
The moment he realized Lee Jaseung’s intention, Mountain’s expression was viciously distorted.
“Aaaaaaaah! No!”
Booooooom!
Shortly after, the self destruction technique was activated.
Along with an ear splitting explosion, Mountain’s body was shattered to pieces. Due to the aftermath of the explosion, the barrier stretched like rubber.
But despite the incredible power, it could not pierce the barrier Lee Jaseung made. The protective barrier surrounded to protect Mountain had conversely become a barrier protecting everyone.
Ssssss.
When the protective barrier vanished, Mountain’s corpse, which had scattered into a blood clot, fell to the floor.
Lee Jaseung spoke while looking down at the floor cluttered in red.
“I would have let you live if you had aimed for me.”
But!
Lee Jaseung walked with long strides and hugged Seol.
Seol was smiling broadly inside the swaddling cloth.
Lee Jaseung looked at Dan Woobin and spoke.
“Thank you, Seol lived thanks to you.”
If he had not called Rain and Water and deceived Mountain’s eyes with fakes, his daughter would have been kidnapped by Mountain.
“No way. You’re the one who saved her, my Lord.”
But Dan Woobin felt quite proud inside.
Shortly after, Baek Seolyoung jumped into that place.
Looking at the situation in the arena, she let out a sigh of relief.
Baek Seolyoung spoke with a smile.
“She’s your daughter alright, she is already having such a thrilling experience huh.”
Then Lee Jaseung spoke with a smile while looking at Seol.
“You mean because she is our daughter.”
Lee Jaseung’s face while looking at the child was full of happiness.
For Seol’s happiness, he would accomplish everything no matter how arduous a task it might be.
Please grow up well and healthily.