312. Frostbitten Dream (Complete)
People with different interests gather to protect their country.
Among them were leaders from each country that Zeto had passed through.
“What do you think, uncle? Do you think Yi Shai will be able to untie ‘that knot’ this time?”
Kimei, princess of Yishai, who was riding her horse, asked her uncle and king Surui.
“It’s a difficult problem that no one has been able to solve before, so will this time be any different?”
“Oh, why did you still smile?”
“Have you heard the news yet?”
“What news?”
Kimei grabs the reins and her horse stops with a huffing sound.
Surui looks back at her and tells her the news.
“I heard that academy cadets also come to the Phoenix Festival.”
“Really?!”
Kimei’s eyes widen.
“If you do well, you might be able to meet him. Do you want to go?”
“But Abama told me to attend the meeting…”
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“Didn’t you get tired of it a long time ago? It’s probably to let you know that your condition has improved. Still, there will be time to enjoy the Phoenix Festival. My brother and I also sneaked away. Since we were so young, I don’t remember much about the festival. “It doesn’t come out well.”
“I want to go. When I become the next generation, I will have to stay until the end of the meeting.”
“That’s true. Still, you must bring an escort.”
“Gamaru, would you please come with me?”
She immediately turned her head and in response to Kimei’s question, Gamaru, who was escorting her, lowered her head.
“I will follow wherever the princess goes.”
“Thank you, Gamaru. Even if Abamama scolds Gamaru, I will be by your side and try my best to be cute.”
“Oh my god. I’m sure your brother will just turn a blind eye this time.”
Surui chuckled and took the reins again.
“Is it that good?”
“Regardless of whether you like it or not, last time you left in a hurry without even having a chance to talk at length.”
“Even if I didn’t do that, I heard various news.”
Zeto, a blind swordsman from a western academy.
And many rumors following him.
There were some rumors that were hard to believe were true, but considering his deeds that were truly magical, they didn’t seem like far-fetched stories.
At that time, Hwa-guk’s companions were also busy talking about him.
“Madam, have you heard the news? I heard that cadets from the academy are also coming to the Phoenix Festival.”
“Is that so? It seems that the end of this journey was set at the Phoenix Festival.”
Hino, who successfully completed her succession ceremony and officially became the shaman of the Flower Country, listened to the voice of her young leader, Hamuro.
“Are you thinking of him? I think he is a young man with a promising future. The shaman must have coveted him too.”
“I actually did, and it was rejected outright.”
“Ah, has he already been rejected?”
Hamuro’s eyes, which were already torn apart, narrowed even further.
“They said there was work to be done.”
His smile, when he lightly turned his back without any reward of any kind, was not forgotten in Hino’s mind for ‘many reasons’.
Hino slowly closed her eyes, recalling his appearance and continued speaking.
“For me, it seemed like he had a big intention that was too difficult to follow.”
“It’s a shame. I was curious what kind of leader he would have been. Still, after listening to the shaman’s story, I think the position of the leader may have been a narrow container to contain him.”
“That’s my opinion too.”
Thanks to Jeto, Hwaguk was able to avoid crisis.
He couldn’t even begin to guess how great the favor he had received from him.
If he had not brought the Divine Beasts Heavenly Eye in time, the ninjas who were influenced by Baku’s ideology would have risen up and it would have quickly escalated into a civil war, and he would have been put in the troublesome situation of having to deal with the runaway divine beasts all at once.
At that moment, the King of Hwaguk, seen on the other side, was shouting loudly, saying that he would have to untie the King of Conqueror.
He had no idea how he was able to safely return to the defense of his country.
Of course, not only the countries that Zeto passed through, but also other Eastern monarchs had similar thoughts.
At least, except for Yue Guk.
***
“Have you ever thought about how to untie the knot, Your Majesty? I know you’re not interested, but if it weren’t for this opportunity, you wouldn’t even try. If you had to ask, it’s a relic of the Yue Kingdom.”
Yasui, the captain of the 3rd division of the Yue Kingdom Five Stars, asked Seo Yi-san, who was sitting in the carriage.
Seo Yi-san, who was resting his chin, let out a yawn and opened his mouth.
“There is a way to solve it.”
“…Really?”
Yasui asked in a surprised voice at Seoisan’s calm answer.
“Yes, it’s a sure way. In fact, you won’t be able to untie the knot any other way. It’s just that you can’t undo it with your hands.”
“I knew that even if the agent untied the knot, it would be acknowledged.”
It was not necessary to untie the Conqueror’s knot with one’s own hands. From the time he brought in the Magic Top Lord, he had also acknowledged the dissolution through agents.
But Seo Yi-san shook his head.
“No, that means it has no meaning.”
“It has no meaning…”
“There’s a good reason for that.”
Seo Yi-san’s meaningful answer.
Yasui’s silence becomes even longer at his barely intelligible answer.
Seo Yi-san smiled slyly and thought quietly to himself.
‘He says he doesn’t want to come forward, so what can I do?’
***
Meanwhile, Namgung Jin, the head of the Namgung Sega, who became the temporary ruler of Cheonseon Hakgwan, was talking with his son and successor to the Namgung Sega, Namgung Sehwi, on his way to the country for her meeting.
“Matriarch, I have a question.”
“Tell me.”
“We are not the leaders of the country, so why do we have to attend their meetings?”
“On the surface, I understand that he is a mediator, that is, he stands in a neutral position and coordinates the opinions of the monarchs of each country… But at least to me, he seems to be just a spectator.”
“If you are a spectator…?”
“There is nothing to put it simply. There are a lot of people from the academy in the East, so I guess they are allowing them to attend out of respect for the academy. More than that, it’s a shame that Unyeon can’t join us. I heard that the princess of Yishai is also coming….”
“You mean the princess of Yishai?”
“Yes, where else would you have a chance to sit face to face with the princess? In fact, even if I wasn’t the governor, Se-Hwi would have been able to attend as a representative of the cadets… If possible, I wanted to take them both with me. .”
“For me, as long as Unyeon is healthy, that’s okay.”
Namgoong Jin laughs bitterly at Namgoong Sehwi’s words, then continues talking while stroking Sehwi’s head.
“I didn’t know he wanted to avenge his mother so much. He didn’t even know that he knew the face of that goblin…”
“Has the head of the family not had any desire for revenge?”
“Does this father seem like such a terrible man?”
“Well, that’s not it…”
“That’s right, that’s not so wrong. It wasn’t easy to find a ghost that had just appeared. To make matters worse, the second generation of blood demons appeared at that time and the Hwasan faction was wiped out, causing an uproar in the Murim Alliance. He worked as the head of the family in parallel. “It was close to impossible to find the goblin while doing this.”
“I don’t remember the details because I was young, but he was so busy that it was difficult to see his face even once.”
“So, after handing over the position of head of the family to you, I planned to go out and look for that guy alone. I swore in front of her tombstone. But then Unyeon struck. I couldn’t stop him. At least I lost everything as Namgung. “You somehow managed to stop me from putting it down and leaving.”
“I didn’t know that Woon-yeon would be in such a hurry. I think ‘he’ had a big influence, though.”
“Ah, you mean that blind cadet who said his stubble was cured with acupuncture? He refused to meet with me, so I couldn’t even talk to him, let alone receive compensation. Is that actually true?”
Namgung Se-hwi answers Namgoong Jin’s question with her fuss.
“Yes, you mean that acupuncture? As I told you before, I saw it clearly with my own eyes. He threw acupuncture needles from afar, and later, he directly pulled out the s*xual energy from Unyeon’s body.”
“Don’t you know that? All of the negative energy lurking in Unyeon’s body has disappeared, so you would have wanted to treat her with acupuncture and medicinal herbs. That’s not what I’m talking about. Hey, Teacher Jang said… You took out the Emperor Sword Type and “I lost to that blind cadet…”
“……”
Namgung Se-hwi, who had been hiding the fact that she was defeated by Namgung Jin, who was her father, the head of the family, and her swordsmanship teacher, closes her mouth as if it were coated with honey.
“How long were you planning on hiding this from your father? It looks like the rumors have already spread.”
“To be honest, I wasn’t the only one who lost…”
“What?!”
Namgoong Jin heard Namgoong Se-hwi’s muttering and screamed.
“Ha… How did you lose?”
“…I used the Emperor Sword style.”
Namgoong Jin’s deep sigh.
Following his words, Namgung Se-hwi slowly begins to recall the battle of that day.
“And.”
“He didn’t back down.”
“I don’t understand it, but it’s only possible if your basic skills are relatively lacking. Still, don’t you have the sword skills? I heard that the blind cadet can’t even use the sword sword?”
“Well… The sword cavity was broken…”
Namgoong Se-hwi scratched his head.
“What nonsense…”
“Later, I was attacked by the Emperor Sword-type that I unfolded, but he slammed the sword on the floor and completely destroyed the energy of the Emperor Sword-type.”
“…It looks like you want to hang yourself right here.”
When Namgung Jin, who thought that Namgung Se-hwi was lying because he didn’t have enough excuses, placed his hand on the sword at his waist, he hurriedly waved his hand.
“It’s true…! Father…!”
“…Tsk.”
Namgoong Jin clicks his tongue and opens his hand.
Soon he fell asleep and continued speaking.
“Hmm… If what you say is true, it means that he has figured out the tricks of the Emperor Sword style… It’s a sword technique that uses the reverse sword…”
“It was the first sword technique I had ever seen in my life. Holding it with a reverse blade, it seemed like it could break bones, shatter weapons… It was such a scary sword that it could literally cut through everything…”
“It’s strange. In normal cases, it would only cause Qi to interact and cause internal injuries…”
Namgoong Jin, who was smoothing her chin, raises the corner of her mouth.
“If I get the chance, I’d like to see her face at least once. I’m busy with work, so I don’t know if I’ll have time.”
“Do we have anything else to do? You said we were just spectators at some point.”
“Now that everyone is gathered, I should tell you what happened at the Cheonseon Academy. We have recovered enough evidence from the testimony of the councilor and from Wijahan’s basement.”
“What on earth happened?”
Namgoong Jin, who had been pausing to answer Namgoong Sehwi’s question, briefly answers.
“…Blood religion. Blood religion is moving.”