3. Magic Merchant (4)
Not long after, Yu-ran stood next to Si-woo. She was nervous, but she wasn’t afraid.
Even though she could have easily taken her by surprise, she saw room for negotiation in the fact that she held up the torch.
The scale of the opponent was also relatively small. Well, even just in a fight, the number of casualties exceeding 100 is absurd. If the Jungwon is involved, then 100 people are not that big of a deal.
Although there are only forty people here, there are only ten second-class warriors among them. Since there was a place to trust him, Yuran’s tone naturally became confident.
“Green forest! “What did you want that brought you here in the middle of the night?”
Then, a giant appeared from the shadows. His massive size, which seemed to be 7 feet tall (210 cm), his fierce appearance, and his beard that had not been washed for a long time seemed to be eloquently expressing his identity with his whole body.
Hearing Yuran’s words, Geohan tightened his grip on the sword he was holding. Then, the hand slowly relaxes, relieving anger and tension. Yuran’s face hardened at the unusual sight.
In the chilly night air, the giant answered coldly.
“Ha Yu-ran. Four years of neck.”
At those words, everyone in the country changed their posture. Yu-ran’s expression also became serious as she heard the name implying that she was Eun-won.
The reason she opened a bureau in faraway Shandong, not in Xi’an, where the Xia Dynasty was rooted, was not only for her complete independence and her own ambitions, but also because she wanted to escape the gaze of the enemies created by the Xia Dynasty. I did it too.
However, despite all my efforts, I met Eunwon here, and it seemed like all my efforts so far had paid off.
“Is there some resentment between you and me?”
Yuran asked calmly. In the meantime, the bandits who moved secretly surrounded Pyoguk’s rear.
Even though Yuran knew it, she could not do anything.
“To be precise, it is a grudge against the Haga Merchants Company run by your father. “Everyone gathered here is the one who fell under the tyranny of the Haga Sangdan.”
“Tyranny?”
“Okay. It’s tyranny. “If arbitrarily firing employees who are like family, not respecting seniority rules, and persecuting small merchants, what is this if not tyranny?”
The giant’s words were full of self-bewitching instigation. Bandits shouting ‘yes!’ And agreeing with them.
It seemed like lava was dripping from the bloody giant’s eyes. The giant’s words continued.
“There are thousands of people who have been harmed because of you. I went to them all and asked. “Are you willing to participate in revenge against the Haga Sangdan?”
“Half of them refused. “They said supporting their parents was more important than their own feelings.”
“Half of those who remained refused again. “They said taking responsibility for their wife and children was more important than their own feelings.”
“Half of those who remained were afraid to leave their hometown. Instead, they gave him money to use for revenge.”
“In that way, only 10% of the total participated in revenge. We hid, biding our time, and each of us spent our family fortunes to hire trackers. I heard that Geumji Okyeop of Haga Sangdan was trying to become independent, and I followed him all the way to Shandong. In the process, only a hundred of us, who were at our peak spirit, remained.”
“I will ask. “What does it mean for us to be here now?”
“…”
Yuran chewed his lips. IThere was no way to respond to the words. There is no such thing as a foolish speech technique than the person concerned appealing to reason over emotion.
As Yuran remained silent, Geohan shouted in a louder voice.
“Yes! We are the ones who lost everything to you! We lost our parents, our children, and even our hometown because of you! And now he wants to lose his life too! If we can endure the death of just one person, even if we all die, Yeohan… “
hahahaha…”
Attention was drawn to Siwoo’s sudden burst of laughter.
The atmosphere cools down in an instant.
The giant, whose important declaration was interrupted, glared at Si-woo with a displeased face.
“What’s funny?”
“hahahaha… No, it’s big. So, to summarize…”
Siwoo erased his instrumental smile and raised the corners of his mouth with an unlucky expression.
“Those incompetent bastards who ripped off and sold it at a high price… “Isn’t it true that because Haga Sangdan sold at a conscientious price, they went bankrupt, their parents couldn’t take responsibility, their wives and children starved, and they lost public support and ran away?”
“Bloke! Talking carelessly without even knowing… “
“I guess you’re the one who speaks carelessly. I heard that at Haga Sangdan, you can buy 20 stone (about 2 tons) of rice with one silver nyang… How much did you guys sell? Does it weigh fifteen seats (about 1.5 tons)?”
“To that extent… !”
“That’s right. Just fifteen seats.”
Even though he was caught off guard, Geohan remained confident.
“What’s the problem with that! We have to make a living too! “It is unethical to break the tacit agreement of merchants like that!”
The giant’s words were the general way of thinking of this era, but they did not move the hearts of the ambassadors.
Still, prices in Shandong are relatively low as a lot of logistics come and go. There was even more to say about the price of 15 stone of rice per silver coin.
“If you wanted to make a living, you should have done something like us. Didn’t you just run away from people when it didn’t work out? On that topic, revenge and all… I don’t know how my parents educated me at home. Oh.”
Siwoo blinked as if he was finally remembering it.
“You said you were already behind, right? Too bad… “I wanted to tear your parents to death myself.”
“NoooooMM!!!!!!”
The enraged giant’s blood spurted out and he pointed a finger at Pyoguk.
“Guys! Let’s go! Let’s show Hagar’s dogs an example! And you look like a gisaeng brother!! “When I go to the underworld, I will rape all of your 18th ancestors!!!”
The bandits shouted and rushed in.
Yuran also gestured against him.
“Good! Don’t be afraid, messengers! We have ten second-rate warriors! It doesn’t matter if things get damaged, so do your best to annihilate the enemy!”
The messengers also rushed at the bandits. At night, dimly lit by torches and bonfires, the sound of swords clashing filled the mountain.
In the darkness, a blue blade approached Siwoo. Siwoo blocked the attack by cutting his sword horizontally. The sound of metal resounding like “Kaaang”. The bandit’s faintly visible eyes were filled with the light that burned his life.
The bandit aimed for Siwoo’s neck. Siwoo blocked it with a vertical cut. The overloaded power of the bandit’s sword wanders.
Siwoo didn’t miss that and pulled his sword briefly and stabbed him in the stomach.
The bandit growled, but his eyes rolled back and he charged furiously. Siwoo deflected his sword and let go of the charge. A bandit who lost his temper and was thrown into a palanquin. Siwoo stabbed him in the back once more. The bandits die.
A presence was felt behind Siwoo’s back. Siwoo quickly turned around and blocked it. Eyes filled with reading. As Si-woo looked at it, he remembered another Si-woo’s advice.
That calm advice that cutting a neck is harder than you think.
Siwoo lowered his sword. The bandits may have thought this was a sign of surrender, but they jumped in wildly.
The energy contained in Siwoo’s Danjeon swirled wildly through the blood vessel.
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The frail power of Siu’s sword cut through the air in an even more destructive way, shattering the bandit’s old sword and lodged in his chest.
“That… Jongnam’s…”
The wide-eyed bandit’s will could not continue. A bandit stiffens and falls down.
Siwoo took a breath and looked around in all directions.
The number of bandits was decreasing to the extent that it was noticeable due to the activities of the second class warrior.
I thought I would be able to return alive after this, but the giant who was in the middle of the fight suddenly whistled.
Beep- Beep- Beep-
With him, five men in black appeared from the forest. Each and every one of them has surpassed the level of a third-rate warrior.
Yuran’s complexion darkened, and Geohan smiled confidently.
“Did you really think it would end with us? We gave everything to kill you! Now, show me! “Kill them all!”
With those words as a signal, the five men in black rushed in and began slaughtering the warriors. Even within a minute of the invasion, ten warriors were killed. The front lines are helplessly pushed aside.
Siwoo made his way through the chaotic battlefield and approached the man in black. A man in black was running onto Chae Do-yeop’s back. Do-yeop looks like he doesn’t know anything.
Siwoo threw his sword.
While the man in black hesitated, Siwoo grabbed Doyeop and pulled him out. The feel of the bandage against his hand. But Siwoo didn’t show it.
“Xiu come… Brother?”
Doyeop lost strength and stumbled. He had so many wounds on his arms that they were visible in the dark.
Siwoo stroked Doyeop’s head and took his sword.
The man in black rushed towards Siwoo.
“Get some rest. “I’ll take care of it.”
Siwoo thought as he watched the man in black running towards him.
The situation is unfavorable. Needless to say, in terms of numbers, the advantage that was thought to be gained through second-rate samurai was neutralized by the men in black.
Then what should you do? What is the asymmetric power that will overturn this battlefield?
The answer was obvious.
“Hyung Siwoo? I can still fight-“
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Siwoo placed his left hand on his chest.
I felt the relief I achieved a month ago. Siwoo raised his magic power there.
Dark night.
A blue light shone.
“This… What…”
Next to Doyeop, who was astonished, rays of light spread out from Siwoo’s sword.
Its substance is an indiscriminate radiation of magical power that cannot even be considered magic.
But it’s the peakA technique said to be the symbol of an expert.
It was exactly like the sword energy.
“Ah… Ahhh…”
The man in black fell to his knees helplessly.
He was so overcome by the sight of sword energy that he couldn’t even take care of his own life.
Siwoo’s sword cut him apart with a single cut. A torrent of light became an afterimage and followed his death horse.
Beneath that overwhelming sight.
Someone praised in a suppressed voice.
“Knife… Castle.”
That statement sounds so smart.
At some point, the loud sound of the weapons was no longer heard.