41. Sword Demon (1)
The day came when I had classes with a dedicated instructor.
Yoo Seol-ah’s villa.
Baek Hwa-yeon hummed her tune and adjusted the clothes in her vast closet.
“What to wear-.”
Baek Hwa-yeon struggled to find clothes that matched her own pink hair in the midst of her clothes.
Today I will be outside for a long time. Because she heard from Seolah Yoo.
“You’re not too flashy, but you’re not shy either…”
Baek Hwa-yeon’s hands moved busily.
At first, she was very excited about sparring with Liu Jia every morning.
And lately, I started to pay much attention to the existence of Yeonsimun.
She was unaware that all her nerves and thoughts started to turn around due to the object named Lee Do-jin.
Baek Hwa-yeon, who once wore a dress with her chest cut out, eventually returned to jeans and a plain cardigan.
Coming to think of it, it was because the places I had to go to today were all places where I had to be in good shape.
” Are you ready? It looks like student Dojin Lee is here.”
Baek Hwa-yeon hurriedly tied her light pink hair in a neat ponytail and opened the door.
“There was.”
Baek Hwa-yeon smiled at Lee Do-jin’s words.
“Yes! Let’s go.”
Yoo Seol-ah looked at the two cadets facing each other and for some reason she smiled faintly.
Baek Hwa-yeon held Lee Do-jin’s hand and opened the door to her villa.
***
The vehicle headed for Incheon.
Sitting in the passenger seat, Lee Do-jin stared at the flowing scenery outside.
“I heard. Vice-Chancellor told cadets Dojin Lee and Simun Yeon about the tower.”
Lee Do-jin had no doubts about what Swordswoman Seol-ah Yoo knew about the Tower.
There was no way the four superhumans didn’t know about the tower.
Sitting in the seat behind her, Seolah Yoo smiled softly.
“It saved me the trouble of explaining who I’m going to meet.”
“Are you related to the Tower?”
“Yes, I’ll tell you the details when I meet you.”
The SUV car driven by Baek Hwa-yeon stopped at a remote residential area in Incheon.
There was a mansion with a similar appearance and majesty to Baek Hwa-yeon’s villa.
When I opened the door, a huge man stood there.
With the sword on his waist.
After confirming that the visitor was Yu Seol-ah after the sword, she lowered her head.
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“I heard you were coming.”
“Yes, it’s been a while. Hunter Kang Seok-hun.”
And a small light pink object came up between the gap between the two.
“It’s been a while! Mr. Seokhun.”
“Oh, Hwa-yeon.”
Kang Seok-hoon had a bright smile that was not like a grim face.
To others who didn’t know anything about him, the face looked like a beast that captured the target, but Baek Hwa-yeon was well aware that that smile came from friendliness.
“This is the friend you want to introduce to the elders.”
Yu Seol-ah nodded her head.
“Yes, that’s right.”
Elderly?
Lee Do-jin couldn’t even figure out who would be able to listen to the elders to Yoo Seol-ah.
“Come in.”
The three entered the mansion.
Yoo Seol-ah caught her breath and then she opened the door.
Transparent capsule.
And dozens of hoses were connected inside the capsule.
Lee Do-jin stared at the existence inside the capsule.
The existence inside the capsule had an appearance that could only be called an ‘old man’.
A gray-haired old man with nothing special on the outside.
Kang Seok-hun carefully pressed a button located in the center of the bottom of the capsule.
Push profit-
White smoke began to spray from the capsule. And the lid of the capsule slowly began to open.
The old man opened his eyes.
Very slowly.
The old man’s eyes were blurry.
The old man’s mouth opened slowly.
“…Has the tower reopened?”
Duduk-
The old man’s body moved. And, like his skinny body on the outside, the sound of his bones leaked out as if his body was not in good condition.
“Seola.”
After the sword, Seolah Yoo smiled at the call of the old man who recognized her.
“Yes sir. You still have 7 months left.”
The old man did not laugh.
“Didn’t I tell you to wake me up when I have to go up again?”
Seolah Yoo smiled bitterly at her.
“You said to bring him if you find an heir to climb the tower.”
A very small difference appeared in the old man’s empty pupils.
“…Climbing.”
The old man’s gaze passed familiar faces at first glance and stopped at Lee Do-jin, a face he had never seen before.
“Is that you?”
As soon as the words ended, Lee Do-jin felt something riding up from his fingertips.
It was a murder that emanated from the old man’s body.
It was such an obvious murder that you could see hundreds of black stems tumbling behind the old man’s back.
And Lee Do-jin felt that the killing spree was directed only towards himself.
I haven’t felt the martial arts of the old man yet.
However, only to live was on an equal footing with his teacher, Sword Emperor Dan Chun-wu.
If you are a person with low magical power and mental strength, you will not be able to move your body just by facing this murderous thing.
The terrible life was gone in an instant.
Lee Do-jin faced the old man with a stiff face.
“You don’t crouch.”
The old man let out a dry smile full of wrinkles.
“Sword Demon Elder!”
Baek Hwa-yeon must have felt relaxed after seeing the old man’s smile, so she happily approached the old man.
“Hwayeon came too.”
Sword Demon (劍鬼).
Lee Do-jin was surprised by the title.
‘The 4 superhumans of the former era.’
The position of being one of the four superhumans was bound to attract public attention.
Then the Sword Demon suddenly disappeared from the world.
Many journalists and self-proclaimed reporter youtubers searched for the whereabouts of the Sword Demon, but no one could find a trace of him.
So they just speculated. It seems that he is lonely or dead.
Such a sword demon is right in front of me.
The sword ghost stroked Baek Hwa-yeon’s hair once and looked at Lee Do-jin again.
“What’s your name?”
“This is Dojin Lee.”
Lee Do-jin lowered his head and replied.
“I’m telling you, Jeong Yong. He’s an old man who’s been eroded by magic and has only a few days left to live.”
Magi.
After the sword, Yu Seol-ah explained to Lee Do-jin with her hard face.
“Your heart was attacked while fighting an apostle from the Great Demon tribe in the tower. Since then, demonic energy has eroded into your body.”
The 4th superman of the previous generation, Sword Demon Jeong Yong-ha looked at the capsule where he was asleep.
“The only time I can maintain my consciousness and body properly without this purifier is 3 hours a day.”
Lee Do-jin thought that there must be a reason why Seol-ah Yoo brought him to the Sword Demon.
You can only control your mind and body for 3 hours. I thought there must be a reason for bringing him in front of a person in such an unstable state.
“The elders teach me. To the juniors who have to climb the tower.”
“What about teaching?”
Jung Yong-ha asked Yoo Seol-ah for a proper explanation.
“The fear of the tower. You know that. You can express it.”
“….”
After a moment of silence, Jeong Yong-ha opened his mouth again.
“If it is the fear of the tower, Seol-ah, don’t you know?”
Yoo Seol-ah shook her head slowly.
Her red hair was in a nice mess.
“A fugitive doesn’t have the right to tell you that. The elder is someone who fought back.”
“I gave the order to run away. Not your will.”
Geomhu looked at Jeong Yong-ha with her delicate face.
Respect and sadness in her eyes. And compassion was mixed.
“Yes, it was the captain’s order. But was it without my will?”
Lee Do-jin was able to learn many things from the conversation between the two.
Swordsman Yu Seol-ah climbed the tower 10 years ago with the swordsman.
And then she became a servant of the Sword Demon.
“I was in charge of the front. You were only in charge of the rear. And as the captain, it was my job to judge the battle situation so that no more unnecessary deaths would occur.”
After the sword demon finished her words, he clicked her tongue.
“Remembering the past only makes me miserable. Tell me more about why I have to deal with this guy.”
The eyes of the Swordmaster and the Sword Demon were all on Lee Do-jin.
“The swordsmanship is similar. Cadet Lee Do-jin’s sword is also overflowing with life. One blow. One thing in common, short-term combat.”
Her plum sword, which is her own swordsmanship, was too far apart from Lee Do-jin’s sword for Seolah Yoo to teach her anything.
However, Lee Do-jin’s skills were too high to introduce others. Ordinary S-class swordsman class hunters could not become his teachers.
But, if the Sword Demon is to be used properly. No, he thought he could. Giving Lee Do-jin a fear that Lee Do-jin has never experienced before.
To achieve enlightenment.
“Go to the forest behind. There is an open place. Hwa-yeon will stay here.”
To Jeong Yong-ha’s firm words, Baek Hwa-yeon replied that she would do so without saying anything.
Lee Do-jin, the sword ghost and the sword warrior, set foot in the only open space in the forest full of trees.
“Raise your sword.”
At Jung Yong-ha’s words, Lee Do-jin raised a wooden sword.
“Is a wooden sword your weapon?”
“Yes, it’s no different from a sword because it’s a high-ranking tree.”
“…Yes. A sword is just a sword.”
Jung Yong-ha had slight doubts, but he didn’t care.
From his point of view, there was no difference between a sword and a wooden sword made of a higher tree.
Everything you hold in your hand turns into a sword.
That was the authority possessed by a swordsman who had reached the state of unity.
Jeong Yong-ha took out a long sword.
The handle of the sword wrapped around my hand. He was a pet soldier who had been with him for several decades.
“Ever since I was encroached on by demonic energy. A faint demonic energy flowed through my sword. It’s a very dirty feeling.”
The Sword Demon stepped out.
For a moment, Dojin Lee felt his breath stop.
Just now, the life I felt in the room was medicine.
The sword demon’s destructive murder has covered the forest. Black streaks emanated endlessly from Jeong Yong-ha’s body.
Hundreds of oblique lines covered the forest like a tidal wave.
───I might die.
For the first time in Lee Do-jin’s head, an alarm went off.
The song of the chirping bird suddenly stopped.
The momentum that emanated from his withered body stopped the cries of all life in the forest.
“Look.”
The sword demon swung a long sword.
“This is the sword of the one who was defeated by the Tower.”
[ERROR]
[Unable to calculate attack trajectory.]
Advice Ego Opponent Mistiltein declared defeat.
A black flash of light obliquely wrapped around Lee Do-jin’s upper body.