Almighty God of War - Chapter 138

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138

 

Jupyo’s voice cracked without him realizing it.

 

“Grand Young Master… surely… you don’t mean to charge alone into that massive fleet?”

 

Instead of answering, Guyang Cheongang smiled and lightly patted Jupyo’s shoulder.

 

“They will use fire arrows to create chaos before attempting to land. Elder Master, please prepare defenses to prevent their landing during the time I buy for you.”

 

“Grand Young Master, no matter what, going alone…!”

 

“I will reduce their numbers as much as possible before they set foot on land.”

 

Guyang Cheongang didn’t give Jupyo any more time to dissuade him, and launched his body movement toward the nearest small fishing boat.

 

Landing lightly on the stern of the fishing boat like a swallow, he extended his palm toward the mudflats.

 

Kwa-ang-!

 

A tremendous palm wind struck the mudflats, sending up a pillar of soil.

 

The small fishing boat, gaining force from that reaction, shot toward the pitch-black sea like an arrow released from a bowstring.

 

Swoooooooosh-!

 

Pup pup pup pup pup pung!

 

Each time Guyang Cheongang unleashed consecutive palm winds, the fishing boat raced through the waves at a speed beyond human comprehension.

 

White spray rose in a long tail behind the boat’s stern.

 

In the pitch-black darkness, a single small boat charging alone toward the massive ghost fleet.

 

The five hundred warriors remaining on the beach could only stare in stunned amazement at that surreal sight.

 

When the fishing boat carrying Guyang Cheongang reached the point where the pirate fleet was two hundred zhang from the coast, it arrived in front of the lead ship.

 

A night when thick clouds had devoured even the moonlight.

 

The first to spot the small boat approaching at terrifying speed while raising white foam was a pirate standing watch in the watchtower of the lead pirate ship.

 

“Wh… what is that?”

 

At his bewildered muttering, the surrounding pirates gathered one by one at the bow.

 

The sight that met their eyes was something incomprehensible by common sense.

 

A single small fishing boat.

 

And one man standing alone upright at the stern, his long robe fluttering in the wind.

 

The silence that had briefly flowed was soon broken by mocking laughter.

 

“Puhahaha! Is that bastard in his right mind? Did he lose his way or something!”

 

“Is he trying to attack us alone? What a madman!”

 

In the pirates’ eyes, Guyang Cheongang standing alone blocking their path was nothing more than a lunatic seeking death.

 

At that commotion, a man who had been inside the deck walked out to the bow.

 

With a face covered in scars and gleaming eyes reminiscent of a starving beast, he was the captain and leader of this ship, Blood Wolf Jang Pae.

 

“What’s all this commotion?”

 

“Boss! Look at that fool! Isn’t he trying to block our path all by himself. Kekekeke.”

 

Listening to his subordinate’s words while looking at Guyang Cheongang, Jang Pae’s face showed not mockery but a tense expression.

 

He had been pirating for decades, experiencing countless storms and hardships.

 

His seasoned judgment could not be the same as his subordinates’.

 

‘That bastard… is no ordinary madman.’

 

Even while facing dozens of ships alone, Guyang Cheongang’s posture showed not the slightest tremor.

 

An old saying from Gangho flashed through Jang Pae’s mind.

 

A fierce dragon does not cross the river lightly!

 

Only a fierce dragon dares to cross the river.

 

Encountering mad dogs in Gangho was not uncommon.

 

Jang Pae had seen countless times how most of them would just bark and then disappear.

 

But he knew.

 

Very occasionally, among those mad dogs, there would be a real beast whose leash had been severed.

 

Now, Jang Pae’s instincts were screaming.

 

The man before his eyes was the most ferocious and dangerous being among all the beasts he had faced in his lifetime.

 

“Shut up, you bastards!”

 

At his sharp command, the pirates’ laughter was cut off abruptly.

 

“Everyone on alert! That bastard is no ordinary man!”

 

Jang Pae’s voice continued to echo across the night sea.

 

“Prepare the arrows. Kill that bastard!”

 

The atmosphere on the deck changed completely in an instant.

 

The faces of the pirates who had been exchanging jokes just moments before hardened in unison, and their hands moved toward their respective weapons.

 

Swish swish swish swish swish-!

 

With Jang Pae’s shout, twenty elite archers released their bowstrings simultaneously.

 

Dozens of arrows flew like rain toward Guyang Cheongang’s entire body.

 

But he did not move at all.

 

With his hands clasped behind his back, he simply stood on the small fishing boat with an indifferent expression.

 

At that very moment, a phenomenon beyond common understanding occurred.

 

Just before touching his body, all the arrows stopped in midair as if they had hit an invisible wall.

 

And then…

 

Crumble crumble crumble-!

 

With a strange sound, they turned to dust and scattered over the night sea.

 

“What… what is that?”

 

“A… a ghost!”

 

Primal fear beyond shock appeared on the pirates’ faces.

 

Blood Wolf Jang Pae’s fierce face also hardened to an ashen color.

 

As a first-rate master, he instinctively realized how terrifying the phenomenon he had just witnessed was.

 

‘I couldn’t see… him move his hands…’

 

Such a thing could not happen without using one’s hands.

 

But his eyes had seen nothing.

 

There wasn’t even an afterimage.

 

That meant he had completely failed to perceive the speed at which his opponent moved.

 

The fact that his senses, honed through a lifetime of living by the blade, could not keep up with what had just happened before his eyes was no simple matter.

 

Jang Pae felt his mouth go completely dry.

 

The opponent he was facing now wore human skin, but was a peerless master who could be called disaster itself.

 

If this were land, he would have fled immediately, but this was on water.

 

There was no choice.

 

“Battle formation! He’s a formidable enemy!”

 

When Jang Pae shouted.

 

Swoooosh-

 

From the fishing boat that had closed the distance with the pirate ship, Guyang Cheongang shot up like lightning.

 

Kicking off from the stern and soaring five jang high, he landed lightly as a feather on the pirate ship’s deck.

 

The sound of dry saliva being swallowed could be heard from the throats of the pirates who saw him.

 

“Gulp…”

 

Guyang Cheongang took his first step.

 

Thud.

 

Though no footstep was heard, the pirates shrank back as if they had heard the sound of a massive bell.

 

And the next moment.

 

In the stillness where time seemed to stop, an unbelievable scene unfolded.

 

Splat splat splat splat splat-

 

With eerie sounds of flesh being torn, the area within two jang around Guyang Cheongang was dyed red with thick blood mist.

 

There wasn’t even time to feel terror, let alone scream.

 

The heads of the pirates who had been standing with swords just moments before burst like ripe watermelons.

 

Guyang Cheongang’s feet did not stop.

 

Thud.

 

The second step.

 

One pirate tried to let out a scream filled with horror, but before that sound could escape his throat, his consciousness faded into darkness.

 

Splat splat splat splat splat splat splat-!

 

Thud. Thud. Thud.

 

The third, fourth, fifth steps.

 

He merely moved his feet slowly, but each time, circles of death spread like ripples, erasing all life on the deck.

 

Before the terrifying speed of the Gale Flash Technique that approached the speed of sound, the pirates couldn’t even resist, let alone realize they were dying.

 

Guyang Cheongang was a walking disaster itself.

 

When he took his fifth step, the only one breathing on the deck was Blood Wolf Jang Pae.

 

And on the deck lay over fifty headless corpses scattered in grotesque forms.

 

“Ugh… Urgh…”

 

Terror-stricken Jang Pae desperately tried to raise his Nine Ring Blade to unleash the Blood Wolf Blade Technique he had spent his lifetime perfecting.

 

But his hands were trembling like those of someone with palsy.

 

He was completely paralyzed with fear by the massacre that had unfolded before his eyes, incomprehensible by common sense.

 

As he barely managed to raise his blade to waist level, he saw Guyang Cheongang’s indifferent face.

 

That was the last scene he saw in this world.

 

Splat!

 

With an intense sound of flesh bursting, Jang Pae’s head exploded.

 

Guyang Cheongang didn’t even look back at him as he collapsed as a corpse, and leaped back onto the fishing boat with his body movement.

 

The distance between the pirate ships was maintained at about fifteen jang to prevent collisions and maintain formation.

 

The noise of the battle that had taken place on Blood Wolf’s ship was clearly audible to those on the ships to the left and right.

 

Cheol Jo, who was commanding the ship on the left, frowned deeply and muttered.

 

“…Strange. Too… quiet. If Blood Wolf had won, there should be cheering…”

 

He too had seen the small fishing boat approach Blood Wolf’s ship.

 

But due to the distance, he couldn’t grasp the exact situation, and could only guess that a battle was taking place from the shouts and sounds of impact carried on the wind.

 

But that noise had abruptly cut off in the time it took to take a few breaths.

 

Blood Wolf’s ship had fallen into a deathly silence.

 

Viper on the ship to the right was also glaring at Blood Wolf’s ship with his snake-like narrow eyes.

 

“Could it be… Elder Brother Blood Wolf was subdued? That can’t be possible…”

 

There were over fifty pirates on the ship.

 

Even if the person from the fishing boat was a peak master, subduing this many people so quickly and so quietly was logically impossible.

 

Blood Wolf, the captain, was also a master approaching the peak level.

 

But Cheol Jo and Viper soon had no choice but to realize that the situation was different from their expectations.

 

Whoooosh-

 

Massive flames erupted from Jang Pae’s ship, brightly illuminating the dark night.

 

And someone seemed to step on the stern of the small fishing boat that had been empty, then approached Cheol Jo’s ship on the left side of Blood Wolf’s vessel.

 

Cheol Jo could clearly see The Man standing at the bow of the fishing boat.

 

Not a single drop of blood was on his clothes, and his expression was as leisurely as if he had come out for a stroll.

 

“This can’t be… really alone…”

 

Cheol Jo’s voice trembled.

 

After facing over fifty pirates and Blood Wolf, he appeared unharmed without a single wound.

 

He knew all too well what that meant.

 

An overwhelming difference in skill.

 

The enemy was at least a peak master.

 

“All… all hands prepare for battle!”

 

Cheol Jo shouted at the top of his lungs.

 

The fishing boat drew closer and closer.

 

Guyang Cheongang’s gaze remained cold and emotionless.

 

That was the beginning of the nightmare that befell the White Whale Gang, the pirate group that had terrorized the Yellow Sea.

 

Blaze blaze blaze-!

 

In the time it took to take a few breaths, over ten pirate ships struck directly by the Pure Yang True Energy of the Transcendent Impermanence Divine Art were engulfed in massive flames.

 

Red flames climbed up the masts, dyeing the night sky red, and the screams of the crew filled the sea.

 

“Fire! There’s a fire!”

 

“Abandon ship!”

 

“Jump overboard!”

 

The faces of the remaining pirates who witnessed one-fifth of the fleet instantly turn into hell turned pale.

 

On the deck of the command ship carrying White Whale Gang Vice Sect Leader Soul-Stealing Ghost Blade Im Bang, he tried to assess the situation but couldn’t identify the enemy at all.

 

‘Where on earth are they attacking from?’

 

There were no arrows or cannon fire visible. Yet the ships were burning on their own.

 

Cold sweat ran down Im Bang’s spine.

 

“Vice Sect Leader! Please give your orders!”

 

At his subordinate’s urgent cry, Im Bang gritted his teeth and shouted.

 

“Fire the signal flares! All fleet assemble!”

 

Bang! Bang! Bang!

 

Red signal flares shot up into the night sky one after another.

 

“Close the gaps! Bring the ships closer together!”

 

Im Bang’s orders were transmitted to the entire fleet along with flag signals.

 

“We must identify the enemy’s position! Light torches on all ships!”

 

“Prepare for battle! Everyone check your weapons!”

 

Shouts and footsteps caused the decks of forty-odd ships to become chaotic all at once.

 

Slowly the fleet’s advance stopped and the gaps between ships began to narrow.

 

At the same time, torches were lit on the decks of all vessels, brightening the sea like broad daylight.

 

Im Bang was confident this was the best response.

 

‘No matter where the enemy is, they have nowhere to hide now.’

 

But he didn’t know.

 

That the orders he had just given had created exactly the situation his opponent most desired.

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