Almighty God of War - Chapter 149

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149

 

Following the flagship of the Four Seas Trading Company and Dongryang Ho, the fleet began docking their ships at the wharf one by one.

 

Along with the heavy sound of wooden planks dropping onto the dock, warriors of the Jagang Corps and Fish Spear Corps poured out with battle cries.

 

What greeted them was an eerie silence.

 

The harbor was completely empty, and the thousands of pirates had already disappeared deep into the village, vanishing into the maze-like alleys.

 

They had abandoned decisive battle on ships, their main stage, and chosen urban warfare using the most defensible terrain—complex buildings and alleys.

 

Three hundred warriors of the Jagang Corps, led by Jang Cheol-un, Mong Ji-hye, and Jin Yu-han, lined up before Guyang Cheongang.

 

In their eyes was a mixture of awe for the miracle their instructor had just shown, along with tension for the bloody battle that lay ahead.

 

Guyang Cheongang spoke to them in a calm tone.

 

“Fight well. And don’t die.”

 

Jang Cheol-un, who caught the subtle meaning in those words, asked.

 

“Instructor, aren’t you fighting alongside us?”

 

Guyang Cheongang shook his head and replied.

 

“No. I will take the head of Baekgyeong Sect Leader Hyeok Seung.”

 

As if all questions were resolved by that single statement, Jang Cheol-un asked no more and bowed his head with his fist to his chest.

 

“Understood! I will see you again alive and well, Instructor!”

 

“Good.”

 

Guyang Cheongang nodded and continued.

 

“Objectively, your martial prowess cannot compare to the Fish Spear Corps. You also lack proper collective combat experience. So it’s right to follow the Fish Spear Corps Leader’s command.”

 

The miracle of second-rate warriors suddenly becoming first-rate masters after a few months of training doesn’t happen.

 

Jang Cheol-un and the others, who knew their current position better than anyone, shouted in unison.

 

“We will follow the Instructor’s orders!”

 

Hwa Seungryong, who approached Guyang Cheongang’s side, swallowed dryly.

 

Even he, one of the top ten masters within the Four Seas Trading Company and leader of the Fish Spear Corps, couldn’t easily speak to Guyang Cheongang.

 

It was because of the overwhelming aura that enveloped his entire being.

 

In Hwa Seungryong’s eyes looking at him, the awe for the supreme master who had just frozen the sea and flown through the sky still remained undiminished.

 

Hwa Seungryong asked cautiously.

 

“Instructor Jang, are you really planning to attack Hyeok Seung’s stronghold alone?”

 

“That’s right. Having many people would only be a hindrance.”

 

A bitter smile appeared on Hwa Seungryong’s lips.

 

‘Well… what help could we be to this person anyway.’

 

He swallowed a sigh inwardly and said.

 

“It’s not pleasant to hear, but I can’t argue with it.”

 

Guyang Cheongang kicked off the ground without further reply.

 

Whiiiiik-!

 

His body shot up like a cannonball, leaping across the rooftops of the village where the pirates had hidden as stepping stones, disappearing from sight in an instant.

 

Hwa Seungryong, who had been watching his retreating figure with intense eyes, slowly turned around.

 

The awe that had lingered on his face until just moments ago vanished completely.

 

What filled its place was only the cold ruthlessness of a cruel hunter targeting his prey.

 

The Four Seas Trading Company had also started as pirates.

 

Hwa Seungryong was someone who had been hardened in those rough waves where blood and betrayal ran rampant.

 

His nature couldn’t possibly be the same as that of ordinary warriors from prestigious orthodox sects.

 

He drew his sword from his waist and shouted.

 

“The enemies plan to lure us into those narrow alleys and defeat us one by one! But we won’t enter their trap!”

 

“Uwaaaaaaaa!!!”

 

The battle cries of over a thousand warriors erupted.

 

Hwa Seungryong looked at Wang Eok with a bloody smile.

 

“Vice Leader, let’s teach those rat bastards that fire arrows aren’t weapons only they can use.”

 

Wang Eok also replied with a cold smile.

 

“Indeed. I’ll turn everything they rely on into ash.”

 

When he raised his hand high, a thousand warriors of the Fish Spear Corps simultaneously nocked their bows and lit their arrowheads.

 

“Fire!”

 

Swiiiiiiiiiiiii-!

 

With Wang Eok’s resolute command, fire arrows shot simultaneously by a thousand warriors carved red arcs through the night sky in parabolic trajectories.

 

It was a river of fire falling from heaven.

 

Kwa kwa kwa kwa kwang!

 

The pirate village, built mostly of wood, was no different from giant kindling.

 

Wherever the flames touched, they climbed up the dried wooden walls, and in an instant the fire demon devoured the entire village.

 

The pirates who had been preparing ambushes in the narrow alleys became rats trapped in a jar.

 

“Aaaahhh!”

 

“Fire! Get outside!”

 

Those who couldn’t endure the flames, suffocating heat, and terrible smell of burning flesh screamed and poured out.

 

Those who couldn’t escape in time rolled through scenes of hell with their entire bodies wrapped in flames, letting out desperate screams.

 

Watching all this, the field commander known as Hyeok Seung’s left arm, Black Death Blade Moilbong, gritted his teeth.

 

“Hwa Seungryong, that crazy bastard…!”

 

He and Sect Leader Hyeok Seung hadn’t even anticipated that the Four Seas Trading Company would dare employ fire attacks.

 

This was because the main force of the subjugation army was the Four Seas Trading Company.

 

Hyeok Seung was certain that the Four Seas Trading Company’s ultimate goal was to annihilate Baekgyeong Bang and seize this Dongban Island to make it a new smuggling base.

 

Therefore, he judged they would never do the foolish thing of burning down this village and harbor that would become their future assets.

 

That prediction was half right and half wrong.

 

Hwa Seungryong had certainly received orders from the company head to preserve the harbor.

 

The problem was that he had also received discretionary authority to decide combat methods on the field.

 

Having witnessed Guyang Cheongang’s divine prowess, Hwa Seungryong realized.

 

This battle wasn’t an ordinary struggle for interests, but a stage to prove who the true master of the seas was.

 

If his Fish Spear Corps showed a pathetic performance in this fight, it was clear they would forever be powerless like mice before a cat in front of Guyang Cheongang.

 

So he needed overwhelming military achievements.

 

For that, he was prepared to use even the extreme method of turning the harbor to ash.

 

The fire attack was the offensive method chosen with this background.

 

“Retreat!”

 

Moilbong shouted until his throat was raw.

 

Rushing out to the dock in this hell of fire would be suicide.

 

The pirates hastily withdrew to the back of the village where the fire arrows couldn’t reach.

 

The village engulfed in blazing flames.

 

But that couldn’t become a barrier between the subjugation army and the pirates.

 

A cruel smile crossed Hwa Seungryong’s lips.

 

He pointed his sword toward the burning village and roared.

 

“Pursue them! Don’t let a single one live!”

 

“Waaaaaaaa!”

 

Warriors of the Fish Spear Corps and Jagang Corps charged into the maw of hell with battle cries.

 

Though skin-burning heat, suffocating smoke, and collapsing burning beams blocked their path, their momentum wasn’t broken.

 

“Kraaaak!”

 

The pirates fleeing from the flames were horrified at the sight of the subjugation army leaping into the fire to chase them.

 

Pirates who couldn’t escape to the back of the village in time were trapped between two hells: flames and blades.

 

Fierce melees broke out with desperate screams in burning buildings and narrow alleys throughout.

 

* * *

 

The rear of the pirate village was hilly terrain sloping at an angle.

 

The Baekgyeong Sect Leader’s mansion was hidden in the middle of an artificially created forest of tall trees, halfway up the slope.

 

Guyang Cheongang, who had passed through the pirate village in an instant using the Phantom Shadowless Divine Method, stopped walking at the entrance of a hill about fifty zhang away from the mansion.

 

Swoooosh-

 

The terrible killing intent flowing from the entire forest struck him like waves with substance.

 

However, when his Ki Sensing at the Transformation Realm swept a radius of fifteen zhang, not a single human presence was detected.

 

A cold smile appeared on Guyang Cheongang’s lips.

 

While emitting this level of killing intent, they were perfectly concealing their presence just outside his detection range (fifteen zhang).

 

This meant that the bastards were waiting after setting dense traps in and around the mansion.

 

‘Seems like there’s more than one or two rats hiding. Akasha, scan them.’

 

[Yes, Doctor. Initiating wide-area scan.]

 

After a moment, Akasha’s calm voice echoed in his mind.

 

[One hundred inside the mansion, five hundred in the surrounding forest. A total of six hundred warriors are in hiding. Their presence is being controlled by a special concealment formation technique following the principles of Nine Palaces and Five Elements.]

 

Guyang Cheongang chuckled and muttered.

 

‘These bastards really try all sorts of things.’

 

Swoosh-

 

Guyang Cheongang’s body shot toward the mansion like lightning.

 

As if mocking the five hundred enemies hiding in the forest with their formation, he completely ignored the outer traps and advanced relentlessly toward the mansion, the enemy’s heart.

 

In an instant, the mansion’s main gate approached right before his nose.

 

Guyang Cheongang, as if there was no reason to stop walking, swung his hand with the same charging momentum.

 

Bang!

 

With a thunderous roar, the three-inch thick iron gate struck by the Explosive Thunder Flame King Hammer turned to powder.

 

Guyang Cheongang entered the mansion’s wide courtyard, breaking through the wood dust.

 

Instantly,

 

Whoosh whoosh whoosh whoosh whoosh-!

 

With the sharp Air-Splitting Sound of fabric tearing through wind, one hundred Hoepoin poured out from buildings and tree shade, surrounding Guyang Cheongang.

 

There was no doubt that these men with divine light gleaming in their eyes were not a ragtag bunch.

 

Holding various exotic weapons like tridents, axes, sickles, and meteor hammers in their hands, they were forming a flawless killing formation in groups of ten.

 

On the manor second floor balcony, Hyeok Seung and Gang Pil were looking down at him.

 

Guyang Cheongang slowly raised his head.

 

His and Hyeok Seung’s gazes collided in midair, seeming to spark.

 

Guyang Cheongang indifferently looked around at the Hoepoin surrounding him and spoke.

 

“You must be Baekgyeong Sect Leader Hyeok Seung. They say one who knows the times is a hero, so how about surrendering instead of making more lives die in vain?”

 

Hyeok Seung’s scar trembled and his bloodshot eyes blazed as if they would burst at any moment.

 

“You crazy bastard…!”

 

He continued shouting in a hoarse voice like scraping metal.

 

“You, who sent thousands of my brothers to the bottom of the sea, dare to recommend surrender?”

 

Hyeok Seung, his face twisted with terrible killing intent, roared at the Hoepoin in the courtyard.

 

“Haepungdae! Tear that bastard apart right now!”

 

Haepungdae referred to Baekgyeong Bang’s elite forces and Hyeok Seung’s personal guard.

 

As soon as his command fell, the one hundred Hoepoin began rotating like a wheel around Guyang Cheongang.

 

The killing intent amplified by Haepungsaljin condensed into one, and a massive vortex of death struck him.

 

Kwa kwa kwa kwa kwa kwa kwa-!

 

Rising dust clouds, the Air-Splitting Sound of exotic weapons cutting flesh, killing intent soaring to scrape bone…

 

In the center of the formation, Guyang Cheongang stood tall with an expressionless face, only his sleeves fluttering.

 

The anxiety in Hyeok Seung’s heart watching this scene grew like a snowball.

 

When his anxiety reached its peak, Haepungsaljin finally moved.

 

“Kill him!”

 

With a roar, the rotating exotic weapons charged at Guyang Cheongang with terrifying momentum along with a hundred warriors.

 

It was a scene where he would instantly turn into minced meat.

 

Yet Guyang Cheongang’s eyes did not change.

 

Like a thousand-year-old boulder that had silently endured all weathering, it was the realm of perfect immovable mind.

 

Swooooooooong-!

 

Just before the weapons pierced his body, Guyang Cheongang lightly extended his hand forward.

 

Kwauuuuuuung-!

 

Though it was a simple movement, the energy of yin-yang qi condensed in his palm drew a taiji symbol and exploded as one line.

 

Kwa kwa kwa kwa kwa bang!

 

With a roar, the pressure of the charging formation was torn apart.

 

A straight path formed in front of him, one zhang wide and ten zhang long.

 

This was the scene created by Explosive Thunder Piercing Rainbow Hammer, a supreme technique created by evolving the essence of the Explosive Thunder Flame King Hammer to its limit.

 

The thirty-odd Hoepoin on the trajectory of powerful force turned into bloody pulp without leaving even their forms.

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