Almighty God of War - Chapter 75

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075

The guard warrior said.

“This kid came looking for you, saying he needs to see the Grand Young Master.”

The warrior left only those words and turned around to leave.

He maintained basic courtesy toward the Grand Young Master, but there wasn’t a trace of respect to be found.

Since Golden Tower Manor was the place that paid his monthly wages, it was only natural.

The child who approached hesitantly said to Guyang Cheongang.

“Are… are you Young Master Guyang Cheongang?”

“That’s right. Do you have business with me?”

“Yes… some man told me to deliver this to you, Young Master…”

The boy held out a letter with a vivid red color to Guyang Cheongang.

Guyang Cheongang took the letter and immediately unfolded it.

After reading the contents inside, a terrifying killing intent appeared in his eyes.

The content was simple.

Come to the abandoned temple fifty li west of the Guyang Family Estate by mid-afternoon today. You must come alone.

If even the shadow of another person is seen, your cute younger brother’s head will hang above the main gate of the Guyang Family Estate tonight.

The air around Guyang Cheongang settled as cold as ice.

‘How dare they touch Cheongcheong… that adorable child… I’ll kill every last one of them…!’

[Doctor, your adrenaline levels have reached dangerous levels due to emotional excitement. You cannot make proper judgments in this state. What you need now is not anger, but the coldest rationality. Please calm down!]

At Akasha’s words, Guyang Cheongang barely suppressed his boiling rage.

He turned to look at the shabby-looking boy who had brought him the message.

The child was clearly frightened by his murderous atmosphere, yet seemed to be expecting something as he glanced around, unable to leave.

“Um… um… when I delivered the letter, Young Master Guyang would give me silver coins as payment for the errand…”

The boy said in a crawling voice.

Guyang Cheongang took out one tael of silver from his pocket and showed it.

“You did well. This silver is yours.”

He didn’t give the silver right away but stared at the boy and asked.

“Before that, let me ask you a few things. Who was it that gave you this errand?”

“Th-that is…”

The boy hesitated for a moment, but unable to resist the temptation of one tael of silver, he spilled everything he knew.

“I couldn’t see his face. He was wearing a bamboo hat pulled down very low… From his voice, he seemed to be a man over forty.”

“Where did you meet him?”

“It was in the alley next to Mangyeong Tavern, about five li from here.”

“Is that all?”

“Yes… Young Master. That’s really all I know.”

“I understand.”

Only then did Guyang Cheongang toss the silver coin to the boy.

“Go on. And don’t tell anyone about what happened today.”

At his cold voice, the boy’s face turned white as he nodded frantically.

Then he hurriedly grabbed the silver and fled from the Guyang Family Estate.

Slowly raising his head to look at the sky, Guyang Cheongang’s eyes were bloodshot with chilling killing intent.

Elder Hwang asked in a serious tone.

“Young Master, are you not planning to tell the family head?”

“No.”

Guyang Cheongang continued in a cold tone.

“This is not a simple kidnapping but a trap set by enemies targeting me. If I tell father about this, he will mobilize everyone in the family to comb through all of Nanchang like hunting for lice. Such commotion will only put Cheong-a in more danger. So this matter must be ended quietly and swiftly at my level.”

“Are you planning to handle this alone again?”

Anxiety crept into Du Jinseong’s questioning voice.

“Aren’t Elder Hwang and Two Brothers here? So it’s not just me alone.”

At those words, Elder Hwang and Du Jinseong inwardly sighed with relief.

They had been worried that Guyang Cheongang would try to shoulder everything alone again.

After putting his bundle back in his room, Guyang Cheongang met Guyang Baek and Dong Yeonhwa at the main building.

“Father, I will search for Cheong-a outside the estate. I’ll postpone my departure until after I find Cheong-a.”

The two could only nod with dark expressions.

Guyang Cheongang, Elder Hwang, and Du Jinseong immediately left the family estate.

When they arrived at the alley where Mangyeong Tavern was located, as the boy had mentioned, Du Jinseong asked.

“Grand Young Master, how do you plan to find Youngest Miss? Don’t we have no clues to track the kidnappers? We can’t just search the surroundings recklessly…”

At his words, Elder Hwang also nodded with a stern expression.

But Guyang Cheongang was calm.

He took out the red letter from his pocket and said.

“Why would we have no clues? The most reliable clue is right here.”

He held out the letter to Golden King on his shoulder and continued.

“Golden Brother, the scent on this letter. Can you smell the same scent around here?”

Golden King put his nose to the letter and sniffed, then nodded vigorously.

He immediately jumped down to the ground and ran toward the inner part of the alley behind the tavern. Then he pointed to a spot on the floor and squeaked.

That must have been the place where the errand boy had stayed.

Elder Hwang and Du Jinseong’s eyes widened.

Guyang Cheongang asked Golden King.

“Golden Brother, can you track this scent?”

Golden King nodded with a confident expression and patted his small chest with his cute hands.

Then he began running vigorously down the alley.

Guyang Cheongang’s group followed behind him.

After a while, Golden King entered the residential district of the Eastern Main Road.

Since it was still early, there weren’t many people on the streets, but Guyang Cheongang’s group carefully followed Golden King while trying not to be noticed.

The creature that had been running without rest stopped in the deepest part of the residential district.

It was beneath a high wall.

Squeak squeak-

Then he raised his finger and pointed to a mansion about fifty jang away, covering about two hundred pyeong.

Guyang Cheongang asked.

“Golden Brother, are you saying the scent went into that house?”

Squeak!

Golden King nodded vigorously.

Guyang Cheongang turned to Elder Hwang and Du Jinseong and said.

“Please wait here for a moment, you two. I’ll go take a look inside.”

Before the two could say anything, he deployed the Heavenly Meteor Movement Technique and approached the mansion.

With his internal energy exceeding two cycles, his movements were so fast and stealthy that even Elder Hwang and Du Jinseong watching could barely detect them.

Reaching the wall, Guyang Cheongang first examined the interior with his ki sensing.

What his senses detected were only the presences of about ten people hiding throughout the mansion’s garden.

Guyang Cheongang’s eyes deepened.

‘These are people using the same concealment techniques as the one who ambushed me last night. Golden Brother found the right place…’

He gritted his teeth.

‘They can’t only be outside. There must be more deep inside the mansion. Those whose concealment techniques are so excellent they can avoid my ki sensing…’

He immediately swept through the inside and outside of the house thoroughly with nanobots.

Soon, a three-dimensional image of the mansion’s interior created by Akasha appeared in his mind.

The enemies were marked as red dots.

The count was ten in the garden, and nine in various rooms throughout the mansion.

‘Nineteen in total….’

Then a still image appeared before his eyes.

Sparks flew from Guyang Cheongang’s eyes when he saw it.

It was an image of Guyang Cheongcheong sleeping curled up in a corner of the room.

She seemed to have been drugged.

And beside the child, on a chair, sat a gaunt, expressionless middle-aged man in his forties with a sword resting on his knees.

Having finished gathering information, Guyang Cheongang returned to where Elder Hwang and Du Jinseong were.

He drew the mansion’s layout on the ground, explained the internal situation in detail, then spoke to the two men.

“Elder Hwang, while I draw their attention from the front, please rescue Cheong-a together with Two Brothers.”

Du Jinseong spoke with a stern expression.

“Let the Elder rescue Youngest Miss, and I will fight alongside Grand Young Master.”

Guyang Cheongang lightly shook his head.

“If Two Brothers is beside me, it will restrict my movement.”

“Hmm….”

Though he said it indirectly, it meant he would only be a hindrance, so Du Jinseong lowered his head with a quiet groan.

Guyang Cheongang felt sorry, but now wasn’t the time to worry about such things.

“When I signal with a whistle, infiltrate the room where Cheong-a is at the fastest speed and bring her out. And if the rescue succeeds, you two must not wait for me but immediately return to the Family Estate with Youngest.”

Having witnessed his level last night, Elder Hwang readily agreed.

“Understood, Young Master.”

Guyang Cheongang moved Golden King to Elder Hwang’s shoulder and said.

“I will keep them tied up in the meantime. And please take Golden Brother with you. When Cheong-a opens her eyes, seeing Golden Brother will help calm her mind.”

At his thoughtful consideration, the two men nodded.

Guyang Cheongang left the two behind and deployed Ghost Shadow Dance.

His body movement flew toward the mansion like a strand of black mist.

Having mastered the essence of the Ghost Shadow Secret Manual and incorporated it into the Heavenly Meteor Movement Technique, his Hidden Infiltration Art was not inferior even compared to the professional assassins inside the mansion.

Swoosh-

Like a ghost crossing over the wall, he began hunting the ten assassins hidden throughout the garden with terrifying momentum.

Thud-

The assassin hiding in the tree shadows collapsed with his Baihui acupoint crushed, not even realizing what had struck him.

Behind him was empty as if no one had ever been there from the start.

Guyang Cheongang had already moved to his next target.

With Guyang Cheongcheong’s life in danger, he showed no mercy.

Thud-thud-thud-thud-thud-thunk-

In the darkness, grim deaths continued one after another, unexpected by anyone.

The assassin lying prone on the rooftop collapsed onto the roof tiles with his heart pierced, and the assassin hiding in the pond never surfaced again.

Though they were a grade below Number Seven, they were assassins capable of killing first-rate masters.

But they lost their lives futilely in places where they had confidently believed themselves perfectly hidden, without even realizing they were dying.

The reaper that struck like a storm accurately pinpointed their locations as if seeing them with his eyes, cutting off their breath without a moment’s hesitation.

It was closer to one-sided slaughter than battle.

Thud-thud-thud-thud-thud-thud-thunk-

Moving like lightning, wherever his palm force reached, dull bursting sounds accompanied blue frost blooming like spider webs.

The assassins fell without even being able to scream, suffering crushing pain throughout their bodies along with terrible cold energy that seemed to freeze all the blood in their bodies.

Along the path Guyang Cheongang passed through like a breeze, crushed corpses piled up with sprays of blood.

Soon those inside the mansion realized something had gone wrong.

The regular signals from their colleagues outside that should have been heard were not coming.

But their realization came too late.

Crash-!

The mansion building’s door exploded inward.

Guyang Cheongang walked into the mansion without hesitation, into the Assassins’ Den.

Though dawn was breaking, the mansion interior without a single light was shrouded in dim darkness.

The moment Guyang Cheongang set foot in the corridor, a tactical map created by Akasha appeared in his mental image.

It clearly recorded the mansion’s internal structure and the assassins’ positions.

Whiiiiish-!

Deadly assassins poured out from all directions in the darkness.

A dagger silently dropping from the ceiling to pierce his crown, a surprise attack sword bursting up through the corridor floor, and hidden weapons flying through torn doors.

With every step, lethal killing moves flew at him.

But to Guyang Cheongang, who could already see their positions and actions as clearly as his own palm through the nanobots’ surveillance ability, these were no longer ambushes.

They merely looked like puppet dances moving according to predetermined sequences.

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