Almighty God of War - Chapter 86

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086

Underground prison of the Yeom Estate.

Inside the iron bars sat two men, bound and restrained.

The owner of the short, thin frame in his mid-twenties was Ya Wol, and the man with a stern expression in his late forties was Il Sa.

Of course, Yeom Pung, who stood before them with frightening eyes, did not know their true identities.

“I’ll ask one last time. Who sent you!”

Yeom Pung’s furious voice shook the underground prison.

The Internal Injury Infliction Method flowing from his hands pressed down on Ya Wol’s shoulder.

“Aaaahhh!”

A scream burst from Ya Wol’s mouth.

Yeom Pung’s internal energy twisted through his meridians, inflicting pain as if his organs were being displaced.

“Speak. Then I’ll kill you without pain!”

When Ya Wol screamed but showed no sign of opening his mouth, Yeom Pung shouted at Il Sa and pressed down on his chest with the same technique.

“Urgh… Grraaahhh!”

Convulsions wracked Il Sa’s entire body, and his clenched lips split, but he too showed no sign of speaking.

Yeom Pung looked back and forth between the two men with furious eyes.

The internal energy flowing from his hands grew more intense, and the entire prison vibrated with agonizing screams.

“Gaahhh! Aaaahhh!”

Yeom Pung inflicted harsh torture until dawn broke, but neither man opened their mouths.

Yeom Pung entered the reception hall drenched in sweat.

There, Guyang Cheongang and Shangguan Wana were waiting for him.

Yeom Pung said.

“Getting the thief and the swordsman to talk won’t be easy. They’re tight-lipped as rocks.”

He called Ya Wol the thief and Il Sa the swordsman.

Guyang Cheongang said calmly.

“That’s why they were deployed on a secret mission. Hero Yeom, let’s try a different method now.”

“A different method?”

“Loosen the surveillance.”

Shangguan Wana asked with a puzzled expression.

“You mean give them a chance to escape?”

“That’s right. If we can’t force them to talk, we must make them guide us themselves.”

Guyang Cheongang continued with a slight smile.

“The dead don’t speak, but those who flee leave a trail. I plan to use them as bait to discover their base.”

Dawn was breaking with dim twilight.

In the underground prison of the Yeom Estate, Ya Wol’s ears trembled slightly.

The patrol intervals of the guard warriors, which had been precise as a blade, now had gaps long enough to take a breath, unlike before.

And in front of the prison door, the head of the usually upright guard was nodding up and down.

He was dozing.

Ya Wol’s eyes sharpened.

Despite his age, he had extensive experience in Gangho, and this wasn’t his first or second time in crisis due to his profession.

Thanks to this, his intuition was sharp enough to make veteran Gangho members weep.

‘The surveillance hasn’t loosened because of dawn. This is a trap.’

He sensed it instinctively.

‘But… if I don’t take this trap, there’s only death.’

He shook the shoulder of Il Sa, who was groaning beside him, and whispered sharply in his ear.

“Get it together! If not now, there won’t be another chance!”

Il Sa’s body and mind were in tatters from Yeom Pung’s harsh torture.

But since he hadn’t lost consciousness yet, focus gradually returned to his hazy eyes.

“I’m going to pick the lock. Keep watch!”

After speaking to Il Sa, Ya Wol pulled out a thin needle hidden in his hair with his mangled hands.

He inserted it into the keyhole and began turning it carefully.

While he desperately picked the lock, Il Sa leaned against the wall, listening for the footsteps of approaching patrol guards while keeping watch.

Click.

The lock opened.

Ya Wol and Il Sa supported each other as they escaped from the prison.

Their rough breathing sounded as loud as thunder, and even stepping on a small pebble sent cold sweat down their spines.

The two men desperately relied on each other as they reached the high wall of the Yeom Estate.

Ya Wol, who pushed Il Sa up the wall first with all his might, climbed up after him.

The two figures disappeared beyond the wall.

At the window of a three-story pavilion, dozens of zhang away with a clear view of the prison entrance.

Guyang Cheongang, Shangguan Wana, and Yeom Pung were watching the fleeing Ya Wol and Il Sa.

‘Akasha, what’s the condition of those two?’

[The swordsman’s judgment is reduced by 60% due to torture aftereffects, with decreased sense of direction and significantly impaired tracking detection ability. The thief is better off but still not in what you could call normal condition.]

Shangguan Wana asked.

“Young Master, what do you plan to do now?”

“We’ll track them and uproot them. We may not be able to completely eliminate the backing forces, but we’ll at least make sure they can’t attempt something like this carelessly again.”

Guyang Cheongang’s voice was resolute.

Currently, the nanobots’ surveillance detection range was 100 meters.

Since long-distance tracking was impossible, they had no choice but to track directly.

Guyang Cheongang turned to Yeom Pung and said.

“Hero Yeom, let’s go together. If they scatter, I won’t be able to track them alone.”

Yeom Pung nodded.

“Even if you hadn’t said so, I was planning to do that. I’m quite confident in my light body technique.”

Ya Wol and Il Sa, who had left the Yeom Estate, parted ways about five li away.

Guyang Cheongang and Yeom Pung watched this from about thirty zhang behind.

“Hero Yeom, please take the thief. I’ll follow the swordsman.”

“Understood.”

The two also split up.

Yeom Pung pursued Ya Wol, and Guyang Cheongang followed Il Sa.

If Il Sa had been in normal condition, he would naturally have suspected being tracked.

But his mind and body were devastated by Yeom Pung’s torture, so he couldn’t think properly.

Guyang Cheongang chose Il Sa because he seemed to have more information.

After all, it goes without saying that an armed robber ranks higher than a mere thief.

He used the Ghost Shadow Dance of the Heavenly Meteor Movement Technique to maintain a thirty zhang distance while following Il Sa.

It was a considerable distance, but within the nanobots’ surveillance detection range, so there was no need to worry about losing him.

After half a si-jin, Il Sa arrived at an old manor on the outskirts of the Imperial Capital.

A plaque reading “Blue Pine Garden” hung above the main gate, but the true identity of this place was the Imperial Capital branch of Golden Tower Manor’s Branch Blood Cave.

The walls were high so the interior couldn’t be seen from outside, and it looked like a noble’s villa from the outside.

This place maintained such thorough secrecy that even Geumsan-ru and Ten Thousand Gold Mountain Villa couldn’t identify it.

Guyang Cheongang hid himself in the shade beneath Blue Pine Garden’s wall.

[Beginning scan of manor interior structure. Total of eighteen people confirmed. Sixteen martial artists, four civilians. The person in the study of the inner residence appears to be the leader.]

Akasha’s real-time analysis was transmitted to Guyang Cheongang’s mind.

In the secret chamber located in the deepest part of Blue Pine Garden.

Branch leader Sa-an’s expression was so pale it was difficult to find any trace of blood.

Before him stood his trusted subordinate Jeokgui with a rigidly hardened expression, head bowed.

The air in the secret chamber hung heavy.

In a single night, thirty Wandering Warriors, Shadowless Blade Ya Wol, and even the Dark Shadow Ten Deaths, the elite among elites….

Almost all the cards that the Spider’s Web Imperial Capital branch could deploy had vanished.

And that damage had been caused by a single man of unknown identity named Hahou Gang.

Sa-an opened his dry lips and asked.

“You said Ya Wol and Il Sa were imprisoned in the underground prison of the Yeom Estate?”

“Yes, Branch Chief. That’s what I confirmed.”

“So they’re still alive….”

Sa-an’s pupils trembled faintly.

Living prisoners could become a greater disaster than the dead.

There was no telling what information might leak from their mouths, and what butterfly effect that might trigger.

Just then, urgent knocking came from the tightly closed door of the secret chamber, followed by a warrior’s panicked voice.

“B-Branch Chief! Something terrible has happened!”

“Don’t make such a fuss! What is it?”

Sa-an, who had been shouting with a frown, changed color completely at the warrior’s next words.

“Il Sa… Il Sa just returned through the main gate!”

“What!”

Sa-an and Jeokgui exclaimed in shock simultaneously.

When Jeokgui rushed out to the courtyard, Il Sa was there staggering with the support of warriors.

He was in a wretched state.

“Il Sa! Pull yourself together! What happened!”

“I barely… escaped…. When their surveillance… became lax….”

With those words, Il Sa collapsed into Jeokgui’s arms and lost consciousness.

Sa-an, who had followed behind, heard Il Sa’s words and swallowed hard while muttering.

“…Escaped?”

He gritted his teeth and said to Jeokgui.

“You think that monster of a man would let Il Sa go so easily? It’s a trap. Il Sa is bait to catch us!”

“What? What do you mean….”

It was right at the moment Jeokgui asked back.

An ice-cold voice came from the direction of the wall.

“Admirable situational judgment.”

Sa-an and Jeokgui’s faces froze in shock as if they had seen a ghost.

Jeokgui turned his head and saw the opponent walking out from the shadows of the wall, letting out a groan-like word.

“Hahou Gang….”

“So you know me. Then you must also know that resistance is meaningless?”

Jeokgui charged at Hahou Gang while shouting to the sixteen warriors.

“Stop him!”

Simultaneously, Sa-an rushed into the secret chamber and locked the door.

Their movements, as precise as if measured with a ruler, meant they had been trained for such situations long ago.

“Futile effort!”

Guyang Cheongang sneered at the charging warriors.

Their movements were fast, but too slow for him.

In an instant, storm-like Gale Chain Palm erupted from both of Guyang Cheongang’s hands.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

“Aaaahhh!”

Screams that seemed to pierce the heavens burst out in succession.

And the bodies of warriors with shattered heads and crushed limbs flew in all directions, crashing into walls and buildings.

In the time it took to blink two or three times, only Jeokgui remained standing.

All sixteen warriors were dead.

Even though this was an intelligence organization with only three or four first-rate martial artists and the rest being second-rate, such instant annihilation was an unimaginable situation.

“Monster….”

Jeokgui muttered with a face soaked in terror.

Guyang Cheongang’s index finger shot out like lightning and struck Jeokgui’s pressure point.

“Urgh!”

Jeokgui, with his Demon Blood Points struck, collapsed like a log.

Thud-

[Doctor, the one who appears to be the leader is incinerating information inside the secret chamber.]

Guyang Cheongang flew toward the secret chamber like lightning and unleashed his Explosive Thunder Flame King Hammer.

Bang!

The iron door, three inches thick, caved in at the center from his single strike and toppled backward entirely.

Crash!

The inside of the secret chamber was engulfed in flames.

Whoooosh-

In the midst of it all, Sa-an shouted at Guyang Cheongang with an expression soaked in despair and madness.

“Too late, Hahou Gang! There’s nothing you can find out!”

Realizing his mistake, Guyang Cheongang struck Sa-an’s pressure points, but it was already too late.

Sa-an bled black blood from his seven orifices and collapsed forward while sitting.

Thud-

His breath stopped before his body even touched the floor.

He had taken an extreme poison that even Guyang Cheongang, who inherited Divine Physician Hwata’s medical arts, could not revive him from.

Guyang Cheongang used the Pure Yin Energy of his Transcendent Impermanence Divine Art to extinguish the fire.

But as if oil had been applied to the documents, most of the important papers related to Shangguan Wana had already turned to ash.

Guyang Cheongang emerged from the secret chamber holding a few pieces of documents that hadn’t burned yet, his face blank.

This was because he noticed that Jeokgui’s entire body, whose pressure points he had struck, had turned dark blue.

No breathing could be heard either.

He was dead.

[It seems they had poison inserted in their bodies that activates when they are incapacitated, such as having their pressure points struck by enemies.]

‘Hmm… Are these people of this era fond of suicide…. I should probably study poisons a bit too.’

Guyang Cheongang looked down at one piece of document that hadn’t completely burned.

There, two clear characters written in ink remained.

Spider .

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