Dokmaeuiseon - Chapter 36

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Chapter 36

 

 

‘I’ll draw them into my territory.’

 

From the beginning. The reason the assassins lured him outside was simple.

They had also investigated the formation he had set up in advance.

Knowing they would be at a disadvantage if they entered the field he created, they pretended to be patients.

To draw him outside.

 

‘It’s the same now. Being in the formation still gives me an advantage.’

 

They’re trying not to show it.

But Jung Myeong could see it all. Their intention to get him further away from the medical clinic.

 

“Quickly surround him!”

“Block him! Don’t let him move any further!”

 

Wasn’t the top priority in battle to crush the enemy’s intentions?

He had to move contrary to their intentions to have a chance of winning.

 

‘If they’re focusing on the outside. Then I’ll shoot inward instead.’

 

Jung Myeong dealt with the enemies appropriately.

At the moment when he saw an opening.

 

“Urgh!”

 

Thwack-!

Jung Myeong quickly twisted his body and increased his speed.

That direction was toward the medical clinic.

Seeing this, the assassins belatedly noticed Jung Myeong’s intention.

And immediately tried to struggle desperately.

 

“Damn! He figured it out!”

“Hurry and block him!”

“Don’t let him enter!”

“You can’t get in! Kugh!”

 

They tried to block him even at the cost of their bodies.

Whoosh-!

Slash-

But Jung Myeong was faster.

He cut down the one trying to block him.

And penetrated through that gap.

His body finally entered the medical clinic.

It was instantaneous.

 

“Damn it!”

“Hah…!”

 

The assassins who had tried to stop him.

They looked like dogs who had lost the chicken they were chasing.

 

 

* * *

 

 

‘Now, what will you do!’

 

The one in a hurry wasn’t Jung Myeong.

It was the assassins who were the intruders.

He could just hole up inside from now on.

 

‘As time passes, the advantage goes to this side.’

 

He was confident he could make his defenses even stronger as time went on.

However, the assassins were different.

Just the fact that their ambush had failed put them at a disadvantage.

Now that the most advantageous opportunity for an ambush had disappeared.

The assassins became more disadvantaged as time passed.

They couldn’t be unaware of this either.

 

“What should we do?”

“What do you mean what should we do!”

 

The vigilance that would become even more thorough going forward.

Jung Myeong who would exploit and remain after using it.

Not being unaware of such a situation, the assassins were in complete panic.

At the same time, they also sensed it.

That they had to settle things here.

 

“Let’s go in! We have to finish this today! If not today, there won’t be another chance!”

“Kugh…”

 

The medical clinic that Jung Myeong had entered. The assassins finally forced their way into that place.

 

 

* * *

 

 

[Multiple intruders have been detected in your territory.]

 

‘This comes up now. It only confirms intruders within the territory, right?’

 

As the assassins entered the territory, a notification belatedly rang out.

Seeing this, Jung Myeong smiled bitterly.

 

‘With this, we’ve each exchanged one blow.’

 

Assassins.

They had definitely struck at the core weakness of the formation.

The common knowledge that formations don’t work in places where they aren’t installed.

 

‘I never imagined they’d enter disguised as patients.’

 

A strategy to call him outside and render the formation useless.

For him who had been confident in his newly created formation, it was like being struck in an unthinkable spot.

 

‘They properly targeted the blind spot. As expected of assassins.’

 

Jung Myeong had also acted quite formidably.

He too had used the situation in reverse.

 

If the assassins feared the formation enough to disguise themselves as patients and even went to the trouble of secretly deceiving him.

Then conversely, he could knowingly let himself be deceived.

That strategy was the current luring in.

So they had each exchanged one blow.

Of course, it wasn’t as if he had no regrets at all.

 

‘If only Escort Leader Song In had been here… it would have been easier.’

 

You may not know where you’re going, but you know where you came from.

If Song In or even a few escorts had been present, he knew the opponents would have been easier to handle.

He couldn’t help but feel deep regret.

However, he first washed away such regret.

 

‘The very fact that they came today must be proof they targeted this day from the beginning.’

 

Those people. They definitely came with a plan.

In other words, they would have moved only when he was in a disadvantageous situation.

What could he do.

He couldn’t just keep regretting.

The escorts weren’t part of what he had prepared from the start anyway.

What he had prepared was already considerable.

He cast aside his regret and ignited his fighting spirit.

 

“I’ll show you the gates of hell.”

 

Now it was the assassins’ turn to suffer.

 

 

* * *

 

 

Bang! Whoooosh!

Flames shot up from all directions.

 

“Fire!”

“Hueop!”

 

The bright light was dazzling to the eyes.

However, it wasn’t hot.

Because it wasn’t real flames!

But just because it wasn’t real didn’t mean they could let their guard down.

 

“Don’t close your eyes! Open them quickly!”

 

Swoosh- Swish swish swish-

Even a moment of carelessness. There were blades coming in.

 

“Gaaahhh…!”

“Stay alert!”

“Kyaak!”

“Damn it!”

 

Blades flew in as if blooming from between the flames.

It was an ambush that made it hard to stay focused.

 

“Damn it! An ambush against assassins!”

 

Swoooosh-

Every time a blade thrust forward, an assassin died without fail.

Ten who had gathered disguised as patients, and dozens they had brought behind them.

That large number was rapidly dwindling.

It felt as if a Killing Ghost had come to strangle and kill them.

 

‘Damn it. Who the hell said this guy was a proper physician?’

 

A physician. They had heard it was about dealing with someone who didn’t even have proper martial arts.

That wasn’t true. It was bullshit.

 

‘This commission. It was wrong from the start!’

 

They had gotten the estimated strength of their target completely wrong.

They said he was first-rate at best.

He just couldn’t use Sword Energy.

But the Internal Energy they could sense seemed similar to peak level, didn’t it.

The personality they thought they had grasped in advance was also problematic.

 

Benevolence? A physician armed with goodness?

Not at all!

 

The opponent was a Killing Ghost. A Killing Ghost that enjoyed devouring blood.

Otherwise.

Swoooosh- Stab- Stab!

 

“Kyaaahhh!”

 

How could he thrust so mercilessly.

The direction of the blade stabbing sharply was always at vital points and deadly ambushes!

Within the gaps of the flame illusions created by the formation.

Each time the sword thrust out, the carefully trained assassins died without showing even half their skills.

 

‘Damn! Damn!’

 

That things had gone wrong.

The Jangwol Gate assassin realized this far too late.

 

[Vice Sect Leader. This has gone wrong, what should we do?]

[….]

[Please give orders quickly…!]

 

Did the official sect members also know this?

Though they asked belatedly, even the one hearing the question couldn’t come up with an answer.

Jangwol Gate assassins.

Their specialty was never martial power to begin with.

 

Surprise attacks. Schemes. Ambushes.

 

These three were their specialties.

The moment they entered the formation, they lost that advantage.

They could only be on the receiving end instead.

But they couldn’t give up either….

 

‘Too much is riding on this.’

 

The price the Donghwa Guild Leader had offered them.

Those were the secret manuals from previous generations that Jangwol Gate had lost.

Three volumes in total. Poison and hidden weapons. And assassin techniques.

Who would have thought he possessed what they had lost in previous generations.

Two of these volumes were the advance payment for the commission the Donghwa Guild Leader had offered.

That’s why they had accepted this difficult commission.

The problem was reality.

 

Whoosh-!

As soon as flames rose.

 

Swoosh- Swoosh-

The sword continued to thrust out.

Just when their eyes seemed to adapt to the fire.

 

“Ugh…!”

“I can’t see!”

 

Suddenly their vision turned black and then flipped upside down.

Their sense of direction disappeared in an instant.

The formation had instantly reversed. Surely a Formation Master somewhere outside was helping the physician.

 

Even trying to adapt somehow, there was no time.

Jung Myeong didn’t allow even that brief moment.

Swoooosh- Swoosh-

 

“Gaaah…!”

“Kek!”

 

He thrust his sword mercilessly.

At fatal spots!

 

“Where are you!”

 

The direction the sword had thrust from.

They tried attacking back toward it.

Whoooosh-!

 

‘Missed.’

 

There was no feeling of contact at all.

The opponent moved through the formation like a ghost.

It was hard to block. And equally hard to counterattack.

 

‘What should we do now?’

 

Looking around, their numbers were already dwindling.

It didn’t matter how many of the hastily gathered low-level assassins died.

But the real assassins dying was a big problem.

If they died, the barely revived Jangwol Gate would be finished too.

 

‘If it comes to this, it’s do or die!’

 

The Vice Sect Leader finally made his decision.

 

[Let’s use that.]

[Are you serious? We might never be able to make it again.]

[Then should we die before using it? If we fail, not getting it is the same either way!]

[Damn it!]

 

Even a cornered rat will bite a cat.

Finally, they unleashed their trump card from their robes.

Puhwaaaaak-!

 

 

* * *

 

 

Inside the formation.

The Illusion Delight Phantom Formation that melted illusions to toy with opponents.

Jung Myeong, who had been eliminating assassins within it.

Bewilderment appeared on his face.

 

‘What’s that? Is it poison?’

 

The unusual cloud mist spreading outward.

He could feel the strange energy contained within it.

As the multi-colored smoke spread in all directions, he couldn’t help but be alarmed.

 

First of all.

When the blue smoke spread out.

Crack-crack-crack-

Jung Myeong realized he could hear the sound of something breaking.

 

“Over there!”

“Damn it!”

 

It was the sound of the smoke breaking the formation.

The spreading smoke had succeeded in breaking part of the formation!

It had disrupted the formation itself using energy.

Not everything was completely broken, but the problem was that he was close to them.

With just a part being broken, his location was bound to be exposed.

 

‘This guy has some skill!’

 

Jung Myeong suppressed his panic and quickly dodged.

 

‘I just need to avoid clashing with them head-on.’

 

The reason he had drawn them into the formation in the first place was to overcome the numerical disadvantage through the formation.

There was no need to get entangled in the midst of that.

 

Swoosh-

Jung Myeong tried to retreat backward using the Three Origin Step.

However, the enemy was persistent too.

The cloud mist that spread toward him wasn’t just one type.

That meant there wasn’t just one kind.

These weren’t only aimed at disrupting energy and breaking formations.

They had a purpose in something far more lethal.

 

“Ugh…”

 

Hiss-

Red cloud mist. When his body touched it, Jung Myeong felt pain as if his entire body was being pricked by needles.

 

[Status Abnormality: You have been exposed to acid.]

 

‘Damn…! Acid?’

 

The differently colored cloud mist had acidic properties.

Jung Myeong, who hadn’t known this.

Had no choice but to be caught off guard.

 

‘Ha. Each cloud mist has different properties and they’re using that?’

 

There were still two more different colored cloud mists remaining.

 

“There he is! Catch him!”

“Watch and learn!”

 

Seeing that they weren’t going in that direction either, it was clearly quite dangerous.

The problem was that it was also effective against Jung Myeong.

 

‘Ha, this is getting interesting?’

 

Their desperate move.

The situation had flipped again, turning into complete chaos.

 

 

* * *

 

 

The remaining two types of smoke.

Their effects were quite interesting as well.

Swoosh-

One was smoke that stole internal energy upon contact.

 

[Status Abnormality: You are affected by Energy Scattering.]

[Internal energy is dispersing.]

 

‘This time it’s Energy Scattering poison!’

 

In other words, it had the properties of Energy Scattering poison.

He never imagined they would use such a precious thing as smoke.

 

‘Then what about the remaining one?’

 

The last one. It was also poison, just like the others.

Poison that was neither acidic nor Energy Scattering.

 

[Status Abnormality: You are exposed to neurotoxin.]

 

It was neurotoxin.

 

‘Ugh. This one’s vicious too.’

 

Tss-

Just touching it brought pain severe enough to scramble his mind. The poison was stimulating his nerves directly, amplifying the pain.

Not a single one of them was easy to deal with.

There weren’t even ten assassins, but it felt like he was surrounded by enemies on all sides.

 

 

* * *

 

 

Should he consider this fortunate?

 

“Kheugh…”

“Endure it!”

 

From what he could see, this poison seemed to affect them as well.

 

‘The problem is that unlike me, only some of them are affected.’

 

The problem was that unlike him, they could move within the smoke.

While they had similar restrictions, theirs seemed to be lesser.

If he felt pain at a level of ten, they seemed to feel pain at a level of five.

The reason was obvious.

 

‘I thought their martial power was too low for assassins. It’s because they’ve been training for this kind of thing.’

 

They had definitely trained to adapt to that terrible cloud mist.

In other words, training comparable to poison immunity training.

Through this, they severely poison their opponents.

While avoiding poisoning themselves and assassinating enemies – that was clearly their specialty.

Even if it was a method limited to smoke.

For him right now, this was a critical situation.

He had to find an alternative.

 

‘What do I do now?’

 

All directions were hazy with poison smoke.

They were surrounding him while gradually closing the distance.

If the assassins attacked from all four directions like this, even Jung Myeong would be finished.

 

‘I have to make a choice.’

 

Nerve, energy scattering, acid. And the initial blue smoke.

He had to bet on one of these and make a gamble.

However, none of them were easy options.

 

‘Which way should I go?’

 

He had to make a choice like this.

In truth, even seeing wouldn’t allow him to make a decision.

 

‘No, is going anywhere even the right choice in the first place? They’re the ones who set up this game.’

 

Meanwhile, it was hard to have confidence.

Whatever he did, it seemed like he was being manipulated within the game they had created.

So he made a different resolution instead.

 

‘I’d rather break the game once more.’

 

He decided to break the game!

Paaaang-!

Having made his great resolution, he immediately stomped his foot.

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