My Younger Siblings Are the Greatest Masters in the World - Chapter 138

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138.

They were soon able to confirm Seol Mujin’s words with their own eyes.

In the distance, dust rose up covering the mountain shadows.

From the left, from the right, and from behind as well.

“If it’s an open field, it’s the best place for cavalry to fight.”

Seol Mujin, muttering like a monologue, estimated the enemy’s numbers.

It was far more cavalry than they had seen in Cheonga County.

Roughly, it seemed to be around three thousand.

“Deploying three thousand cavalry against five people. That seems excessive.”

The earth-shaking sound of hoofbeats and subtle trembling, along with thick dust rising up to ten zhang high, created tremendous intimidation.

Seol Mujin turned his head toward the nearest mountain.

The mountain positioned to the left was roughly five hundred zhang away, showing how wide the plain was.

“Our target is that mountain.”

At Seol Mujin’s words, the group’s gaze turned to the left.

Jegal Jaeryeong spoke.

“Cavalry won’t be able to exert their strength in the mountains, so it’s a wise choice.”

Seol Mujin drew the Bright White Pure Sword.

A chill colder than the bitter wind emanated from the sword.

“Wow! What is that sword?”

Hwangbo Ryeoseon immediately recognized that the Bright White Pure Sword was a famous blade.

“It’s a weapon that compensates for my lacking martial arts.”

“If Seol Podoo’s martial arts are lacking, then the rest of us here should bite our tongues and die.”

“Let’s not die. If one person dies, the remaining four become endangered. I’ll take the lead, Hyeonguk and Lady Sang take the left and right, and Lady Hwangbo and Lady Jegal take the rear.”

“You mean pierce through like a sharp nail?”

“Long spears thrusting from horseback aren’t easy to deal with. Picture it in your mind before fighting. Also be careful of arrows flying from the rear.”

Since they seemed to have made full preparations to capture them, archers would likely be deployed as well.

Jegal Jaeryeong spoke like a sigh.

“I don’t understand why Yeongchun Wang is going through all this trouble to capture us.”

“It’s not Yeongchun Wang but Stupid Wang, it seems.”

At Hwangbo Ryeoseon’s words, the group burst into laughter.

“Let’s capture him later and confirm whether he’s Yeongchun or Stupid.”

Seol Mujin dismounted from his horse.

With a sword rather than a spear, it was more comfortable to fight with his feet on the ground than mounted combat.

The rest of the group also abandoned their horses.

“Let’s go!”

Seol Mujin deployed his lightness skill toward the mountain they had targeted.

The four others also deployed their light body techniques to match Seol Mujin’s speed.

He was worried about Jegal Jaeryeong whose martial arts level was unknown, but fortunately she followed them without difficulty.

In Jegal Jaeryeong’s hand was now a soft sword.

The sword, thin as paper, showed a blue edge that revealed it to be no ordinary blade.

When they deployed their lightness skills, the cavalry in front slowed down, while the cavalry on the other three sides spurred forward.

Since Seol Mujin’s group’s lightness skills were so fast, the first clash with the frontal cavalry occurred when the left, right, and rear cavalry were about a hundred zhang away.

Six spears simultaneously thrust toward Seol Mujin.

As Seol Mujin’s sword moved from left to right, the spears were cut like corn stalks.

Leaping up in that state, Seol Mujin swept his sword from right to left.

The blue sword energy extending four feet cleanly severed the necks of all six cavalrymen.

Seol Mujin kicked off a horse’s back, rotated his body horizontally to avoid thrusting spears, then swung his sword.

Three more chests were split open.

“Aaaaah!”

This time a fairly long scream followed, but it was soon drowned out by the clamorous sound of hoofbeats.

A spear stabbed at Seol Mujin as he landed, followed by a horse charging with its whole body.

Seol Mujin avoided the spear and cut the legs of the charging horse.

“Be careful!”

With Seol Mujin’s shout, the horse screamed “Neeeigh!” and tumbled forward.

The horse with severed legs rolled roughly like a rock tumbling down a slope.

The four following behind Seol Mujin hastily leaped up to avoid the horse.

However, the cavalry that had surrounded Seol Mujin’s group from behind became entangled with the horses with severed legs.

In an instant, eight cavalrymen from the rear rolled on the ground with their horses.

Seol Mujin’s Bright White Pure Sword, imbued with sword energy, cut through both enemy spears and horses.

Seol Mujin kicked off a falling horse and leaped up, glancing back briefly.

Hwangbo Hyeonguk and Sang Chiyeon were managing to hold their ground against the cavalry pressing from left and right.

Though their martial arts were high, it was difficult to display their full abilities against cavalry they were fighting for the first time.

Surprisingly, Hwangbo Ryeoseon and Jegal Jaeryeong at the rear showed excellent fighting.

Jegal Jaeryeong in particular was like a dragonfly flying through the wind.

She avoided thrusting long spears while targeting only the mounted cavalrymen to kill them.

In terms of numbers killed alone, it would be twice as many as Hwangbo Ryeoseon.

Seol Mujin charged straight forward and shouted.

“Close the distance!”

Since the goal wasn’t to annihilate the cavalry here, they needed to reach the mountain as quickly as possible.

The four pushed back the cavalry and quickly caught up to Seol Mujin.

Swish!

At the sound of cutting wind, Seol Mujin severed the necks of two cavalrymen then turned his head.

About twenty arrows were flying toward them.

As expected, archers had come, but he didn’t expect them to shoot arrows now.

This was because shooting arrows in such chaotic battle would inevitably cause damage not only to enemies but also to allies.

As the thought ‘Is there a way?’ crossed his mind, a short scream was heard.

An arrow had lodged in the neck of a cavalryman who was about to attack Hwangbo Hyeonguk.

“Crazy bastards!”

The archers were shooting arrows without distinguishing friend from foe.

They would probably consider allied deaths as collateral damage.

It was a strategy that could only be deployed because they were soldiers.

Due to the arrow attacks, Seol Mujin’s group’s coordination became even more chaotic.

Having to block arrows flying along with long spears was no ordinary difficulty.

Eventually, Sang Chiyeon was hit by an arrow in the back.

Thanks to his protective energy, the arrow couldn’t even penetrate and fell off, but it still left bloodstains.

Whine!

Even in the chaos where horses and men were entangled and swords clashed with spears, Seol Mujin could clearly hear the sound of a flying arrow.

That arrow was definitely different from the arrows that had flown so far.

“Watch out!”

The arrow that seemed faster than sound was aimed at Hwangbo Ryeoseon.

Clang!

Hwangbo Ryeoseon, who had deflected a spear aimed at her chest, also felt the chilling energy of the arrow.

Her sword didn’t hesitate and struck the arrow aimed at her head.

Claaang!

She learned for the first time that an arrow could have such power.

Hwangbo Ryeoseon’s sword, unable to fully infuse martial power, only slightly changed the arrow’s direction.

The arrow that grazed past Hwangbo Ryeoseon’s ear pierced through the chest of a cavalryman who was about to attack Sang Chiyeon.

The power was so strong that the cavalryman hit by the arrow flew backward and crashed into the ground.

“Damn, what the hell is this?”

Hwangbo Ryeoseon rubbed her numb wrist as she looked in the direction the arrow had come from.

Forty zhang away, she spotted a figure riding toward them on horseback.

The rider was fifty zhang ahead of the other cavalry, and in his hands was a large bow.

The power from that previous shot wasn’t solely due to the bow’s performance.

No matter how good a bow might be, it couldn’t generate enough force to numb Hwangbo Ryeoseon’s wrist.

This was someone who could infuse martial power into arrows before shooting them.

In the martial world, there were hardly any martial artists who used bows as weapons.

Once martial arts reached first-rate level, arrows posed no threat unless used in surprise attacks.

But the military was different.

Archers were an important military asset, and there were many skilled marksmen among them.

Occasionally, archers with truly exceptional abilities would emerge.

Archers who could infuse martial power into their arrows, that is.

Whiiing—!

Another arrow was shot.

This time too, the target was Hwangbo Ryeoseon.

The arrow that would never miss flew at tremendous speed.

“Damn it!”

If she only had to deal with arrows, it wouldn’t be too difficult.

But long spears attacking her from both sides closed in as well.

One of those spears was cut down by Jegal Jaeryeong, who had appeared at some point.

Hwangbo Ryeoseon barely dodged the arrow while deflecting the long spear.

The arrow aimed at Hwangbo Ryeoseon pierced through another cavalryman’s throat instead.

After beheading two cavalrymen, Jegal Jaeryeong shouted to Hwangbo Ryeoseon.

“Sister! Can you handle that archer?”

The archer who had stopped advancing was slowly nocking an arrow to his bow from beyond forty zhang away.

The archer’s unhurried movements resembled those of a swordsman giving his all.

If they didn’t eliminate the archer, this would become an incredibly difficult battle.

“Can you handle things alone?”

Jegal Jaeryeong forced a relaxed smile.

“Hurry up and take him out!”

Thanks to the archer, there were no cavalrymen guarding the rear.

“Just hold out for one moment!”

It was only forty zhang away.

Before leaving her position, Hwangbo Ryeoseon glanced at Seol Mujin.

At that moment, Seol Mujin was also looking at Hwangbo Ryeoseon, so their gazes met in midair.

No words were particularly necessary.

Seol Mujin nodded, and Hwangbo Ryeoseon showed a slight smile.

While Seol Mujin could eliminate the archer faster than Hwangbo Ryeoseon, he was the only one who could definitively block the wave of cavalry.

So the archer was Hwangbo Ryeoseon’s responsibility.

As Hwangbo Ryeoseon beheaded three nearby cavalrymen, an arrow flew toward her.

Hwangbo Ryeoseon launched her body toward the arrow.

There were no cavalrymen in the arrow’s flight path.

Clang!

The arrow she deflected while getting closer carried stronger force than before.

Even without direct contact, her cheek reddened from the grazing arrow.

The archer’s speed in nocking arrows increased.

Even though he shot without careful aim, the arrow didn’t miss Hwangbo Ryeoseon.

The speed was similar to before.

‘What would happen if I just dodged?’

That thought suddenly occurred to her.

An arrow that passed by her might hit Jegal Jaeryeong or Sang Chiyeon.

With that thought, Hwangbo Ryeoseon had no choice but to deflect the arrow.

Like blocking a heavy blade, shock hit her wrist and a burning sensation spread to her earlobe.

She could feel blood dripping over her shoulder.

‘Did it get cut? That’ll leave a scar, won’t it?’

In the past, she would have said “Scars are a martial artist’s medals!” and not cared at all.

The distance to the archer had narrowed to about twenty-five zhang.

Even using her light body technique at full power, she had only closed about fifteen zhang, and the damn archer skilled at rapid shooting fired another arrow.

This arrow was much faster than before.

The distance was closer and she was using her light body technique.

Deflecting an arrow that looked like nothing more than a dot wasn’t easy.

She swung her sword almost instinctively.

The moment this sword missed the arrow, she would die with a hole somewhere in her face.

So the sharp sound and the shock now transmitted through her entire arm were welcome.

Shiit—!

The sound of the arrow deflecting sent chills down her spine.

The next arrow would pierce through her even if she managed to block it.

No, could she even block it?

An arrow flying faster than sound from just over ten zhang away?

Feeling such threat from an archer didn’t feel real.

The archer drew his bowstring.

Perhaps because tension had reached its peak, she could even see the feathers of the arrow the archer held.

The archer’s fingers gripping the feathers seemed to tremble slightly.

No, they were definitely trembling.

This was the last arrow she had to block.

If she could just block this arrow, the archer wouldn’t have time to shoot another.

The archer knew this too.

That’s why he was trembling.

The anxiety wasn’t hers alone.

Whiing!

The fully drawn bow returned to its original shape as the arrow left the string.

A distance of barely ten zhang.

The arrow infused with martial power wasn’t even visible.

Her sword moved almost by instinct.

Clang!

It connected.

But the transmitted shock was tremendous.

The force contained in the arrow was great, the distance was close, and the accumulated shock in her arm was deeper than expected.

So she dropped her sword.

The arrow?

She didn’t particularly feel pain anywhere.

Suddenly she remembered something someone had told her before.

The story that when you receive a truly fatal blow, you can’t feel any sensation at all.

‘Did the arrow hit me?’

She could see the archer’s right hand reaching behind his back to grab another arrow.

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