Survival Guide for the Reincarnated - Chapter 217

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Chapter 217

On the third day, Woon-hwi and Manager Seong were passing through a deep gorge. High cliffs rose on both sides of the road, blocking any escape routes.

Usually, when discussing military tactics, if there’s terrain suitable for ambushes, this would be exactly that kind of place.

Sure enough, Manager Seong, who was driving the carriage, let out a deep sigh.

“…Young Master.”

At that voice, Woon-hwi spoke briefly.

“We’re in a hurry, so just pass through.”

“Understood.”

As soon as Manager Seong finished speaking, about twenty men who had been hiding on the cliff side revealed themselves.

“Stop right there-!!”

They were all dressed in black clothing with green headbands, each carrying various weapons like axes, spears, and swords.

One of them shouted.

“This road belongs to our brothers, so pay the toll and pass-!”

Manager Seong ignored them and tried to drive the carriage forward.

However, since there seemed to be some martial artists among the bandits who blocked the carriage’s path, Manager Seong had no choice but to stop the carriage.

His expression was calm, but his irritation was clearly visible.

Even when looking at the bandit who approached and pointed a sword at his neck, his expression remained unchanged.

“Hah… This coachman bastard still hasn’t come to his senses. We are the heroes of the Green Forest Sect. As for myself, I am the great Gil Yeong, who holds one of the thirty Green Lord positions granted only to thirty people in the Green Forest Sect, so immediately take out everything in your pockets and show proper respect. If you don’t, you’ll end up like those bastards over there, leaving this world to wash your face in the Three Path River, so judge wisely.”

Manager Seong’s gaze turned toward a corner of the gorge.

There lay a destroyed carriage and five corpses, and the condition of the bodies was far from normal.

Crushed and mangled by all sorts of weapons, it was a sight that couldn’t have been done without considerable malice.

“The smell of blood seems thick.”

At Woon-hwi’s voice coming from inside the carriage, Manager Seong spoke in the most restrained voice possible.

“The condition of the corpses is not good. It’s as if…”

It was Gil Yeong, one of the thirty Green Lords of the Green Forest Sect, who picked up those words.

“We tortured them. Those bastards trusted in their meager martial arts skills and spouted nonsense about chivalry and whatnot, so we dragged them out and beat them thoroughly. You’ll end up like those bastards if you don’t pay the toll.”

There was a reason the bandits were being so arrogant.

The carriage Woon-hwi was riding in was an ordinary carriage.

Though the horses were of fine breed quality, since there were no markings on the carriage, they judged it to be nothing special.

From inside the carriage, Woon-hwi let out a sigh.

“Manager Seong.”

“Yes, Young Master.”

“How long would it take?”

A cold light flashed through Manager Seong’s eyes.

“About the time it takes to drink tea, that should be enough.”

After the sound of pages turning was heard from inside the carriage, Woon-hwi’s voice came through.

“Kill them all.”

“By your command-!”

Gil Yeong frowned.

“These insolent bastards, we told you we’re from the Green Forest Sect… Huk!”

Those became Gil Yeong’s last words.

Slash-!

Gil Yeong’s head shot up into the sky.

“I have no intention of pretending to be a chivalrous hero, nor do I intend to revere chivalry, but watching pathetic bastards crawl up is unbearably hard to watch.”

At Manager Seong’s coldly sunken words, the bandits flinched.

A master.

A master among masters that these people could never handle.

As soon as Manager Seong got down from the carriage and drew a hidden dagger from his waist, one of the bandits quickly shouted.

“We’re sorry!! It seems we unintentionally blocked the path of great men. We apologize. Please just pass through!!”

“I’ve seen it, and now I have no choice but to act. If you’re going to resent anyone, resent your past selves.”

Thud.

Manager Seong’s dagger, having kicked off from his position, cuts through the air.

Slash-!

Another bandit’s head shot up into the sky, and slash-! Slash!

In an instant, two more heads shot up.

Manager Seong had said it would take about the time to drink tea, but in less than half that time, all the bandits were annihilated.

“Let’s continue our departure.”

Despite having massacred not just ordinary bandits but bandits from the Green Forest Sect, these two people were surprisingly calm.

Why would bandits be bandits?

When parasites who don’t know their place crawl up, it’s right to make an example of them.

As if nothing had happened, Manager Seong drove the carriage.

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That night, Woon-hwi and Manager Seong stopped their carriage at a small inn.

It was a small village located about halfway up the mountain path, and aside from being in a hurry, they were human and needed to eat, and the horses also needed rest, so they had no choice.

After finishing their meal and resting in their room, Woon-hwi’s ears perked up.

A small sound reached him. At first he thought it was the sound of wind, but Woon-hwi soon realized it was a woman’s crying.

He opened his closed eyes. Heo Hyeon Energy rose up, sensing the surrounding aura.

Behind the inn.

He could sense the presence of several people there.

Woon-hwi silently got up, opened the window, and headed to the back of the inn. There he witnessed several men trying to load a young girl into a carriage.

One man spoke in a low voice.

“Hurry, the Lord of the Green Forest is waiting.”

The girl was crying in terror, but her mouth was gagged so only sobbing sounds came out.

Woon-hwi quietly watched the scene.

The term “Lord of the Green Forest” that they mentioned caught his attention. He didn’t know who that was.

But the sight of someone being kidnapped in the dead of night and the situation where a bandit who preys on others is called a lord was puzzling beyond measure.

He had no intention of wasting any more time on his way to the Heavenly Righteousness Alliance, but now that he had seen it, he couldn’t just let it pass.

“I have no intention of pretending to be a chivalrous hero, nor do I intend to pretend to be a great hero.”

At Woon-hwi’s quietly resonating voice, the bandits and the woman froze in place.

“Who are you, and why are you trying to take that woman?”

Then one man sighed and stepped forward.

“Look here. In this vast Murim, if something happens, wouldn’t it happen for some reason? So don’t mind other people’s business and go your way.”

“Is my question difficult?”

“…”

“I asked who you are and why you’re kidnapping that woman.”

“…Hah… This young bastard should just scram on his own when we’re being nice about it. Tsk.”

The man took out a green headband from his chest and put it on his head.

“We’re from Nokrim. We serve the main sect leader of the Green Forest Eighteen Divisions. The main sect leader took a liking to this woman and ordered us to bring her directly. So we’re taking her now.”

Though not mentioned, there are really many bandits in Murim.

Since the territory is so vast, there’s no way there couldn’t be.

In such remote places, the Green Forest Eighteen Divisions wield influence almost equivalent to that of a king. In fact, even decent martial artists are intimidated by that name, and this was inevitable.

Because the supreme sect leader of the Green Forest Eighteen Divisions was a master of the Divine Transformation Realm.

He had even gained enlightenment to ascend to the Heaven-Human Realm and entered seclusion.

That period has lasted a full year until today, and he wouldn’t come out without achieving results, but when he does emerge, the status of the Green Forest Eighteen Divisions will rise even higher.

“It seems like this is your first time in Soho Town, but even among martial artists, there are lines that must be respected. Kid, touching us is the same as touching Nokrim. If you understand, get lost back to the inn.”

The bandits who were about to turn around again frowned.

They had no choice.

“The main leader you’re talking about—is it by any chance Ju Seong-seok?”

“…You insolent bastard, how dare you speak our leader’s name with your mouth?”

Woon-hwi let out a hollow laugh.

Ju Seong-seok.

He was a man who would leave Green Forest Sect in the distant future and entrust himself to the ‘Thunder Lightning Demon Sect’.

To be precise, he had been a person of the Thunder Lightning Demon Sect for a long time already.

Woon-hwi was only now learning for the first time that he was in charge of this area.

“I was just thinking about it, but that thought is gradually becoming certainty.”

“…What are you saying right now?”

“There’s no such thing as coincidence in this world. Everything is inevitable.”

“…”

“And it’s people who create that inevitability. In this world, there’s only one person who can create that inevitability. It was his will that led me to the Heavenly Righteousness Alliance.”

The bandit had no time to interpret Woon-hwi’s cryptic words.

Because Woon-hwi had drawn the Jinwha Cheonryeong Geom.

“…I don’t know where you’ve been rolling around, but what kind of bravado makes you carry around a sword bigger than yourself…”

“What is a martial artist?”

“…What?”

“Just as there’s non-aggression between the government and Murim, there are lines that martial artists must also maintain.”

The bandit frowned at words that were almost identical to what he himself had just said.

“The lines that martial artists must maintain aren’t about power struggles between each other. Martial artists with martial artists, common people with common people. That is the line martial artists must maintain.”

Woon-hwi’s eyes turned coldly.

“I’ll warn you only once. Put down the woman and disappear from my sight. If you do that, nothing will happen today.”

The bandit chuckled and said.

“Boy. My name is Gil Jin. Commander Gil Yeong, who holds one of the thirty Green Forest leader positions, is my older brother.”

“So what?”

“It means you should know who’s going to kill you before you die, you bastard!”

Gil Jin drew his sword and kicked off from his position.

What martial arts he used, whether it was even top-tier Martial God grade or not—no one needed to know any of that.

Slash-!

Because with a thunderous sound, Gil Jin’s sword and his arm were cut in half by the Jinwha Cheonryeong Geom that Woon-hwi swung.

“Wha… what…??”

Then, the moment the arm that had shot into the air fell to the ground, Gil Jin let out a scream mixed with pain.

“Aaaahhh-!!”

Woon-hwi reached out and grabbed his mouth.

“Gil Jin, one of the thirty Green Forest leaders… and Gil Yeong, was it?”

“Mmph… mmph…”

“The name of the guy I killed on the way here was also Gil Yeong. What a strange coincidence this is.”

There was nothing more.

Crack-!

Woon-hwi crushed Gil Jin’s face as it was and threw his corpse to the side.

The number of bandits was five.

Since one of them died, four remained.

He kicked off from his position.

“Wa… wait…!”

The neck of the bandit saying that shot up to the sky with a slashing sound.

He rotated his body as it was and thrust out his foot.

Crash-!!

Another bandit’s solar plexus exploded as it was, and his limbs burst out in all directions.

He swung the Jinwha Cheonryeong Geom he was holding once more.

Rumble-!!

With a thunderous sound, the bodies of three bandits were torn in half.

In an instant, all five bandits had died.

Woon-hwi silently flicked his finger. The finger strike that shot from his hand crushed the gag that was filling the woman’s mouth, but the woman couldn’t say anything.

She couldn’t bring herself to open her mouth at what had unfolded before her eyes.

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