The Crazy Battle God Has Returned - Chapter 151

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A Mad Swordsman Returns – Chapter 151

The contract was finalized quickly.
A message appeared before Baek Min-jun’s party, who had been waiting in tension.

[Baek Min-jun, Ahn Jung-hyuk, Lee Ye-eun, Song Ji-a, and Yang Han-byul have mutually agreed to dissolve the existing contract and have newly contracted with the Lord of War.]
[Befitting the name of ‘War’, lead the charge across countless battlefields!]

“Gasp…!”
“W-War, you say?”

Baek Min-jun’s party was astounded upon learning the Lord’s epithet.
I had wondered who the Lord that Han Yu-sung contracted with was, but ‘War’?
It was already widely known that the Lord of War had been defeated in the war against the Lord of Justice and had vanished after losing everything.

“Could that rumor have been false?”
“Have you been deliberately hiding your identity all this time?”

Baek Min-jun looked at Han Yu-sung with eyes demanding explanation.
So I gave a brief explanation.
It was true that I had been cornered right up until the point of vanishing.
I had lost my power, and now I was rapidly recovering it.

“For something like that, the blessings are… quite extraordinary, aren’t they?”
“You saw it too, right? It’s better than what we had with the Woman Who Cuts the Moon, isn’t it?”
[Kufufu! Praise me more. Be grateful for my blessings!]

Kakasha suddenly began boasting.
Thanks to the rewards obtained from the Great Offensive, all blessing levels had grown significantly.
Converted to coins, it would be an astronomical value.
It could only be better than a Lord in decline.

“For a Lord with an epithet, there will certainly be some regrettable aspects. To that extent, I will guarantee you freedom, and I will also recover my power rapidly, so there’s no need to worry too much.”
“Ah, yes. That’s fine. We’re satisfied with this much…”

Baek Min-jun’s party seemed satisfied with Kakasha’s blessings.
And Kakasha felt the same way.

[Hmm. These ones have decent unique abilities. Baek Min-jun, I already knew about him. The rest are quite… well, see for yourself.]

It was thanks to Baek Min-jun’s party and their unique abilities.
Kakasha displayed a system window for Han Yu-sung to see.
To briefly summarize the unique abilities they possessed, it was like this.

[Baek Min-jun, Combat Command (S): Grants buffs tailored to three situations—offense, defense, and movement—to all allies within a certain range.]
[Ahn Jung-hyuk, Unbreakable Shield (A+): Greatly enhances his own defense and absorbs damage that nearby allies would take.]
[Lee Ye-eun, Blessing Amplification (A+): Consumes more mana to strengthen blessings. The range and effects of blessings can be enhanced up to 1.5 times.]
[Song Ji-a, Magical Talent (A+): Magic levels rise rapidly, and various positive effects related to magic are granted.]
[Yang Han-byul, Weakness Discernment (A+): Identifies enemy weaknesses. When she or her allies attack a discerned weakness, multiple effects trigger.]

One S-rank, the rest all A+-rank.
For oath-takers of a Lord without a title, it was an excessive specification.
Moreover, if Han Yu-sung’s memories were correct, they would grow further from here.
In the previous life, they all possessed unique abilities of S-rank or higher.

[I thought she was just a greedy Lord because she didn’t want to give them everything, but now I understand why she was reluctant to grant them more.]
“The miracle of a small enterprise, I suppose…”
“Pardon?”

Baek Min-jun looked puzzled at the sudden remark.
With abilities like these, they could easily contract with a titled Lord.
There were probably quite a few Lords who tried to poach their contract along the way.
Curious about the reason, I asked, and Baek Min-jun answered like this.

“The Woman Who Cuts the Moon was quite a decent Lord back then. We received a lot of help from her. It felt like repaying a debt. And…”
“Our contract got tangled up pretty badly…… hehe.”

It seemed they had become trapped due to various circumstances overlapping.
Han Yu-sung observed Baek Min-jun’s party quietly.
A textbook-standard party composition. No need to meddle with them.

“Until we call for you separately, feel free to operate among yourselves. If you need anything, just request it from the Lord. Items, entrance fees for the Difficult Realm, that sort of thing.”
“Yes, thank you very much.”

Baek Min-jun’s party brightened and bowed their heads.
I caught fragments of them murmuring among themselves.

‘They’re even covering the entrance fee?’
‘I never expected them to go this far….’
‘In the old days, I would have told them to earn it themselves. Now the Difficult Realm can be entered without worrying about entrance fees….’

Han Yu-sung’s expression grew peculiar at those words.
Kakasha felt the same way.

[Where did you pick up such vagabonds?]
‘It seems they suffered quite a bit under the Woman Who Cuts the Moon.’

That’s why choosing which Lord to contract with matters so much.
Sign with the wrong one, and you’ll suffer until the contract breaks.
Just as Han Yu-sung had in his past life.

“Among the remaining Oath-takers, is there anyone you’ve had your eye on?”
“Yes, sir. The ones still left have been tempered through hardship and struggle. We’ll do our best to persuade them.”

Han Yu-sung nodded.
Considering the Hero’s War and the trials that lay ahead, I needed to maintain a certain number of Oath-takers.

‘I should start thinking about what to do with the Base soon.’

I needed a place where the Oath-takers could gather.
Building a separate structure like Achiros’s Hall of Justice in Seoul wouldn’t be a bad idea, but the timing wasn’t right yet.
It would be better to purchase an appropriate building.

[Those old memories return. Once, a building was erected in Seoul for the master. Now it has vanished without a trace….]

I glanced at Kakasha, who seemed downcast.
Han Yu-sung waited for Baek Min-jun’s party to persuade the Oath-takers.
Two hours later.

[78 new Oath-takers have contracted with the Lord of War.]
[Live up to the name of ‘War’ by taking the lead on countless Battlefields!]

The awaited message appeared.
With this, the total number of Oath-takers contracted this time came to 83.
It was a moment—long if you counted it one way, short if another—when the recruitment of talent came to an end.

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The Player Community was a hub where countless pieces of information circulated.
News about famous players, skills, classes, items, and Difficult Realms.
And information about disputes between Lords, particularly regarding ‘Lord’s Wars’.

[【Lord of Hunting】 achieves overwhelming victory against weak Lord Alliance!]
[Word has it that 【Lord of Justice】 is taking interest in various Difficult Realms and Lord’s Wars to recover from the damage sustained in the ‘Hero’s War’…]
[Conflict erupts between 【Lord of Swift】 and 【Lord of Adventure】?]

Of course, truly rare information never circulated there.
Only information that everyone already knew made the rounds, but even that proved helpful enough that many players frequented the community.
Then a certain post appeared on the community.

[It’s said that the Earthquake Devourer was defeated in a Lord’s War against the Woman Who Cuts the Moon. Apparently, he suffered considerable losses this time.]
[The Woman Who Cuts the Moon, victorious in the Lord’s War, consolidates her forces and goes into seclusion.]
[Where did her Oath-takers go?]

It was hardly surprising information.
News of who won a Lord’s War was something I heard all the time, and it wasn’t uncommon for a Lord to abandon everything and disappear.
But this particular news was somewhat special.

[The reason the Woman Who Cuts the Moon won was Han Yu-sung? Word has it that Han Yu-sung participated in that Lord’s War as a mercenary…]

It was because the keyword ‘Han Yu-sung’ had been included.
The community quickly erupted into chatter related to Han Yu-sung.

[Han Yu-sung participated in a Lord’s War as a mercenary? Why?]
[I heard the Woman Who Cuts the Moon’s side was numerically disadvantaged. That’s probably why she hired a mercenary, but did they have some prior connection?]
[Who knows. Actually, why would the opposing Lord even allow that?]

That was the part that puzzled the players the most.
Wasn’t Han Yu-sung a skilled warrior who had recently gained tremendous renown?
And the Earthquake Devourer allowed such a person to participate as a mercenary?
The Earthquake Devourer’s decision made no sense.
Just as everyone was bewildered, astonishing news arrived.

[I heard from someone connected to the Woman Who Cuts the Moon. The contract was dissolved, and the opposing Lord accepted mercenary work on the condition of a descent.]
[A descent as a condition… Wait, hold on.]
[So that means….]

I could understand why the Earthquake Devourer had agreed to accept mercenaries.
No matter how exceptional an individual player might be, what significance could they hold before a descended Lord? They would simply be trampled mercilessly beneath a Lord’s power.
However, in this Lord’s War, the Earthquake Devourer had been defeated.
What that signified was extremely simple.

[He lost? In a Lord’s War, even after descending?]
[LOL Does that make sense? Are you saying that Han Yu-seong defeated the descending monarch? Among the pledges of the woman who cuts down the moon, there is no one who can do that.]
[There’s no precedent that it’s impossible. There isn’t, but….]

Han Yu-sung wasn’t the first to defeat a descended Lord.
Though exceedingly rare, there were precedents. There had been players who received massive support from their Lords and succeeded in breaking descended forms.
And all of them had become legends in their respective nations.

[Regardless, isn’t this the first time in Korea?]
[It is the first. Or rather;;; To begin with, there are only a handful of players who have fought and defeated a descended form? We need to verify if it’s even true first.]
[Journalists will swarm all over this. Something’s bound to come out, right?]
[ㅇㅇ You fought with Kangrim-che? It is said to be a large-scale battle, and at this level, information about the monarch with whom Han Yu-seong signed a contract will also be released.]
[It’s not the Blood Demon, right? My guess is….]

The Player Community erupted with talk about Han Yu-sung.
And someone watching it all left a comment.

[Seriously, Han Yu-sung does something absurd every single day….]

It was a comment everyone could only agree with.

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My oath-takers had grown considerably in number.
There were also the Draken Tribe I had contracted with in the ‘Hero’s War’, but they were too busy with reconstruction to engage in proper activities.
On the other hand, those I had contracted with this time were capable of acting as oath-takers immediately.
They would be of great help in the days ahead.

‘Considering that Kakasha still isn’t such an attractive Lord, it feels like I’ve gained oath-takers beyond my station.’

The reason Kakasha isn’t an attractive Lord is simple.
He simply doesn’t possess much power yet.

[Why, why are you suddenly hitting me? How could you!]
“I’m just stating facts. Facts.”
[Facts can be a form of violence to someone…!]

Of course, Kakasha had recovered considerable power.
Enough to stand against Lords without Epithets.
But if the opponent was a Lord with an Epithet, the situation changed entirely.

[Ugh… y-yes, certainly. If I think about fighting against someone like Achiros or the Undead, I’m far from sufficient, but still…!]
“I said I’m stating facts. Why are you getting so upset?”
[Facts hurt! Ughhhh!]

Kakasha grabbed Han Yu-sung’s hair and began shaking it.
In any case, Kakasha’s competitors were Lords with Epithets. Compared to them, Kakasha had less merit as a contract partner.
So I decided to create merit this time.

“It’s different if the Lord is one who doesn’t interfere unnecessarily. Especially if that Lord possesses an Epithet.”
[Baek Min-jun, was that why you gave those guys a choice?]

Han Yu-sung nodded instead of answering.
Many Players were sick and tired of the concept of Lords.
To them, Players were a kind of ‘coin mining machine’.
What if such people were given a choice?
A choice of a Lord who lacked power but possessed an Epithet and didn’t interfere unnecessarily with their sworn followers.

[So you’re saying there would be those who feel attracted to that.]
“Because I did.”

The Lord I most desired in my past life was like that.
One who didn’t interfere, didn’t use sworn followers as mining machines, and above all.

[The Lord has accumulated sufficient power. Please select a Blessing!]
[You may select up to three Blessings.]
[The probability of rare Blessings appearing has increased!]

A Lord who possesses various blessings that aid her Oath-takers.
Han Yu-sung smiled as he gazed at the message that had materialized before him.

“Let’s cultivate your charm a bit more.”
[This is the first time I’ve heard such words from an Oath-taker….]

Leaving Kakasha behind, who lamented with conflicted feelings.
Han Yu-sung began selecting blessings.

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