The Crazy Battle God Has Returned - Chapter 68

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A Mad Swordsman Returns – Chapter 68

Screams pierced the air.
Agonized groans and the death rattles of the dying echoed through the space.
Wang Liu-ye stared blankly at the scene unfolding before her.

“Ugh, gasp!”
“Urgh, hack… haaaack….”

What lay before her was one-sided carnage.
More than twenty Hunting Dogs were scattered across the floor.
The bodyguards she had brought for her own purposes fared no better.
All these people could not stand against a single player.

Whoooosh!

Han Yu-sung.
An enormous surge of mana flooded the interior.
That mana crystallized into bitter cold, descending upon the Hunting Dogs like a blizzard.
Their legs froze solid in an instant.
Han Yu-sung unsheathed Full Moon as if he had been waiting for this moment, and a whirlwind of blade energy tore through them.

“Insane!”
“B-boss! We can’t stop him!”
“Damn it all…!”

The number of remaining Hunting Dogs was not large.
Many had moved to capture Han Yu-sung, and beyond that, the base itself had never maintained a large standing force.
The location of the base was rarely exposed, and the priority was to abandon it quickly and flee if discovered.
And that very precaution had backfired.

“Stray! How did this happen! You said we wouldn’t be discovered!”
“Damn it, how was I supposed to know! This has never happened before!”

They had fled from the Player Alliance before.
But this was the first time they had been exposed by a single player and ended up in this state!
Who could have imagined such a thing would occur?

‘How did he get this far? The Hunting Dogs I sent….’

There was no need to ponder.
The Hunting Dogs guarding Lee Gap-yong’s front were being slaughtered mercilessly.
Those creatures must have met the same fate.
That’s what made it all the more horrifying.

‘Can he really face this many players alone?’

According to Wang Liu-ye, the player had grown temporarily stronger due to the Trial’s buff, so he should be manageable.
Temporarily my ass…!

“L-Listen. I have no personal feelings about this….”

All the Hunting Dogs had fallen. Only Lee Gap-yong and Wang Liu-ye remained.
Han Yu-sung approached, scattering crimson energy in his wake.

“It’s all about the money!”

Lee Gap-yong shrieked convulsively and unleashed his skill.
His blade merged with the darkness. The pitch-black sword multiplied into several forms, each one shooting toward Han Yu-sung from all directions.

【Extinguishing Flame Technique – Falling Blossoms】.

Boom!

“Ugh, uuaahhh!”

Raging flames swept across the surroundings.
Then, a leg wreathed in fire traced a graceful arc, deflecting every blade that had been closing in on him.
Han Yu-sung, having closed the distance, raised his right leg high.
Tremendous power concentrated in that limb.

‘Whatever it is, before he completes it…!’

I must attack.
With the strongest skill I can muster right now!
Darkness gathered upon Lee Gap-yong’s blade as he gritted his teeth, the weapon beginning to radiate a force capable of tearing through everything.
The sword shot forth toward Han Yu-sung.
As the darkness coalesced upon the blade fractured, it transformed into dozens of shadow-edged blades that surged toward Han Yu-sung’s heart.
And yet, before that could reach him.

Whoooosh!
“Ugh, gah…?!”

A foot wreathed in flame burned through the air, descending faster than the strike itself.
It intercepted Lee Gap-yong’s blade directly in its path.
The blazing foot struck the darkness-laden sword and its dozens of shadow blades with devastating force.
And in that instant.

Crack, crackle-crackle!

“…!”

The dozens of blades were consumed by the inferno and vanished, while the sword, unable to withstand the heat, glowed red-hot before shattering completely.
Lee Gap-yong stared helplessly at the fragments of his shattered blade.
Then Extinguishing Flame descended upon his shoulder.

Boom!

A tremendous explosion erupted.
The foot that had crushed Lee Gap-yong’s shoulder pulverized bone, and the flames that detonated in succession consumed his entire body in one fell swoop.
Engulfed in the inferno, Lee Gap-yong screamed and rolled across the ground.
But it was only momentary.

“Hah… ugh…”

Lee Gap-yong, now in a pitiful state, gasped for breath.
The flames that had consumed him swept across the ground as if unsatisfied.
Wang Liu-ye watched the scene unfold with a face twisted in shock.

‘Even without the Trial’s blessing, he’s this powerful?’

That was the question that surfaced in Wang Liu-ye’s mind.
Before coming here, I had gathered the necessary information from Lee Shue-man.
Including the structure of God’s Trial itself.

[That Korean is certainly strong. But most of that strength stems from the Trial. The special dragon soul contract he made, that is.]
[In the Trial, there was no one to oppose him, but now that his contract with the dragon soul has ended… he won’t be nearly as powerful as he was then.]

Dragon souls grant power to the Guardians they contract with. Han Yu-sung’s absolute strength in the Trial was largely due to the Dragon Lord’s influence.
Now that he’s lost that power, capturing him should be entirely feasible.
Lee Shue-man’s judgment was sound.
Except for one miscalculation.

‘He wasn’t the type of man to entrust to some criminal organization.’

He was a powerhouse formidable enough that even the assassins of the Black Flesh Gate should have stepped in directly, regardless of how long it took…!
Han Yu-sung turned his head. His gaze fixed on Wang Liu-ye.
She gritted her teeth and tore into her own body.

Shhhhhhh…!

Blood poured from her wounds.
It was no ordinary blood.
Virulent poison. Her unique ability transformed the blood she shed into a deadly toxin the moment it left her body.
The flowing blood transformed into mist, then swiftly into a poisonous fog.

“Come closer, and you die.”

Wang Liu-ye declared from within the toxic haze.

‘I need to buy time with this and find a way to escape.’

That he would perish, drenched in poison.
That he should retreat if he didn’t want that fate.

That was what she intended to warn him with, but this time, she had chosen her opponent poorly.

“So that’s where the poison came from. You were the culprit all along.”
“What…?”

Han Yu-sung ignored the poison and walked forward with unshakeable composure.
The toxin that Wang Liu-ye took such pride in had no effect on him whatsoever.
It was potent poison, certainly, but far too weak to penetrate his resistance.
Instead, the poison transformed into a buff that strengthened him.

“You’re completely ignoring my poison…?”
“If I weren’t, I wouldn’t have made it here. You sprayed that vicious toxin all over my rooming house. But for me….”

Crack!

Han Yu-sung seized Wang Liu-ye by the throat.
Tremendous force constricted her airway.

“It made no real difference.”

Wang Liu-ye thrashed violently and unleashed her poison techniques, but
it was meaningless struggle.
Her unique ability carried a penalty—her direct combat prowess was weak. Without poison to work, she had no options.
Realizing everything was futile, she resorted to

“If you kill me, the Black Flesh Gate will…!”

A crude threat.
If he killed her, the Black Flesh Gate would not remain idle.
A threat so pathetic that even she felt ashamed voicing it.
Han Yu-sung let out a derisive laugh.

“Because of Wei Hao, we’ve already crossed a line we can’t return from. What difference does one more death make?”

Only one more grudge would accumulate.
Wang Liu-ye knew how meaningless her threat truly was.
She knew it wouldn’t work on the opponent before her.
The grip around her throat tightened relentlessly.

“Wait, please…!”

Wang Liu-ye’s eyes trembled violently.
She felt her life hanging by a thread. Or perhaps she was already dead. The crisis had reached that threshold.
And she found that she did not wish to die.

“P-please… spare me.”
“A moment ago you were threatening me, and now you’re begging for your life?”
“I… I don’t want to die. I only just became a Player…!”

Wang Liu-ye cried out desperately.
She had lived a wretched existence. Only after becoming a Player had she finally escaped that squalid life. She hadn’t even begun to truly enjoy it yet.
She couldn’t die here like this!

“I’ll… I’ll do anything… absolutely anything…!”
“Anything?”
“Y-yes, anything!”

Han Yu-sung’s eyes gleamed with sinister intent at those words.
The grip around Wang Liu-ye’s throat—which had been tightening as if to snap her neck—suddenly loosened.
He had been needing eyes and ears anyway.

“Fine. I’ll spare your life.”
“Gasp, cough! Wheeze, hack…!”

Wang Liu-ye collapsed, breathing heavily.
Chinese Guilds were generally persistent. Especially criminal organizations like the Black Flesh Gate.
They wouldn’t give up here—they’d make some move, one way or another.
He was confident he could handle whatever scheme they devised.

“In exchange for your life, you’ll become my eyes and ears. You’ll observe the Black Flesh Gate, listen, and report everything to me.”

There was no harm in choosing the easier path.
Han Yu-sung locked eyes with the collapsed Wang Liu-ye. She was initially shocked, but soon her expression settled into calm understanding.

‘So he wants me to become a spy within the Black Flesh Gate. To report anything that might threaten him… That’s why he’s letting me live.’

Wang Liu-ye’s mind raced rapidly.
Dangerous. Far too dangerous.
Becoming a spy inside the Black Flesh Gate was perilous enough to require multiple lives.
For now, she’d pretend to accept and get through this situation. After that…

“Good. As you say….”
“However, I cannot trust you. So we must forge a covenant.”
“…A covenant? What kind of covenant? Are you talking about a contract?”
“No, it’s far more binding than that.”

Han Yu-sung withdrew a single quill from the subspace.
【Quill of Covenant】.
An item that could only be activated when both parties presented mutually balanced conditions, and it forged a covenant that could not be broken by any means.
Seeing it, Wang Liu-ye felt an instinctive sense of dread.
A foreboding that her life would become hopelessly entangled from this moment forward.

* * *

[The covenant has been established.]

Wang Liu-ye stared blankly at the contract given to her.
More precisely, at the conditions written there—the things she must uphold.
The clauses were densely packed, each one crafted to make betrayal impossible, even unthinkable.
Especially the final line of the contract was far more alarming.

‘Any party who violates the covenant in any form shall be annihilated.’

Annihilated? What in the world did that mean?
Death?
No, this was something far more sinister….
Wang Liu-ye walked down the dark street with a hollow expression.

“I can leave the Black Flesh Gate matter to that woman.”
[I’ve acquired an obedient servant. It’s self-inflicted, but looking at her like that, she almost seems pitiful….]

Kakasha let out a low chuckle.
If the Black Flesh Gate targeted Han Yu-sung or attempted anything underhanded, Wang Liu-ye would report it through covert means.
That would make countermeasures far easier.

‘If used well, I might even seize an opportunity for a counterattack.’

A Guild of the Black Flesh Gate’s caliber would inevitably clash with him again.
When that time came, Wang Liu-ye’s existence would prove invaluable.

“How audacious of you, my friend. Well, I must admit the spectacle was rather entertaining, but what of the aftermath? How do you intend to manage it?”
“I’ll figure it out.”

Han Yu-sung surveyed the corpses scattered in every direction.
Dead Hunting Dogs would surely litter the area near his Studio Apartment as well.
To be safe, he had forcibly relocated his neighbors from the Studio Apartment. Otherwise, the poison would have killed them all.
In any case, handling the cleanup directly would prove troublesome in multiple ways.
And so.

“Whoever falls behind will take care of it.”

Han Yu-sung decided to delegate the aftermath to someone else.
The Black Flesh Gate, the Underworld, civilians—there was one organization capable of managing all of this, and possessed the power to do so.
The Player Alliance.

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