The Evil Martial God Chronicles - Chapter 52
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Legend of the Evil Martial God
Chapter 52
“They’re still apprentices, so it’s not punishment but more like getting severely scolded.”
“Really? Where are those bastards’ forges?”
“Pardon?”
“If they thought about extinguishing someone else’s forge, they should be prepared for their own forges to be extinguished too. Don’t you think?”
At Jeok Wigang’s words spoken with a sinister smile, the Fire Master inwardly thought this person was a demon.
“I asked where they are?”
“I, I’ll guide you there.”
Jeok Wigang arrived at the forges of the apprentices who had tried to extinguish Yeom Hwa’s forge.
He threw his fist straight at the forge.
Kwang-.
Kwaruru-.
The forge collapsed completely.
The Fire Master was horrified at the sight.
It wasn’t just extinguishing the fire, but completely destroying it.
After smashing the other two forges as well, he spoke to the Fire Master.
“I’ve thought of a punishment for those bastards.”
“Wh, what is it?”
“Tell them to rebuild the forges. Exactly the same.”
“Ah, understood.”
“Failing to properly maintain their forges is also grounds for punishment, right?”
“Y, yes, that’s right.”
“I’ve created a justification for you. You don’t need to thank me.”
He wasn’t grateful at all.
The Fire Master looked around nervously.
Worried that someone might have seen.
“Why? Afraid someone saw? Worried they’ll suspect you did this?”
“This is Cheonmu Castle.”
“So what.”
“What do you mean so what. This is Cheonmu Castle, the strongest force in the Central Plains. One wrong move and you could lose your life.”
“Don’t worry. I’m stronger.”
“Pardon?”
“I’m stronger than Cheonmu Castle, so don’t worry and go sleep.”
He was definitely insane.
He had gotten involved with the wrong person entirely.
Watching the Fire Master walk toward the accommodation with drooping shoulders, he turned around.
In the direction Jeok Wigang was looking was the center of Cheonmu Castle, the Cheonmu Castle Lord’s residence.
Looking at that place, he smiled sinisterly and muttered.
“Sleep well, Grandfather.”
The next day.
The auxiliary forge was in chaos.
“What, what!”
“Wh, why is our forge like this?”
“Who is it! Who smashed our forge! Come out right now!”
Three apprentices were jumping around frantically, shouting that they would find the culprit.
Then they spotted Yeom Hwa and ran toward him.
“It’s you! You smashed our forge!”
At their words, Yeom Hwa spoke with an incredulous expression.
“What are you talking about. I wasn’t even here yesterday.”
“Who can prove that?”
“What?”
“I’m asking if there’s anyone who can prove you weren’t here!”
If he said he was with Master Chu, would these bastards believe him?
They’d probably make a fuss demanding he bring him here.
Sigh.
He had come out in a good mood today.
Now he was annoyed.
If it weren’t for his Lord, would he have had to endure things like this for his entire life?
But not anymore.
“What’s your evidence that I did it?”
“What?”
“That’s right. You’re doing this without any evidence that I did it, aren’t you?”
“You bastard! Who else besides you would smash our forge!”
“You never know. I heard you bully apprentices so much that you have many enemies?”
“Do you want to die?”
The three people moved with murderous expressions as if they would attack Yeom Hwa immediately.
That’s when it happened.
“What are you doing!”
With the Fire Master’s appearance, the apprentice blacksmiths lined up in unison.
“What’s this? Why are the forges smashed?”
He witnessed it from the closest distance, but feigned ignorance and said.
“Th-that was like this when we came out in the morning.”
“Do you think that makes sense?”
“Someone who holds a grudge against us did this!”
“That’s right! I, I suspect that Yeom Hwa over there.”
“Yeom Hwa wasn’t here yesterday. I am the witness.”
When the Fire Master stepped forward as a witness, they had nothing to say.
“Are you blaming others because you failed to properly guard the forge and it collapsed? I heard everything. You were wandering around here and there without properly tending to the forge?”
“Th-that is.”
“I also know that you entrusted your forge to other Apprentice Blacksmiths.”
At the Fire Master’s words, the Apprentice Blacksmiths hung their heads.
“I’ll give you until this week. Make it exactly like before. If you don’t, you will be severely punished.”
“U-until this week?”
That’s ridiculous.
How could they complete a forge in just one week?
“Whether you stay up all night or use people, that’s for you to figure out. This week. If you can’t make it by this week, you’re expelled.”
At the word expulsion, the three people knelt down and begged.
“This is unfair! We really did nothing wrong!”
“It really was like this when we came in the morning!”
“Someone broke it! We really did nothing wrong.”
“Quiet. This week. Remember that.”
After giving the threat, he spoke to the other Apprentice Smiths.
“What are you all doing! Not working.”
“Yes!”
As the Apprentice Smiths scattered in all directions, the Fire Master called Yeom Hwa aside.
“Yeom Hwa.”
Yeom Hwa turned his head and bowed.
“Do you have something to say to me?”
“I’m sorry for all this time.”
“What?”
“Work hard.”
At the sight of the Fire Master patting his shoulder and hurriedly disappearing, Yeom Hwa made a bewildered expression.
Wasn’t this the person who always looked down on him?
But suddenly he apologized.
What’s going on?
Then, one person came to mind.
His Lord, Jeok Wigang.
‘Lord must have done something yesterday.’
The forge of the Apprentice Smiths who tormented him was smashed,
And that prickly Fire Master apologized first.
Yeom Hwa finally realized.
‘Lord…’
Jeok Wigang had stood up for him.
Yeom Hwa couldn’t control the flowing tears.
It was the first time in his entire life that someone had stood up for him.
After crying like that for a while, he set out to find Jeok Wigang.
Where did he go?
He was nowhere to be seen.
Come to think of it, the Fire Master would make a fuss if someone was late, but he passed over it without any mention.
No, he remembered trying hard not to even look at Jeok Wigang’s spot.
It was the moment his guess became certainty.
Yeom Hwa made a resolution.
He would do anything for Jeok Wigang.
To do that, he had to become strong, and also become the best as a Blacksmith.
He would definitely achieve it.
As he steeled his resolve and headed toward the forge, those Apprentice Smiths from earlier blocked his path.
“It’s you, isn’t it? No matter how much I think about it, I can only think of you.”
“Move aside. I’m busy.”
“Move aside? Your words are short?”
Yeom Hwa looked at the three Apprentice Smiths.
He could clearly see their weaknesses.
Enough to smash them right now.
But he held back.
“Can’t you hear us?”
“Since we’re ruined anyway, let’s ruin you too before we go!”
The moment the three Apprentice Smiths rushed at Yeom Hwa.
Thud thud thud-.
“Keh!”
“Kuk!”
“Keuk!”
With a gust of wind, the three rushing Apprentice Smiths were sent flying.
Yeom Hwa was startled and looked back to see Jeok Wigang standing there with a wicked smile.
“What are you looking at like that?”
“Oh, you’ve arrived.”
“Yeah. I went to bed late yesterday so I overslept a bit.”
“What happened yesterday?”
Jeok Wigang chuckled and said.
“Why are you asking when you already know.”
“Pardon?”
“You already seem to have a rough idea.”
“As expected, it was something you did… my lord?”
Realizing his voice was loud, Yeom Hwa lowered his voice as he spoke.
“What does that matter.”
“It matters.”
Jeok Wigang looked at Yeom Hwa and said.
“Isn’t it natural for me to move for my people? So it’s not really important.”
Moisture welled up in Yeom Hwa’s eyes once again.
This person.
The reason he had lived until now was solely to meet this person.
While Yeom Hwa’s loyalty was soaring to the heavens, Jeok Wigang approached the three suffering apprentices.
“If you bully our Yeom Hwa from now on, you’ll die by my hand.”
“Damn it! You beat us up because of one orphan bastard?”
“Orphan?”
Suddenly, Jeok Wigang was reminded of old memories.
“They say the mouth is the source of all evil.”
Smack-!
A tremendous sound came from the cheek of the apprentice who had just spoken.
The face swelling up from just one blow showed how hard he had been hit.
But that wasn’t the end.
Smack-! Smack-!
The eerie sound continued to echo.
“Yeom Hwa didn’t choose to become an orphan. Right?”
Smack-! Smack-!
“Right? Isn’t that right?”
Smack-! Smack-!
However, the apprentice gave no answer.
He had already fainted.
Even so, Jeok Wigang continued to slap his cheek.
He wasn’t really that angry.
He was just in a bad mood.
That’s why he was controlling his strength while hitting.
If he had hit properly, the head would have been crushed and only the torso would remain.
“P-please stop. He’s lost consciousness.”
When Yeom Hwa intervened, only then did he pretend to come to his senses and casually threw the apprentice, who was hanging limply in a pitiful state, to the ground.
Then he looked at the other two apprentices who had been bullying Yeom Hwa.
“You guys stole Yeom Hwa’s sword, didn’t you?”
“W-what are you talking about!”
“N-no!”
“No?”
“T-that’s right! Don’t falsely accuse innocent people!”
“Really not? I’m giving you one last chance. Tell the truth.”
“We absolutely never did such a thing!”
“It’s already unfair that we’re being framed today, and now you’re trying to frame us too?”
Jeok Wigang nodded.
“As expected, being nice doesn’t work.”
As Jeok Wigang slowly approached, the other apprentice who had been lying on the ground hurriedly tried to get up.
But his legs gave out and he couldn’t put strength into them.
“When a person receives a strong shock, that happens.”
The sight of Jeok Wigang approaching while speaking as if it were nothing was terror itself.
“D-don’t come.”
“W-we really didn’t do it!”
The two apprentices being brutally beaten in front of all the other apprentices.
Violence that seemed like it would never end unfolded endlessly.
Thud- Thud-.
Two people showing the whites of their eyes as they collapsed to the ground.
“Anyone else want to step forward.”
No one thought to make eye contact with Jeok Wigang.
The person who had just been slapped by Jeok Wigang until near death was the strongest among the apprentices.
Such a person had fainted after being beaten without being able to resist even once.
Jeok Wigang had continued hitting even after he fainted, and that sight was imprinted as terror in all the apprentices.
“I’ll say it one more time. Anyone who bullies or ostracizes Yeom Hwa from now on should know they’ll end up like this bastard.”
Jeok Wigang pointed at the apprentice writhing on the ground and made his threat.
In the Heavenly Craft Road consumed by fear, only Yeom Hwa was shedding tears of gratitude.
A few days later.
The promotion exam began.
Each of the Apprentice Smiths did their best on the exam to become full smiths, partly because they wanted to become full smiths, but mostly because they were terrified of Jeok Wigang.
There wasn’t a single apprentice in this place who hadn’t bullied Yeom Hwa, and so all the Apprentice Smiths came to fear Jeok Wigang.
They never knew when they might get caught and beaten by Jeok Wigang.
They were so scared that they told the Fire Master about it, but the Fire Master, out of fear of Jeok Wigang, only left behind words to get along well and then fled.
Seeing this, the Apprentice Smiths realized that Jeok Wigang had gotten to the Fire Master as well, so they went to the Fair Official who was higher up. But the Fair Official was also terrified and ran away.
In desperation, they even reported to the Warrior Corps, but they too turned their backs, saying internal matters should be resolved internally.
It was truly Jeok Wigang’s world that had unfolded.
Now there was only one way to escape from here.
Become a full smith and transfer to the Main Furnace.
Or quit.
Since Jeok Wigang hadn’t been here long, it would take quite some time for him to become a full smith.
Yeom Hwa would deliberately fail the exam to stay by Jeok Wigang’s side.
So they just needed to escape.
Everyone thought this way.
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