The God of Death and the God of War - Chapter 110

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Evil Hegemon Martial God

Chapter 110

– Half an hour ago.

A place where even heaven and earth were difficult to discern.

In this chaotic space, there was only one thing that could be known.

It was the red mist that filled the entire field of vision.

‘Did they use sorcery rather than the Gimun Formation to entangle the very laws of space itself?’

Jeok-un thought to himself as he walked through the mist.

Though it was a bizarre phenomenon, Jeok-un didn’t look particularly surprised.

This was because there had been similar things among the schemes the Demonic Cult had carried out before his regression.

“Ugh, I almost died just like that… Even thinking about it again…”

However, Eon Igyeom beside him seemed quite different.

As if his soul had been sucked out, he was just muttering to himself with a dazed expression.

‘Hmm, it seems he’s quite shocked.’

But the reason that guy had become like this wasn’t because of this place.

‘He’s been in that state ever since he came back from meeting Il-hwangja.’

Eon Igyeom’s complexion couldn’t be called good even as a joke.

His dark and haggard appearance was like a corpse that had died and come back to life.

It was a sight that showed just how shocked Eon Igyeom had been.

And it was all because he had seen the true nature of Il-hwangja, who had been protecting him within the Imperial Palace.

‘Well, he’s the type who’s picky but once he gives his trust to someone, he believes in them to the end.’

Was it because his family had collapsed and he was left alone?

Or was it because he had survived desperately and was always left alone each time?

Eon Igyeom didn’t trust people easily.

But once he judged someone as his person, as someone trustworthy, he showed faith as solid as Mount Tai.

‘Though the basis for that judgment is still too crude.’

It was still an area where he needed the teachings of someone who was far more experienced in life.

“Hey, why do you keep looking like you’re at a funeral? It’s better to have your identity revealed completely and feel refreshed than to keep hiding and living anxiously.”

“Benefactor, you really speak too easily as if it’s someone else’s business… I really almost died…”

As if recalling the ordeal he had experienced in the Imperial Palace, Eon Igyeom made a tearful expression.

Snicker.

However, at Eon Igyeom’s complaint, Jeok-un chuckled and said,

“Whine after you’re dead. Hey, has pretending to be a eunuch for so long made you actually become one?”

“Wow, you say that after driving me into a death trap?”

“Hmph, they say even if a black bear drags you away, you’ll live if you just keep your wits about you.”

“It wasn’t a black bear but a tiger! And as soon as I revealed my identity, the hidden guards— Wait! Where are you going!”

Eon Igyeom argued back, but Jeok-un had been confident he would return alive even before sending him.

He wouldn’t have done it without such confidence.

Moreover, with half of Geumhwang Sangga’s wealth, even Il-hwangja had no choice but to show interest.

It was exactly what he needed most.

But he also understood why that guy trembled just thinking about that time.

-You seem to put on quite the act of being a hero, but you’re still lacking compared to me.

That crazy bastard was one of the real ones that even he acknowledged.

A kind, gentle, and merciful prince.

A person who served an empress with no blood relation as his mother and trembled in fear at the harsh persecution she inflicted.

But Il-hwangja’s true nature was the complete opposite.

‘A truly born fierce hero.’

If Cao Cao was a treacherous hero of troubled times, Il-hwangja was a fierce hero.

Endless greed for power.

Before his regression, a natural spirit that didn’t even yield to himself.

He was truly of born lion’s blood.

‘If I hadn’t approached him so boldly, he wouldn’t have even given me a glance.’

Jeok-un shrugged his shoulders and continued speaking.

“Well, anyway, it’s fortunate that everything worked out well in the end. It would have been troublesome if things had gone wrong.”

“Co-could things have gone wrong?”

“Well, human affairs don’t always go as planned, do they?”

“No, you bastard! You call that an answer?!”

Yes, this was the taste.

Indeed, Eon Igyeom, who had good impact, was quite fun to tease.

Well, his whining sometimes made me want to smack the back of his head.

Still, he had the ability to accomplish whatever task he was given, no matter what.

“Still, since you did well, I’ll make sure to give you a proper reward once the business here is finished.”

“…I won’t say it twice!”

When I dangled the carrot slightly, the guy’s eyes lit up.

Though he tried not to show it, he looked full of anticipation.

Seeing that made me want to tease him without telling him, but I held back.

‘The work that guy accomplished was significant after all.’

First, he had secured a meeting with Il-hwangja, even getting a specific date.

Next was this place.

Second, he had discovered the location of the ‘Six Souls Sect’s’ hideout.

Tap.

At that moment, Jeok-un stopped.

‘We’ve arrived.’

Before they knew it, they had reached their destination.

Swoooosh.

The ominously red mist disappeared as if washed away.

“Such a place…!”

Eon Igyeom let out an exclamation.

It was because a massive city had revealed itself, as if drawn in a painting.

Jeok-un swept his sharp gaze over the vast cityscape.

‘Yukheombang’s Manor is in the center, and residential areas surround it in concentric circles.’

From where they stood, that was the overall structure.

The city began with the Six Souls Sect and ended with the Six Souls Sect.

“Huh? Unfamiliar faces?”

Suddenly a voice was heard.

Just moments ago, there had been no one beside them.

But now they were in the middle of a main street with numerous passersby coming and going.

“Hey, you guys! Don’t block the way and hurry inside!”

“They’re outsiders.”

The surrounding pedestrians shouted.

Jeok-un and Eon Igyeom looked at each other, then soon nodded and joined the procession.

The end of the main street connected to the city’s gates.

As they naturally entered the entrance line, a signpost carved nearby caught their eye.

-Sinahn County, Henan Province.

Surprisingly, it bore the name of a region not far from Kaifeng, where the Martial Arts Alliance’s headquarters was located.

“That’s impossible…”

A trembling voice of disbelief.

However, the reason wasn’t because the Six Souls Sect’s base was established right under the Martial Arts Alliance’s nose.

After all, the place where Jeok-un and Eon Igyeom had entered wasn’t Sinahn County, Henan Province, but Tianzhuxian, Guizhou Province.

There was only one reason such a miracle was possible.

“…Creating a city inside a rift.”

That was right.

This place was none other than the interior of a ‘rift’.

Upon entering the Six Souls Sect’s rift hidden in Cheonju County, this otherworldly paradise had unfolded before them.

The driving force that had allowed the Six Souls Sect to hide their hideout until now.

That was precisely.

‘No wonder it was hard to find. Who would have imagined they’d build their hideout inside a rift, unless they were insane.’

It was because the Six Souls Sect had placed their hideout inside a rift.

Jeok-un was equally surprised.

Though All Under Heaven was vast and extraordinary people were as numerous as grains of sand by a river.

He had no idea such a thing was even possible.

It was fortunate he could mobilize the Eastern Depot through Eon Igyeom.

If he had tried to investigate this place alone, he might have had to pay an astronomical sum to Hao-mun or Gaebang.

Unless it was those organizations, the three great information networks of Gangho, they wouldn’t have been able to even detect its existence.

Jeok-un broke away from the procession and entered the city’s interior.

Then he surveyed his surroundings with subtle eyes.

A scene that looked far too peaceful to be believed as the inside of a rift.

A rift was a place where the principles and laws of the mortal world did not exist at all.

The interior of a rift, where all manner of vicious and bizarre energies ran wild, would break down an intruder’s soul the longer they stayed.

Yet in such a place, not only were they living, but they had even relocated ordinary common people here to make their livelihood.

It was absolutely impossible.

‘Now I understand how this is operating.’

Jeok-un’s eyes turned cold as ice as he grasped the secret underlying this world.

Just then, Eon Igyeom posed a question to Jeok-un.

“But may I ask you one thing?”

“What is it.”

“Unlike with the Geumhwang Sangga, why are you handling things in such a complicated way?”

Step.

Jeok-un briefly stopped walking and looked at him.

“Isn’t your goal to kill Doyecheon, the Deputy Lord of Sadocheon, and completely annihilate his forces?”

“That’s right.”

“Then is there really a need to go around like this? It would have been easy and simple to just slaughter them all at once like when you destroyed the Geumhwang Sangga.”

It wasn’t wrong.

Looking at Jeok-un’s actions so far, rather than gathering evidence of Doyecheon and the Six Souls Sect’s conspiracy like this.

It would have been proper for Jeok-un to use his power to annihilate Doyecheon’s forces.

But Jeok-un had asked Dokgo Cheon to pretend to be seriously injured.

He was carrying out this plan while enduring the chaos that would ensue in Sadocheon because of it.

Why?

Eon Igyeom couldn’t understand it well.

“What do you think was the reason Xiang Yu lost to Liu Bang?”

“Pardon?”

Eon Igyeom asked back in bewilderment.

He hadn’t expected to receive such an out-of-the-blue question.

“Xiang Yu massacred all 200,000 Qin prisoners who had surrendered to him. After that, none of the Qin people trusted Xiang Yu.”

“….”

“But Liu Bang was different. Even those who had raised swords against him, he embraced if they surrendered.”

Jeok-un looked directly at Eon Igyeom and continued speaking.

“I believe that difference changed the master of All Under Heaven.”

“…!”

Only then did Eon Igyeom somewhat understand what Jeok-un was trying to say.

“Among those who follow Doyecheon, only a very few would know that Doyecheon tried to assassinate the Lord.”

“…!”

“Finding evidence of conspiracy from the Six Souls Sect is also for that reason. To open a path to life for those under him, at least once.”

“!!”

Jeok-un would kill Doyecheon miserably.

But to those who had simply followed Doyecheon for power, he would give them a chance to surrender.

Just as he had swallowed Doyecheon’s slush funds, he intended to devour the useful parts of the forces that man had cultivated.

Of course, he planned to sweep away the rotten ones and those who squandered their opportunities.

That was Jeok-un’s idea of the embrace of the Way of Hegemony.

“I don’t want to become a mass murderer. What I want to become is the master of All Under Heaven.”

“!!”

At Jeok-un’s words, Eon Igyeom’s eyes widened as if they would burst.

‘This man….’

Seeing the incidents in Tongseong County and with the Geumhwang Sangga, he had thought he was just a madman moving out of interest.

But that wasn’t it.

It was too big, far too big.

The world he held in his heart was too vast.

‘He can’t even be compared to Il-hwangja.’

Even when he had seen the imperial family born with the most noble blood, it hadn’t been like this.

Just as Eon Igyeom’s gaze toward Jeok-un was changing.

“Well, with that meaning, let’s slowly begin.”

“Pardon?”

Slash!

Swoosh!

“M-murder!”

“R-run! Kheuk…!”

“Aaaahhh!”

Eerie sounds of flesh being torn, spurting blood, and screams.

A tsunami-like chaos that no one could control descended upon the middle of the main street.

…What?

Just as bewilderment filled Eon Igyeom’s eyes.

“Until we reach the manor, kill everything you see.”

Jeok-un’s massacre had begun.

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