The Heavenly Demon Cult’s Strongest Maid - Chapter 21

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Chapter 21

“Whoa! Whoa!”

Is this really me?

I’m moving by stepping on tree branches!

I truly couldn’t believe that I was actually performing a scene I’d seen countless times in novels.

How is this possible in just a few days?

Could I be a genius?

This kind of development usually only happens to protagonists.

Wow, I’m not even scared anymore.

I was running at tremendous speed from a height that would surely send me straight to the afterlife if I fell.

Even though one wrong step could spell disaster, I kept increasing my speed instead.

I simply couldn’t stop.

I wanted to test my limits and see how far I could go.

Every time I exploded internal energy from my toes, the scenery ahead changed.

It felt as if my body was teleporting.

An emotion I could never feel at the Training Grounds welled up inside me.

I suppose you could call it the first taste of liberation I’d experienced since coming to this world.

Though I hadn’t been imprisoned, it was true that my life as a maid had been oppressive.

I want to leave for somewhere like this.

As I ran to my heart’s content, such an impulse suddenly arose without my knowing.

But I soon shook my head.

There was no way Eok I-geon would leave me alone.

Though he wasn’t visible to me now, I could sense him. No matter how much I increased my speed, he maintained an appropriate distance, following me as if escorting me.

Even if I were incredibly lucky and succeeded in shaking off Eok I-geon, I couldn’t leave alone without grandmother.

Though we weren’t truly blood relatives, she was already more than family to me.

Someday, I would definitely escape this place where hell would unfold, together with grandmother.

That was the reason I’d endured until now.

How fortunate this was, really.

To be able to learn such magnificent lightness skills before then.

Thank you, Senior Mahu. Thanks to you, I think I’ll be able to survive well even when I go out into the Martial Arts World.

Thank you once again, Uncle Cheonma.

For passing down such amazing martial arts to someone who’s just a mere maid.

Eok I-geon, I’m most grateful to you.

If you hadn’t opened my eight extraordinary meridians, none of this would have been possible.

Come to think of it, it was still puzzling.

How did I come to have sixty years’ worth of internal energy?

Eok I-geon said that energy had been scattered throughout my body.

He had also asked if I’d recently consumed any spiritual medicine.

Could it have been grandmother after all?

No matter how much I thought and thought again, the answer was Shin Geum.

I didn’t know how grandmother had fed me spiritual medicine, but there was no other way to understand this situation.

Then there must have been some reason.

Grandmother wasn’t the type to act without meaning.

Then what could it be?

Why did grandmother make my body like that without even my knowledge?

No, wait a moment.

Is it easy to put energy approaching sixty years into a person’s body?

Is such a thing even possible in the first place?

Since I was in that state, it must be possible, but I’d never seen a case like mine in any novel I’d read.

Moreover, Shin Geum was an ordinary Noodle Shop owner who knew just a tiny bit of martial arts.

Though she’s the top candidate for having fed me spiritual medicine, it’s proper to say she lacks the ability to do so.

Then who could it be?

Going one step deeper, I thought it might actually be someone other than grandmother.

Who on earth, and what were they after?

There would be absolutely nothing to gain from me, right?

My questions continued endlessly, one leading to another.

And that was my mistake.

As a beginner who had just started learning martial arts, I became lost in other thoughts and my concentration scattered.

Crack!

Too much internal energy went into my left foot and the tree branch broke.

My body, with its balance disrupted, naturally swayed, and unable to overcome the law of gravity, rapidly descended downward.

“Grandmother!”

As always when scared, I flailed about while calling for grandmother.

Of course, at the same time, I tried to straighten my body while reciting the incantation of Mabang Bicheongang.

However, due to my unfamiliarity, it didn’t work as well as it had initially.

I tried to grab tree branches with both arms, but perhaps due to my speed, they all broke. Leaving only countless wounds on my face and limbs.

Shin Seolha, get it together!

If you fall like this, you’ll die instantly!

It was fortunate that my position had been high, otherwise I would have already crashed down.

I can’t give up like this.

How did I get this far!

I bit my lips and hurriedly circulated my true energy again.

But perhaps due to my anxious state of mind, it wouldn’t move as I thought.

The ground was now right in front of me.

Was my life truly going to end with a fatal fall?

“Eok I-geon!”

In that moment of crisis, I found myself crying out Eok I-geon’s name without knowing it.

It was from hoping he would somehow save me since he was nearby.

Did my wish reach the heavens?

“Are you alright?”

Instead of the shock of crashing into the ground, what reached me was Eok I-geon’s familiar voice.

Having closed my eyes in fear, I finally came to my senses and slowly opened them.

Through my disheveled hair blown by the wind, I could see Eok I-geon looking down at me.

Amazingly, I was being held like a princess in Eok I-geon’s arms.

“Ahhhhh!”

The moment I realized this fact, I screamed.

The joy of being alive was very brief.

Fear struck me at having carelessly called out Eok I-geon’s name.

“Where are you hurt? Your arm? Leg? Which one?”

Unaware of my inner thoughts, Eok I-geon examined every part of my body while holding me.

“Nothing seems to be broken… Damn it! Getting distracted like that…”

I flinched when Eok I-geon suddenly cursed.

He had a guilt-ridden expression as if my injury was his responsibility.

Surely I must be seeing things wrong.

The shock of falling from a high place must have caused problems with my thinking.

I forcibly erased the thought I’d just had and pleaded with Eok I-geon.

“I, I’m fine. Please put me down.”

“When you’ve fallen, you mustn’t move carelessly. Look carefully. There might be places where you feel pain.”

“No. There’s nothing at all.”

I casually brushed away the hair covering my face with my hand and answered cheerfully.

But what was going on?

The look in Eok I-geon’s eyes as he stared at me was unusual.

Whatever had upset him again, he was glaring at me with those frightening eyes of his.

Why did I even bother saving this guy?

Was he regretting it?

Since he was someone whose moods changed as unpredictably as boiling porridge, I couldn’t help but feel tense.

Just as I was racking my brain about how to land if he threw me down.

“We need to go to Maeuigam.”

Suddenly, Eok I-geon started running.

What? He’s much faster than me?

And what’s with this stability?

Despite moving at tremendous speed, my body barely swayed at all.

With just a little exaggeration, I felt like I could even sleep.

He really was incredible.

But why are we going to Maeuigam?

Before I could finish marveling at Eok I-geon’s lightness skill, we arrived at Maeuigam.

Maeuigam was a kind of hospital within the Palace.

It was a place that anyone from Headquarters with health problems could use, and in the past five years, I had never once visited.

I had never been sick.

I hadn’t even caught a common cold.

Now that I think about it, was it because of the spiritual medicine?

“Where might the physician be?”

As soon as Eok I-geon entered, he immediately looked for the elder physician.

I was still in his arms, and though I tried to break free, it was futile.

“I’ll escort you this way.”

Surely we’re not going to meet the elder physician like this?

He’ll put me down before then.

Eok I-geon will do that.

But that was just my wishful thinking.

They say first impressions are important, but absurdly, I ended up meeting the elder physician for the first time while in Eok I-geon’s arms.

The head of Maeuigam, the middle-aged man called the elder physician, was named Pyo Jin-yang.

He was from the Mandu (Myriad Poisons) Pyo family, one of Mageyo Yukdae Magga, skilled in poisons and deeply knowledgeable in medicine.

Though he was a bit eccentric, his sincere care for patients earned him many followers.

“What brings you here?”

Huh?

He’s speaking informally to Cheonma’s son?

Are they close?

“Uncle, have you been well?”

What? Uncle?

Then Eok I-geon’s mother is from the Mandu Pyo family?

This part wasn’t mentioned in the original work, so I had no idea.

So Eok I-geon’s maternal family was the Mandu Pyo family.

Maybe that’s why he was resistant to poisons.

The countless poisoning incidents that Eok I-geon had survived suddenly came to mind.

I also found myself suddenly curious about where his mother, who had mysteriously disappeared leaving behind her young son only to reappear decades later, might be and what she might be doing now.

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