The Wizard Who Endured the World of Murim - Chapter 62

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Surviving in the Martial Realm as a Mage: Episode 62
Not long ago, a bloody purge swept through the Imperial Palace of the Yu Empire.
The Emperor’s children were all eliminated in a single day.
And simultaneously, all manner of sinister rumors began to circulate throughout Kangho.
That the ailing Emperor had passed away.
Or that the Emperor still lived, but the Fifth Prince had seized the throne by force.
Rumors of that sort.
In any case, the few surviving members of the Imperial bloodline who had barely escaped that brutal scene now had to scatter in all directions to find places where they could survive.
Naturally, the Fifth Prince who had ascended to the throne was Yu Woo-jae.
He declared the surviving Imperial relatives as traitors and began wielding the blade of purge against them.
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“The person in charge of the Namgung Clan must immediately descend from the carriage and submit to identity verification!”
Sungsin Port.
One of the five largest ports along the Liu Chang River, a place of considerable scale.
Thus, Sungsin Port, which could even accommodate large sailing ships, was now completely surrounded by hundreds of cavalry units, emanating a sinister and oppressive atmosphere.
A group facing those cavalry units.
Their numbers were approximately a hundred or so.
At first glance, they appeared to be people from an escort bureau transporting numerous shipments.
In fact, they were people from the Shinryong Escort Agency.
Yet they showed no signs of intimidation despite facing the threatening cavalry before them.
Rather, the face of the Shinryong Escort Agency’s leader was filled only with annoyance.
“I apologize, but we are not the Namgung Clan. It seems there has been some misunderstanding.”
“Silence! I have already gathered all information about you in advance! How dare you attempt to deceive this official’s eyes!”
The cavalry commander, Jwa Mun-sam.
He was young for his position and brimming with youthful vigor.
Perhaps because of this, he lacked some flexibility in handling matters.
“Then it seems you received incorrect information from someone. However, we cannot possibly know about that, can we?”
“What did you say? How dare you!”
Shink! Shink! Shink!
As the cavalry soldiers drew their blades from their sheaths in unison, threatening.
The elderly man facing them.
The leader of the Shinryong Escort Agency.
Goe San, the Sunburst Sword, scratched the back of his head without a trace of fear and opened his mouth.
“We were simply trying to board a boat and cross the river. We were merely moving urgent shipments, so I truly cannot understand why you are making this so difficult.”
“Fine. If what you say is true, then cooperate with the search! If the person we seek is not among you, we will let you pass without issue.”
Goe San felt irritation welling up at the unilateral commands and threats.
But he was also tired of arguing further.
So he nodded his head and spoke to his subordinates behind him.
“We have no time, so let us cooperate.”
“Understood, Agency Leader.”
“Now, please search as thoroughly as you wish.”
Once Goe San granted permission.
Jwa Mun-sam, the commander of the cavalry unit, descended from his horse with a sneering expression, snorting through his nostrils.
“You should have shown this from the start. Search everything!”
“Yes, sir!”
The cavalry soldiers hastily dismounted and rushed toward the goods loaded on the wagon.
As their rough hands tore through the cargo, Goe San’s face flushed red and white in turns as he cried out.
“If you handle it like that, you’ll damage the merchandise! Please unwrap the packages slowly! And you there—if you cut the ropes with your sword, who’s going to compensate for that later?”
“Silence! Quiet and cooperate!”
“Damn it. Isn’t this going too far? I’ve been cooperating in good faith, and this is how you repay it?”
As a crimson gleam began to flicker in Goe San’s eyes, Jwa Mun-sam let out a cold laugh and spoke.
“How dare you rebels show such pathetic resistance. Do you wish to die branded as traitors?”
“Without a shred of evidence, if you come at me like this, even Buddha himself standing here would curse you out.”
Despite Goe San’s retort, Jwa Mun-sam merely sneered and ignored the man’s fury.
As if to say: what could you possibly do about it anyway?
In the end, it was precisely that attitude of Jwa Mun-sam’s that invited disaster.
“…Commander. We found nothing.”
“What? Did you search carefully?”
“Yes. We checked underneath the wagon, and we opened every single box containing the goods.”
“That can’t be. The elder specifically said the Seventh Princess would be here.”
Just as Jwa Mun-sam’s face contorted in frustration.
Goe San, who had been listening to their whispers, spoke with his cheeks twitching.
“Did you finish searching? Did you find what you were looking for?”
Right here.
If Jwa Mun-sam had apologized and attempted to salvage the situation even at this moment, nothing would have happened.
But Jwa Mun-sam had failed to properly assess his opponent’s true capabilities.
“How dare you speak back to me about state matters? Are you trying to obstruct this official’s investigation?”
In that instant, the air around them shifted.
“Hah… Damn it! I can’t hold back anymore. I’ve given you more than enough chances.”
The moment Goe San finished speaking, his hand shot forward.
Though Jwa Mun-sam tried to react immediately, Goe San’s wrinkled hand moved far faster than his response.
Thwap!
In an instant, Goe San seized Jwa Mun-sam by the throat.
His weathered eyes began to gleam with a terrifying killing intent.
“Gack—!”
“Listen here, military official. A person should know how to play within reasonable bounds. This sort of behavior is most troublesome.”
“Y-you dare think you’ll escape this unscathed?”
Screech!
As if responding to those words, a guard cavalry soldier beside Jwa Mun-sam swiftly drew his blade and swung it.
Clang!
Goe Cheol, who had batted away the sword with his bare hand, smiled wickedly.
“If I’m not unharmed? What could you possibly do right now? One thing’s for certain—you die here for running your mouth so carelessly.”
Only then did Jwa Mun-sam realize something had gone terribly wrong, his eyes darting frantically before he spoke with desperate speed.
“W-wait, this official may have misunderstood something while performing his duties. I apologize. Yes, I sincerely apologize. Please, just let me go.”
“Too late, you bastard.”
Crack—
“Captain!”
“Senior Guard!”
Goe Cheol, having twisted Jwa Mun-sam’s neck with brutal simplicity, smiled hazily at the government soldiers rushing toward him and spoke.
“Idiots. Kill them all.”
“Yes, sir!”
“Kyaaaah—!”
A one-sided massacre erupted at Sungsin Port, where countless people had gathered.
Barely half an hour had passed.
The Shinryong Escort Agency’s bounty hunters, without a single casualty among themselves, stood in silent formation, drenched in blood.
Neighing—
The horses the cavalry had ridden were the only things moving restlessly around the port.
One of the Shinryong Escort Agency’s warriors, standing in formation, instructed his subordinates to gather the horses in one place.
Then he approached Goe Cheol and opened his mouth with a cautious demeanor.
“Elder. There are far too many witnesses. We couldn’t eliminate them all.”
“I know. I expected as much. Did you think I’d cause trouble without understanding that?”
“Then what should we do going forward? If this matter grows in the Namgung Clan’s territory, won’t that be problematic?”
“Tch, right now neither the Imperial Court nor the Namgung Clan can pursue us. They’re probably tearing their hair out over that princess or whatever. If anything, by creating this chaos now, we’ve made it easier for ourselves to move in the future.”
“…Truly remarkable, sir.”
“Heh, honestly, that’s just an excuse. That bastard rubbed me the wrong way, you know? I simply couldn’t let it slide.”
“He certainly deserved to die.”
“Sigh, it’s really a difficult world to live righteously in. How much did I endure? When I return to the sect, I absolutely must tell the Sect Master about this.”
Goe Cheol of the Shinryong Escort Agency.
He was actually Goe Cheol, the Blood Flame Demon Lord, who had come from the Heavenly Demon Divine Sect.
When the Saryeol Secret Realm opened not long ago, the Heavenly Demon Divine Sect sent both Bing Baek Ma-gun Gu Sang-hak and Goe Cheol, the Blood Flame Demon Lord who would support him from behind, into Kangho.
The problem was.
“Damn it, but things got twisted in the worst possible way.”
The door to the Saryeol Secret Realm that Bing Baek Ma-gun Gu Sang-hak had entered opened far sooner and far more abruptly than scheduled.
Yet no one had emerged from that open door.
“Since I can’t tell if that ill-tempered old man is dead or alive… how am I supposed to live with this frustration?”
“We should return and report first. If something truly did happen inside the secret realm, we could gather information by investigating the other leading sects besides us.”
“Right. That’s what I’m thinking too.”
From the Heavenly Demon Divine Sect’s perspective, they had naturally invested considerable effort in the Saryeol Secret Realm, expecting substantial rewards.
Yet in the midst of all this, something completely unforeseen occurred—Bing Baek Ma-gun and his elite masters had vanished without a trace.
So in truth, though he hadn’t voiced it aloud.
The masters of the Heavenly Demon Divine Sect had already concluded that their comrades who entered the Secret Realm were dead.
“But who could they be? That Ice White Horse Army fellow has a terrible personality, but his skills are genuinely formidable.”
“Then it’s unlikely to be the Martial Arts Alliance, is it?”
“Hmm….”
If the Martial Arts Alliance had truly committed their full strength.
Even Bing Baek Ma-gun Gu Sang-hak could find himself in danger.
“Tsk, what rotten luck. Hey! First, secure the ship. Those bastards are fleeing right now.”
“Understood!”
In the distance.
As Goe Cheol nodded while watching the Sailing Ship desperately trying to escape far from the Ferry Dock.
Eight of his subordinates, disguised as bounty hunters and drenched in blood, swiftly deployed their movement techniques and flew forward with explosive speed.
Thump― Thump― Thump―!
They rapidly closed the distance by using the small wooden stakes floating on the river like stepping stones toward the receding Sailing Ship.
When they reached a section without stakes, as if they had prearranged it, they threw themselves into acrobatic maneuvers, using each other as platforms to launch themselves toward the distant Sailing Ship.
Only two of them successfully landed on the Sailing Ship.
But those two alone were more than sufficient to seize control of an ordinary merchant vessel.
“Ho? Their training is in excellent condition. You’ve raised them well?”
“Thank you, Elder.”
Goe Cheol, who had been watching the entire process with a smile, boarded the ship as it slowly returned to Sungsin Port and spoke.
“This tedious journey to Zhongyuan ends here. Let’s go home!”
“Yes, sir!”
The Sailing Ship departed from Sungsin Port, where corpses lay scattered, and began to move.
How long had the ship been traveling?
“Huh? Hey, why is this moving in this direction? To go west, shouldn’t we go against the current? Is this right?”
Goe Cheol, who had been quietly observing the river, glared at the ship’s captain.
The hairy Ship Captain shrugged and opened his mouth.
“This direction is much faster, sir.”
“Ha! Look at this bastard. Do I look like I have dog eyes to you? Anyone can see it’s the opposite direction, you fool! We need to go west, so why are we heading east?”
“P-please spare me, sir!”
“It’s not about sparing you or not—why are you steering the ship in this direction?”
When the captain couldn’t give a proper answer and hesitated, his expression becoming almost tearful as he pressed his head firmly to the ground.
Suddenly, someone lightly jumped down from the deck.
Tap―
“Ah, I ordered that. So talk to me instead.”
“…Who are you?”
A young boy wearing a black robe torn like rags.
Goe Cheol narrowed his eyes and glared at the boy.
He had failed to detect the boy’s presence until just moments ago.

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