The World’s Greatest Martial Arts Instructor - Chapter 108

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Chapter 108. How Is That…

 

 

“H-how…”

Un Yeol looked down at his chest and muttered in disbelief.

He had no choice.

A sword glowing with blue blade aura was embedded in his chest.

Since there was still no pain, it felt like it wasn’t real.

“How? I just stabbed you.”

Ha Mu-baek answered indifferently and twisted the sword slightly.

“Kraaaaak!”

A burning pain spread from his chest throughout his entire body.

Un Yeol screamed.

“What I hate most are bastards who stab you in the back. The client will show up eventually if we wait.”

Ha Mu-baek said as he pulled out the sword.

Since it had pierced his heart precisely, blood flowed down from Un Yeol’s chest like a waterfall at that moment.

Gung Mu-hyeok quickly covered Gung So-yu’s eyes and stepped back.

“Uh, uuh… uuh…”

Un Yeol, still looking down at his chest with eyes full of disbelief, collapsed and died.

“Because of that piece of trash, only innocent people lost their lives…”

Ha Mu-baek clicked his tongue and muttered.

Then his gaze turned to the Demon Cult members.

“Shall we continue?”

The Demon Cult members flinched at Ha Mu-baek’s gaze.

Then.

“Attack!”

Sam Ryeong-ju’s command came from behind them.

Following the order, they launched themselves toward Ha Mu-baek.

An eerie sword light flashed, but half of them collapsed with a thud from Ha Mu-baek’s single strike.

Meanwhile, Sam Ryeong-ju entered the separate building with ten subordinates.

The Samryeong Corps had been organized into ten squads of twenty each.

Now the remaining members didn’t even number fifty.

Sam Ryeong-ju glanced at the ten subordinates with him.

They were squad leaders.

He had entrusted them with the Ten Thousand Heaven Blood Thunder.

Sam Ryeong-ju quietly observed Ha Mu-baek’s movements. It was to understand his behavioral patterns.

He continued giving orders to the remaining five through sound transmission.

[Avoid that monster and eliminate those behind him first. Target Gung Mu-hyeok and Gung So-yu.]

He had already finished studying their appearances.

As soon as Sam Ryeong-ju’s order was given, the five Demon Cult members moved away from Ha Mu-baek with all their might.

They didn’t want to die either.

The moment they thought they had gained distance, they launched themselves in different directions.

They were all desperate.

Their intention was obvious to Ha Mu-baek’s eyes.

“Pathetic.”

Ha Mu-baek chuckled and flicked his left hand.

Five streams of finger wind extending from his five fingers.

In the confined space of the separate building, there was a limit to how far they could get from Ha Mu-baek.

It was a distance where the finger wind could sufficiently strike through the air and pierce holes in their necks.

“Gurgle.”

Making sounds like air escaping, the five collapsed with a thud.

Seeing this, Sam Ryeong-ju became certain.

That monster was indeed the same as in the last war.

It was fortunate.

It seemed his planned strategy could work.

[Fourth Squad Leader. Get as close as possible to Gung Mu-hyeok and use the Ten Thousand Heaven Blood Thunder.]

As soon as Sam Ryeong-ju’s command was transmitted through sound transmission, he moved.

Even knowing it meant death, there wasn’t a moment’s hesitation.

As soon as the five fell, the one who had been beside what appeared to be the leader moved alone.

“Where do you think you’re going.”

Just as Ha Mu-baek was about to block his path, the man stretched his hand forward, and Ha Mu-baek’s face contorted upon seeing it.

It was something he had seen sickeningly often in the last war.

He had received help from it and suffered damage from it too.

But it was something that had never been in the hands of Demon Cult bastards!

“Everyone get down!!!”

He shouted loudly upon seeing it and raised his body protection energy to the extreme.

He concentrated gang qi to the maximum on his left hand, layered it, and stretched it forward.

The neck of the one holding the hidden weapon was already severed by Ha Mu-baek’s sword, but he couldn’t prevent the trigger button from being pressed and one breath of time from passing.

The moment he smelled gunpowder.

Kwakwakwakwakwang!!!!

With a tremendous explosion, a whirlwind of flames swept through the interior of the separate building.

“Kyaak!”

Gung So-yu screamed and collapsed.

Keuuk.”

“Eek.”

“H-how is that…”

Each of them groaned and tried their best to withstand the shock of the explosion.

Gung Mu-hyeok sat down with an incredulous expression.

It was something that couldn’t be here.

Ten Thousand Heaven Blood Thunder.

Manmulryeon’s finest gunpowder weapon.

Why was it in the enemies’ hands? Something that was handled with utmost care even within Ryeon.

The explosive flames unleashed by the Ten Thousand Heaven Blood Thunder devastated the interior of the separate building.

Sam Ryeong-ju and his subordinates had already fled outside.

Ha Mu-baek stood firm and fought against the flames.

No flames passed behind him. Only the hot heat struck the skin of those behind Ha Mu-baek.

It was truly a short time. About the time it takes for one-fifteenth of a gak to pass.

During that time, the separate building was engulfed in flames and burned fiercely.

Everywhere was destroyed, leaving only the framework barely intact.

However, behind Ha Mu-baek was unharmed.

Ha Mu-baek’s body protection energy and gang qi had blocked it all.

Ha Mu-baek frowned and kept shaking his left hand.

Despite being wrapped in layers of gang qi, the pain was considerable.

In his left hand was the Ten Thousand Heaven Blood Thunder that had been spewing flames.

Since Ha Mu-baek had grabbed and crushed it with his left hand while it was exploding and spewing flames, its power was reduced by about half.

This was the result.

“Phew. I don’t know how those bastards got this, but I survived because the one who used it didn’t know how to use it properly.”

At Ha Mu-baek’s words, Gung Mu-hyeok nodded with a dazed expression.

To think there was a human who could catch and stop that with bare hands.

No, could a being capable of such a thing truly be human? Such thoughts crossed his mind.

Ten Thousand Heaven Blood Thunder was a throwing hidden weapon. It wasn’t meant to be held in hand while pressing the button, but thrown after pressing the button.

“Tahat!”

With Ha Mu-baek’s battle cry, an intense storm of internal energy swept the surroundings, and all remaining flames died out.

And the scene that was revealed.

The separate building, half-burned and left skeletal, and the demonic cult bastards surrounding and watching from a distance.

Sam Ryeong-ju was smiling beneath his mask.

Ha Mu-baek had shown exactly what he had expected.

He had thrown himself toward the Ten Thousand Heaven Blood Thunder to protect those behind him.

He had sent the Fourth Squad Leader to confirm this sight.

Since he was recruited after the war and didn’t know how to use Ten Thousand Heaven Blood Thunder, he had acted according to Sam Ryeong-ju’s instructions.

 

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“Kyaak!”

At the sudden explosion that rang through Muchang’s sky, Ha Seol-ran screamed in surprise.

Han Seol-bing, who was with her, also frowned.

It was an explosion that stirred painful memories.

“What’s wrong?”

To Wi Ji-gun’s question, Han Seol-bing answered.

“It’s a sound I’ve heard many times before.”

Wi Ji-gun had brought Ha Seol-ran to Han Seol-bing to prepare for any possible situation.

If he ever had to move, it was because he believed she could protect Ha Seol-ran.

Now she also knew Wi Ji-gun’s true identity.

“A sound you’ve heard many times?”

“Yes. It’s similar to the explosion sound made by Manmulryeon’s hidden weapons. They had tremendous power – we both received help from them and suffered damage too…”

At those words, Wi Ji-gun grimaced.

An explosion sound similar to Manmulryeon’s hidden weapons used on the battlefield.

Of all times, those demonic cult bastards and Manmulryeon’s Ryeon-ju were here in this place.

It was ominous.

That’s why he couldn’t decide on a course of action.

Whether to go help Ha Mu-baek or stay here to protect Ha Seol-ran.

Wi Ji-gun’s ki sense covered all of Muchang.

There seemed to be no suspicious presences.

No, all the suspicious presences were gathered around Ha Mu-baek.

However, he couldn’t feel at ease either.

Unlike Ha Mu-baek, he couldn’t read demonic energy from within presences.

“Master. Is something happening to Elder Brother?”

Ha Seol-ran asked Wi Ji-gun, who was lost in thought.

“It seems that way.”

At Wi Ji-gun’s answer, Han Seol-bing scowled.

“Don’t tell me it’s really Ten Thousand Heaven Blood Thunder?”

Since Ha Mu-baek was involved, it somehow seemed likely.

Soon, as if having made up her mind, Han Seol-bing stood up abruptly.

“Let’s go!”

“Huh?”

“Let’s go to Instructor Ha. If they’re using Ten Thousand Heaven Blood Thunder even with Instructor Ha present, it means they’re no ordinary enemies.”

In the last war, neither the demonic cult nor the blood cult had used Ten Thousand Heaven Blood Thunder.

Since Manmulryeon had supplied them thoroughly, only the Jeongcheon Alliance had used them.

Though the damage from misfires and accidental discharges was great, at least the enemies had never used them.

That’s why Han Seol-bing misunderstood.

She thought Manmulryeon, which had entered Muchang Castle, was using Ten Thousand Heaven Blood Thunder.

 

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[Second Squad Leader. You know how to use it, right? Press three times and throw it at Gung Mu-hyeok.]

At Sam Ryeong-ju’s command, the Second Squad Leader didn’t hesitate to take out Ten Thousand Heaven Blood Thunder from his chest and quickly pressed the trigger button three times.

This trigger button could be pressed up to five times maximum, which controlled the explosion timing.

Press once for explosion after one breath, press twice for explosion after two breaths.

The Third Squad Leader threw the Ten Thousand Heaven Blood Thunder toward the back of Ha Mu-baek.

The hidden weapon flying toward Gung Mu-hyeok.

“Crazy bastards. How the hell did they get that.”

Confirming the flying hidden weapon, Ha Mu-baek once again deployed his Body Protection Energy at full power.

This time he had a bit more leeway.

He wrapped both hands and the incoming hidden weapon with Gang Qi.

Kwakwakwang!

A loud explosion rang out, but it was only an explosion in a very small space.

An explosion within the Gang Qi that Ha Mu-baek had surrounded it with.

“H-how…”

Gung Mu-hyeok watched the scene with complex eyes.

Just one being leaked was already unbelievable, and now another Ten Thousand Heaven Blood Thunder.

And to think there was such an inhuman being who could block it by surrounding it with Gang Qi.

Meanwhile, hidden weapons flew in from eight directions with staggered timing.

Ha Mu-baek recognized that they were all Ten Thousand Heaven Blood Thunder.

“Where the hell did these damn bastards get those from…”

It had been quite a while since the war ended.

As far as Ha Mu-baek knew, even the Jeongcheon Alliance didn’t have that quantity in storage.

He knew they kept about four units as emergency reserves for unexpected situations.

But those damn bastards had brought out ten units just at this place today.

Then the source was obvious.

Manmulryeon.

That was the only place.

A traitor bastard had emerged from the Guard Corps too. It seemed something had gone wrong with Manmulryeon.

Ha Mu-baek’s thoughts went that far.

What he had to do now was eliminate the Ten Thousand Heaven Blood Thunder flying toward them.

Kwakwakwakwang!!

At that moment, with a tremendous explosion from the sky, flames spread in all directions.

The one flying highest had exploded in midair.

“Aaak!”

“Keuuk.”

“Ak.”

Ha Mu-baek gritted his teeth.

Seven remained.

Since it exploded in midair, the damage to those lying flat on the ground wasn’t severe.

Though their skin stung from the heat.

At that moment, again.

Kwakwakwang!

An explosion erupted, spewing flames in all directions.

Not only were they thrown with time intervals, but the explosion timing was also staggered like pressing buttons at different moments.

“What kind of bastard…”

A bastard with a sharp mind.

He was truly putting him in a difficult situation.

If it were up to his feelings, he would have just deflected them all.

But this place was not a battlefield.

This was Muchang Castle.

Every place he deflected would hit civilian homes.

Innocent people could end up dying.

“Hoo-eup.”

Ha Mu-baek took a deep breath and launched his body toward the center of the incoming Ten Thousand Heaven Blood Thunder.

And he unleashed Void Grasping with full power.

The Ten Thousand Heaven Blood Thunder that had been flying in different directions moved toward Ha Mu-baek as if drawn by a magnet.

He had already raised his Body Protection Energy to the extreme, and covered both hands with Gang Qi to the maximum.

Both hands glowed pure white.

 

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