I’m a licensed teacher now.😊 Thanks to galaxytl, translator community and readers for your support.🙏 You helped me pass my exam with confidence. As a token of gratitude, I’ll give 5 chapters each for my novels today. Enjoy😍!Eurius’s appearance was not a formal visit with permission, but almost a forced entry.
Naturally, the Righteous Alliance had to be on high alert.
Weren’t the leaders of each faction gathered in the conference room right now?
“An intruder? Who dares to attack the Righteous Alliance?”
“The conference room is where the leader is. We have to hurry.”
Shh!
Swoosh!
The Righteous Alliance had many experts staying there to prepare for the martial arts tournament.
They rushed to the conference room.
The entrance to the conference room was normally off-limits to anyone except the leaders of the Righteous Alliance, but it was different in an emergency like this.
In an instant, the hall was filled with experts swarming in like bees.
Except for the minimum security personnel guarding each faction, almost all of the experts left to stop the commotion in the conference room.
And there were people who quietly watched this scene from the shadows.
[We succeeded in drawing their attention. How are they doing?]
[They just contacted us. They should arrive soon.]
[Don’t let your guard down in case of any trouble.]
[Understood.]
***
The gathered experts looked at Eurius, who was confronting the leader, with a puzzled expression.
Many of them belonged to the Righteous Coalition.
Whisper whisper.
“Isn’t that the scoundrel Grand Master?”
“Ah! The one rumored to be the Inheritor Master of All Martial Arts?”
“What on earth is going on?”
Hearing their whispers, Eurius smiled inwardly.
‘The audience seems to have arrived.’
The leader in front of him, Shin Ja-seong, was sweating coldly and retorted.
“You said you were here to punish the Dark Sect?”
“Yes, I’m asking for your cooperation.”
‘How rude!’
‘How can he be so impolite?’
They were momentarily outraged by his arrogant tone. But there was a reason why they couldn’t rush in easily.
“…”
It was Beatrice and Je Gal Un-hyeon!
They were two superhumans who stood firmly on either side of Eurius.
There were only three absolute experts at the fourth level in the Righteous Alliance, including the leader.
But Eurius was using such rare beings as superhumans as his escorts.
The leaders of the Righteous Alliance had no choice but to wonder about his identity.
“Excuse me, but can we know who you are?”
“I can’t reveal my identity easily, as I have a mission from His Majesty.”
“Heh heh…”
Shin Ja-seong pretended to be calm and stroked his beard, but he racked his brain to figure out Eurius’s intention.
‘What does he want?’
He hadn’t received any ‘instructions’ for this situation. He didn’t expect him to pick a fight with the entire Righteous Alliance. After a moment of hesitation, he came to a conclusion.
‘This is nothing but a threat. No matter how strong he is, he can’t face the whole Righteous Alliance with just Je Gal’s trio.’
He made a regretful expression.
“You said you were Eurius Grand Master? I’m sorry, but we have no way of verifying the authenticity of this letter.”
“That… that’s right! It’s too much to ask us to believe something that happened in that faraway continent!”
When the leader firmly refuted him, the other leaders finally regained their spirit and added their words.
“You want evidence?”
Eurius suddenly widened his eyes.
Then he repeated his words like a parrot.
“Evidence… evidence, you say? That’s strange.”
“…!?”
Eurius spoke again in a serious tone.
“Then do you have any evidence that I’m a suspicious person? Do you have a good reason for not letting me in?”
“…”
There was silence between them for a while.
They realized that Eurius’s intrusion was a protest. Shin Ja-seong tried to open his mouth quickly.
“We have no choice. It’s the Imperial decree…”
Eurius looked even more puzzled.
“A decree? So you have no evidence?”
“…”
He showed a hint of anger here.
“Is that a more decisive reason than the favor I’ve done for the Righteous Alliance? I can’t understand this treatment.”
At his words, all of the leaders of the Righteous Alliance felt embarrassed.
It was unprecedented to deny entry to someone who had done as much as Eurius for the alliance.
That’s why Namgung Il-cheon and Jiwoo Seonsa felt sorry for him.
“…”
Looking at them like honey-eating mute people, Eurius glanced at the gathered experts.
“You seem to like accusing people based on suspicion, but I find you more suspicious.”
“What do you mean by that?”
Eurius said calmly.
“I came here to question the Dark Sect for their crimes, but you seem to have fallen for some trick. You’re trying to make me a suspect without any evidence.”
He tilted his head slightly.
“Is there anyone here who is colluding with the Dark Sect?”
“What!?”
At his words, the leaders of the Righteous Alliance were about to flare up.
Especially, Chwi Seon-gae, the leader of the Open faction who tried to fight Eurius with the imperial army, was the most furious.
“How dare you slander us!”
“Then are you not?”
Chwi Seon-gae raised his voice with a vein on his neck.“No matter how much you talk, you have no evidence. It’s natural to doubt someone whose identity is unknown!”
“Ho ho…”
Eurius shook his head slightly.
“Then it would be fine if I had evidence?”
“…!?”
“Grand Master! What are you?”
At that moment, only the people in the room who had reached the realm of superhumans felt a chilling aura.
To be precise, only those with that level of skill could sense the danger.
Pop!
Eurius drew his sword so fast that most people just felt something flash.
And the direction of his sword was!
“Leader!”
Eurius’s sword reached Shin Ja-seong’s neck in an instant.
“Gasp!”
But he was also a person who was called the best master in the Righteous Alliance.
He could handle a sudden attack well enough.
Swish.
His sword swiftly blocked Eurius’s sword.
It was a natural defense like flowing water. But at the moment of collision, Shin Jaseong’s eyes widened.
“…!?”
He then bent his waist back and tried to get out of Eurius’s sword trajectory as much as possible.
Clang!
Crack!
His sword broke first with a metallic sound, and then his chest was split open.
No matter how fast his defense was, he couldn’t withstand the spatial cutting.
It was impressive that his body didn’t collapse.
And when the masters of the Righteous Alliance saw that, they were so shocked that they drew their weapons and rushed to Eurius.
“Assassination?”
“What is this madness?”
“Do you still say that after seeing this?”
Eurius replied calmly. His sword stopped attacking and aimed at Shin Jaseong’s chest.
“…!?”
The masters of the Righteous Alliance were startled again.
“There’s no blood?”
“Could it be…”
Surprisingly, not a drop of blood came out of Shin Jaseong’s chest where the sword had passed. But looking at the wound, the internal organs and bones that were exposed between the flesh created a bizarre scene.
Especially, the leaders of the Righteous Alliance who were standing behind Shin Jaseong were so astonished that their eyes seemed to pop out.
They uttered a word as if groaning.
“Zombie!”
‘Zombie’ means to control a corpse or a living person’s vital functions with a strange technique and make them act like puppets. Among them, Zombie made from living people were called ‘living zombies’.
The characteristic of living sombies was that the maker could either leave or erase their reason depending on their ability. If they left their reason, living zombies would look no different from before they died.
But inside was different.
Under the restriction of the technique user, they could think to some extent, but all their actions ultimately followed the will of the controller.
***
Eurius thought that the most important thing before executing this plan was to reveal the identity of the sect leader.
“What’s the point of driving him away as a fake if he denies it?”
“I don’t think he’s a fake.”
“Hmm?”
“The Righteous Alliance is not an easy place for a fake to pretend to be the sect leader for over ten years.”
Jegal Seongwoon firmly denied the possibility that Shin Jaseong was a fake.
The sect leader of the Righteous Alliance had to have strong power and leadership, so the selection criteria were strict.
“If they had enough power to set up a fake Alliance leader, they wouldn’t need to resort to such tricks. They could have taken over the sect with the sect leader’s sidekicks and countless eyes in it.”
“Then what?”
“This is hard to believe without Gu Cheon-geol testimony, but…”
Jegal Seongwoon cautiously put forward his opinion.
“I think he is either controlled or blackmailed by some technique.”
But who could pull such a trick on the sect leader of the Righteous Alliance, who had fierce guards and whose power was among the top in the Eastern Continent?
“Is that what we’re going to find out this time?”
“Yes. It will be hard, but we have no choice.”
But in reality, it was not difficult for Eurius at all.
“Then I just have to visit him.”
“Huh?”
“I’ll know as soon as I see him.”
“…!?”
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And the result he confirmed was worse than being controlled.
Shin Ja-seong
Job: Swordsman, Grandmaster (Superhuman)
Strength: S Agility: S Intelligence: None Spirit: None Force Aptitude: S Force: SS
Disposition: Mild
Current State: Must follow orders.
[Traits]
Swordsmanship (SS+)
Zombiefication – Lost his proper reason by an external technique. Being controlled from outside.
***
Eurius clicked his tongue.
“There are some weird techniques too. To think that they can make a normal person into a bloodless monster.”
Jegal Unhyeon said solemnly.
“It would be better to subdue him if possible. Maybe there’s a way to restore his reason.”
“I got it.”“Eek!”
The leaders of the Righteous Alliance who approached Shin Ja-seong quickly backed away from him.
They couldn’t believe that the sect leader they had brought was a mindless puppet!
It was unbelievable even after seeing it.
The other masters who were watching from outside also had pale faces.
Their eyes were fixed on the sect leader.
‘How could this happen!’
“…”
Shin Ja-seong became silent.
He didn’t need to pretend to be a normal Alliance leader anymore.
The only thing left for him, who was being controlled, was the last order given by the controller.
[3rd, if your identity is revealed, use it even if it’s incomplete. You have to inflict as much damage as possible on the Righteous Alliance.]
‘As ordered…’
Shin Ja-seong, whose eyes were now blurred, took out a small box from his sleeve.
Boom!
The box opened and the temperature around Shin Ja-seong rose sharply.
‘What is that?’
A thunderous voice rang in Eurius’s head as he watched.
[Stop him from swallowing that!]
‘What?’
What came out of the box was a round stone the size of an egg.
It looked ominous at a glance, and flames were burning endlessly from the red stone.
Swoosh!
Eurius’s sword quickly cut off one of Shin Jaseong’s arms, but the master didn’t need an arm to pick up something.
Swoop.
He ignored his fallen arm and pulled the stone with his air suction.
And he swallowed it in an instant.
Gulp!
And at that moment!
Whoosh!
Flames erupted near Shin Jaseong’s body.
A circular flame that rose from him reached tens of meters into the air.
Roar!
“Ugh!”
“Get back for now!”
The masters of the Righteous Alliance retreated in a hurry, unable to withstand the heat.
The flames were so intense that they burned everything in the conference room in an instant.
Of course, people were no exception.
The faces of the leaders of the Righteous Alliance, such as Chwi Seon-gae, who were near Shin Jaseong, turned black.
The masters outside also backed away far enough, let alone those inside.
They closed their eyes tightly as the flames engulfed the room.
‘We’re dead now.’
‘Orajil… We were just following our master’s words.’
But it seemed that they were not destined to die yet.
Swoosh.
“Huh?”
Chwi Seon-gae opened his eyes wide when he didn’t feel the pain of burning flesh.
Instead, he felt a cool breeze.
And at the same time, he heard a snarky voice.
“Get out quickly. I can’t protect you forever.”
“…!?”
Swoosh.
A thick steam appeared in front of them.
And in the center of the steam was Eurius!
He was wearing a white ice armor on his body.
The cold air that spewed from the armor neutralized the hot heat.
This was the power of the Invisible Armor.
The power of Hyunmu, who controlled water and cold!
“Tha… Thank you, Grandmaster.”
“We will never forget this favor.”
The leaders of the Righteous Alliance flew out of the room. It was a close call. Eurius smiled mockingly as he watched them.
“At least you know how to be polite.”
[Don’t waste your thoughts and focus on the enemy ahead.]
Hwangryong’s nagging voice was heard as the steam cleared up.
Eurius’s expression hardened as he saw the huge shadow that appeared.
‘That’s Vermilion Bird’s power?’
The shadow was a giant made of fire.
It was over five meters tall.
On its face, where eyes were supposed to be, two sun-like flames were burning fiercely.
[Yeah. I don’t know how they did it, but they used their brains.]
‘Huh?’
[The power of a divine beast can only be used by the chosen ones. But…]
‘Ah!’
Eurius let out a small exclamation as if he realized something.
[If someone like him, who has an outstanding vessel among humans, becomes an undead and has a hardened body, he might be able to withstand it for a while.]
In other words, Shin Ja-seong, who became a giant of flames, was a secret weapon prepared by the Dark Sect for a long time.
‘He’s not an easy opponent even if he got a divine power.’
Eurius pulled up his Hyunmu’s skill as much as he could, though he was not very familiar with it yet.
His sword was covered with white frost and emitted cold air.
Roar.
The giant moved and a tremendous heat rose from him.
Whoosh.
Swoosh.
The massive heat that the giant emitted from his whole body!
The white cold that concentrated on Eurius’s sword!
Boom!
The two forces collided and made a terrible noise.