Chapter 457: Chapter 457

Looking at the blazing mountain stronghold, the Plague Demon Kang Ja-jung scratched his head vigorously. Even though many subordinates were making efforts to put out the fire, he didn’t care in the slightest.

“Stop it, stop.”

Soon, he opened his mouth as if annoyed.

One mountain stronghold was burning, and the embers spread and began to spread in all directions.

Furthermore, since the wind was blowing strongly, even though a fire would soon break out all over the mountain, Kang Ja-jung did not show much reaction.

“Ha…… But, our luggage!”

“Throw it away, throw it away. I have things like the bank notes, and the scorched gold pieces can be melted and sold, so don’t worry about it.”

“…….”

Kang Ja-jung was neither surprised nor urgent.

Things that could be salvaged could be retrieved anytime right after the fire was put out. Right now, he was more curious about the reason for this fire than such things.

He looked around with an indifferent expression, stared at the fallen bonfire and the place where the fire started to spread, and then trudged towards the place where Hong Won-chang was.

“Ca…… Captain…… this is…….”

“Why are you so surprised. If this didn’t happen naturally, it would be his doing.”

It was clear that he had already escaped this place.

Seeing many people scurrying about, he must have leisurely made his escape. Thinking of that, he felt it was both absurd and funny.

When he thought that he was beaten by a mere lowly magistrate, anger needlessly surged up.

When he slightly turned his back, he saw a subordinate who had followed him.

He lightly took out a dagger from his waist and stabbed his chest.

Puk!

“Keoeok!”

“No, no. Isn’t this happening because you were careless?”

The man who was trembling violently fell face down helplessly.

He struggled and flailed, trying to live somehow, but the dagger that pierced his heart did not easily come out, and it cut off his breath right there.

“The vi…… vice-captain…….”

“Euk…….”

“…….”

The subordinates who engraved that sight in their eyes swallowed their saliva.

The one Kang Ja-jung killed was none other than the person who had been his right-hand man for a long time.

To take his life over just one mistake like this? The vice-captain, who had reasonably good skills, also seemed to have not thought at all that he would kill him.

So he must not have even resisted properly.

“What are you doing? Find him. If you can’t find him, I’ll slit your throats one by one.”

“Y…… yes!”

It wasn’t just empty words.

Since they had already seen him murder the vice-captain who claimed to be his trusted confidant right in front of their eyes, would it be any different for the other subordinates?

He would definitely try to kill them with a more cruel method.

The subordinates abandoned the place where the fire broke out and ran out.

Their will to definitely catch Hong Won-chang could be seen.

Looking at that, Kang Ja-jung smacked his lips and shook his head side to side.

“Is it about time to throw them away? With them being this stupid…….”

Kang Ja-jung clicked his tongue ‘Tsk’ and smacked his lips.

Whether they brought Hong Won-chang back alive or not, the thought that he should kill everyone and get new guys had already filled his mind.

At that moment, Kang Ja-jung, who was smacking his lips and looking at the ground, began to move slowly with a twinkle in his eyes as if he had found something.

Then, he soon stopped at one place.

It was a place where bushes were lush and territorially allowed one to look at the entire mountain stronghold.

Also, what was interesting was that due to the thick bushes, buildings hidden here and there, and even the blazing flames, it seemed that even if someone were there, they couldn’t be found unless one looked closely.

Kang Ja-jung swaggered over to that place, pulled down his trousers, and began to urinate.

“Eueum.”

And then, he hummed a tune incredibly calmly even amidst the blazing flames, and then tightened his trousers again. The action was very bizarre; it seemed as if he was aiming for something, or alternatively, it could be considered that he simply did it to urinate.

However, Kang Ja-jung nonchalantly squatted on that spot.

He held a dagger he had drawn at some point in his hand and stroked its blade.

“They say it’s dark under the lamp…… right?”

Something flashing flew towards Kang Ja-jung’s head. It was a move filled with a strong killing intent to cut off his breath at once.

However, Kang Ja-jung did not even move from that spot.

He merely reached out his hand and grabbed the wrist of the opponent flying in.

The dagger stopped precariously in front of Kang Ja-jung’s head.

“Y…… you bastard……!”

“It was a good try. Set a fire, hide yourself, and wait until people leave. If it were someone else other than me, everyone would have been fooled. Just like now.”

Kang Ja-jung clicked his tongue, ‘Tsk tsk’.

Because he recalled the subordinates who had run out without even grasping any situation and without a thought of finding traces. It was also a matter of resolving again to kill them all the moment they returned.

“I heard you caught quite a lot of criminals, your resourcefulness is quite good.”

“Kill me!”

Kang Ja-jung gazed intently at Hong Won-chang who shouted loudly.

As if he had already foreseen his death, he seemed to be gathering his mind while glaring at the opponent with a sharp gaze.

But he didn’t like this kind of thing.

Originally, isn’t a person’s death only slightly fun to watch when they struggle saying they don’t want to die?

Kang Ja-jung twitched his eyebrows and chuckled.

And slowly took the dagger from Hong Won-chang’s hand.

“You shouldn’t die like this. Right, I have a good idea. I’ll capture all of your family members. And then put a mask on you so they can’t recognize it’s you, and make them slowly cut your neck.”

“You crazy bastard!”

“Your family members are human too. In a situation where they have to kill if they want to live, aren’t you curious if they can kill someone they don’t even know? I want to see their faces when they belatedly find out that it was their father.”

Kang Ja-jung opened his mouth like someone who had taken an interest in breaking a fun toy to pieces right in front of his eyes.

At his eccentric and simply disgusting laughter and demeanor, Hong Won-chang trembled all over.

Experiencing this Murim with Dan Woo-hyun, he had seen many people.

But this was the first time he had seen someone so malicious and bizarre.

He truly enjoyed murder.

Of course, it wasn’t his first time seeing such people, but Kang Ja-jung possessed an aesthetic for murder to an excessive degree.

He spat because he didn’t like it.

“Hmm…….”

However, Kang Ja-jung wiped the saliva off his face with his own hand, then smeared the remaining residue on Hong Won-chang’s face and rubbed it. His face doing that series of actions was so bizarre that it was disgusting.

“Then shall I first cut off your limbs and drag you away?”

Saying such things, he drew his sword.

At the moment when he was picking where to cut first like that.

“Kkeuaaaaak! Ca…… Captain! Captain!”

With a loud shout, one of the subordinates could be seen hurriedly running over.

Startled, Kang Ja-jung turned his gaze with an expression of having been interrupted. His expression looking at him was not good, which also contained the will to kill him if it was an insignificant matter.

“What is it?”

“Bi…… Big trouble!”

“So what is it!”

“The Hu…… Hunan Dan Family…… The Si…… Sichuan Dang Family!”

“What does that mean!”

As for the Hunan Dan Family, he too had heard of them.

The number one family in the world that gave decisive help in driving out the Blood Heaven, and even broke the prestige of the Nine Great Sects One Union and the Eight Great Families.

Moreover, wasn’t the Family Head there the one currently called the best in the world?

Furthermore, the Sichuan Dang Family?

As incomprehensible names kept popping up, Kang Ja-jung frowned.

“Everyone is dying! H-Help us! I mean they are coming here!”

“So why are those guys coming here……?”

“Keukeukeuk…….”

Kang Ja-jung raised his voice without realizing the current situation.

The moment Kang Ja-jung, who had never lost his composure until now, lost his form, Hong Won-chang let out a low laugh and looked at him.

Kang Ja-jung’s fierce pupils poured toward Hong Won-chang.

A terrifying killing intent also rose up.

“What’s funny?”

“Do you know?”

“……Know what.”

“Haha…… run away if you want to live, you idiots.”

“What is this foolish bastard talking about!”

Angry, Kang Ja-jung raised his sword.

Due to his nature of enjoying murder, just killing him was not proper, but looking at Hong Won-chang’s face now, he needlessly got choked up and felt like he had to cut his neck.

And so it swung.

The blade struck straight down and tried to split Hong Won-chang’s head directly.

Kang!

However, it did not achieve its purpose.

It was clear that he struck down, but the blade had suddenly vanished by half and couldn’t be seen.

It was broken.

The broken blade that flew away was stuck in the subordinate’s chest.

“Keokeok!”

A choking sound was heard.

He too did not accurately perceive what had happened, and merely sent a blank stare while looking only at the blade in his chest.

Then, he stumbled backward and soon fell over with a thud.

Kang Ja-jung turned his back while looking at it.

Something flew in.

Ppagak!

“Keok!”

The foot of someone who flew in in an instant struck his face.

“This son of a bitch?!”

‘F…… fast?!’

For a moment, Kang Ja-jung lost the figure in front of his eyes. It was so fast that he couldn’t even check properly, and he couldn’t even know what he did before the flying foot slammed into his face.

He slid backwards and caught his balance.

Chwaak!

He thrust his sword as it was and threatened the opponent.

However, the figure’s movements were so fast and agile that he escaped the range of the blade as it was, floated up into the air, came down, and struck a palm.

Peoeong!

“Kkeuaaaak!”

Kang Ja-jung knew what that was now.

Potala Palace’s palm art.

If so, was the opponent a person of the Potala Palace? He gritted his teeth, endured the palm force, raised his momentum again, and looked at the opponent.

But once again, he wasn’t there.

“Son of a bitch!”

Ppagak!

To his side.

The fist of the figure who moved in an instant slammed into his face.

His brain shook.

Without time to realize anything, kicks flew in succession and slammed into his abdomen.

The moment he bent his back like a shrimp while groaning, the figure’s knee struck his jaw, and he reached out, grabbed the hair of Kang Ja-jung who was about to fly away, and pulled.

As he was helplessly dragged as it was, the extended foot of the figure strongly stomped on the back of his knee.

Ppadeuk!

“Kkeuaaaaaak!”

Along with the intense sound of his knee breaking, immense pain rushed in. The moment his body momentarily lost strength and collapsed, a foot reached out and strongly struck his face as if it had been aiming for that.

Ppagak!

At that moment.

His consciousness faded away.

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