Chapter 489: Chapter 489

Namgung So-hye could not relax her tension.

She stopped swinging her sword quietly and listened to the surrounding sounds.

However, the sensation that no one was beside her made it seem as if she had fallen away to another place all alone.

‘Fog…’

She could know the reason.

With thick fog blocking her vision and slowly moving due to the sounds of sword strikes coming from all directions, she couldn’t even grasp how much she had moved.

Namgung So-hye bit her lip.

She looked around with a vigilant gaze.

“Did you lure me here?”

“Hoho, that place was too noisy.”

The same voice echoed from all directions.

Because of that, she could not accurately pinpoint where the opponent was. Given such a situation, her body could not hide the tension even more, and before she knew it, cold sweat formed and flowed down her forehead.

“Why did you lure me of all people?”

Wasn’t their goal Dan So-mi?

Namgung So-hye, who didn’t know what thoughts they had and carried out this attack in the first place, tried talking to squeeze out information as much as possible.

However, what was heard was only giggling laughter.

He was definitely laughing like a woman, but the sound stimulating the ears belonged to a man.

That bizarre situation made Namgung So-hye’s state of mind anxious.

Swoosh-

At that time, a man suddenly revealed himself right in front of her nose. Bright red clothes-no, the moment she saw that face in the first place, things like his clothes didn’t properly catch her eyes.

That entity, having the face of a man, applied powder thickly and even put on dark rouge, perhaps to look like a woman.

The pungent smell of powder wafting out at the same time he revealed himself was more severe than the women in the red-light district, but never weak.

The moment the startled Namgung So-hye backed away in shock, the man’s hand reached out, grabbed her by the collar, and pulled her in.

“As for me, when I see something beautiful, I think I want to have it.”

“Ugh?!”

“Hoho, it is the first time since that fox bitch. A wench I want to have this much, that is.”

Ryeo Hagun obsessed over beautiful things.

Perhaps because he knew well that he was not beautiful himself, he was even more infatuated and immersed in them. Thus, whenever he saw something beautiful, what he did was…

“I am already looking forward to it. If I carefully peel off your skin alive, that beautiful face will become mine. Hohoho.”

Slash!

At the heard sound, Namgung So-hye gritted her teeth and swung her sword. The roughly extending sword tried to cut Ryeo Hagun’s chest, but he disappeared at some point and the blade cut through the empty air.

“You have bad taste.”

Namgung So-hye awkwardly rolled her eyes.

Where did he disappear to again?

Unable to know that, she frowned and caught her breath while still looking at the surroundings with a vigilant gaze.

Where did he go?

‘No, even if he were right in front of my eyes in the first place… could I win?’

Namgung So-hye was instinctively feeling it.

The decisive difference between the opponent and herself.

It was not a situation that could simply be explained by high and low realms.

Here there was a massive Lord of the Mountain (tiger), and Namgung So-hye herself was nothing more than an ant crawling on the ground. It meant there was that tremendous of a skill difference.

‘Probably their boss, an entity that could be called an Immortal.’

Dry saliva went down on its own.

Also, what formed at the corners of her mouth was a bitter smile.

If Dan U-hyeon were here, there would not have been even a shred of worry, but facing such an opponent all alone, anxiety and fear dwelled within.

However, it was not the time to stand still because of that, was it.

No matter what way, she would definitely return alive.

‘We haven’t even finished building the manor yet, and I told So-mi I’d wait for Young Master Dan together with her, and I also have a lot to learn from my grandfather…’

Continuing various thoughts, she solidified her resolve.

The hope to live dwelled in her eyes.

“Hohoho, good, very good! It is a better gaze than that fox bitch. Those eyes are also very covetable. How will you cry when I pluck them out?”

Hearing such a voice, Namgung So-hye let out a deep sigh.

Soon, she raised her sword and opened her mouth.

“Perverted bastard.”

* * *

Bi Cheon-ung was feeling bizarre.

The fog surrounding the area did not easily disappear. It was a situation where it goes without saying that it was artificial, not naturally occurring, but while the rough sounds of sword strikes heard from outside were still the same, there was no group trying to climb over the wall and come inside.

What would be the reason for creating the fog?

It must have been a plan to achieve their original purpose a bit more certainly.

Nevertheless, there was not a single sign of anyone climbing over the wall to come inside.

There wasn’t even a trace of the person leading their group. This was a situation that could never be called good.

Opening his eyes thinly, Bi Cheon-ung lightly threw his body and stepped onto the top of the wall.

“What is it? Why aren’t you guarding and playing around there?”

Under the wall, Jeok Mu-seong was seen standing blankly. Countless corpses lay face down around him, showing how many people he had killed.

Bi Cheon-ung nodded with an indifferent expression.

“I will find the boss.”

“Now?”

“Yes.”

Jeok Mu-seong looked at Bi Cheon-ung with a blank expression.

Well, there would be nothing better than that if he could find him, but there were no presences and it was even a situation where such thick fog had formed.

In the current situation where they didn’t even know the opponent’s plan, he thought leaving the manor empty would become the worst move.

“Are you crazy?”

“You guys protect it. If anything happens, send a signal.”

“Hey, you crazy bastard!”

Bi Cheon-ung lightly disappeared, leaving behind those words.

Jeok Mu-seong, left all alone, put on a blank expression. In a situation where Namgung Cheon and Sado Hak had not returned, the one who could be called the maximum combat power had disappeared, so he couldn’t know what would happen.

Jeok Mu-seong scratched his head and let out a sigh.

“No, it’s full of fog, so what kind of signal does he want me to send and how?”

Since he didn’t have a signal flare either, Jeok Mu-seong made a perplexed expression and frowned.

With a tense expression, he climbed over the wall and entered the manor. He seemed to think that at the very least he himself had to protect that place.

* * *

Slash-!

“Ugh!”

Namgung So-hye staggered while swallowing a moan.

Her entire body was covered in blood, showing how many sword strikes she had taken. Her clothes were half torn off, fully exposing her bare skin, and blood flowing from everywhere soaked the ground profusely.

In fact, it could be said to be a miraculous situation that she was even standing and enduring, and that was none other than because Ryeo Hagun was playing with Namgung So-hye.

Normally, he could have sufficiently killed her with just one move, but seeing that he was not doing so, it could be definitively said he had a personality that liked mocking opponents and playing with the weak.

What was interesting was that he never aimed for the face. It seemed to be because he was thinking of definitely getting his hands on that face.

“Hohoho, let’s see, what kind of dance will you dance if I do this?”

Giggling laughter was heard.

At the same time, with a ‘Thwack!’, something pierced into her shoulder.

“Aaaargh!”

Namgung So-hye faltered as she let out a scream. Forcibly holding onto her fading consciousness, she grabbed the thing stuck in her shoulder and pulled it out.

A tree branch.

To toy with an opponent using a mere small tree branch instead of a sword?

It was impossible unless one had extraordinary skill, and Namgung So-hye could only realize that fact after being subjected to it.

“Uugh…!”

Namgung So-hye staggered as she caught her breath.

The sword she was holding in her hand was dropped at some point and could not be seen.

Due to the thick fog, she could not know where it fell either, so in preparation for a situation that might occur, she took out the dagger she had.

The blade was quite a bit longer than an ordinary dagger, and it was an item with its blade sharpened to the point that it was hard to see it as simply for intimidation.

“Oho, is that something you learned from Bi Cheon-ung? That’s right, a short dagger definitely has low lethality unless it fully goes in. It has to go in at least a span deeper to kill a person.”

Ryeo Hagun’s praising voice was heard.

Being about a span longer than a normal dagger was definitely for harming the opponent. Because a short dagger cannot actually be said to have good lethality unless it hits an exact vital point.

“However, even something like that.”

Ryeo Hagun moved with a sneer.

He approached secretively, without even a sound of cutting the wind.

Appearing by Namgung So-hye’s side before she knew it, he thrust his sword aiming for her right chest this time.

“It only works if your skills are similar.”

Saying such words, he laughed.

His face was full of expectation as to how she would burst into tears this time.

However, at the same time, Namgung So-hye twisted her body and pushed her face forward. Watching that, Ryeo Hagun was startled and twisted his sword upwards.

This was largely due to the reason that he wanted to definitely get his hands on her face intact.

Ryeo Hagun’s expression was full of fluster.

How did she grasp his position? He was full of such doubts.

At the same time, it struck in.

Namgung So-hye’s dagger pierced Ryeo Hagun’s neck just like that.

Clang!

However, it could not pierce the Protective Aura.

The higher martial arts one possessed, the more the Protective Aura wrapped around their entire body boasted a sturdiness that lower-level people could never pierce.

“Hoho, it was a good move, but it’s a pity!”

The moment Ryeo Hagun, who almost fell for a surprise move, giggled and smiled.

Namgung So-hye charged towards Ryeo Hagun just like that, and in that split second, laughing while off his guard, he watched that action blankly and could do nothing.

Or perhaps he knew that no matter what she did, she could not give him a single wound.

However.

Thwack!

“Keok!”

The remaining blade pierced Ryeo Hagun’s neck.

Even though he should have been protecting his body with the Protective Aura, the blade dug inside too easily. After piercing his neck, the blade crumbled into powder and disappeared, as if it were only then affected by the Protective Aura.

“Ke-ke-keok!”

Ryeo Hagun staggered while clutching his neck.

He could not understand the situation of what had happened.

“Haa, haa… Young Master Dan said so. The stronger one is, the more they let their guard down, and the more they let their guard down, the more their weak points are revealed. Does a Protective Aura look like an omnipotent thing?”

This was something Namgung So-hye had also thought the same about. It was because she had believed that if one wrapped themselves in a Protective Aura, the blade would not touch their body no matter the situation.

However, Dan U-hyeon’s teachings denied all those things entirely.

“It is unfortunate, but even a Protective Aura is not omnipotent.”

Of course, it was such a short moment, so aiming for that opportunity would never have been easy, but Namgung So-hye was as lucky today as if she had used up all of heaven’s luck.

“And… your smell is too potent. To the point where if I concentrate just a little, I can know where you will appear from. Of course, you were fast enough that my body could not react, but if that continues, no matter who I am, I would feel it, right?”

Ryeo Hagun, trembling violently while grabbing his neck, sent an unbelievable gaze.

The great Ryeo Hagun was killed by someone who hadn’t even reached the realm of an Immortal.

This was a situation no different from a Lord of the Mountain being killed by an ant.

Whether she knew it or not, Namgung So-hye plopped down while looking at Ryeo Hagun trembling violently and shedding blood.

“Haa…”

Her sighing sound was heard.

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