Chapter 98: Chapter 98

“Are you speaking seriously?”

Sado-hak let out a hollow laugh as he looked at what was held in his hand. An axe was held in one hand, and there were incredibly many trees around him.

“I am serious.”

“Ha!”

Exhaling a gasp of disbelief, Sado-hak looked around.

This place was a forest slightly apart from the manor. It was a place full of quite decent trees, the kind that could be used to build a house.

Since he had been dragged to such a place and was holding an axe, he looked like a woodcutter rather than a martial artist to anyone who saw him.

Although his mind was full of a desire to complain, when he turned his head to look at the others, every single one of them held an axe in their hands and stood before a tree.

‘Build a house? Is this man really speaking seriously?’

Sado-hak could not believe it at all.

The descendant of the Martial God.

Once one reached that level, there was no need to build a house yourself. Even if you just joined an organization, not to mention a palace-like house, considerable money would come in.

But what on earth was the reason for refusing such things and chopping wood to build a house by hand?

Unable to understand at all, he looked at Dan Woo-hyun.

He was smiling. Without saying a word.

That was even more annoying.

He felt like hitting him once if he could.

However, since it was after he had bitterly realized that he was no match for him, he knew that any action would be meaningless.

Already after rising from his sickbed, he had punched from behind several times, only to faint several times as a result.

“If it is money, I will give it. Employ people.”

“Since you destroyed the manor, it is natural that you must pay. And as for people, do we not have them, you guys?”

“……?”

Sado-hak was lost for words once again.

If so, it meant he was taking the money and using them as labor as well? What kind of mindset was so wicked?

His lips trembled as he sighed.

“I have no intention of building a new one. I am simply trying to repair it.”

“Build a new one…… no intention…… I see.”

Namgung Cheon, who was listening nearby, laughed as if it was absurd.

There was no part of the destroyed manor that remained in its proper shape. He spoke of repairs, but practically speaking, it was no different from building it again from the beginning.

Even the paper in Dan Woo-hyun’s bosom was a blueprint he had stayed up all night to create.

Although he had only glanced at it, even if they built it like that, if they used ordinary workers, he thought it would take several months to a year.

“Three days. Build it within three days.”

Dan Woo-hyun spoke those words in all seriousness.

Namgung Cheon forced a smile, but internally he wanted to cry. It was even more so because he could not rebel.

“If you cannot, you can just leave.”

Those words Dan Woo-hyun said with a smirk gouged Namgung Cheon’s heart like a piercer.

Of course, leaving the manor was not a difficult thing. Since his Scattered Qi Poison had been cured, he could just spend his time in a quiet place.

But he did not want to do that. To Namgung Cheon, this manor had already become his everything.

In the end, he lifted the axe.

“Haha, I will try my best.”

Burning with motivation, he began chopping wood before long. Although he did it with only one hand, the trees split wide open every time he struck.

He was using internal energy.

Gwon Mu-jin and Jang Sam-tae watched that quietly, and then glanced at Dan Woo-hyun.

An anxiety crept over them that he might tell them not to use internal energy like last time, but Dan Woo-hyun just sat down quietly without saying a word.

That was enough.

It meant they could use internal energy.

Gwon Mu-jin smirked and rolled up his sleeves.

Chopping wood was a piece of cake.

At that time, the Namgung Clan of Anhui Province.

Going a little further west from the main hall, there was a large prison. The surroundings were heavily guarded by a significant number of warriors, as if they were conducting tight security.

To prevent intruders flying in from the roof, those who could be called the eyes of the Namgung Clan were hiding there as well, giving an ominous feeling that something big was happening.

Namgung So-hye quietly entered the prison.

From inside, the shouts of countless people could be heard.

The moment she entered, all kinds of curses and sexual insults heard were mostly things that were hard to listen to from a woman’s standpoint.

But Namgung So-hye did not care.

They were low-lifes who had given up on their lives anyway. Even if she killed them on the spot, she would not blink an eye.

‘The Snake Blood Group…… it was definitely a name like that.’

She did not know at all where they had suddenly appeared from. They had already tortured them several times, but no one opened their mouth.

“My Lady, this place is for me to…….”

One of the guards of the Namgung Clan frowned.

This was not a place for Namgung So-hye to enter. He had hoped she would not come if possible, but in the end, she had entered. The guys who failed to stop her were a problem, but it was also a problem that no one could break Namgung So-hye’s stubbornness.

“Is it this man?”

Namgung So-hye stood before a man without saying a word. Unlike the others, he was a man locked up in the prison alone.

Rugged muscles and disheveled hair.

A shaggy beard and ripped eyes.

At a glance, he was a man who boasted considerable intimidation.

He must have known that this place was the prison of the Namgung Clan, and that the woman standing before him was Namgung So-hye, who was well-known even in the Murim Alliance, but the man sat cross-legged without blinking an eye.

“That is correct.”

“…….”

Namgung So-hye bit her lip hard.

There were as many as ten merchant groups trading with the Namgung Clan.

The one who raided those places, plundered the goods, killed all the merchants, and hung their heads in the forest was this very man.

Also, he cut off the information network of the Namgung Clan that had been hidden in various places, and raided dozens of sects under the Namgung Clan, causing significant damage.

This was like…….

‘An action to attack the Namgung Clan…….’

He could not be called a simple bandit.

They must surely have some purpose.

Therefore, the elite members moved to capture them, and kept them locked up under such tight security.

“Haha! This is an honor! To imprint the most beautiful woman in Anhui in my eyes.”

“…….”

The man, who opened his eyes, looked at Namgung So-hye and knocked on the thick wooden bars. If his dantian had not been sealed, a monstrous strength was felt that could break it and burst out at once.

Namgung So-hye frowned.

“Even a frowning face is pretty. How about it! Come here…… and…….”

Slash!

Before those words could finish, a flash gleamed.

Namgung So-hye’s guards could not understand what had happened. They also tried to draw their swords, but the blade that went out first cut off the arm of the man that had reached out.

The owner of that blade was Namgung So-hye.

The severed arm rolled on the floor.

Blood splattered in all directions.

“Heh…… hehe! You cannot even take a joke.”

“Hahaha! Boss, was that a joke? It looked serious to me.”

“As expected of our Boss!”

But a strange thing happened again.

Even though his arm was severed, the man was enduring the pain. He frowned as if it hurt, but without letting out a single scream, he stopped the bleeding of his severed arm with his left hand and laughed.

The surrounding situation was also strange.

To laugh and chatter even though their boss’s arm was severed, was this the behavior a normal person would have?

‘They are crazy!’

Namgung So-hye thought as she looked at them.

And it was not just a normal level of craziness.

They were men who gave off a strong feeling that they would have no regrets even if they died, and would grit their teeth to torment the Namgung Clan until the very moment of death.

“The reason you targeted the Namgung Clan?”

“Hahaha! Why would there be such a thing?”

Namgung So-hye’s eyebrows twitched.

‘Do you plan to keep your mouth shut?’

The moment she was about to swing her sword again with the intention of pushing hard, the boss man curled up the corners of his mouth and spoke.

“Simply because you are an eyesore. I want you guys to disappear.”

“You speak such words easily. You do not seem to know your current situation, do you?”

“Hahaha!”

The man burst into laughter like crazy.

A feeling as if he was soaked in madness.

Even his gaze made it hard to think of him as a normal person.

Just as Namgung So-hye frowned and lifted her sword again.

“My…… My Lady!”

Suddenly, a man entered the prison. The way he approached with a pale complexion and gasped for breath made her guess that something had happened.

Namgung So-hye glanced at the man.

He was still wearing a strange smile.

“What is the matter?”

“It…… It is a disaster! The Young Patriarch……! He was attacked by mysterious men and kidnapped!”

“…….”

Namgung So-hye closed her mouth.

As if shocked, she did not utter a single word. Before long, her body trembled and her lips moved.

“……What about the rescue team?”

“Currently, the Patriarch and the Elders have set out leading the experts of the clan.”

Namgung So-hye’s gaze whipped toward the boss man.

‘Was the meaning of that smile this?’

Her glaring gaze did not leave the man’s face.

He showed an even deeper smile.

It was a confident, no, even arrogant smile, as if he had expected this kind of thing from the beginning.

The man leaned his body slightly against the wall and lay down peacefully.

“Haha! To think there are guys who kidnap the Young Patriarch of the Namgung Clan, I do not know who it is, but they are amazing.”

Kahahahaha!

Loud laughter burst out here and there.

They were enjoying this situation and mocking them.

Namgung So-hye bit her lip hard.

They had captured and suppressed all of them and locked them in the prison. Therefore, she had been somewhat relieved. But other guys had pierced through that gap.

‘Did they plan this from the beginning?’

Attacking and kidnapping the Young Patriarch was a matter of a different level from what they had done so far. It was practically the same as declaring war on the Namgung Clan.

Grit!

Namgung So-hye ground her teeth.

She could never tolerate this.

Bang!

She kicked the door of the prison roughly.

That loud vibration spread violently. Everyone had no choice but to block their ears at the sound that rang in their ears.

“I will never forgive you……!”

“My, that is wonderful. But will you be alright?”

“What……?”

The boss man slowly stood up from his seat and picked up his arm that had fallen on the floor. Swallowing a sip of the dripping blood, he brought his blood-red face close to her.

That appearance was truly hideous, making even Namgung So-hye take half a step back. A ghastly malice that forced even her rising anger to subside was felt.

Inside this dark space, the man’s eyes glowed red.

“Is this place not an empty house now? Who will protect you, girl?”

Boom, boom, boom!

That single sentence was the start.

Explosions were heard from everywhere.

The ground shook as if an earthquake had occurred, and the terrible smell of gunpowder spread everywhere.

It was definitely cannons.

Boom!

Just in time, a cannonball fell into the prison.

At that which fell after accurately breaking the ceiling, everyone inside, including Namgung So-hye, glared and threw their bodies.

Fragments that bounced in all directions as they struck the ground showered toward Namgung So-hye.

Right before everything was enveloped in darkness, Namgung So-hye heard the voice of the boss man bursting into loud laughter.

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