Chapter 294 – Ten Soldiers. Broken Weapons…… (1)

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Shin Moo-wol gritted his teeth.

“You crazy bastard!”

He had felt it even when they were young, but Dong Hwa-woon was insane. Completely and utterly.

The place where Shin Moo-wol had spent his childhood was like hell itself. For the revival of the fallen Demon Cult, they needed powerful military force raised in a completely different way than before.

The Demon Cult drove nearly a thousand children into several secret facilities including the Heavenly Gold Demon Palace and subjected them to harsh tempering.

Their tempering was so harsh it exceeded the imagination of ordinary people. All kinds of unproven techniques and drugs were mobilized. Naturally, side effects occurred frequently, but the Demon Cult didn’t care.

They drove the children to their limits. Many children died every day. Still, they didn’t stop.

Under the pretext of the Demon Cult’s revival, the children’s human rights were thoroughly trampled, and wrong values were instilled that only the strong could survive and have everything.

Shin Moo-wol and Dong Hwa-woon were among the children raised this way. The only difference was that Shin Moo-wol was able to maintain his resolve firmly with Geom Yul-cheon’s help, while Dong Hwa-woon wasn’t given such fortune.

The martial world is the enemy.

Those who rebel against the Divine Cult deserve to die.

The personalities of children who had been brainwashed with such ideas from a young age gradually wore away.

The human emotions that children of that age should naturally have disappeared, and destructive desires took their place.

A prime example of this was Dong Hwa-woon. Dong Hwa-woon satisfied his desires through arson.

Shin Moo-wol honestly thought Dong Hwa-woon wouldn’t survive long. But whether the madman was more vicious, Dong Hwa-woon survived to the end and eventually became one of the Ten Soldiers.

The Ten Soldiers were all broken in some way, like Dong Hwa-woon.

Shin Moo-wol asked:

“How did you know we would come here?”

“Stupid. Wouldn’t it be stranger if I didn’t know? Our eyes and ears are spread throughout all of Sichuan Province.”

Dong Hwa-woon grinned and put his hand inside his clothes. After a moment, his hand came out holding a black iron ball.

The iron ball, about the size of small candy, was gleaming black. Shin Moo-wol recognized at a glance that the iron ball was a Nine Heaven Fire Soul Bullet.

Dong Hwa-woon repeatedly threw the Nine Heaven Fire Soul Bullet into the air and caught it while looking at Dam-ho.

“So you’re the Fist Demon.”

“……”

“Seeing you in person like this is impressive. But I heard you’re a cripple? Can you walk properly?”

Dong Hwa-woon opened his eyes wide and waddled like a duck. He was making exaggerated expressions and actions to mock Dam-ho.

Despite such provocation from Dong Hwa-woon, Dam-ho showed no change in expression. Then Dong Hwa-woon wrinkled his nose.

“What? Can’t even speak? A leg cripple and a mouth cripple too? How boring…”

“Stop talking nonsense and state your business.”

Unable to bear it any longer, Shin Moo-wol shouted loudly.

“Shit! You startled me. You scared me.”

“Dong Hwa-woon!”

“How boring you are. Fine! I’ll state the business. Cheon-ak told me to tell you. If you don’t want to die, back off. Then he’ll kill you last.”

“Cheon… ak is alive?”

Shin Moo-wol’s face, which had been trying to maintain a composed expression, crumbled. The same was true for Eum Yu-kyung. Her complexion instantly turned pale.

“Is Jeong Cheon-ak really alive?”

“Why, did you think he was dead? That can’t be. What kind of existence is Cheon-ak?”

“Yul-cheon must have killed him. I saw it clearly with my own eyes.”

“He almost did. But he survived in the end. Hehe! And he became the leader of the Ten Soldiers.”

“That can’t be…”

Eum Yu-kyung’s pupils shook violently. Watching this, Dong Hwa-woon laughed.

“Haha! That expression is good. Very good. I’ve always really hated seeing you put on that haughty expression as the Holy Maiden. Holy Maiden my ass? You’re just a bitch in heat.”

Dong Hwa-woon spat venomous words, but they didn’t reach Eum Yu-kyung’s ears. That’s how great the shock she received was.

She and Shin Moo-wol didn’t know the exact composition of the Ten Soldiers. They had heard that among the children raised with them, those who survived became the Ten Soldiers, but they really didn’t know Jeong Cheon-ak was among them.

Compared to Jeong Cheon-ak, Dong Hwa-woon’s madness was only at a child’s level.

‘Monster.’

That was how Eum Yu-kyung thought of Jeong Cheon-ak. Not monster-like as Dam-ho was, but a monster itself.

Seeing Eum Yu-kyung’s rigid face, Dong Hwa-woon clapped his hands in delight.

“Hahaha! Worth watching. Worth watching!”

Then he flicked his finger once. It seemed like he simply flicked his finger, but it contained sound energy.

Pop!

The Nine Heaven Fire Soul Bullet reacted to the sound energy and exploded.

“Aaaahhh!”

One of the villagers standing near Dong Hwa-woon was instantly engulfed in flames and screamed. Dong Hwa-woon laughed even more joyfully watching this.

“Ugh!”

The villagers around Dong Hwa-woon didn’t dare move. He had entered the village just one hour ago.

He had turned the peaceful village into a wasteland. In an instant, he burned several young men to charcoal and took their families hostage. Then he forced them to swallow Nine Heaven Fire Soul Bullets.

“If you run away, I’ll burn everyone in this village. But if only you die, I’ll spare your families. How about it?”

They had no choice but to stay by Dong Hwa-woon’s side to protect their families. Even while feeling terrible mental anguish as their acquaintances died one by one in the fire, they couldn’t run away.

Their families were locked in the warehouse of the village’s largest house. With their families held hostage, they couldn’t escape either.

Dong Hwa-woon liked the suffocating atmosphere. His eyes were glowing red with madness.

Shin Moo-wol shouted:

“You crazy bastard! Are you even human after doing such things?”

“Hehe! What’s the big deal about that? So what if I’m human, and so what if I’m not?”

“What?”

“We weren’t raised as humans anyway. Isn’t that right?”

“Even so, how can you kill innocent people as you please?”

“Why are you getting so heated? You did the same thing. Now you’re pretending otherwise?”

Dong Hwa-woon smirked.

At this, Shin Moo-wol felt the blood in his entire body turn cold.

Dong Hwa-woon stared intently at Shin Moo-wol’s wavering pupils and made an even more manic expression.

“You know what? Thanks to you creating that chaos and leaving, the rest of us had to endure an even more terrible hell.”

“……”

“I imagined it every day. Chewing your bones and tearing your flesh. Hehe!”

“You’re completely insane!”

“Could I have endured that hell without going crazy? You have to go insane to survive.”

Even Shin Moo-wol couldn’t help but be horrified by Dong Hwa-woon’s madness-filled appearance.

At this moment, Dong Hwa-woon was the incarnation of madness itself.

When Shin Moo-wol tried to approach him, he wiggled his finger. Then the villagers who had taken the Nine Heaven Fire Soul Bullets blocked his way like a screen. Shin Moo-wol could no longer move.

“What can we do?”

Eum Yu-kyung bit her lips until they bled. But she didn’t even feel the pain.

Dong Hwa-woon looked at Eum Yu-kyung.

“Holy Maiden? You bitch in heat.”

“Hwa-woon.”

“You can’t even imagine what your master did to us. Of course, we gained power like this as compensation.”

“So… master came too.”

“Won’t dogs come where there’s shit?”

“Ah!”

Eum Yu-kyung finally closed her eyes tightly.

Seeing this, Dong Hwa-woon smiled with satisfaction.

Violence doesn’t only mean swinging fists and inflicting wounds with weapons.

Like this, with a three-inch tongue, one could easily dig into the opponent’s wounds and cause pain. And Dong Hwa-woon quite liked this method too. He enjoyed causing pain to others itself.

The villagers surrounding him like a screen shed tears in terror at Dong Hwa-woon’s madness.

They were afraid of Dong Hwa-woon. But they couldn’t run away. Inside their bellies were Nine Heaven Fire Soul Bullets, those thunderbolt bombs.

If they fled, all their family members locked in the warehouse would die. Knowing how cruel Dong Hwa-woon was, they could only shed tears.

The scent of death could be felt from the tears they shed.

“Ah!”

Dong Hwa-woon made an ecstatic expression while smelling the scent of fear. But that was only for a moment, and soon his gaze turned toward Dam-ho.

“Hey, cripple.”

“……”

“I heard you can fight a bit? Not bad. To fight that well with those legs. I heard your personality is shit, so how about coming to our side instead? If it’s someone like you, we could treat you quite well. Hehe!”

Dam-ho’s eyebrows twitched.

Thud!

Dam-ho, who had been maintaining silence until now, took steps toward Dong Hwa-woon.

Dam-ho’s eyes had sunk deeper than hell’s bottomless pit. The moment they saw that gaze, Shin Moo-wol and Eum Yu-kyung flinched.

It was different.

Dam-ho had been scary until now too, but the current Dam-ho was truly terrifying. So much so that they couldn’t even dare to breathe.

Dong Hwa-woon also flinched momentarily at Dam-ho’s appearance. But that was only for a moment, and soon he burst into loud laughter.

“Hahaha! What? You want to fight?”

“No!”

“Then what are you trying to do?”

“I’m going to kill you.”

“Kill me?”

“Yes!”

“These people will die first before that.”

Dong Hwa-woon shrugged and looked at the villagers surrounding him like a screen. Then the villagers shed even more tears in terror.

But Dam-ho didn’t stop walking.

“Kill them!”

“What did you say?”

“You’re going to kill them anyway. So go ahead and kill them.”

“You?”

For the first time, a flustered expression appeared on Dong Hwa-woon’s face. He hadn’t expected Dam-ho to come out so recklessly like this.

Dam-ho no longer looked at Dong Hwa-woon. His gaze was directed at the villagers who had become Dong Hwa-woon’s hostages.

“I can’t save you with my abilities.”

“Sob!”

“But I promise one thing.”

The villagers looked at Dam-ho with tear-stained faces.

“That bastard will definitely die here today.”

“……”

The villagers couldn’t respond.

Even in that moment, Dam-ho was getting closer to Dong Hwa-woon.

He still limped, but Dong Hwa-woon could no longer mock Dam-ho.

Dam-ho’s gaze was still directed toward the villagers. One of the villagers gathered courage and spoke.

“Then can you prevent that bastard from burning our families to death?”

“I promise.”

“Really?”

“I have never once failed to keep my word. That bastard will die. Definitely! Here, today.”

Everyone looked at Dam-ho as if mesmerized.

Dam-ho’s voice contained the power and conviction that it would definitely happen.

They were afraid of death. But more than that, they hated Dong Hwa-woon. Because of that one person, their peaceful village had become a wasteland.

“We will trust you.”

The man who had courageously spoken bit his lips hard. A resolute light appeared in his eyes.

Inside his belly was a Nine Heaven Fire Soul Bullet that Dong Hwa-woon had forced him to swallow. From the moment he took the Nine Heaven Fire Soul Bullet, he had given up on life. The question was how to die meaningfully.

Grab!

The man suddenly embraced Dong Hwa-woon. Dong Hwa-woon shouted in panic:

“What? You want to die?”

“Yes! I want to die. But I won’t die alone.”

The man put strength into both hands embracing Dong Hwa-woon. Seeing this, the villagers gathered courage and attacked Dong Hwa-woon.

“I’ll die with you too, you enemy!”

“The child you killed was my younger brother, you bastard!”

The villagers who had been hostages attacked Dong Hwa-woon.

“How dare these insects!”

Enraged Dong Hwa-woon flicked his finger.

Whoosh!

Instantly, the Nine Heaven Fire Soul Bullets exploded inside the bellies of the villagers covering him, and hellfire ignited. The bright red flames instantly engulfed the villagers.

The flames even consumed their vocal cords, making no sound possible. Death by burning is the most painful death in the world. But the villagers ignored the pain and looked at Dam-ho.

‘Please take care of my family.’

‘Please…’

Each of their gazes pierced Dam-ho’s heart.

“I won’t make you wait long.”