Chapter 295 – Ten Soldiers. Broken Weapons…… (2)

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Dong Hwa-woon drew up his protective energy to shield his entire body.

Even though hellfire was terrifying, he had created it himself. There was no way he wouldn’t have countermeasures for it.

“Damn things…”

Even while burning in hellfire, the villagers tenaciously held onto Dong Hwa-woon’s body. But soon their bodies turned to ash and disappeared.

Dong Hwa-woon muttered as he emerged from the flames.

“No way. Do you think I’d die at the hands of insects like you?”

WHOOOOSH!

At that moment, suddenly tremendous energy pressure rushed toward him.

The moment Dong Hwa-woon raised his head in surprise, a black shadow covered him. It was Dam-ho.

CRASH!

“Kuk!”

Dong Hwa-woon flew backward with a single scream. He had taken the Explosive Star Strike to his chest.

An ordinary person would have died instantly. But although Dong Hwa-woon was wounded, his breath wasn’t cut off.

CLANG!

Before he knew it, bronze cymbals were in his hands. In the moment of crisis, he had taken out the cymbals to block Dam-ho’s fist.

The cymbals were crying out like screams. Cracks had spread across their surface like spider webs.

“How dare! A cripple…”

Enraged, Dong Hwa-woon drew up his power and hurled the cymbals.

WHIRRRR!

The cymbals spun menacingly as they flew toward Dam-ho. A sound like spinning saw blades echoed through the air.

The pair of cymbals flew drawing different trajectories.

SCREEECH!

Even at the cymbals flying while tearing through the air, Dam-ho didn’t blink an eye.

“Die! You crippled bastard.”

Dong Hwa-woon’s voice pierced Dam-ho’s ears like noise.

Dam-ho threw his body toward Dong Hwa-woon.

The charging technique connecting point to point unfolded once again. The difference was that cymbals had taken position between them.

One cymbal aimed for Dam-ho’s neck from the front, while another targeted him from behind.

Dam-ho hunched his body and unleashed the Explosive Star Strike toward the cymbal flying from the front.

CRAAACK!

The cymbal, already full of cracks, shattered completely and fragments scattered in all directions. But Dong Hwa-woon didn’t think the cymbal was a waste. Because in that time, the other cymbal had struck Dam-ho’s back directly.

TING!

But the sound that followed completely betrayed Dong Hwa-woon’s expectations. The cymbal that had struck Dam-ho’s back directly deflected diagonally with a faint metallic sound.

Golden Turtle Shell.

Dam-ho deployed the protective technique he had created after seeing the round body of a dung beetle in the Heavenly Gold Demon Palace.

It was a martial art created in the early days of the Solitary Path, so he had judged its efficiency lacking. Because of this, after creating the Shield and Violent Demon Energy, he had rarely deployed it. But at this moment, it protected Dam-ho’s body from the cymbals more excellently than any other protective technique.

If there was something Dam-ho had realized during this time, it was that the ultimate strength of techniques wasn’t what mattered. Even techniques with modest power could produce efficient results if used appropriately for the situation.

The history of the Solitary Path wasn’t very long.

It had only just exceeded ten years. Accordingly, there weren’t many techniques either. But depending on how they were combined, entirely new techniques could be created.

Fists that actively changed according to circumstances – living fists. That was Dam-ho’s Solitary Path.

“You idiot…”

At the unbelievable sight, Dong Hwa-woon spat curses and hastily drew up his power.

BANG!

At that moment, Dam-ho’s Explosive Star Strike exploded on his body, making him shake greatly.

“Urgh!”

Dong Hwa-woon bit his lips hard.

Even though he had hastily drawn up protective energy, tremendous shock penetrated his entire body.

An ordinary person would have been neutralized at this point. But he was one of the Ten Soldiers.

One of ten human weapons. Though his character was rock bottom, his skills were real.

He spread both arms wide and shouted.

“Azure Dragon Supreme Energy.”

WHOOOOSH!

Instantly, the protective energy surrounding his body writhed like a blue dragon and rose up to attack Dam-ho.

At the tremendous momentum, Dam-ho’s hair and windbreaker robe fluttered.

Seeing the blue dragon approaching with its huge mouth open, Eum Yu-kyung and Shin Moo-wol urgently shouted.

“Dodge!”

“Energy techniques can’t be taken with bare body. Quickly dodge.”

But Dam-ho ignored their cries.

WHOOSH!

Once again, the charging technique unfolded. But it wasn’t ordinary charging.

It was faster and more intense.

Dong Hwa-woon’s eyes widened greatly.

Like a meteor burning itself as it fell, the charging technique Dam-ho deployed was fierce yet intense.

The three years at Mount Hua had brought another change to Dam-ho.

The biggest change among them was being able to freely indulge in Mount Hua Sect’s martial arts.

Since Sect Leader Hyeon-cheon had died, the prohibitions had also disappeared. So he could graft Mount Hua Sect’s martial arts onto the Solitary Path.

One of them was the Dark Fragrance Drift.

Dark Fragrance Drift, which only Plum Blossom Sword Masters could learn, was very secretive footwork. When Dark Fragrance Drift, which reached opponents in an instant like a subtle fragrance traveling far, combined with charging, it became faster and more intense.

Like a burning meteor.

CRASH!

The meteor penetrated the blue dragon.

“Krugh!”

With a stifled groan, Dong Hwa-woon’s body flew backward. His appearance was beyond words.

His hair was disheveled, his mouth and chest were dyed red with fresh blood. His clothes were torn to shreds, and his entire body was covered with large and small wounds.

Dong Hwa-woon’s pupils shook.

The madness that had filled his face was long gone. Instead, the emotion that rose in its place was chaos.

He couldn’t believe the situation he was in.

The reality that he was being pushed back by none other than Dam-ho, a cripple.

Dam-ho no longer deployed charging. He was simply walking toward Dong Hwa-woon.

Each time he took a step, his left shoulder sagged slightly. It was a natural phenomenon because he limped with his left leg.

Dong Hwa-woon’s face contorted. Because Dam-ho’s limping seemed exactly like he was mocking him.

He shouted.

“How dare a leg cripple mock me?”

“Right! I’m a leg cripple.”

“Grr!”

“But I’m not a head cripple like you.”

“I’m a cripple? How dare someone like you spout such words? Do you know what kind of hell I crawled out of? Do you even know how much I suffered?”

“What do I care?”

“What?”

“What do I care, I said.”

“…”

Living life, everyone experiences hardships.

There may be degrees of difficulty in hardships, but the pain is all the same. Everyone experiences the same hell in their hearts.

Yet there are those who act as if the experiences they went through were the most difficult, as if only they experienced hell.

‘Do you know how hard things I went through?’

‘I had it the hardest.’ ‘So you all should understand my pain. Whatever I do.’

Armed with such nonsensical logic.

That’s how Dong Hwa-woon appeared in Dam-ho’s eyes.

While his body had grown to adulthood, his mind was still stopped at a child’s level.

Dong Hwa-woon’s body trembled.

“Just because you have a loose mouth doesn’t mean you can mock me carelessly.”

He put his hand into his chest.

When his hand reappeared, it held over ten Nine Heaven Fire Soul Bullets.

“Know that you’ll burn to death today without even bones remaining, you bastard!”

Dong Hwa-woon rushed toward Dam-ho.

SWOOSH!

He threw Nine Heaven Fire Soul Bullets in succession.

BOOM!

Nine Heaven Fire Soul Bullets exploded right in front of Dam-ho’s nose, producing hellfire. Pure white flames that would burn even bones instantly engulfed Dam-ho’s entire body.

“Die! Disappear from this world without leaving even a bone fragment. Hahaha!”

Dong Hwa-woon kept throwing Nine Heaven Fire Soul Bullets while bursting into maniacal laughter.

ROAR!

It was like a volcano erupting.

Watching the exploding flames, Dong Hwa-woon’s body trembled.

Fire burns everything.

False things, impure things, even the nightmares that tormented him.

That’s why he loved fire. The fierce flames of purification that burned intensely.

Dong Hwa-woon thought the hellfire would burn Dam-ho completely.

That’s when it happened.

WHOOSH!

Suddenly a gust of wind blew.

“What, what?”

Wind filled with hot heat whirled in all directions. It was hellfire that would never be extinguished once it touched the body.

Dong Hwa-woon hastily drew up protective energy to protect his body.

At that moment, a large fist suddenly protruded from the intense flames. It was a fist covered with numerous wounds like a net.

BANG!

“Kreuk!”

The fist struck Dong Hwa-woon’s protective energy hard.

The blue protective energy rippled like waves. Though it barely maintained its form, the shock struck Dong Hwa-woon’s entire body directly.

Beyond the protective energy full of cracks like spider webs, the black figure of the man could be seen.

Fluttering black hair, billowing black windbreaker robe.

It was Dam-ho.

CRACK!

The second strike hit his protective energy. The cracks spread further.

Through the rippling protective energy, Dam-ho’s eyes enlarged.

Killing intent filled the black pupils that had been emotionless.

Until just moments before, Dong Hwa-woon had resolved to make emotions show in Dam-ho’s annoying pupils. But the moment he saw Dam-ho’s pupils revealing emotion, he realized how childish his heart had been.

‘A beast?’

A beast full of killing intent was breathing sulfurous breath.

Hellfire was blazing from Dam-ho’s entire body. No, it seemed that way. But the hellfire only swirled around his body without being able to burn it.

Because the Violent Demon Energy was swirling around Dam-ho’s body. The hellfire was merely being swept along by the violent current, circling around.

BANG!

The third strike hit Dong Hwa-woon’s protective energy hard.

“N-no!”

Dong Hwa-woon’s complexion turned deathly pale. He struggled desperately to escape from Dam-ho’s hands. But like a fish caught in a net, he couldn’t move. It was because of the strange attractive force emanating from Dam-ho’s body.

BANG BANG BANG!

Dam-ho’s fists became a storm that pounded the protective energy.

CRACK!

The protective energy that had reached its limit shattered like glass, and Dong Hwa-woon, who had been hiding inside, revealed himself.

Dam-ho reached out and grabbed Dong Hwa-woon’s hair.

“Krugh!”

Only then coming to his senses, Dong Hwa-woon deployed footwork to try to escape from Dam-ho’s grip.

Dam-ho opened his mouth.

“You experienced hell?”

“Grr!”

Like scraping an iron plate with fingernails, Dam-ho’s voice scraped the foundation of Dong Hwa-woon’s emotions. What was revealed was the emotion called fear that had been latent at the bottom of his heart.

“Real hell isn’t something that trivial.”

BANG!

Dam-ho’s fist exploded on Dong Hwa-woon’s face.

With the intense shock, Dong Hwa-woon’s face flew back. His left cheek was deeply dented.

Even with the shock that made his mind dizzy, Dong Hwa-woon tried desperately to regain his reason. But at that moment, Dam-ho’s fist drove into his abdomen again.

“Urgh!”

Dong Hwa-woon vomited everything inside him.

A nauseating stench pierced his nostrils. A smell he had encountered at least once – that very smell he had smelled from himself and his comrades.

Only then did Dong Hwa-woon realize.

‘This guy also crawled up from hell like me.’

But his realization was too late. Dam-ho searched the pockets of the neutralized man. After a moment, Dam-ho’s hand that reappeared held an iron ball.

It was a Nine Heaven Fire Soul Bullet.

“You?”

The moment Dong Hwa-woon’s eyes widened greatly, Dam-ho shoved the iron ball into his mouth.

“This is what real hell is like.”