Monochrome Sovereign (Novel) - Chapter 36 - Difference in Class (2)
Chapter 36 – Difference in Class (2)
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Translated by Heavenly Cat
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Yeon Ho-jeong looked around the first floor of the tavern.
As expected, there was no one in the tavern. He had thought it was unusually chilly only here, and it seemed everyone had been chased out.
‘Hmm.’
He felt a presence from the kitchen side. Judging by the lack of internal energy, they seemed to be the cook and the servers.
Tang Yang-seon twitched his lips.
“What? Are you surprised?”
He was surprised.
The killing intent that had pressed down on Tang Yang-seon in the banquet hall was real. For an ordinary master, it was normal to feel fear toward the opponent upon exposure to that much killing intent.
Nevertheless, this fellow was waiting for him here in this tavern.
He felt he should at least acknowledge that fellow’s mental strength. He even wished the Goshawk Squad members would watch and learn.
“It seems one arm was not enough.”
“Wh-what did you say?”
Tang Yang-seon’s face instantly turned bright red.
Yeon Ho-jeong ignored him cleanly and headed toward the kitchen.
“Excuse me.”
“Gasp! Ye-yes!”
The cook and the servers were trembling in a corner of the kitchen.
Yeon Ho-jeong took out ten silver coins from his bosom.
“Please prepare drinking water and food for about thirty grown men. Anything that can be made quickly.”
“…Eh?”
“Keep the remaining money.”
At that moment, a sharp shout burst forth.
“Hey! You bastard!”
Yeon Ho-jeong looked back at Tang Yang-seon.
Crunch!
Perhaps angry, he kicked the table and stood up. A terrifying toxic energy flickered all over his body.
“How dare a piece of trash like you ignore me?”
Yeon Ho-jeong asked.
“Where did you chase all the people to?”
Tang Yang-seon spat.
“Who cares about those commoners?”
He had felt it at the banquet too, but there were definitely problems with Tang Yang-seon’s personality.
He looked down on everyone except himself. He thought his very status was different.
Even for the eldest son of a prestigious family counted among the best under heaven, this was excessive. It was to the point of doubting if his parents had intentionally raised him as a vicious fellow.
‘Well.’
It was a family that dealt with poisons and hidden weapons. A heartless hand inevitably had a massive impact on one’s mind. Since he had lived like a crown prince even in such a family, it was not that it was incomprehensible.
“So? Did you want to take revenge?”
“Revenge? Don’t make me laugh, trash. This is not revenge, but an execution.”
An execution?
Woo-oo-oong.
Tang Yang-seon’s two eyes were dyed purple. He had pulled up the Triple Yang Cultivation Method to its peak.
“I don’t know what kind of sorcery you used, but it won’t work this time. I’ll make you die after screaming for three days and nights.”
Yeon Ho-jeong let out a hollow laugh.
He says he will kill the eldest son of a clan that shares the same name as one of the Seven Great Clans. Not because he has the ability to handle the consequences, but simply because he feels bad.
Bloodvessels stood out in the whites of Tang Yang-seon’s eyes.
“You’re laughing? How dare you?”
“Because you’re pathetic.”
“Y-you bastard!”
Yeon Ho-jeong looked around the kitchen. The cook and the servers were still trembling.
“Has the order not gone in?”
How could they dare to cook? When the notorious eldest son of the Sichuan Tang Clan was there.
Yeon Ho-jeong sighed.
“I should start with cleaning.”
Tang Yang-seon, who had been trembling, suddenly laughed coldly.
“You stupid bastard.”
Yeon Ho-jeong rotated his shoulders without a word. Though not perfect yet, his muscles were all settled.
Woo-oo-oo-oong.
A thicker toxic energy spread from Tang Yang-seon’s body.
“You’re already poisoned, you idiot.”
“Poisoned?”
“I’ve released Insidious Yin Poison. A low-life like you wouldn’t even feel…”
Thwa-ack!
Tang Yang-seon’s mouth hung open.
Before anyone knew it, Yeon Ho-jeong, who had approached to extreme close range, struck his abdomen.
This blow was truly explosive. It was so strong that Yeon Ho-jeong’s fist was buried in Tang Yang-seon’s abdomen up to his wrist.
“Gwa-ha-ha-ha-ha!”
Tang Yang-seon, who collapsed on the spot, vomited a handful of blood.
But it didn’t end there. His internal organs were all injured by just a single blow. If he hadn’t pulled back his strength at the last moment, the large and small intestines would have been snapped strand by strand. He would have almost died amidst the pain of true gut-wrenching.
Of course, it was sufficiently painful even now.
“Cough! Aaaaah!”
Tang Yang-seon, clutching his abdomen, rolled on the floor.
It was a pain that could not be controlled even with internal energy. It was a blow struck not with the intent to kill, but with the intent to thoroughly inflict pain.
Even while writhing in maddening pain, Tang Yang-seon could not hide his bewilderment.
‘Why?!’
Insidious Yin Poison was colorless and odorless. But it had no effect on its own.
Triple Yang Cultivation Method.
The moment it combined with the toxic energy of the Triple Yang Cultivation Method unfolded to its peak, Insidious Yin Poison was something that put the opponent into a state beyond control. Yet, even though the opponent had been exposed to the Triple Yang toxic energy, he was fine.
‘Just why!!’
Crunch!
Tang Yang-seon’s eyes widened.
“Aaaaaah!”
His right arm, which was in a splint, was broken once again. Yeon Ho-jeong had stepped on it and broken it a second time.
It was a cruel attack.
At that moment, an urgent movement arose from the third floor of the tavern.
“S-stop!”
Pah-ak!
Those who descended to the first floor were Han Ho-myeong, the Poison Dragon Iron Whip who had come to guard Tang Yang-seon, and one squad of the Red Spider Squad.
Because Tang Yang-seon had said he would handle it alone, they were inevitably hiding on the top floor. Even so, since they had spread Insidious Yin Poison, they were feeling a bit relieved.
However, for the match to be decided in a single blow.
Han Ho-myeong shouted.
“Save the Young Master at once…!”
Press.
Yeon Ho-jeong stepped on Tang Yang-seon’s neck.
Tang Yang-seon’s neck instantly turned blue. Even while he was already in pain, he became unable to breathe.
No, it was not a matter of breathing. If he put more strength here, Tang Yang-seon’s neck would break and he would die instantly.
The faces of Han Ho-myeong and the Red Spider Squad members turned ashen.
Yeon Ho-jeong pointed at Han Ho-myeong.
“You.”
“…?!”
“Come forward.”
Han Ho-myeong trembled.
A blue energy formed in Yeon Ho-jeong’s pupils.
Press.
“Gurgle.”
Tang Yang-seon’s eyes rolled back. He was on the verge of suffocating to death.
“Stop! I’ll go! I’ll go, so stop!”
Yeon Ho-jeong removed the strength from his foot. Then Tang Yang-seon let out a rough breath.
Han Ho-myeong came in front of Yeon Ho-jeong, full of tension.
In an instant, he was swept away by a strong temptation. Since he had gotten close to the opponent within a range of ten feet, he wondered if he could separate him from Tang Yang-seon by launching a surprise attack.
Yeon Ho-jeong reached out his hand.
“Don’t think about useless things, and give me that thick iron whip tied to your waist.”
“…?!”
Yeon Ho-jeong did not give him time to think.
Thud! Crunch!
“Ugh!”
Tang Yang-seon’s right leg was broken.
Han Ho-myeong’s face turned deathly dark.
“I’ll give it to you! I’ll give it!”
He hurriedly handed over the whip. It was an iron whip where flexible iron was divided into sharp pieces and embedded.
Receiving the iron whip, Yeon Ho-jeong struck out a fist in an instant.
Boom!
“Ugh!”
Han Ho-myeong flew toward the Red Spider Squad.
It was a swift fist, an exquisite surprise attack. No matter how outstanding Han Ho-myeong’s skill was, it was not easy to block in such a situation.
The Red Spider Squad caught the flying Han Ho-myeong in an awkward posture.
And at that moment, Yeon Ho-jeong moved.
Ch-ch-ch-ring!
The iron whip held in his hand was unraveled, bursting with a hair-raising metallic sound.
“Wh-what?”
“Watch out!”
Except for the three Red Spider Squad members who had caught Han Ho-myeong, the rest put their hands into their bosoms. They were trying to take out hidden weapons.
Killing intent arose in Yeon Ho-jeong’s eyes.
Pah-pah-pah-pah-ak!
Tremendous bloodstains spread on the floor and walls.
There was not even a scream. The iron whip became a living venomous snake, ruthlessly entwining and bringing down the Red Spider Squad members.
‘Gasp!’
Han Ho-myeong’s eyes became as large as saucers.
Whish! Thwack! Crack!
The movement of the iron whip was beyond imagination.
He couldn’t even estimate what or how it was swung. He couldn’t even get a sense of whether it was a technique or something. It just seemed like dozens of iron whips were writhing in the air.
Splurt!
The squad of Red Spider Squad fell, vomiting blood.
Because the space was narrow, there was no place to dodge. But that made it even more extraordinary.
To control a strange weapon that was difficult to handle, like an iron whip, to perfectly fit a narrow place and bring down the opponent was something even Han Ho-myeong could not do.
‘Just what am I seeing?!’
Yeon Ho-jeong’s whip techniques had reached a terrifying stage. No, this was not a whip technique. It was similar to a whip technique, but something much more cruel than that.
‘Th-this can’t be!’
Whatever martial art it was, one could only lose their mind in the face of this absolute power. To bring down all the Red Spider Squad members before they could even properly take out a hidden weapon?
Weapon skill that had reached the divine stage. However, Yeon Ho-jeong furrowed his brows as if he were not satisfied.
‘It would have been better if it were an iron chain.’
The martial arts he could unfold most confidently were none other than the axe and the iron chain. He had broken through enemies by tying an axe head with an iron chain, or annihilated an entire enemy unit with just a single iron chain many times.
‘I should obtain an iron chain later too.’
Yeon Ho-jeong, who had rendered nearly twenty enemies incapable of combat in the blink of an eye, threw the iron whip casually.
Killing intent appeared in Han Ho-myeong’s eyes.
His allies had been defeated by his own weapon. That alone was enough to make him lose his breath, but to throw it away casually as if it were an object he shouldn’t touch?
“You!”
Boom!
Han Ho-myeong’s hand was swung toward Yeon Ho-jeong’s back. Now, it was not important that the opponent was a child of the Yeon Clan.
At that moment, Yeon Ho-jeong’s hand grabbed Tang Yang-seon’s ankle.
Thwa-ack!
Tang Yang-seon’s eyes widened. Han Ho-myeong’s face turned ashen.
Han Ho-myeong’s palm was touching Tang Yang-seon’s lumbar vertebrae.
Crack.
“Aaaaah!”
Tang Yang-seon collapsed on the spot.
His lumbar vertebrae were cracked. Was it fortunate that they weren’t broken? But if he weren’t treated quickly, he would have to live as a cripple for the rest of his life.
Yeon Ho-jeong clicked his tongue.
“Beyond knocking down your allies, you’re trying to make your own master a cripple? Well, since you’ve rolled under such a fellow, resentment must have piled up.”
“…!!”
“I hope the Tang Clan Head still employs you after seeing these fellows’ wounds. You must have suffered a lot in the meantime.”
Han Ho-myeong’s face became blank.
Tang Yang-seon muttered half out of his mind.
“Wh-why did you… to me?!”
Thud!
With Yeon Ho-jeong’s kick, Tang Yang-seon lost consciousness. He had fainted.
It was the same for Han Ho-myeong. He didn’t even need to be made to faint. Because he had already lost his soul.
Yeon Ho-jeong squatted in front of him.
“Do you want to live?”
“…!”
“I will tell you the way you can live. If you answer my question first.”
Han Ho-myeong looked at Yeon Ho-jeong with hollow eyes.
“Thinking about it, it’s quite strange. Unless you or your master have been wandering around the Central Plains for your whole lives, it would be difficult to know that we would head this way. It’s quite far from Hefei too.”
“…?!”
“Did you perhaps find an informant with good abilities? Even that wouldn’t be easy. If you set your mind to it, there’s nothing you couldn’t do, but as this idiot said, only two days have passed?”
“Th-that is…!”
“Let’s not make things difficult for ourselves.”
Killing intent arose in Yeon Ho-jeong’s eyes.
“From whom did you hear that we set our path here?”
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“Gasp! Eldest Young Master?”
“What?”
“Bl-blood on your clothes…?”
“Ah, this? It’s nothing special. Don’t mind it and just take this. The quantity is quite large. Oh my, our Second Young Master has fallen sound asleep in the meantime.”
It was impossible not to mind.
Shin Mo’s eyes became fierce.
“Don’t tell me, is it Namgung?”
He was someone who had belatedly heard why the Eldest Young Master had escalated the incident so much yesterday. If he was to the point of ordering someone to do such a thing, the probability was high that it was Namgung Hyeon this time too.
Yeon Ho-jeong let out a hollow laugh.
“You can stop worrying about that now.”
In an instant, Shin Mo felt a chill.
“Don’t tell me…”
“Hey, no matter what, would I have gone as far as killing that fellow? I’d rather make him a cripple.”
Isn’t that more horrifying?
Yeon Ho-jeong looked toward the tavern.
“Sometimes the tongue is scarier than the blade.”