Inspection Again - Chapter 762



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Episode 762: Exploring the Outskirts

“Your Majesty, the situation is not good.”

Wang Chong suddenly took a few steps closer and spoke in a low voice.

Then Bukjin looked at him with an expression asking what was going on.

Wang Chong approached quietly, making extremely exaggerated gestures like a guilty puppy whining.

“I don’t know why, but my right eyelid is throbbing. The last time this happened was the day the Jeoncheonhubu was raided…

I somehow feel that this world is very strange. I feel like something bad is going to happen.”

Wang Chong said.

Bukjin looked at Wang Chong with a puzzled look.

‘Did you sense the danger in advance?

‘Wang Chong, you son of a bitch, you’re weak-willed and narrow-minded, but your intuition is damned sensitive.’

“Your Majesty, the situation does not seem good. If he is truly in danger, please protect this helpless slave.

As you know, my name has the character ‘Chung’ in it. I will be loyal to you my entire life, so please don’t forget me… … .”

Wang Chong said with a sad face.

“I told you not to come here from the beginning. You were the one who insisted on coming to the off-site territory despite my warnings.

Who said this was a place where you could get rich? You cried and begged to be taken away, and now you’re afraid?”

Bukjin did not show any mercy and was sarcastic without mercy.

“I didn’t know it then. Who would have thought this place would be so full of life?”

Wang Chong said with tears in his eyes.

“Anyway, you must be careful, my lord.

The most important thing is that you must take me with you when you run away.

At the crucial moment, I can block the sword flying towards you with my body… … .”

While Bei Jin was looking at Wang Chong with pitiful eyes, Lu Shan Guan came running in a hurry.

“Im Cheon-in, His Majesty has summoned you.”

Bukjin stood up and kicked Wang Chong’s buttocks with his foot, saying:

“Keep your mouth shut and stop thinking useless thoughts. If the military’s spirit wavers, I will personally cut off your head…

Now get out. Go and clean up the body properly!”

After dealing with Wang Chong, Bei Jin turned around and nodded toward Lu Shan Pavilion.

“Then go ahead.”

The two men climbed up the wall and went to the main gate of the castle.

The military conference, which had been proceeding enthusiastically, was nearing its end.

“If we are to pass the examination of ‘Heavenly War’, it is not enough to just defend this castle. Defending the castle is only the first step!

Our current location is in the east. And there are three more castles in the west, south, and north.

The ultimate mission of this ‘Heavenly War’ is to subdue and annihilate all enemies in the three castles on the west, south, and north. Only by completely occupying and unifying this small world can one truly pass the examination.

But our problem now is that we have no idea what kind of enemies will appear in the other three castles, or what their abilities are.”

Surrounded by a crowd of military officers, the Emperor of the Northern Sea Empire stood before a model of the terrain, planning his strategy for the next battle.

Bukjin, who was a poor student, was a little surprised.

He just now learned that the ‘Heavenly War’ was not just about defending the castle, but also about attacking it.

‘We need to unite this small world? I can smell something about it.’

“Im Cheon-in, please help me explore the Western Rivers before it’s too late.”

As soon as Bei Jin appeared, the Emperor of the Northern Sea Empire did not hesitate and immediately opened his mouth.

“It’s dangerous outside. A mounted scout of less than a thousand men would have difficulty exploring the territory, let alone getting a hundred li away alive.”

All eyes were focused on him.

Bukjin, who had been thinking for a moment, was about to open his mouth.

The Emperor of the North Sea Empire said.

“If it’s money, I can add more.”

Bukjin looked momentarily bewildered and had a blank expression.

‘Your Majesty, you are quite the master of intercepting my answer before it is even known.’

But Bukjin said with an angry face and great indignation.

“Your Majesty, what does that mean? Do you think I am blinded by money?

I, Im Buk-jin, am a person who is nothing but a corpse without loyalty. I came to this dangerous place not for my personal glory, but for the sake of the Bukhae Empire… … .”

The Emperor of the Northern Sea Empire seemed to have misunderstood Bei Jin and looked slightly apologetic.

Bukjin closed his eyes tightly, sighed again, and continued speaking.

“But since Your Majesty mentioned it first, I can’t help it. What can I do but save face? Aren’t the Emperor’s words worth a thousand words?

“I cannot disobey Your Majesty the Emperor’s orders, so please give me about two or three thousand shards. You don’t have to give me too much. Giving me more than that would be truly insulting.”

“…….”

The Emperor of the North Sea Empire was speechless.

‘Oh, please… Im Buk-jin, when on earth are you going to become a human?’

Soon after, the southern and northern expedition subjects were also decided, and the two celestial beings, Go Seung-han and Jo Sang, were in charge of each.

Ko Seung-han was originally pretending to be dead in Sangjolwon.

He was crouching in the grass, hiding like a tiger waiting for his chance.

Unfortunately, for a while, there was no target for him to appear and attack.

He, who had been unable to move, eventually followed the northward advance and arrived at Heogye.

The reason he came to the Hegeui map secretly was because this ‘Heavenly War’ was very important to the Northern Sea Empire.

After emerging from the enemy stronghold, Bukjin called a few of his confidants and gave them a few instructions. He then flew up on his sword and turned into a silver ray of light and flew into the blue sky.

The northern arrow flew dozens of miles away in an instant.

Looking down, I saw a battlefield that had become a mess.

Cracks and overturned chunks of land were visible here and there.

The air still held the scent of fierce battle.

It seemed like this place was the battlefield where the half-human, half-beast king and the half-human Qing Dynasty fought.

The North Jin continued to fly forward.

High and low hills appeared in the field of vision.

The entire surface was covered with dark brown sand.

There was no plant or animal anywhere in sight.

The sand waves created by the wind pushing the sand grains back made this barren desert look even more lonely.

After about an hour, the Bukjin discovered a lake with a clear mirror-like surface in the wilderness.

The grass around the lake was growing lushly.

Around it, shabby buildings such as pits and wooden houses were scattered here and there along the lakeshore.

At first glance, it looked like a primitive people’s territory.

Bukjin’s eyes widened when he saw half-human, half-beast creatures roaming around the territory.

‘Is this a den of monsters?’

Bukjin slowly approached the place while stepping on the ‘Green Spirit’ greatsword.

The half-human, half-beast creatures in the territory on the ground soon discovered the presence of Bukjin and began to scream in panic.

They threw stone spears and rocks into the sky.

Many half-human, half-beast babies were surprised and hid in the forest, screaming… … .

“They seem to be a bunch of old people. There don’t seem to be many young warriors. And judging by the way they’re screaming, they don’t seem to be very intelligent.

The intelligence of this half-human, half-beast group does not seem to be as high as that of civilized people. However, the strength they are born with seems to be as strong as that of wolves.”

Bukjin stopped for a moment and observed.

It didn’t go down quickly.

And finally, with some determination, he began to move to explore deeper into the wilderness.

Soon after, Bukjin discovered one very scary fact.

The fact is that there are more ‘enemies’ in the wilderness than you might think.

The half-human, half-beast military camps that oppressed the people of the North Sea Empire were just a few of the countless ‘monsters’ that roamed this wilderness.

They were also relatively weak monsters.

The deeper he explored, the more strange creatures he discovered.

A tribe of ‘Six-Armed Demons’ with one head but six arms, creatures that resemble alpacas but have horns like thunder and lightning, a group of one-eyed Giant Demons with two large noses, a group of Ancestor Birds who look like ostriches with wings but cannot fly, and even a human-headed monster with six legs like a large crab…

“Did the creator of this world drink alcohol quite a bit?”

‘Isn’t it so irresponsible to create a living thing so carelessly?’

The more I looked at those creatures, the stranger they seemed.

All the monsters I encountered along the way, whether they looked like humans or beasts, or whether they had high or low intelligence levels, could all be described in one word.

‘Ugly.’

If I may add one more word.

‘It’s ugly.’

They were all ugly and hideous.

And it was downright barbaric.

These ugly, hideous, and savage monsters have taken over other areas of the wilderness and made them their domain.

They lived like grass roots in this endlessly vast and empty place, like the beard grass growing in the barren and desolate Gobi Desert.

The Northern Expedition had no experience in scouting or exploring the enemy’s situation or terrain.

But he was skillfully observing the lives and appearances of monsters in detail.

These monsters seemed to have a strong sense of territory.

Basically, each tribe had its own water resources.

The power expanded around it, and the villagers spread out in all directions.

Depending on the strength of the tribe’s power, the size of its territory varied.

They spent most of their time attacking each other.

They became each other’s prey, both hunters and prey.

Perhaps this phenomenon occurred because the wilderness was so barren.

Due to the lack of water resources and lack of vegetation, almost all demons have become carnivorous.

So they hunt creatures outside the group to get their prey.

Bukjin observed dozens of ‘Yukbimines’.

They quietly crossed the border, ambushed the tribesmen, and killed dozens of them with stone spears.

Whether they were so hungry that they went crazy, they would pluck out the hair of the Cao Cao tribe before they died, bite their flesh raw, and drink their blood.

However, soon after, they were chased by numerous Cao Cao tribe members who found out about this.

Eventually, a savage fight broke out between the two tribes.

Bloody battles and deaths were taking place in the wilderness at every moment.

A primitive, bloody chaos covered the wilderness.

“I don’t know if it’s because the environment is so harsh or because the laws of heaven and earth are different, but the individual fighting power of the creatures seems to be very strong. In addition, each village has a 3rd or 4th level leader…

Even ordinary individuals have universal fighting power similar to that of martial artists. Even if they are still young, they have destructive power on par with that of great martial artists… … .

Damn. These monsters seem too strong.”

The more he watched, the bigger Bukjin’s eyes grew.

It was amazing.

Not to mention other dangerous creatures, the dozens of savage monster tribes they encountered along the way were not mountains that the North Sea Empire’s judging panel could easily overcome.

If you leave the ruined castle and encounter two or more of these monster races in the open air, you will be surrounded and killed with a high probability.

The Emperor of the North Sea Empire and the masters, including the Left Shang, will have no choice but to jump over the corpses together or find other ways to survive.