Invitation to the Chatroom of the Gods - Chapter 101



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Episode 101 – Do or Die (2)

The scene where Gucheolsan arrived was where a fight was in full swing.

In the aftermath, the surrounding area was a mess, but it wasn’t that messy, and it was hard to tell if this was a mountain or a plain.

Gu Cheol-san’s two eyes naturally turned to the center of the fight.

“maharaja······?”

The Great King was truly fighting fiercely. It was fierce beyond brutality. This was no joke, the fight was fiercer and more urgent than when he fought the Blood Heavenly Goddess.

But I wondered how that was possible, and the man facing the king was a man wearing a martial arts uniform embroidered with a yellow dragon.

The huge explosion that shook heaven and earth was happening right in the middle of a fight between the Great King and the man. Judging from the physical appearance, it seemed like he was a warrior in the Royal Guard.

But, to conclude that he was an unmanned member of the Golden Guard······ it felt quite different.

But whether he was a military officer in the Golden Guard or not, judging by the yellow dragon embroidered on his attire, it was clear that he was a military officer belonging to the imperial family.

That’s why I couldn’t understand it even more.

“why······?”

Why are you fighting the King?

So, what reason would there be for a warrior belonging to the royal family to fight the Great King? It wasn’t like he was just fighting.

There was a constant stream of killing calls, each side aiming for the other’s life.

Thus, a small gap was a matter of life and death between masters, leading to immediate death.

To put it simply, they were fighting ‘to the death’.

“Uh, sir…?”

“What should I do···.”

The knights also looked embarrassed and asked Gu Cheol-san. But Gu Cheol-san had nothing to say. He had no way of knowing what was going on.

So I couldn’t figure out what to do.

Above all······.

Boom! Boom!

I didn’t have the confidence to get involved in the fight between those two. All I could do was just blankly watch them fight.

Right then.

A noise was heard on one side, and then a crowd of people rushed in.

Warriors in military attire embroidered with yellow dragons on golden silk. They were none other than the warriors of the Golden Guard. They were definitely the warriors of the Golden Guard.

As the warriors of the Golden Guard arrived one after another, the warrior who had been fighting the King suddenly shouted.

“Golden Guard! Unleash the Heavenly Force!”

Then, the soldiers of the Royal Guard moved in unison. It was as if they were following orders, but the only one who could give orders to the Royal Guard was the ‘Emperor’.

However, there was no way that a warrior fighting the Great King could be the Emperor. However, the fact that he gave orders to the Golden Guards meant that he was someone in the imperial family who was on par with the Emperor.

Gu Cheol-san was able to quickly detect his identity.

There was only one strong warrior who was a member of the royal family and could take on the Great King one-on-one like that.

Grand Prince of Martial Arts.

Gucheolsan was able to immediately sense the identity of the person fighting the Great King······.

“Why, why······?”

For some reason, the doubts only grew.

No, why is the Great King fighting the Great Army of Murim? No matter how much I thought about it, there was absolutely no reason to fight.

That was why they couldn’t understand the situation even more, but the warriors of the Royal Guard formed a formation that was either a heavenly pressure formation or something else and gradually pressured the King.

The King seemed to be struggling to even face the Great Army of Martial Arts. If the warriors of the Golden Guard had intervened in that situation, it would have been a ‘certain defeat’.

As expected, the King cracked his teeth and shouted.

“Aren’t you being too harsh on your junior?”

“You, the one who just threw a tantrum at your senior, are saying such things! And now you’re doing it again!”

The two of them were constantly throwing slashes at each other. Their fierce fight was clearly a life-or-death fight, not a fight to the death.

······So there was a conflict.

Gucheolsan’s head and thoughts were telling him that it shouldn’t be done that way. But his heart and mind were not like that.

The worries continued, but not for long.

The King also said, ‘Understanding is not necessary to accept the mind,’ so Gu Cheol-san clenched his teeth and shouted.

“Protect the King!!!”

When Gucheolsan shouted, the spirits of the knights of the swordsman group flashed.

The knights also did not understand what had happened, but they were clearly aware that the king was in danger.

So, Gu Cheol-san and the knights blocked the path of the Golden Guard soldiers who were pressuring the King. Then, the expressions of the Golden Guard soldiers suddenly changed.

But soon it distorted itself like a vicious murderer and shouted.

“You guys! What the hell are you doing!!”

“Don’t you know what it means to block our path!!”

······I know. I know it so well.

They are well aware that the Imperial Guard is the Emperor’s personal bodyguard and obeys only the Emperor’s orders. They are well aware that the movement of the Imperial Guard means that the Emperor has moved.

Therefore, all actions of the Golden Guard are regarded as actions of the Emperor, so it is understandable that blocking the Golden Guard is the same as blocking the Emperor.

So he aims his sword at the King.

Chaeng! Chaeng-!

“Wh, what···!”

“Are you guys crazy!!”

He also knows that this means the same thing as pointing a sword at the emperor.

“Do you really think you’ll come to your senses only after your head is cut off!!!”

“Aren’t you afraid of the sin of treason!!”

So, they are not unaware that this is a ‘crime of treason’ that cannot be ignored. The Jang Gang Hyeopgaekdan was not unaware of this fact.

Even though he knew all those facts, he did not hesitate to take up his sword.

“Why should we fear such a trivial rebellion?”

Gucheolsan and the Jangganghyeopdan were prepared to throw away their lives like straw for the Great King. They swore to sacrifice everything for the Great King.

Once upon a time.

During the famine and starvation, no one reached out to help.

I begged and pleaded for him to at least feed the child, but all I got in return was a cold kick.

There was a time when he felt heartbroken at the helplessness of being unable to do anything in front of a child who starved to death. Even so, there was a time when he trembled at the resentment of the magistrate gaining weight day by day.

All I had learned was fighting, so I took up a sword, and as I tried to figure out how to make a living, I ended up becoming a thief.

however······

“Your Majesty has embraced us.”

The King has made me the King of the Jang River Swordsmen. He has made it so that I don’t have to worry about what to eat and how to live each day. I can use my martial arts skills in different ways without going hungry.

He willingly humbled himself and became the great king of us worms.

Even though he had become a dragon known as the Fire Dragon Great Swordsman, the King said that he would turn over the dirt and mud of the Jang River Swordsmen.

And that’s not all.

The great king personally taught the swordsmen unparalleled martial arts skills.

The King granted the knights new level weapons.

The King has prepared some very precious elixirs for the knights.

The grace bestowed by the great king is like this.

“Do you think we would abandon the Great King just because we are afraid of the crime of treason?!”

I would rather betray the King than risk my life.

““““I give my life to the King!!!””””

I will give my life for the great king.

But honestly, I couldn’t deal with the unmanned Geumuiwi. To be honest, the difference in level between the Geumuiwi and the Geumuiwi was stark.

Each and every one of the Geumuiwi are on the same level as Jo Gye-ak, the former great king of the Jang River Surochae. No matter how much the swordsmanship has grown, they cannot defeat the Geumuiwi warriors.

However, the numbers here are overwhelmingly greater.

Currently, the number of unmanned personnel in the Golden Guard is only ‘a few dozen’. On the other hand, the number of the swordsmen exceeds a thousand.

No matter how great a master you are, you are no match for ‘Dagul’.

“All members of the swordsman group!! Turn around!!!”

All of the warriors of the knight troop rushed forward along with Gucheolsan’s shout.

And so, the warriors of the knight group came charging forward like wild buffaloes.

“Ah, no···!”

“What the…!”

The warriors of the Golden Guard were truly outrageous.

By any chance, are we all suffering from a group fire possession spell?

If that had been the case, I could at least understand. But unfortunately(?), that wasn’t the case. The swordsmen only blinked their eyes and turned around, but their hearts and emotions were filled with ‘loyalty’.

then······.

““““Protect the Great King!!!””””

It all came to mean madness that came from ‘sane’······.

Those are the demonic cults. What on earth are the demonic cults? They are no different from the demonic cult······ No, the demonic cults were also fanatics to the point of stealing books.

The unmanned personnel of the Royal Guards couldn’t understand what was going on for a while. So, the loyalty of the unknown group of swordsmen was so great that even the Royal Guards were disgusted.

“Those, those crazy guys!”

“Back off for now! Back off and reorganize your formation!!”

The guardsmen of the Golden Guard were terrified and took a big step back.

If you want to fight, you can fight, but you don’t know if that’s the right thing to do. After all, the Hyeopgaekdan and the Geumuiwi weren’t enemies to begin with.

Above all, this was not a net to capture a criminal. It was, absurdly, a net to capture a ‘contributor’.

And not only the Silk Road and the Jang River Swordsmen, but also the Jang River Swordsmen were no different from the ‘contributors’ of this incident. Let’s just say that rumors spread that they had injured such contributors.

The actions of the Emperor are the actions of the Emperor.

This means that the emperor oppressed those who had meritorious deeds.

······I couldn’t act rashly.

Of course, pointing a sword at the King’s Royal Guard was definitely something to be said for the ‘crime of treason’. However, when you bring up the crime of treason, it is like turning the person who contributed into a traitor, so it is really strange.

Those crazy guys were just running at me, risking their lives, whether they were aiming for that kind of situation or not······.

“What should I do and how should I respond···!”

“I don’t know! Don’t ask me!”

······It was truly crazy and exhilarating.

* * *

The Grand Prince of Murim thought that this was a situation that didn’t make sense.

It makes sense. The warriors of the Royal Guard are being pushed back by the incoming band of swordsmen. What the heck is going on here?

The Grand Prince of Murim wondered what was going on, but then a thought suddenly crossed his mind and he asked Cheongwoon.

“I’m just asking just in case······.”

The appearance of Cheongun seen beyond the touching swords.

“Are you by any chance a heavenly demon?”

Of course, the Grand Prince of Murim knew that it was a ridiculous question.

That would be the case, Cheongwoon was only twenty-two years old. Aside from his overwhelming power that was not befitting his age, Cheongwoon’s age was clearly evident.

However, the Demonic Cult was destroyed by the alliance of the Imperial Family and the Martial Arts Alliance over ’50’ years ago. Cheonma (天魔) has been the leader of the Demonic Cult since then, so at the very least, it means that Cheonma (天魔) is over 50 years old.

However, it is impossible for a Heavenly Demon to be a Heavenly Demon right after birth. Then, he would be roughly 70 years old. The Grand Prince of Murim thought that he was probably over 100 years old.

Of course, the Demonic Cult was something that even the Great General of Murim had never experienced before.

To be exact, it was something that happened during the Murim Grand Prince’s childhood, but the Murim Grand Prince was able to tell it because he had heard the story when he was young.

This means that Cheongun, who belongs to the age group of the contract, can never be a Cheonma (heavenly demon).

His age and his actions made it impossible for Cheongun to be a demon. How could someone who asks people about their shortcomings and bestows favors be called a demon?

Even if you consider various possibilities, the possibility that Cheongun is a heavenly demon is close to ‘0’.

But really, why is that?

“Protect the King! Protect the King!!”

“For the King!!!”

Waaaa …

A shout that echoes and resonates through the sky.

Fanatics whose eyes are wide open, and whose whites are completely covered with snow.

······It seemed like Cheongun was the Heavenly Demon.

No, who in the world would point their swords at the warriors in the Golden Guard?

Even if they were the disciples of the Nine-Tailed Fang who knew their teacher as well as the heavens, if their teacher was captured by the Golden Guard, they would first lie flat on the floor.

Since the fact that the Golden Guard has stepped forward meant that the ‘Emperor’ has stepped forward, it was only natural that they would not even think about taking action.

It’s even more unacceptable to just pull out a knife like that!

“Huh···?”

Fortunately(?), Cheongwoon seemed a little embarrassed. No, not a little, he was seriously embarrassed.

“Why are you doing that all of a sudden?”

“······What are you going to do if you ask me that?”

It seemed like it was a matter that had not been discussed with Cheongun.

That meant that these fanatics had done it on their own.

That is, it meant voluntary ‘loyalty’, but to that extent, it should be called ‘fanaticism’ rather than loyalty.

That would be the case, since the only people who would point their swords at the world’s heavenly and earthly warriors were the demonic cultists.

So, I had even more doubts that Cheongun was a heavenly demon, but Cheongun could never be a heavenly demon······.

‘Hmm.’

The chaos of the Murim Grand Prince only grew worse.

However, regardless of the confusion that the Murim Grand Prince felt, Cheongwoon had no intention of giving up. Even while unable to contain his confusion, he continued to fire arrows at the Murim Grand Prince.

I still didn’t know why he did this, but Cheongwoon’s obsession was stronger than the sense of duty of a father with two children.

So, his persistence was greater than that of the Grand Prince of Murim.

That’s why the situation was getting to this point… no, it was time to stop.

That’s why I wanted to let Cheongwoon go. It wasn’t right for me, as a senior, to hold on to my junior who was throwing a tantrum like that.

······To be honest, I didn’t even have the confidence to capture Cheongun.

Above all, the warriors of the Golden Guard were chased away by those who were either swordsmen or fanatics, so they could not even attack the enemy, as they called them.

So, at this point, it would have been reasonable to let Cheongwoon go, but the Grand Prince of Murim was a member of the royal family before being a martial artist.

As a senior in the martial arts world, I can let Cheongwoon go.

However, as a member of the royal family, I cannot bear to let Cheongwoon go.

If the person who asked the Murim Grand Prince was his wife, Princess Hwayul, I would do something about it.

I know I’ll get in trouble a lot when I go back, but I can handle it for the sake of my outstanding junior.

However, the one who asked the Grand Prince of Martial Arts was none other than the Emperor, and even the Grand Prince of Martial Arts could not refuse the Emperor’s request.

“I don’t have the face to face the Emperor if I let you go like this.”

The Grand Prince of Murim couldn’t just let Cheongwoon go. However, it was difficult to subdue Cheongwoon in this situation.

When I was facing Cheongun with my sword, I felt a sense of tension as if I was facing an unbeatable opponent.

Even a vague premonition of death was felt.

A rival you must fight with your life at stake.

A formidable opponent against whom one cannot guarantee victory.

But when was the last time a warrior was so filled with a sense of triumph?

When was the last time I crossed swords with a master of that level?

“I’ll offer you a bet.”

The Prince of Murim thought this situation was ‘fun’.