The Ruler Of Darkness - Chapter 599



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Episode 599

Chapter 24 Truth and Facts

Noisy.

“Good…! Very good…!”

A spacious, dazzlingly decorated banquet hall.

Elders belonging to the Oewonju faction were gathering one after another and mingling with the distinguished guests.

They greeted each other with bright faces and praised each other’s achievements.

“Thank you for your hard work, Elder Pyo…!”

“Ah, Elder Hojung…!”

The elder approached with a bright face and open arms and congratulated Elder Pyo.

“Thanks to the efforts of our elders, the ‘passive resistance’ of the outside world has begun successfully! Now, have a drink…!”

Other elders around him gave a small applause.

“Oh my, this…!”

Elder Pyo quickly bowed and received Elder Hojung’s drink with great humility.

“This is the outer court where the Lord of the Outer Court resides, so what great work would there be for me to do? Well, the servants of the Outer Court just do as they are told.”

“Hehehe, you’re being too humble.”

Elder Pyo immediately shook his head.

“No, that’s not true. Compared to someone like me, what Elder Ho-jung has done is truly amazing!”

To Elder Pyo, Elder Hojung was a person worthy of being promoted.

No, not just Elder Pyo.

For most of the elders gathered here, gaining the approval of heavyweights like Elder Ho-jung was of utmost importance.

“Elder Hojung, you temporarily suspended the transactions at Geomgajeonjang?”

Oooooooohhh…!

The gathered elders also know it well.

The crowd cheered and applauded in excitement at Elder Pyo’s remarks praising Elder Hojung’s achievements.

“Excellent…!”

“Congratulations, Elder Hojung…!”

The elders of Luoyang Swordsmanship are paralyzing Luoyang Swordsmanship and causing chaos.

And each other.

The sight of him holding it up as a ball would have been absurd to anyone outside of the group.

“Hehehe, thank you.”

Elder Ho-jung raised his hand holding his cup toward the people around him, then approached Elder Pyo and spoke.

“… So, Elder Pyo. Are you ready?”

His voice was gentle.

Elder Pyo asked him, his eyes sparkling with anticipation, but trying to suppress his trembling voice.

“…What do you mean?”

“Haha, this guy. You know everything, so why are you asking questions as if you don’t know?”

Elder Ho-jung walked across the banquet hall with Elder Pyo and spoke with a smile.

“With a higher position comes greater responsibility. Elder Pyo, you are also an elder of the main family. Do you know what I mean?”

Gulp.

Elder Pyo’s face was clearly recalled.

How long have I waited for this moment?

I have overcome countless competitions and taken countless risks.

Now, instead of losing the family of the Three Princes and struggling to survive.

He was on the verge of becoming an important figure in this huge sect.

“… Of course!”

Elder Pyo wanted to answer with a trustworthy voice.

“If it’s responsibility, then wouldn’t it be this person…! If it’s for the swordsmanship, I can sacrifice my body…!”

His voice was trembling, and his excitement caused a few more words to spill out of his mouth.

“That sounds believable.”

fortunately.

Elder Hojung paid no attention to it and stopped in front of a group of people to get their attention.

“I am pleased to introduce Elder Pyo to you all.”

At that voice, the eyes of the gathered people turned to Elder Pyo.

And Elder Pyo quickly scanned their faces as if he had seen something dazzling.

‘Our Vice-Lord of the Outer Circle…! The Vice-Lord of the Kaifengyeon Family, one of the most powerful collateral families aside from the main family in Luoyang…! The Lord of the Merchant Group of the Sword Family Ships and the Lord of the Medicine Immortal School, who are on par with the Sword Family Construction!’

In addition to that.

There were so many brilliant figures gathered there that it would be difficult for Elder Pyo to list them all.

And he was looking at himself.

“Did you say Elder Pyo?”

At that moment, one of them approached Elder Pyo and tried to give him a hand.

“I’m sorry, but….”

A person who appeared to be a close associate of the senior officials and guests gathered there approached them and was seen talking to his superior with a serious expression on his face.

Because of that, Elder Pyo’s greeting was pushed aside for a moment, but it didn’t matter.

‘Wow!’

That sight was also dazzling to Elder Pyo.

The appearance of receiving advanced information quickly, even before the elders of the sword family.

And the sight of them whispering to each other, exchanging views on information.

“… Things might be more serious than we thought… .”

“… It’s too coincidental for something to suddenly explode… .”

Yes, that’s right.

Now yourself too.

It is your moment to become one of them.

but.

“I’m sorry, Elder Pyo.”

Elder Hojung, who had guided him, spoke with a stern expression.

“I guess I’ll have to put off introducing myself for a moment.”

“… … ?”

Behind him, the senior elders and guests were seen scattering with serious faces.

“It looks like something serious has happened.”

timely.

Wow, that’s crazy.

I could hear someone at the banquet hall dropping a glass and breaking it, indicating that they were extremely drunk.

“yes…?”

and.

The answer came from an elder who burst into the banquet hall as the door burst open.

“Hey, Sword Lord…!”

He was drenched in sweat, as if he had been running so fast.

He shouted at everyone, spit flying out of his mouth.

“The Sword Master announced at the central square that he would confess to the series of tragic events that occurred immediately after the fall of the former Supreme Lord…!”

‘If it’s the Sword Lord…?’

In Elder Pyo’s mind, information about the sword appeared.

Geomjon, the head of the Martial Arts Academy.

‘What is this old man who has long since retired from the front lines…? No, wait…! What if he is the Sword Master…?!’

His mind, which had been floating with excitement, began to cool down, and his head gradually began to work properly.

‘Is that the swordsman who was the chairman of the Supreme Management Council?!’

The accusation that broke the Supreme Council member’s ‘oath of silence’ was made in secret, but if it was someone of the rank of Elder Pyo.

I knew what it was about.

“The Sword Master said that…! By revealing the truth! He could be of great help to the members of the Sword Master who were in confusion…!”

“Hey, wait a minute…!”

Groan, groan.

In the banquet hall where people were starting to nod like crazy, some people tried hard to deny reality.

“It might be a bit premature to conclude that this announcement will be detrimental to us!”

“Stop talking nonsense!”

The Executive Council has been deprived of its authority by itself.

The Sword Masters had their chairman’s seat usurped by themselves.

At that point.

No matter what the sword master says.

Wouldn’t it be obvious that this would be unfavorable to the foreign faction?

“This is not the time to be doing this…!”

“The revelation of the Sword Master is about to begin…!”

“We must go to the central square immediately…!”

The people in the banquet hall began to push each other and rush to leave like an ebb tide.

“Don’t push…! I told you not to push…!”

“Don’t you know who I am…?!”

but.

The entrances were limited and there were so many people trying to get out that chaos was breaking out everywhere.

“… … .”

Elder Pyo stood in the middle of the banquet hall, which was in disarray, blankly.

I was staring at the sight with my mouth open.

“Shouldn’t we shut the sword master’s mouth even now, even if it means using extreme methods…?!”

“What the hell are you talking about?! He’s the Sword Master! The Sword Master who was called the best of the Sword Family…!”

That’s right.

The great chaos they wanted to bring to the sword.

They came to him.

* * *

Central Square.

Those with swords, those with ink on their hands, from the lowest of the servants to the most noble of the powerful.

Among the countless members of the swordsmanship group gathered, one person stood on the stage.

“… ten years ago.”

He was a skinny, ordinary old man, with an impressive long white beard.

But he is a person with a great deal of dizziness in his eyes.

He was the former chairman of the Supreme Council, Geomjon Gwan-gu Seon-wi.

“There must be some who still remember that day when the Supreme Lord collapsed.”

He once.

He was the highest ranking person in the Luoyang Sword Family when the master was absent.

Now that I have put everything aside and come here to repent, I have chosen to speak up to everyone.

“This old man also remembers that day vividly.”

Squeak-!

Behind the crowd that had gathered to fill the vast square, carriages arrived one after another, and elders dressed in colorful silk robes rushed out from the carriages.

“Have you started?!”

“It seems like it just started.”

“You couldn’t go any further?!”

“Speak sense! How are you going to get through this crowd?!”

If it were normal, most of the crowd would have parted just by seeing the elders.

Not as much as now.

“Damn it… .”

The elder, who had raised his eyesight, checked the stage, clicked his tongue, and said.

“It really is the Sword Master himself….”

Whether or not they knew that the elders of the Outer Circle faction had arrived.

The former chairman of the district election committee continued to confess his repentance while looking at the crowd with kind eyes.

“I couldn’t forget that day even in my dreams. That day was like the worst nightmare, the day when this swordsman fell into the worst chaos.”

His voice was gentle, but it was full of profound study and inner strength, and it was heard clearly in everyone’s ears.

“‘We’, the thirteen people including myself. At that time, in order to prevent further confusion in the swordsmanship, we held an emergency response meeting as per procedure and began to resolve and control the confusion.”

From a distance, the elders’ expressions became noticeably worse.

“What on earth are you trying to say…?”

Elder Pyo also asked the elders around him urgently.

“Is there anyone here who knows the members of the emergency response meeting in detail? Is it true that Geomjon was one of them?”

“Even then, the details of the emergency meeting were kept strictly confidential. Unless you’re one of them, there’s no way anyone would know.”

“No, then how can I verify the authenticity…?!”

I tried asking for opinions, but my anxiety and nervousness only grew.

Among them.

I wonder what kind of bombshell statement the former chairman of the district election committee will make.

Dare I say, no one could have guessed.

“But, that’s where it all started to go wrong.”

The main discussion of the former chairman’s district election committee began amidst a quiet that made it hard to believe there had been a huge crowd there.

“Our emergency meeting decided to steal this Luoyang Sword Family, the best family in the world in the Central Plains, which had no owner.”

“… … ?!”

“What…?!”

The eyes of the elders who had been trembling in Busan opened wide at the same time, and they all froze in place.

“Hmm, hit…?”

Although there would have been confusion and uproar, the crowd was unable to properly react to the shocking confession.

“But strictly speaking, at that time. This sword family was not without an owner. We…”

but.

That was just the beginning of the shock.

“The emergency response meeting at that time deceived everyone in the sword family into believing that this family had no owner.”

“No, no, wait…!”

A feeling of extreme crisis.

Although they did not know what would happen next, the elders had a gut feeling that they had to stop it.

“Get out of the way! You guys! Can’t you get out of the way right now?!”

“What are the escorts doing?! Drive out those blocking the road!”

“Draw your sword! I said just draw your sword!”

The guards quickly drew their swords and stepped forward to clear the way through the crowd.

Their intention could not succeed.

“Who dares to draw their swords against the swordsmen of the sword family?!”

A thunderous roar.

The one who appeared with a group of fully armed warriors was a person that the elders could not help but know.

“War commander… !”

Elder Pyo shouted at him as if he was cursing.

“What are you doing?! The War Department’s exercise of power within the family is a clear violation of the law!”

“Violation of the law?”

The Warlord chuckled, lifted his sword from its scabbard, and pointed to the carriages the elders had come in.

“You broke the family law and came all the way here by riding in a carriage within the family. Are you discussing the family law with me?”

“This, this is an emergency-!”

“-and.”

At the beckoning of the War Minister, the War Ministry’s soldiers stopped the elders and their escorts.

“Our War Department is, in accordance with the orders of the Supreme Executive Council, temporarily but officially, carrying out activities to maintain order within the family.”

“what…?!”

that.

It was an order given by Yeon So-hyeon at a secret meeting of the Supreme Management Council.

And even in the midst of all that.

“The Supreme Lord has clearly stated.”

The repentance of the former chairman’s district election committee continued and reached its peak.

“…If something happens to me unexpectedly, everyone must remember this.”

and.

It was only a very brief moment.

Elder Pyo and others seemed to have locked eyes with the former chairman of the district election committee at that fleeting moment.

“It says, ‘There is a Yeonseonhyeon in this sword.’”