The Ruler Of Darkness - Chapter 643



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Episode 643

Chapter 18: Clairvoyance

first.

When their patriarch appeared with bright yellow eyes, they did not believe him.

“The opening strategy failed.”

“… … .”

“… … .”

Those who survived the purge of radical opposition were silent and exchanged glances, but their thoughts were one.

‘The owner is crazy…!’

The head of the Zhuge family, Zhuge Nanjun (諸葛藍?), stared into space without blinking and then said.

“Jeongju and Heo Chang are also difficult.”

at last.

“…My lord.”

Someone opened their mouth.

“The last news from Jeongju and Heochang was that the attack by the evil hegemon was bearing fruit-, gasp… ?!”

“-you.”

When his eyes met with Gaju Jegal Namgun’s, he was so startled that he fell backwards.

Groan, groan.

People around him were saying things to him, but I couldn’t hear them properly.

“Ugh, ugh…!”

My breathing became irregular and ragged.

My mind went blank.

spurt.

Something seemed to be peeking into his innermost self from within those bright yellow eyes.

“You have eaten your own flesh and blood to get to this point. Since the blood of your own flesh and blood has not been erased from your hands, you too will meet a miserable end.”

What kind of nonsense are you talking about, washing your hands of ghosts?

‘Ha, this is how our Zhuge family is ruined because our head of household is caught up in falsehood…!’

Now, the atmosphere in the room was such that some people were sighing inwardly while others turned their heads and burst into laughter.

But then.

“I, I didn’t kill you because I wanted to kill you…!”

The person who had been lying on the floor started talking nonsense.

“I was more, more qualified…! I was more qualified to enter the Je, Jegal family…! But those, those old men of the family, just because I was the eldest son…!”

Even those who were sighing.

Even those who were laughing.

“… … .”

“… … .”

I started to blankly watch him as he tried to get up from his seat several times, slipped, failed, and fell back down.

“But why?! Why do I have to die a miserable death?! Why do I, who am qualified to do so, have to meet such an end!”

His appearance, with bloodshot eyes, spit flying from his mouth, and his hair all messed up, was second to none.

“Save me, no! Save me, my lord! Please, please, please save me!”

His actions and words, crawling to the feet of his master and desperately pleading, were so bizarre.

but.

Those gathered here were the people who were said to be the best in the Zhuge family, and although they were interested in superstitions, they did not believe in them.

They soon came to their senses and exchanged glances.

‘It seems like the head of the household is in cahoots with the chief.’

Some people say it is close-range transmission.

[I guess this is the method of proselytization that the head of the household learned from that cult. It’s a method often used in the marketplace.]

Some people use sign language.

‘Windcatcher, beware.’

like that.

Let’s start exchanging opinions.

“… … .”

“… … .”

The remaining uneasiness in the eyes of those present disappeared, and the light of reason began to return.

“… It’s already too late. The blood on your hands demands a price.”

“My lord…! My lord, please, my lord…!”

It’s a farce.

That’s what they thought.

Until suddenly a messenger came running in.

“Urgent news…!”

The messenger seemed momentarily bewildered by the strange sight unfolding inside, but he did not forget his role.

“Dog, the Namgung family’s forces have appeared in Gaebong…! The Sapaecheon family’s forces are hesitating…!”

Sighs came out from here and there in the audience.

“… The Namgung family’s troops that left Luoyang came to Gaebong!”

“Surely this isn’t the arrangement of the Swordless One…?!”

“Wait a minute! It’s too early to jump to conclusions…!”

One of the elders of the Zhuge family raised his hand and shouted to calm the crowd.

“Namgung Se-ga has no intention of saving Gaebongyeon-ga…! Rather, if Nanyang Geom-ga is in trouble, it is they who will benefit…!”

like that.

When the crowd felt a sense of urgency at the shout of one elder.

“no.”

The voice of Gaju Jegal Nam-gun clearly denied those words.

“The hidden thread of fate is revealed to the Sword King of the Namgung family.”

Another strange, pseudo-scientific tone of speech.

The people in the audience were impressed.

“The hidden thread of fate…?”

“What do you mean, Gaju?”

Gaju Jegal Nam-gun looked at the person still kneeling at his feet and begging for mercy and said.

“It is inevitable that Namgung Se-ga will help Gaebongyeon-ga.”

“under…!”

By all means.

“You’re going too far, Gaju…!”

The elder, who wanted to calm the crowd and establish a normal meeting, shouted at the head of the household, Jegal Nam-gun, in anger.

“Haven’t you heard that the top echelons of Gaebongyeonga are in great disarray?! They won’t be able to resolve the chaos in time, and if they don’t respond from within, Namgung Se-ga won’t risk losing money…!”

“Those who cannot see are truly foolish.”

Gaju Jegal Nam-gun taunted the elder with his yellow eyes sparkling.

“There is one who willingly endures ridicule and sharpens his black blade behind his back to collect the price of his mother’s blood. With a tongue as sharp as that blade, he will regain his birthright.”

“… Your words are becoming increasingly incomprehensible, Master. As a long-time friend of mine, I thought I understood your sense of loss.”

The elder waved his hand with a face that had aged ten years in an instant.

“It’s over now. I’m going to retire.”

“-He’s coming.”

Ignoring the words of his old friend, Gaju Jegal Nam-gun looked at the entrance.

Everyone reflexively looked toward the entrance.

“… … .”

“… … .”

but.

After waiting for a long time with no one opening the door and coming in, the elder let out a long sigh.

“… Now do as you wish, go.”

And the moment he turned around and was about to walk towards the door.

Bam…!

The door opened first and another messenger ran in.

“Urgent notice-, huh…?!”

He shouted at everyone, avoiding the elder who was standing right in front of the door.

“Jeongju and Heochang, the situation is not what they had expected…! The resistance is unexpectedly very strong…!”

“… … ?!”

“… … !”

Even Jeongju and Heochang are having a hard time.

Wasn’t that something that the great general Jegal Nam-gun said a long time ago, like nonsense?

“…ha.”

The elder let out a long sigh and spoke, sweeping back his flowing white hair.

“Expectations can always be wrong. Resistance can be fierce. But ultimately, those two cities will not be able to hold out until the end without support, and then-.”

“-Soldiers from the zodiac are returning to protect my hometown.”

These were the words of Gaju Jegal Nam-gun, who was looking up at the sky.

“They were offered and accepted when the tide turned. The fourteen families of the Zodiac were deceived.”

and.

A little later.

“Orders are coming down to the street patrols to block the streets for a large-scale troop movement…! It looks like troops are returning from the imperial capital…!”

One, two.

“Jeongju and Heochang’s defenses are impenetrable…!”

“The secured list of troops retreating from the capital includes the Black Panther Cavalry of Jeongju and the Imperial Corps in the direction of Xuchang…!”

When the words that seemed like prophecies of the Gaju Jegal Namgun began to come true.

“They say that Gaebongyeonga has opened its gates and launched a counterattack…!”

“The Namgung Sega clan has joined forces…! The Sword King, the Sword King has stepped forward…!”

Everyone was at a loss for words.

“… … .”

“… … .”

The elder standing at the door looked at his old friend, Jegal Nam-gun, the head of the household, with an expression like he had seen a ghost.

“Gaju, what the heck is this-?”

“-Ugh?!”

The elder’s words were cut off by a scream.

It was a person who was kneeling at the feet of the commander of the household, Jegal Nam-gun, muttering incomprehensible words and appealing for mercy.

“Kwak, kkwaaak, kkwaaah…!”

The sight of him bleeding, screaming, and writhing on the floor was enough to send shivers down everyone’s spine.

“It is too late to seek mercy.”

Gaju Jegal Nam-gun looked at him with his bright yellow eyes that showed no emotion and said.

“Your mother, who loved your brother more than you, made you drink poison for a long time. Hatred and curses toward you boil over in your blood, so your lungs will shrink and you will not be able to breathe.”

“… Kek, keke, keke!”

The doctor brought by the guardian warriors of Gaju put his ear to his chest and spoke.

“I can’t hear anything. It’s a symptom of my lungs hardening.”

Soon the congressman spoke with a dark expression on his face.

“…This is a sign of severe poisoning. There is nothing more we can do.”

The eyes of those present grew wide as if they were going to tear apart.

“… … !”

“… … !”

The congressman let go of his hand and stepped back, and Gaju Jegal Nam-gun looked down at the man who was holding his neck and trying to catch his breath for a moment and asked.

“Will you take refuge in the teachings?”

The person who was dying with a pale face nodded his head as if he was having a seizure.

“May the Great Black Buddha Mother prove that your refuge is truly true from the depths of your heart.”

Phew…!

The two fingers of Gaju Jegal Nam-gun dug into his two eyeballs and plucked them out.

Then he forced open my mouth and started pulling out my tongue raw.

“… … !”

My lungs were shrunken and my tongue was torn out, so I couldn’t even scream.

However, the people in the audience had to vividly hear him screaming with his whole body as he struggled in excruciating pain.

“You, who are wrong, will die here according to your fate. But soon, you will be reborn as one of the hundreds of millions of children whom the Great Black Barren One has freed.”

Gaju Jegal Nam-gun muttered something incomprehensible, his bright yellow eyes glowing, and he drew strange patterns on his face with his blood.

Okay then.

“Keuh-euh-euk… ?!”

I feel like I can breathe again.

“Ugh, ugh…!”

He exhaled a heavy breath mixed with blood and jerked up from his seat.

“…what?!”

“You really got your breath back…?!”

Gaju Jegal Nam-gun slowly got up with blood all over his body and spoke to the crowd.

“Tell this to the evil hegemon.”

As his bright yellow eyes turned towards them, everyone in the audience lowered their heads and avoided his gaze.

“The conquerors from Sichuan and Yunnan joined hands and began to move.”

A messenger who had been standing there with his face turned pale ran out in a hurry.

But the crowd couldn’t take their eyes or ears off Jegal Namgun.

“Also, tell this to Luoyang.”

He chuckled.

He smiled, revealing his sharp, awl-like teeth.

“I can see all the principles of heaven and earth and all things. Those who crawl up from the underground will burn the ancient capital through me and at the same time submerge it.”

* * *

“Mr. Chairman.”

Taking a short break.

As Yeon So-hyeon stood in the courtyard of the main hall and looked up at the dark sky, Hak Woon-hyeong, the head of the household, jokingly asked her:

“Are you reading some kind of heavenly secret?”

Oewonju Hakunhyeong remembered that Yeonseonhyeon had been very knowledgeable about astronomy since childhood.

But his words were a joke, and of course Yeon So-hyeon shook her head.

“No, nothing.”

“…but.”

Oewonju Hakunhyung shrugged his shoulders.

“The clouds are getting so thick, there’s no way we’ll be able to see the stars.”

He stood next to Yeon So-hyeon and muttered while looking at the night sky filled with clouds.

“This looks like it’s going to pour out a ton of shit-.”

Before he could finish speaking, a corner of the night sky flashed and thunder rumbled.

“… This is strange.”

Feeling the wind getting stronger with his whole body, Hak-un-hyeong, the head of the household, hardened his expression.

“Luoyang is deep inland, so it’s hard for the weather to change so suddenly. So suddenly-.”

He quickly turned around after seeing the raindrops starting to fall.

“We will check whether the War Ministry is sufficiently prepared for underwater warfare.”

“no.”

Yeon So-hyeon said this while looking up at the sky as the raindrops started to get bigger.

“Inform everyone that the enemy attack will begin soon.”

“yes…?”

But I couldn’t figure out who the foreigner Hakunhyung was.

“… … .”

The night sky reflected in Yeon So-hyeon’s blue ghostly eyes is clear.

It contained magical energy.