Moon-Shadow Sword Emperor

Episode 492

Pugh!

The elder of the Qingseong Sect, Unhakgeom, looked down at his feet and had a gloomy expression.

My heart became heavy as I looked at the horribly mutilated body.

‘Your face is completely crushed.’

One could tell that he was a disciple of a monk just by looking at his tattered clothes.

But I couldn’t tell who exactly it was.

That’s because the number of disciples who were brutally murdered in a similar way reached double digits.

The attack that took place last night was truly like a nightmare.

The atmosphere, which had been relaxed due to repeated victories, tightened.

It would have been less shocking had it collided with the main force of the swarming Demonic Cult.

Just one person.

Three digits of people lost their lives because they couldn’t do anything about just one person.

‘I’ve already heard the rumors.’

I was able to realize it only after experiencing it myself.

As long as the Demon Cult does not die, the Great Demon War will never end.

In fact, I thought it was a war that had already been won.

Five of the eight great demons died, and among the sect’s disciples, only one survived.

Size and quality of troops, cohesion, morale, situational advantages and disadvantages, etc.

The Baekdo martial arts side had the upper hand in all aspects.

I thought that even if the leader was the best expert in the world, he would not be able to turn the situation around on his own.

‘…Is he really a human being like me?’

But now my thoughts have completely changed.

The religious leader had the ability to turn the tide of war.

I couldn’t find another word to express it other than the word monster.

“Whoa.”

I hope to be alone in my thoughts for a while.

Yu Song Dojang, one of the disciples of the Cheongseong Sect, came up behind him and cautiously opened his mouth.

“Younghwan’s residence”

“What’s going on?”

“Jang Mun-in is looking for you.”

“Jang Mun-in?”

“A leadership meeting will be held soon, so he told me to bring Sa-suk.”

“i get it. “Go right now.”

Yeonghwan looked down at the body once again and walked away with a heavy face.

A hot wind blew through the place where he was standing.

* * *

“What do you mean by that now?”

“You said you would further increase the speed of your advance.”

“Do you know how many people were injured last night?”

“Of course I know. “Better than you.”

“But why!”

“This is because the enemy we have to deal with is someone who deviates from common sense.”

The expression of Baek Woon-geom (百澐劍), a 100-year-old expert from Amipa, became distorted.

I couldn’t understand it at all.

What on earth is Maehwashingeom (梅花神劍) thinking of forcing such a burden on its allies?

Even though he is the general commander of the Allied Forces, isn’t his dogmatism excessive?

“I heard that the head of the party suffered internal injuries. That may be why I sent a representative instead of attending the meeting in person.”

“I see. “I am taking care of myself in a private barracks.”

The day before, Ma Jyoju inflicted enormous damage on the Allied Forces and quietly disappeared.

The number of soldiers killed by his hands exceeded three figures.

If there were no sword ghosts and poisonous ghosts, the scale of damage would have been much greater.

“Even if you don’t know the art of war, you will understand. “Now is the time to repair the damage and work on reorganization.”

“If the enemy I had to deal with was the army of the Demonic Cult, I would have thought the same. But the enemy that appears before our eyes is not a group, but an individual.”

“……?”

“The Murim Alliance Military Department expected that the cult leader would lead the main force of the Demon Cult and appear in one of the four areas that became the battlefield. But what is it like in reality?”

The military ministry’s prediction was only half correct.

It was within the scope of imagination for the Demonic Cult to gather its elites into its headquarters to prepare for a counterattack.

However, no one expected that the religious leader would move alone and attack the Sichuan allied forces.

“Do you understand what this means?”

“…….”

“Now it seems that no restrictions can make the Demonic Cult flinch. “Because the enemy is cornered, it actually becomes more dangerous than before.”

Until now, the Demonic Cult has not been able to properly utilize the power of its leader.

This is inevitable because the Demonic Cult of the time is a group that maintains its system entirely thanks to its leader.

Sasang Pavilion (沙上樓閣) will collapse in an instant if the religious leader disappears.

The reason why the demon cultists who came out of Heavenly Mountain obediently followed the control of their superiors was entirely because the authority of the demon cult lord was suppressing them.

In other words, they could be said to be the group that would tear and split as soon as the ring around their neck was loosened.

“That’s why the Demon Lord has rarely stepped forward in person. But now, they are in a situation where there is nothing left behind. “It was no longer possible to weigh the situation here and there and save our cards.”

In Hebei, there is Emperor Surama.

In Shanxi (山西), there is a hundred-faced death god.

An iron armored giant appeared in Shaanxi.

While each of the three absolute masters held back the Allied forces flocking to their respective areas, the leader moved alone and attacked the Allied forces in Sichuan.

It was an unconventional tactic that had never been shown before.

“The Demon Cult’s attack will not end in just one time. “The reason he obediently retreated the night before was probably because he decided there was no need to go out of his way to do anything.”

“…….”

“The reason why a small unit attacking a large army is scary is because they are holding the hilt of a sword. Because they are the ones who decide where and when to attack. “What’s more, they are individuals and not a small unit.”

“So what does that have to do with why we need to speed up the advance?”

“Whether we stop to regroup or keep moving forward. In the end, the damage caused by the demonic cult is all the same.”

“…!”

“The fact that we are shrinking here is probably the picture that the Demon Lord wants. “That gives the Demonic Cult some leeway.”

Everyone in the conference room noticed without having to say anything.

What is Maehwashingeom trying to talk about?

Now he was saying this.

Damage can be minimized only by quickly joining the Allied Forces in Hubei, even if it means forcing a march.

“…….”

Silence fell in the conference room.

It was an incredibly absurd thing.

A large army had to force a march because they were afraid of just one person.

However, those who witnessed the horrors of the night before could never object and say that it was nonsense.

“By the way, the head of the party has already agreed with my opinion.”

“Is that true?”

“The party elder sitting over there will confirm whether it is true or not.”

“What the Commander-in-Chief said is correct.”

Baekwoongeom sighed.

After hearing the explanation, I could no longer argue that efforts should be made to reorganize.

“Don’t worry too much. From now on, we will also prepare defenses against attacks. “It is unlikely that we will suffer as much damage as this time.”

“All right.”

The middle school students nodded heavily and stood up from their seats.

The advance was to resume tomorrow morning.

As the schedule was advanced, there were many things to go back and prepare.

“I know this is an undesirable decision. “But I hope you know that this is the best thing to do under the circumstances.”

* * *

‘Dangerous.’

Command barracks built in Changjiang, Shanxi Province.

After hearing the report from the messenger, my expression became serious.

Master Ma began to move alone.

‘You’ve pulled out the worst move you could have ever feared.’

He was the leader of the Demonic Cult who persevered even after being accepted by me, King Kwon, and a three-digit number of martial artists.

He had decided to use hit-and-run tactics to harass the allied forces in Sacheon.

It was not difficult to guess how great a sense of crisis the Allied Forces in Sacheon were currently feeling.

To single-handedly ravage a large army that included sword demons and poison demons.

Of all the martial artists in the central plains, it was something that only he could do.

‘If handled properly, the actual damage will not be that great. The problem is the morale of the Allied Forces, which will drop to rock bottom…’

Fortunately, Maehwashingeom, who led the Allied Forces in Sichuan, was a smart and perceptive person.

At least he made a misjudgment and the Allied Forces would not suffer irreversible damage.

‘It’s a pain in the ass.’

In fact, I thought it was highly likely that Jiaoju would target the Allied Forces in Hubei.

It is a unit that is moving north toward Shaanxi, where the headquarters is located, and above all, it is an easy prey as there is no absolute leader assigned to it.

Of course, the Murim League military department was not so lax, so the Allied forces in Hubei did not make any preparations.

In fact, it was the Allied Forces in Hubei that were best prepared for the attack of Ma Jiao Province.

In Hubei, there was a family called Zhuge Dynasty, a famous family of Jinbeop.

Originally, Jinbeop was used for sue, not for attack, but the Zhuge family was the only martial arts group that could overturn that obvious common sense.

Usually, the power of a Jinbeop is proportional to the time and materials used to make it.

The goods referred to here do not only refer to the money needed to purchase fetishes.

Rather, what accounted for the most was the ransom of a skilled Jinbeop expert.

And the Zhuge family was a family that possessed a lot of skilled Jinbeop practitioners.

The way to drastically shorten the production period for high-level formations was simple.

All it took was a lot of manpower to do it.

A strategy that would take several days to create alone could be completed within one hour if dozens of players worked together.

Currently, the Allied Forces in Hubei were advancing more slowly than the other Allied Forces, but in the most steady and sure manner.

‘The biggest problem is that Ma Jyoju is currently moving more freely than anyone else on the battlefield.’

Right now, the Allied Forces in Sichuan are under threat, but in three days he could appear before the Allied Forces in Hanam.

As it was unpredictable, the fear was bound to increase.

‘First of all, we must somehow overcome this situation wisely and advance. As each allied force continues to advance and the scope of the battlefield narrows, the movements of the religious leaders will also contract.’

I sighed, folded the letter, and put it down on the desk.

What the Allied Forces in Hanam had to do did not change.

In order to complete the picture, I first had to catch the White Faced Reaper.

‘where. Let’s take a quick bite at the prey caught in the trap.’