Pyo-wol silently looked at the weapon in his hand.
It was a deformed dagger with serrated teeth on the back of the sword, like a dagger. It was not a form commonly seen in Jianghu.
It was a vicious weapon that was created only to cut off a person’s breath as efficiently as possible.
The imagination of humans is so amazing that they can casually create such weapons to kill their fellow human beings.
The same dagger was given not only to Pyo-wol, but also to the other children. It was unlike any cheap weapon they had ever used. The weight, strength, and sharpness were all incomparably superior.
Although it was their first time using this type of dagger, the children knew how to handle it as if they had been using it for a long time. This was not strange since the children had dealt with numerous weapons in the underground cave.
Pyo-wol placed the dagger into his bosom.
He wanted to throw the weapon away, but if he did, he would be immediately under the surveillance of the Blood Phantom Corps assassins.
The fact that Pyo-wol preferred to use his bare hands was a secret.
Since he has thoroughly learned all the assassination methods using his bare hands, the weapons provided by the instructors ended up being used as decoration.
Even when the other children were taught by the instructors on how to handle a weapon, he only studied how to effectively kill using his bare hands. To him, utilizing a weapon was cumbersome.
“What are you thinking so hard about? Kikik!”
So Gyeoksan approached him.
As Pyo-wol looked at him silently, So Gyeoksan sat down next to him and continued.
“Are you trembling now that we’re going to be on a mission soon?”
“Well… to some extent.”
“You son of a bitch, you’re lying again. You? Tremble? I’m sure everyone would laugh at that joke!.”
Chuckle!
“You seem to be the one trembling. Considering you’re talking a lot more than usual.”
“Hey! Who’s trembling? I’ve given up fear for a long time. Nothing in this world can scare me.”
So Gyeoksan snorted. He continued his speech by moving the deformed dagger in his hand.
“I wish I could be put into the mission soon. I feel like I’ll only be rewarded for all the suffering I’ve endured in the past if I chop someone’s head off.”
So Gyeoksan’s voice was filled with stinky flesh.
It was the same with the other children. Although they did not say anything, they too share similar feelings with So Gyeoksan.
They feel conflicting emotions of both fear and excitement.
Because of that, they were radiating more energies than necessary.
Pyo-wol understood their feelings.
He, too, was restraining himself from feeling emotions as much as possible, but he was also feeling some excitement to some extent.
‘The goal is, after all, that Woo Gunsang, right?’
He wanted to sneak out and figure out the identity of Woo Gunsang. Doing so might quench the excitement that he was feeling right now.
Since coming to Clear Wind Manor, he has not seen any other children except the children from the underground cave.
The Blood Phantom Group thoroughly separated the children to prevent any collision. So Gyeoksan was still next to Pyo-wol and was still talking. But Pyo-wol didn’t listen to him. Treating his chattering as just passing noise.
Then a voice came from outside.
“Get the equipment you’ve been given and go outside.”
Pyo-wol and So Gyeoksan looked at each other’s faces, then hurriedly got their gear and ran out. With the two of them in the lead, children from other rooms joined one after another.
Familiar faces such as So Yeowol, Lee Min, and Song Cheonwoo gathered in one place.
After a while, Gu Juyang appeared.
In his hand was a musical instrument.
A slight tension flashed on the children’s faces.
They instinctively noticed that the flute in the hands of Gu Juyang was the instrument that controls the cursed poison hidden in their body.
The memories of that time were still vivid in their minds which brought them great fear.
Gu Juyang looked at the children’s faces one by one and opened his mouth.
“From now on, you will move secretly to somewhere else. From now on, move according to the Fourth Sword’s orders.”
Behind Gu Juyang was a man wearing a mask.
He was the strongest swordsman among the Seven Ghost Swords. After the retirement of Lim Sayeol, he served as the de facto head of the Seven Ghost Swords.
Gu Juyang handed the Hell Call to the swordsman. The right to decide the life and death of the children was now at the hands of the swordsman.
The swordsman’s eyes gleamed fiercely.
“Those who disobey my orders will die by my hands. Those who act late will also die. Those who act stupidly will die. So if you don’t want to die, you better act wisely.”
The children’s faces hardened at his threat. He was an assassin on active duty. Hewas incomparable to the three swords who recently retired.
Naturally, the degree of coercion felt by the children was different.
“Let’s go!”
The swordsman moved first.
The children followed him and moved out of the Clear Wind Manor. Then, about a dozen assassins moved together after the children.
Gu Juyang looked at the children’s backs with cold eyes.
The swordsman and the children moved in the dark.
Sasak!
In the pitch-black darkness, only the rustling of the blades of grass resounded.
The swordsman couldn’t help but admire the children who followed him without falling behind.
‘The senior brothers raised them well.’
As an assassin who had reached a high level, he could guess the level of the children just by the sound of their breath and the slightest movement.
The children had achieved incredible growth at such a young age.
His conjecture was confirmed by the fact that as many as twenty-eight children were moving together yet not a single footstep was heard.
None of the children fall behind the regular assassins of the Blood Phantom Group.
Rather, some appeared to be even superior.
He suddenly felt that it was a waste, but he deliberately tried not to think more than that.
After all, the children have to be only used once and thrown away after. They were different from the existing assassins who belonged to the Bloody Phantom Group. There was no need for affection, no reason to feel pity for them.
By the time they reached their destination, it was already dawn. They ran all night.
The place they arrived at was a small hillside. From there, a large mountain was clearly visible in the distance. The huge mountain with numerous mountain peaks connected like a blue castle overwhelms the viewer.
Even the clouds could not cross the mountain, and they were spinning around their waists.
The children were overwhelmed by its immense majesty.
Pyo-wol was no different from the children.
Even when he wandered the world before becoming an assassin, he had never seen such a huge mountain.
‘Our objective lies in those mountains.’
Pyo-wol had an intuition that the huge mountain in front of him was his final destination. The existence of Woo Gunsang is probably somewhere in that mountain.
The swordsman ordered the children.
“Everyone, hide yourselves here.”
As soon as his command was given, the children dug into the ground like moles and hid.
The voice of the Fourth Sword was heard through the ears of the children who were hiding in the hideout disguised as leaves.
“Your target is on that mountain. If you climb the mountain as per my instructions, you will find a manor that looks exactly as the one you were all living in before. Among the buildings, the man inside the Bright Moon Palace is your target.”
The voice ended.
It was then that the children realized the truth of why they had been trained in the underground cavity.
Bright Moon Palace is a small house on the outskirts of a manor.
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