Solo Swordmaster

#265. paid the price.

“Are the green dragon clan preparations going well?”

“yes. We didn’t have enough time to gather all our forces, but most of the main armed forces seem to have recovered to full strength.”

“It’s the green dragon clan.”

Li Qingyu was honestly amazed.

It was last night that he fought a fierce battle and escaped, but he was already recovering.

It was possible because the green dragon clan had the strongest body and excellent medical skills in the Seven Dragons.

Although Li Qingyu’s plan itself was prepared from the beginning with its resilience in mind.

“By the way, princess, would you really mind not calling for reinforcements?”

she asked anxiously.

If everything goes according to plan, this place will soon become a battleground between the Green Dragon Clan and the Forest Guild.

Depending on whether or not there was an armed force to escort in this situation, especially the Mukryongdae, the probability that Li Qingyu would be in danger also changed greatly.

However, Li Qingyu quietly shook his head.

“If possible, it’s better to solve this problem with the power of the green dragon clan.”

“Is it because of Eun-won?”

“Rather than that, it’s because of the aftermath.”

“…You’re saying that it’s not good to make things too big.”

“Because this started out as a drug war. It is dangerous to involve other clans in a conflict that lacks justification.”

“You are indeed right.”

Zixuan nodded in agreement.

The other clans are also at odds with the teenage guild.

In this situation, if another clan was rushed in, the situation could get worse out of control, with other teenage guilds participating.

In the first place, in the absence of Maia, it was not possible for the Green Dragon clan to negotiate with other clans and obtain support within a day or two.

So, instead of recommending more reinforcements, she implied a question.

“Can we do the setting here?”

“yes. The green dragon clan’s facilities aren’t bad, but it’s better to be familiar with them.”

“All right. We will prepare it right away.”

Zixuan moved immediately.

He summoned the clan waiting below and gave instructions to install the brought equipment in the Floating Garden.

It’s been a long time since I cooperated with the Green Dragon’s technicians and watched them change the landscape of the garden in the blink of an eye.

Li Qingyu slightly turned his head to look at the garden that Li Mon had renovated.

‘I bought time with this.’

Now that Maia’s location has been confirmed.

Gula will no longer search the jungle.

Even if the search continues, the size of the tracking party will decrease or cause confusion.

It would be difficult to change Ainsha’s foreknowledge with just this level of intervention, but it would still be able to provide some leeway.

One problem.

The forest guild’s great offensive was to attack the green dragon clan and Sao Paulo, but…

‘Is it a teenage guild?’

Li Qingyu was lost in thought.

The Infinite Lords and the Infinity Guild were solved by Limon, so there was no room for intervention.

The Magic Lord and the Magus Guild were happening in the British Empire, so there was no way to intervene.

So this is the first time she has directly intervened in the fight against the monarch and the teenage guild.

Somehow that fact is unfamiliar.

Even so, the feeling is very new.

Li Qingyu, who had been lost in thought for a long time, suddenly muttered:

“I look forward to it.”

A smiling face as usual.

But looking in the direction of the jungle with sunken eyes more dull than ever.

In exchange for a few words of advice, the girl who robbed the green dragon clan of general command was ready to welcome guests with such a willing heart.

* * *

A face without a single blemish.

Deep, heavy golden eyes.

Above all, white hair like snow.

In addition to the old-fashioned clothes and the sword in his hand.

I realize when I see a young man with a strange impression, like someone I’ve seen before and like seeing for the first time.

this is a dream

borrowed from a long time ago.

A very old nightmare.

“…what is this?”

[That ■■ I want to ask ■■■.]

Is the reason why you can’t hear the other person’s answer properly because your consciousness is foggy?

Or is it because the memory is imperfect?

[Why did you let go of the ■?]

“We dealt with them based on priorities, but never let them go.”

[Do you believe ■■ that you let go of them to deal with ■■ half ■■?]

“Even if it’s half ■■, you’ll be able to tell that a dragon is a dragon just by looking at that sight.”

[…]

A voice kept silent at the sight of the land that had changed so terribly that it was difficult to recognize that it was originally a thick jungle.

The young man interrogates such an opponent.

“Since I answered, please answer my question as well.”

[Only ■■ what to do.]

“Did you say it was what you had to do?”

back.

holding the sword tightly.

The young man raises his hand slowly.

Then, pointing at the back of the opponent with the tip of the knife, he asked as if it was painful to even say it.

“A massacre in which everyone is killed, from unarmed civilians to infants not weaned?”

[■■Seok is talking.]

Corpses piled up like a mountain.

Blood flowing like a river.

The opponent who has the traces of hundreds and thousands of deaths on his back laughs.

[Whether they don’t listen to ■■ or ■■■■, they end up being ■■ of . If so, it is only natural that ■■■ be exterminated ■■■ without leaving a single drop left.]

“…So you’re saying you’re going to repeat this until their seed dries up?”

[■■.]

Without hesitation.

Opponent speaks with conviction.

The gray-haired young man laments that.

“Don’t do that.”

[What do you mean, don’t do it?]

“Slaughtering innocent people.”

and.

freezing air.

[…do you forget ■■ this ■■’s enemy ■?]

“That can’t be the case.”

[Why do they do that?]

“They are Master’s enemies, and their organization must be severed.”

The young man speaks coldly.

What was contained in that voice was a will that was fairer because it was cold.

“However, you must not kill someone who has not committed a crime just because he was born as a descendant of the Seven Dragons.”

[Being born with the character ■ of the Demonic Cult is a sin in itself.]

“If you are to blame in that way, you will have to find and kill the seven members of the Seven Dragons, as well as all those who cooperated with you.”

[That ■■?]

“…what do you mean?”

[■ I’ll ask why you shouldn’t.]

What did you hear?

A young man with a hardened face.

As if laughing at the agitation, the other person speaks coldly.

[Look at these three.]

[It hasn’t been 100 years since Master passed away, but idiots have already forgotten the bronze ■■.] [

Liberated from the dragon■’s rule ■■ Grace■ A few pennies without knowing Willingly obey the dragon’s ■■.]

[And we ■■ don’t even know how to respect■ ■■, and even ■■ treats ■■ that are good to pamper ■■ and scrape money.] [

For ■■ people If you have to shed blood for the lesson ■■…]

The back story is hard to hear.

What I feel instead is living.

My heart has already stopped.

Even my body is getting cold.

Even so, the life is so creepy and sharp that even the heart freezes.

Fortunately, it’s over now.

I know because it is a dream that I have repeated many times.

Soon all senses will disappear and everything will be covered in darkness.

Even if it’s cold and lonely.

Because it’s better than living this creepy life.

She waited for the darkness to come.

“Again, it is neither revenge nor punishment. It’s just a massacre that can’t even be vented.”

…why?

What came to mind was a question.

Why does a dream that should have ended continue?

Incomprehensible facts make you feel embarrassed.

“Even so, if you’re going to continue killing like this just to prove your own strength or just because you don’t like it…”

But what struck me more clearly than that embarrassment was the voice that followed.

over hundreds of years.

over tens of thousands of times.

Words heard for the first time in a dream that has been passed down from generation to generation.

“―I will stop you.”

Even in the midst of a dense life like this storm, his voice is so firm and his golden eyes do not waver.

Why?

That fact is so reassuring.

Even though his sword was stained with her own blood, she looked at the gray-haired young man…

* * *

The moment he regained consciousness.

Maia first raised the psionic.

It was an old habit to suppress one’s miasma, which could kill someone just by breathing.

throbbing.

A sharp pain that rises even with the slightest movement of the psionic.

Normal people pass out and try to ignore the pain and control their psionics for a long time.

She finally managed to get rid of the miasma to some extent, then turned her head and looked around.

‘cave…?’

rock wall.

Rotten leaves underneath.

A bonfire burning next to it, etc.

She frowned as she looked around the natural cave where no artificial traces were felt.

why are you in this place

Because I couldn’t think of it for a moment.

‘…Yes, this is the Amazon.’

After hitting the forest guild, he was poisoned by ambrosia and fought with Gula using the reverse blood method until he escaped into the jungle with internal injuries.

Maia, who reviewed the events that had happened so far, hardened her face.

My memory was not detailed because I was wandering through the jungle.

But at least it was clear that he had collapsed in the woods.

If that’s the case, someone brought the unconscious person to this cave.

‘Who is it?’

What came to mind was vigilance.

Being pursued by the Forest Guild, she had no choice but to recall the possibility that she had been captured first.

But Maia soon realized that couldn’t be the case.

A body without any restraints.

A hair ornament placed next to it.

Above all, the familiar scent of the shirt draped over her milky nude body.

Because he was telling me who brought him here.

“Are you awake?”

So it was.

Hearing the voice from the other side of the cave, Maia couldn’t help but be surprised.

“…what happened?”

Is it because the body is not normal?

An inaudible voice.

However, the other person managed to understand the thin voice and answered.

“How will it be? The owner took a nap in the middle of the forest, so I took him to a more comfortable bed.”

He holds a limp snake in his hand.

Put fruit in a cloth made from a torn top.

A black-haired young man who appeared with a solid upper body exposed and answered naturally.

Maia, who was looking at Limon with sharp eyes, chewed on it.

“I’m not asking in that sense.”

It was possible to guess that the culprit was Limon just by seeing that he had safely transported himself, who would become poisoned just by approaching him.

What was unknown was not who, but how.

“I ordered you to retreat while protecting your clan. Why are you here?”

More than ordered by the power of balance.

Limon should have been out of Amazon already.

Even if he had set out to find himself right after that, it would have taken at least a few days. How did he come so quickly?

Looking at her suspicious question, Limon shrugged.

“Is there anything special? A faithful slave just did a little disloyalty.”

“Is it disloyal?”

“Yes, although the price was a bit high.”

The moment Limon showed his wrist.

Maia was taken aback.

Then, without realizing it, he lifted his wrist to check the scale tattoo.

But the result was the same.

Like Limon’s black balance, her white balance had a 9:1 tilt.

It was no surprise, given that she had used all but one of the scales as she gave Limon his final orders.

One problem.

…The nine pieces now were not Limon’s black pendulum, but Maia’s white pendulum.

“What have you done?”

What did he do in the meantime, so that his own extras, which should have only one left, increased to nine?

And, on the contrary, his balance weight was reduced to one.

Maia asked sharply.

Limon smiled and replied.

“That’s why I told you, I paid a rather high price.”