Chapter 99 : Chapter 99

Chapter 99. Indomitable (3)

Clang!!

Right after the two swords, wrapped in sword qi, clashed with each other.

A dull sensation rose up from both my legs.

I had thought it was just the physicians acting weak, but it seemed to be true.

Both legs had not yet fully recovered.

There was no problem with walking or light movements, but when I exchanged blows with all my might, a somewhat uncomfortable sensation rose up.

I tried to ignore it and swung my sword again.

Clang!!

As if pushed back by his sword, I took a step back and glanced around.

Of the twenty who had formed the circular formation.

Only ten were approaching the party, occupying all directions.

The remaining ten were still forming the circular formation, blocking all escape routes.

It was a movement that showed a firm will not to miss a single one.

The moment I glanced at the rear.

"Haat!"

With a powerful shout, the Sword Shadow Unit Leader's sword flew in.

A concise but powerful and fast orthodox sword art.

It was a sword art that truly did not suit the despicable Sichuan Sword Clan.

I twisted my upper body to narrowly avoid the first blow.

And I blocked the naturally following second blow by swinging the Restoring Name Sword to meet it.

Clang!!

As I held our swords together as if in a power struggle, the dull sensation from both legs came back again.

At that moment, a new trajectory appeared in my wide-open pupils.

I forcefully twisted my arm to deflect the Sword Shadow Unit Leader's sword strike and at the same time took a step to the side.

Slice!

The swift sword of the First Killing of Sichuan, which I had narrowly dodged, pierced the side of my martial arts uniform.

Clang!

As two guys who were not that much different in skill from me ganged up on me, it felt like my hands and feet would get tangled up.

Clang!

Not only was it difficult to block their continuous attacks, but occasionally, when there was no way to dodge, I had to throw my body, protecting only my vital points.

Slice.

While shallow wounds were forming all over my body again.

"Haat!!"

From behind, shouts, cries, and cutting sounds began to be heard.

***

While Jin Yuseong was single-handedly facing the Sword Shadow Unit Leader and the First Killing of Sichuan.

Nam Geon, observing the ten swordsmen slowly approaching, opened his mouth.

"E, everyone hide behind me. I, I don't get hurt even if I'm stabbed. I, I'll open a path."

Before Baek Hyang and Dang Sopyeong could reply to Nam Geon's words.

"Haat!"

Nam Geon suddenly charged to the right and swung his Mother's Affection Sword.

Booooooong!

The Mother's Affection Sword flying in with an intense sound of cutting through the air.

The Sword Shadow Unit member on the right used his footwork to narrowly avoid the blow.

At the same time, those who were approaching from other directions all charged towards Baek Hyang and Dang Sopyeong.

"You can't pass!"

To protect the two of them, Nam Geon advanced, swinging his Mother's Affection Sword in all directions.

An offense-oriented sword art.

The swordsman who had first dodged his sword was closing in on him, but Nam Geon trusted his sturdy body.

Clang!!

Amidst the clear metallic sound that echoed.

Nam Geon swung his Mother's Affection Sword again and thought.

‘I, I have to protect the party.’

He wanted to protect the party properly, at least for this one time.

It was the same in the last chaotic battle over the spiritual herb, and it was the same in the fight with the spider monster this time.

He had done nothing.

In the last two battles, Jin Yuseong had solved almost everything by himself.

But that didn't mean everyone was a burden.

‘H, Hyang is smart. D, doctor bro treats people.’

Only he was not being helpful to the party.

Of course, the kind-hearted party members had told him.

That he had been a great help.

But Nam Geon himself did not think so.

He wanted to be helpful to the party.

He wanted to continue being with them.

He didn't want to be a burden to them.

He wanted to do his part.

In that case, there was only one way left for his stupid self.

"N, nobody passes!"

Protect the party.

Even if this one body of his were to be crushed.

Clang!!

Amidst the continuously echoing metallic sound.

"Dodge it. Orabeoni!"

Baek Hyang's urgent voice rings out.

A sword that had flown in at some point cut his chest.

The sword strike of a peak master.

The middle-aged man who had first wounded Nam Geon's body shouted.

"I will handle this one, so you all rescue the youngest master!"

"Understood. Team Leader!"

He was one of the two team leaders of the Sword Shadow Unit.

The other team leader was currently in charge of the encirclement that had been formed slightly back.

A sharp pain rises from Nam Geon's chest.

"Haat!"

The man's sword, clad in sword qi, flies towards Nam Geon again.

But Nam Geon did not swing his Mother's Affection Sword at that man.

"I, I will protect you!"

He swung his Mother's Affection Sword at the other swordsmen who were rushing towards the party.

The startled men quickly threw their bodies, and the body of one who was careless was crushed by the Mother's Affection Sword.

Crunch!

In the meantime, the wounds on Nam Geon's body increased again.

Slice!

"Orabeoni!"

"Young Master Nam!!"

At Baek Hyang and Dang Sopyeong's urgent shouts, Nam Geon tried his best to endure the pain and shouted.

"I, it doesn't hurt!"

That was right.

This much pain was nothing.

In the past, Jin Yuseong had told Nam Geon.

That it was better for the body to hurt than for the heart to hurt.

Nam Geon had also agreed with that statement.

In his childhood, which he could barely remember.

The pain from when he was abandoned by his biological parents was something he could never forget.

But it wasn't that he was afraid of being abandoned again like then.

He didn't want to see his precious people get hurt in front of his eyes.

He would rather be stabbed himself than see the party members die.

So, even while his body was being cut by the sword qi.

Slice!

Nam Geon continued to swing his Mother's Affection Sword.

"Haaaaaat!"

It wasn't just the Mother's Affection Sword.

He charged with all his might and swung his arms and legs ceaselessly in all directions.

Nam Geon's unexpected charge.

The head of a swordsman who was hit by his fist explodes.

Crunch!

Moreover, a disaster occurred where someone's sword that was striking Nam Geon's body broke and got embedded in the body of a swordsman on the side.

Clang!!

But the price was harsh.

Every time Nam Geon attacked the swordsmen, the wounds on his body rapidly accumulated.

Slice!

The forehead of the first team leader of the Sword Shadow Unit, who had stabbed Nam Geon's body, furrowed.

‘Strange.’

It was a thrust aimed at piercing his heart.

But the blade could not penetrate deeply.

For some reason, as the wounds on the Vajra Giant Child's body increased, the sword seemed to become duller.

‘Is the blade damaged?’

Towards the team leader who had hesitated for a moment, Nam Geon swung his Mother's Affection Sword in a surprise attack.

Boooooooo!!

The team leader easily dodged the blow and launched a counterattack.

Slice!

A shallow wound formed on Nam Geon's body again.

Nam Geon, as if he didn't care about such a wound, continued to swing his sword and move his arms and legs in all directions.

It wasn't that it didn't hurt.

It wasn't just because of his worry for the party.

‘I, I can't do several things at once. S, so I'll just work hard on two things.’

One was protecting the party.

The other was to continuously recite the principles of the Iron Blood Golden Skin Art.

In the past, Nam Geon had killed a lecher with Jin Yuseong.

At that time, Jin Yuseong had severely scolded Nam Geon.

For not chanting the principles of the Iron Blood Golden Skin Art every time he was hit by the lecher.

Saying that being hit in a real battle was also a form of training.

Nam Geon had argued.

That he couldn't do two things at the same time.

The answer Jin Yuseong had given then was simple.

- If you train until it's completely ingrained in your body, then you'll be able to do it automatically.

And Nam Geon had tried to follow that advice.

The years he had spent waiting for Jin Yuseong at Mount Heng.

Nam Geon had trained in the Iron Blood Golden Skin Art every day.

At first, he had asked Yeongcheon for a favor.

- I, I need to practice getting hit while fighting.

Then a small problem occurred.

- D, Daoist bro is weak. I, it doesn't hurt anymore. I, it tickles.

Perhaps because his mastery of the Iron Blood Golden Skin Art had improved, at some point, he didn't even feel pain from Yeongcheon's sword strikes.

So, Yeongcheon took the initiative and introduced Nam Geon to the elders of the Mount Heng Sect.

- Ho. Cheon-ah. So now, you're telling me to strike that innocent Daoist friend with a sword?

After that, Nam Geon was able to have duels with various old Daoists of the Mount Heng Sect.

It was the same even after Jin Yuseong returned to Mount Heng.

He had trained in the Iron Blood Golden Skin Art whenever he had duels with Jin Yuseong on the way here.

He had done so when fighting at the Choi Manor, and he had fought while continuously chanting the Iron Blood Golden Skin Art from the rear during the spiritual herb scramble.

He had even been chanting the Iron Blood Golden Skin Art inwardly when he was hit by the Human-faced spider recently.

And at this very moment.

That effort was bearing fruit.

Slice.

Although he had felt a stinging pain at first, now it didn't hurt even if his skin was cut.

Rather, it was a ticklish feeling, like when he was hit by Yeongcheon.

Furthermore, at some point, his whole body became itchy.

As if insects were crawling all over his body.

Slice!

The first team leader of the Sword Shadow Unit, who had cut Nam Geon's skin again, also realized something strange.

‘Steam?’

The places where the Sword Shadow Unit members had struck with their swords.

And the places he had cut.

Between the tattered clothes, something whitish that looked like steam was shimmering.

Furthermore, the parts of the Vajra Giant Child's body that had been cut and beaten were turning red.

At first, he had thought it was because of the blood flowing from his body.

But when he looked closely, something was different.

It wasn't blood.

It was glowing red, like a piece of iron that had been beaten by a blacksmith's hammer.

Slice!

A cutting sound that echoed again.

And the moment the steam shimmering on the Vajra Giant Child's body reached its peak.

"I, it tickles!!"

The sword of the first team leader of the Sword Shadow Unit, which was clad in sword qi, shattered into pieces as it hit the Vajra Giant Child's body.

Clang!!

***

My two eyes are wide open.

Various trajectories are embroidered in the air.

The Sword Shadow Unit Leader's upright but powerful and fast trajectory.

The First Killing of Sichuan's movements, which were more like those of an assassin than a swordsman.

Observing them, I quickly threw my body around and swung the Restoring Name Sword.

Clang!

Slice!

Perhaps because of my leg that hadn't fully healed.

I feel a subtle dissonance in my movements, and wounds gradually accumulate.

But the more urgent problem than the wounds accumulating on my body was something else.

The sight of the party members, occasionally visible through the gaps between the Sword Shadow Unit Leader and the First Killing of Sichuan, who were ganging up on me.

I could see Nam Geon, covered in blood, fighting.

Perhaps because he had been protected by him, it seemed that none of the party members were seriously injured.

But.

Slice.

Nam Geon's skin is cut by a sword clad in sword qi, and blood splatters.

Damn it, there was a peak master mixed in even besides these two.

If this continued, Nam Geon could collapse at any moment.

"Where are you looking!!"

The First Killing of Sichuan's sword thrust, closing in for a surprise attack.

I tilt my head minimally to avoid it, and a thin stream of blood flows as it grazes the side of my neck.

In that chilling sensation, I compose my mind.

I'll use a technique of sacrificing flesh to take bone and kill one of them first.

And I'll somehow deal with the other one while injured.

Even if I'm on the verge of death, as long as I live, the Tang Clan guy will treat me.

No, even if I die, I'll save the party members first.

As I started to wield my sword roughly with that mindset, these guys stealthily backed away and swung their swords.

"Hehehe. You're in a hurry."

The First Killing of Sichuan, gibbering and sneering as if he had read my mind.

The Sword Shadow Unit Leader also didn't flap his mouth, but a thick sneer was on his lips.

These guys didn't seem to have any intention of killing me by overexerting themselves.

It seemed their intention was to slowly watch me fall.

Or to wait for the Sword Shadow Unit members who would join after defeating my party members.

I suppress a curse and swing my sword at them.

Perhaps because I'm impatient.

Between exchanging blows.

Slice.

Even as wounds gradually accumulate on my body, my gaze naturally turns towards the party members.

At that moment, a strange sight came into view.

Perhaps because of my second eye being wide open.

In a desperate situation.

Even though there was quite a distance, I could see some kind of energy shimmering on Nam Geon's body, which was covered in blood.

Slice!

Nam Geon's body is cut by the sword qi.

Clang!

Every time it clashes with the swords of the Sword Shadow Unit swordsmen and a metallic sound erupts, the shimmering energy on his body grows thicker.

And the moment that energy reached its peak.

"It tickles!!!"

The sword that touched his body shattered into pieces.

Clang!!

Even though it was a sword clad in sword qi.

As a price for looking away for a moment, a shallow wound formed on my forearm again.

Slice.

But.

"Hehehehe."

For some reason, I laughed.

I knew instinctively.

That Nam Geon had finally achieved the Diamond Indestructible Body.

That he had reached the level that I had only heard about in rumors in my previous life.

I was so happy for his growth.

"Hehehehe."

It wasn't just because he had gotten stronger.

Because I had been watching him as we were together.

How much effort Nam Geon had put in to master the Iron Blood Golden Skin Art.

So, even as a blade flew before my eyes, I willingly let out a shout.

"Well done. Nam Geon!!"

I shouted towards the back.

Clang!

My gaze was facing forward.

There was no longer any reason to look back.

There was no impatience left either.

Because Nam Geon would somehow protect the party.

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