I Ended Up Becoming The Heavenly Demon’s True Best Friend, Even Though He’s Shy Around Others

Chapter 80

When Hyeonwol's group tried to save them, Ya Socheong stood guard and swung his sword at anyone who approached.

And as if they thought it would be fun, the children of the Nether Shadow Faction approached that place.

No one could laugh while watching that.

Rather, a chill went down their spines.

Even those who had let down their guard while watching Ya Socheong, who usually didn't show much tension and laughed easily, looked at him again.

While that was happening on one side, Pae Maseong went around the disciples of Hyeonwol and killed them one by one, using various weapons at the same time.

It was as if he were trying to teach the children of the Nether Shadow Faction that this was how you kill people in a real battle with these weapons.

He swung a whip with a hook, wrapped it around people's necks, broke their bones, and then quickly ran and kicked the heads of others who had landed on their shoulders.

Everyone who saw that cruelty trembled.

Fountains of blood spurted out from all over, and Hyeonwol seemed to be getting more and more desperate.

Ya Socheong, thinking that he would finally be able to see that famous Flawless Nine Swords, looked at Pae Maseong.

"Now the children should rest, and the adults should fight."

At those words, when Pae Maseong looked at the children of the Nether Shadow Faction, they also understood in advance and disappeared like a shot.

When Ya Socheong looked at the junior lords, only Dan Mok-hwawun and Dan Mok-seol came out from among them.

Dan Mok-heukya and Dan Mok-cheongyeong seemed to have realized that this was not a place for them to interfere, and the people from their respective guards who could lend a hand came out with them.

Around Hyeonwol, people who seemed to be of a similar age to him stood in a line.

They were greatly shocked and could not hide their anger.

"I will make you regret coming here today!"

Hyeonwol, who was shouting, had his upper garment torn on its own, and his muscles swelled as if they would burst.

The sword style was resolute.

There were no feints, and it was honest and cruel.

It aimed for Dan Mok-hwawun and Dan Mok-seol and poured straight in, and sword ki erupted like an explosion from all over.

The two, as if they had decided to have a showdown with their pride as junior lords on the line, elegantly fought back.

But the superiority was easily decided.

Ya Socheong quickly realized that the two junior lords would never be their opponents.

While Hyowol's sword was grazing Dan Mok-seol's ribs, Pae Maseong quickly ran and snatched Dan Mok-seol's arm.

If it weren't for that, Hyowol's sword would have broken Dan Mok-seol's ribs and pierced her heart.

Although she had rolled on the ground because of Pae Maseong, Dan Mok-seol's heart sank at the thought that she had barely saved her life.

Dan Mok-hwawun rushed towards Hyowol, but Hyowol swung his sword without even his breathing being shaken.

And he lightly faced Dan Mok-hwawun as if he were playing with a child.

Dan Mok-hwawun's movements seemed to be getting heavier as time went on, and it even made one wonder how much longer he could hold on.

Ya Socheong realized that that was the Flawless Nine Swords.

At first, it was like a gentle wave.

But as if it had never been like that, it gradually got higher, and later, it became a tsunami that was difficult to handle and covered his head.

The reason Ya Socheong did not step up right away was partly to give Dan Mok-hwawun a chance, and partly because of the greed that if he watched the Flawless Nine Swords carefully, it could become his own asset.

The Flawless Nine Swords seemed to be a name given to a total of nine sword styles, and it seemed that they usually used the sword styles between the third and fifth styles freely.

It seemed that there was no need to use the ones after the sixth style on a daily basis.

But Hyowol seemed to be trying to go all the way against Dan Mok-hwawun.

It must be because finishing Dan Mok-hwawun had a meaning for them.

At that time, the sound of swords being drawn all at once was heard from behind.

They were people who had not participated in the fight even while the chaotic battle was going on.

He hadn't thought that there was another meaning to them not stepping up until then, but for a moment, he wondered if they had been saving their internal energy for this moment.

The three of them moved as one.

And they ran, aiming for the junior lords and their guards.

It became a simple form of a sword formation, and a stronger power than usual was exerted.

No matter how they tried to get out of the sword formation, it didn't seem easy.

When they barely managed to defeat one, a person who had been in another place ran like the wind and blocked that spot.

Among the guards of the junior lords, there were people who fell.

There were also those who lost their lives with a loud scream.

Ya Socheong and Pae Maseong did not go to help them.

From now on, they had to save their strength.

They had to set their goal as simply as possible and protect it, thinking that they had to accomplish that no matter what.

The safety of their junior brothers.

For Ya Socheong, that was even more important than protecting the fifth prince's safety.

Protecting the fifth prince's safety was also a secondary goal for him.

Hyeonwol laughed as if things were finally going his way.

And he turned his head.

It was to see the young mice of the Nether Shadow Faction finally showing a scared face.

But when he turned his head, the children of the Nether Shadow Faction were looking at Ya Socheong.

As if they would not miss a single thing about him.

"Kill that brat first!"

When Hyeonwol pointed at Ya Socheong and said that, Hyowol raised his sword and flew towards Ya Socheong.

For a moment, it was as if a huge tsunami was covering Ya Socheong.

It was a tremendous pressure.

Ya Socheong swung his sword as if to connect three points in the empty air.

Ya Socheong, rather than trying to break the Flawless Nine Swords, decided to break through head-on with a technique that was familiar and comfortable to him.

It was a fight of internal energy and techniques.

A simple technique that was familiar to the hand could sometimes exert a more powerful destructive force than an unfamiliar advanced martial art.

Ya Socheong's internal energy would not easily fall behind anyone else in that place.

A sharp technique was unfolded with ease.

It wasn't that he thought he could win comfortably.

It was just that Ya Socheong wanted to let his junior brothers who were watching him know that they should not be anxious in a situation of a fierce battle and should fiercely solve their own fights.

His sword relentlessly dug into Hyowol's chest.

In the end, at his sharp technique, Hyowol grabbed his chest and hastily retreated.

Ya Socheong seemed to know Hyowol's question.

It was a part that Ya Socheong could guess because he had learned it with the other children in Nether Shadow Valley.

Even if they did the same sword style, there was a difference in what each person accepted.

Even if they learned the same internal art, not everyone's meridians could be developed in the same way.

He recalled that Pae Maseong had had a particularly hard time following the other children.

It seemed that the Flawless Nine Swords had not been completely mastered by Hyowol either.

Suddenly, a smile appeared on Ya Socheong's face.

The name of the sword technique was the Flawless Nine Swords.

They must have wanted to create a sword technique that no one could find fault with and that could not be defeated by any sword technique.

And what they had finally created was the Flawless Nine Swords.

There was a difference between creating a sword style and perfectly implementing that sword style.

Ya Socheong guessed that none of them would be able to perfectly implement the Flawless Nine Swords.

And yet, since they couldn't blame it on the sword technique, it seemed that they had found the problem in their own lack of training.

The current Hyowol was like Pae Maseong, who was repeating the wrong horizontal cut.

The reason Pae Maseong had become really strong was when he had acknowledged that it did not suit him and had started to do what suited him.

As long as Hyowol stopped in that place and was stubborn, he could never be Ya Socheong's opponent.

Ya Socheong, noticing that Hyowol was reaching the same problem at the same point several times, resolutely swung his sword.

"Ugh-!"

Hyowol kicked off the ground and threw his body towards Ya Socheong, but before he could reach, Ya Socheong's sword cut Hyowol's waist long.

'The Flawless Nine Swords were an illusion after all.'

Ya Socheong realized that.

That was the reason why they had not blocked the junior brothers of the Nether Shadow Faction with the Flawless Nine Swords from the beginning.

But that illusion was not powerless to everyone, and the people other than Ya Socheong and Pae Maseong were having a hard time with that illusion.

Already, several people had been defeated by that illusion and had fallen.

Shinwol, who had noticed that Hyowol had fallen, aimed for Ya Socheong all at once with the others.

But Pae Maseong ran towards them first.

Several people rushed towards Pae Maseong at the same time, and for a moment, Pae Maseong's figure was hidden by them.

Ya Socheong went to help Pae Maseong and swung his sword.

Before the sword even reached, the sword ki that had flown from his sword cut the people.

Sparks flew, and an explosion occurred.

From below them, Pae Maseong stood up, shaking his body as if he were annoyed.

Thick blood dripped endlessly from the sword he was holding, and the people who had been by his side eventually collapsed to the ground.

Ya Socheong and Pae Maseong just confirmed that each other was safe and then went to find a new opponent.

Ya Socheong found Hyeonwol.

In any case, the painting of the Demonic God would be with Hyeonwol.

Leaving someone like Hyeonwol was the same as leaving a future problem.

Thinking that he could miss the others, but he couldn't miss Hyeonwol, he looked around, and Danli Heukya shouted loudly and told him where Hyeonwol had fled.

Ya Socheong told Pae Maseong that he would chase Hyeonwol.

At that, Pae Maseong gave a look to Dan Yujong and Jeok Soju and sent them to Ya Socheong.

From then on, the two followed Ya Socheong like a shadow.

Swaeaek-!

With the sound of the wind being cut, a few daggers flew.

Jeok Soju stepped forward and deflected them with his sword.

"Everyone, be careful."

At Ya Socheong's words, they nodded.

After going for a while, a person fell from the empty air and aimed for Ya Socheong.

It was a tremendous pressure, as if Mount Tai were collapsing.

If he hadn't won the fight of internal energy, it seemed that his body would have been cut in two.

Dan Yujong and Jeok Soju's movements were noticeably intimidated, as if the fear was still lingering.

Ya Socheong also felt a creepy feeling, so it was fully understandable that the two were like that.

There were times when the victory was decided by the state of mind rather than the superiority of martial prowess when a certain point was reached.

It might have been that moment then.

It felt like a crisis to have felt that from a follower of Hyeonwol, not Hyeonwol himself, but Ya Socheong quickly shook off that feeling.

And he flew as if he were throwing his body towards that person.

He seemed not to have thought that Ya Socheong would counterattack so suddenly, and the swords of the two clashed in the empty air, making an explosion.

That person seemed to have resolved to die.

It seemed that he had decided to block them from advancing even a little from here, even if it meant risking his own life.

"Go on without us, Senior Brother!"

Jeok Soju shouted.

Ya Socheong was conflicted for a moment, but in the end, he did not accept those words.

There would be another chance to find Hyeonwol, but if he could not protect Jeok Soju and Dan Yujong here, there would be no way to save their lives again.

(End of Chapter)