Chapter 14
Dongshan Basin.
“retreat! retreat!”
The shouts of Seosan are heard from Binggok..
It echoed vividly as if it was coming from next to me..
“Do you need help?.”
Joo Seocheon glanced at Seosan and muttered..
“retreat! Retreat ah!”
The same words were repeated again.
This time I really heard it from the side..
“Go away!”
The shaman was frightened and began to run away, biting the Snow Flower warriors..
The warriors who were 2,000 have long since fallen below 1,000, and their morale has long since fallen to the abyss of the ice valley..
The girl with a young face revealed when the wooden mask broke, and the leader and shaman of the tale continued to use evil..
In the end, like Saha, Seolhwa was driven to the edge of the cliff by the North Sea Ice Palace without being able to use much force..
“That's it for now, shaman of folk tales..”
Joo Seo-cheon passed by Dong Seol-ryeon and stood in front and spoke..
“stop surrendering.”
“surrender?”
Buck, buck, buck..
Shaman scratched his head nervously..
“gibberish!”
The Sulwha people risked their lives on the perennial ice crystal..
The number of warriors sacrificed so far was countless, but we couldn't back down like this..
We've already come too far to go back.
“Aren't you people who immigrated from a foreign country and arbitrarily trampled and plundered the land and sea that were inherited from your mother?!”
Shaman's voice was full of anger and hatred..
“The hatred you harbor at such a young age is not normal..”
Joo Seocheon muttered after seeing Shaman’s expression..
“Not young.”
hawar said.
“The exact age is unknown, but the shaman in the story is at least forty..”
“forty?”
Joo Seocheon was very surprised..
“They say warriors and shamans age slowly, but……”
Even though aging is said to be slow, it's still too bad that I haven't moved on from being a girl..
It wasn't as bad as Kwon Dong-je, but it was still strange..
‘Is it witchcraft??
No, come to think of it, Beihai Palace Lord……’
The Beihai Palace Lord is also an old woman over sixty years old..
But he didn't even look middle-aged, let alone old..
The questions continued to come up with answers, but they did not last long..
“Borrowing the power of the Central Plains for matters in the North Sea?.
Indeed, it seems like a tribe made up of mixed breeds.!”
Shaman sarcastically shouted with derision.
“If you come out like that, I won't stay silent either.!”
Hehehe!
The ice and snow storm that had stopped briefly has become stronger again..
“Children of the North Sea, rage!!”
The shaman's voice rang out..
“……?”
Joo Seocheon found that voice strangely familiar..
“Take the lives of those who are blinded by greed and trample the sea, and trample their arrogance with despair.!”
Shaman shouts.
No, I memorized a spell..
There was no need to memorize ancient languages that were difficult to hear..
The power of the voice was more important than the words..
The sound produced by the vocal cords passes through the eardrum and stimulates the cranial nerves..
As a result, a signal generated from the brain engulfed the nerves that moved the body, creating a special force..
“Kuoooooo!”
“Kyaaaaa!”
The survivors of the Snow Flower tribe, hundreds of warriors, screamed..
It sounded more like the howl of an animal than a shout..
“kill it!”
Shaman's name was the beginning.
The Snow Flower tribe roared fiercely like wild beasts and charged in..
Too doo doo doo!
Clouds made of snow rise.
The Snow Flowers broke through the fog that distorted vision and attacked..
The momentum of the Snow Flower tribe was rough..
He was filled with rage like an animal that had lost its young..
The abundance of power was also burdensome..
Even if my arm was cut off or there was a hole in my chest, I ignored it..
It wasn't clear whether the cries that came out of his mouth were from pain or anger..
I could see that it did not decrease over time..
“It's just a last struggle!”
The North Sea Ice Palace paused for a moment due to the momentum of the Snow Flower Tribe, but calmed down after hearing the voice of the general commander and Sangcheon Sixth Place..
Above all, the sight of Joo Seo-cheon showing activity ahead of Dong Seol-ryeon, the leader, inspired them with courage..
‘Twenty Four Plum Blossom Technique, Nakmae Bunbun (落梅粉粉)).’
Sword strikes that bloomed like plum blossoms flew dizzyingly..
‘Nakmae Seongwoo (Nakmae Seongwoo))!’
The volcanic season unfolds in the North Sea.
The hem of the purple sword fluttered like a butterfly, and then poured down on the head of the Snow Flower tribe..
pabababat!
“Wow!!”
“Wow!”
“gagging!”
Drops of blood spattered on Joo Seocheon’s steps..
Every time a purple flash flashes in the ice and snow, a scream erupts..
It was the end of those who attacked without caution..
The sight of walking in a snowstorm is like a ghost, so the name Snow Ghost came to mind without thinking..
“Die, Seolgwi!”
Fifteen Snow Flowers attacked from all directions..
Enemies fly like birds from the front, back, and sides, as well as overhead, and raise their heads like moles from beneath the ground..
‘eleven.’
It was the number of enemies captured by sight and senses..
The moment I took my next step, I stamped my foot using the method of Cheon Geun-chu..
Kwaang!
A pillar of snow rose upward..
There were three of the Snow Flowers who were caught in the shock and were thrown into the air..
‘Haenam Ilgeomryu.’
Set the direction to the top and draw horizontally..
Suddenly!
The bodies of the four enemies above my head were split in two..
The upper and lower body were separated cleanly..
With just a stomp and a single swing of the sword, seven people returned to the embrace of the Beihai..
Next, when he took a step forward, he shifted the center of gravity from his feet to his fist and unleashed a strong fist..
Cooung!
The Sulwha warrior in the front was hit with a fist in the exact center of his chest, breaking his ribs, rupturing his internal organs and taking his breath away..
The body that was hit by the fist could not overcome the impact, and flew back to where it came from, landing on an ally behind it..
“midfielder!”
Of the eleven Snow Flower warriors, only two remain..
A curved line was drawn by swinging a knife made of whale bone from left and right..
Whirling!
With your legs planted on the ground, rotate your stationary body half a turn..
The knife passed by where it was just before..
Joo Seocheon stretched out his hand and grabbed the neck of the enemy who was right in front of him, giving him strength..
Crackling!
Neck bones broke easily.
The enemy died instantly without even being able to scream..
“profit!”
The last of the Snow Flowers swung their swords viciously..
I aimed for the neck with my inner strength raised from the bottom, but the monster in front of me dodged it by just nodding my head..
Joo Seocheon relaxed his grip on the neck, bent his body slightly, approached with agile movements, and stretched out his arms forward..
The Sulhwa tribe was so surprised that they lost their swords and kicked the ground and threw themselves backwards, thinking they had missed it..
“Wow!!”
There was a cliff behind it.
It was an unexpected end that we were pushed out by the North Sea Ice Palace..
“Where is Shaman?!”
Joo Seocheon shouted excitedly and looked around..
“ Not on this side!”
Nak So-wol answered from the left..
“You look away during a fight!”
Tish Shark, who was exchanging offense and defense with Naksowol, growled..
As if answering a cry of anger, the river crossing cuts through the ice and snow..
Puuk!
“Wow!”
However, Dogang disappeared without being able to cut anything except empty space..
Blood flowed from the hand holding the sword..
Tishshark trembled, then turned its head and looked back, creaking like a broken doll..
There, as if looking at the Lord of the Beihai Palace, there was a girl with no discernible emotions, with a dagger stuck in her waist..
The girl, the major, twisted the dagger stuck in her belt with strength..
“Hahahaha!”
Normally, it would have been a tish shark that would have shaken its body to get rid of the major, but it was already exhausted due to Naksowol..
In the end, I couldn't struggle and fell sideways..
Without even raising an eyebrow, the major pulled out the dagger from his side and retrieved it..
“Thank you……”
Nak So-wol, who unexpectedly received help, thanked the major..
“Not here either!”
Dongseolryun's cry was heard from the other side on the left..
The Sulwha tribe was being roughly organized..
Some seemed to have lost their will to fight and surrendered with their hands on their heads..
Even though he became as vicious as an animal, he did not completely lose his sense of reason like the Demonic Cult or the Blood Cult..
Even wild animals feel fear.
It was natural to give in to the strong..
Just a moment ago, the shaman's voice made me forget my fear for a moment, but it looks like its effectiveness has worn off..
“It's below!”
Makmar looked for Shaman like a scout leader..
“Shaman went down the ice valley!”
* * *
“surrender! I will surrender!”
Unlike the folk tales of Saha, there is no magic spell to prevent fear..
People surrendered one after another.
The status of the Lord of the North Sea was nothing short of a disaster..
I couldn't see any way to overcome it..
Above all, Saha was more exhausted than he thought..
It's been a while since I left the North Sea Ice Palace, but it's been quite a while since I arrived at the basin..
Not only in other places, but even in Isan Ice Valley and the North Sea, just living in hell, which is known for being cold, felt like death..
In particular, due to the worst food crisis in history, the amount of military provided was small, so it was difficult to exert strength properly..
“yes you bitches!”
Nor was angry..
“What are you doing, you cowards? Can't I wake up right now?!”
“Blinded by greed, how ugly did you plan to become?.”
The cold voice of the cold rain cooled Nor’s anger..
“cold rain!”
Nor growled lowly at the cold and evil rain's words..
“Did you really covet this palace?.”
The cold rain touched Nor's temper..
“……”
I don't know what kind of structure the ice palace was, but it was warmer than any place in the North Sea..
Even if the climate was not ideal, it was like paradise in the North Sea, where people die in the cold all year round..
Nor, and even Saha, coveted this ice palace..
The goal of gaining absolute power through the Permanent Ice Crystal was ultimately to make the Ice Palace the home of Saha..
“I would like to welcome Beihai residents into my palace, but there are already too many..”
Almost all North Sea people are martial people..
This is a phenomenon that occurred when people began practicing Binghangong in order to survive..
But not everyone was a warrior or warrior..
Martial arts are essential and fighting is a separate issue..
There were some who chose other lives, such as artisans or servants, for food, clothing, and shelter in the North Sea..
Excluding samurai and including ordinary residents, many people live in the ice palace..
Saha also has as many residents as the North Sea Ice Palace, so it was not possible to accommodate all of them..
It was truly unavoidable..
“I will curse you……”
Nor muttered in a voice full of hatred..
Cold Rain walked forward and stood in front of Nor..
Until his death was imminent, the leader of Saha did not kneel and shouted with eyes filled with hatred..
“One day, one day, Binggung will also be eaten by this North Sea.!”
Nor glared venomously at the cold, evil rain and took a step back..
After that, there was only an endless ice valley..
“There will be a curse on the North Sea and the Ice Palace.!”
Nor threw himself down, pouring out hatred and curses..
It was a vain end for a leader in the North Sea..
Cold Rain looked down at the ice valley that had swallowed Nor and noticed someone coming down from the other side..
“Lord of the North Wind.”
“please speak!”
Seolyoung answered while prostrating..
“I'll leave it to you above, so select a few elites, including the unit commander, and send them down. I'm going to join Geomshin..”
“number of people!”
* * *
ice valley between two mountains.
There was nothing called life..
Not only animals but even plants could not survive in this valley of death..
The ice road was winding and rough..
Looking down from above, it seemed like another world, not this world..
After the perennial ice crystals appeared, Isan Ice Valley became a place where no living organism was allowed to enter..
Even the North Sea's sea bass couldn't come in hastily..
There were only a few people who could set foot on the land of ice..
The Beihai Ice Palace is well aware of this danger, so they brought only a few people down..
“Swordsman.”
“Beihai Palace Lord.”
Ju Seocheon and Naengakbi met at the bottom of the valley..
After him, up to 50 North Sea masters followed..
Sang Tian in the central plain and Sang Tian in Beihai did not say anything and walked forward with a brief exchange of glances..
Sometimes we cross icy mountains or rivers, and when the wind stops, we stand in front of a noticeable block of ice..
“You came!”
In front of the perennial ice cap, the shaman of the story twitched the corner of his mouth and sneered as if he had been waiting..
“shaman!”
Dong Seol-ryeon called her name as if she was sick of it..
“wait.”
When Dong Seol-ryeon tried to step forward, Naengakbi raised his hand and blocked her..
“Ugh!”
There was something strange about Shaman's appearance..
Even with the frozen hair, the mouth and jaw protruded forward like an animal, and the body grew in size..
No, it was growing..
Four feet, five feet, six feet... … Eventually, after eight feet, I realized something was wrong..
The pupils were vertically split like snakes, and the corners of the eyes were stained black..
The fur around the hands and feet swelled, then tore, and claws made of ice grew out..
“What made me angry... … I'll make you regret it……”
The voice also deteriorated..
It was not a human, but an animal..
Joo Seocheon widened his eyes at that voice..
‘Yonghu (龍吼))?’
I found out the identity of the familiar voice from earlier..
A certain name popped into my head..
“Kuoooooo!”
The shaman moved his beastly hand and grasped the perennial ice crystal..
Damn it!
But before I could hold that hand, it froze as soon as I touched it..
Starting from the tips of the toenails, the color started to turn white, but eventually spread to the arms and turned into an ice sculpture..
“As long as we are human, we cannot contain eternal ice crystals..”
Naengakbi looked at Shaman and said.
‘As she said.’
It is a substance that even affects the climate of the North Sea..
Whether it was an unmanned person or a witchcraft incident, it was not at a level that a person could handle..
So I chose destruction rather than absorption..
Damn it! Damn it!
My body freezes..
Not only my hands but my feet were frozen too..
Ice cubes appeared to bloom like flowers on the skin..
And the moment the ice flowers that started from the hands and toes covered the hair above the neck, the Shaman's eyes widened..
“That's right……”
A sneer flowed from the corner of Shaman's mouth..
“If it's a person.”
With those words, a change came to Shaman..
Wow! Crackling!
When I heard the sound of bones, my body swelled..
The shape of the skeleton and muscles changed, as if undergoing a complete metamorphosis..
The height, which was eight feet long, soon expanded to ten feet, but was easily surpassed..
Like a tree, it's not just about growing taller..
The size of the body, including the arms and legs, grew accordingly, making it overwhelming..
What was most surprising was that the ice that had engulfed the body also grew as if it had become one..
“turtle… … this?”
Hawar muttered inadvertently..
The shaman's body was like a turtle, not a human..
However, it was different from a typical turtle..
There is no such thing as a turtle in this world that is taller than ten feet tall..
The back and shoulders were severely curved like a hunchback, and the ice covering them naturally curled into a shell-like shape..
Hands and feet covered with snow, or rather ice, turned into front and hind feet like those of an animal..
Instead of fingers and toes, black toenails grew and dug holes in the ground..
The neck also grew longer like a snake and then stopped..
The face also changed.
There was not the slightest trace of anyone to be found..
The once-white skin turned black as if it had been contaminated, and scary teeth were visible between the gaping mouth..
The mouth and chin are thrust forward like a duck, and the hair that used to flow in clumps is frozen..
“dragon……?”
Naengakbi looked up and made a puzzled voice..
“Is it Hyeonmu?……?”
Luo Sowol said as if he was not sure..
The dragon's head and turtle shell were reminiscent of the Northern Xuanwu, the divine beast of the four directions..
However, he could not be sure because the snake, which is both a tail and a head, did not exist..
If I had to describe its appearance, it looked like a mixture of half and half black dragon and white dragon..
It was unique in many ways.
Ice was even blooming like flowers here and there on the body..
“No, more than that, a person turns into a dragon.……?”
Luo Sowol muttered with a bewildered face..
It was a sight I saw with my own eyes, but I couldn't believe it..
If you tell someone what you just saw, you will be treated like a drunkard or a crazy person..
The residents of the North Sea also looked perplexed, perhaps because they were so absurd..
‘Northern Black Dragon?’
Joo Seocheon also could not hide his surprise..
One thing that surprised me was that it was a bit different from others..
‘Four Sea Dragon King)!’
According to the myth of the Central Plains, the Dragon King is said to have built a dragon palace and reigns under the sea in the north, south, east and west..
The blue dragon of the east, the white dragon of the west, the red dragon of the south, and the black dragon of the north..
Joo Seocheon came to meet the Red Dragon of the South..
To be exact, it was the Namhae Yongmun, a mysterious sect that inherited the name of Jeokryong..
‘When I saw the South Sea Dragon Gate, I wondered if there might be others who would carry on the name of the Dragon King of the Four Seas... … I can't believe it……’
gulp.
‘The shaman in the tale was the Dragon King of the North Sea.!’
I couldn't understand when the North Sea shaman unfolded the martial arts and martial arts of the South Sea dragon gate..
But soon the question was solved.
Yonghu is a martial art that imitates the roar of a dragon, and was also a means of communicating with the dragon..
If the shaman truly had the power to sublimate into a creature equivalent to a dragon, it would not have been strange to use it..
“Kwaaaaaaaa!”
The shaman cried out, not knowing whether it was a black dragon or a wise warrior..
The energy of Mother Nature gathered together through the gaping maw..
The cause of the lower temperature was definitely the perennial ice crystal..
coo coo coo coo coo coo coo!
The Shaman's roar spread and echoed throughout the ice valley..
A great tremor came and the earth shook..
The cliff, which did not allow even a little sunlight, trembled uneasily, but part of it broke and fell down..
Kwaaang!
“Joe, be careful.!”
“The ice is collapsing!”
The North Sea Ice Palace finally came to its senses..
It wasn't like hail or flakes..
It was an avalanche, no, an ice avalanche..
It was like a meteorite fell on my head..
It was enough of an impact to change the topography of the valley, but luckily I was able to avoid it because there was no one nearby..
Instead, the problem was what happened next..
I was at a loss as to how to get out and was already worried..
However, what we had to pay more attention to was Shaman, the master of the roar..
“I'll deal with it before this area turns into a waste..”
I was curious about the relationship with the South Sea Dragon Gate and the Four Sea Dragon Gate, but I put aside my thoughts and doubts for a moment..
If I were alone, I wouldn't know it, but I didn't have time because I had several people to protect, including my one and only sister..
Taat!
Kick the icy ground.
It was like sliding on an icy road, no, really sliding..
There was no need to apply force.
Just by shifting the center of gravity forward, the person was pushed away with a 'gurgle' sound..
The scenery in front passed by.
I shortened the distance with the shaman at a speed that my eyes could not follow..
Boom!
The sound of tearing the air was heavy and prolonged..
The noise was made by the shaman lifting his front paw and striking it down with all his might..
And it didn't take long for the noise to turn into a roar..
Kwaaang!
The front paws contained a power that would shock the world..
I couldn't tell if it was the power coming from the huge body or the energy of the perennial ice crystal, but it was enough to make me sick of looking at it..
The icy ground collapsed around my front feet..
Instead of stones, ice rocks broke into pieces and rose halfway up..
It was truly a disaster of Mother Nature..
The ground shook as if an earthquake had occurred, and waves of shock came crashing down..
“Wow!”
“Wow!!”
“catch!”
Screams came from the mouths of the warriors of the North Sea Ice Palace..
Those who were caught up in the shock wave that hit them looked like they were being swept away by the wind of the Dragon Fist..
If I hadn't been skilled enough to step onto the ice, I would have suffered internal injuries or been blown off the ice a long time ago..
“Kwaaaa!”
The shaman roared and tried to stamp his front paw again..
“No way!”
Ju Seocheon surged from below and hit the soles of my feet..
crunchy!
It is not the sensation of pressing down on the flesh and creating a hole..
It felt like my front feet were breaking because they were covered in ice..
I wondered if this ice was protecting the inside like self-defense equipment or black iron armor, but I was worried for no reason..
“Kyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!”
Shaman roars.
Mixed with the murderous intent was pain..
thud! thud! thud!
I didn't know if it was a dragon or a hyeonmu, but every time I moved my body, the valley shook..
He caused a stir with his massive body, but there was no way the surroundings were okay..
If you hit a nearby ice wall, pieces of ice, or rather rocks, would tumble down from above, threatening you..
“Kyaoooo!”
Shaman's mouth opens wide..
It wasn't a fight to stop the enemy's heart..
Buzz buzz!
A cold wind blew like a whirlwind around my mouth..
Snowflakes scattered in the air appeared, but were soon sucked into the mouth, emitting pure white light..
Extreme energy that further reduces the atmospheric temperature.
Joo Seocheon realized that something was out of the ordinary and warned him..
“Block it!”
Pigeon!
The moment the shaman exhaled the energy gathered in his mouth, a wave occurred as if a stone had fallen on the surface of the water..
And immediately, a beam of light traced a trail behind the wave and shot like a meteor at the front of the North Sea Ice Palace..
“Be careful of the aftereffects.”
Beihai Palace Lord, Naengakbi raised his hand in front of Yooseong..
Paste!
Naengakbi’s eyebrows slightly shook..
The moment the beam of light touched the exact center of my palm, a shock came as if I had collided with the six seats of heaven with full force..
It was the power of a perennial ice crystal that had absorbed the energy of the North Sea for hundreds or thousands of years..
If it wasn't for Hyeon-kyung, I would have frozen a long time ago..
It was so powerful that my body trembled..
“Haaap!”
Joo Seo-cheon came out wearing a cold and bad rain suit..
Nak So-wol and So-yeong, who were standing behind her, noticed the shaking and were worried..
tadadat!
Running with the back of the shaman's hand.
My arms were made of ice, so every time I slipped down, I kicked again and flew away..
Rather than running, it was more appropriate to say soaring upward..
‘leg!’
I jump again using my ice shell as a stepping stone..
It didn't just go up.
spun brilliantly in the air.
He held the left hand that was not holding the sword tightly and stretched forward with all his strength..
Kuaang!
‘Something about it didn't sound right..
As the explosion exploded, the shaman's head turned to the side..
The area made of ice was severely damaged and the neck was severely broken..
“Hahahahaha!”
The beam of light flowing from inside the mouth lost its direction, but soon dissipated and disappeared..
‘It's not as strong as I thought.?’
hard.
Although it was not the same as a full year, the intensity was above average..
Joo Seocheon was abnormal..
Although it was not able to achieve strong power, it was supported by an incredible amount of attack power that was comparable to the size of the North Sea..
My head was pounding, and the pain spread to every corner of my body..
Joo Seocheon climbed down the neck of the shaman, who was writhing in pain, and landed on his shell..
‘Is the perennial ice crystal down here??’
It wasn't in my head.
Just as the heart and brain are protected by bones, the shaman's perennial ice crystals were also hidden in its shell..
Joo Seo-cheon did not hesitate and threw a strike..
‘Jaha Gaebyeok!’
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