Surviving the Romance Fantasy

Deokbi Ha, who stepped on the fence of the concubine and groaned in pain, recalled the man’s voice.

The blood was flowing, so it was not a word, but somehow, Deokbi Ha moved toward the outside of the concubine and went on and on.

Let’s survive and think.

Those were the words that the man named Seol Tae-pyeong consistently uttered.

Blazing White Tiger’s Palace (3)

As thick smoke rose from the direction of the concubine, there was a buzz at the site of the Celestial Dragon Festival.

Rumors of a fire broke out inside the Qingdao Palace, and soldiers from the Red Palace rushed in to put out the fire. Anxiety rose among the numerous crowds gathered at the royal tomb.

Standing on the podium, the commander-in-chief reported the situation to the dignitaries, and told them not to panic as the fire in the inner palace would be extinguished by the warriors in the enemy palace.

The Celestial Dragon Festival, which only happens once a year, couldn’t be stopped right away, and there was no way to do that in the first place.

In a hurry to send out the crowds and street vendors who had gathered at the Yeong Yeong Yeong Yeong Yeon, it was more likely to lead to a bigger accident.

Since it was Qingdao Palace, which was bigger than a normal village anyway, it was better to solve the fire inside with hastily summoned soldiers.

“Lana! Marbles run out every month! Get some topaz from the street vendors on the ecliptic side!”

“Yes, yes!”

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The same was true of Seolran, who was busy without blinking.

Seolran nodded to the errands the maid of honor at Cheonryongchae had ordered and jumped out from among the crowds.

It was a landscape far away, but looking at the rising smoke and red flames, I felt uneasy.

Anyway, it was time to do what I had to do as a lady-in-waiting of the Celestial Ryongchae.

*

“How did you come to such a shabby place like this? I don’t look very good right now.”

“no. I stepped forward because I had something urgent to ask.”

There is no way that the deputy general, who usually wears alcohol, would not have had a drink on an auspicious day like the Cheonryong Festival.

Jeong Seo-tae, who was sitting in a pavilion with three or four high-ranking officials in the main palace, drinking rice wine, was about to get up when he heard the news of the concubine fire.

I thought that the commander-in-chief would have acted first, but I couldn’t stay still.

It was at the moment when Gwibi In, who led the 15 ladies-in-waiting, appeared in front of him that he was about to shake off his drunkenness and leave the tomb site.

“I heard that you fainted due to heat stroke. Are you all right now?”

“That is why I walked. Time is running out, so I will be brief.”

In Gwibi spoke with her voice lowered considering that there were many ears around her.

“It looks like someone put poison in the sachet on the handle of my sword.”

“…”

At those words, the deputy general’s expression instantly became heavy.

These were the words that came from the mouth of the Crown Princess of Ilguk, not from another person. There was no need to explain how heavy the words were.

“…is that true?”

“It just happened, so we couldn’t properly investigate in the main palace. However, given the circumstances, it seems likely that Lady Deok Ha of the Palace of the White Tiger is involved in the matter.”

The deputy general took another look around and began to lower his voice at the same time.

There seemed to be a reason why In Gwibi dared to tell the story in such a secret way.

“How could Deokbi Ha do such a thing?”

“At a glance, it looks like something done by Deokbi Ha, but it doesn’t look like the situation is that simple. So, could the deputy general investigate this case separately?”

“If you’re telling me this, it looks like other military officers have already launched an investigation.”

Deputy general Jeong Seo-tae was a person whom Ingwibi also trusted.

In Chang-seok, the former deputy general, was the uncle of Consort In, and Jeong Seo-tae, who assumed the position of deputy general after he passed away, was a subordinate he trusted.

“Actually, if it was Ha Deok-bi’s actions, you should pay for the crime, but if not, I think you need to investigate more deeply. The only person I can ask for a favor like this is the deputy general.”

“…Is it related to the fire at the Palace of the White Tiger?”

“…”

It was too subtle to be a coincidence.

A fire in the Palace of the Baekho right after the conspiracy involving Consort In and Deokbi Ha went awry.

As if someone was trying to cover this up, the deputy general didn’t feel too good about it either.

“We have confirmed that the demons from the main palace have been dispatched to the White Tiger Palace. Your queen, you don’t know this yet.”

The deputy general spoke with a somewhat uneasy expression.

“I wondered why such manpower as nobles even entered the concubines, but if you say they were dispatched to arrest Deokbi Ha, the situation seems to match.”

“Are you saying that you are in the Palace of the White Tiger? What the deputy general said is absolutely true, right?”

“…why do you do that?”

In Gwibi suddenly trembled at the corner of her eyes.

He looked very uneasy, and the deputy general also felt unusual.

“…I sent a suzaku to someone I personally trusted and sent it to the Palace of the White Tiger.”

“…”

“Obviously, nothing will happen to the demons…”

The demons are a direct detached unit that moves under direct instructions from the Emperor Unseong.

He had the privilege of being exempted from responsibility for quite a few problems in accordance with his authority.

It was the best secret unit that could even commit murder if its purpose was in line with the Emperor’s instructions.

That’s why the people in Cheongdo Palace trembled when they heard the name Gwisu. There had to be that much name value to be able to move as a unit directly under the emperor.

“…I can’t be sure. Unbaek, the current head of the gwisu, is a classmate who entered the palace around the same time as me, but he is a person who does not choose any means or methods to carry out his mission.”

In Gwibi momentarily trembled.

Although he was well aware of Seol Tae-pyeong’s sword skills, there was no guarantee that he would be able to safely fight against the nobles of the main palace.

‘Maybe I… did something wrong…’

In Gwibi’s voice trembled with anxiety.

It was because I never imagined that the ghost would come to the scene.

And considering Seol Tae-pyeong’s temperament, I had no idea what kind of friction he would have with the demons.

“Boo, Deputy General, please go check out the Palace of the White Tiger…! Maybe… the situation will escalate…!”

*

The man who had shaken off the wooden sword once was muttering something to himself.

Unbaek, the leader of the demons, looked at the location of the demons while holding the Taeseong sword tightly. Properly deployed formations will press the man from all sides, leaving no room for resistance.

Like that, the three vanguards rushed to subdue the man.

“Haaap!”

They were assassins in black veils.

As I charged forward with the dagger held in reverse, the man took a huge step back and ran out of range.

However, one member of the crew who was hiding on top of a tree in the garden landed backwards and swung his sword. It completely caught the man’s back.

However, the man reacted without difficulty.

Immediately after evading the sword attack by kicking off the floor and jumping up, he wrapped his forearm around the crew member’s neck, then strangled his legs and hit the floor.

– Gagging!

After that, he struck the stomach with the wooden sword he was holding, and after confirming that he had lost his mind, he quickly jumped back to avoid the archer’s arrow.

The series of processes were as smooth as flowing water, to the point where it looked like a play made up of tweaks to a third party.

The judgment the man made after that was unreliable.

He kicked out the burning Jangjimun and ran into the burning Palace of the White Tiger.

‘this…!’

No matter how hard I tried, I couldn’t deploy people all the way into the burning building.

Intuitively realizing that obvious blind spot, he quickly hid himself out of the eyes of the members of the grim reaper.

It is natural to wear cover to be safe from the attacks of the archers shooting their bows from afar.

Even so… I didn’t expect to be running through a building with smoke rising. It was clear that if he accidentally fell under the collapsing debris, he would be mortally wounded in an instant.

– Grasp!

“Gagging!”

After running around the floor of the Palace of the White Tiger, the man who turned round and walked out on the wall overpowered an archer on the outskirts.

No matter how much I am a member, I am a person who belongs to the devil.

It couldn’t be that easy to subdue one person in one blow. The man was agile, but his strength was so great that he could knock a person into fainting with just one attack.

‘Don’t panic!’

However, Woonbaek, the head of the grim reaper, was also a person who had gone through all of the prenatal battles.

If you were going to run on the burning floor and use the walls of buildings as cover to subdue them one by one… It was most efficient to eliminate blind spots.

“Archers, get off the building! Those who can engage in close combat rush into the building with me! Bring him out to a place where we can fire support!”

With their swords drawn, Unbaek and the Ghost crew jumped into the burning White Tiger Palace.

After confirming the appearance of the man jumping between the buildings again, he dug into the Baekho Palace with the ghost crew.

The intrepid members of the Ghost crew were not afraid to jump into the burning building.

‘This… is probably a trap prepared by him…!’

The best composition in a many-on-one battle is to attack and subdue at once in a wide open area.

So, it is highly likely that it was his intention to lead the battlefield into a narrow building… and into a burning building where visibility is not secured.

However, that doesn’t mean you can’t create a situation where you go back and forth between the cover and subdue the archers first. In any way, it is to play as he intended.

Rather than that, it was much more reasonable for this side to lead the situation and attack him.

– Bang!

Unbaek led five or six fighters and ran on the floor of Baekho Palace.

Traces of the man could be seen here and there in the hallway leading to the inner room. He is running from room to room, looking at the number of members who have entered.

“It’s inside the boudoir!”

One of the demons screamed and broke down the inner door of the boudoir.

The room burning all around was the tea room of the Palace of the Baekho. In the midst of all kinds of tea and coffee, the man is nowhere to be seen.

– Bang!

At that time, a man who broke the paper door next to him and jumped out attacked the gwisu crew.

After crushing him, I hit him in the face several times with the handle of the wooden sword.

“Kuk, heo!”

“Cheak!”

Then he grabbed one of the ghosts who followed, broke his collar, and threw it onto the burning tea table.

-Kwadangtang!

Then, he picked up another datak nearby and threw it on top of the fallen grim reaper.

“Ah! Ahh! Fire, it’s on fire!”

Surprised, the three quickly grabbed their swords and corrected their posture.

The man who subdued the two in an instant slowly stood up in the middle of the burning tea room.

Seeing him breathing heavily, he seemed to be quite tired, but he showed no signs of collapsing.

“fourteen…”

Only then did it become clear what the man was muttering earlier.

The man was counting the number of remaining demons.

Unbaek swallowed the dry saliva once.

This man was thinking of catching all the demons who came.

– Percussion!

Before he could respond, he burrowed into the arms of the crew member next to him. As it is, it strikes the handle holding the sword, grabs it by the collar, and throws it away again.

The grim reaper who was stuck in the burning paper door had to roll on the floor to put out the fire on his collar while screaming in pain.

“Ouch! Aagh!”

After that, he disappears through the smoke, breaks the wooden spear, appears, and strangles the other one.

The appearance of disappearing and reappearing here and there in the burning building was like a ghost dragging people to the underworld.

“Ahh! Kaaa! Aagh! hot! sh*t!”

After strangling him and rendering him unconscious, throw him into the yard.

When I came to my senses, there was only one Unbaek remaining in the White Tiger Palace.

“twelve…”

Breathing out, the image of a man fixing his sword on the burning floor came into view.

Unbaek frowned and quickly judged the situation. If you’re trying to beat this guy, don’t try to compete with numbers.

The man was fully aware of how to deal with multiple enemies with his senses.

In order to catch such a person, a simpler and more powerful force was needed rather than strategy and tactics.

Pointing the tip of the Taeseong sword at the man, Unbaek said.

“It’s Unbaek, the head of the grim reaper.”

Revealing one’s identity and name was like a declaration to share the tip of the sword as an unmanned versus unmanned.

The man who covered his face with a black cotton cloth trembled for an instant.

He didn’t seem to have thought that the head of the demons would reveal his affiliation to an unknown soldier and try to sword him.

“Your identity cannot be revealed.”

Saying that, the man also drew out a wooden sword.

Even after revealing his identity as Unbaek, he still respects him. That alone made it clear that he was not a general-level high official in the main palace.

Unbaek had that fact imprinted on his head and charged at him with Taeseong sword drawn.

– Woe!

I can’t swing my sword wide in a burning building. It meant that it was not difficult to guess which direction the trajectory of the sword attack would be heading.

For a man whose sense of the sword has reached its peak, the environment of such a narrow and confined space is no different from his own bedroom.

The man quickly lowered his posture and struck Unbaek’s sword face with a wooden sword.

– Percussion!

You can’t get a real sword with a wooden sword. If you do, you will be cut with the whole sword.

Receiving one sword attack at a time was a very unfavorable condition in a heavy fight.

Even so, the man didn’t even seem to care, and after cutting off Unbaek’s sword, he swung his foot and tried to kick Unbaek’s stomach.

However, Unbaek raised his arm and grabbed the man’s leg.

This was also what Unbaek intended. I let go of the hand holding the sword, grabbed the leg with both hands, and threw the man into the burning paper.

– Kwadangtang!

– Bang!

“Cuck!”

The man groaned once more, then fixed his grip on the wooden sword again.

Woon-baek, who revealed himself as the head of the grim reaper. He is also by no means an ordinary bet. A man who realizes this fact quickly realizes that he will be defeated if he treats him like a normal grim reaper.

As it was, Unbaek picked up the sword and charged at the man.

– Taang!

After striking the sword again with a wooden sword, the man realizes that Unbaek’s strength is unusual.

Even though he is able to catch wild boars with his bare hands, he is confident that Unbaek will never fall behind in his strength.

Force-to-force cannot make a significant difference.

Here, then, the fight had to be expanded into the realm of skill and improvisation.

And, Unbaek also had similar thoughts.

‘It looks like he’s less than 20 years old… What kind of strength is this…!’

‘In addition… he’s quite good at using a sword…! I didn’t know that there was a guy like this in Qingdao Palace?’

In any case, at this point, they were enemies. It was not the time to hold respect as a military man.

The man who was thrown into the tea room must be finished now.

Unbaek jumped into the tea room and tried to cut the man, but the man turned his back and kicked Unbaek’s sword face.

Since he couldn’t receive the sharp sword directly, he hit the side several times.

That delicacy is not common. The level of a man has already surpassed that of a fairly advanced martial artist.

He is not an opponent worthy of hand-to-hand combat. Unbaek monologued like that, and quickly launched a sword attack.

In any case, it seemed that the opponent had no real sword. In a fair match, you might be able to get angry at an unreasonable match, but you can’t tell the opponent to stop because you don’t have a sword even in a real fight like this.

If so, it just keeps crashing.

Unbaek’s swordsmanship was sharp, but the man did not allow even one.

I jumped out of the tea room and moved to the next bed.

It is a place with much more fabric than a tea room. It was difficult to distinguish the sight properly because all sides were on fire.

Even so, if you stay still, the man will use the advantage of such a sight to subdue the demons one by one. I had to tie up the man when I closed the distance now.

Unbaek entered the bed and looked around.

The man jumped out of the thick smoke and swung his sword wide.

‘good night…! I can stop it…!’

In order to block the man’s sword attack, I tightened the grip of the sword.

However, in time, Unbaek changed his mind.

‘no..! I won’t stop you!’

There was no way a man who had reached this level would honestly deliver a blow that was so easy to block.

This is inducing defense. Rather, it is correct to swing a sword here and dig deeper.

If they strike each other, the attack of the one holding the real sword is more fatal than the one holding the wooden sword.

“Haap!”

However, was even that within the expected range of the man?

When Unbaek swung his sword, the man was not present. Only the smoke is being blown away in vain.

In this desperate situation, even the bold judgment was in the palm of the man’s hand.

‘This crazy..!’

Unbaek quickly stepped back and checked the man’s location.

In practice, in the end, those who are good at improvising were overwhelmingly advantageous.

The theories built up are embodied in the body, but the sense of winning in real battles must be innate to some extent.

And, the man was born with such senses to the limit.

– Woe!

The figure of a man holding a sword from behind and rushing forward.

Unbaek quickly grabbed his sword and swung it backwards. However, all I could see in front of me was flames.

‘…what?’

Unbaek couldn’t believe it even though he saw it with his own two eyes.