Chapter 19. Um Seung Do Wants To Live (1/2)

Chapter 19. Um Seung Do Wants To Live

Gongson Chun Gi grinned inside Cho Ryu Hyang’s dream. Now that the boy was out of his dream, he just had to get out on his own.

The Heavenly Demon Church had countless spells of sorcery, and the one Gongson Chun Gi used just now on the boy was the Demon Circle Eye (魔輪眼). This was a high-class spell that could interfere with the opponent’s mind, and because of that, Gongson Chun Gi was able to get into Cho Ryu Hyang’s dream.

A while after Gongson Chun Gi left, Cho Ryu Hyang, who was standing there like a stone statue, moved. Cho Ryu Hyang stretched his neck to loosen his muscles a bit, then opened his eyes to look around. He then spoke with a surprised tone.

“He has quite a bit of talent.”

The moment Cho Ryu Hyang spoke, his body became as soft as clay, and turned into the body of an old man.

The old man.

Zhuge Liang waved his feathered fan and looked around.

“The spell to get into a person’s dream…… It resembles that guy’s spell a bit.”

Zhuge Liang smiled unconsciously when he thought of someone from the past.

“To think I’d see the trace of Shiyuan (鳳雛: Pang Tong) here…….”

* * *

“Hak!”

When Cho Ryu Hyang regained his consciousness, Jo Gi Chun came up to him.

“Are you alright?”

Cho Ryu Hyang calmed himself, and opened his eyes. He could see his worried teacher, and the muscular old man.

‘Where’d the other one go?’

The middle aged man that scared him in the dream. After looking around for a while, Cho Ryu Hyang soon nodded. He could see the middle aged man, who had his eyes closed with a wrinkled face, sitting at one side of the temple.

‘This isn’t a dream.’

The mysterious presence he felt in the dream.

While Cho Ryu Hyang was feeling a bit dizzy, the middle aged man opened his eyes. The moment Gongson Chun Gi opened his eyes, he started wondering about something.

‘What was it?’

He just paid a visit to Cho Ryu Hyang’s dream, but it felt like he had missed something.

What was this? The feeling that he had just missed something huge? Gongson Chun Gi thought about it for some quite some time, then regained his senses, and approached Cho Ryu Hyang.

There was something even more important to be done.

Was this not the boy who could become his first disciple?

“Hm, hm. So, you woke up?”

“…….”

Cho Ryu Hyang looked at the man with an awkward face. He still couldn’t really determine whether if he was still in the dream or not.

After observing the boy for a while, Gongson Chun Gi opened his mouth.

“Go rest for now. There’s a lot to talk about, but that can come later.”

Guardian Wu seemed surprised.

“Your holiness! Why are we not taking care of this now?”

Matters like these had to be settled quickly. He wanted to take care of everything before the pope changed his mind. To Guardian Wu, the heir to the church had to be chosen quickly.

But unlike Guardian Wu, Gongson Chun Gi thought of the boy’s well being first.

“Be quiet, don’t you remember the phrase ‘haste makes waste’?”

“C, could it be that you’ve changed your mind?”

“Don’t worry, it’s not that.”

Gongson Chun Gi shook his head. He didn’t want to rush an exhausted child. Gongson Chun Gi took a look at Jo Gi Chun, and spoke.

“If you go out, the man who brought you here will be waiting. He’ll guide you to your room, so please have some rest there. We’ll talk after that.”

Jo Gi Chun nodded, and smiled. He felt satisfied by seeing Gongson Chun Gi be considerate towards Cho Ryu Hyang. He could feel that Gongson Chun Gi put the safety of the boy first and foremost out of anything. That moved Jo Gi Chun’s heart.

“Let’s go rest.”

“Yes, teacher.”

When Jo Gi Chun tried to support Cho Ryu Hyang to get out,, Guardian Wu came to him with haste.

“I’ll take care of him for you.”

In Guardian Wu’s eyes, Cho Ryu Hyang was already the heir to the church,

That’s why he treated Cho Ryu Hyang with great care.

“I’m fine.”

Cho Ryu Hyang tried to walk away on his own, but Guardian Wu was insistent on helping him. Already the man had started to pour in his inner energy to strengthen the boy a bit.

“Don’t refuse me, young lord. This old man’s doing this because he wants to.”

Cho Ryu Hyang felt bothered by how the old man suddenly addressed him, but he didn’t talk. Cho Ryu Hyang didn’t even have the strength to do so. He wanted to rest for now.

Jo Gi Chun looked at the boy with a complicated face.

* * *

“Did you find out about Cho Ryu Hyang?”

“Yes. But we weren’t able to find the specifics because time was short. We’ll be able to find out more if we searched longer.”

“Just show me what you found.”

Neng Ha Young looked at the paper that her bodyguard gave her. Her eyes sparkled soon after reading it.

“His family runs a mercenary company?”

“Yes. That’s all we found out for now.”

The name and the approximate age, and the appearance of the boy. To find all this so far was truly quite amazing. The time given was short, and the information about the individual was already non existent, after all.

Neng Ha Young expected this, but she was still disappointed. It felt like the boy had something special about him, but the information about the boy was too lacking. Neng Ha Young tapped the table with her index finger, and spoke.

“Is there no information about him regarding martial arts?”

“I apologize. We have not found out that much yet.”

The boy definitely learned something. A type of martial arts that was very profound. There would be no way for the boy to find a hidden peak expert like that otherwise.

“Move everyone in the guild who is currently available. That boy definitely has something to do with the Heavenly Demon Church.”

“I understand.”

If she found out the boy’s relation with the Heavenly Demon Church, she would be able to find out what the church was currently trying to do in the Qilian mountains. Thinking that, Neng Ha Young looked back at the time when she separated a few days back from Cho Ryu Hyang.

“We’ll have to split here.”

This was the first thing Um Seung Do said when they reached the docks. Neng Ha Young stared at Um Seung Do’s face when she heard that.

“Weren’t we supposed to go to the Qilian mountains together?”

“Something bad happened at the church, so I must apologize.”