Chapter 37. The Alliance’s Attack (1/2)

Chapter 37. The Alliance’s Attack

Normally, making a formation required meeting many conditions.

One had to take geography, temperature, wind, and time into consideration when activating a formation.

And that wasn’t all. The formation had to be drawn perfectly.

A perfect circle. In order to draw that, formation experts usually had to carry a large amount of tools along with them to draw.

Jo Gi Chun was also like that in the beginning. But that was a long time ago. When he learned that formations could be made with math, he also acquired some shortcuts that let him bypass many of the annoying requirements when making formations.

And recently, his formation creation skills were boosted significantly once again when he met Cho Ryu Hyang.

Craack–!

The earth began to wave like a body of water, then began to crack all over the place.

That was the beginning. Yu Sul Bin, when he saw this, stopped grinning, and became alert.

“What’s……. this?”

A giant tree began to grow all of the sudden.

A silver tree that pierced the earth. It instantly grew tall enough to block the light from the sun.

While Yu Sul Bin was looking at this spectacle with a stupid face, one of the seven old men spoke with amazement.

“Ho, this is amazing. I never saw one of this type before.”

“Uncle Feng Ho Zi, do you know what this is?”

“Hah? You don’t know what this is?”

“I don’t. Just what type of magic might be this terrifying?”

When Yu Sul Bin asked this, the old man shook his head when answering.

“This isn’t magic. It’s a formation.”

“What? A formation? This?”

Yu Sul Bin became puzzled.

The formations he knew about wasn’t this amazing. The old man who answered him moments ago, looked around some more, and opened his mouth in astonishment once again.

“Yes. It seems that an extremely skilled formations expert was with the Demon Church.”

“Can’t you do anything about this?”

The old man with a long beard. He was a person who was skilled in all kinds of things, and was the one who took care of the temple at the Alliance. In short, this old man was very talented. But even he simply made a troubled expression right now.

“I don’t think I can. The difference between the creator and I is too big. Plus, it seems that we are already trapped inside.”

Yu Sul Bin frowned. Feng Ho Zi was a respected formations expert in the Alliance. If even he said that, then there really was no way to destroy this formation.

Come to think of it, that old man behind the Blood Sound Demon. That man was doing something behind the old demon’s back. That old man was probably the one behind all this.

“Goddamned Demon Church Bastards…….”

While Yu Sul Bin was just standing there gritting his teeth, the first transformation took place.

Koom–

The silver tree that seemed to grow endlessly soon stopped. When Feng Ho Zi saw this, he grew worried.

“Be careful. If I’m right, this should be…….”

He didn’t need to continue. That was because the thick roots of the tree began to wriggle around, and move.

Krrr–

“Uwah! What’s that?! It’s disgusting!”

When Yu Sul Bin made a horrified face, Feng Ho Zi opened his mouth.

“Even though everything here’s an illusion, if it’s this well made…….”

Bang–!

Feng Ho Zi and Yu Sul Bin stopped talking, and moved sideways. There was a tree root the size of a giant’s arm stuck in the place where they were moments ago.

When Yu Sul Bin saw the floor that got pierced quite deeply by the root, his face turned stiff.

“We’ll have to expect at least a broken limb when getting hit by one of those roots.”

“Damn it.”

Yu Sul Bin fondled his sword’s hilt. He should’ve known that everything was going too smoothly.

To think that the tables would be turned on them like this. Yu Sul Bin quickly looked around, all the while swearing in his mind.

Bam– Bang–!

The tree roots were constantly assaulting Yu Sul Bin and the uncles, but it wasn’t much of a problem.

It would be dangerous if they got hit, but they weren’t sitting ducks. To them, the tree roots were simply an annoyance.

‘But…….’

The one that worried him was Ju Sang San, who somehow hid himself during all the confusion. That old demon was the biggest problem here.

‘Damn, where is he?’

Because he got so shocked by the formation, he missed the old demon slipping away under his nose.

He regretted it greatly, but the past has already passed. Now, all he could do was to take care of everything as fast as possible. Yu Sul Bin stretched his senses to the limit as he dodged the roots.

‘I have to find him as fast as I can.’

He was in a disadvantageous situation, but he was still prepared to meet Ju Sang San head on when the old demon came.

After all, he was an expert at the harmonious level. Something like an ambush simply won’t work against him.

But there were his uncles. They didn’t step into the harmonious stage yet, so if Ju Sang San ambushed them, they would probably get heavily injured.

Because of that, Yu Sul Bin had to focus on finding Ju Sang San, and protect his uncles all at the same time.

Then.

Shwiik–

Yu Sul Bin heard something streak towards him, and quickly swung his sword.

Kang–!

A small pebble was thrown at him. Yu Sul Bin quickly turned and ran towards the direction the stone came from, but stopped just as fast. Realising something, he then began to run back while screaming at the top of his lungs-

“Uncle Feng So Zi!”

Feng So Zi. He became alert when he heard Yu Sul Bin’s voice after dodging a tree root.

“Too late.”

A small shadow jumped towards Feng So Zi. Feng So Zi became surprised, but he still managed to instinctively stab his sword at the shadow.

But even so, a rushed attack like that would never work against a harmonious expert. Ju Sang San softly pushed away the sword that was coming at him, and punched.

Crack–!

Feng So Zi’s knees bent powerlessly. At the same time, his body quickly fell downwards to the floor.

“Son of a bitch! I’ll kill you!”

Yu Sul Bin quickly struck towards Ju Sang San.

A white-hot sword. As expected of a disciple of the Dao Emperor, Yu Sul Bin’s sword was filled with white energy.

Chii–!

Ju Sang San, who expected all of this to happen prior, simply smiled and dodged the blade.

“Your uncle is not dead yet, idiot.”

Yu Sul Bin paused when he heard the old demon’s voice.

And there he saw the uncle, who was suffering from two broken legs. Only then did he realize what Ju Sang San was trying to do, and trembled in rage.

“You goddamned demon…….”

Ju Sang San was a seasoned veteran. He knew how to take on multiple enemies in a battlefield like this.

He wouldn’t kill his victims even when he had the chance. Instead, he would make them be unable to move, which would force the victim’s comrades to take care of the victim.

The victim would become a dead weight to the whole group.

“Son of a bitch…….”

Yu Sul bin grit his teeth.

This was dangerous. With a injured person in the battlefield, the risks the others would have to take would rise significantly.

This just meant that Ju Sang San’s chances of victory were just increasing. This really was the perfect way to fight.

“Aren’t you going to chase me?”