Chapter 80. Expansion into Mainland (1/2)
Chapter 80. Expansion into Mainland
Sichuan Castle (四川省).
As the name implied, this was an area where four rivers flowed.
Because of this reason, the area got the name Sichuan, and this was where the kingdom of Shu, created by the famous Liu Bei, started.
Many kingdoms have come and gone after the Shu kingdom, and the times had changed.
In the flow of time, even the city of Sichuan, which was affiliated with the martial world, was about to change.
For the Alliance,
And the Heavenly Demon Church, the city of Sichuan was a very important place, the place that would change the future of the church.
“In order to help transport fifty oxen-carts and thirty horse carriages from the Heavenly Demon Church, the armed escort company dispatched up to two hundred third-class guards, one hundred second-class guards, thirty first-class guards, and two special-class guards. We did not bring any carriers, due to the fact that they may get in the way of the mission.”
The boy who was listening to the report.
He had a loose black uniform on his body.
But his clothes actually had a golden dragon imprinted on it, a sign of an emperor.
The boy, Cho Ryu Hyang, was inside the giant, overbearing six-horse carriage, reading the report while fiddling with his glasses.
“Escort Jeon.”
“Yes, sir.”
Jeon Wi (電位).
He was one of the only two special-class escorts in the Gray Heaven Armed Escort Company, and the administrator of the entire mission. From a while back, he had been looking at Cho Ryu Hyang with an astounded face.
‘Amazing.’
It’s already been ten days since they left the church.
During this time, Cho Ryu Hyang checked reports daily, found out anything that had changed, and always asked others to fix mistakes whenever he found one.
If there was a slight mistake in calculations, he asked his subordinates to fix that as well.
This was very troubling for those who worked under him, but since this meant that Cho Ryu Hyang was an expert when it came to things like this, they did not complain.
This was good.
‘I had heard that the son of the president was quite talented in the past, but…….’
He had known that the phrase ‘a nail in the pocket can only stick out’ (meaning: talented people are destined to be noticed.) was being used in the company to describe Cho Ryu Hyang.
But he had only thought that Cho Ryu Hyang was only a bit talented.
To think he would have become the heir of the church….
Wasn’t this a quite a big event?
This was why Jeon Wi’s face was full of admiration and amazement.
“Our people don’t really need escorts anyway. It would be better to bring all the escorts to the front as scouts instead.”
“Understood.”
Jeon Wi was looking at Cho Ryu Hyang, who was giving him various orders, proudly.
“As you might already know, the people from the church aren’t weak. So please direct all your attention into protecting the goods, not the people, in case we get attacked.”
“Understood.”
Jeon Wi nodded.
He knew.
Although this was only a ‘advance party’, the power of it was truly terrifying…….
‘One of the ten divisions within the Heavenly Demon Church……..’
The Ruling Fire House.
One of the ten great military divisions of the church was making its move.
The fact that one of the ten divisions were moving was surprising already, but the fact that made Jeon Wi even more surprised was the fact that the martial artists of the Ruling Fire House were all ‘women’.
But Jeon Wi was unable to look down on these women.
‘Sunwu Cho Rin, was it?’
She was a woman of unparalleled beauty.
But when Jeon Wi looked at her in the eye, he was assaulted with a feeling that resembled that of a predator looking at its prey.
‘She was definitely a peak expert.’
Her beauty didn’t even come into his eyes.
Even if they were both peak experts, the power difference between them was quite large.
The difference between a fifty year old man like him, and a twenty year old girl, was much too large.
‘As expected of the Heavenly Demon Church.’
Sunwu Cho Rin was an expert who was nearing the Harmonious stage.
And the female experts of the Ruling Fire House were all at least second-rate warriors, if not first-rate.
There were a few in the peak stage as well.
Jeon Wi kept glancing at Sunwu Cho Rin as he talked with Cho Ryu Hyang.
Beauty and power.
She lacked none.
And his first impression of her was imprinted very strongly in his mind.
–Look down, bitch.
This truly gave Jeon Wi a strong first impression of this woman.
After this event, Jeon Wi did not even dare get close to the people from the church.
Cho Ryu Hyang read the report from Jeon Wi, stamped it, and looked out the window.
It was almost winder.
The cold wind outside was already seeping into the carriage.
Cho Ryu Hyang quickly closed the doors, and spoke.
“Let’s go.”
“Understood.”
When the door closed, the carriage began to move.
Soon, it began to run through the mountain path with extreme speed.
They had to move like this for ten more days in order to reach Sichuan.
Cho Ryu Hyang looked outside the window at the rough mountain path for a bit, and realized that he might not be able to go back anymore.
He could only smile bitterly.
Just a while ago, he was studying math at an academy.
He never could imagine that he’d lead a life like this.
But within a period of a single year, too much had changed in his life.
‘When will they attack?’
He trusted Un Hui, who was on top of the carriage, and No Jin Nyung, who was driving the carriage.
They were both Harmonious experts.
Weaklings wouldn’t even be able to dream of attacking them.
But the problem didn’t lay in these weaklings.
The real problem lay with those who lied and mingled amongst them.
How long could Cho Ryu Hyang last against them?
They would definitely attack Cho Ryu Hyang with strange tactics.
‘I’m thinking too much.’
Cho Ryu Hyang realized he was thinking too negatively, and shook his head.
He won’t die.
There were too many things he didn’t accomplish yet.
He couldn’t die just yet.
There were too many things he did not even manage to do yet.
He couldn’t die.
Cho Ryu Hyang clenched his fists.