Chapter The Demonic Cult Instructor Returns Chapter 244

Chapter 244

Ghost Blade Kill’s eyes widened.

“Kkulleok…!”

A crimson blood clot burst out of his mouth.

Thud!

He fell to his knees.

With trembling hands, he grasped the blade that had pierced through his neck.

The sharp edge cut into his palm and absorbed the blood, but Ghost Blade Kill didn’t care.

He was already a dead man anyway.

What did a wound on his palm matter?

When his neck was already pierced through.

Swish.

Grasping the blade, he pulled Veritas out with his own hands.

Chuaaaaa!

Blood erupted like a fountain as Ghost Blade Kill fell backward.

Thump!

‘Unbelievable…!’

When Sa Bigang attacked using his Eager Sword Technique, Ghost Blade Kill immediately deployed his protective aura.

But surprisingly, Veritas tore through the protective aura and persistently bored in as if engaging in a contest of strength.

The moment his protective aura was completely shattered, Ghost Blade Kill swung his blade.

Then he only heard sounds.

Clang!

Thud!

The sound of something breaking almost simultaneously with the eerie sound of flesh and bone being severed.

Unbelievably, Ghost Blade Kill’s blade had been cut in half and sent flying.

The next moment, he looked down at Veritas piercing his neck and had to confirm the broken hilt.

‘Unbelievable…’

Ghost Blade Kill repeated the same thought once more as he breathed his last.

Swish!

The blade pulled from Ghost Blade Kill’s neck flew straight into Sa Bigang’s hand.

“That makes ten filled.”

“Amazing, Master! When will I ever become as strong as you?”

Chu Ryang clasped his hands together and looked with eyes full of admiration.

Sa Bigang shook his head.

“Becoming as strong as me is impossible.”

“Huh, really?”

When Chu Ryang made a disappointed expression, Sa Bigang chuckled and said.

“But I’ll make sure you don’t die a dog’s death, at least.”

“Only that much?”

“The dog’s death I’m talking about is on a different level.”

Sa Bigang spoke nonchalantly and turned around.

But the next moment, he fell into thought with a rather serious expression.

‘It really is on a different level.’

When the Hell Demons invaded, all the martial artists died miserably.

That was truly what anyone would call a dog’s death.

***

Crash!

The table shattered.

“Hiiiik!”

The man clutched his head and screamed.

The man who had smashed the table with his fist growled.

“Hey, don’t my words sound right to you?”

He was Second Hero among the Five Heaven-Shaking Heroes.

But no one called him Second Hero.

People absolutely never attached the character ‘Hero’ to them.

Their widely known alias was the Five Dust-Phase Bandits.

Therefore, he was actually called Second Bandit, not Second Hero.

Anyway, the man with his head pressed to the floor trembled with fear.

He had heard rumors that the notorious Five Dust-Phase Bandits had recently appeared in the area and were causing trouble.

But he never expected them to come to his house.

“Please spare me! Please just spare my life!”

The man prostrated himself on the floor and begged desperately.

The second Bandit stroked his coarse beard with thick hands and said.

“Who said anything about killing? So just hand over what you have.”

“This really is everything. Please believe me! I’m just a villager who lives day by day! What can I do when this is all I have? It’s really true.”

At the man’s words, the Second Bandit frowned and looked at the man sitting by the window.

He was a man with a longsword at his waist, eyes slit like a weasel’s, and a long sword scar carved across his cheek, giving him a very cold impression.

He was the very person who created the alias ‘Five Heaven-Shaking Heroes’ and served as First Bandit of the Five Dust-Phase Bandits – Scheming Mantis.

The group called him by the alias ‘Iron Blood Sword Emperor,’ which Scheming Mantis had also given himself.

Second Bandit scratched his neck and asked.

“Big Brother, what should we do? It really doesn’t seem like a lie. There’s no way such a high-grade Night Illumination Pearl would be in a place like this.”

Second Bandit grumbled as he looked around the shabby house.

They had received information that an expensive Night Illumination Pearl was hidden here and had broken in.

Of course, they had doubts from the moment they saw the shabby house.

And as feared, it seemed they had guessed wrong.

Scheming Mantis, who had been trimming his nails with a dagger, blew on his fingertips and stood up.

“Who brought the information?”

Then another man who had been diligently searching one corner stiffened and straightened up.

“It, it was me, Big Brother.”

The man wearing a headband was the youngest of the Five Dust-Phase Bandits.

“Come here.”

When Fifth Bandit approached with a pale face, Scheming Mantis raised his dagger and poked his forehead.

Each time the dagger poked his forehead, blood flowed, but Fifth Bandit bit his lips and endured it.

“Can’t you do even one thing properly?”

“I’m, I’m sorry, Big Brother!”

“What kind of suffering are we going through because of you?”

“I was wrong.”

Smack!

Suddenly Scheming Mantis slapped Fifth Bandit’s cheek.

“If you’re wrong, you should be hit.”

Just as Scheming Mantis was about to strike with his palm again,

One of the room doors burst open and Third Bandit came out dragging a young woman by the hair.

“Hehehe! Big Brother! At least there’s a decent wench here!”

“Ahhh! Please save me!”

The woman wailed.

“Hyang-ah!”

The man who had been prostrating saw his daughter and cried out in surprise.

Then another man came out of the room, gripping an older woman by the nape of her neck and dragging her like a dog.

“There’s also a ripe wench here!”

He was the fourth of the Five Dust-Phase Bandits.

The two women seemed to be mother and daughter.

The man crawled on his belly to Scheming Mantis and clung to his pant leg.

“Great Hero! Please spare us! This really is all we have! Please spare my wife and daughter!”

“This is quite touching.”

Scheming Mantis chuckled and kicked the man clutching his pant leg.

Thud!

“Ouch!“

The man screamed and flew to one corner, collapsing.

Scheming Mantis made a sinister expression and walked toward the two women.

“Kyaaa!”

Third Bandit grabbed the young woman by the hair and lifted her.

“How about it? Isn’t she quite pretty? Hehehe.”

He licked up the woman’s nape with his tongue.

“Hwiik!”

When the woman shuddered and trembled, Third Bandit showed his yellow teeth and grinned foolishly.

“Look. This one’s twitching because she likes it too, right?”

“She’s definitely worth money.”

Scheming Mantis lifted the young woman’s chin and examined her from various angles.

Then the middle-aged woman kneeling beside them struggled and shouted.

“Take your filthy hands off my daughter!”

Smack!

Suddenly the young woman’s cheek whipped around.

The middle-aged woman’s mouth fell open at the sudden event and she froze.

Scheming Mantis lifted the young woman’s chin.

“Your mother did that.”

“Wh-what do you mean…!”

The moment the middle-aged woman spoke again,

Smack!

Once more the young woman’s cheek whipped around.

Scheming Mantis murmured quietly.

“Every time your mother opens her mouth, I’ll slap your cheek.”

“…!”

The middle-aged woman flinched and shut her mouth tight.

Fourth Bandit giggled and spoke.

“Big Brother, can’t we have a taste before selling these wenches?”

“Of course Big Brother eats first and then we take turns. Hehe.”

Third Bandit also leered as he spoke.

Scheming Mantis narrowed his eyes and looked the two women up and down.

They certainly had faces too good to waste in a backwater place like this.

“Strip them.”

“Hehe. Yes sir!”

Fourth Bandit first tried to untie the middle-aged woman’s clothes, when,

“Please wait! Just wait a moment!”

The man crawled over and clung to Scheming Mantis’s pant leg again.

Scheming Mantis frowned and looked at him.

“What? Did you suddenly remember something you have?”

“N-not that, but aren’t you Great Heroes looking for valuable objects?”

“Well, something like that.”

“I know of a place where there are objects.”

“A place where there are objects?”

“Yes, I know of a place with vast treasures and objects. I’ll tell you the location, so please don’t touch my daughter and wife. I beg you! Huk!”

“Hmm. Where is this place?”

“I’ll tell you! So please, just my daughter and wife…”

“I promise. If you tell me the location, I’ll leave without touching those two wenches.”

“Thank you, thank you!”

As the man banged his forehead on the floor in gratitude, Scheming Mantis gestured to Third and Fourth Bandits.

“Now, tell me. This place where the objects are.”

“I’ll tell you. But… that place has rumors of being somewhat dangerous…”

“Are you looking down on me now?”

“No! No! Behind here, when you reach the middle of Treasure Transformation Mountain, there’s a cave opening facing south. It’s said that a monster called ‘Black Ghost’ lives there…”

“I’m not interested in fairy tales.”

“It’s true! Everyone who went in seeking the objects there never returned alive. B-but someone with martial arts as excellent as yours, Great Hero, might be able to… I thought…”

“Hmm.”

Scheming Mantis rested his chin on his hand and made a thoughtful sound.

Even that brief moment felt like eons to the man.

He had spoken as if he knew some great secret, but in reality, it was something all the local residents knew.

Perhaps Scheming Mantis had already heard about it too.

He had bought some time, but would he really be satisfied with this?

Scheming Mantis nodded.

“Interesting. It’s worth checking out once.”

“Hehehe! Whether it’s Black Ghost or White Ghost, if there really are objects there, this would be a real windfall! Big Brother!”

Second Bandit shouted excitedly.

Since he originally liked adventure, rumors of monsters were no problem at all.

The man’s complexion brightened.

“Th-then… my wife and daughter…”

“It was good information. But… I changed my mind. Those two wenches are too good to just leave alone.”

“B-but…! Didn’t you promise?”

“Promises are meant to be broken.”

Scheming Mantis smiled coldly and turned his gaze to the two women.

***

“Master, I’m starving to death!”

“Since you still have the strength to shout, it’s not to the point of death.”

“Don’t you know the saying about the strength from nursing? They say nursing babies use all their strength to nurse. I just shouted with that kind of strength.”

Chu Ryang made a tearful face and grumbled, but Sa Bigang didn’t budge.

He walked diligently while speaking nonchalantly.

“If you continuously circulate your internal energy, you can forget hunger.”

“Yes, I’ll completely forget hunger and die peacefully.”

When Chu Ryang pouted and grumbled, Sa Bigang also found it absurd and chuckled.

Suddenly he found it amusing.

Had there ever been anyone who treated him this comfortably?

In the Demon Realm, to survive, he had committed all kinds of evil acts without hesitation.

Anyone by his side would only tremble with fear.

Even Helmut, who had been closest to him, wasn’t someone he could casually joke with.

After returning, the Special Purpose Class cadets did treat him somewhat informally.

But still not as much as Chu Ryang.

“Aren’t you afraid of me?”

“Huh? Why? Do you like that sort of thing? Like strict military discipline and absolute obedience and writing pledges in blood and stuff…?”

‘I knew he had a free-spirited personality, but…‘

Sa Bigang shook his head.

“Never mind. There’s a house over there, so let’s stop by briefly. I got hungry too for no reason.”

“Oh! Great! I love you, Master!”

The two entered the house located at the foot of the mountain.

But the closer they got, the stranger it seemed.

It definitely looked like people lived there, but one side of the gate was broken, and the windows were also shattered.

‘Something feels strange…‘

Sa Bigang tilted his head and was just about to enter when,

Swish!

A shadow suddenly appeared and charged at them.