Surviving the Romance Fantasy

However, with this alone, you can’t completely escape from the demon’s blood. However, it didn’t matter. I had no intention of surviving anyway.

As I ran and ran, I saw traces of landslides. Climbing on the rocks and soil that flowed down the mountainside, he tried to escape the ghost somehow.

“Quaaa

No, I’m not trying to bully you.

Rather, he was screaming and trying to bring out even one more ghost.

The more demons are driven to the Hyeondang, the higher the chance that Ingwibi will survive.

Hyeondang screamed and screamed and ran and ran again. He cut off the ghost in front of his eyes, and became drunk with the blood, and now he is almost in a daze.

– Cheek!

So, I got caught on a tree root and rolled on the mud.

Through the fog, I heard the giggling of many ghosts.

And, beyond that high fog… I see the shadow of a huge secondary ear.

The huge head seemed to be floating around, but numerous limbs were wriggling grotesquely.

Is it a demon from hell?

Or maybe, is this place hell?

Hyeondang stood up on the mud floor and cut down one more ghost that was attacking me. However, my hands were so weak that I couldn’t cut it completely.

– Kaak!

A noble sword with an elegant suzaku-shaped piece of wood attached to it. The sword was unable to cut the ghost to the end, and was caught in the middle.

The sword of the queen is still sharp, but it is because the power in the hand of the hyeondang has fallen.

– Kagak, Kagagak!

With the sword stuck in it, the grotesque-looking ghost looked down at the hall. Hyeondang swallowed dry saliva and gently closed his eyes.

That was the moment.

– Grasp!

Among the piles of rocks created by the landslide, a man stood up with his head sticking out, raising dust.

At the same time, the demon in front of the Hyeondang was split in two.

*

The first thing Hyeondang, who collapsed on the muddy floor, felt was cold.

It’s not unusual to feel chills in late winter like this. However, the degree of the chill was beyond that of mid-winter.

The cross section of the ghost, which had been split vertically, was completely frozen.

Thanks to that, there is no spilling of blood.

– Tuuk!

Could it be because of being caught up in a landslide? The battered man sat down on the floor gasping for breath.

Until just before, he had barely risen from a pile of stones, but it took less than a second to slash the ghost in front of the main hall.

“Hoo-wook…”

Breathing out pure white breath, he stood up again with his head lowered, and let the sword in one hand hang down to the side.

The sword body comes into the eyes of the Hyeondang. The sword body was strangely cold, to the extent that white steam was coming down. When I came to my senses, the steam created by the chill was covering the floor around me.

Hyeondang only knew the man’s identity when he saw the sword.

I heard that there are three treasured swords imbued with Baekseon’s Taoism in Baekseon Palace.

A boyeopsword (珤葉劍) that Baek Seon himself has been carrying since he was young.

The seven-star dagger (七星短刀) said to have been given to the clerk Wang Han, who often traveled on business trips, for self-defense.

And, it is the Hancheoljunggeom (寒鐵重劍) that I gave to my one and only bodyguard.

A heavy sword made by tapping Hancheol, which is imbued with Baekseon’s Taoism. Due to the influence of Taoism, it is too heavy, and there are only two people in this Qingdao Palace who can wield the sword and perform the skill. Deputy General Jeong Seo-tae, who is famous for his superpowers, and Seol Tae-pyeong, an apprentice warrior to Baek Seon-gung.

The Taoism applied to the sword is so cold that, as soon as it is cut, the entire cross section is covered with ice and frozen.

I wonder what the hell that means, but when dealing with a ghost, the meaning is completely different.

No matter how strong the spirit, there is a limit of 10 demons that one samurai can slay. However, if you have a means to suppress the demon’s blood, you will be able to cut as many as your physical strength allows.

Seol Tae-pyeong, who was holding a heavy sword, could cut down hundreds of low-ranking demons.

However, it had a fatal flaw.

“Huh!! It’s filthy cold!!”

Seol Tae-pyeong trembled and spat out curse words. He muttered that the cold weather training wasn’t like this, but he didn’t feel any pain at all.

Hyeondang, who was lying face down on the mud floor… made a dumbfounded expression at the man’s cry.

It was because he looked too energetic to be a human who had just emerged from a landslide.

Perhaps because of the wounds caused by the impact of stones all over her body, the spilled blood was flowing like a river.

No matter how strong the body is, it cannot be free from excessive bleeding. Nevertheless, Seol Tae-pyeong looked at Hyeon-dang and talked.

“Are you anywhere else injured?”

“Everything… you…”

“You are the current maid of honor of the Suzaku Palace…! hahahaha…! Don’t worry anymore…! This man Seol Tae-pyeong!!!!!”

At that moment, blood flowed from his head, and suddenly Seol Tae-pyeong picked it up as if a thread had broken and fell to the floor.

– Cheeky Duck

“…”

– Keyiik!

– Kakakak!

Amid the resounding sounds of the ghosts, only Seol Tae-pyeong’s body was lying there.

……Like that, there was only silence for a while.

“…wasn’t that a painting that would save you…?”

Hyeondang thought that Seol Tae-pyeong was really saving him because he appeared so cool and full of spirit.

…However, according to common sense, there was no way that a human being caught up in a landslide would be fine.

gwibi (2)

Drip-drip, the sound of dripping water spreads.

Crown Prince Hyunwon somehow pushed his trembling eyelids up. A sharp pain surged through her body, and her vision was blurry, making it difficult to see.

He tried to regain full consciousness somehow, but his dreamy vision showed no signs of returning.

However, he could only know that this place was a certain space surrounded by rocks, and that he was now completely trapped.

Beyond that line of sight, a certain girl’s figure is visible.

It seems to be full of scars everywhere. Originally, it seemed that her hair was neatly braided like the other nine apprentices, but due to the impact of the landslide, it was completely loose.

It can be said that the fact that he survived despite being swept away by a landslide and that he was not properly crushed by the rocks was helped by heavenly luck. However, if you endure in this state, death feels imminent.

There are traces of bleeding with cloth all over the body. Could it be that the girl beyond the blurred vision healed her?

It is futile. He will probably die here. I had such a strange intuition.

It must have been the life of a prince that everyone dreams of, but I think it was a truly fleeting life.

What value was there in a life that was swept away by political interests, no one could do anything according to one’s will, and meaningless reading of scriptures?

When I close my eyes, it seems that death is right in front of me.

Prince Highness. You have to endure.

It sounded like a whisper. Now come and give your life to a meaningless life and do something. Thinking of that… Crown Prince Hyunwon calmed down with his closed eyes.

What is the value of a life without a reason to live?

Only those monologues resonated in my mind.

*

“Huh!”

I momentarily lost consciousness. It was because too much blood had been spilled.

Hearing the screams, he reflexively jumped out and cut one ghost, but that was the limit when he was bleeding like a river.

When I finally came to my senses and looked up, the earth and sand that had flowed down from Taehwajeong were covering the area. The intermittent landslides seemed to have stopped completely.

Then, as I quickly pushed off the floor and raised my upper body, my body staggered once.

There were no broken places, but it seemed that he had lost too much blood. I needed to get some rest somewhere safe.

After shaking my head a few times and coming to my senses, I saw the Hyeondang covered in blood in front of me.

“The current maid…!”

As it was, the body was about to collapse. Looking around, I saw that there were four more corpses of ghosts.

Even a stalwart man would have to rest if he was covered in the blood of a demon of this size. It seemed like I had been slashing demons here for a few minutes while I was unconscious.

“Hey, heck, heck…! Cuckoo…!”

I quickly laid the handmaiden on the floor.

– Kiik! Kiggy Geek!

Beyond the fog, the voices of the ghosts still come in. I frowned and grabbed the handle of the Hancheol Heavy Sword.

“The current lady-in-waiting. First of all, we have to wipe away the ghost’s blood.”

“In…B… side…”

Hyeondang was talking about something even as he lost consciousness. I listened closely.

“In… the queen… is on the side I ran…”

“You mean the queen?”

“If you follow the trail I ran… there is a large crypt…”

The head lady-in-waiting of the current party gripped my collar tightly and spoke.

“I’m fine, so please… go to the queen’s side… you… I can… attract more…”

I couldn’t help but open my eyes.

Somehow, I wondered how so many ghosts could gather when the field of view was not properly secured. The head maid of the Hyeondang deliberately gathered the ghosts.

can be inferred without difficulty. He hid the bee and ran as far as he could, leading the ghosts.

It’s something that can’t be done without dying.

‘Was this person destined to die here…’

Watching the chief lady-in-waiting at the Hyeondang Hall lose consciousness, it was only then that I felt a ghost welcome me.

I felt puzzled when I talked to the head maid of the county party before the birthday ceremony. It was because the lady-in-waiting of the palace of the emperor I saw in the love story of the heavenly dragon was not this person.

That’s right. Because he died here before the story of Heavenly Dragon Lovers even began.

Consort In Ha-yeon appears as a hostile character to Seol-ran at first.

Wasn’t he the illegitimate son of the Hwa-yong-seol family who killed his uncle, In Chang-seok? Although Seolran didn’t have a big sin, she wouldn’t have been able to forgive him easily.

Until he realized Seolran’s strong and sincere temperament, he would have had no choice but to maintain a hostile gaze towards Seolran.

okay. The princess in Cheonryongyeonga was as brave and dignified as she is now, but deep inside she felt something like a cold chill.

He is a person who has lost a lot of things and has risen to that position.

Uncle In Chang-seok and the maid of honor Hyeon-dang. She lived through that life, losing and losing and losing again.

Although it is our life that we have to struggle to survive.

There were people who had to lose a lot to do that, and it was a law that definitely existed in the world.

There are many holes in the heart of those who have lost and lost like that and have risen to the top.

Not only those two, but probably many more. When I live like that, I feel that my heart is slowly wearing out.

“…”

I wiped off the blood that had been smeared here and there on Hyundang’s body. Even with this amount, the yogi covered in blood wouldn’t completely go away, but at least this much had to be done.

As it was, he lifted Hyeondang’s body on one shoulder and picked up the Hancheol Heavy Sword with the other hand. It felt like it weighed almost a thousand pounds, so my hands trembled.

– Kaaak! Kagagagak!

Hearing the cries of the ghosts resounding from beyond the fog, I gently lowered my head.

The rising life seemed to be mine.

*

‘I can’t stay still…’

Is it the den the bear used as its home?

The inside of the crypt was wider than expected, but it was not a completely safe hiding place.

They are spirits that can smell people if they concentrate. It was clear that he would attack the moment he found the moribund Ingwibi.

Yin Guifei somehow managed to pull out the screaming body and stood up holding onto the wall of the crypt.

I tried to go out to the entrance half-blocked by the Hyeondang, but before long I stumbled again and collapsed on the dirt floor.

Even the royal robes, which looked so beautiful and splendid on the podium at the birthday ceremony, became very ugly after being soiled with grass and mud.

However, now was not the time to pursue such a thing. I don’t know what I can do with a dying body like this, but I can’t stay still with the personality of a royal princess.

– drooling

However, before Ingwibi could do anything, a human shadow appeared in front of the crypt.

The Ingwibi, who tried to stand up with her teeth clenched as if it were a ghost, was surprised to see the shape intact.

– Whiik

It was Seol Tae-pyeong, carrying the maid of honor on her shoulder.

The blood couldn’t flow all over the body, and it was completely dry to the point of sticking to it. If you look at the road to this place, you can see the blood flow.

Could it be that there was so much blood in a human body? It wasn’t even that surprising.

“That, you…”

“… came and picked it up.”

That’s how I put the Hyeondang down in the middle of the crypt floor, and put down the sword on one side.

“Hyeondang…!”

Gwibi In was startled and somehow managed to lead her body and examine Hyeondang’s body.

He had already been covered in the ghost’s blood, and his own blood loss was so great that it seemed that his life was in danger.

While Gwibi In examined Hyeondang’s body, Seol Tae-pyeong completely pushed the rock at the entrance of the crypt to cover the entrance.

Then, back in the crypt, he tore off the military uniform he was wearing and began wiping the blood from the body of the Hyeondang.

“If you leave it like this, you will die.”

“Oh, no… Hyeondang… is a person no different from my mother…”

“If you wipe off all the ghost’s blood and use my weak piloting skills, you should be able to escape from the Yogi’s influence to some extent. However, there is no way to stop the bleeding, and there is a high possibility that you will not be able to last long because your energy is declining.”

“Gee, I have to take him to the senator right now.”

Gwibi In barely stood up and spoke in a trembling voice.

“I, I will clear the road… There are probably soldiers remaining near Taehwajeong. If you can get to where they are, you will be able to show the current party to the lawmakers.”

“I can’t tell the direction because of the fog. And I don’t even know if there are people left near Taehwajeong.”

“I still can’t do anything. I can’t lose the current party in vain.”

As it was, Ingwibi, who took out her sword from Hyeondang’s waist, wiped off the ghost’s blood on the blade with her long sleeves.

“You have to do everything you can. How can a person who can’t keep his own person rise high? I… can’t lose the prefecture…”

“In Gwibi-nim. Calm down, and you should go back to your seat. There are many wounds.”

“That can’t be…!”

Ingwibi shouted in a booming voice.

As usual, it’s something you’d never see. Ingwibi was a person in a position where she had to be able to maintain her dignity under any circumstances.

However, the situation in which his life was on the verge of death and the situation in which his own person was dying overlapped, making it impossible to maintain composure.

“I… don’t want to lose my people anymore…!”

“In-gwibi-nim.”

“Help me. If you catch up with the Hyeondang and catch up, I’ll do anything to clear the way. I can’t sit around in a state of panic.”

“In-gwibi-nim.”

“If you help me, I will give you anything I can. If you need money, I’ll take it out of the Golden Chest and give it to you. If you want to succeed, I will personally inform the enemy of your name. So please… help me…”

As Confederate In poured out his words, Seol Tae-pyeong stood up and squeezed both of Confederate In’s shoulders.

“In-gwibi-nim.”

“You… Huh…”

Only then does Seol Tae-pyeong come into the eyes of the queen.

Originally full of spirit and frivolous, today his words are short and his voice is heavy.

The reason now comes into view. The amount of blood flowing from Seol Tae-pyeong’s body was incomparable to the blood shed by Hyeon-dang.

It is probably Seol Tae-pyeong himself who needs the help of the lawmaker more than the current party.

“You…”

Her whole body was still in a state of bruises, but the wounds were sore from cutting down the ghosts.

“In the world… How many demons… have you cut…”

“Nobody bothers to count that.”

But it doesn’t make a single sound of pain.

In Gwibi felt as if she had been drenched in cold water.

Cold reason has contagious properties. Looking at Seol Tae-pyeong, who maintains her rationality even in such an extreme situation, she finally realizes how much of a predicament she is.

Only then did Ingwibi’s head cool down.

“…my apologies. I lost my temper for a moment.”

“It’s a situation that no one has to do.”

So Tae-pyeong Seol pressed In Gwi-bi on the shoulder and sat her down in front of the wall of the crypt.

In Gwibi couldn’t even resist the man’s unique muscular strength and had to sit down on the dirt floor. Ingwibi had wielded her sword against many men, but it was the first time she had been driven by such direct force.

I had no choice but to sit down, catch my breath, and keep my eyes wide open.

Because I had no choice but to live in authority and dignity, I have never experienced being suppressed by a man’s power regardless of my will.

“In Gwibi-nim. There is a difference between courage and bravery. If you can’t tell the difference between the two, one day you’ll be in big trouble.”

Is that frivolous man right? Seol Tae-pyeong was speaking in a cold voice to the extent that he thought so.

Originally, human beings come out when they are cornered.

The reason why I can’t show my usual spirited appearance is probably because I don’t even have the time to do that.

“You…”

In Gwibi asked in a trembling voice.

“How can you be so calm in a situation like this…”

How could the owner of the Suzaku Palace, who should always be calm, not maintain his composure more than a mere apprentice warrior?

Unable to bear with that fact… the indignant princess asked as if vomiting.

“My dear lady…”

To that question, Seol Tae-pyeong answered earnestly in a low voice.

“…it’s not that I’m calm… it’s just that I can’t get my voice out because I’m in so much pain…”

“…”

What kind of habit are you talking about in front of the princess?

I was so dumbfounded that even that kind of porridge couldn’t come out.

*