CH 39

Fireplace Flame (4)

The reason Baek Jung-hyuk decided to make his own sword came from an incident.

when I was 18.

At a time when the structure of the succession of the Magyo had not yet been decided, Baek Jung-hyeok spent days drained of blood due to the skeletal conflict between the brothers.

Unlike his other brothers, he had no basis to protect himself, and he had no choice but to spend the night awake by the daily assassination attempts.

Then one day.

A guest came in the middle of the night.

11th brother.

Baek Chang-hyeon attempted assassination to kill Baek Joong-hyeok, and a bloody battle broke out between the brothers on the night when the white moon rose.

The aspect of the battle was tight.

Baek Chang-hyeon was also a person who passed the ordeal in the cave, and even in a bloody situation, he tenaciously attacked Baek Joong-hyeok's vital points.

The physical difference between the two was huge.

As Baek Chang-hyeon was born first, he showed physical superiority, and the sword that Baek Joong-hyeok had been cherishing for a long time stopped breaking due to Baek Chang-hyun's attack.

Kwajik.

one blowout.

Baek Jung-hyuk's chest was cut in the attack with a broken sword.

blood splashed

At the moment when the fear of death approached, Baek Jung-hyuk boldly gave up his chest and slashed his opponent's face with a broken sword.

The momentary joy of winning.

As Baek Chang-hyeon's face, which had been filled with ecstasy, was terribly crushed, Baek Joong-hyuk took the life of his opponent with a bloody body.

that day.

Baek Joong-hyuk thought.

You need your own sword.

He wanted a sword that would never break during battle and would fully utilize his current physical abilities.

Baek Jung-hyeok, who became famous as a self-righteous man after dealing with the 11th brother, learned the art of making swords by visiting blacksmiths unlike other brothers from that day.

And always, when the moment of the decisive battle was ahead, he made a sword suitable for him now.

A sword that can elevate one's condition to the best by calculating complex things such as physical characteristics and the characteristics of the current preferred sword technique.

Decades have passed like that.

Baek Jung-hyeok rose to the apex, and fought hundreds or thousands of battles in the process of unifying Moorim.

Every year, Baek Jung-hyuk's sword changed.

Every time Baek Jung-hyeok made a new sword, he passed on the old sword to his subordinates, and from a certain point on the 39 swords handed down from generation to generation, he called them the swords of the heavenly demons.

A treasure that dares not be priceless.

The moment the sword of the heavenly demon was released in Moorim, a battle was fought for it, and it is safe to say that Baek Jung-hyeok's production technology, which has developed through countless battles and years, has reached the level of a craftsman.

the act of making a sword.

It was familiar to Baek Joong-hyuk.

And now.

Roman was preparing for a battle with Barco.

blast furnace.

first sword.

Roman performed the ceremony as Baek Joong-hyuk.

Forge of resistance.

In the space where there had been no footsteps for a while, the sound of a strong knock on steel resounded around.

Kaang!

Fireworks went off.

Roman, who struck the red-hot steel with a hammer, performed the same action over and over again with a certain force and rhythm.

It was a really boring time for ordinary people.

In a space where only the sound of a fire burning in the fire pit and the sound of striking steel were allowed, Roman sweated as he faced the scorching heat head-on.

Kaang!

Kaang! Kaang!

state of trance.

Roman loved the moment he fell into a single purpose.

What was nothing at first will be born into a wonderful sword due to his repeated actions.

servants of the past.

Even when they made the first sword, they did not understand Baek's behavior.

There were swords in the warehouse, and he said if he could pick up any of them and use them.

Rather than spending wasted time on making a sword, I thought it would be beneficial to hone my skills in that time.

It's not wrong.

However, Baek Jung-hyuk went beyond simply making swords and looked back at himself in his own world.

'What do I live for?'

purpose of life.

Even after completing everything, I didn't realize it.

Because he had Chunma as his father, he had to live in a world of weak and gangsik from a young age, and as he passed the obstacles in front of him, people suddenly called him the best in the world.

I didn't think it was bad.

Human beings are not living the life they originally planned from start to finish, but they are creating a story as a human being according to their instincts.

it's still the same

Although Roman's life is unfamiliar, Baek Joong-hyuk was faithful to reality as he had in the past.

what you see in front of you.

I accepted the divorce for a new life.

They subjugated them at the threat of Blood Fang.

In order to sort out the affair with Anthony Barco, he now prepares a sword for himself and prepares for dispatch.

Baek Jung-hyuk.

It was his life.

For the sole purpose of simply reigning, he was faithful to the reality in front of him even in the vast sea.

'My current state is not at a level that can withstand all the variables. With the metamorphosis of the skeleton, I was able to use the first three seconds of the Celestial Swordsmanship as I entered the human state, but in the Roman world, there will be many variables that I am not aware of. Therefore, I have to train myself harder. The world I don't know, the powerful enemies I don't know. So that no matter what happens, I will always be the winner.'

predator.

Defeat was unacceptable.

In the world of the weak and the strong, defeat means death, so Baek Jung-hyuk always wanted to remain as a predator.

Kaang!

A strong shock occurred.

Roman's face was drenched in sweat from the scorching flames, and the muscles of his naked shirt twitched and glowed red.

It was an unusual sight.

Normal blacksmiths are required to wear protective gear in the process of working.

It is to protect the body from the heat of the fire pit, but if you knock on the steel, hot pieces will jump out and you may get burns.

So was Hendrick.

He met at the blacksmith's shop and got ready to work, but Roman, who is now pounding steel in front of the flames, was wearing nothing other than his trousers.

he knew it too

that this is dangerous

However, making a sword was another way of Baek Joong-hyeok, who at the same time made a weapon suited to his current self and practiced martial arts.

Whoops.

gurgling rumbling.

The fire burned.

With the suffocating heat, Roman opened his lungs wide and accepted the heat.

Chloride Godgong (炎火神功).

Roman's body was engulfed in flames.

Chloride Sacrifice.

It is the martial art of a demon called Fire Magic that uses the power of hot flames to quickly build up mana in a short time.

According to the common sense of the world, these two methods cannot coexist.

It is common knowledge that people who use the Celestial Demon Godgong cannot use the Chloride Godgong, but Baek Jung-hyuk's Heavenly Demon Godgong has raised his affinity to the limit as he progressed.

This made it possible to coexist with other mental methods. The Cheonma Godgong took his place in the danjeon and took charge of everything, and even if other forces from outside flowed into the interior, extreme phenomena such as the coinage did not occur.

coexistence.

absorbed the heat.

He gradually made the heat rising from the danjeon his own, so that the hot flames could be nourishment for the god of heaven.

'The training method of Shin Gong Yeom is the best method that I can choose as a humble person. If you use it frequently, your lungs and internal organs will be damaged, but now that you have prepared everything in the same way as the metamorphosis of the vertebral column, you can fully withstand the fire of the fire.'

Kaang!

Kaang! Kaang!

He swung the hammer vigorously.

The act of making swords.

Facing the fire in the hearth, Roman calmly and meticulously began to examine his body condition.

arm length.

strength of force.

The amount of chi that can be used.

While calmly examining the state, he recalled the shape of a sword suitable for it in his head.

The sword made by pouring sweat like rain now will not be usable in a year or two.

It was exactly the shape that suited him right now, and Roman thought that that alone was enough for the sword to do its job.

At the same time.

Mana was accumulated in the danjeon.

Enemies identified so far.

Considering the size of Barco and the mercenaries he hired, it wasn't really a problem even at the current level.

However.

Variables are invisible to the naked eye.

Obviously, the scale of Barco that they hired the Intelligence Guild to figure out is within common sense, but it is impossible to fully understand what kind of preparations they made in the process of conquering Lawrence without the person involved.

Moorim tells us to hide Samhal's skills.

In a world where all kinds of sexes and sexes are rampant, fully revealing one's strength is a shortcut to death.

Barco.

They too may have hidden Samhal's power, and Roman knew that such a variable could cost his life.

so that.

I hoped for the strength to oppose all the variables.

In the process of subjugating the faction Moorim, the brains of the Zhuge Sega put Baek Jung-hyeok in a corner with numerous variables, but the overwhelming force disintegrated them all.

When you don't fully understand your opponent's power.

It was also a way to solve the problem by having enough power to prevent variables from working in the first place.

'I have not yet fully grasped this world. The strongest person I have ever experienced was the commander of the Knights Templar Jonathan, and he said that the status of 3 stars was to the extent that he was recognized by the kingdom. But in this world, there are four-star swordsmen, five-star swordsmen, and even six-star swordsmen. And there are unknown beings who use the power of magic that they have never experienced before. Even if I can overwhelmingly defeat Captain Jonathan, there is no certainty that unknown beings are also something I can deal with.'

took a breath

It sucked in mana and slammed the steel hard.

Kaang!

I had to train

Because I accepted new people.

Because people like Hans lived in the fence he had built, he had no intention of being defeated.

like that.

one day, two days.

Time passed.

Roman's body became a single sword.

Just like making his own sword, he accepted the hot flames and trained his body strongly.

And when ten days have passed.

tuk.

Finally.

The sound of hammering in the blacksmith stopped.

first sword.

For a person, the first is special in any case.

Roman looked at the sword in the sun, and a smile appeared on his face as the light glided down smoothly.

'This sword is perfectly suited to me now.'

The production period was short.

Although ten days was not enough time, he succeeded in producing a sword at the level he needed thanks to the passion and experience of the Shinhwa Goddess.

It was not an ordinary sword sold in the market, but it was able to accept his mana better than any other lump of steel, and he had all the conditions that met his physical specifications.

If this sword

Preparation is over.

Due to the heat boiling in the danjeon, Roman gave the sword a name.

"I will call you salamander after the name of this world."

took the sword

now.

dispatch.

It was his turn to expose his teeth to Barco.