Chapter 197 – The Bright Cult or the Demon Cult (5)

Bang!

“The Blood Prison’s hell pit has been breached!”

“Block it!”

“They’re smashing all the upper prisons too!”

“How did they come up? What happened to the people who went in there?”

“Who cares! Whatever they did. More importantly, request support from above!”

“The surface is in even more chaos! Seems an absolute master appeared. Getting smashed in droves!”

The Blood Cult members managing the prison in the Blood Prison’s mechanism central shaft couldn’t collect themselves at the sudden situation.

“D-damn! Shouldn’t we close the Blood Prison at this point? Everything’s ruined!”

“Th-that’s the problem, we can’t. We killed the guy who knew how to close it a few days ago.”

“That was him!”

They’d recently killed all the cult’s technicians who originally managed the prison’s mechanisms.

Thanks to killing them all before learning how to operate the mechanisms, they couldn’t block the prisoners surging up from underground.

Just then.

Bang!

The stone chamber door where they were burst open and warriors poured inside.

Seeing them, the Blood Cult members inside the stone chamber lost their reason.

Kuaaa!

They screamed and rushed at the prisoners, and were instantly cut down by rusty swords.

“What’s wrong with these guys? They all look like they chugged a bowl of drugs?”

The warrior who burst through the door.

The defrocked monk who was once a warrior monk of Shaolin clicked his tongue seeing the fallen Blood Cult members.

The sight of Blood Cult members going crazy and rushing at them the moment they saw them was absurd.

“Well, not entirely wrong either. They say everyone went half-crazy from eating strange drugs.”

Ki Ji-min who followed in looked around at the mechanisms and answered his words.

“Did that shaman tell you?”

“Not a shaman, an incredible master… Well, I don’t know what kind of person, but anyway he told me.”

“Hmm, but why didn’t you follow him and came here? Handsome, skilled, and young, not your type? Didn’t you say you’d catch a young master outside and play lady warrior?”

“Tch, it’s not like I didn’t want to follow. A young pretty thing was clinging to his side so I gave them space.”

“That’s unlike you.”

“Who knows. Anyway there’ll be plenty of useful guys outside. No point getting rejected by a super master and seeing something I shouldn’t.”

At Ki Ji-min’s words, the defrocked monk giggled and laughed, and she glared at the monk.

“Then why didn’t you go with the Mount Hua girl? You were setting the mood so obviously earlier.”

At Ki Ji-min’s words, the defrocked monk made a bitter smile.

“Well, it was just old memories. Anyway, I broke all the precepts in here, can’t go back.”

“Then, what will you do now?”

“The Demon Cult side seems a mess, the righteous faction has the future Sword Empress and a monstrous shaman… and according to you a super master appeared too, so seems like things will be decided. Should we flee outside the Central Plains?”

“Hmm, but that man didn’t seem to be righteous faction?”

“Huh?”

“Seemed like he was using Demon Cult martial arts? That’s why Hairy followed them.”

The underground prisoners called the hairy Bright Cult warrior Gorilla since he resembled one.

“Then why was he with the Mount Hua girl?”

“Can’t tell. Well, the Demon Cult martial arts weren’t certain either so Hairy might have mistaken.”

“Then the story changes. First we need to go out, find out what happened, then decide.”

The defrocked monk shrugged his shoulders.

Just then. Three men hesitantly entered through the broken door.

The Demon Cult’s technicians caught below the cavity.

“You guys know how to operate this, right?”

“Yes!”

Unfortunately they became the prisoners’ hostages and were continuously dragged around.

“Then operate the mechanism and unlock everything. And after everyone escapes, close this Blood Prison. Then you guys are free too.”

“Yes!”

At the defrocked monk’s words, the three nodded like lightning.

The Blood Prison ruined by the Blood Cult anyway. If they just spared their lives, no regrets even if it all closed.

As the three began operating the mechanism, iron bars and iron doors throughout the underground began opening.

And warriors imprisoned for decades or more by the cult revealed themselves from the dark prisons.

***

The gorge where the Blood Prison was located was being destroyed miserably.

The giant magic circle being built in the center of the gorge shattered to pieces and was buried underground.

And the contaminated summoners and Blood Cult members attacking Sun-woo and Nanseol who appeared on the surface lost their lives one after another.

“Tsk, worried for nothing?”

Hwangbo Jagyeom who returned to the gorge at the noisy sounds shook his head seeing the two rampaging.

Magic, abilities, and martial arts poured out but it was impossible to stop the two.

Eventually, as time passed, no living contaminated ones were visible.

Sun-woo finally entered the large house in the center and smashed the barrier stone.

[The contaminated zone has disappeared. Analyzing the situation.]

Only then did Summoner’s voice reach the three’s ears.

This place too had escaped Summoner’s eyes thanks to the magic circle forcibly creating a contaminated zone.

Once everything finished, Sun-woo grabbed Nanseol and soared up above the gorge.

The two rose beside Hwangbo Jagyeom who was above the gorge.

“Really became a monster.”

Looking at the shattered gorge, Hwangbo Jagyeom opened his mouth with a hollow voice.

He thought if he didn’t die he’d become a tremendous master someday, but never thought he’d become an absolute master this fast.

Sun-woo scratched his head at Hwangbo Jagyeom’s words.

Nanseol looked at the Blood Prison turned to ruins and opened her mouth.

“How many more places like this are there?”

At Nanseol’s question, Sun-woo shook his head.

“A few more places, but the rest are small fry. Just catch those hiding inside the Demon Cult and the Blood Cult leader who went to our world, and the contaminated summoners in this world will be cleared up.”

The Blood Prison was truly an important place for the Blood Cult.

Thanks to that, Sun-woo could learn many of the Blood Cult’s secrets through memories obtained at the Blood Prison.

“First, Nanseol-ssi, return together with summoner Hwangbo Jagyeom. And tell Military Advisor Zhuge about the situation here and what I’m telling you.”

Sun-woo conveyed to Nanseol what he learned through memories.

“If you tell Military Advisor Zhuge, a mission to handle the remaining contaminated summoners will come out. Let’s finish it together then.”

At Sun-woo’s words, Nanseol stared at Sun-woo intently.

“Why?”

“Surely that won’t be the end?”

At Nanseol’s somewhat worried question, Sun-woo grinned.

“No way. It’s just finishing the Blood Cult. There are still contaminated summoners from other worlds, naturally occurring contamination sources, and Demon Lords. Still lots to do.”

Moreover, the Blood Cult’s remnants and brainwashed warriors inside the Demon Cult weren’t easy either.

Not knowing perfectly how deep they’d infiltrated right now. Couldn’t be certain they could handle everything unconditionally.

[First confirmation complete. Please convey detailed matters to the summoner representative. Rewards will be distributed.]

Finally confirmation seemed finished. Summoner’s voice reached the three’s ears again.

However, Summoner’s eyes didn’t reach deep inside the Blood Prison, so separate reporting seemed necessary.

The summoner representative of this dimension was Military Advisor Zhuge. Had to report anyway so could just tell together.

When Nanseol and Hwangbo Jagyeom were checking the reward window.

Sun-woo’s eyes scrunched heavily.

Unlike the two with reward windows up, another voice reached Sun-woo.

[Support request came from Dimension Alpha. Requester is summoner Caroline. Will you respond?]

Dimension Alpha meant the modern Earth where Sun-woo lived.

A request from Caroline. Something definitely happened.

“Seems a problem occurred in our dimension. I must leave immediately.”

At Sun-woo’s words, the two checking the reward window made surprised expressions. Especially Nanseol made an expression never seen before.

“Must you leave already?”

At her words holding Sun-woo back, Sun-woo’s eyes widened, and Hwangbo Jagyeom smiled warmly as if realizing something.

Though Nanseol’s reaction was surprising, unfortunately he couldn’t refuse Caroline’s summon.

Not another place but his own dimension. Couldn’t not go when problems occurred at home.

“Please summon me immediately when the mission about the Demon Cult drops. I’ll come running right away.”

At Sun-woo’s words, Nanseol who’d been looking at him finally nodded.

Sun-woo cupped his fists to the two and immediately disappeared.

“Shall we return too? Let’s hurry.”

Unfortunately unlike Sun-woo, the two had to return walking.

As soon as Sun-woo left, Nanseol who closed the reward window told Hwangbo Jagyeom.

At Nanseol’s hurrying appearance, Hwangbo Jagyeom sighed and closed the reward window.

Unfortunately the reward window showed no method to recover damaged internal energy.

“Ugh, let’s hurry. Since the team leader’s body is hot, the team member must gather strength.”

At Nanseol’s appearance hurrying without thinking of his injury, Hwangbo Jagyeom grumbled and moved his steps.

“We must hurry. Because I left the internal injury too long, if we’re later it might become untreatable. Must quickly go somewhere safe and take medicine.”

At Nanseol’s words walking ahead, Hwangbo Jagyeom made a puzzled expression.

‘Wasn’t it because she wants to see summoner Sun-woo quickly?’

Nanseol who couldn’t see Hwangbo Jagyeom’s expression following behind showed a large sphere-like pill that looked made from bundling grass from her chest.

“Medicine made from moss collected underground at the Blood Prison. Amazing spiritual herb that reconnects cut tendons and restores destroyed dantian.”

The moss Sun-woo gathered and gave to Nanseol before leaving the underground ruins.

Hwangbo Jagyeom’s mouth opened hearing Nanseol’s explanation.

“Wow, really?”

“I experienced it directly?”

“Then there’s lots of such moss in that place?”

“Not full but still quite a lot.”

“Elder Wang Munpung would love this story. If we tell him this, he’ll come running excitedly.”

At Hwangbo Jagyeom’s words, Nanseol made a faint smile. Unfortunately Wang Munpung’s windfall couldn’t be realized.

Nanseol also knew the Blood Prison would be closed.

Anyway, Hwangbo Jagyeom’s feet following Nanseol became very fast.

“There’s a place where I was hiding. A place absolutely no one else can find. Follow me.”

At Nanseol’s story that he could recover martial arts, Hwangbo Jagyeom stepped forward first and ran excitedly toward where he’d been hiding.

Some time after Nanseol and Hwangbo Jagyeom disappeared from the gorge, the hairy warrior appeared in that spot.

“He told me to infiltrate the cult and prepare, right?”

The hairy warrior followed Sun-woo to the end and could receive instructions from him through transmission.

Instructions to hide inside the Bright Cult and wait.

For Sun-woo it was a casually given instruction to shake off an annoying stalker, but from the receiving perspective it was an absolute order.

He intended to faithfully carry out Sun-woo’s instructions.

“Rebuild collapsed forces, monitor those betraying the cult… Lots to do.”

He glanced down at the gorge then began running toward Tibet where the Bright Cult was located.

From the destroyed gorge’s caves, prisoners began showing themselves one by one.