Chapter 238

Chapter 238: True Successor (5)

The Lord was unleashing his anger as if there was someone there behind the pillar . But there was no one there . Every person in the hall became shocked as they couldn’t sense or see anyone there .

‘What?’

‘W-why is he doing that?’

The Lord’s action was shocking indeed . Yeowun frowned while looking at the Lord truly doing this, and remembered the conversation from yesterday at the peak of Five Wise Peak . Yin Moha asked Marakim then .

‘Great Guardian . Why did you have to change the date to an earlier date?’

‘That is… because the Lord has been pushing me away lately . ’

‘He’s pushing you away?’ Yin Moha asked back, confused . But it was true . Ever since the underground treasure vault was revealed, the Lord looked very suspiciously at the Great Guardian . When Marakim was on different missions outside the office of the Lord’s palace, he now had people watching over him . Marakim then realized he couldn’t act on his own any longer, so he had to change the date .

‘I am reluctant to say this… but there have been problems with the Lord lately . No… I should say he changed . ’

‘A change? What do you mean? Did something happen to him?’

The Great Guardian’s explanation was vague so Yin Moha became curious .

‘Well, we can say something might have happened . ’

Marakim was a Great Guardian who guarded the Lord by his side . That’s why he was quick to find out the change that came to the Lord . And throughout the conversation, Marakim was considering this issue very seriously .

‘The Lord has been very different from what you are seeing right now, Lord Chun Ma . ’

‘…What do you mean?’

‘He may be cold hearted, but it doesn’t mean he holds affection toward the cult itself . ’

‘I am not sure about that . ’

Yeowun couldn’t agree with that . From what he saw in the past few days, the Lord was only making inner groups to fight against each other . With a giant enemy upon them, the Lord should be trying to have all forces to work together, but it seemed the Lord only cared about his own throne .

‘I know it is unconvincing to say it . ’

‘So, what is the change?’

Yeowun asked and Marakim answered grimly .

‘The Lord has been talking to someone lately . ’

‘Someone? Who?’

‘…It’s Prince Chun Yujing . ’

Chun Yujing was a former candidate to the heir in the Demonic Academy, and had lost his arm in the competition, and also a brother of Chun Yujong’s . It wasn’t strange if Chun Yujong was talking to his brother a lot as he lost his trust in Marakim .

‘W-what are you talking about? He talks with Prince Chun Yujing? What nonsense!’

Yin Moha was so shocked and responded dumbfoundedly . Chun Yeowun did not know the reason why Yin Moha was reacting like that .

‘What are you talking about? Why doesn’t it make sense?’

‘… . My prince . Prince Chun Yujing of the Sword clan was killed by Power King Hang Yen in the war against the forces of Evil 15 years ago . ’

‘…What?’

Power King Hang Yen was the strongest warrior who still ruled the forces of Evil even to this day . He had been staying on top of the five warriors of Jianghu for the last 30 years .

’15 years ago? Was it from the Battle at the Sawin Plains?’

The war 15 years ago was quite famous . Demonic Cult tried to hide it, but when Chun Inji going missing was revealed, the forces of evil took the chance to invade into the Cult’s territory . That’s when Chun Yujong, who had not shown his power then, became one of the new top five warrior of the Jianghu .

‘Wait . So, is he talking with a ghost?’

‘…No . My guess is that he is talking to an illusion . ’

‘Illusion?’

Marakim found this out at the battle at Jurkang castle . At the time, he was busy tending to his own wound, but realized that the Lord had changed at some point .

‘The Lord began talking against a wall without anyone, or a dark place . It wasn’t a long talk at the beginning but…’

Time began to grow longer and longer . Chun Yujong spoke as if his dead brother was alive and was staying with him . After witnessing this multiple times, Marakim thought this was a sign that the Lord’s mental health was going south .

‘Something is eating the Lord’s sanity away . ’

‘What do you think it is?’

‘That’s…’

Marakim answered with his guess and Chun Yeowun and Yin Moha became shocked and turned to something . They were looking at the body of Kingbonki .

Chun Yeowun broke out of his thoughts as Bu Churyong carefully spoke to the Lord, who was still unleashing his fury .

“M…My Lord . If I may ask… who are you talking to right now?”

“What?”

The Lord Chun Yujong then stopped and turned . Everyone in the hall had fallen silent already . Everyone was watching the Lord with a concerned look . The Lord then became confused and spoke .

“Why are you all looking at me with those eyes?”

“…We, your servants, are not sure who you are talking to right now . ”

Bu Churyong spoke hesitantly and the Lord dumbfoundedly pointed behind the pillar and spoke .

“Are you trying to fool me?! Don’t you see Master Chun Yujing standing behind that pillar?!”

“?!”

And with that, everyone including Bu Churyong became shocked . They all knew that Chun Yujing was killed in the war against forces of evil and his body was burned .

[Kekeke . This is becoming very interesting . ]

“What did you say!?”

The Lord still clearly saw Chun Yujing standing by the pillar . He was cackling as if this situation was very amusing . This made the Lord become more furious .

“If you do that one more time, I will not forgive you! Be gone from the halls! You are not allowed in here!”