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Episode 41: Attacking the Escort Agency (3)

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It didn’t take long to eliminate all of the Yukga Escort Agency’s escort warriors, the chief escorts, and the thirty or so Mount Hua’s disciples.

It was before the darkened sky became bright again.

“Pack all your luggage”, Commander Neung said as he got on the carriage.

“Ahem!”

The expressions on the disciples’ faces hardened at the fact that they had to pack up the luggage the escort warriors were carrying. They rarely carried such a burden.

Jin Myeong also found it inconvenient to carry luggage by himself.

“Ugh.”

“Your Excellency…….”

In the end, it was Shin Ye-hyang who moved first. As she shouldered the burden of the cargo without saying a word, the others began to look at each other.

‘Everyone is watching.’

This was because the person with the highest status here was Shin Ye-hyang.

In fact, if you only consider their origins, they were of higher status than the disciples of the Heavenly Demon.

“If that’s the case, then I must obey.”

Still, it seemed like following her and carrying her luggage was still a matter of pride. But when Jin Myeong started to lift the luggage, others eventually started to move one by one and started to lift the luggage.

“Let’s go.”

Commander Neung started to move while pulling the carriage. And as they moved along after the carriage, the remaining Shadow Demons members drew their swords.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

They began to roughly mutilate the fallen corpses.

The warriors of the Heavenly Demon Sect had left traces of their martial arts on the corpses. So, the Shadow Demons mutilated the corpses to make them as unrecognizable as possible.

‘It’s a little cruel, but…….’, Jin Myeong watched the scene quietly.

This was different from simply killing people. Still, Jin Myeong’s expression did not change. Looking at that sight, he did not find it was too much, or even a bit harsh.

‘Every time something like this happens, I worry about myself instead.’

‘I knew that to survive in this world, I had to get used to killing. I thought that was good too.’

‘But I wondered if it would be okay for this personality, who had no qualms about killing people, to return to the modern era.’

‘But can I really go back?’

A problem that Jin Myeong had been ignoring deliberately up until now. He eventually had no choice but to think about that problem.

‘Why did I open my eyes in this novel?’

‘A character with the same name as me, who did not even appear in the novel. And how can I return to my original world?’

‘Can I safely get to the end of this novel?’

Of course, the middle content would have been slightly different due to Jin Myeong’s intervention.

But ultimately, the ending of the novel would not change much.

‘When the protagonist reaches the conclusion where he takes down the organization behind the scenes, will I be able to return to my original world?’

‘By the way, what happened to my original body?’

Once a question arises, more questions arise one after another. When Jin Myeong first came here, he thought the original him was dead.

‘Why did I think that?’

‘I just thought that naturally.’

‘I wondered without a doubt who would take care of my body. As if I didn’t want to go back to my original world.’

‘I actually had no intention of going back.’

‘I only thought about how to live here from now on, and never thought about going back.’

Jin Myeong may had given up on the option of going back without even knowing it.

‘There’s definitely something.’

After being possessing a character in this novel, Jin Myeong became a completely different person from his original self.

And naturally, his attachment to the original world disappeared.

‘Is there such a thing as God?’

‘Did God bring him here and change this world’s destiny?’

‘So, is that God, the author of this novel? Or is he some other being?’

‘I don’t know.’

‘There is too little to know.’

“Please load all your luggage here.”

After being lost in thought for quite some time, Jin Myeong came to his senses at the sudden voice. When he looked around, everyone had stopped in their tracks.

Before he knew it, the dark sky was slowly becoming brighter.

‘The Carriage?’

Jin Myeong discovered two carriages that appeared to have been prepared in advance. Those carriages were larger than the carriage of Yukga Escort Agency that Commander Neung was driving now.

“We will load up and move quickly.”

This was the carriage that was prepared when leaving the Cloud Escort Agency. It was prepared because driving the carriage of the Yukga Escort Agency would eventually get them caught.

“There are clothes to change into in the carriage.”

And inside the carriage were the clothes of the merchants and the merchants.

“Do they really have to go this far…….”

They are the demons of the Heavenly Demon Sect.

Jin Myeong didn’t like the idea of having to move around wearing clothes like this because they were scared of things like combat.

“I’m not doing this because I’m afraid of battle.”

Neung Byeok-mun, who noticed the thoughts of the young warriors, sighed and answered.

“Our mission is not to fight the Orthodox Alliance or the Unorthodox Alliance,” Neung Byeok-mun stated. “It is to safely bring these back to our sect.”

“That necessity demanded ignorable acts; donning coarse merchant clothes and avoiding battles, a bitter pill for the young elite.”

“Our force is too small for a direct clash, particularly with major power like the Mount Hua Sect. I even have to explain you these things,” Commander Neung clicked his tongue.

‘Even if they’re young, scions of Heavenly Demon Sect? How short-sighted. As expected, they are not different from my first impression. A bunch of useless crap.’

Commander Neung thought so from the beginning, and his thoughts hadn’t changed. He felt like he had become a nanny.

‘They had to be on their toes to make sure that they didn’t cause any problems and interfere with the mission.’

‘Why on earth did my lord make me do this?’

‘It had never happened before, but this time, I really felt like I was going to hate Heavenly Demon.’

‘If I had moved with my Shadow Demons Squad, I would have been able to complete the mission much more easily.’

‘Hmm. The clothes are a bit big’, Jin Myeong wore clothes with embroidery rather than a formal attire.

Although the clothes were a bit shabby, they looked more comfortable than the clothes of the person in question.

‘Still, he changed his clothes well.’

Although they are a direct subordinate unit of the sect leader who receives the sect leader’s trust, Commander Neung’s status was not higher than that of the elders or the sect leader’s disciples.

It seems that pride of young scions was hurt by the fact that they were ignored by Commander of Shadow Demons and that they were treated like a child and a burden.

The young scions changed their clothes without saying a word, although their expressions were discontented.

‘In this situation, grumbling any longer will only end up being detrimental.’

Since acknowledging Commander Neung’s words, they held back and did not express their dissatisfaction.

“I’m leaving.”

Commander of Shadow Demons started driving the carriage after seeing the others change their clothes.

As Shadow Demons began to drive the remaining carriage, others began to follow it.

‘There are guards, but no escort agency.’

It was different from the Yukga Escort Agency caravan they had attacked.

Perhaps because there was no one who could be seen as a leader, they looked like a rabble.

‘I don’t know what use these old things are, though.’

Jin Myeong looked at the carriage quietly.

‘They are just simple antiques. There was no elixir, no secret martial arts skills, and no amazing weapons.’

‘They are literally just old objects with an exotic appearance. I don’t understand why Heavenly Demon moved us for this.’

This mission was not as difficult as Jin Myeong had initially expected.

It was something that wouldn’t have been strange even if it wasn’t mentioned at all in the novel.

But Jin Myeong still couldn’t figure out why all those who could be considered the future of the Heavenly Demon Sect were put into this work.

‘Really just to gain experience with these guys?’

No matter how much he thought about it, it didn’t seem like Heavenly Demon would think of them to that extent.

‘There must have been a reason for Heavenly Demon. Thinking about it anymore just makes my head hurt.’

Eventually, Jin Myeong gave up thinking about why Heavenly Demon had sent them or why he had tried to seize this treasure.

But it wasn’t long before he learned something about the reason.

“Thank you all for your hard work.”

Although it took longer than expected, they were able to return safely to Shaanxi.

Although they encountered the Unorthodox and Green Forest Bandit groups a few times, Neung Byeok-mun skilfully passed them by while giving them money.

In the end, they returned to the state of Liu Yunbiao in Shaanxi via Shanxi without fighting a single battle.

‘Now even the carriage is being abandoned.’

The Shadow Demons members were dividing the treasure.

Since they didn’t bring a carriage when they came here, they couldn’t go back by carriage either.

‘Why on earth do we need those things?’

Actually, seeing the antiques being organized by the Shadow Demons Squad right before his eyes made Jin Myeong question things once again.

This was especially true because it seemed completely worthless.

‘I don’t think anyone would be interested unless they were an antique collector.’

Jin Myeong’s body, which had been turning away without any interest in the treasure, stopped.

‘Why is that here?’

He turned his head quickly and looked at one object among the unorganized treasures.

‘Could it be that what I thought was right? I think it might be. Wasn’t that what Shin Ye-hyang had?’

Jin Myeong continued to look at it with confused eyes.

‘What should I call that? The Holy Grail?’

A glass that looks very old. The inside of the cup was decorated with a fire shape. That’s why Jin Myeong was sure that this was what he was looking for.

‘I have to get that somehow.’

‘How on earth am I supposed to get that?’

‘This is the treasure that Heavenly Demon asked me to bring. No matter how much I wants it, I can’t have it.’

‘There’s no one around.’

There are only about five members of the Shadow Demons Unit organizing the treasure.

Commander Neung was nowhere to be seen, perhaps because he thought the Shadow Demons would not steal the treasure.

‘Of course there would be other humans too.’

At first, most people were just looking at the treasure that Heavenly Demon had personally asked them to bring.

But after just seeing the old stuff, they quickly lost interest and went back.

Jin Myeong would have lost interest if he hadn’t found that glass.

‘The opportunity is now.’

The Shadow Demons members were accurately counting and recording the number of treasures.

In order to get hold of that treasure, he had to get it before the Shadow Demons members sort it out.

‘I wish I knew how Shin Ye-hyang got hold of that treasure in the novel.’

Unfortunately, the present time is before the beginning of the novel. In the end, Jin Myeong himself must take possession of this treasure.

“What’s going on?”

As Jin Myeong headed towards the treasure where they had been organized, the Shadow Demons stopped moving and looked at him.

“I was wondering why the Master asked me to bring these antiques.”

“The cleanup isn’t over yet.”

As he picked up one of the treasures whose true names were sorted out, two members of Shadow Demons hurriedly stopped him.

Jin Myeong ignored their warnings and continued to look around.

‘There’s still someone who hasn’t seen this place.’

Except for the people who were talking, they still didn’t stop organizing the treasure.

“You’re not saying I was going to take it, I’m just looking at it, right?”

“That’s true, but…….”

“Are you saying this because you think I might steal it?”

Jin Myeong approached Shadow Demons, who was throwing a tantrum and trying to stop him.

“Or did you think that just because your great master ignored us, you guys could ignore me too?”

“That, that’s not it……”

‘Is it because I forced myself to show my irritation and lighten the mood?’

In the end, even the Shadow Demons who were organizing the treasure had no choice but to stop and look at Jin Myeong.

‘Now.’

Jin Myeong saw that everyone’s eyes were on him and shot his inner strength at the treasure he was aiming for.

He tried to take advantage of the internal energy and Heavenly Demon Sword Control Art and take the treasure to another place.

“Your Excellency, what are you doing now!”

But Jin Myeong’s body flinched at the sudden voice.

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