Chapter 19

Chapter 19: A prolouge to a disaster.

"Group 8 and Group 5 get ready!" Shouted instructor Ja So-hee with his qi-infused voice.

"Mado!!" Both sides responded with vigor.

The two then faced off. Cheon Won Ryuh was actually quite nervous, despite her being always arrogant to everyone; this was the first time she felt nervous against someone her own age.

There are three reasons why so: first of all Cheon Mujin is speculated to be on Cheon Muyeon's level who is officially the strongest among the 8 heir, second he was someone who is told to be very ruthless, killing servants or even martial artist for the slightest mistake and third, he was the most illustrious amongst the 8 Prince.

What unsettled her the most was the third reason, as they say, the worst enemy is an unknown one.

She looked at him and saw him smiling at her with his string-like eyes. Chills ran down from her spine as she felt pierced by his creepy gaze.

She tried to analyze his martial level but She could feel nothing from him at all, there was no presence of energy nor was there even a presence at all. It was like he was just an air.

"Both party! Ready! Get set! And fight!!" When the signal was given Cheon Won Ryuh initiated the first contact.

"Arrow formation!!" And so everyone lined up like an arrow with her as an arrowhead. They marched forward with steady steps and aligned formation.

Their swords and shields held out like firm walls, they continued.

But even with such an undaunting march Cheon Mujin remained aloof. He looked at the rest of his group mates who were nervous because their leader has yet to give a command.

Seeing this he smiled a bit and commanded in a low but authoritative voice.

"Arrow formation." He said to which everyone responded with gasp.

'Is he stupid!?' Thought the Left Guardian Lee Hameng.

"What is he doing!?"

"Is he trying a suicide dive!?"

"And here I thought he's someone smarter!" The Cadets in the background exclaimed. They should be thankful that Cheon Mujin's mood is quite good since he has some plans for the night, but if Cheon Mujin were to hear these words with his regular mood, then everyone's head would've already been flying.

Now back to the fight.

Countering an arrow formation with the same is nothing more but moronic. It goes against the strategies the instructor taught them, but his group mates can't do anything since Cheon Mujin is the one holding the authority.

'Ha! And here I thought you were dangerous! You're the same as everyone, stupid and overconfident!' Things like this shouldn't normally be coming from her since she is also arrogant but this is her ego speaking.

Despite the insults Cheon Mujin remained aloof and carefree.

"Group Leader, do we march?" One of the cadets asked.

"No stay here, I'll handle the rest," Cheon Mujin said and detached from his formation.

"What!? What is that idiot doing!!" Shouted the instructor. Leaving your formation is the very thing the instructors taught them not to do at all cost even if you lost an arm or a limb, but here he was doing it on his own volition.

"You are arrogant Cheon Mujin!" Shouted Cheon Won Ryuh while she and her group continued their steady march.

But suddenly the air became heavy, the tension suddenly increased by ten folds. Everyone froze within their track, the arrow formation that was marching previously with a firm foothold came to a complete halt.

They all looked at Cheon Mujin's lone stride and felt the strong pressure bearing down on them coming from him.

With a small step and an unsettling creepy smile accompanied by his spine-chilling string eyes that bore down on them with ruthless gaze, they felt weak and helpless.

Then in an instant, his figure melted down with the wind. He disappeared on a split second shocking everyone as they failed to even follow a slight of his shadow.

Milliseconds after a shout came from way behind the formation of her group. Cheon Won Ryuh, alerted to the highest level, looked behind with panicked eyes and saw one of her teammates lying on the ground with a pool of blood as his mattress.

"Shit!!" She cursed and without missing a beat another one fell.

"Arrghhh!" Shouted one of her group mates in primal pain.

"Help me!" Another wailed for help but there was no one to respond to his cries.

One by one they were weeded out. Not one of them even managing to catch a glimpse of his shadow. Two became three, three became four until everyone was down with only her standing.

"W-what is going on!?" She asked, shocked and baffled to the highest degree.

She was confident of her ability, even for her she could catch a glimpse of an instructor's movement yet here she was not even managing to see a slight of Cheon Mujin's wind let alone shadow.

"This is impossible!" She shouted with a craze-filled voice.

Everyone was having the same reaction as hers, especially Lee Hameng who didn't manage to see Cheon Mujin's movement.

'He's like the great guardian!' He exclaimed.

Then as Cheon Won Ryuh was having her panic Cheon Mujin finally made himself visible by appearing in front of her.

"Surprise." He said to her while putting his face close to her and matching her eye level.

"Wonderful isn't it?" He asked to which Cheon Won Ryuh responded with an instinctive slash of her sword.

"How rude," Came a voice from behind her.

"You know you and I are brothers and sisters, you should not be so cold towards me," He exclaimed while patting his hands around her shoulder.

Cheon Won Ryuh tried to remove his hands but they were not bulging at all.

"Muda da," He said, imitating a certain anime character that likes to freeze time and shout 'useless' over and over again.

"Stop this! Stop playing with me and defeat me already!" Shouted Cheon Won Ryun, pleading.

She can take a loss but she can't take the humiliation Cheon Mujin is putting her through but unfortunately for her this was just the tip of the iceberg.

"Very well then, your wish is my command," Cheon Mujin swiped his sword against her which grazed her skin a little bit but that graze was enough to make her go down.

Then suddenly as she was lamenting on her loss thinking that it was over a telepathic message entered her mind.

[You are now currently poisoned by me.] Said the familiar voice she looked at Cheon Mujin and saw his lips unusually higher than usual, this means that the telepathic message was coming from him.

Cheon Won Ryuh, hearing that she was poisoned, already thought up a way to get it detoxified but she was interrupted.

[I would suggest you to curb that thought.]

[What poison I used is a personal concoction with only me in the entire cult having the cure of.]

Cheon Mujin can create poison that is deadly but he can't create poison that can melt someone's body. That's why when he killed the Whispering Willows people he had to hire some poison masters specialized in melting bodies.

[I will give you two choices right now. Comply to my demand or let that poison eat you away and kill you.]

[Mind you that, even if you die due to poisoning there would be no one to connect it to me since I am a sword user and in this academy the only one who can use poison is Cheon Jongsum.]

[and besides if you asked someone for help I'll kill you before you could even call for it.]

[I'm sure you saw my performance earlier, no?]

[So this is my demand. Show yourself to me at my private bedroom at midnight.]

[whether you show up or not is your choice. The choice is yours, it is just me that is going to mete out the punishment.]

And with that Cheon Mujin walked away slowly with an even brighter smile than before.

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