Lee Han is a journalist with a diverse career.
If there’s one career that’s most unusual, it’s this one.
-assassin.
… it was a career that would terrify others if they heard about it.
It is rare and hard to believe that a knight has a career as an assassin.
Well, that doesn’t mean that Lee Han would tremble and worry about being caught.
It wasn’t a career that I really wanted to hide.
It wasn’t to the extent that people would shout ‘I’m a former assassin!’ here and there, but most of my close acquaintances knew about it.
There is also one more reason that I can reveal without hesitation, and that is this.
– I didn’t kill anyone, so how dare you be so confident?
It was clear that he was trained as an assassin, but before he could even begin his main job, the organization collapsed and Lee Han ended up becoming a free man.
In this way, a half-assed assassin who had learned assassination techniques but had never killed anyone was born, and after that, he climbed the mercenary tree and even the kingdom soldier tree, and most of his assassination techniques were abandoned.
But even so,
‘It’s not like I even threw away [knowledge].’
Assassination skills are not limited to just combat skills.
On the contrary, the various intelligence and spy techniques such as ‘infiltration’, ‘exploration’, and ‘Dokdo law’ were taught more importantly in the organization.
Thinking about it now, I think
At the time, I thought they were teaching all sorts of things… .
“Ah, I found it.”
I think this is the kind of situation where the saying, “If you learn something, it’s all useful.”
5 hours and 45 minutes.
It took a long time to find the entrance to the main temple.
Well, even if it is called an entrance… .
“Hey, that river has a lot of rapids.”
-It was a river where you could drown if you fell in.
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Information about the Great Hall is strictly controlled.
What does this mean?
The short answer is that there is virtually no information about the Great Hall, and it is not even shown on maps.
…I know this may sound like a lot of nonsense, that it doesn’t even show up on the map.
But there is a reason for that, as the Great Hall contains a ‘holy relic’, a ‘tomb’ and ‘steles’ honoring the kingdom’s great heroes, and even ‘100,000 volumes of books’.
In other words, it meant that all the
Therefore, the geographical location of the Great Temple is not shown on maps, and even if it were, no high-ranking noble could obtain a map that depicted everything in the kingdom, except for the commander-in-chief of the military or the king himself.
but….
– I can’t give you a map, but I can tell you where the Great Hall is.
Among his connections was a princess who was extremely close to the top of the country, and thanks to her he was able to keep track of top secret information about the Great Hall.
– The Great Temple appears to be a large temple, but in reality, it is like an iron fortress. The sacred wall surrounds the temple twenty-four hours a day, and it is said that the wall extends all the way to the clouds, including underground.
It wouldn’t be difficult for a knight of this level to break through a barrier like that, but breaking it would be foolish, like openly proclaiming, ‘I’m going to invade the temple!’, so it should never be done from the front.
– Also, although it is not a wall, it is made by carving out a mountain, so it contains elements of impregnability comparable to a fortress. To others, it may just look holy and modest.
Is that all?
Because it was carved into a mountain, even the entrances were limited and there was virtually no route for intrusion.
– There are large farms and abundant water sources within the Great Temple to supplement food self-sufficiency, so even if the enemy infiltrates Pendragon and targets the Great Temple, they will be able to last for a year without outside support.
A fortress truly blessed with divine law and natural love.
This was a passage that made me understand why the Great Hall stores various relics.
However.
– … is there an abundant water source? Is there groundwater, or is there a running river?
– There is a flowing river.
– Hoo… .
– Arthur. That’s not a wise way to do it.
– … I didn’t say anything?
– Weren’t you trying to infiltrate the river?
– … … I told you not to read my mind, okay?
…there is nothing perfect in this world.
So now.
“-What kind of river is this? I’m going to get chills just from looking at it… Why is it so thorough?”
In just five hours, Lee Han had become as haggard as could be.
They were just trying to invade the riverside, but they were terrified at how many people were guarding the riverside.
Even now… .
-Woof, woof!
-Growl!
Even in the middle of the night, hundreds of people were standing in an ironclad defensive posture, and various military dogs were howling ferociously.
If we hadn’t dug tunnels here and there on our way to the river, we would have been caught long ago.
‘This is just a force gathered to protect one temple? … This isn’t a temple, this is the Pentagon?’
It’s ridiculous.
More thorough than Wangseong.
At the same time, admiration comes out.
Although he has lost all of the assassin’s skills, he is armed with a variety of skills that are just as powerful.
With just the skills of airwalking, tunneling, and the other techniques of the archer’s shotgun, he could become a bird or a mole.
… but all of that pales in comparison, the temple’s troops even aimed their arrows at flying birds, and even manually planted long spears into the ground one by one with such thoroughness that it seemed as if something was underground.
I was worried that we might end up setting fire to the forest, but a temple is a temple.
Do not engage in any act of turning mountains or fields into barren hills.
‘Well, it is said that the light of light also governs life.’
We won’t destroy nature arbitrarily.
… … Well, for a religion that governs life, it seems like they treat human life like grass.
Anyway!
Lee Han barely managed to reach the lake that served as the temple’s water source by mobilizing all of his skills, knowledge, and experience.
There are still soldiers stationed around… .
‘I am a turtle, a turtle… … .’
Lee Han continued to move secretly, keeping his presence extremely low.
Didn’t they say that turtles have a heart rate that is as slow as their walking?
‘Slowly, slowly, more slowly… .’
Run only 6 times per minute.
Considering that the average human heart rate is 60 or 100 beats per minute, it is questionable whether this is possible.
It couldn’t have been a heartbeat as slow as a turtle’s pace, but when you consider that such a slow heart rate is the reason turtles live long lives, it’s not something to be laughed at.
and….
‘It’s happening, it’s happening!’
If we were to apply these turtle breathing patterns, gait patterns, and heart movements to humans, the results would be amazing.
This technique is possible because he can freely manipulate the relaxation of the body’s muscles and organs.
Phew… .
ha…….
──Phew… .
Saaaaahh …
– [The great law of returning home].
It was a secret technique that was not really a secret technique of the martial artists, which existed for the purpose of pretending to be dead and playing the perfect corpse, but this was the moment when Lee Han elevated it to a technique for espionage.
Complete silence.
Completely blended into the darkness, no one knows that people are crawling here.
However, despite this, he was faster and more agile than a turtle, and as he became more integrated with his surroundings, there were fewer and fewer people who noticed his presence.
Even though he was walking right past five soldiers… .
“check.”
“There is no one.”
“It’s quiet.”
“What about the hunting dog?”
“No response!”
No one, no one, noticed that Lee Han was passing by them.
It’s as if Lee Han is being treated as an inanimate object.
Neither was he wearing an invisibility cloak nor was he operating any cutting-edge stealth weapons.
It was simply passing by, lowering their presence and twisting their senses.
-Ugh, ugh!
There is also the worry that the hunting dogs will catch his scent, but this is when the wisdom of a former assassin shines.
-… Huh?
-???
The effect of applying a thick layer of herbs and various medicinal ingredients to mask the smell was fully demonstrated.
Phew!
Of course, he was able to avoid hunting dogs and people, but he was also threatened by blind arrows and spears flying at him.
Fight… .
“Arrow?”
“Huh? Was there a rock over there?”
As long as there is ‘Geumgang’, he will not scream even if arrows or spears fly at him.
like that.
Swish.
Lee Han dove into the cold river water without hesitation.
Chook… .
“what?”
“Is it a fish?”
“Don’t get too close. It’s full of giant crocodiles and poisonous water snakes.”
“Is there something like that?”
“It was released on purpose, you know. So that no one can enter the river.”
“How could such a crazy person exist? In a place where the river water crashes like waves because of the holy law.”
“That’s true.”
“Unless you are of average height….”
… … Those guys, you can’t just hit them and leave, right?
The knight who had unintentionally earned the titles of [Mad Man] and [Life-size] continued to disappear, barely holding back the release of his evil spirits due to his anger.
So deep that the voices of the angry soldiers could not be heard… … .
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Boom!
A huge roar rang out.
The shockwave created by the collision of the spear-shaped spear and the axe blade, which was larger than a normal battle axe, seemed to rip through the air.
The speed, accuracy, and destructive power are so great that even the most skilled knights, who are called upper-level knights, cannot respond.
It is inevitable that he has the ability to possess all three elements, but the reality is… .
“Let’s stop joking around, Hyeongrang. If we were serious, wouldn’t there be no point in infiltrating?”
It must be dizzying that this clash is nothing more than a greeting to these two people.
but.
“You were the one who showed your strength first, Black Lion!!”
…the problem was that it was a prank that had not been agreed upon.
“A sign of welcome in the North!”
“Scams should be moderate!”
Even among northerners, you’re probably the only one who calls this a greeting.
You seem more ignorant than a hooligan…!!
It was the muttering of the masked intruders who recognized each other, and the masked man with the spear ground his teeth.
That’s understandable, it’s because of this ignorant guy… .
-Intruder!!
-Underground! They are underground!!
Because the meaning that was secretly brought in was disappearing.
… … It was 30 minutes before a certain knight swam through the rough waters and entered the pupil.
