The Illegitimate Who Devours Weapons

Weapon-Eating Illegitimate Son Episode 46

Even though he was an illegitimate child, he was a direct descendant who had not yet become an adult.

Although I would like to move alone, a troop of warriors follows me as an escort according to family rules.

‘Chilsungdae. What an ambiguous appointment.’

I checked the escort troops lined up behind the moving vehicles and let out a bitter smile.

Chilseongdae is a martial arts sword that I learned as a basic skill using the Chilseong sword that I occasionally used.

Since it is a warrior unit officially affiliated with the Sungmu family, it is by no means a low-level warrior unit.

However, it was also an ambiguous military unit whose members were all from outside the country, and whose main duties were to carry out small tasks such as public support and border guard duty.

If it were another direct lineage, they would have attached a dignified warrior’s belt for appearance’s sake.

‘It doesn’t matter. It’s rather annoying.’

These are enough for escort.

Since we are not going into a dangerous or unexplored area, the importance of force is not high.

Around the time I met Chilseong Daejang.

I couldn’t believe my eyes when I saw a person standing next to Chilseongdaejang.

“It will only be a short two days, but I ask for your help, Your Majesty.”

“Butler Choi?”

Butler Choi, who was supposed to be by his father’s side, came along.

Butler Choi smiled a comforting smile.

“About two days? Are you saying you’re moving together?”

“Yes, it was because the Lord instructed me to do so. I also came to visit Sungmusan and Cheonwisan.”

I don’t know what the instructions were, but there’s no way they would have come down on the day I was going.

That means, he matched me up on purpose.

‘Butler Choi? Why?’

Although he never loses his humility, Deacon Choi is a family executive who holds a more important position than most elders.

He is not the kind of person who would accompany me on my outings.

Perhaps sensing my suspicious gaze, Butler Choi laughed softly again and added.

“You don’t have to feel too burdened. It’s time to clean up the graves of our ancestors before the Lunar New Year, and I have something to tell the mountain keeper this time. I’m only accompanying you because the head of the household has ordered it. If it’s inconvenient… … .”

“No, I’m fine. Please take good care of me, Butler Choi.”

After a brief bow, Deacon Choi responded with a broad smile.

After a brief greeting with the Chilseong Commander, I boarded the vehicle.

So the group headed north.

* * *

The family’s ancestral home, Mt. Sungmusan, was located in a mountain range surrounding the dangerous area of ​​the northwestern part of the Korean Peninsula.

A place that was formerly an undeveloped area.

Although the terrain is straight and can be called a famous mountain, it is not a very good geomancy for a large family.

“It is said that the reason there is a cemetery in such a place is because the ancestors of the family in the past had the will to protect this land from monsters even after they died. Although it is now classified as a safe zone.”

Since the distance to Seonsan was quite far, I was able to have a conversation with Deacon Choi about this and that.

“But may I ask why you are stopping by the ancestral shrine?”

I answered with a light smile.

“Even though I am an illegitimate child, I am also a descendant of the Sungmoo family. Since I am leaving the family, I would like to pay my respects to our ancestors. Because of the ancestors of the family, the family exists today, and because of them, I am who I am today.”

It wasn’t true, but it wasn’t a lie either.

Even the elders do not visit the cemetery unless there is a holiday or important event.

Because it is a resting place for the dead, not a place where the living can obtain anything.

‘Everyone says it’s important to be respectful to your ancestors, but unless it’s something special, even the elders don’t go to the distant ancestral graves. Not to mention their direct descendants.’

From the ceremonies of iron wire and naming, to life in the cadet unit.

My life after returning was a short one, just over ten years, but it was always full of incidents and accidents.

There are some who see my actions as being good, like those of an uncle or father, but there are also those among the conservative establishment who see me as a loach causing trouble.

No, maybe it would be fortunate if it was just a loach.

‘But the fact that a young, fresh-faced direct descendant of the family, and an illegitimate child, would go on a long journey to pay their respects. I need that fact.’

Each and every one of those images is important.

Annoying people might not like the way I look, but I don’t need to care about those people in the first place.

“As expected, you are smart, young master.”

Hehe, Butler Choi laughs quietly.

“Many elders will look favorably upon the young master who takes the trouble to pay tribute to his ancestors.”

It was just a casual remark, but why does it feel like it read right through my thoughts?

“I am grateful that you see it that way.”

The vehicle moved quickly along the road.

As we get closer to the north, traffic becomes less intense and the height of buildings becomes noticeably lower.

After about an hour, the conversation with Butler Choi began to decrease, and only the noise from the car lingered.

Iron Man-.

Every now and then, whenever the car would bounce on the road, the black night I was leaning against would make a heavy thud.

I glanced at Butler Choi.

‘Image formation is also necessary, but… … .’

another.

There was another important reason to stop by Sungmusan before hiking Cheonwisan.

I slowly placed my hand on the pitch-black handle of the black night.

As ink spread across the air, the black particles of the black energy enveloped the black night like a single living creature.

I had already figured out that the black flag was invisible to others. There was no problem.

Ss …

The already pitch-black night became even darker as the black flag enveloped it.

Dismissed!

For a moment, the black flag wavered.

I slowly closed my eyes, accepting the single memory seeping into my head.

Through my blurry vision, I was looking down at the sword.

A rough hand reaches out and wraps its arms around the Black Night’s sword.

and.

Pot!

The playback of memories stopped there, as if the film had snapped.

Rather than saying that there was a limit to what could be read, it felt as if the rest of it had been cut off.

‘Still the same.’

When I first unfurled the black flag in the dark night, all I could read was this much.

Even though the Black Flag’s abilities had improved due to the events that had occurred in the past, nothing had changed.

‘I guess this is all I can see until the seal is broken.’

One of the reasons I go to Seonsan.

Because there are tasks that must be done to obtain the Dark Night.

I stroked the handle of the black night again and turned my eyes to the scenery passing by outside the window.

* * *

The air around the family’s ancestral grave was eerily quiet.

As we approached the foot of the mountain, we got out of the car and stepped on the ground. It was Deacon Choi who suggested that we do so.

“It’s not a problem to drive up to the entrance…….”

“Don’t worry. I know. Those who come to the sacred land should be wary of all that is evil and unclean, should be polite, and should be alert to everything. It’s an old saying among sorcerers.”

“As expected, you are a master.”

Sungmusan is a sacred mountain.

Spitting, swearing, having obscene thoughts, shuffling or shaking feet, or insulting the dead.

Most of the things that people in the world say about good luck flying away end up as superstitions, but in places like this, such things could actually act as bad luck.

‘Of course, I don’t know what it will really be like.’

Although Mt. Sungmusan is a very intricately intertwined space in terms of sorcery and spirituality, it is impossible to know whether misfortune will actually strike.

Even if something like that were to happen, there’s no way of knowing if it would be a misfortune for Sungmusan Mountain.

I just followed the rare advice that Butler Choi gave.

As we walked up to the foot of the mountain, a huge mountain gate appeared.

The old signboard, which showed the passage of time, had the name of the mountain, ‘Sungmusan,’ and the emblem of the Lee family engraved on it.

“This is the only place we can escort you.”

The leader of the Chilseongdae stopped walking.

Anyone who wanted to climb Mt. Sungmusan had to pass through this gate, and only those who were permitted could do so.

“Can Butler Choi come in?”

“I have been given the authority by the previous head of the family to do so. I intend to tidy up the previous head’s grave, but where do you plan to go, young master?”

“I would like to first go to the place where the ancestral tablet of our ancestors is enshrined.”

I went beyond the prose with Deacon Choi.

Phew!

The moment I passed through the prose, I felt the air change.

Although the only boundary was a door, it felt like I had entered a completely different world.

‘You’ve passed the barrier.’

I looked back at Butler Choi.

“Then I will go now.”

“Yes, your highness.”

Butler Choi nodded with a mysterious expression.

“I hope your wishes come true.”

“thank you.”

I walked slowly up the well-maintained mountain path.

If I used magic, I could reach the top of the mountain in an instant, but I didn’t.

How far did we climb the mountain path like that?

As we approached the summit, where the air had become somewhat thinner, we discovered an artificial structure on a huge rock face.

‘We have arrived. The tomb of the first lord.’

The dark tomb was dug deep in a cave-like shape, and its walls were engraved with vivid figures of warriors.

As I reached the deepest part, a huge altar faced me.

An old altar where you can see the traces of time.

I lit incense and candles, then took out the alcohol and food I had prepared and prepared to visit the grave.

“I meet the founder of the Sungmu Lee family.”

I bowed twice and a half times.

Woof-.

Has the spirit of the poet really come to visit?

The wind blew through the graveyard, making a sound like the cries of a living thing.

A brief moment of silence.

And then slowly raised his head.

“Even if I commit the rude act of digging a sword at my ancestors’ graves from now on, I ask for your forgiveness as I am following the arrangements prepared by my ancestors.”

Srrrrung-

I pulled out the black night and placed it on the altar.

And instead of drinking the wine that was offered to the ancestors, I sprinkled it on the altar and towards the dark night.

Chomp!

The moment when opaque drops of alcohol poured over the black night.

Woohoo!

The air began to tremble.

I felt an unidentified power filling the dark and empty space.

Jiiing-!

A noise like hundreds of bees flying around.

And on the rough black blade of the Black Night, red burning letters appeared.

The letters are nine.

The first word of an unknown ancient language that was neither Chinese nor Korean shook violently.

‘The Black Night is a sword, but it is not only a sword.’

Wow!

The flow of power gathered in the graveyard gathered into the dark night.

I looked at the sight and thought about the secrets of this sword that I had seen and heard before returning.

In the history before the return, the family secret was revealed by the eldest brother.

‘The dark night is the key.’

The Black Night was a key to opening a certain ‘door’, and was also a milestone.

‘There are nine seals hanging in the Dark Night.’

First, you must prove that you are the master of the sword.

Although the secrets of the Black Night had been revealed to some extent in previous lives, no one was chosen by the sword.

So no one could break the seal.

But I was chosen by the Black Night in the Iron Wire.

I was the true master of this sword.

Wow-!

The first letter shattered with a noise like a glass object bursting, leaving behind a cloud of light.

Second, it will prove the bloodline of the Sungmoo family.

I am of the Lee family blood.

I can prove it just by my standing in this graveyard.

simplicity and honesty!

And so another letter disappeared.

Third, you will pass the first ordeal created by the founder.

The first ordeal is the naming ceremony.

And the first ordeal that the poet created was, that is, the coffin of struggle.

There I showed and proved my own struggle.

Paaang!

In this way, even the third seal was broken.

The edge of the fourth seal shook, but there was no further change.

Woof-!

The letters that had been floating in the dark night had lost their light and become blurred.

And when the light of the dark night had completely disappeared, the ceremonial mirror placed on the altar began to shine.

Heaven’s will.

It was a character meaning Cheonwi, Cheonwi Mountain.

It tells you where to go next.

I bowed lightly again and took back the black night that was placed on the altar.

Woof-!

The moment my hand touched it, the previously heavy and hard black night burst into a black light.

A very deep and heavy sound is transmitted through the fingertips.

‘It’s a great sword. Better than any weapon I’ve ever seen.’

Even in its sealed state, the weapon itself was of a level comparable to a holy relic.

Now that some of those bonds have been released, it’s time to find your true self.

‘This isn’t something that can be solved in a day or two.’

All I know is the fourth seal, up to Mount Cheonwi.

Up until the third seal, the difficulty was not too high and I was able to complete it easily, but I had no idea what would happen after the fourth seal.

‘But on the day when all the seals are broken.’

The dark night will lead me to the place prepared for me.

And if the scholars who studied the Dark Night were not wrong.

What I will find there is a firm authenticity that no one has ever achieved in the long history of the Sungmu clan.

I took my last bow to the altar and turned around, taking my food and drinks with me.

The next destination is Cheonwisan Mountain.