When the Black Moon Rises - Chapter 234
Chapter 234
The elders who received the gaze stepped back as if running away. Then they came to their senses as the broken paving stone caught their feet.
Ju Ikhyun, whiter than before, clenched his teeth and shouted.
“Y, y, y, you must have made up your mind, I felt so, but did you even prepare this play? So you called those bastards beforehand!”
The elders who saw Ju Ikhyun cowered.
For them to be able to lift their heads and live after this, someone had to shout like that.
……It was just that they certainly didn’t want it to be themselves.
“Play?”
“O, o, of course. What is this if it’s not a play? No Mystic Ruler until now has ever changed the original form of a mystic. Are you perhaps wanting to say that a thing like you is greater than them?”
“…….”
“Th, that’s right. I thought Baek Giha wasn't visible since earlier, so it was that bastard who was helping with this play! Calling the storm is the Baek family Divine Beast’s ability, so the sky suddenly getting dark like this also fits!”
“…….”
Sehwa lightly waved her hand at Ju Ikhyun who was shouting as if grinding his teeth.
“It seems like you covered our sights with strong light and then switched those exile bastards with the hawk group, but I won’t be fooled by such a shallow trick… Uh, uh.”
Hazy light seemed to flow below Ju Ikhyun’s feet who had been running his mouth without rest, and then his entire body was wrapped in clear light.
The hawk group spilling abundant Spiritual Energy between their huge feathers were the same.
The banquet hall was wrapped in light once again.
When those who had unknowingly shut their eyes tightly opened their eyes again, the exiles were in human form as if the hawk group had never even been there. And.
“!!!”
In the place where Ju Ikhyun had disappeared, a small yellow snake was placed on the deeply sunken paving stone.
The elders who were startled greatly all went far away.
Not even a bit of blood was on their faces that had gone completely white.
“Th, th- th……”
What was this.
“So.”
Sehwa pointed at one of them with her chin and asked.
“Is there anyone who wants to find out more whether this situation is real or a play?”
“……!”
The elders who received the flat reddish-purple gaze felt like they couldn’t breathe.
They also thought while hearing Ju Ikhyun’s words.
That it couldn’t be. That it didn’t make any sense. That they must have prepared a play by giving Spirit Orbs beforehand.
They desperately tried to put logic that they could understand onto the phenomenon they had witnessed just now.
But this was!
Ju Sanghyun tightly shut his eyes.
Even while his eyes were closed, he could clearly know what gazes were reaching them.
The invigorated gazes of those watching. The gazes of the Baek family warriors that seemed to be ridiculing them.
Even the Ju family elders seemed to have already lost their fighting spirit inside that.
Ju Sanghyun opened his bloodshot eyes wide. He felt wronged and even furious.
‘Who is that bitch to…….’
Who was that young one to overturn the rules of the Mystic Realm that had continued until now in one go?
What was that young one, how long did she live, and how much did she know!
“I don’t acknowledge it.”
A life that wouldn't be respected like before. A life that would be no different from those lowly things.
What's the difference from throwing his life away? What was even left for us?
The hands that Ju Sanghyun gripped trembled.
Bloodshot eyes soared upwards, wanting to hack the one standing in front of his eyes right now.
“……Rather than living as a lowly snake like those dirty criminals, it's better to cut my tongue and die!”
A gale blew in an instant, and his clothes flapped restlessly.
He felt as if his heart would not be relieved at all without at least scratching that bitch’s face once.
Like that, he thought that it would be better to instead die here as a Ju family elder.
Ju Sanghyun raised all his power with the resolve of having his original form explode.
“Who would acknowledge a thing like you as the Mystic Ruler…….”
At the same time, Sehwa’s red sleeve moved again.
And that was the end.
Next to the snake that used to be Ju Ikhyun, a shabby snake that was no different from him crawled on the ground.
“So, who’s next?”
“……!”
There was no way for them to have any more fighting spirit.
The elders, coming out one by one like cows being dragged to a slaughterhouse, slowly knelt in front of her.
“……I, I’ll do anything.”
“I’ll……follow your orders.”
“……I’ll follow.”
The surroundings were so quiet that even the sound of a needle dropping would have been audible.
Sehwa, looking down at those who had all bowed their heads at once in that quietness, asked,
“Then would you also give back all the things you forcefully extorted over a long time?”
“!”
“Would you?”
“……I, I will.”
“Even if I tell you to give back the assets confiscated from those without families, the forcefully stolen Spiritual Power, and even compensation for the time they suffered due to that?”
“I……will.”
Just with that, her sharp gaze softened a bit.
Then the dark clouds rumbling just until now began to slowly recede.
The sky holding a faint light was gradually revealed as though a violent storm had passed.
Sehwa opened her mouth.
“I’m not trying to overturn many things. I’m just trying to pull up the weight of the scale that had tilted a bit.”
Her voice again was transmitted, vibrating the atmosphere as though whispering in their ears.
“Making it so that there are no more people who suffer injustices because of the high and low of status, and the size of power. Because that is the only way to fix the wrongs committed by the Ju Clan in the past.”
Her voice as she spoke like that wasn’t as cold as just now.
One elder carefully lifted his head and briefly looked into her eyes.
Like Sehwa’s words, it seemed like there was no intention at all of trying to make them miserable.
“Just one thing……I want to ask. Do those have to live forever in that snake’s appearance?”
Sehwa didn’t give a definite answer.
“If something they realize happens, maybe their appearance will change again.”
“Is, is that so.”
The elder who heard those words let out a long sigh.
While she said that she would only raise the weight of the scale a little bit, it would certainly not be easy for the elders to carry that out.
Because the method that she wanted was completely different from the method they had been maintaining until now.
Life after giving out everything they had couldn’t be imagined right away.
‘Even so, just the fact that she’s not privately attacking us because of resentment or greed. ……It’s the same as having a way to live.’
Just with that was fortunate for them, who had no place to rely on.
While they struggled until the last moment, not wanting to become like this, but thinking of it, wasn’t the Ju family a family where the size of Spiritual Power decided everything?
The one with the highest Spiritual Power among their Ju family was in front of their eyes, and she didn't have plans of killing or collapsing them.
Then there was no reason to not follow the new rules.
Perhaps the other elders had the same thought, they bowed their heads politely unlike just now.
“We will follow your orders.”
“We will follow.”
“We will follow.”
There was no awkwardness like before that could be found.
It was that moment.
“It seems like the situation is finally organized.”
A low and calm voice intervened in the space that had been so quiet that even the heartbeat of those watching seemed like they could be caught in the hands.
Before those who had gotten puzzled were surprised, there was a man walking with long strides not caring at all about the messed-up paving stones.
He didn’t even bat an eye at this unfamiliar situation of two snakes that had appeared suddenly, and the Ju family elders kneeling.
As if he had known that it would become like this.
The long hem of the pure white ceremonial robe with no dust on it shook with each of his steps.
A flamboyant hat that seemed like it was being seen for the first time was put on his handsome and elegant face.
He reached Sehwa and held out his hand to her.
He smiled softly, watching her bewildered expression.
“Grab it. It’s my turn now.”
It was Baek Giha.
Sehwa briefly watched the hand being held out towards her, and then put her own hand above it.
“Where were you?”
“Where would I go?”
“Don't tease me. I know that this wedding ceremony is a bit strange.”
While he had told her to not worry at all and come since he would handle the wedding ceremony himself,
If it went as originally planned, this man should have been up on the altar before her.
He should have intervened and solved it first with his right as the master of this place before their fight with the Ju family became like this,
But revealing himself only now?
Moreover, what’s with the procession he’s leading, even though the Seven Clans’ people were already seated?
Closest to him was Baek Manyong standing with his head bowed, and behind him, the core elders of the Baek Clan were lined up neatly with polite appearances.
Perhaps noticing her puzzled expression, Baek Giha gripped her hand that had been placed on top of his own with strength.
“I came out after thinking of it as a necessary task.”
His deep and tender pupils softly watched her.
“Do you know how much I’ve yearned for this moment?”
She nodded her head.
“Then you know that I will not do anything at all to ruin this ceremony, right?”
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