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My next target was an a.s.sa.s.sin named Jong Baek. He was an expert a.s.sa.s.sin who did all sort of a.s.sa.s.sination in Ha Nam.

Although Kang Ho was full of a.s.sa.s.sins the thing that set him apart from others were, for money he would a.s.sa.s.sinate even children and women who didn’t even master martial arts.

At the end of the fight, he asked me who I was, “…who are you?”

“Some call me Lord Nameless Warrior.”

“…how did you know where to find me?”

When I arrived, he was already hiding inside of his secret room.

But how did I know he was inside this room?

When I was still the mengju, I faced many a.s.sa.s.sination attempts on my life. Especially during the war with the Demonic Sects. They sent an a.s.sa.s.sin nearly every day, there were multiple a.s.sa.s.sination attempts on the same day as well.

So, if you wanted me to write a report about a.s.sa.s.sinations. I would be the most knowledgeable in this aspect.

“…were you an a.s.sa.s.sin before?” These were his last words.

During our fight, his a.s.sa.s.sin instinct was probably telling him that I was seeing through all of his tricks.

***

This time the southern district office was flipped upside down.

The rumored ‘Lord Nameless Warrior’ brought back a.s.sa.s.sin Jong Baek’s corpse. He even had a nine thousand nyang reward on his head.

With this most recent event my name was spread across Kang Ho once more.

That he is the enemy of those villains.

‘Lord Nameless Warrior’ became people's hopes and dreams.

Even if it wasn’t Ma Ryung In, I am sure others would have approached me to create a hero. But since he approached me it allowed me to cut down the time in realizing my goal.

But I still did not know what Ma Ryung In’s objective was. Now the real game has started. If you put this in term of chess, he had taken the momentum, now I must take it back.

A few days later I killed two people who were trailing me. But Chu Do Chi and Ma Ryung In didn’t say anything.

There were some days when someone was spying on me but now there were days where there was no one spying on me.

With this, our relations.h.i.+p seems to have gotten better.

Since the code led me all the way here, I was going to see it through the end even if it took some time.

I know that Kw.a.n.g Du would be worried about me but I knew that everyone else would be able to function without me.

A few days later, to gather some information I entered one of Jung Ju Martial Art School.

This was one of their headquarters in Ha Nam Castle, although there were few other schools this was their main school.

This school was very big, big enough to fit at least two hundred people. Although there were some workers most of them were Chu DO Chi’s subordinates.

Since Jung Ju had that secret laboratory I must set up a branch of my intelligence sect here so that they could gather more information about this place.

Anyway, the Jung Ju martial arts school was a bit lax compared to the manor. This was the place where Chu Do Chi resided. During the days that no one was spying on me, I would come here and observe Chu Do Chi. I found a location where I could listen in on his conversation without being discovered.

Since Ma Ryung In visited this place after visiting the Western Spear School and Eastern Sword School there was a high possibility that he will come back here.

And I was right. A few days later he came to this place.

“What is our ‘Lord Nameless Warrior’ doing right now?”

“He is just doing what he usually does. Goes to the entertainment house plays a bit come back eat and drink.”

“Find a way to get him more famous.”

“May I ask you why you are doing this for him?”

“Are you that curious?”

“Yes, I must know.”

“If you think I am doing this for him then you are wrong. Because I am not doing this for him.”

Ma Ryung In revealed his true intent, “Do you know what is happening in few days?”

“In few day? Do you mean the Grand Festival of the Gold?”

“Yes.”

The Grand Festival of the Gold was a grand festival that happened every year for a period of ten days. Everyone from the commoner to leaders of large merchant guilds to the mengju will be present. It was a grand event when everybody comes to enjoy the festive mood.

“My brother will be coming that time as well.”

If he meant by his brother, then must mean his brother Ma Chul Goon.

Blinking a couple of time Chu Do Chi said with his mouth opened, “Could you mean?”

“I will send him to kill my brother.”

Chu Do Chi just swallowed his saliva stunned.

“He is being called ‘Lord Nameless Warrior’ right now. If he kills my brother what sort of event might happen?”

Now I finally understood his true intent.

In his battle against the successors, his greatest challenge was Ma Chul Goon. His brother bad great backing both inside and outside the clan. So he was most likely to become the next successor.

But what would happen if he dies?

It probably would come to him since he was the next strongest candidate.

Although he was like the other successor when he was inside the clan he was a completely different person outside the clan.

“He has great skill, and now with the added internal energy don’t you think this might be a possibility?”

“But can he kill Ma Chul Goon?”

“It doesn’t matter if he fails.”

“What?”

“It's just the fact that he tried to kill my brother that is important. What would people think when the hero of Kang Ho tried to kill my brother? The public might question my brother’s action and some might think that he has done evil.

“Ah!”

Now Chu Do Chi understood what he wanted to do with me.

“But what if he says our name during the interrogation.”

“They will try to kill me.”

“What?”

“But we have ‘that’.”

‘That’ even made Chu Do Chi tremble.

It was probably the thing that he wanted to show me on the first day that I was there. So this was all part of his plan.

Ma Ryung In smiled, “So you must do your best to make our hero stronger and more glorious.”

I heard everything that they said.

So that is their plan huh?

I knew he was going to do something. I expect that he was going to use me as an experiment but this was the reason?

But this? I have even thought about it.

And I also needed to know what ‘that’ was.

Now that I have gained the upper hand I smiled.

Good, I will take up your challenge.

[a]Is this the guys name or is it Um Haeng Bool?

[b]name check

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