The Hero Disciple Is Back

66. The Disciple Was Already a True Winner

In the end, the mercenary king Balik accepted the nobles’ request. The amount of money offered by the nobles was much larger than expected, as he kept stalling for time. In addition, he set the condition that a certain amount of money should be paid in advance before the duel, from the omniscient mercenary king’s perspective. It was a very good deal. However, money was not the only goal.

The biggest reason is….

“A very good opponent.”

Thanks to Jade, I was able to overcome the wall. At first, I was very happy. It was natural, since I had overcome a wall that I thought I could not overcome. However, that joy could not last long.

That too… .

It got too strong.

Even before he had crossed the wall of superhumanity, Balik could fight on equal terms with superhumans. However, he had crossed that wall. Because of that, he had become too strong. Even those who had reached that level before him gave up fighting the moment Balik unleashed his aura. They said that he could not fight at all. To that extent, Balik had become too strong.

Even though they have finally become stronger, there is no one who can truly test their strength. To the weak, this may seem like a burden, but from the perspective of the person concerned, it is not like that at all.

If you reach the top of the mountain, which is said to be the hardest to climb, only to find that a huge wooden wall has been built, blocking your view, who wouldn’t be distressed? Even a saint with an incredibly good personality would probably curse in such a situation.

Of course, the mercenary king was not a saint. Therefore, it was only natural that he would curse, grab his head, and suffer from great stress.

That’s why he wanted it.

A fight against the truly powerful men who have maintained their reputation as strong transcendent beings for a very long time, to the point of being quite famous.

‘I thought that someone would ask me to beat up the swordsman who is such a piece of trash… I never thought that I would end up fighting the swordsman over the new swordsman position.’

To be honest, I don’t want to get involved. I thought that the name “Geomseong” suited the Geomgwi better than the previous Geomseong.

but….

“That is that, and this is this.”

This is the showdown with the true strongman I’ve longed for. And I’ve also received a lot of money. If I back down here, won’t the name of the Mercenary King be a joke?

“My blood is getting really hot.”

I guess

I feel like sleeping is wrong

The mercenary king thought.

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In the end, the duel between the swordsman and the mercenary king took place.

The Mercenary King had not publicly revealed that he had reached the level of a superman, so it was only a rumor, but when he announced that he would duel the Sword Demon, he also revealed that he had reached the level of a superman.

Naturally, everyone in the empire was enthusiastic and showed great interest. It was only natural that such a showdown between superhumans would not be easy to witness, so it was only natural that interest would be heated and enthusiastic.

Warrior Sarah didn’t bother to get involved.

‘It’s good for both of us.’

It was a very important time for the mercenary king who had just entered the realm of superman. This is because the direction of the superman was decided at that time. The realm of superman is not something that anyone can reach. It is a dream realm that only a select few can reach, a realm that requires sweat and blood throughout one’s life. There is a deep sense of satisfaction in reaching such a realm, but at the same time, a terrible sense of emptiness. One has achieved what one has been clinging to for one’s entire life. One can feel satisfaction because of that, but on the other hand, one can also feel a sense of emptiness, thinking that this is what one has achieved by shedding blood and sweat.

The problem is that if you feel too much emptiness here, you will end up falling into a terrible lethargy.

Emotions are an absolute element for people. If your emotions don’t move, no matter how much you feel a sense of duty and responsibility, nothing can go right. If your heart is already not moving, how can anything go right?

That is why the thing that those who have just entered the realm of superhumans must be most careful about is the magic words that make them fall into terrible laziness, such as, “I am strong enough and will be recognized everywhere, so I don’t need to try any harder, right?” If they become completely addicted to such magic words and lose all their energy… they may still be strong, but as a warrior, they are already dead.

If you were to duel your opponent as a swordsman, you would never fall into such terrible lethargy.

‘It will be a good experience for the swordsman too.’

Sera knows because she once fought the Mercenary King. How bizarre a superhuman the Mercenary King is. Only the Mercenary King could have a superhuman like him. And the rare is the unknown, and the experience of going into the unknown is bound to inspire.

Inspiration is not something that is simply necessary for art. Inspiration is also important in swordsmanship. After all, swordsmanship is also in the realm of creation, so depending on inspiration, it can bring about amazing changes.

What the Swordmaster needed was an unknown experience that could stimulate such inspiration. And among the humans at the moment, there was no one who could do such a thing except the bizarre superhuman Mercenary King.

In the end, it would not be an exaggeration to say that there was no other match so perfect for the two of them. It was a perfect matchup that made one think that it was a twist of fate, a duel that the god of duels had personally taken care of.

And of course… .

It was neither a twist of fate nor a decision of the god of duels.

It was neither a coincidence nor a destiny in the first place.

It was all planned by the warrior Sarah.

It was the warrior Sera who ordered Madame Rain to whisper the Mercenary King in the nobles’ ears. In other words, this confrontation was all due to Sera’s will, and it proceeded according to Sera’s plan.

It was only the ignorant nobles who were diligently embezzling slush funds and offering their wealth to the mercenary king Balik.

‘Even if the nobles have slush funds, there’s no way they can use it for good things.’

Isn’t it obvious that slush funds were originally collected secretly to be used only for satisfying one’s own greed? And in the infinite loop, the nobles have never used that money to save humanity… The warrior of infinite loop has never seen it.

In order to make the two strongmen stronger, at the same time, to rob the nobles of their slush funds and completely destroy the nobles’ reputation, so that they lose even the power they had.

As a result, Sera ended up changing many things just by giving the swordsman the name of Geomseong.

“Good, good.”

By the way, there was a plan to extract more of the nobles’ slush funds.

‘Because I already gave the slush fund to the mercenary king.’

Sarah smiled.

The evidence that the nobles had secretly created slush funds was something that the mercenary king already had. There is no evidence as certain as money.

The nobles were not fools. They would not have given such money without knowing anything. No matter how much the world looked down on mercenaries, it was a rule that they had to follow to protect the information about their clients. They believed that the mercenary king, who was called the king of mercenaries, would not break this rule. They believed without a doubt that if he broke this rule, the mercenaries would dethrone him from his position.

But that was a huge mistake.

Of course, for mercenaries, that rule was one that should never be broken. The moment it was broken, the mercenary would be no different from a mere gangster. However, this was only true for the ‘Mercenary King’.

What does Balik mean to today’s mercenaries?

It’s not like he’s the mercenary king or anything.

He was truly the ‘god of mercenaries’.

A transcendent being who entered the mercenary industry with nothing left over from his parents, started from the bottom and rose to the position of mercenary king, and then finally reached the realm of a superman. Why would mercenaries turn their backs on such a person? That would be impossible. What a king does cannot be forgiven, but what a god does can be forgiven.

Therefore, the mercenary king can threaten the nobles.

Instead of reporting the slush funds you gave me to the Empire, you are asking me to give you more. The nobles will brag that they did not comply with the request for information about the client as if they were going crazy, and that they will tell the mercenaries about it, but as I said before, it will be meaningless. In the first place, if they do that, they will only advertise to the world, ‘I secretly created slush funds and gave them to the mercenary king!’

In the end, the moment they gave that dirty money to the mercenary king, their defeat was already decided.

“Everything went according to plan.”

Sarah smiled like a winner.

The duel hasn’t even started yet

The true winner of this game had already been decided to be the warrior of infinite regression.