NOVPUB‘It’s strange. This is the road I passed by earlier.’
Unbelievable, but Black Tiger was wandering around Cheoniksan Mountain.
Black Tiger liked and knew Cheoniksan Mountain the best among the Hojok.
Even when the evil darkness covered the sky, and even when the shape of the mountain became distorted due to the increase in intelligence, Black Tiger did not lose his way on Cheoniksan Mountain.
‘Does it feel far because it’s hard? I have to go quickly, I have to tell you quickly!’
The wind and rain became so strong that Black Tiger’s small body seemed to melt in the rain and fly away in the wind.
He belatedly thought that he had fallen for some trick, but Black Tiger held onto vain hope because no one had attacked him directly yet.
Black Tiger ran with all his might and hid his body as much as he could, thinking that if he ran a little faster, he could escape, and if he made no sound, the opponent would not miss him.
However, the hunter targeting the black tiger simply took away his strength and locked him in a ritual to wait for reinforcements, leaving him alone.
The opponent was a viciously corrupted and hateful person that the black tiger could not even imagine, and the black tiger could not handle them with its strength.
“Ah!”
The moment the black tiger stopped exhausted, the bear tribe appeared and surrounded him.
The bear of hatred, the bear of anger, the bear of great desire, and the bear of greed.
There were four bears that the black tiger could not deal with even one.
Unlike the black tiger who was soaking wet and a mess, the four of them were completely dry thanks to their bodies wrapped in ki, so the difference in strength seemed even greater.
The black tiger spoke in a trembling voice.
“Get out of the way! I’m going home!”
The black tiger decided to pretend not to know anything.
Eunho had advised him since his first mission that if the black tiger was caught by the enemy, he should first pretend not to know anything and endure while waiting for rescue.
Using the information he had to provoke the enemy would only hasten his death, and if necessary, the enemy would believe that he really didn’t know, and he would be fooled, or he would have a chance to hide.
‘But they won’t be fooled, and they won’t give him a chance. What should I do?’
Knowing that there was almost no chance of anyone coming to rescue Cheoniksan in the middle of a typhoon, he couldn’t help but wait for his friends to appear.
The bears read all of the shallow thoughts he had in mind.
The bear of hatred looked down at him and said.
“To pretend to be ignorant, you have to hide your hostility. I guess Eunho didn’t teach you this.”
Eunho couldn’t teach you something you couldn’t learn.
Heunho couldn’t look favorably on the bears who had devised a wicked plan, and he couldn’t hide it.
“Let’s take that black tiger as a hostage! Not only the Red Tiger, but also the tiger that the best of the Hojok tribe and the leader of the Daejang tribe cherish, so he’ll listen to us better. Let’s use this as an opportunity to completely reverse the situation... ... .”
“Enough.”
The Bear of Desire looked at the Black Tiger with eyes full of greed, and the Bear of Hatred stopped him.
The Bear of Hatred’s gaze was as cold as an arrowhead sharpened with ice, and it was directed solely at the Heavenly God.
“Our goal is to rise to an equal position with the Hojok tribe and join hands to erase the Heavenly God. Refrain from doing anything that increases the Hojok tribe’s resentment any further and upsets the balance.”
“Hatred, you have a point, but if we leave the Black Tiger alone, the Hojok tribe leader will hear our plan.”
“But it wouldn’t be easy to keep him locked up or kill him without leaving any evidence. Even if Eunho’s health isn’t great these days, he’ll come out once the Black Tiger is gone. Let’s just use him as a hostage!”
Following the Bear of Hatred, the Bear of Anger and the Bear of Desire continued to speak.
The three had different opinions on how to deal with the Black Tiger, but they had one thing in common.
‘I think I can’t escape!’
The Black Tiger tried to catch his breath and find an opening.
But he couldn’t escape.
The other bears were engrossed in exchanging opinions, but the Bear of Greed kept his eyes on the Black Tiger.
When the Black Tiger turned around to face the harsh gaze, the Bear of Greed laughed unpleasantly.
“Let’s erase it using the scales. Then there won’t be any evidence left! Since Ungnyeo just adjusted the scales, how about we try it out?”
The three bears stopped talking at the Bear of Greed’s suggestion.
While they all thought that there was some truth to what he said, they didn’t immediately agree.
“Ungnyeo may have plotted something with Heukho in advance and touched the scales. Also, if you erase Heukho, you will have to pay a great price.”
“The scales’ performance has definitely improved! Even if you are plotting something, wouldn’t you have fixed the scales to gain our trust? We will know once we test it. Besides, do you think you will pay such a big price to erase a weak clan like this?”
Erasing Heukho.
Heukho instinctively knew that being erased was more terrible than death.
He asked his friends to bury him in Cheoniksan if he died during the war, but if he were erased, Heukho would be nowhere to be found.
Heukho couldn’t even scream because he was afraid of that future.
“That’s surprising. I thought that if you were to erase something for the first time, it would be Jeokho or Jeho.”
“Of course I want to erase it! But think about it. Just taking away Ungnyeo’s companion and child won’t do anything to her love. Even if I erase either of them, Ungnyeo’s love will still remain, and when she finds out that I erased her, she’ll fight with the Hojok to get revenge. That’s why I’ve been waiting for this moment.”
“Greed?”
The bears here were weighing the relationship between the Hojok and Ungjok, but the Bear of Greed was different.
The way he suddenly brought up Ungnyeo and started talking so quickly was unusual.
If you were to choose the ugliest and craziest bear among the Eight Immortals of Jinwoong, anyone would pick the Bear of Greed, whose madness was so serious that it was even more unusual now.
“If we erase not only the existence of Black Tiger but also all traces and memories of him in this world, Red Tiger will destroy the Hosin Gun without knowing anything. Red Tiger will become a traitor, Jeho will become the child of a traitor, and Ungnyeo will become the one who took everything from her companion and child!”
“Stop, Greed. You’re going to erase Black Tiger’s traces and memories?”
“If you’re going to erase, why don’t you just erase his existence! Erasing the evidence itself is the goal, so there’s no need to pay a great price to erase Black Tiger from other people’s memories!”
“There’s no need to be obsessed with erasing. There’s also a way to hold Black Tiger back until Red Tiger destroys the Hosin Gun or to manipulate his memories.”
Paaaaat!
In the midst of a storm where it was hard to see even an inch ahead, a strong light emanated from the fist that Greed Bear was holding.
The spell to summon the scales was engraved on his palm.
The Bear of Greed was the bear most obsessed with the Libra, and although he did not have the talent for tool making and improvement like Ungnyeo, he understood and manipulated the power of the Libra the best.
“I thought it would take a very, very big sacrifice to destroy Ungnyeo’s love. But if one tiger like this holds all the keys, I can’t let it go!”
“Have you forgotten that our goal is to erase the Heavenly God! If you do something like that, the Hojok and Ungjok will become enemies and lose great power.”
“You are naive. Your hatred is strong, but it is too pure. Don’t you know that Ungjok is in shambles? Even those who oppose the Heavenly God have their own goals and desires. They don’t live with only hatred like you.”
Black Tiger didn’t understand what was going on, but he noticed that the bears’ opinions were divided. n𝚘𝚟𝚙𝚞𝚋.𝚌o𝚖
However, the Bear of Greed still didn’t take his eyes off Black Tiger, and there was no gap.
The light-covered bear of greed pointed at the black tiger with its fingertips, and the vision flickered.
When the black tiger blinked and opened its eyes, it was on top of the plate of the giant scales.
[... ... .]
On top of the scales, there was someone with a pure white bear skin covering his eyes.
Everyone was speechless at the appearance of the giant scales and the appearance of an extraordinary being.
They were things that had not appeared before Ungnyeo touched the scales.
The bear of hatred asked in a presumptuous tone, even though it had the divine being right in front of it.
“Are you the one who moves the scales? The power to move the scales must have come from an outside god. Why the skin that symbolizes a bear?”
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[Don’t you know what Ungnyeo engraved on the scales?]
The one wearing the bear skin spoke coldly, as if mockingly.
[I came not to raise the scales, but to place the price on the plate according to the will of the bear woman. What will you erase?]
“I will erase everything about the black tiger!”
[I understand.]
The bear of greed shouted before the other bears could stop him, and a covenant was made on the spot.
The black tiger that climbed the scales shouted from afar, ‘No!’, ‘No!’, but it only left an empty echo, and had no effect on the bears.
The bear of hatred clicked its tongue and prepared to pay the price.
They improved the scales so that the price of erasing could be replaced with the wealth they had accumulated and the infinite lifespan unique to the Jin tribe.
However, the one wearing the pure white bear skin did not even look at the precious metals they took out.
[The first leader of the bear tribe did not see the bear woman’s wedding, but he gave her a gift before he died. Do you know what that is? It is the will of the Jinung Palseon.]
“The will of the Jinung Palseon? The chief died before using it.”
[I passed it on to Ungnyeo before I died. That chief didn’t trust you.]
There was a god who didn’t have the power of a heavenly god, but he cherished the Ung tribe and bestowed grace on them.
The gods chose the first Ung tribe chief with a pure soul as the one to bestow grace on, but the chief chose to share the grace with many Ung tribes.
So the first Ung tribe chief created eight positions, and instead of giving them a suitable name and grace, he received a will that symbolized loyalty, and this became the beginning of the Jinung Palseon.
That will was a single command.
The Ung tribe belonging to the Jinung Palseon thought that it was not bad to listen to the order of the leader who was playing softly in exchange for gaining power.
However, that absolute command had been passed on to Ungnyeo, and was now engraved on the scales.
The will can only be used once, so Ungnyeo was waiting for an opportunity to use it to wipe out the disgusting schemers among the Jinung Palseon.
However, they were scattered during the war, and there was no proper justification after the war.
[‘If you use the scales next time, the price will be the Jinung Palseon who are there.
‘I will pay for everything with this existence’, this is the will of the bear girl. What should be placed on the scales is your existence. You cannot replace it with wealth or lifespan.]
“Did the bear girl do something like that? Even if she did, what would happen if we erased a black tiger with no military experience?”
“Besides, this scale was modified to pay less. If necessary, we can postpone the price and pay it later.”
The bear of wrath had an expression full of composure while not hiding its anger.
However, a heavy force flowed around the pure white bear skin.
It seemed as if it was preparing to receive a huge price from the bears in front of it.
[The black tiger has built a deep connection that you are unaware of, and has left behind numerous achievements. There are as many people who remember the black tiger’s performance as there are who remember the songs of the new people. The scales will erase all of this. This Libra demands a small price compared to what it erases, and you should be prepared to pay the price over a long period of time.]
The bears who had been relaxed in front of the black tiger lost their composure for the first time.
Some of the bears cursed Ungnyeo, and some tried to run away.
However, they could not escape from the Libra.
The black tiger, who had been trembling and crying, felt a little relieved as he watched the bears’ shameful behavior.
‘Ungnyeo must have done something to the Libra to get rid of that bear. Thank goodness. Really thankful! She will erase me and do nothing to Ungnyeo and Jeho!’
The black tiger’s relief did not last long.
Kwaddeok!
A boulder suddenly flew at the black tiger.
The one who threw the boulder was the bear of Daeyok.
The black tiger barely managed to crouch down to avoid it, but the bears were preparing to launch a fiercer attack.
“Let’s kill him before he erases him. Let’s stop the activation of the scales!”
As the Bear of Desire declared, the Bear of Hatred and the Bear of Anger also prepared to attack.
Black Tiger was already on the scale plate, so it would be difficult to hit him, but if they joined forces, it would be easy.
The Bear of Greed wanted to erase Black Tiger no matter what, but it seemed that Black Tiger didn’t mind being attacked to the point of death.
At the crossroads of dying or being erased, Black Tiger’s fate was tilted toward death.
Kwajik!
The subspace split, and someone appeared through the gap with the wind and rain.
For a moment, Black Tiger expected the presence of his close friend, but what appeared was an unfamiliar bear.
“I wondered what was going on when the Bear of Worry was talking nonsense, but he really was doing something foolish.”
“Bear of Doubt!”
“Are you planning to kill Black Tiger?”
The area under the eyes of the bear of the guigu was pitch black and his eyes were cloudy, but he made a quick judgment of the situation.
The bear of the guigu realized that they were trying to kill the black tiger.
“I won’t let you kill the nobleman here and now. If the nobleman who symbolizes the five colors dies in vain, my doubts will not be resolved.”
“Foolish guy, if you don’t kill the black tiger now, it will disappear. If you don’t kill him, you will have to pay the price as one of the eight good deeds of Jinung!”
“Libra is not perfect. If he dies, his life as a black tiger will end, but if he is erased, someone might remember him. Someone who is more suspicious than me.”
The third good deed of the bear of the guigu, following the bear of hatred and the bear of sorrow, interfered with all his might, making it difficult for the attack aimed at the black tiger to reach.
Furthermore, as the Libra finished calculating the price he would have to pay and was about to activate, the movements of the eight good deeds of Jinung gradually slowed down.
The balance of the scales, which had been tilted toward the black tiger, was adjusted.
The black tiger, who was unable to think properly due to fear, recalled the existence of the leaf that he had been holding so well that it would not get wet.
‘If I don’t convey this, Ungnyeo... ... Jeokho... ... Jeho... ... .’
However, the thought did not last long.
The black tiger was thrown into the excruciating pain of being torn and broken without leaving a trace.
In the last moment, he wanted to see his friends ✪ Nоvеlіgһt ✪ (Official version) so badly, but soon he could not even recall their faces or their names.
As the balance of the scales approached, the black tiger’s existence disappeared, and the spirits of Jinungpalseon who were there were shaken.
When the two bears went crazy and the three bears fell asleep, the black tiger completely disappeared.
When the scales disappeared, only the five bears that collapsed in the typhoon remained.
The black tiger’s only ally who watched this entire process was Cheoniksan.
