ROMHS Chap 151 - 350

CHAPTER 298:Can You Be The Embers? (3)

Looking at the stairs leading up to the stage, Lee Song-Baek took a deep breath.

The stairs were nothing, but the one waiting on the stage, Chung Myung, gave him pause.

‘The stairs are fine.’

You climb, and you move up. In return for a little physical effort, you definitely move upwards. But unlike the stairs in other places, the stairs to martial arts don’t always pay reliable effort back in full.

Even if his sword was swung again and again, and his conviction was right, the path only became more obscured.

When one thought about it that way, maybe Lee Song-Baek could be considered lucky.

Because he was.

Someone made sure he was put back on the right path.

Tak. Tak. Tak.

Lee Song-Baek, who climbed the stairs with firm steps, looked at the man on the other end of the stage.

A face with no tension, as if he had just come out for a walk.

He had long hair tied up, but even that was messy, falling around his face. There was the expression of being dragged here.

Lee Song-Baek knew no man that would have that look.

But he knew that this man was a lot stronger than Baek Cheon and Jin Geum-Ryong.

“We meet again, Mount Hua’s Divine Dragon.”

“… just call me Chung Myung.”

“Then I will do that, Disciple Chung Myung.”

Lee Song-Baek looked at Chung Myung with a new expression.

‘What a strange person.’

When he first met Chung Myung, he had no fame attached to his name. Mount Hua was a failing sect that had nothing to protect, and Chung Myung was their youngest disciple.

Between then and now, it could be said that enough things came to pass, enough to fill in the void between heaven and Earth.

The current Chung Myung was the greatest among the candidates for the ‘Best in the World’ position, who came like a storm from Mount Hua and was someone who was proudly acknowledged by most.

Still…

“Are you smiling?”

“Ah-no.”

Lee Song-Baek covered his lips,

“It just made me smile that Disciple Chung Myung hasn’t changed at all.”

Chung Myung tilted his head,

“And why smile for that?”

“I don’t know either. I just thought it was interesting.”

“… well, you can think whatever you want.”

Chung Myung smiled,

‘It is only natural for things to not change.’

If Chung Myung had really been a young child, maybe he would have tried to stand as tall as Mount Hua; he would have been blinded by his own strength.

But in reality, he was an old man who had gone through many kinds of battles in life and gained a much greater name and wider recognition before being reborn here.

If such a person was recognized as just your average ‘Best in the World,’ could he really be able to be proud of that? It was weird to take pride in that.