Dark Mage Vol 1 Chapter 22

They didn’t even think about stopping the one-sided beating. They just started talking to each other.

“He really is a poisonous b.a.s.t.a.r.d. He didn’t miss that opportunity…..”

“You are right. The eldest son of the San-dong Mo-Young family almost lost his life?”

Amongst those who had the seal imprinted on their forehead, the Dharmapala, who seemed to be the head, made an admiring expression.

“The Seven Sect’s Beating Gold Technique is very impressive. If not for it, that tenacious b.a.s.t.a.r.d would have taken several lives by now. Right at the moment he decides to murder someone, the restriction never fails to activate. It really lives up to its name since the Shaolin high priest directly applied it.”

One disciplinary monk made an unsatisfactory expression.

“I’m really unhappy about that. The high priest, who possessed the strongest Nae-gong(TLN:like a qi reservoir) in the entire Shaolin, consumed all his Nae-gong for a child of a Madu…… I cannot comprehend it.”

“Phew! Who can go against his stubbornness? His stubbornness is known inside and outside of the Shaolin temple…”

The leader of the disciplinary monks turned his head for a moment. The hunchback youth was barely conscious, and he was being brutally beaten by the group. The disciplinary monk spat out his words as if he was unsatisfied.

“We should stop the fight soon. That tenacious b.a.s.t.a.r.d might die.”

“Should we?”

The disciplinary monks put an end to the group beating. As if he had his fill of revenge, one youth backed away and started dusting himself off. However, the youth in blue with the surname of Mo-Young looked like his anger hadn’t dissolved yet. He stopped himself from turning away then he kicked the squirming hunchback youth in the stomach.

Puk.

“You turtle like b.a.s.t.a.r.d. How dare you get blood on my face…”

From his sleeve, the youth in blue brought out a silk handkerchief to wipe his face. Then he turned to the other youths with a bright face.

“Let’s go.”

As the youths moved away en ma.s.se, the disciplinary monks made a bitter smile.

“He has a great temper. He possesses great talent, but with that personality…… It’s a shame that he is an inner disciple.”

“Hey. Hey. Stop gossiping and help me treat this guy. If the high priest finds out about this then we will be scolded a lot……”

“Ok.”

The sun was setting, and a small figure was shakily walking down a path. He had a severe limp, and he was barely able to walk. It was none other than the hunchback youth. The face was swollen so much that one couldn’t tell what he looked like. However, his uniquely poisonous gaze had not retreated.

“Ook.”

The hunchback youth fell in place after tripping on a rock. A string of poison-laden sound came forth from his mouth.

“Cheap b.a.s.t.a.r.ds. Attacking me in a group. Ooh ook.”

Blood continuously flowed from his lips that was cut from the blade. He spat out spit mixed with blood, and the hunchback youth was barely able to stand back up. Usually, his lodging was far away, but today it seemed farther away since his body was injured.

One had to cross over a mountain to see the shabby thatched hut. This is where the hunchback youth resided. Also, the hunchback youth already knew something. Even though he couldn’t see them, he knew that the disciplinary monks followed him back. The youth’s mouth explode with swear words.

“Those sons of b.i.t.c.hes. They are all alike.”

He was gasping for air, but the youth used more strength to walk onward. His name was Dok-gosong. The hunchback youth thought about the reason why his life became this way.

The experts from the White Peach sect combined their forces to kill the Sa-pa sect’s supreme being. Even though he was a young child that couldn’t comprehend deep thoughts, Dok-gosong never forgot about that event. At the time, he didn’t know that the person was his father, but Dok-gosong at the very least remembered that the person loved him fiercely.
At the location where his father was killed, the Shaolin monk applied the Seven Sect’s Beating Gold Technique on Dok-gosong. He fainted from the pain caused by the technique, and before he knew it he was relocated to the Shaolin temple.
That was the background on how he became to live at the Shaolin temple. Surprisingly, the Bae-sect knew about the Shaolin temple having Dok-gosong, but they didn’t even attempt to rescue him, even though he was the sole heir to the previous sect leader Dok-go-moogi.
Originally, the Shaolin temple had a plan. Since they had obtained the previous sect leader’s son, they wanted to trade him for the captured Ja-pa(TLN: the righteous/good sects) disciples. The Shaolin high priest couldn’t go against the idea of rescuing the disciples. The Shaolin chief priest wrote all of his intentions on a letter and sent it to the Bae-sect.
At the time, the Bae-sect was being restructured by Sah-joonhwan. After the death of Dok-go-moogi, he quickly settled the initial confusion then he rose to become the new conqueror of the Bae-sect. However unlike their expectation, he didn’t respond in any ways regarding Dok-gosong. They had receive the letter, but there weren’t any answers.
The Shaolin temple was very taken aback by this news. The restrictive technique was already used on Dok-gosong, so they didn’t really have a future plan on what to do with him.
Moreover, the Bae-sect didn’t want to take back Dok-gosong. Dok-gosong didn’t have anywhere to go, so he had no choice but to live at the Shaolin Temple. In a word, he became a nuisance.
The problem arose when he was old enough to understand what he heard. It was about his ugly appearance and the fact that his background arose from him being the son of a Sa-pa’s leader. At spring time, the White peach and Sa-do’s power struggle was at its peak. Neither the Shaolin monks or the training students looked at Dok-gosong with kind eyes.

“That dirty mutt hunchback b.a.s.t.a.r.d.”

“The sp.a.w.n of a Madu who killed countless number of people.”

After he was able to comprehend complex thoughts, he was bombarded with unimaginable amount of disdain and contempt. Amongst the disdain, there was zero possibility for Dok-gosong to grow up to be normal. It was impossible. His father was Dok-go-moogi, the amazingly skilled Sapa expert. Countless White Peach sect warriors died by his hands. This increased the disdain and poor treatment against Dok-gosong. From inside this ill-treatment, Dok-gosong’s personality gradually became crooked.
These were the reasons why the group lynching happened today.
He was walking without speaking when Dok-gosong’s eyes picked up a small snake crawling towards somewhere. While smiling a cold smile, Dokgosong went towards where the snake was.

Oo-jik.(TLN: sound of someone stepping on something)

The snake’s head was crushed underneath Dok-gosong’s foot.
This reflectively caused pain to be sent to his brain. Of course, this was the pain caused by the Seven Sect’s Beating Gold Technique. This pain was very mild compared to the earlier one. Dok-gosong could easily wait it out. Suddenly, swear words exploded out of his mouth. These were harsh swear words that shouldn’t come out from a youth’s mouth.

“s.h.i.t. If it wasn’t for this f.u.c.king restrictive method, that Mo-young-jin wouldn’t have survived.”

The Seven Sect’s Beating Gold Technique. It was a powerful restrictive technique that was only second to the Sal-gae(殺戒) technique. It was a prohibitive technique that killed the murderous intent of a blood user. After receiving this technique, It was impossible for someone to kill. Dok-gosong had already received the technique directly from the Shaolin high monk. This was the reason why he wasn’t able to end Mo-young-jin’s life today.

“s.h.i.t. No matter what I can’t persevere through that pain……”

The Seven Sect’s Beating Gold Technique activated when murderous intent was directed toward a living being. Dok-gosong killed countless bugs and animal to experiment on this. It resulted in him knowing that killing an animal would give a comparably weaker pain. It was something he could endure. However, if his murderous intent was directed toward a person then an unimaginable pain would be applied to his brain. It felt as if his brain was burning. Therefore, he had failed several times to complete his actions. As he thought about this, Dok-gosong’s eyes were rapidly filled with murderous energy.

“The day when this restrictive technique is lifted, I’ll kill every…Ah ahk.”

Before he could finish his words he fell on the floor.
He was so emotional that he had momentarily forgotten about the Seven Sect’s Beating Gold Technique. He used all his strength to try to forget about his murderous thoughts. He prided himself in having a high tolerance, but he couldn’t endure this pain at all.
After a while, he raised his unsightly body, and Dok-gosong walked onward while saying nothing.
The only thing left behind was the corpse of the snake, which had its head horribly smashed.

After some time, an extremely angry voice was heard from the darkness.

“I really can’t stand him. I get nauseous just by looking at that b.a.s.t.a.r.d. How can our elders allow him to live at our headquarters? I don’t understand the reason.”

“Shh. Your voice is too loud.”

“Don’t worry about it. Even though it is an insignificant creature, he cruelly stepped on the snake. He really is the son of a Madu. I don’t understand why we have to lose several days of sleep just to protect him?”

“It’s an order from the elder, so what can we do? We can only follow it.”

“I feel like just killing him.”

Suddenly a cold voice came out of the darkness.

“Do you dare go against Sal-gae(TLN: 殺戒 or 살생계(殺生戒) – basically rule saying one can’t kill a living creature.)? We are monks. Even though our opponent may be unimaginably evil, we cannot rashly kill him.”

As if he was fed up with his senior’s rebuke, one couldn’t hear the voice from the darkness any more. After the speech ended, the night deepened in the mountain.

(TLN: end of flashback)

“s.h.i.t. Did I have another nightmare?”

Dok-gosong woke up complaining. These were memories he didn’t want to remember or think about, but the dreams about the past would seek him out like fate. After waking up from his sleep, Dok-gosong’s mood wasn’t that great. If this was Zhongyuan, then he would have found someone to take his anger out on. To erase that idea, he started looking around his surrounding. In his eyes, a suspicious light rose up.

“Where is this place?”

The previous place was a very fancy bedroom. It was more luxurious than his place in Zhongyuan. However, this place was totally different from that place. It was const.i.tuted very differently from that bedroom. At a glance, he could tell this was a prison where they locked up felons. After staring at the door made out of strong steel lattice, Dok-gosong started mumbling.

“I guess they lost interest in me. They even sent me to jail….”

After looking at the structure, one could be certain that this was a jail. However, the place he was locked up in had enough s.p.a.ce to lock up about 100 people. Immediately, Dok-gosong started going over the surrounding scenery.
The most eye-catching thing was that there was one long sword place on the floor. There was a shield next to it, but Dok-gosong ignored it to pick up the sword. He flicked his finger against the blade, and a dull sound was heard. The quality wasn’t that great. Moreover, the thickness and length was too uncouth. There was a long hole at the center, so it may have been a longsword used to stab.

“The sword is ignorantly thick. Why did those b.a.s.t.a.r.ds put this here?”

It didn’t make sense to give a sword to a prisoner inside a jail. This caused Dok-gosong to worry about the intention of his captors. On the other side of the steel-barred window, he suddenly heard a strange wild animal growl-like sound.

Ku-rrrrrr.

Dok-gosong turned his head in reflex, and he could see 4 lantern-sized light across the steel-barred window. He had already realized that these were the pupils of a beast. However, it was buried in darkness, so he couldn’t guess at its figure.
Afterwards, the steel lattice door started going up. Dok-gosong was finally able to realize the captor’s intention. After realizing his situation, he gritted his teeth.

“Are they trying to test me?”

During the time he was dumbly standing around, the latticed door had completely opened. Green-hued things shot out from inside and they ruthlessly attacked Dok-gosong.

“Ooh-huk.”

Dok-gosong used all his effort to move his body.