Chapter: 176

He tried to go easy as best as he could, but...

“ARGH!”

As his fist struck the stomach, Penghak’s eyes grew wide and he spat blood out from his mouth. His body was also thrown up about three meters into the air, and flew all the way back.

‘Ugh... I tried.’

He tried to use only half of his power, but it was still monster-like. At least it was weaker than when he destroyed Jongsum’s chin and teeth. The 12th group cadets became pale after seeing Penghak getting thrown away with one punch. Penghak had gained top-class internal energy after consuming the Black Dragon Ball, but he couldn’t even endure one fist.

“Penghak!”

Gallen shouted at Penghak who was thrown back. He sat there unconsciously with bubbles foaming at his mouth.

‘W-we cannot fight him!’

Most of the cadets were either similar or weaker than Penghak. They had Ha Ilming, who was almost equal to Bakgi when they fought yesterday, but no one else could deal with Yeowun.

“You want to keep going?”

Yeowun threatened the 12th cadets. All of them then shook their heads in fear. They couldn’t even bear to think about fighting Yeowun, Bakgi, and Ko Wanghur altogether.

“...We surrender.”

Gallen, who was next in line in terms of rank, made a declaration. Hu Bong then ran up with reddened eyes and grabbed Gallen’s collar.

“Where is it!”

“What are you talking about?”

“Where is the tag that you took from us yesterday?!”

Ohjong had tried to protect it with his life even when his fingers were snapped back. If they didn’t get that back, Ohjong’s sacrifice would have been for nothing. Gallen spoke bitterly.

“108th cadet... Ha Ilming has it.”

“It’s as we expected.”

Ko Wanghur sighed to Yeowun. They had expected this already as Ha Ilming probably wouldn’t have given the yellow tag to these people.

“Dammit!”

“Ugh!”

Hu Bong then threw a punch at Gallen’s face. It wasn’t all that powerful like Yeowun’s, but it was enough to bruise Gallen’s right cheek in blue. Hu Bong then pushed Gallen down and tried to pummel him, but Bakgi stopped him.

“Stop.”

“Don’t stop me! Are you protecting him because he was your teammate?!”

“No. I have something I want to ask first. Back off.”

Bakgi had no intention to stop him. He was a former team leader of these people, but he knew what was at stake here. Their actions were unacceptable.

“Gallen.”

“...Bakgi.”

Gallen wiped the blood dripping from his mouth and looked up at Bakgi before he averted his gaze. He had tried to dissuade Penghak and the other cadets, but he failed and eventually ambushed Bakgi together with them, so he couldn’t look into his eyes.