Chapter: 1736
The red and blue gemstone embedded in the crescent-shaped dagger itself were treasures beyond measure.
It was too priceless that the man had an obsessive attachment to the dagger.
He tightly grasped the dagger in his hand even when he was drifting in the sea or experiencing seizures on the boat,
The dagger was also incredibly sharp.
It can cut through everything it touched, which made it even more challenging to subdue the man. But once they manage to subdue the man and take his dagger away, the man noticeably became more docile.�
Jang Hamun held the dagger on the table, but once he did, the man behind the iron bars blinked.
�Ah�!�
Sensing that the man might have another seizure, Jang Hamun discreetly put down the dagger.
�Where on earth did he get such a precious object?�
Lee Seong-hak, who had rescued the man, suggested Jang Hamun to search the nearby sea.
No matter how they look at it, the dagger didn�t seem to belong to the man. The man must have stolen the dagger from somewhere, and Lee Seong-hak believed that there must be more treasures at the place where the man stole it from.�
They had no concrete evidence. It was only Lee Seong-hak�s rational speculation. But nonetheless, Jang Hamun agreed with him to a certain extent.
After leading the Sea Dragon Sect for a long time, he began to developed the ability to sniff out gold. With just a brief glance, he could determine whether the other party would bring profit or harm.
The man smelled strongly of gold. But he also carried with him a calamituous aura.�
That was why Jang Hamun couldn�t easily get rid of him.�
�Damn it!�
The greed in his eyes deepened.
* * *
Tae Musang sat on one side of the harbor and looked out at the night sea.
The place where he was sitting was not where the regular merchant ships or large vessels enters, but where the fishing boats usually docked.
The fishing boats were small, barely big enough to fit in two or three adults. Furthermore, such boats could easily overturned in the event of high waves. In fact, several boats were lost at sea every month, never to be found.
Naturally, the fishermen who boarded the boats becomes missing.
It wouldn�t be strange to witness bodies being washed up in the shore by the water. These were the bodies of fishermen who had gone out on their boats only to to never return.�
Seeing dead bodies like that was a common occurence in this area.�
Everyone risked their lives by boarding on the boat.
Tae Musang�s father was one of those fishermen who lost their lives. The only difference was that Tae Musang�s father had never been washed ashore.
His mother died of illness, and their meager possessions were divided among relatives.
After that, Tae Musang was on his own.
Having lost everything, Tae Musang drifted into poverty-stricken neighborhoods and naturally became the leader of the children.
There was nothing he wouldn�t do to keep them alive. JrNovels.com