Episode 41
Strange
‘Wow, what kind of look are you looking at!’
Baekgolmangsa was speechless as he looked into Socheonma’s deeply sunken eyes.
The old fears slowly rose again.
I felt like my soul was being squeezed by fear.
That’s why I wanted to run away.
Those eyes.
When I looked into those eyes that were human but did not look human at all, I felt as if my soul was being possessed.
It was so deep that once I fell in there, I felt like I would never be able to get out and would just drown.
Baekgolmangsa now remembered another nickname for Socheonma, which was used in the drinking world.
Ghost King.
Now that he’s dead, I think I finally understand why he, the king of all the dead while still alive, always caused so much fear.
Because the existence of the Little Heavenly Horse was already a contradiction in itself.
Think about it.
Originally, the position of King of the Dead was one that only the dead could occupy.
Just as the monarch of men must be human, so it is the natural order of things that the king of the dead must also be dead.
But Socheonma ignored it.
I don’t know why.
He just happened to be like that.
and.
Now that he was in the form of ‘Dang Yun-hwi’ and not ‘Yeon Yun-hwi’, it was clear that he had died once during the Ssaecheonbong Bloodshed and then came back to life.
He came back from the dead.
Reincarnation.
Or a past life.
Or resurrection.
It is the success of a miracle that all magicians throughout the East and the West have been longing for.
Baekgolmangsa also wanted to be resurrected, but it was a choice he had no choice but to make when he was cornered.
I really never thought it would work.
But Socheonma did it.
How on earth do I explain this?
It is a natural course of events for the living to become the dead.
But it was not natural for the dead to become living.
Although there is reincarnation, it cannot be called resurrection because it involves oblivion.
In other words, it was another contradiction.
Is it possible for a being who has repeated contradictions to have eyes like this?
Baekgolmangsa no longer had the confidence to look straight into Socheonma’s deep eyes.
I really felt like I was going to get eaten.
He bowed his head.
All his will was broken, and all he wanted was one thing.
I really wanted to avoid extinction.
* * *
I lowered my eyes and waited quietly for Baekgolmangsa’s answer.
The guy who had already come to crave only my mercy slowly opened his mouth while trembling.
“The leader-”
It was just then.
Stop!
As if time had stopped, Baekgolmangsa stopped talking.
Jeokjeok-
Cracks spread across the body.
“W-what is this!”
The skeleton net was struggling.
“Oh, my lord!”
“It’s dangerous! Get out of here!”
A red light was visible through the cracks.
“!!!”
I instinctively quickly left the place.
In an instant, cracks covered the entire body of the White Bone Mesh.
The heat leaked out.
“Ah, no! I don’t want to diehhh! Please! Jeebaaaaal! I’ll answer any questions you ask-“
Phew!
The skeleton net exploded. The force of the explosion was so great that the entire hill I was standing on was pushed away.
and.
Hwaaaaah!
A black abyss opened wide where the explosion had occurred, revealing a black beast.
“What the hell is that-“
“what!?”
It was an amorphous entity made entirely of black shadows.
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It looks like something that would happen if you gathered a lot of darkness and pressed it down tightly.
It looked like a beast, a monster, or a demon. It opened its mouth wide and ate all of Baekgolmangsa’s soul remains in one bite.
Then, without paying any attention to me, he disappeared back into the abyss.
The Mujeong-i road is closed.
「… … .」
「… … .」
「… … .」
It happened in the blink of an eye.
The ghosts shuddered.
It seems that the shock they received was much greater than mine.
I guess that’s the only way.
The Baekgolmangsa, who was in a ghostly state, was eaten by a strange monster, but the pressure that the monster exerted was much stronger on the dead.
In the first place, it was similar to a messenger who took the soul to the afterlife.
No, the tea ceremony doesn’t push the soul into reincarnation, it just eats it.
It was like a natural enemy to the dead.
“…greed.”
Hard!
Fifteenth Ho muttered, hitting his chin.
“avarice?”
“What is it-“
Fifteenth Ho glanced at me as if asking if he could answer.
Only when I didn’t respond did he finally open his mouth.
“Tam is a kind of strangeness. It is a mysterious phenomenon similar to a monster or a demon, and it grants great power to the magician who makes a contract with it, but if the magician does not use that power properly, it will eat the soul whole.”
Fifteenth Ho still looked at the spot where the White Bone Net had disappeared with a fearful face.
Now the bottomless pit where the ghost had appeared was gone.
“I think Baekgol… no, the newbie, No. 16, made a contract with Tam in order to deal with the young cult leader. That’s why he was able to carry out the plan to seophonimang.”
Baekgolmangsa performed human sacrifices by offering himself as a sacrifice.
Then, of course, there had to be a divine being who received the offering.
That was exactly what it was.
Tam gave Baekgolmangsa the ability to perform a soul-soothing ritual without the presence of a ghost faction.
But the bone mesh failed, and in return he was eaten.
There was nothing else.
That was all.
“…The problem is that even if you offer a good price, Tam is not someone who can easily make a contract.”
The greed was a strange phenomenon, a miracle.
It could be said to be the restraining force that enforces the laws of this world, or the incarnation of causality.
It meant that they only moved according to established rules and had no reason or will.
So, to make contact here, you had to have a fairly high level of skill.
It is said that only the highest level of sorcerers in the world of sorcery can barely reach this level… It is something that Baekgolmangsa could not even dream of at the current level.
“That means-“
“Yes. That means there was a middleman who arranged the contract with Tam. And that’s probably-“
Fifteenth No. did not continue talking and just kept his lips tightly shut.
But just from that alone, the ghosts could easily guess who it was.
episode.
“… This sucks.”
The soul of the dead to me automatically becomes subject to me.
This was an absolute law that would not change, past or present.
Because it was a power possessed by the Ghost King.
So, I was able to ignore all the taboos and brainwashing during that time.
But this is the first time it has broken.
Of course, the authority was not ignored.
Because Baekgolmangsa was clearly subordinate to me.
However, it did not invalidate contracts made while alive.
This was the problem.
It means that the skills and level of the company are that great.
I had heard from the ghosts how great Hoi’s skills were, but this was beyond what I had imagined.
Doesn’t that mean he’s at least at the level of a wizard, or better?
In the martial arts world, a holy man is comparable to a top-notch master, like one of the ten greatest masters in the world.
You are on the verge of entering the spirit realm.
But, if such capable people are lined up, then as I expected, the meeting will be filled with defectors… … .
I felt a little disappointed.
Now, I thought I could finally find out the situation in Cheonsan, as well as the whereabouts of my master and the Angmasinhwajong, but it all turned out to be a waste of time.
Aside from the White Bone Net, there are still three more Twelve Black Ghosts left, but isn’t it possible that they too have a contract with Tam?
It was no different from the gold standard.
Whoosh!
I returned to the spot where only the gold chain remained and narrowed my eyes.
There was a very faint trace of residual thought left in the burn mark.
He put his hand on it and read the thoughts.
I had to check if there was even a little bit of clue.
.
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A dark shadow, whose face and gender were difficult to discern, was looking down at the skeletal mesh.
Although he looked similar to Tom, his temperament was completely different.
Tam is just a monster, but this one was a ‘human’.
However, he was human and not human at the same time.
-The one who has lost his sense of smell.
There was a superman there, trying to overcome the limitations of being human and escape the shell, the devastation, the prison of the body.
Brrrr!
My body trembled.
Even though I only read the residual thoughts, it boasted such an enormous presence.
It was completely overwhelming for me.
The shadow opened its ‘eyes’.
The black pupil had a strange Taegeuk pattern with the yin and yang reversed.
Reverse Tai Chi.
If the Taegeuk symbolizes the mutual growth and harmony of all things, then the reverse Taegeuk symbolizes the extinction and conflict of all things.
The shadow, with its demon eyes fully revealed, placed its hand on the head of Baekgolmangsa, who was about to leave for Sacheon, and muttered an incomprehensible spell.
Iron Crack-
At the same time, the shadows extending from outside were connected to the shadows of the skeleton nets cast on the floor.
It was a contract with Tom.
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Baekgolmangsa has established a base in Guryong County.
I contacted Muyeong sent by Namgung Se-ga and was introduced to Namgung San-yeong.
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I ran into him.
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The White Bone Mesh was defeated in a duel with me.
At that moment, the shadow grew larger and became abyss.
As per the contract, when the greed appeared, it greedily devoured the soul of the White Bone Net.
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These are all fragmentary scenes, but you can infer the general situation.
shadow.
The guy with the reverse Taegeuk magic eye was the person in question.
And… it was clear that he was probably the one who killed me and harmed Master.
Crack!
My teeth were clenched.
It was frustrating that even though we had found the culprit, albeit in fragmentary form, we had not been able to find out his identity.
What on earth happened to Master? Is he in their hands?
But there were too many unanswered questions for that to happen.
“… … .”
I took a quiet breath.
Even though I took a step back, I somehow managed to get this far.
Now that we’ve found him, it’ll be no problem finding him.
First, let’s search through the remains of the shrine left behind by the Baekgolmangsa. Maybe we’ll find something more.
Let’s catch the other black ghosts and the guest who came down from Cheonsan.
Then all questions would be naturally answered.
With that thought in mind, I tried to take my hand off, but it wouldn’t come off.
It was as if my hands were glued to the floor.
The illusion of residual thoughts is not over yet.
.
Tom, who had eaten all of the skeletal mesh, was moving somewhere through the dark passage.
The other side of the world.
Behind the law, the guy roamed freely and arrived somewhere.
Tom raised his head.
Right there.
There was a shadow with the evil eye of a reverse Taegeuk.
The guy turned his gaze towards me.
“!!”
I had an intuitive feeling of anxiety that if our eyes met like that, he might see through my true identity.
Just before her gaze landed on me, she bit the back of her tongue hard.
A dull pain.
It smelled bloody.
Flash!
The fantasy is over.
ha-
ha-
A harsh scent flowed out through his lips.
I could see sweat running down my cheeks.
“Young Master… Sir?”
“Are you okay? Your whole body is covered in cold sweat.”
“…What did you see?”
The ghosts looked at me with concern as I was breathing heavily, but Fifteen seemed to have sensed something and asked with a hardened face.
I nodded heavily.
“I think… this assassination plan against the Dark Lord should not be taken lightly.”
I turned my gaze to the northwest, where Cheonsan Mountain is.
They were trying to get out of Cheonsan.
The reincarnation demon temple
