Seongcheon Yun Ga (3)
The Seongcheon Yun family is a huge force that exerts enormous influence on the entire world called Sabacheon.
It goes without saying that the pride of the members of the Yun family is so great that maintaining balance for world peace is the family’s identity and external motto.
But as is the case with all places where people live, even those who harbor lofty ideals were not completely clean.
For world peace, a powerful military that no one could underestimate was essential, and maintaining such power for several generations was by no means an easy task.
“Huh? Captain, what are you doing here at this hour?”
“What’s going on? I came to see if you guys are doing a good job. If you fall asleep again like last time and get caught by the adjutant, I’ll be woken up too.”
“Ah, no… At that time… I’m sorry.”
It’s a late hour, when most of the family is asleep.
Subtle twists that were different from usual began to occur here and there in Yun Ga.
It was such a small change that it was difficult to say anything about it.
But that was only a precursor to greater events that were to come.
“Then I’ll go look around other places too, so stay alert.”
“Yes! Don’t worry!”
“Anyway, answer well.”
The captain of the outer wall guard, who had been scolding his subordinates, walked with staggering steps.
He reached a place where there seemed to be no people and looked toward the inner castle with a gloomy gaze.
“······.”
The Seongcheon Yun family gathers talented children from all over the continent, regardless of bloodline or social status, and trains them to become the pillars of the family.
That was certainly a commendable act.
···If it really was the case that all those children had no place to go.
Paying money to poor parents and getting custody of the child was not a big deal.
But if it goes beyond dealing with slave hunters to obtain children, or even threatening and kidnapping parents, to the point of destroying healthy families…
No matter how strong a force one has, one can never avoid criticism.
Of course, Yoon Ga, who values his reputation, did not personally commit such a crime.
I just paid the person who brought the child a fair price for his talent.
Even though I already knew all the circumstances, I ignored everything.
No, rather, by secretly encouraging it from behind.
“Those damn dogs···.”
The captain, who had been looking at the inner self, quietly ground his teeth.
Unlike the outer castle, which boasted a vast scale with numerous daycare centers, convenience facilities, and guest accommodations, the inner castle was a space that only those who had received approval from the Yun family could enter.
A place that is the ultimate goal of children who are forced to gather in one place and work day and night to be granted the surname ‘Yoon’.
And for the leader, it was a forbidden area that he would never be able to reach.
He crossed his arms.
There was a lightning-shaped scar engraved on his shoulder starting from there.
It is evidence of the efforts to somehow rise above, and a symbol of despair that has cut off one’s own potential through excessive practice.
In order to move up in the Yun family, one had to prove one’s worth somehow.
The moment you show outstanding talent in a certain field, your treatment changes, so there’s no way children wouldn’t know that.
And as people struggle to overcome the atmosphere created in that way, some people are bound to fail to overcome their limits and be eliminated.
‘This is the result of enduring that torturous training.’
Captain of the Foreign Guard.
Now this position was his limit.
Even if someone were to attack from below, they would quickly be pushed out.
I don’t know about those who had overwhelming talent from the beginning, like Lucette, who reached the depths in her twenties, or Yoon So-hoe, who was on the verge of middle class in her early teens.
Since they were the target of special management from the moment they entered Yun Ga, they didn’t have much opportunity to associate with kids who had mediocre talent and were struggling at the bottom.
‘If I hadn’t been dragged here, I would…’
In that situation, the news about ‘Yoon Ga’s secret’ and ‘real family’ that the person who approached him told him was no different from the devil’s whispers that shook his heart.
“No, there’s no time for this right now.”
The leader shook his head repeatedly, took a deep breath, and started walking again.
The dark demon of doubt that had taken root in his mind was swallowing up his delusion and finally blossoming into its ugly fruit, but he was already caught up in his obsession and was not aware of it.
And now, there were more than a few people here in Yun Ga who were showing similar symptoms.
That’s it···.
Kwaaaaang—!
Kururung—!
This was the full story of the loud noises that echoed throughout the city at dawn.
***
A sudden attack.
“Ha! You fools… How dare you do something like this to Yun Family’s stronghold?”
“Move quickly! We have to seal the West Gate immediately! Those who dare to drink will receive 20 sets of special training courses later!”
But Yun Ga’s response was extremely quick.
Immediately after the explosions erupted from all over the outer castle, alarms rang out from all directions and practitioners rushed out.
No matter what, this place was their home base.
It had been a long time since the last time the main house was directly attacked, but since they had trained so thoroughly in advance, no one was at a loss as to what to do, although they were a little flustered.
“Keuhehehe—! The time has finally come!”
“Yun Gara… This is a very good start. It will make a wonderful sacrifice.”
“Yayhoo! The mad festival has finally begun!”
But there is one problem.
The fact was that the monsters they had to deal with were by no means easy.
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“This ominous chakra is…!”
“I am a practitioner of the magic! Everyone, strengthen your body and mind!”
“If you feel like you can’t hold out anymore, then back off! You’re just going to get in the way! Stop being a bother and evacuate the citizens first!”
A heretic who delved into negative concepts that were different from others and became corrupted—a practitioner of magic.
Their fear did not lie solely in their strange abilities and twisted ways of thinking.
“···Give up. It’s easier if you give up. I’ll show you how comfortable resignation is.”
“Come dance with me, friends! Our life is short! Shake it like crazy until your bones break and your muscles tear~!”
“Ah—what confusion. What a beautiful night.”
The negative chakras that radiated from them spread in all directions, waiting for an opportunity to contaminate practitioners who approached them.
The cleaner it is, the easier it is for demons to spread.
And once you’ve been dyed, it’s not easy to turn back.
It’s easy to get stains on white clothes, but even after washing them, the stains remain.
For chakra practitioners who value mental cultivation, the negative energy emanating from a magic practitioner was a serious threat in itself.
The mental barrier wasn’t something that could block all intrusions forever.
If you lose your mind even for a moment during a fierce fight, there’s no turning back.
So, in order to definitely subdue a magic practitioner, it would have been common sense for a practitioner of a higher rank to step forward···.
“Huh, when did we get so many practitioners of magic at this level…?”
“It’s not just here! The entire city is in chaos!”
“Did all the guys from the entire continent come here?”
There were guys who gave off an ominous vibe just by looking at them, emitting their presence everywhere.
It’s hard to believe that this many people moved at once, but it’s even more shocking that no one noticed until they stormed into outer space.
That meant that there was a huge hole in the Yun family’s previously thought ironclad counterintelligence network.
“Hold on! If you hold on, support will come from the inner castle!”
In the end, what they had to do was pretty much already decided.
Although they were momentarily thrown into confusion by the surprise attack, they were one of the largest forces on the continent.
There are close to ten deep practitioners, and dozens of upper-level practitioners.
Although not all of them were staying at their home, the remaining forces here would be enough to wipe them out.
Kwaaang!
The sounds of battle echoed throughout the outer city.
The invaders who mercilessly commit destruction as if they had been waiting for this moment, and the practitioners who stop them while protecting civilians as much as possible.
And the explosion did not spare the guesthouses located on one side of the outer wall.
***
Hoon reacted immediately when he heard the first explosion.
In preparation for an emergency, I placed a sacred barrier around Ramyu and went out the window to check the source.
Because it was a sound that came from such close range, I couldn’t just ignore it.
‘That’s?’
A cracked, gaping hole in the air next to the guest house, like broken glass.
Kwarrrrung—
A loud noise was coming from there.
It seemed like it wasn’t just the sound of a bomb exploding, but the sound of space collapsing.
‘It’s not just here. It’s a fairly widespread raid.’
It was something incomprehensible.
Haven’t you already checked this several times while visiting Yun Ga and learning about chakras?
The existence of a powerful barrier surrounding this entire place.
‘There’s something wrong with the boundary?’
There was only one cause that could explain the current situation.
‘The spy who infiltrated inside did something.’
Perhaps it had something to do with the gloomy feeling he had before entering the accommodation.
But now there was no time to think about the past.
Thud thud—
An unidentified figure was walking out of a hole in the air.
“Hehe! What, what is that?!”
Mac Morris, who had come out of the dormitory without realizing it, opened his mouth with a trembling voice.
The Yun family’s practitioners who came to defend this place after hearing the commotion also showed the same reaction.
Their feelings were completely understandable.
Mira, wrapped in black bandages all over her body, approached slowly, one step at a time.
The bandages were so thick and meticulous that it was hard to tell whether it was a man or a woman.
The hands, crossed at the chest, were nailed tightly to the shoulders, and a large wooden stake was driven into each spot where the eyes and ears should be.
‘That’s not all. Your entire body is covered in tiny needles.’
An appearance that is painful and horrifying just to look at.
It was such a miserable sight that it felt like a miracle he was alive.
[You···.]
At that moment, a voice that sounded like a buzzing sound came out from the black mummy.
[Have you ever faced true fear···?]
As soon as those words were finished.
A sticky wave swept across the area.
“Ugh! Ugh! Ugh, you crazy···!”
The exposed Mac stepped back hesitantly with a thoughtful face.
Although he was only a low-level practitioner, with his unique skills added, he was a talent who displayed fighting prowess that was no less than that of upper-level practitioners.
It’s so strange that he lost his will to fight just because he was exposed to the momentum.
“Deep-level magic practitioner.”
Hoon, who was humming softly, looked at the other person with narrowed eyes.
I could tell at a glance.
That thing is a bigger monster than the General Bu-ryeong I defeated a while ago.
[What is fear… Where does it originate? A terrible monster? Physical pain? Despair that eats away at the mind?]
The other person was already lost in his own world.
Well, someone with that level of skill would have already figured out that no matter how many people there were to rush in, they wouldn’t be able to lay a finger on him.
For a strong man who couldn’t even guarantee victory against Lucette, such composure was neither arrogance nor anything else.
[It took me a long time to figure that out. ···But in the end, I was able to find my own answer.]
The black mummy’s body stirred.
Human limbs and even facial features began to rise up from beneath the mummy’s body, as if trying to break through unbreakable plastic.
[The ‘unknown’ is the fear I have found.]
Immediately after that.
His body swelled.
Larger than the luxurious accommodation building here.
So huge that it crushed the entire city.
So vast that it covers the whole world.
…No, maybe not. Maybe I’m just mistaken.
Hundreds of hands sprouted from its body.
Aren’t they? Are they thousands of tentacles? Or maybe tens of thousands of sharp thorns?
Eyes, or mouths, or navels, or tongues, sprouted all over the body.
‘Unrecognizable.’
It wasn’t a fantasy.
The very laws that constitute the being’s existence were being twisted around.
I felt it instinctively.
Unless you can properly perceive your opponent, your attacks will never reach him.
[Drown in fear.]
A message from heaven.
Everyone who was already in the accommodation was incapacitated.
He just stares blankly up at the sky with a blank expression.
The being stretched out its tentacles and pressed down on the space, as if trying to finish them off for sure.
“The secret art of the Hunryu Inbeopjutsu, the art of clones.”
But that touch.
I was just digging through empty space.
[······.]
The being quietly looked back at Hoon.
Many of the same faces, hiding behind their arms full of defenseless people.
He tilted his head as if he was wondering.
[···How did you do it?]
There were two meanings implied there.
How is he still sane, and how did he know and escape from attacks that he shouldn’t have been able to perceive?
Of course, Hoon had no intention of kindly answering the other person’s questions.
“Oh my, what the hell are you, Cthulhu or something?”
He grumbled and sighed, frowning.
I still couldn’t properly recognize the other person.
However, fear, which was the basis of the chakra he used, also did not have much of an effect on him.
[you···.]
The fake Cthulhu stopped moving as if he couldn’t believe it.
[There is no fear.]
It wasn’t just that kind of problem.
The depth of the horror he deals with is such that it can cause even the most emotionally stunted lunatics to have fits.
Even if you have intermittent explosive disorder or a psychopath, it would be normal if you wet your pants and foam at the mouth the moment you see him.
[How can that be···?]
“well.”
Hoon shrugged his shoulders nonchalantly.
It was a frivolous attitude that did not fit the situation.
‘By the way, this is a bit difficult.’
In the first place, that was not an opponent he could fight and win against.
The fear that reaches deep into the depths, and even the concept of the unknown derived from it.
In times like this, the only secret weapon that can be used is the ultimate secret technique, ‘thought frenzy’…
‘Is that really okay? No matter how I look at it, that guy seems to have a perfect aptitude for that field.’
I wonder if they’re just giving you experience points for nothing.
I couldn’t help but hesitate because of such worries.
But there was no time to worry about this.
[You might be the key to astronomy… You did well to follow his advice. Thanks to you, you’ve obtained a good test subject…]
Because the opponent’s male and female were stretching out right in front of my nose.
‘I don’t know! If I do something, I can just call my friends!’
There was a way to somehow resolve the situation, so there was no hesitation in committing the crime.
Hoon shouted loudly, still looking at the shape he couldn’t quite recognize.
“The ultimate secret of the Hunryu Ninjutsu! Thoughts are running wild!”
This attack does not affect the opponent.
But strictly speaking, the thought storm was not an attack, but rather a type of telepathy.
Besides, the conversation they had just now was also part of ‘communication.’
[hmm···?]
It was not strange that “psychosensation” was connected to that cause and effect.
[What kind of trick are you using… this…?]
Thoughts flow backwards.
But the reaction was different than usual.
[Oh··· Ohhh···!]
A counterfeit Cthulhu that cheers as if it has witnessed the truth it has been longing for.
The bastard began to greedily suck up the pouring thoughts, as if they suited his taste.
