Subdued Soul Chronicle

The body was swifter than the head.

Blue Rainbow and Dead Slayer. From the two swords, a spirit-like flame rose. Before Mita could even move, they blocked the path.

But….

The evil spirit in front of them didn’t react. Her twinkling eyes shone through her tangled hair.

However, those eyes weren’t directed at the intruders who came into her tomb but they were just looking at the air.

‘Come to think of it…’

Seol Young reached his hand out to her.

‘Shouldn’t the evil energy be strong, though?’

He stretched out his fingers to touch her clothes but they wouldn’t touch them and they just passed through.

His anxiousness cleared up.

“An illusion?”

A question mark crossed over Zaha’s face.

“What is this? Is this a trap?”

“No, rather….”

While placing his sword into its sheath, Seol Young said,

“I think it isn’t an afterimage or an illusion. If one leaves a dead body on a wooden floor for a long time, it will leave marks on it. The traces of the owner are left on this tomb like a symbol.”

Even though it was an illusion, the figure itself was clear.

Even Seol Young and Zaha, who had excellent spiritual power, mistook that for a moment. However, Mita’s evil spirit was in front of them.

Wasn’t this a world where the maiden Jung Myung and the divine God existed?

It was different from the other world, where the divine tree didn’t exist.

“Still, be careful with all of this.”

Seol Young raised his spiritual qi and defended himself, while observing the figure in front of them.

There was a thick rope wrapped around her neck, as if she were dangling in the air. And an ornate crown of priests was pressed against her head.

Her decayed face couldn’t be seen under her long hair. The blood she coughed up the moment she stopped breathing stained her chin and chest red.

The shape of her corpse had broken bones and pierced arrows that were stuck to each other. This was the ghost of Mita, who had become the God of Cataclysm.

There was a clear difference between how she looked now and after turning into an evil spirit.

It was not the usual short jacket that is popular among women these days, but the old priest’s robe. Also, the fact that the talismans on her face didn’t stick right showed that the exorcism on her didn’t work.

Even though she was an evil spirit, she didn’t seem to be someone who had crossed the line to become a disaster right now.

Seol Young brought his spiritual qi out.

“In our world, this evil spirit must have developed into the God of Cataclysm as she gradually changed over the years. What we are seeing now is what she looked like before she changed.”

“Right.”

Zaha said that without taking his eyes off Mita’s figure.

“They say everything has two sides. Do you think she turned into such a disaster because she was dragged into the world like this and suffered?”

“Still, we have achieved something good. Finding out the reason she had turned into an evil spirit is necessary for us to appease her soul.”

The two looked at the illusion of Mita hanging in the air.

Silence passed.

“But was it really impossible to appease them?”

Zaha raised the question.

The scenes that the dead people had shown were just fragments. But it was enough for them to know what kind of death their King met.

She unexpectedly lost her nation, and the people tried to protect her, but she died a cruel death.

The King of Ruins.

Even Seol Young had never appeased such a gigantic being.

“Anyway, we have to do our best. Didn’t things work out before because we knew the story? And now, again….”

When he was about to say something, a strong vibration could suddenly be felt from the walls and the ground.

Zaha immediately focused his eyes there and looked alert.

“What?”

Seol Young thought it felt familiar.

“It is because people who shouldn’t enter the tomb had come in. If this continues, there will be a clash, and something strange will happen in this world.”

Even at this moment, Jung Myung must be outside suppressing the evil energy with all her might.

“Come to think of it, we don’t have time for all this.”

Zaha looked around the tomb.

“We need to find the door.”

“Right. As Miss Jung Myung said, this place is where the border between our world and this world exists. Between that, the location should be…”

Both of them looked at the same place beyond Mita’s figure, who looked dead in the eyes.

In the middle of the ground, in the shape of a camp, there was something that was buried in the landfill.

It was a huge sarcophagus.

And the two walked past the figure of Mita and got closer. Part of the lid of the sarcophagus was open at an angle.

There were fragments of broken chains around it. And Zaha looked down at it.

“Sealing the coffin with a chain did nothing.”

“Yes, neither digging up her remains nor burying them at the boundary between this world and the next was of any use. If it weren’t for the divine tree, she would have crossed over to our world more freely.”

Seol Young looked through the crack that was revealed through the lid.

“Anyway, there must be a door connecting this world to the world on the other side.”

‘Right.’

As if to say that, the necklace on Zaha’s collar flashed brightly.

Between the Three Thousand Worlds, one might get lost or things might go wrong.

But they had one secret trick.

The body of the Tree God.

A God was a being who could freely cross between heaven and earth, so they had the power to find the world they belonged to.

“But we don’t have the body of the God.”

Seol Young pulled out a safety rope.

Just like when the Hwarangs would cross a river for training, he threaded a string through his belt hole and connected it with Zaha.

“This is also like crossing the river between this world and the other.”

Zaha reached out and lifted the lid of the sarcophagus.

“Wait.”

Seol Young stopped him.

“I was planning on telling you earlier, but there is one more important thing.”

“What is it?”

“Since the two worlds are connected through a boundary, the tomb on one side will connect to the tomb on the other. This coffin will connect to the coffin of the other world.”

Seol Young said that carefully.

“If we use this chance right, we might be able to obtain her ashes somewhere in the coffin.”

Zaha understood it right then.

“Not Mita’s ashes, but the ashes of the God of Cataclysm?”

“Yes.”

Seol Young nodded.

“Ashes are different in many ways. When it comes to calling, blocking, or expelling evil spirits, nothing is more powerful than human remains. We need to get our hands on it.”

“Fine. I get it.”

Zaha lifted the lid. Then a strange darkness swirled.

And stepping in first, he said,

“Congratulations. Seol Young-rang is finally getting to experience what it is like in a coffin.”

“Are you really saying that?”

When he was still too dumbfounded to respond, Seol Young was dragged inside and it felt like if he was falling forward.

Darkness.

At the same time, it felt like colors were moving around him. There were so many colors that they mixed to form darkness.

In the middle of that strange land.

The eyes of the Tree God shone ahead.

Light was the driving force here, and it was now carrying them ahead.

Even if his head was feeling dizzy, Seol Young did his best to use spiritual qi.

“High Governor, do not forget. Find the remains of the evil spirit. Even a small speck of dust is fine.”

“I get it.”

Zaha’s voice sounded far away.

“Isn’t that it?”

In the midst of a whirlwind, this pitch-black darkness formed ahead. A small piece of bone was spinning inside it.

Zaha raised his golden spiritual qi and grabbed it.

At that moment, a scene unfolded before their eyes. The ashes of the Moon Palace.

It was the place where the iron troops had wiped out everyone, and Jin Rim was there, fallen dead.

“To show this illusion again, this must not be our world yet.”

Zaha threw it right away, and the whirlwind began to get stronger. Seol Young found another piece inside and grabbed it.

At that moment, the surroundings turned into a mansion. He and his parents were standing there.

“Seol Young? When did you come? We tried to go to the house of Governor earlier, but we were….”

Not this too.

Seol Young threw it away, and Zaun was talking beside them.

“I kept this a secret from your brother-in-law, but you went and injured your right arm? Even if you try to fool others, you cannot fool me. Come inside and get treated before I shout.”

When Zaha threw the bone away, her form also disappeared.

‘This cannot be all of them.’

Seol Young became impatient.

Everything was disappearing quickly. It looked like this would all end soon, and then he found another one.

Seol Young grabbed it, and the world was in ruins. He almost shrieked at the sight of that for a moment.

Baek Eon, Song Ok, and Hyo Wol were leaning against each other, covered in blood, as they died. Among the corpses of the other Hwarags, there were also Hwa Un and Mu Won.

‘Not this either.’

Seol Young threw the bone right then. This space looked tight.

And when he thought it was over.

“We are here.”

Zaha barely managed to find another bone. He reached out for it, and at that moment, the back of the God of Cataclysm appeared before their eyes.

She turned her head, and her face, covered with talismans, looked at them.

“We found it.”

Zaha quickly brought out his spiritual energy. The appearance of the evil spirit disappeared like a flame and was put out.

At the same time, their bodies landed somewhere.

“Where are we?”

Seol Young looked around, but he couldn’t see anything in the darkness. It was still the same when he used his spiritual qi.

But he could see a few things through his senses.contemporary romance

“Well, we are back.”

Silence passed.

The things that had happened since the moment they were first dragged into the other world flashed in front of them.

“Well. We are back.”

Eventually, Zaha said,

“Take this.”

He held out what was in his hand, and at that moment, a strong pressure pushed against them.

“Wait.”

Seol Young took out a bundle of talismans with the character ‘Seal’ written on them. He received what Zaha was trying to hand over and placed the talisman on top of it.

After tying the knot tightly, the heavy pressure finally disappeared.

“…”

Seol Young held the small thing in his hand. It was an indescribably strange feeling.

‘The fragment of the God of Cataclysm.’

He stayed like that, lost in thought, and then Seol Young kept them.

“Now we need to leave.”

“We should.”

Zaha agreed, but neither of them moved, and only silence fell.

He wanted to return to this world so much, and when he realized they had returned, a thought passed through his mind.

Zaha was probably thinking the same thing too.

‘What if…’

Seol Young recalled what the bones had shown them.

‘What if the illusions weren’t really illusions? What if they actually happened in this world? What if everything we saw was real?’

They had that thought, so they couldn’t bring themselves to step out.

Seol Young shook his head.

“No. It cannot be that.”

“It cannot be that.”

Zaha also said.

It was then.

A thump came from the outside, and a voice was heard.

The entire place rumbled, and the buildings outside seemed to be in a mess.

“No…?”

The two of them looked at each other with pale faces.

done.co