Subdued Soul Chronicle

With a crackling sound, the Devil Lair Lord’s body was engulfed in light.

‘What?’

Seol Young looked down at his hands, which glowed. When he got free from the memories of his childhood, his hands were back to normal.

Something like lightning came out of his hand. Even if he had spiritual qi, it was so weak that he couldn’t even draw a talisman. However, the moment he got angry at the Lord who tormented him, something powerful burst out.

‘What happened?’

He waved his hand, but nothing would come out now.

At that time, a dark red deadly qi attacked like it was swinging a scythe, which made Seol Young dodge and look at the Devil Lair Lord. As he was being attacked by Seo Geom and Zaha, his appearance changed.

The eyes behind his skull mask burned bright.

The Golden Ring and the Blue Dragon, two types of spiritual power, dealt a strong blow to his body. So parts of his body looked like his skin was cracking up and something was flowing out.

‘Demon King.’

It felt like he deserved that name with the bizarre way he looked.

His attacks were also bizarre. Sometimes they would come, and sometimes they would vanish. Every time that happened, dozens of dark red things would rise up and attack them.

And as that was happening, the tents around the Ghost City were being shattered.

“Such a strange attack!”

Seo Geom dodged what came from behind and shouted.

“Is this also something from the Land of Heaven?” ¹

Zaha raised his energy toward his sword.

“Seo Geom-rang, straight ahead!”

The two swords crossed each other for a moment and met the attack of the Lord. It was like they were hitting steel! Sparks rose all over the place with a crackling sound.contemporary romance

Since Zaha and Seo Geom belonged to different troops, they just used the basic sword technique of the Hwarang troops. Still, it seemed enough.

Every time the two of them hit the target and broke through the attack of the Lord, the entire presence of the Lord was surrounded by golden and white lights.

Then suddenly, something like red petals poured out from the gap.

“Gu Poison technique!”

Seol Young immediately called Oni.

The baby dragon did its duty by opening its mouth and sucking in the red things. But at that moment, one dark red whirlwind attacked Oni.

“Senior!”

Another flash of lightning came out of Seol Young’s hand and hit the whirlwind.

‘Again…?’

When he looked down in wonder, the form of the Devil Lair Lord was visible.

Seol Young hurriedly retrieved Oni and drew out the soft sword to attack. At that moment, he felt something hot rush through the veins of his body.

That shocked him.

‘Spiritual qi is… working?’

The blade of the soft sword danced lightly and split the space. And after that, a silver aura rose, like the tail of a nine-tailed fox. It was fast, flexible, and stretched out to attack the opponent.

At the same time, Zaha and Seo Geom were moving in to attack.

Pop!

Came the sound of the Lord’s chest being pierced, and he was being pushed back.

‘No…’

Seol Young swung the soft sword just once more. A silver spiritual qi rose up. Blood was dripping down his own shoulder wound, but he didn’t feel any pain.

After losing his spiritual power, he failed each time he used his spiritual qi, with the pain rising in his body as if his life was being pulled out.

But now he could feel it from within. It was a feeling that he hadn’t felt in a very long time.

Seol Young shouted at the two who were fighting the opponent.

“My meridian seems to have been pierced! The bracelet wasn’t even pierced, though…”

“Is that even possible?”

Seo Geom said that while stabbing the opponent.

“I read in a book that there are many ways to open the meridian that has been blocked by a curse. Stimulate the qi and pierce through the existing block. I was told not to do it without the permission of a physician since it would end up horribly wrong…”

Seol Young was genuinely surprised, and he looked at Zaha.

“Then, when you planted the enchanted spell on my hand, it was intended to produce this thing?”

“The High Governor did that? As expected, he looks so far ahead of things! I cannot keep up with his thoughts!”

Seo Geom’s eyes shone as he looked at Zaha.

“…”

Based on Zaha’s character, he had this condescending look as if saying, ‘Be thankful I am here. Although, I don’t really want to be.’

However, when Seo Geom stepped forward and made a fuss about it, it seemed like the excitement cooled down.

“No. I didn’t plan that far….”

Zaha raised a spiritual qi barrier to stop the whirlwind.

“The standard way is to find and destroy the cursed thing. But that doesn’t mean that I wanted to wait. I’ve already done that part for eight years now. Still, I didn’t think that your meridian would just be pierced….”

“Then, did I do a lot better than you expected?”

At Seol Young’s words, Seo Geom smiled.

At that time, spears came rushing in from all directions. At the same time, the image of a snake appeared on the ground.

If they get hit by those, they will die.

All three of them knew that, so they didn’t dodge it or attack it. They just slipped out of there.

Seol Young glanced at the Devil Lair Lord.

‘It’s no use. No matter what you do, I understand everything. You have harassed me for too long now.’

Their opponent had three weapons.

The first was the space called the Lair. The second was this technique, the poison, which couldn’t be felt. The third was causality.

“Through his ability to separate cause and effect from each other, he pretended to be omnipotent…”

Seol Young raised his left hand with a silvery spiritual qi.

“There is no omnipotent technique in the world. And there are weaknesses in everything. The stronger the force, the stronger the opposite reaction is…”

They had now surrounded their opponent. Then the opponent wrote something in the air.

A gust of wind hit them, with spiritual qi shining and a whirlwind.

And then something formed. It was a blurry, grotesque, ghost-like form.

Zaha glanced at that.

“What is that now?”

“I don’t know. When I was hit by him earlier and injured my right arm, something like that appeared. For some reason…”

Before Seol Young finished his answer, more things happened.

The snake pattern on the floor was gone.

After a moment of shock, Zaha pushed them aside.

“Above!”

It was right above! A tent fluttered above.

They avoided it, like earlier, but everyone was hurt by a dagger.

But that wasn’t the problem. Seol Young didn’t miss the chance and used his spiritual qi.

A silvery light flew straight down and shone onto the new opponent, and a face was revealed. It was the one with a skull mask.

That made them all shocked.

“Devil Lair Lord?”

Another one?

Unlike the real one, who was desperately attacking, this was just a form in the air.

Zaha asked,

“Why are there two of them? Seol Young-rang, do you remember anything?”

“None.”

Seol Young shook his head.

“But it must have happened in the past. A reaction to a technique. I could have used it to kill him. But there is no way I could have done anything when I was young…”

He thought hard while avoiding the attacks.

“After learning that the time inside the harp box was being distorted, it felt strange.”

“Which part?”

“On the day of the festival, the High Governor and Third-rang were supposed to be at the banquet. But through the Devil Lair Lord’s manipulation, both of them, who were outside, went inside the harp box. Then the two of them, who were supposed to be at the banquet, will vanish. It’s because there cannot be two identical people in the same place.”

“Right. We cannot look into the past anymore, but I am sure there weren’t any two similar-looking people in the room.”

“But not him.”

Seol Young realized something.

“This evil snake connects two timelines. It is because the current one attracts the targets closer and kills them without much distinction, while the second one is aiming for a murder that has been planned in advance.”

Seol Young turned to the bottom pattern of the snake.

“That is why the moment I used the technique, the Devil Lair Lord turned into two. He who commits murder in front of the past time, and he who uses the technique in the present time.”

They finally found the secret.

“This is the reaction of the power of causality. Two same things cannot exist in one space. If one exists, the other has to disappear.”

Seol Young continued.

“When I was young, I would have used that to kill that guy. By granting existence to the ghostly second one, it caused the two of them to collide.”

“How?”

“To set up a place for it in the world and make a place for it to exist. Isn’t that how summons work? We can use a summoning technique with spiritual power!”

At that moment, he realized something else.

Seo Geom might have just realized it now.

“So he cursed Seol Young-rang and took away your spiritual power? To stop you from killing him if you realize this secret and use summoning?”

But their opponent’s plan failed.

Through the enchanted words that Seol Young got from Zaha, the spiritual meridian in his body was cured.

‘So different from then.’

Seol Young was no longer a child.

Zaha, who died at that time, was here, and Seo Geom, who was in closed-room training, was also here. Zaha shouted as he pushed forward,

“Then use that summoning technique quickly!”

“Yes.”

Seol Young raised one hand in front, but at that moment…

Pat!

Something flashed ahead, and bright red flames rose everywhere.

“Burial True Flames?”

Seol Young dodged it. The flames were eating away at everything they touched. And soon, he couldn’t see anything.

“High Governor? Seo Geom-rang?”

The moment he moved to find them, something came out of the flames.

The tomb ghosts.

“…!”

Seol Young was angry.

‘Do you think I will back down if you show me this?’

His own spiritual power, which had spread in this space, was gathering again little by little. It created a wind and scattered the illusion.

And the sparks of the flames vanished.

The screams of people could be heard.

[Save me!]

[All because of you!]

All of them were already dead.

In the glowing flames, afterimages of the past were mixed.

Seol Young’s face turned cold.

‘You cannot stop me with something like this.’

This was a sad thing. These were things he felt pain from. And things he regretted.

But he wasn’t going to blame himself.

He was deceived, he got scared, and he even hurt others, but he lived his life to the fullest.

Didn’t he work hard even in the Lair? Despite not having any motivation?

-It is not your fault. You didn’t do anything wrong.

That was what his teacher told him several times. So it was fine.

But…

‘How about you on the other side?’

Seol Young looked at the flames.

‘I am sure both of you are lost.’

He raised his hand and wrote a Wind God talisman.

Strong winds pushed through the flames, creating a path.

‘Now, it is my turn to wake you up.’

Seol Young stepped into the flames.

1. TL/N: India ️

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