Subdued Soul Chronicle

A bright red flame engulfed everything.

The tents collapsed, and the pillars supporting the shelves were buried in flames, and…

Thud! Thud!

They fell in succession.

After all, this wasn’t a market.

The floor rocked. The wood they stepped on was cracking, and a huge sail was engulfed in flames.

Finally, this place with the veil of a market had been removed, and its true face was revealed.

It was a flower boat on a lake.

It was the place where the birthday party of the Devil Lair Lord was being held. It was the place where the most unpleasant things happened.

‘But will that stop me?’

Seol Young went through the blazing flames.

This was the Burial True Flames. Hence, putting out the flame with water wouldn’t work. Then he opened up a path using the power of the wind.

‘Where is everyone?’

He looked around and then found someone. In front of a mast engulfed in flames, he saw Zaha’s back.

He stared at the place where Zaha was and walked towards him.

“High Governor!”

He called out, but he didn’t get a response. It seemed that he had already sunk deep into his own memory.

Seol Young raised his spiritual qi in his hand. Even at this moment, the spiritual power was still gathering there.

‘Is it possible?’

He used Wind Spirit talismans, which used the power of the wind, and when he placed them in the four directions—north, east, south, and west—they burst out and then merged into this one huge whirlwind.

The flames were pushed back by the wind and spun around, forming a barrier.

This should buy him some time.

Seol Young moved closer to Zaha.

“Get yourself together.”

The moment he said that, the surrounding landscape changed. Suddenly, they weren’t on top of a burning boat. They were now on a wooded mountain.

Seol Young looked at Zaha and asked,

“Where is this?”

But there was no answer.

Anyway, he kept preparing the wind talisman, and Seol Young used it through the forest in front of him. The branches and trees kept moving, revealing the landscape ahead.

There was a tomb there.

The tomb was surrounded by the four beasts of the Hwarang troops.

Seol Young was surprised.

‘I need to know what…’

After all, the Lord was a vicious being. It dragged him into his most unpleasant memories. It was the moment when the God of Cataclysm was sealed inside his body.

“Wait! Stop!”

Seol Young blocked Zaha’s path, and he stopped.

“What?”

His golden eyes looked straight in his direction. He was locked up in a coffin for eight years, so his appearance didn’t change much.

But the Zaha in front of him looked a lot younger than now. He was probably even younger than Hyo Wol, but it wasn’t just about the age…

‘His eyes, which don’t look at the human as a human.’ ¹

Seol Young opened his mouth at his cold gaze.

“You cannot go there. We need to get you out of this memory quickly.”

“There are all sorts of bizarre demonic beings in this place.”

After saying that, a blue blade was aimed at Seol Young.

It was Zaha’s sword.

As it was, it made no sense.

“Look at this. Doesn’t it seem strange? Before you died, you must have released your sword….”

He pointed out the contradiction, but Zaha didn’t listen and pointed his sword at Seol Young, making Seol Young say,

“If you kill me right now, you will regret it.”

“Everyone says the same thing.”

“I am not everyone. I know everything. Your own grave is right in front of you. You are going to decide to deal with the God of Caclysm, even if it means risking your life right now.”

Zaha paused and looked straight at Seol Young. In the next moment, without any warning, his heart was almost pierced.

Seol Young barely pulled out the soft sword and slashed it.

Shiinng!

There was a weak sound, as if metallic chopsticks had been hit. The soft sword immediately wrapped around Zaha’s sword and flew away.

This lump of iron was a child’s toy to Zaha. After clearing away the annoying obstacle, he went for his heart in an instant.

‘I almost forgot. He has this personality of killing those who will reveal his secret….’

Even if he was confined inside a ghost, this was his own body, so that would mean Seol Young would die if he got stabbed.

Seol Young felt a chill run down his spine.

He used the survival instinct inside him and the foot technique he knew. With the help of those, he barely escaped the sword.

“High Governor! No, are you maybe more familiar with the title of Governor? Anyway, calm down and listen. This plan will fail! The God of Cataclysm will sneak out, and you will only manage to hold on to a part of his energy. After being asleep for eight years, you will meet me, and…”

“What kind of nonsense is that?”

The power he held was so great that Seol Young’s head, which he was aiming for, had a golden light shine on it.

He managed to block the attack by picking up the soft sword.

“Don’t you remember this soft sword? You found this yourself! Searching the corpse….”

No, this would all mean nothing.

“Let’s get out here quickly, or we will burn too! Besides, Seo Geom-rang is in danger! You said, ‘Even if the Hwarangs kill me, I will kill him.’ You will not lose another person to the God of Cataclysm inside you…”

While blocking the attack, he glanced at Zaha’s chest.

The necklace of the Great Mother had to be under his clothes.

‘That should bring him to his senses.’

However, it must have been the God of Cataclysm that manipulated the Devil Lair Lord. Behind all of this, she had to be lurking somewhere.

‘The power of the Great Mother cannot be used here. I have to save that as a trump card.’

So he had to find another way.

Right then, as Zaha avoided the shield created by the soft sword, his sword came from below. He tried to pierce Seol Young’s throat.

At that precarious moment….

Tak!

The sound of something hard hitting the blade echoed.

“…?”

Zaha looked at his sword, which had stopped midair. A black and chubby baby dragon was biting the sword.

It swayed while hanging on to it, then chewed on it some more. It looked like it liked the taste of the sword.

Seol Young shouted,

“Senior! You cannot eat that sword!”

“Senior?”

Zaha looked at him, puzzled. His gaze was on the ring in Seol Young’s hand. Was it a good choice that he called Oni?

Finally, Zaha’s expression changed.

“Isn’t that a righteous weapon containing the energy of the Sun and Moon Troops?”

“Right. On So-rang made it, you took me to the basement inside the Hwarangs’ Hall and brought it out. We are fighting against the God of Cataclysm now.”

Zaha looked at Oni. Then, his gaze moved to the sword.

“Ah.”

He only seemed to have realized what had happened then.

He immediately slipped out of the memory.

“I cannot believe it! I was so caught up in an instant!”

Zaha looked puzzled.

‘I lived.’

Seol Young was shocked.

In a short moment, he crossed the roads of life and death several times. The blood in his body was pulsing, and his head felt dizzy.

“Sorry, sorry.”

He smiled a little.

“I remember shouting ‘Use the summon’ from the other side, and it seems like I was thinking about something, and it created a gap for this to happen.”

“…”

“As an apology, should I lift the alcohol ban?”

Zaha mumbled softly. It wasn’t because of that, but Seol Young spoke,

“Was it such an important thing?”

The forest had vanished, and they were back in the sea of fire. Moving quickly to search for Seo Geom, Zaha said,

“I was looking into your memories, guessing the true intentions of the Devil Lair Lord. He was quite thorough, and he knew you as if you were in the palm of his hand. But…”

“But?”

“…I don’t know.”

Zaha shook his head.

“Let’s look at the end of this, and I will talk to you then.”

Then, the boat’s board beneath their feet split open.

Water gushed out from the cracks. Wherever the water from the cracks touched, the flames rose fiercely.

Seol Young quickly used the wind to suppress it.

“Strange.”

Zaha looked around.

“It isn’t even burned, so why did it break?”

As they looked around, there weren’t just one or two. Here and there, the bottom of the ship that connected the board was broken.

Then a scream came from beyond the flames.

“Save me! Help me!”

This time, they weren’t from ghosts in the memory. Someone was actually screaming.

The two of them hurried there.

Several people had gathered on the boat. When they saw Seol Young, they were delighted.

“Here!”

They were the ones from the alcohol bar he had worked in.

“We came to this place as you said, but…”

“The ship is about to break!”

They shouted together.

“Quickly, this way!”

Seol Young summoned a wooden item with his power and then threw a large plank as hard as he could with the wind.

Then the ghosts stepped onto it. Cracks were forming on the edges, so the side they were on was fine for now.

They passed the crisis once, but they didn’t understand what was happening.

“Is it collapsing on its own?”

Then Zaha realized something as he said that.

“Because it is a world that has been maintained with your spiritual power. It is only natural for it to die when you get your power back.”

“I was thinking the same thing.”

He never thought the reaction would be like this. Seol Young bit his lip and looked around.

“Where the hell is he hiding?”

“We need to find Seo Geom-rang as well.”

At that time, one of the staff members of the bar who was following them said,

“Are you looking for the Hwarang? I just saw him there. He was on the blue dragon ship.”

He pointed to the ship with a blue dragon’s head.

“Thank you.”

Seol Young and Zaha crossed over to the ship, and they could see Seo Geom’s form through the flickering flames.

He was in the same situation as Zaha had been earlier. He was standing and staring at one place.

“Seo Geom-rang!”

Zaha called out, but he didn’t get a response.

“What is he occupied with?”

“It must be his Hyung. We need to be ready.”

Seol Young approached him and patted him on the back.

“Seo Geom-rang!”

Just like before, they prepared to get inside a memory, but…

“Ah, Seol Young-rang.”

Unexpectedly, he came to his senses right away. Zaha looked puzzled.

“What? Is Seo Geom-rang’s mind stronger than mine?”

“Ah, well…”

Seo Geom-rang thought.

“Something was in front of me, but isn’t the past just the past? They don’t have any effect on me.”

Just then, the planks were cracking below their feet, and Seo Geom dodged them.

“But, High Governor, what is going on here?”

“As Seol Young-rang is gradually regaining his power, this world is slowly collapsing.”

“What?”

Seo Geom was shocked.

“Then we need to hurry. Seol Young-rang. Hurry up and take this. I found your sword.”

“Uh? Blue Rainbow?”

How was Seo Geom better at finding his sword?

Seol Young thought so as he held out to reach it, but then, Seo Geom, who was handing it over, had a complex look on his face.

“…?”

Seol Young’s and Zaha’s eyes went wide.

“Seo Geom-rang! What is this?”contemporary romance

1. TL/N: It means that his eyes didn’t care for the human. He looked at the human as if he were some worthless animal. ️

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