Subdued Soul Chronicle

In this world, there had been a case where a person who was fine a moment ago could turn into a monster.

Red hair, shining eyes, and oddly bent limbs. In the light, Baek Eon’s form was clear.

The whites of his eyes turned black, and his temple was cracked.

Everyone looked shocked outside the barrier. Baek Eon-rang was a monster?

Seol Young couldn’t see anything else. He forgot what he was doing.

“No! Great-rang!”

He ran and caught him, but before he realized it, Zaha moved.

“Seol Young-rang, wait.”

“No! Don’t kill him! He isn’t just my Hyung!”

“‘I’m not killing him!”

He grabbed Seol Young, who was screaming, and turned.

“Look again.”

The blue light shone all over Baek Eon’s body and was pushed back into his own. The flinching stopped.

Baek Eon touched his arms, took out something like a pill, and swallowed it. When he began to use spiritual qi, something happened.

His hair, which was red, was now normal. And his eyes returned to normal, too.

“Don’t be shocked, people! I am fine! High Governor!”

Baek Eon shouted.

Although his left eye seemed a bit numb, he was speaking correctly. Only then did Seol Young come to his senses.

“Great-rang! Are you fine?”

“Yes. It’s not a big deal. Don’t come into contact with any strange things. We might never know, but the others might not resist it!”

The strange shadows were what made Baek Eon act like that, and they were spreading all over the place.

Seol Young’s eyes went dark again.

‘We need more time.’

From the face of the half necklace, which was burning in golden light, the broken pieces of the Tree God jumped out.

The image of the God of Cataclysm was sucked into it more. They still needed more time.

However, strange shadows began to appear at the boundaries. They moved toward the Hwarangs on the other side.

It was a crisis that could destroy anything.

‘I cannot help it.’

At that moment.

The opinions of the seven people inside the barrier changed.

They pushed on the enemy, as they couldn’t give up now. And weren’t their members behind?

Jin Rim stopped the operation of the pagoda, threw his body, and broke the pillar behind him.

Each of the five leaders did so.

The pillars served as an axis to support this summoning, and when it was broken, the circle of defense failed.

An opaque barrier appeared there. The barrier began at the boundary and collapsed inside.

“High Governor! Governor!”

“Seol Young!”

“Great-rang!”

They shouted from the outside. The people called from there, as their entry was now blocked.

As the barrier collapsed, the storm shook the ground.

“Everyone gather here!”

Zaha lowered his sword, and his sword’s tip was shining gold, and it stuck somewhere. The barrier rose again.

“Baek Eon-rang!”

Seo Geom and Mu Won picked Baek Eon, and pushed him inside. Seol Young grabbed Jin Rim, who was running slowly, and rushed there. Hwa Un waited for all of them to arrive, and Seol Young asked the moment he stepped into the barrier,

“Great-rang, are you alright?”

“Yes.”

Baek Eon replied in his usual voice.

“Even though I haven’t recovered at all, I’m fine.”

“How did you do it? What pill was it?”

Seol Young grabbed him and looked at him. He thought he would die from watching Baek Eon suffer like that, but he couldn’t help but be grateful for how he got spared from death.

“That’s just our White Tiger Spirit Pill.”

After saying that, he reported to Zaha and Jin Rim.

“The moment that thing attacked me, my body felt strange. When I used the flow of spiritual qi to stop it, I felt that the qi was draining out, so I had to take out the pill, so I was able to stop it.”

Thank God.

Everyone had the same reaction.

What if Baek Eon really turned into a monster?

Just imagining it made the future seem dark. But…

After turning off the flame, a question arose.

Seol Young asked cautiously,

“We are really fortunate, but does a disfigured spirit’s change stop just like that?”

“No.”

Zaha answered.

“Once it starts, that’s all. One cannot stay sane like Baek Eon did or stop it.”

“Then how…”

“Because this isn’t real.”

Hwa Un said,

“You might not believe my words, but that is the truth. If it was a real disfigured spirit, it wouldn’t stop. Since it stopped, it means that treatment is possible. If Baek Eon-rang heads back and takes treatment for it, he will recover fully.”

Only then did Seol Young feel relieved, and he turned to Baek Eon.

“You will be taken back soon.”

“Right.”

He cast his gaze over the barrier and then to Zaha.

“For now, we have successfully pushed her away from our world. Right now, the barrier is perfectly safe, and her power can’t reach us.”

How much did they wish to be able to expel her?

Everyone thought the same thing.

“Now, we reopen the Ghost Bridge by activating the pagoda, which got stopped in the middle, and block it off. Then, she will be dragged to the other side. I am almost ready. After that, we can close the Ghost Bridge, and the space will gain stability. Then we can head out.”

“Yes.”

Everyone nodded at Zaha’s words.

“It might be confusing because the space is distorting, but since I touched the pagoda, it is tough to know where my qi is.”

Jin Rim shot his aura over the barrier.

Beyond the strange glow and wind, the stone pagoda shone like a lighthouse.

Fortunately, only three stones were shining at the bottom, which meant that they had time until they went off.

“Let’s go!”

“Yes!”

Zaha stepped out first. Following them, they made their way out of the barrier. But when they wanted to go far, the space began to distort.

Dark shadows came over. Their eyes shone, and the body of the Governor and the others bent back

“Great-rang!”

Seol Young grabbed Baek Eon. Right next to him, Seo Geom fell.

“Seo Geom-rang!”

After holding them together, Zaha looked at him.

“High Governor, what do we do?”

Zaha frowned and lowered his sword. But when the barrier tried to rise agan, it collapsed.

“Head back there!”

The leaders barely suppressed their change and went back.

“Great-rang!”

Baek Eon didn’t seem to be in good condition. In an instant, his face was covered in cracks, and his entire body flinched. It was something he had gone through twice.

Seol Young hurriedly rummaged through his chest and took out the pill. He crushed it into his hand and poured it into his mouth, Finally, his breathing stabilized.

The otheralso , did it on their own.

After a while, all of them suppressed their changes and were back to normal.

“What happened?”

They ask,ed unable to understand.

“When thG governor usehis e spiritual qi, nothing happened th,en why now? As if something wants us to changeo…o….”

Was there a reason for that?

Seol Young thought and said,

“Mita is an existence brought through pain, and the soul changed into something like a deformed spirit first. After that, the ghost turned stronger.”

“Then is she…”

Their faces went pale

“Trying to do the same as then? Since we are sending her to the other side, she is trying to make a perfect vessel for her to come?”

Everyone went speechless at Zaha’s guess.

“Seems right. she aimed for Seol Young-rnag, but failed and then decided to look for another. To take the soul of one of us.”

Jin Rim bit his lip.

“How many pills do we have?”

“Little. It is more for restoration than curing, so I didn’t bother bringing any.”

Baek Eon turnd his pockets overs and showd them. So did the other.

“I have littlebut…”

Seol Young took out the pouch Baek Eon gave him long back. There were around 10 or so pills. And it would end with 2 usages.

Then what now?

The face of Jin Rim changed

“…?”

Everyone looked where he was looking and beyond the barrier. Now the fourth one was also shining.

“Because we moved?”

Zaha frowned.

“What happens if it touches the 7th one?”

“The pagoda will stop working. Then it wont respond to my internal aura.”

At Jin Rim’s cal, silence fell. Then if they got out without a plan, things will end.

Before that, they had to find a way. but they couldn’t find a single thing to do

“NO other means is all I….”

Mu Won said,

“There is a way for someone to become a vessel. That way, we can through ourself to the other side. And then the rest will survive.”

He spoke so calmly.

“Well, I left all the work behind to our second in charge when coming over…”

“What are you saying?”

Seo Geom frowned.

“if you put it that way, there is our troops too. I prepared everything too!”

“Seo Jun-rang had similar situation so it makes no sense for you do go through this. You want your uncle to be depressed all his life?”

Baek Eon asked

“Black Tortoise, Blue Dragon, Vermillion Bird cannot do a thing without their leaders but our White Tiger…”

“Cannot be the same with Baek Eon-rang right? I wont let Seol Young-yang go through that.”

Hwa Un said,

“I assure you, none of these people have arranged a care for the next. Governor, let me do this.”

“Enough!”

Jin Rim spoke loudly.

“Everyone is so wrong. I exist to do such things. I will go.”

“No.”

Zaha said,

“Everyone is wrong.”

“Uh? No, high governor! You need to care for the hwarangs….”

“Don’t worry. I have no idea of doing that. Think I am crazy? To do that sacrifice? Why are you thinking of dying when surviving at all costs is important?”

Zaha said like it was absurd.

“The start of the task itself is wrong. Did you think anything would be the same after? Instead of going there, she will kill everyone else and operate the tower there and come back here.”

“…”

He was right.

An even greater disaster would strike them down. Getting the best of a hwarangs troops would let her run wild.

She has to stopped.

“Then, we will stay until th pagoda stops to work.”

Baek Eon said,

A look of peace appeared on their faces. If they died after taking her down, wouldn’t that be a nice death?

They thought so

‘No.’

Seol Young shook his head

If everyone died hre, what should the people left alive do?

‘We don’t have to die together.’

He closed his eyes.

‘There is a way for one person to die and end this.’

The secret arts. What if someone here did that?

There is nothing hard anymore.

The space will be stable, the world back to normal.

‘It is like that with it.’

Seol Young opened his eyes.

What he thought he couldn’t do.

It was like that at first and even more so now. He saw it with his own eyes how terrifying it is.

But….

It couldn’t be helped.

It wasn’t something to choose for himself. Just like Zaha did 8 years back.

He remembered what he wrote in the note before leaving. What would he say to his loved ones if he were to die?

‘Do not be sad.’

The fact that he wrote that one thing meant that he himself was prepared for this to an extent.

A decision made before he stepped in, and had to be done before the pagoda stopped and someone gets taken in by the God of Cataclysm.

Because he was the only one who knows about this art.

‘Right.’

Seol Young made up his mind.

‘Which is why I need to do it.’

When he decided that, he felt lighter. But there was just one problem.

Seol Young looked away.

Zaha was lost in thought, he frowned. And Seol Young didn’t understand what was happening in those eyes.

And he said

“High governor how about the two of us go over there and look at something?”

“….?”

Zaha had a sullen expression. However, without another word, he followed Seol Young.