Subdued Soul Chronicle

Chapter 152: Ghost City (16)

What Seo Geom handed to them wasn’t the Blue Rainbow.

“…!”

The moment they all looked shocked, the figure of the Devil Lair Lord, which had been hiding, disappeared.

The item that he gave was the golden bracelet that Soel Young had as a child.

Seo Geom was shocked.

“It was surely Blue Rainbow!”

Since he had also brought him the sword before, Seol Young held out his hand without being too cautious. Then the snake tried to move quickly towards his wrist.

“NO!”

The shadow of Seo Geom’s hand moved. His left hand intervened between the snake and Seol Young’s hand.

The bracelet had the characteristic of being attracted to someone with a strong spiritual power and sucking their power. So the snake snapped a bite at its prey, the head of the Blue Dragon True Toops. In an instant, it wrapped itself around Seo Geom’s wrist and began to suck him.

Seol Young was shocked.

“Seo Geom-rang!’

“Give it here!”

Zaha tried to remove the bracelet that was around Seo Geom’s wrist, but no matter how much he tried, it was useless.

“You need to make a fake doll to fool it. That is the only way.”

Seol Young was about to take out the items he needed, but Seo Geom stopped him.

“Forget it. Leave it be. I lied.”

“It is fine. Anyone can be fooled by evil things. Seol Young-rang and I also went through the same thing.”

Zaha said.

“It’s not that.”

Seo Geom shook his head.

“It wouldn’t have worked out.”

Seo Geom was someone who was always confident in everything. He was someone who boasted that he could do things that others couldn’t.

And such a person said the word NO?

Seol Young asked,

“What do you mean?”

“I cannot go anyway. I…”

He pointed to one place with a pale face. The place he had been standing and looking at.

Was it because, with the bracelet, Seo Geom’s consciousness was being mixed into this world?

Seol Young and Zaha could see it now.

His brother, Seo Jun, was covered in blood and sitting alone.

That was what they saw through the Memory Projection in the past. It was the moment when he died alone after killing the four Hwarangs who had been stabbed.

“‘The past is the past. It doesn’t have any effect on me.’ It was a lie. I lied to be praised by the High Governor. In fact, I cannot even walk out of this boat.”

Seo Geom looked at the bracelet that was absorbing his power.

The flags with a snake on them began to shine through the flames. As it received Seo Geom’s spiritual power instead of Seol Young’s, the collapsing world stopped.

“I guess this is my mission.”

Seo Geom glanced back. The ghosts went closer to take a look.

“I will keep the souls safe and… I need to talk with my brother over there.”

Seo Jun’s soul disappeared after finally getting rest from the world, and the Seo Jun sitting there was an illusion. It was just a thought left in Seo Geom’s mind.

‘But wanting to talk…’

Seol Young looked at Seo Geom.

He thought that he had overcome his brother’s tragedy, but not completely.

Even though his family didn’t care, Seo Jun was a righteous person. And yet, Seo Geom had always treated the man coldly because he wasn’t the brother that he wanted.

And now he couldn’t even apologize for that.

And deep down, that fact felt painful.

Then he had to face it.

A reunion to soothe the souls, and sometimes even the living needed it.

“Then do what you want.”

Because there was no other answer. He had already jumped into the memory.

Seol Young raised the soft sword.

Despite the old bad blood between the two of them, Seol Young wanted Seo Geom to get out. And he had to get the man out of here safely.

‘This is the end of the Devil Lair Lord.’

As he swung the soft sword with all his might, the spell worked. It surrounded the sea of fire and began to rotate.

Heavenly Barrier.

It was a barrier that prevented the evil spirits from escaping. As soon as the barrier was completed, it flashed.

“There!”

The Devil Lair Lord was trying to escape the barrier.

Seol Young drew a talisman in the air, and it hit him on the back.

But the Lord whirled around.

In the next moment, a number of spears came, so Seol Young had to move away from there.

The spears rained directly from above.

Evil snake patterns formed everywhere, and he tried to imprison Seol Young inside so he couldn’t escape.

‘It looks like this is your last attempt!’

Now that he had his spiritual power back, he had nothing to fear.

Seol Young summoned the Heavenly King just before the Lord was done with his last step.

A huge form appeared with peacock wings and a flame crown on its head, wearing armor all over its body. Among the four Heavenly Kings, this was the Great Growth Heavenly King.

“Ugh!”

The Heavenly King let out a lion’s roar and swung its sword, and then the arm of the Lord that was trying to cast a spell was cut off right then.

And at that moment, the form of a ghost flickered on the other side of the Lord. Seol Young threw a talisman there.

“Expose your true self!”

It was a strong order, and the letters of the talisman hit his body.

Another Devil Lair Lord appeared in the air.

The original Lord screamed, and that caused a shockwave between the two. It was because of the law that two similar beings couldn’t exist in the same space.

As a result, their presence caused conflict and they tried to kill each other. At the moment when the energies of the two collided, there was a strong vibration in the air.

It was an explosion that was so powerful that nothing could be seen. In the midst of that, the figures of the two Lords couldn’t be seen anymore.

The flags that had been fluttering were now on the ground. They have lost their power and disappeared too.

They did it.

Seol Young looked at the empty space in front of him.

“The Lord is dead.”

He turned around and saw that Zaha was looking in that direction too.

“It seems like it.”

“That’s what I did when I was younger. I used the law of causality, which Teacher had given me a clue about. I hid in secret and kept observing him until I could use it.”

“Right.”

Zaha nodded.

“That is how I defeated him and got out. The story ends there.”

He stared into the space for a moment, and then he said,

“It is over, but…”

‘You did well. You worked hard,’ he expected Zaha to say something like that.

But no, instead, he said,

“It is strange.”

“Uh?”

Come to think of it, the more they moved, the less Zaha spoke, as if he were thinking about something, so Seol Young asked,

“What is strange?”

“At that time, the Lord was thorough, and he understood you so well. Don’t you think that the loophole to his destruction was revealed too easily?”

“Easily? How hard I had to work to get it…”

“Listen first. It’s not that I don’t trust what you went through. I was already dead at the time, so I didn’t hear anything. I know nothing. So even if I had a question, I didn’t say anything and watched until the end. I waited, and pretty much everything is solved except one thing.”

“What is it?”

“You said this at the start.”

Zaha looked around with sharp eyes and said,

“There was a reason why your teacher forbade you from using sorcery.”

“…”

When he heard that, it occurred to him.

He didn’t remember that part. The Lord must have done something, and that made him feel anxious.

“What did I miss?”

“I don’t know, but I want to ask you something.”

Zaha said that while summoning spiritual power from his sword.

“About the chain. What is its role?”

“Uh?”

“You must have been chained before? So there must be a mark on your wrist. You said it with your mouth, too. The nightmare. As a child, you were tied in chains, not being able to move, surrounded by ghosts…. When the heck did those chains appear on you?”

“The first time?”

Seol Young looked blank.

“The first time I was taken to the lair, the demonic being threw the chains with shackles on me. But I avoided it…”

“The place where they took you away must have been the place called the Great Hall, right? A snake pattern was hidden under the floor.”

His heart sank, and at that moment, something moved through the air.

It was the chains with shackles.

The Devil Lair Lord threw the chains back at Seol Young, moving beyond time and space.

Zaha swung his sword and slashed them, which made sparks fly.

But the chains didn’t budge. As if it had already been decided that way, they were tightly clenched around Seol Young’s wrist.

And Seol Young’s body got dragged away somewhere. It was underwater.

Cold water hit his nose, and he couldn’t breathe.

‘No…no!’

Afraid of dying, Seol Young saw something.

The five tomb ghosts.

While they were preparing a banquet, demonic beings surrounded them and dragged them away. When the Lord pointed his hand, flames covered their bodies.

The flames roared!

The Burial True Flames, which were on their bodies, spread through the entire area.

‘And he knew everything. He showed his loopholes on purpose.’

Baek San told him that he used the law of causality, and the young Seol Young wanted to see through that power, so he would use a summoning technique to kill…

Everything was the Lord’s plan, though.

‘Why? But why?’

Seol Young’s body got dragged out of the water. Then he was dragged and tied to a wall.

And the Lord was in front of him.

Seol Young shouted,

“Just why?”

The body of the Lord could be seen floating in the water. He was just bones. A pile of charred bones.

Inside his ribs was the snake, which was biting its tail.

‘Endless repetition, then…’

There was an echo that spread in all directions.

“Because in order for me to get out, I have to hand this over to someone.”

He raised his hand to take off the mask, and there was nothing under the skull mask.

[I am sorry]

The skull mask was pressing on Seol Young’s head.

Seol Young screamed.

This was a nightmare.

His right arm was chained, and when he tried to break free, it only made a rattling sound.

He could use the spiritual qi on his left hand, but it was impossible with the two Lords becoming one.

Red lights shone one after another.

[You abandoned us]

[Used us and threw us away]

The subordinates of the Devl Lair Lord approached him.

‘No. I need to do something…’

There was Blue Rainbow in front of him, and there was his ring too.

But no matter how much he tried, he couldn’t reach them. But just a little, just a little bit more, if only he could stretch out his hand.

A voice sounded in his ears as he struggled.

“Despair.”

Everyone was saying that.

Until now, he had suffered so much and killed the Devil Lair Lord. Though in the end, this was the result.

[Despair]

Seol Young’s mind went back to his childhood.

The Devil Lair Lord died, and his lair collapsed.

Now, only Seol Young and the demonic beings were left.josei

[This is how it ends. In a place where no one knows…]

Dozens of red eyes slowly approached him, and Seol Young closed his eyes.

But then….

“Where! Where are you trapped?”

There was a distant voice coming from somewhere, which made Seol Young open his eyes.

He was losing consciousness, but his mind became clear in an instant.

It was definitely Baek San’s voice.