Chapter 243 – 237 Ouling, the Village on the Bridge
“Ugh…… Big… , Flow…….」
Hwanin carefully observed the change in Cedar, who was barely maintaining his reason in a half-mixed state.
‘It’s the first time I’ve seen a dark red color again.’
Everywhere on the body spreads dark red like ink dropped into water. Dark shimmering like a spiritual energy began to flow from the spiritual body like an aura, and the appearance of the soul gradually began to change.
What does that color mean? Black is an evil spirit, and red is a mixture, so it can be seen as a mixture of the two.
“Ah ah ah ah ah…… !”
The clothes, which looked like improved hanbok, fell off as if they were corroding and disappearing, revealing a slightly plump naked body, and various scars began to be carved on the body.
The nipples and areolas are tattered, and the smooth pubic hair without a hair is torn as if being hacked to pieces.
Then, as if it had been stabbed deeply by something, it opened and the intestines began to ooze out and rattle.
There were bruises on the abdomen, and finally, scratch-like wounds were deeply engraved, and the nails fell out, and the whole body was ruined like a rag.
Traces of severe torture engraved on the traces of countless rapes.
Like the black soul woman in Carton Village, Hwanin gazes at the traces of the murder engraved on her body with a subdued gaze.
「Aaaaa…… Aaaaa…… !”
Cedar, clutching her head with both her hands and sobbing like a ghost, was seen writhing in mental pain rather than physical.
‘It’s a mixture of evil spirits added to it. It seems to reflect the image of the grudge at the time of death in the spiritual body…….’
As if there was a non-physical effect on the sound, whenever Cedar wept, Hwanin felt a weak but phase current being stimulated.
When the phase current is stimulated, it means that it is a kind of attack.
Looking to the side, the women of Hwanin are in a hurry as if they are in confusion.
= Oh, what do you do? Isn’t this dangerous? It seems to be turning into an evil spirit, do you?=
=Like a sonic attack, the sound is carrying power……. So, honey?=
「Aaaaa… ! Haaaaa- !”
Cedar starts screaming with his mind flickering like a flickering fluorescent light. Hearing his girlfriends startled at the sound, Hwanin said with force.
“Be cool.”
“… Aaghh?! … Aaaaa…… Ugh…….」
“Keep your sanity. If you get mixed up here, Malvin will take on all the damage and resentment caused by it.”
“…… Ahhhhh… Oh Mar…… My son…… !”
Mentioning his son was, of course, a special drug. Cedar, who seemed to be about to go black at any moment, immediately wakes up.
The body, which was full of traces of terrible torture and abuse, gradually becomes smoother, and the parts submerged in anger and resentment move as if they are being sent to the tips of the hands and feet.
But that was the limit. The wounds on the body haven’t completely disappeared, and the movement of the dark red color also spreads and shrinks repeatedly and stops moving.
Soon, Cedar covered his face with both hands and crouched down on him. It is a look of forcibly holding on to reason so as not to go crazy.
Seeing Cedar trembling non-stop and making sounds between moaning and pain, Hwanin shot a wave of tranquility.
Faaaaa…….
Cedar’s appearance, enveloped in a haze-like haze, began to change again.
The trembling of the body disappeared, and the wounds covering the body were completely erased.
The level of the dark red aura that flowed out like an aura was greatly reduced, and the spots that covered the body like sunspots moved to the ends of the limbs and became naked and wearing dark red stockings and wedding gloves.
That was it.
Her limbs are lightly stained with dark red aura as if all her resentment has not been cleansed, and she is naked even though she is awake, perhaps because she was not wearing anything when she was killed.
“Soul Master…….」
Cedar growled and stretched out his crouched body. A hazy dark red haze covers her soul and murmurs.
Because of that, even though her drop-shaped breasts and hairless pubic area were exposed, she didn’t feel ashamed, she said, igniting her anger.
“Soul Master. I, I can’t reach Buddhahood like this……. If I don’t kill that son of a bitch…… If Marr can’t live a carefree life, then I…… !”
An ice-cold breath pours out between her lips as if she had applied lipstick with a dark red aura instead of her blood color.
“Cedar.”
“Right…. Didn’t the spirit master say he was going to kill that son of a bitch? Me too, I’ll help. As long as I can kill that son of a bitch, I don’t care if my soul dies and I can’t go to the Garden of the Gods…… !!」
The more he gasped as he chewed it out, the stronger the shimmer of the dark red aura wrapped around Cedar’s soul.
Her phantom nodded her head to keep Cedar from sinking further into resentment.
“Good. However, the condition is that you wait near us and move only when I ask for your help. I will forbid you to intervene or act on your own judgment.”
「I will do as you say. No, I will do as you say. So use my soul as a dagger to bring ruin to that son of a bitch…… Please get off…….」
“Of course. Instead, I will leave it up to you to end Aldhelm’s life.”
“Thanks…….」
=…….=
=…….=
Hwanin’s women couldn’t even move their lips as if they were overwhelmed by the transformation of Cedar, who knelt in front of him and vowed revenge.
Cedar ascended to the sky after being instructed by Hwanin to watch who came in and out of Owling.
Looking at Cedar from the front yard of her outbuilding, which had risen to the sky high enough to be seen as a small dot, Anne muttered while pacing with her thoughtful face.
=I’m in a bad mood.=
Cedar’s anger was new to Anne, but she could understand it to some extent.
What if Doryeong’s child, whom she gave birth to with a stomachache, is in the same situation as Malvin? I don’t think she can say for sure that she won’t do that either.
While her mind is complicated in many ways, one strange point confuses Anne’s mind.
‘Cedar’s appearance is proof that he has become a half-evil spirit.’
After talking with Hwanin, Cedar became like that, but it was Anne who didn’t think it was her Hwanin’s fault.
Even without Do-Ryeong, Cedar would have been mixed up. Her confusion is the contamination of the soul caused by emotions, and what she went through was rather strange that it was not mixed.
But demons are different.
What to say Singularity means strength and energy. In a place full of phase power, emotionally corrupted souls become evil spirits and harm people.
If Cedar, who was so ordinary, caused such a singularity…….
‘Didn’t the aura of Doryeong play that role?’
Doryeong is not a pure soul. I think it’s a mixed job that combines the evil faction side of the job, the necromancer.
Since he’s a necromancer who handles souls, wouldn’t he be able to cause demonization? Maybe mixed up?
‘No no!’
Anne shook her head so much that she wondered if her brain water would leak out through her ear hole, and immediately put the thought aside.
Do-ryeong, the soul sign, induces the soul into a mixed state? Nonsense.
…… Is there anything wrong with it? There are people like Aldhelm who kill people for fun and to steal their property. How is that different from the act of making a mixture?
Rather, Hwanin’s actions are in terms of punishment by punishing with spirits…….
If the drug effect is excessively produced, it becomes poison.
Even poison can be used as a cure.
Herbs and poisons are up to the person to use. If the poison isn’t meant to harm innocent people, but rather to be used against villains like Aldhelm…….
Isilite, who was tending to her queues, glared at her land, saw her pensive Anne, and tapped her on the shoulder.
=Anne, what are you thinking?=
=…… Huh? Uh, I think Doryeong is a really great person. And…… She thought that it was people who created and cured confusion.
=It’s a story with a lot to think about.=
Yurpa, who was sitting under the shadow of a tree and controlling her mind because she couldn’t calm down enough to make magic tools, heard the conversation and said,
= Miss Anne thinks she induced Cedar to be that way? =
=… I don’t know. Doryeong said that the soul decides what shape the soul will remain. But when I saw that Cedar became like that in Doryeong’s story…….=
=That’s why you said that it is also a person who creates and treats confusion. She was worried that she might use those abilities for bad things. =
= I thought about that for a while, but no. Why would the doryeong do that? Even the Farghist lord coveted the lord and invited him. You can live comfortably and happily as long as you set your mind to it, but I don’t think that a person who goes through hardships would do such a dangerous and difficult job.
More than anything else, Doryeong wants to lead the tribal alliance to return to his own world. He has no reason to create havoc or evil spirits…….
…… Huh? Wait, if Doryeong goes back to his original world…… How are we?
=…… !=
Anne, belatedly realizing that something more important than being mixed with evil spirits, shouted with her contemplative face.
= Hey, hey. Seul-ah, older sister Yuri. Big trouble, big trouble!=
=What are you talking about all of a sudden?=
=What’s the big deal?=
= If Doryeong returns to his world, what will happen to us? Can we follow the spirit too?=
=…… ?!=
=…… !=
Isilite and Yurpa’s faces became serious as well.
Hwan-in, unaware that his women had entered into an emergency discussion with a serious face in the world, was explaining everything to Malvin and Helisa at Malvin’s mansion.
“…… This is a conclusion drawn from gathering information from Seeder. I think the odds are higher than anything else.”
= After listening to Mr. Younghon’s words, I realized that there were certainly doubtful parts. If Ald Helm, who noticed her existence in Thrim’s Labyrinth, seduced Miriam, Malvin’s cousin, found out her information and killed her, then plotted to swallow Ouling…….=
“The back and forth of the story fit together.”
After learning the shocking truth about her, Hwanin looked at Malvin, who shook her shoulder, took a sip of her tea in front of her, and asked Helisa.
“Rather than that, there are still unanswered questions. Is it okay to ask this question…… As a foreigner, I am careful to judge.”
= It’s okay, so if you have any questions, don’t worry and ask. I will tell you everything to the best of my knowledge.=
Helisa’s answer reminded Hwanin of a part of his conversation with Cedar from earlier.
‘Cedar. Let me ask you one question. Are things like what Aldhelm did in Owling relatively common?’
‘That’s not it. I’m asking if it’s common for barons to treat high tribes like this.’
When talking with Cedar, he focused only on the reason why Aldhelm reached out to Owling, so he skipped over that part.
I was wondering if I could check it again later.
However, Cedar became enraged at the whole story that Hwanin deduced, and the story ended in an awkward way.
It’s not a very important part of the future journey, but I had some doubts about some of the probabilities that I had collected so far, so I put the question back to Helisa.
“Helisa. Aren’t the Go people of noble status in Radsea?”
=… Yeah? Ah, it seems that the Spirit Master is not familiar with the culture of Radseah yet.=
“It’s been about 10 months since I arrived in Radsea, but I’ve been wandering all the time.”
Certainly, pilgrims living in the spirit world wander all the way, continuing their sexual misfortune.
Helisa was a bit of a sore spot for her Gojok, but she understood Hwanin’s situation and began her explanation with an awkward smile.
The story becomes longer as the high-ranking people and their social status are compared to the history of Lukrang and the country of Radsea.
If written, the history of the class is close to 10,000 characters.
Hwanin, who heard all of this, summarized it in one word.
‘The high family is a heritage class.’
The heritage class, in modern times, is a word that refers to a class that has a lot of property and enjoys privileges by accumulating wealth with such property.
In Radsea, a grading system is used in most places where classification is required.
Level 1 is the lowest and Level 10 is the highest. Also, the grading system from 1st to 10th was applied to the barons, but there was no such thing for the nobles.
In the first place, Hwanin had never seen anyone who introduced himself as a noble, so he only thought that ‘a noble family = an aristocrat one level lower than a noble family’.
“Thank you for your kind explanation. Thanks to you, I feel refreshed.”
So, Aldhelm did not commit the same noble murder. If this incident is known, it will not be classified as a criminal, although it will be pointed and criticized in the baron society.
No, if you bring a person who will be Malvin’s 8th nephew, reflect on and apologize for your mistakes, and invest in Owling, wouldn’t it be treated as an occasional mistake?
‘Even in a city like Wayford, even criminals are tortured to the point of being skinned to death…….’
The occurrence of confusion due to murder also has its own countermeasures. It’s because it’s okay to hire a spirit priest and bring it to perform sexual misfortune without waiting for the Seungryeongcheonje that comes every leap year.
A slight decrease in reputation and expenses, compared to swallowing an Owling with a labyrinth that is like money flowing indefinitely, is a cheap cost.
Hwanin added a few more words to Radseah’s common sense in her head, then looked at Malvin.
His eyes were clear and his trembling was gone.
“Then let’s go a little further. Helisa, is there any baron that Malvin can trust?”
=Unfortunately…….=
It was said that no background was created, but Hwanin was not surprised or sighed.
Because I expected it to be like that from the beginning. Had he had a proper back, Aldhelm wouldn’t have acted that way openly.
“Malvin.”
=Yes, yes. Soul Master.=
“I can recommend a way for you and Helisa to survive. It can be said that there is no other way for you and Helisa to live peacefully.”
Even if she kills Ald Helm, the Bija Lux family will continue to stretch her demons towards Ouling. She would rather not touch herself, her higher spirit sign, so her offspring would pour out their dead grudges on the Lou Vi Zhu family.
=That, what is that?=
Hwanin took out the ruby brooch Sidur had given him from his pocket and put it on the table. Malvin and Helisa’s gaze goes to the ruby brooch.
“This ruby brooch was given to me by Sidur, the mother of Fenri Justio Farhist, the lord of the Farhist Castle. You can think of it as a kind of right to wish that you can ask him for a favor.”
=Ouch!=
=…… !=
“Take this and go to the Farghist. Then present the Serim labyrinth to the lord and ask for protection. Although on the edge of the realm, Owling is also within the reach of the Farhists. If you fall down and swear allegiance, the lord of the castle will not turn away from you.”
=Ha, but Owling’s ancestors passed on from generation to generation…… Ouch!=
= To say that you would use such a noble object for us who have no one-sided knowledge. I can’t cause any more trouble to the Spirit Master. Please reap.=
After pinching Malvin’s thigh to make her shut up, Helisa wraps her ruby brooch around her handkerchief and returns it to her Hwanin.
= Just what the spirit master said, we clearly knew what we had to do. The deviant slim labyrinth is, as you say, a labyrinth with excellent value. It is a labyrinth that generations of men from the Ruby Joo family entered, hunted only enough to use every year, and sealed it.=
Because of that, the Labyrinth has barely grown, and is now only at level 2. It will be easy to manage, so Helisada says that he will ask for her protection after giving the village to the lord of Fenri Castle.
As she talked about the land of her ancestors too late to speak, she bowed her head with Helisa, perhaps realizing that it was not the time for beauty.
Hwanin shook his head.
“It is too soft. Do you think that the Go people can create a place where they can easily meet alone with a 7th-level high-ranking baron?”
=…….=
“This will be an invitation to meet with the Farghist lord directly while promoting your safety. Accept it if you wish for Malvin’s safety.”
= Yes, but…….=
“If you’re worried about me, that’s fine.”
Sneaking, he takes out the platinum token from her chest, shows it to her, and puts it in. Only Helisa is shocked.
“You know, it’s a secret. I want to be neutral.”
= Yes, yes! Of course. I will keep it a secret for the rest of my life until I enter the grave!=
=…… ?=
Malvin, who only blinks his eyes, is a little unreliable, but helisa is next to him, so you don’t have to worry.
= You care so much about Malvin, she really doesn’t know what to say thank you…….=
Malbin, who received her Helisa’s gaze, respectfully received the ruby brooch with both hands before she noticed her, then stood up from her seat and bent her waist at 90 degrees.
She = She has received an indescribable amount of grace from the spirit master. Malvin Lou Vizhu, the 35th head of Lou Vizhu and the high-born of Owling, swears to never forget this favor and devotes all her heart and soul to repay her soul a thousandfold a hundredfold. =
“It’s okay to forget. Even with empty words, you can’t say that the days that unfold before you will be as smooth as the road stretching to the horizon.”
= No! I will never forget you!=
Hwanin smiled bitterly and shook his head slightly.
The day following the preparations for the memorial service.
A memorial service to console the souls of those who were killed unjustly began at the place where all the villagers gathered.
The progress of the ceremony was as discussed in advance. A makeshift plaza covered with white lily flowers, and hundreds of villagers surrounding such a plaza.
Villagers glanced at the spirits gathered around the platform.
Eighty-seven souls in a relatively normal state, having been hit by a wave of tranquility and injected with a little spiritual energy.
=You have so many souls that it’s spooky.=
=The memorial service was thought of by the spirit priest?=
As the townsfolk gossip, Helissa, wearing a black dress like a mourning suit rather than a maid’s uniform, goes up to the podium.
Standing on the altar in front of the altar, Helisa read a short opening speech that explained why she was holding the memorial service (although everyone in the village already knew it) and how the memorial service was conducted while receiving the eyes of the villagers.
Afterwards, the head of the guard, stiff from nervousness, went up to the podium and recited a brief report of the incident.
Only Malvin’s voice echoes in the quiet plaza. Hwanin’s women gathered in a corner of the plaza whispered softly.
=After the memorial service, are Malvin and Helisa leaving for Farghest?=
“Okay. She appoints the captain of the guard as a temporary substitute and leaves escorted by the women who stopped us the day before yesterday.”
=What will happen to the town when Mr. Melvin leaves?=
=If you dedicate the Labyrinth of the Mutant Slime and go under Farhist, even Bijalux won’t be able to touch it. There are not a few cases where an apostle is sent to act as a regent, and the owner or head of the family lives in the city, so if Malvin and Helissa don’t come out of the Farghist, their lives won’t be threatened, right?
After the recitation of the memorial address in a pious atmosphere, the villagers lined up one by one and began burning incense in the incense bowls prepared on the altar in front of the altar.
The thin and long incense burns quietly, raising the smoke one by one.
As villagers take turns burning incense in 87 incense bowls, three or four incense sticks stick out in each incense bowl, and thin smoke rises slowly into the sky.
Did the villagers feel that they were sincerely praying for their death? The souls who watched the scene shed tears and began to attain Buddhahood one by one.
It was because of the promise Hwanin made while awakening their spirits.
‘Aldhelm who murdered you will pay the price he deserves.’
= Ooh…… Souls are reaching Buddhahood!=
=Baby, lower your voice… !=
Watching the villagers exclaim a little and pray while holding hands, Hwanin slowly launched a wave of tranquility.
Smoke rising quietly from 87 incense bowls and waves of grayish-white light faintly spreading.
And the ephemeral and sad powder of light sprinkled by the souls who change into a white halo and begin to ascend to heaven.
When the memorial service was over and all the incense was gone, not a single soul was left in the square.
And…….
“…….”
Hwanin, who had attained Buddhahood from 87 souls and collected all the light orbs left behind, found that the number of soul orbs increased by 4 to 60.
