Chapter 429 Chapter
124. Elders in Crisis (3)
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A dark forest where not even a ray of sunlight can pass through. This place has been rumored to be inhabited by ghosts and devils since ancient times.
[Mya!]
Jin was riding the Shuri through the complex and dark forest road. There were no other colleagues.
The road was complicated enough to make me think that the maze was better, and it crossed my mind that if it wasn’t for Shuri, I might regret coming here alone.
-Boss, this nanny begs you to go with Murakan.
– Confucius Are you okay? It won’t be easy to secure an escape route if he goes alone and gets a bad heart.
-Is there a reason you have to go alone?
Before leaving the road, all the colleagues were worried about Jin in unison.
It was for the reason that I couldn’t fully trust the owner of this land yet.
boo boo boo woo-.
The deeper the forest got, the thicker the gloomy, ominous deafening wails could be heard from all directions.
‘It’s a wild bird. It’s an incredibly fitting name.’
It was the first time I actually came here, but as always, Shuri skillfully found the way and was able to arrive without wandering.
black and huge
That was the impression that came to my mind immediately when I faced the fort that rose out of nowhere at the edge of the forest.
Even the fog covered by the fog couldn’t cover the strange ghost energy emitted by the ghost.
Just by standing in front of it, the demonic energy that makes it hard to breathe spurts out.
It came as a surprise that the owner of this formidable castle was Rata Prochigo and that she had in fact defeated him.
I sent Shuri back to the prison and waited for the castle gate to open for a while.
After a while, the door opened, but I couldn’t see who had unlocked the bar and opened the thick iron door.
I wondered if it was opened by someone in the first place.
It was as if wind or a ghost had opened and passed through, and what immediately came into view was not the normal scenery of the castle, but another darkness.
Stepping into it seemed no different from jumping off a thousand-way cliff.
However, Jin did not give new strength to the grip that touched the hilt of his waist dance, and he seemed to be striding forward.
The moment when you feel like passing through a nightmare landscape because of the louder, layered ears and the chilling wind.
Suddenly, a dark clearing opened up.
“You had a lot of trouble coming to the 12th rider.”
I heard the familiar voice of Lata Froch.
Did he just come from fighting a battle, or did he come from torturing those he had imprisoned in the basement of Gugoksaeseong? Lata smelled of thick, fishy blood.
“You can smell the blood.”
“Because what we do is not a very pleasant kind. Aren’t you familiar with the longitude?”
“I just did it.”
As he drew closer, his face glistened with the torch Lata was holding.
“I didn’t know you would come alone.”
Lata was genuinely surprised that Jin had found the hometown alone.
Not only Lata, but all the other members of the Ghost Corps had the same mind.
At least not after Lata became the ghost captain. Even before that, when Smarion Frochi led the Demon Corps.
No one came to Guigoksaeseong alone.
Even when the leaders of Runcandel and Ziple held secret talks, they were always accompanied by a number of people with more than a certain level of fighting power.
It was natural.
Although they maintained neutrality in their own way, the Ghost Corps was a force with considerable influence.
In particular, in Guigoksaeseong, their headquarters, they clearly had the power belonging to the highest rank among the neutral forces.
Even though Bement is located in their territory, it is to the point where they acknowledge their autonomy instead of shouting.
“The Ghost Squad also took risks to carry out my request, so shouldn’t I show this much trust?”
At those words, Lata nodded as if impressed.
Jin was somewhat embarrassed by the reaction, but did not reveal it.
“It’s nice too. good Let’s write the contract now.”
While sending the supply and demand of the elders, Lata immediately left a message asking them to visit the Gugoksaeseong.
It was the reason for writing a single contract for the alliance.
The paper Lata held out consisted of the simplest sentences of any contract Jin had ever received.
It was also unexpected.
(Lata Frozzi and his ghost corps will serve Jin Runkandel as their lord, and this was a matter perfectly agreed upon by all remaining ghost corps.) It was more like an oath of allegiance than a contract
.
“This is not a simple alliance, but a servant to form a blood alliance between the monarch and his subordinates.”
“…what is this?”
Jin decided that he had to form an alliance with the Ghost Corps first and form a strong bond in the future.
I never expected it to come out like this.
“Is there anything you don’t like?”
“No, not that. I am a little embarrassed.”
“This body had respect for you at the Geomwang Castle, and then I thought that I was afraid of Jin Runkandel more than Runkandel. So I killed the elders.”
The day Lata met Jin in the Garden of Swords, she made the decision to serve him as her lord.
With the conviction that it is the only way to survive in the ‘New Era’.
“And I am no different from the absolute within the ghost squad. My will is the will of all ghosts, and the ghosts will become the most important force in the sutra.”
There are many leaders in the world, but there were never many who received absolute support from their subordinates.
Lata was outstanding among them and was a person who was no different from his subordinates.
Jin pulled out a dagger from his bosom.
I drew my palm and carved a blood plate on the paper, and Lata also inscribed my blood on the paper in the same way.
“I will accept it, Sir Lata.”
“Follow me, lord.”
As I followed Lata into the central hall of the castle, the lined up ghost squad caught my eye.
Thousands of mercenaries were standing still wearing black waterspike suits.
Soon, Lata stood at the front of the empty crowd, facing Jin and bowing.
The rest of the ghost squad also raised their swords in unison.
It was the moment when Jin became the new owner of the Ghost Corps.
It was also the moment when Ghost Corps was completely out of neutral for the first time.
“The crew members will introduce themselves gradually.”
“All right.”
Jin looked at the sentence written on the paper again.
The part that ‘everyone of the remaining Ghost Corps perfectly agreed’ caught my eye.
“Looking at the people lined up, it doesn’t seem to be much different from the usual size of the Ghost Corps. Were there many people who objected to becoming a blood alliance with me?”
“Some of my father’s attendants objected. The elders, so to speak.”
“I don’t get along very well with you or I or the elders. What happened to them?”
“Everyone has left Guigoksaeseong.”
“Are there any special secrets they know about or elements that could be a weakness of the Ghost Corps?”
Lata looked startled at those words.
“I didn’t expect you to think of that right away. yes there is And embarrassingly, I haven’t been able to deal with them yet. We are tracking you.”
“Since it has already been a few days, it is highly likely that they surrendered and asked for protection from other forces.”
“I’m sorry for being sloppy from the start.”
“no. Just in case, I’ll use someone to find the escaped elders. Please tell us what the weaknesses and secrets of Guigoksaeseong are known to them.”
“A monster is sealed at the bottom of the basement of Gogoksae Castle.”
“…monster?”
When Jin expressed his doubts, Lata smiled bitterly and continued to explain.
“It’s a monster that can’t be helped at the moment. Trapped underground and unable to eat, it is alive after decades, and the seals that hold it back fade every year.”
“It must be a monster that appears in an old story.”
“It may be sudden, but you don’t panic.”
“It’s because I’ve dealt with a sealed inner demon.”
Of course, Jin expected that the one sealed in the basement of Gugoksaeseong was Naedan.
“How strong are you saying that even the police and the ghosts can’t help it?”
“I can’t even guess. It’s hard to explain… Would you like to go and have a look?”
I followed Rata and walked down the stairs to the basement. As he descended the deep and long stairs, Jin could feel the gloomy and vicious energy pressing down on his whole body.
‘Could this be the source of the demonic energy that is thickly etched throughout the ghost castle?’
It wasn’t just that the suffocating demonic air spread in the gloomy atmosphere of the castle.
“Everything has arrived.”
When I reached the lowest floor, I saw a huge iron door and a red seal engraved on it.
It was a seal of a kind he had never seen before, but Jin could intuit that a human was used as the material for the seal.
It is also a seal with tremendous deterrence.
“This is…”
“I heard that it was a seal that only came down to the elders without even the previous ghost captains knowing it. This seal was made by other elders except for those who fled this time. By using them as materials.”
As I got closer to the seal, I felt the ghost weigh heavily on my body.
“You mean this seal is getting weaker every year?”
“That’s right.”
In response, Jin was able to understand why Lata suggested that they become blood allies so quickly.
‘If the monster beyond the seal is freed, the Ghost Corps will not be able to survive unless they abandon the castle.’
Of course, it was unlikely that the seal would be released immediately, and Lata didn’t necessarily propose a blood alliance just for that reason, but it was no small matter.
“The reason I showed this place to my lord first is because this is currently the biggest and only problem with the Ghost Corps. It’s embarrassing, but you can also say that this seal threatens the existence of the Ghost Corps.”
Now that they have become a blood alliance, it was necessary to discuss and resolve this issue together.
It’s an act that shows weakness right after becoming a blood alliance, but Jin didn’t feel that Lata was mean or funny.
It was because, in the first place, Lata had chosen herself, not Runcandel or Kingselo, the King of Zipple.
If Lata had been attached to Runcandel or Ziple instead of Jin Runcandel, there was a high possibility that it would be easier to at least solve this seal.
“surely… The energy that emanates from outside the seal can feel that way. What kind of monster is that in there?”
At Jin’s question, Lata shook her head.
“It’s not a monster, my lord.”
“Isn’t it a monster?”
“The thing sealed inside is the being that was my father.”
Smarion Proch.
The monster sealed in the lowest floor of the ghost castle was the former ghost commander.
