“Where is that guy?”
The inner world changed as it pleased.
Yi Rown asked Chaos.
“That guy, you mean…”
*Smirk.*
The guy grinned playfully.
“Are you talking about the one who tried to examine me so presumptuously?”
As expected.
“You’ve already met him.”
This was his inner world.
Originally, he should have had all the control.
But at some point, some of that control had been transferred to the guy.
The guy had intervened and changed the flow.
He had clearly made sure that he woke up late, and the Soul Spirit woke up first.
Time in the inner world is different from reality.
Just a second or two…
‘Could be tens, hundreds of hours.’
Chaos laughed at Yi Rown’s scowling face.
“That guy has to play an important role for you, right?”
Chaos said.
“Don’t worry.”
*Tap tap.*
Chaos playfully stomped his feet and approached Yi Rown.
“He hasn’t been annihilated yet.”
“Yet?”
He should have thought about it.
That something like this could happen.
“He might be annihilated soon.”
At that moment.
*Kwaaaah!*
Blood and flames erupted from beneath Yi Rown’s feet, engulfing Chaos.
-Blood Heaven Divine Art.
The perfect combination of the Blood Demon Divine Art and the Heavenly Demon Divine Art [Two powerful martial arts techniques].
The best and greatest power that a human body could produce was unleashed.
*Swish.*
But it split apart, and Chaos was laughing.
“You know this won’t be enough.”
Chaos mocked Yi Rown as if it was insufficient.
“It’s been a while since I’ve had a moment of freedom.”
Chaos said, reaching out his hand.
“Help me enjoy it.”
*Gwoong.*
Everything Yi Rown had unleashed gathered into a single point, turning into a black bead.
In the next moment.
*Thwack!*
Chaos flicked it with his finger.
*Kwaaaaaah!*
With the sound of the world collapsing, the power Yi Rown had unleashed came back at him.
The black bead grazed Yi Rown’s cheek.
*Kwaaaang!*
Everything behind it was erased.
“……”
Blood Heaven Divine Art.
It could be called the power of the Martial King, and everything of the Divine Demon.
But that alone…
‘I can’t face Chaos.’
He could add the Ring of the Emperor, but even that would not be enough to face Chaos.
The Chaos before his eyes.
The guy was only slightly off the leash.
But.
“How is it, thrilling?”
That alone was enough to threaten him.
“You didn’t think you had beaten me, did you?”
Chaos said, touching Yi Rown’s skin.
“It was just…”
*Smirk.*
“Just luck.”
It felt like if he reached out a little more, he would crush Yi Rown’s heart.
“But even so, I admit that you imprisoned me.”
*Tap.*
Chaos stepped back and laughed.
“From now on too.”
Finally, Yi Rown looked down at Chaos and replied.
“The fact that you’ll be imprisoned by me won’t change.”
This was his inner world.
As Yi Rown’s eyes began to turn gold, Chaos also raised both hands.
It was because he acknowledged that Yi Rown could draw more power than in reality.
“Not today. But it’s really not far off now.”
Chaos said, raising his fist.
“Really, see you soon.”
*Snap.*
The moment Chaos snapped his fingers.
-Greeeeeee…
A huge dragon was screaming in front of Yi Rown.
* * *
A dragon.
It was a dying dragon.
To be precise, it wasn’t a dragon but a dragon, a dragon that was constantly dripping blue blood and had melted in places…
-Guhhhhh…
It was just making a strange, echoing scream.
Between it and Yi Rown.
*Clang!*
A large black iron cage was blocking the dragon and Yi Rown.
At first, Yi Rown thought it might be the Soul Spirit.
“……”
Called immortals in the Silver World, the guardians who protect the world.
For example, those like the Sea God of Hainan were the ones who took the form of a dragon.
So, he thought that the Soul Spirit, who was called the guardian of the Tang family, might also be a dragon.
But as he said.
‘This isn’t a dragon.’
It’s a dragon [A corrupted dragon].
Then.
“The Evil Dragon. Augolas.”
Yi Rown was able to recognize the identity of this dragon.
The disaster-level monster he had seen in the corpse disposal site of the Mount Hua in the past.
It was the material that Yi Rown had used to quickly complete the Blood Demon Divine Art.
What Yi Rown had devoured at that time was all of it.
“Is that guy’s soul?”
It seemed clear that it was Augolas’s soul.
Yi Rown stared at it for a moment, then moved as if he had no interest.
“Save… me…”
And soon he was able to realize where this place was.
‘A prison.’
This was a prison.
A huge prison where the souls he had devoured were trapped as toys of Chaos.
In this place were the elders of the Blood Cult he had defeated.
“You… you are…!”
Blood Soo-baek, a disciple of Mount Hua who had pretended to be a fake Blood Demon.
“Namu Amita Bul [A Buddhist chant].”
The Blood Monk, who now seemed to have realized something.
*Kwaang!*
A being who shook the iron bars and reached out to Yi Rown.
“It’s been… a while. My son…”
Even Kwon Cheol.
Everyone was here.
“Kwon Cheol.”
It was a bad taste.
“…Is this what you wanted?”
It was true that Yi Rown had devoured souls and imprisoned them within himself.
But.
“……”
He had not intended to awaken and torture the souls in this way.
All of this was.
*Smirk.*
It was the work of Chaos, who was laughing somewhere.
*Thud.*
Yi Rown moved forward.
“You…”
Behind him, Kwon Cheol’s voice echoed.
“You don’t know.”
The voice that was fading away.
“You don’t know what you are…”
Yi Rown ignored it and took a step forward.
It was clear that this was Chaos’s bad taste.
However, he had no intention of saving the souls he had encountered so far.
And finally.
“……”
Yi Rown’s feet stopped.
The place was a prison that was no different from the others.
Beyond the black, ink-colored iron bars, a form was bound all over.
A distorted and crushed figure, whose face could not even be recognized.
But the moment he saw it, Yi Rown was able to be certain.
“Soul Spirit.”
That was the Soul Spirit.
“It’s too…”
The crushed face split open, and a voice flowed out.
A voice different from the one he had heard from Lee San-hoo before.
“It’s too late…”
The Soul Spirit.
It was him.
* * *
With an iron bar between them, Yi Rown looked at the Soul Spirit.
“I clearly warned you.”
Yi Rown said with a languid look.
Before bringing him here, Yi Rown had clearly warned him.
-Can you handle it?
The Soul Spirit must have already met Chaos to save him.
He had felt the traces of it himself.
But even after that, the fact that he had vaguely known.
-That’s just a fragment.
That Chaos was gradually getting stronger and gaining freedom.
So, Yi Rown clearly warned that there was more than what the Soul Spirit thought.
“It was… my choice…”
“How long has it been?”
At Yi Rown’s question, the Soul Spirit struggled, clanking, and said.
“I don’t know.”
The flow of time in the world of souls is different for each.
That’s how souls are.
Sometimes it’s hard to even get hurt, and it’s hard to recover from it.
But sometimes they are hurt so easily and healed so easily.
The Soul Spirit was.
“Ten years…? Maybe ten minutes.”
He was healing his body by using the conversation with Yi Rown, the owner of this world, as nourishment.
Indeed.
‘The Soul Spirit.’
He could be said to be worthy of being a master of souls.
“Whatever it was, it was the most terrible thing I’ve ever experienced in my life.”
*Clang.*
“What on earth…”
He seemed to have recovered from his injuries quite a bit now.
Even so, the Soul Spirit’s face was crushed, making it impossible to determine who he was.
“What is that monster? I’ve seen countless spirits and souls, but I’ve never seen anything like that.”
“……”
Now the Soul Spirit stood up straight.
“Chaos.”
Yi Rown said, as if there was no reason to hide its identity.
“A vicious enemy that even the kings of the world could not defeat even when they joined forces.”
*Kang!*
“A being that can erase everything beyond the world.”
*Kaang!*
“A being that can never be defined in one word.”
*Kaaang!*
“That’s Chaos.”
“Thank you.”
The Soul Spirit released the chains that bound him.
Because the identity of Chaos, the story of Chaos.
“…Just that fragment caused such a change.”
It had raised the Soul Spirit’s soul level and given him the power to break free from his restraints.
*Thud, thud.*
The Soul Spirit approached the iron bars and looked at Yi Rown.
“Then now…”
A slightly tired voice.
“Will you let me out?”
The Soul Spirit, who seemed to have used all his strength to break free from his restraints, asked, exhausted.
And.
“I’ll let you out.”
Yi Rown’s hand moved.
*Swish-!*
The iron bars that even held the Evil Dragon captive.
The black iron bars, which seemed like they would never break, were cut off like that.
* * *
The Soul Spirit, who had regained his freedom.
Yi Rown and he were walking together in this endless prison.
“What’s with that face?”
At Yi Rown’s leisurely question.
“It’s my true face.”
The Soul Spirit also gave a truthful answer.
He could have escaped a long time ago.
‘Let’s walk a bit.’
Yi Rown had no intention of returning him to reality yet.
There were many reasons, but the biggest reason was that.
This was Yi Rown’s inner world.
It was a space where even Chaos could not easily do anything to Yi Rown.
Also, there were several functions in such an inner world.
‘A world without lies.’
Yi Rown had modified the rules of the world so that no lies could be spoken here.
In other words, the Soul Spirit could not deceive him.
There was no better place to have a conversation with each other than here.
“While handling souls, I’ve taken in countless souls into my body. Sometimes I’ve even lived by parasitizing other people’s souls.”
The Soul Spirit said.
“As a result, everything became mixed up.”
A soul was everything that a human could be.
Touching it was taboo even from the past.
“It can be said to be the price.”
This was what he had gained as the price for handling souls.
“Can I ask you something too?”
The Soul Spirit said.
“Speak.”
“When will that monster, Chaos, be released?”
He asked lightly, but there was a tremor in his voice.
Fear.
The Soul Spirit, who had experienced Chaos for a short time, was trembling, not befitting his status.
“I don’t know.”
Yi Rown replied.
“Such irresponsibility… You’re harboring such a monster and you don’t even know its state?”
The Soul Spirit said angrily.
“If I want, it will never be released for the rest of its life.”
“……!”
“Because that’s how the seal was made.”
Both theoretically and practically, that would be the case.
Chaos was gaining freedom within the inner world.
‘Not the outside.’
The guy would be in his inner world as long as Yi Rown wanted.
“But one thing is certain.”
Yi Rown’s voice followed.
“If I want, that moment will be the time of its release.”
What was needed was his will.
“……”
At those words, the Soul Spirit stopped abruptly.
The Three Kings’ Disciple