The Divine Twilight’s Return

ong-Jun’s head if he kept making a fuss.
Hyeong-Jun turned pale with fright and trembled profusely.

Thinking this was his chance, Joo-Han hurriedly yelled, “His father is Director Kim Yeon-Seung! The Black Ghosts and Blood Wolf Group likely entered the Dungeon with Director Kim Yeon-Seung’s help.
On top of that, they conspired with the Future Strategy Department Head Shim Geon-Ho, and even received a weird pipe from him!”

“A pipe?” Gyeo-Ul asked on Chang-Sun’s behalf.

Joo-Han turned his head to Gyeo-Ul and urgently nodded.
“Yes, sir! You’d f-find it if you search the inner pocket of his top!”

“No-no…!” Hyeong-Jun resisted.

After smacking Hyeong-Jun’s head with the shaft of his spear, Gyeo-Ul ransacked and pulled out the pipe Joo-Han was talking about from Hyeong-Jun’s pocket by force.

[The Celestial ‘World-Encircling Serpent’ bizarrely laughs, saying they use really odd tricks.]

[The Celestial ‘Calamity Tiger’ lightly snorts.]

Gyeo-Ul handed the pipe he collected to Chang-Sun.

[Gu[1] Pipe]

This pipe grants its user the ability to control a special type of Gu with a specific frequency.

· Type: Pipe.

· Effect: Control Gu, Manipulate minds.

Unable to look at Chang-Sun directly in the eyes, Hyeong-Jun busily looked all over the place.

Chang-Sun snorted.
“You were planning to make me ingest the Gu and control me, huh?”

Gu Toxin was an insect toxin made from a very rare insect called ‘Gu.’ By feeding a Gu to a target, the person in control of it could manipulate the target however they wanted through Gu’s special characteristics.
In the outside world, Gu was an ordinary insect that fed on grasses, but it would instinctively turn into a parasite upon entering someone’s body.
It would settle down on the person’s spine, which was close to the central nervous system.

It was similar to a gordioidea, which forced its host to jump into water and commit suicide, but a Gu could control the host in much more sophisticated ways.
[Gu Pipe] could order the Gu to control the host in a specific way.

“Th-that’s…!” Hyeong-Jun stuttered.

“I already knew the White Tiger Clan mix Gu into the trainees’ meal while they were still in the training institute.” Chang-sun tilted his head.

“…!” Hyeong-Jun opened his eyes widely.

Chang-Sun shrugged.
“It doesn’t work on me, though.”

‘He was aware of everything!’ Unable to say anything, Hyeong-Jun felt as if he was suffocating.

In contrast to their public image, the White Tiger Clan was close to a group of demonic beings, but only the White Tiger Clan executives knew about it.
Although many incidents could be incurred, they were successfully kept under wraps since the White Tiger Clan’s higher-ups could control the employees however they wanted.

Planting [Dream Spheres] in all of the White Tiger Clan members was too expensive, but while a Gu wasn’t cheap, it wasn’t as expensive as [Dream Spheres].

The White Tiger Clan had also poisoned this year’s trainees with Gu Toxin, but it didn’t work on Chang-Sun.
Gu Toxin was a kind of poison, so [Single Eon Fire] was activated and burnt the Gu up as soon as it entered his body.

Unaware of that, Hyeong-Jun had blown the [Gu Pipe] Geon-Ho gave him multiple times but couldn’t affect Chang-Sun with [Gu Pipe] during the battle at all.
Belatedly noticing something was wrong and feeling the incoming danger, Hyeong-Jun waited for an opportunity to bolt, only to ultimately get caught by Gyeo-Ul.

[The Celestial ‘Twilight-Piercing Owl’ wishes you would strike the villains who objectify lives with the mace of justice!]

‘Do I really have to use a mace?’ One end of Chang-Sun’s lips curled up.

“Kim Yeon-Seung and Shim Geon-Ho, huh? Those flies are bugging me,” Chang-Sun muttered to himself.

“W-wait!” Hyeong-Jun tried to interject, feeling as if he’d really die here unless he did something.

Slash!

Gyeo-Ul cut off Hyeong-Jun’s head with his spear first.

Squirt!

Still looking terrorized, Hyeong-Jun’s head rolled off toward Joo-Han.

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“Urgh, uhh…!” Joo-Han unwittingly flinched away when he met Hyeong-Jun’s wide-open eyes.

It didn’t matter how tough he acted.
This was his first time seeing a decapitated human head, so he couldn’t help but tremble at the thought that he could end up like Hyeong-Jun.
He looked up with hope, but…

Paah!

…a red line also horizontally cut through Joo-Han’s neck.

“W-why…?” Joo-Han looked at Chang-Sun, opening and closing his mouth like a goldfish.

“I said nothing about not killing you,” Chang-Sun nonchalantly answered.

At that moment, blood poured out from the red line on Joo-Han’s neck.
“Fu…ck…!”

Squirt!

Joo-Han’s headless body collapsed backward.
Chang-Sun wiped off the blood on [Tiamat’s Snaggletooth], which had returned to its dagger form after it had finished resonating.
He then returned the dagger back to his belt and checked his wristwatch.

‘I wasted too much time,’ he thought.

One hour and twenty minutes remained until the curse was activated again.
Considering the distance to the Winter Palace, it seemed he should pick up the pace.

[The Skill ‘Windstalking Tiger’ has been activated, manifesting the Skill ‘Lightness’!]

Paah!

Spreading out the Jigwi’s wings, Chang-Sun sprang forth again, and Gyeo-Ul naturally blended into Chang-Sun’s shadow.

Woosh!

After Chang-Sun left, the ominous wind blew, covering the abandoned corpses of Hyeong-Jun and Joo-Han with snow as if nothing had happened.

1.
the raw was 고(蠱).
This venomous creature could be found in Asian black magic.
To create Gu, a wizard would seal several poisonous creatures inside a closed container.
The creatures would fight and devour one another until only one remained.
The survivor would have a complex poison.
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