Chapter 90

Chapter 90: Legend (4)

Ten Thousand mountains. On the Eternal Moon Peak, one of ten thousand mountain peaks, there is a shrine of the Great Demonic Cult. Annual events are held here every year at the beginning of the New Year and the beginning of the first lunar month. The shrine was decorated with the memorial tablets of former Lords, and inside it was displayed in a glass coffin with items such as articles of the former lords. Not many people had the chance to see the old glory.

Only those of twelve highest class clans, guardian families and relatives of Lord were allowed to enter the shrine.

Pure Kick clan, originally a high ranking clan became one of twelve highest ranking clan after one of the former clan leader Bakgi became one of the Six Swords, direct servants to the 24th Lord.

28 years ago, on the same day that a prosecution summons was issued for Chun Woojin, chairman of the Black Sky Company and the Lord of the Demonic Cult, all senior members gathered in the shrine for the last time.

[Mom….Mom….]

[Shh. Jongse, You have to be quiet.]

Young Kin Oyun calmed young child Bak Jongse who ran up to his mother. An important meeting was under way inside the shrine. The situation was dire so everyone waiting outside of the shrine remained silence.

[This… Look at this.]

Despite the advice of Kin Oyun, the young Bak Jongse pulled his mother. Bak Jongse led his mother toward a exhibition hall that contained remains of former Lords. Bak Jongse said, pointing to one of the glass tubes.

[Mommy, mommy. Take a look.]

The glass coffin, which Bak Jongse pointed to, was the storage of identification cards of Lords. Inside the glass coffin, a total of 43 jade tablets, including the identification cards of the Chun Ma, were placed in the hollow grooves of the red carpet.

[I guess someone stole one.]

There was the one empty spot. It was a place where the identity cards of the 24th leader should have been.

[What should we do? Shouldn’t we call the police?]

[Oh, my boy.]

Kin Oyun said, hugging the young Bak Jongse from behind.

[The 24th Lord’s tablet isn’t stolen.]

[Really?]

[The 24th Lord became Demon God of our time, and is protecting our Great Demonic CUlt. That’s why we don’t have it with us.]

[Wow!]

[Shh. You have to stay quiet.]

[Hehe.]

Actually, Kin Oyun herself did not truly know the reason of it missing. According to ‘Bak History’ book recorded throughout former leaders, 24th Lord went missing all of a sudden. He was the second, and the last to have been called a Chun Ma. There were lot of opinions on why he have gone missing after putting the Great Demonic Cult to its second glory days. All of Six Swords, including Bakgi, believed that the 24th Lord will return until they died

‘If lost, then why can’t they make a replica and keep it that way?

She, too, could not figure out why past lords did not do that. She was told that such was the will of the Lord’s house. Most cultists only considered a part of former legend.

Chen Yeowun, the 24th Lord of the Great Demonic Cult.

‘!!!’

The letters inscribed on the tablet with the seal of Chun Ma. Kin Oyun’s pupils shuddered at the sight of it. The surprise was the same with Bak Jongse.

[The 24th Lord became Demon God of our time, and is protecting our Great Demonic Cult.]

He remembered of the childhood memory. The empty spot where 24th Lord’s tablet should have been. That tablet was now shown in front of them. There was no way this was fake as it had the genuine seal of the Chun Ma.

‘How did this happen… Ah!’

Kin Oyun suddenly remembered.

`24th Lord was the last Lord to own the Sky Demon Sword and had gone missing.’

Then it was explained. If eldest son Chun Yusung had found missing Sky Demon Sword, it was likely that he also found the missing 24th Lord’s body and the identification tablet. Of course, there was no way a man from thousand years ago would be alive now. SHe just couldn’t figure out why he was so angry. Then Chun Yeowun opened his mouth.

“How long has the cult been in such a mess? Talk to me.”

“Yes?”

She couldn’t understand the question. It did not make sense that the chairman’s eldest son, Chun Yoosung, did not know why the company collapsed. Part of the reason was him. But unlike her, who was wondering about the situation, her son Bak Jongse’s reaction was different.

‘Is this really possible?’

It was a significant question followed from a certain affirmation. Unlike Kin Oyun, who denies it from the beginning, much was hovering in Bak Jongse’s head. Common sense tells us that it is impossible for humans to live for more than a thousand years. But sometimes that happened. Those who have lived for hundreds of years, among those who have reached high levels of martial art or humans with special abilities, have been known since the gate opened.

‘To think… …when we first met…”

Chun Yeowun didn’t feel like a man from modern days. He looked as if he had popped out of the historical film. But the look was not awkward. Bak Jongse slowly raised her head to look at Chun Yeowun.

‘Such charisma…’