Chapter 538 – 538. God’s Seat Is in the Serpent’s Jaw

After leaving my companions behind, I crossed Iljumun Gate and entered the inner perimeter of the garden.

As soon as I entered the Yoma’s Garden, what I felt was an eerie neatness.

There were well-maintained stone paths spread out in all directions, and bamboo and other small decorations were placed here and there, making it feel like I was entering a Japanese house.

What can I say, I feel like the culture there is deeply embedded in me.

It’s unique and at the same time somewhat scary. It is difficult to understand why such a landscape was created in such a place, and it is so ‘artificial’ that it feels rather bizarre.

It was a place where neatness and artificial atmosphere mixed together to bring about an unknown fear.

Uncomfortable. I felt a similar discomfort as when I first went to the black market. This kind of fear is called liminal space.

Moreover, the wall played a significant role in creating this sense of disconnection.

It was surrounded by high white walls that looked like a maze, making it difficult to see the surrounding scenery at a glance. It’s stuffy and stuffy.

Boom!

I hit the wall hard, but there wasn’t even a crack. I think if they had dragged my main body in, they might have been able to destroy it. I think I’ll have to use a lot of force to break it now.

Anyway, there are probably monsters wandering around here looking for the Heavenly King’s Gate.

“Hmm.”

First of all, the murderers have found two spare Cheonwang Gates.

A total of 100 people can pass through each Cheonwang Gate, which means that I can send close to 200 people to the next level with just my subordinates.

‘Initially, 100 people have already advanced to the next step.’

Because I found a total of 3.

100 animals have been sent to the next stage in advance.

From the looks of it, I was able to reliably kill the murderous demons I created, at least down to the Oni level. Thanks to this, I was able to find the Gate of Nirvana without any trouble.

‘The demons under the command of Lord Chucheon-dong are on par with or better than murderous demons. It’s difficult to deal with.’

It was difficult to blindly kill the Oni, as if it was worth the nick. Perhaps because the species value itself was high, its pure strength was superior to that of ordinary youkai.

Of course, there were many who could not use magic, but for the murderers who showed particular strength in deception techniques such as magic or illusion, the Oni, who were just strong, were a more difficult enemy to deal with.

‘Anyway, I’ve roughly cleared all the doors, so what I’m doing here right now is not finding the Cheonwangmun Gate.’

Finding hidden pieces hidden somewhere in the garden. That’s what I have to do now.

‘We also need to find the vengeful spirit.’

Since I lost all the vengeful spirits I obtained from the outskirts of the Yoma’s Garden through the gacha, I have to find new vengeful spirits here to have a chance of winning.

Or, you have to make a really ugly move by sending out the current team members and bringing in transcendent ones. This actually means a failure in the attack.

‘For now… ‘

I lifted up the monkey that lost its hand that I had received from Eunha a while ago. I plan to collect vengeful spirits and track down the shaman with monkey hands.

Eun-ji needs to take the position of the Monster King before her second awakening, so Bo-ho and Joo-ha will have a second awakening if she feeds Dal-gi, so the only person who can make her second awakening right now is Eun-ha.

It seemed like the second awakening of the galaxy would be the only way to clear the way.

Since I wanted to advance to the finals with only the people I brought in, I will try to find a way to survive with as many people as possible.

‘But.. I’ve been feeling popularity everywhere since a while ago. What is it?’

It is a sign of things that cannot be considered alive. It was similar to the energy Eila gave off.

Yes, they are dolls. There were dolls walking around here.

If the only threats on the outskirts were other participants, youkai, then in the inner part, there was definitely a filter to filter out trash.

It’s probably those dolls.

“Huh.”

The dolls came towards me.

The appearance of these dolls is unique to Japan.

How should I explain it?

There is a Hina doll that is used in a festival called Hinamatsuri in Japan.

It is a unique Japanese doll with human-like hair and a pure white face.

Would you be able to tell that they are those cursed dolls that are sometimes treated as horror items that you see on TV when you are a child and are said to be dolls with hair growing?

In any case, these bizarre-looking dolls have enlarged to human size and are approaching strangely, each holding a farming tool such as a sickle or hoe.

As they got closer, the sound of a bell ringing was heard from somewhere and the lights began to blink.

The atmosphere of fear grows even greater.

It seemed like it would be quite psychological to see such entities crawling into a liminal space that already created a sense of disconnection.

If I were a normal person.

“What are you doing. “Wipe it away.”

At the same time as my command, the murderers, wielding chainsaws made from the vertebrae of monsters, began wiping out the approaching dolls.

Japanese horror?

Fuck you.

American killers are leaving.

Haha!!! Yes! That’s it!”

Murderous demons made of distorted dolls and corpses brandished their weapons at each other, killing, killing, killing.

Wood chips and human hair splattered everywhere. The dolls were quite strong, but they could do nothing in front of the rampaging American-made (design-limited) killers.

‘Anyway, do you like those dolls?’

I want to take it to the shudder mansion and mass produce it.

Are the dolls made at Jeonyul Mansion Western-style ball-jointed dolls? Yes, it feels like a bisque stone, so if you add an oriental style doll, you can produce a terrible doll that is a combination of East and West.

‘Even if you don’t combine the two, it would be great just to be able to pair a Western-style Bisque doll or an Oriental-style Hina doll.’

Because it is a good thing that the types of diseases are becoming more diverse.

“Anyway…”

I had a rough idea of ​​what I needed to do in the inner city.

The monkey that lost its hand earlier is looking in one direction and whining.

Moreover, the dolls came from that direction.

‘The maker of Hina dolls is over there. And that guy..’

There was a high possibility that he was the shaman I was looking for.

“Keep guiding me.”

“Kkiing..”

I headed toward the direction the monkey pointed. There were definitely murderous spirits around me, and the closer we got, the more dolls blocked our path.

At best, I was just a wooden doll in front of the murderers.

“Is it here?”

As we reached the end, a Japanese-style house appeared.

This is probably where the hidden piece is hidden.

[You can’t come any closer… How did you break through the barrier in the first place? No, more than anything, how did someone who wasn’t even invited enter the inner city? Who are you. What. Please leave. Please. Please get out… Get out.]

A woman with a gloomy voice began to hesitate and beg to go back.

It’s kind of like a hikikomori reaction.

“Shut up! Open the door!”

I shouted at the hikikomori.

[If you don’t return, we will suppress you by force…]

“What are you doing. Open.”

Decided it was no longer worth talking about.

He immediately ordered the murderers to destroy the entrance to the house.

I guess I’ll have to threaten and persecute them as a housewarming gift.

[Kyaaa!!!]

Soon the mental wave was cut off and the main force began to boil inside the house.

As expected, I came to the right place. The shaman who cut off the monkey’s hand was hiding there.

Maybe he’s a puppeteer.

Come to think of it, there was also a puppeteer puppet that Ha-eun picked up.

What on earth can we create if we combine the facilities of the Tremor Mansion, the puppetry of the puppeteer, and the abilities of the magic puppeteer that will be inside this house?

“Tadaima.”

I entered the house, saying hello in the little Japanese I knew.

The inside was dark and there was a damp, musty smell and the characteristic woody smell of a wooden house.

There was also a raw, old water smell near the well, and decidedly…

“Fishy smell.”

It smells fishy.

I’m not sure if it’s the fishy smell of the lizard’s scales or the fish’s fishy smell.

It wasn’t a very strong smell to begin with.

It is a very mild fishy smell that can be identified as an alien species.

“Hmm. Are you not going to show up? Are you going to destroy all of your houses? Are you going to destroy the doll you made? Even if I do this, it won’t come out? Uh? It’s not coming out ?Can I break it? Shall I destroy it?”

I shouted to the guy observing me from inside the house to quickly show himself.

Soon, from what appeared to be the stairs to the second floor, a woman, almost naked, wearing a kimono, came down with a dejected appearance.

After seeing the woman’s appearance her, the monkey that lost her hand started running wild in my arms.

Quad deuk..!!!

I twisted the monkey’s neck to death and stabbed it with a sword to absorb its main power.

Now that the shaman has been found, the monkey is no longer useful.

Of course, if you kill that shaman, the monkey will grant you a light wish, but it is still a light wish.

I had no intention of killing that shaman.

A puppeteer and a shaman with this much power. It is a recruitment target.

The value of that shaman was much higher than that of a monkey baby who would just grant one simple wish that did not come true.

“Nice to meet. I am Jang Jojun. He is an apostle of ten thousand demons. “And you?”

“…”

“You’d better answer.”

“Uh, how did you break through the barrier and come here… ?”

“Barrier?”

Was there such a thing?

Ah.

“Curses do not work on deadly beasts.”

If the barrier had been played with, it would have been interpreted as a curse, and if so, it is highly likely that it would have been breached due to the curse-nullifying properties of the beast.

“Ah.”

Only then did the woman nod her head and understand the situation.

Now that I think about it, that woman is not human after all. Scales appeared like spots all over her body.

Is it a mix between a human and a snake?

Maybe it’s one of Orochi’s children…

‘For a moment. I heard that Orochi has no blood relatives.’

Then what is that woman?

I heard that all of Orochi’s children were adopted children.

But that woman is Orochi, which means she has many of the characteristics of a snake.

As a Nagaraja, I can recognize it right away.

It may be clumsy, but that woman is a snake person.

“What are you?”

I asked again.

What is it?

Why was it hidden in such a remote place?

She is, moreover, a woman in charge of creating dolls that are local traps in the inner city.

Orochi’s own son was making dolls in a place like this?

It’s so fucking suspicious. The adopted children are holding a strange competition to select Orochi’s successor, and the biological children are creating local gimmicks in a place like this, as if they were trapped.

There is something.

“Well, I…”

The woman looked around without giving a proper answer to my question.

At this, the deadly beast morph, who was watching the situation inside me, opened his mouth.

[There is an air of concern about something. It’s like checking to see if anyone is listening.]

‘What?’

[Maybe that woman is trapped here and forced to do her work. Put noise suppression on the entire area and then ask for conversation again.]

I activated the secret magic that the deadly beast morph told me about.

The woman, who realized that something had unfolded between herself and me, opened her mouth as if relieved.

“Help. My father … No. Orochi-sama is being forcibly resurrected by his brothers his his his. “This competition … Is fake.”

Those were the first words she spoke.

As expected, there was something.