## Chapter 899 – Otherworld Dungeon

“No waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”

Could that brain monster have been using its tentacles to transform humans into those horrifying creatures?!

It was a reality I couldn’t believe even after seeing it with my own eyes!!

A monster that turns humans into monsters!!!

ㅡKkyaaaaaa!!!!!!!

A man living his second life. No, he was now a mutated being, screaming once more. His appearance was incredibly eerie. Due to the mutation, all his clothes had been torn off, making it seem like he was draped in rags.

ㅡChuppapapapat!!

But that wasn’t all…!

This mutated being was different from the other monsters!! Its tongue!! A tongue that looked like a long tentacle had grown out!!! The other monsters didn’t have tongues at all, but this one had a tongue in its mouth!!!

Could that also be a tentacle used to turn humans into mutated beings?!

ㅡFlash!

I realized the most terrifying truth in this world.

The monsters of this otherworld were increasing their numbers in this cruel way!!! The race that built this palace had been defeated by those monsters! The monsters we’ve been killing were the original owners of the palace!!!

If these bastards were to get outside this palace!!!!

ㅡUwaaaaaaa!
ㅡAaaaaaaack!!
ㅡKyaaaaaack!!

The ordinary farmers scattered throughout the kingdom wouldn’t be able to stand up to these otherworld monsters!! It would be the end! All the residents would be transformed into mutated beings!! No matter how hard the king and lords tried, they couldn’t cover the entire territory!

The countryside would collapse, and monsters would run rampant!!

This palace was a kind of virus jar!!
If we don’t stop this, a great disaster will surely occur!!!

“D-did… did that thing mutate a person?”
“How can something so inhumane exist!!!”

Karin was unusually flustered, and Hilde screamed. It was that shocking. A person had transformed into a monster right before their eyes!!

ㅡHororong.

The brain-like monster was just waving its tentacles like an octopus, and the newly born mutated being was simply drooling with its mouth open, its tentacle-like tongue hanging limply, looking around.

It was at that moment.

“Kyuaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!”

ㅡPaaat!

The mutated being roared again and rushed towards the other kidnapped people who were bleeding and collapsed, violently grabbing one by the shoulder.

ㅡChurururuk!!!

And then, it stretched out its tongueㅡ!!!!!!!

“No!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”

“A victim turned perpetrator!!!!!!!!!!!!!”

ㅡA victim turned perpetrator!!!!!

It was trying to shove that tentacle in to turn that person into a mutated being as well!!

The one who had been mutated into a monster by a monster would now be searching for other victims with great joy!!! The person who had become a mutated being no longer had reason!!!

Just a hideous beast moving according to instinct!!!

And according to that instinct, it would stick its tentacles into the mouths of other victims and transform them into new monsters!! This was the characteristic of this race! They infect other races to increase their numbers!

Turning victims into perpetrators in that way!!

It was truly mass-producing victims who had become perpetrators!! Upon realizing that, an extremely intense thought struck my brain like lightning.

ㅡThe LA Riots!!!!!

The incident where the black people, who were pitiful victims, transformed into cruel perpetrators!!!

At the time, Rodney King, a black criminal with a history of armed robbery, was pulled over by white police officers for speeding while intoxicated. Rodney King, not wanting to be arrested, resisted and used violence against the police officers. Soon, the enraged police officers retaliated by brutally beating him, leaving him deaf after a savage lynching.

This incident enraged black people in America.

Because the police officers who lynched Rodney King were acquitted.

Black people were outraged by the verdict and came to believe that the public authority existed not to protect them, but to exterminate them.

ㅡWharuruk!!

Thinking that, the black people soon set fires and looted indiscriminately, shouting for their freedom, justice, human rights, and the right to a safe life!!!

They set fire to buildings like crazy!!!
They looted our Korean stores!!!

They destroyed all the stores of our Korean people, who were living good and honest lives in America, and stole their property!!!

The black people sincerely believed that doing so would bring justice and restore their human rights!!!

The fact that white people were discriminating against black people and that white police officers had lynched Rodney King was completely irrelevant!!!!

The black people believed that if they killed, beat, and stole all the property of the seemingly weaker Asians, that would bring justice!!!!

What’s important is what people believe!!
People live by belief!!!

Eventually, the Korean community in LA was plunged into the depths of hell by the black rioters.

The black people were genuinely pleased with the terrible damage they had inflicted on the Korean community, which amounted to over $300 million. They were genuinely proud of setting fire to and looting the stores of innocent Koreans. For some reason, they believed that their human rights had been improved. And they believed that the world had become more just. Of course. They acted that way because they believed it would make them money!!!!!

They realized that they could freely steal money by beating up Asians, regardless of the white police officers, so of course they had to believe that!!!!!!!!

The black people acted very intelligently!

They thoroughly exploited the fact that they could make money by killing and beating the weak while shouting for justice and human rights!!!!! Using the fact that they had been victimized by white people, they brutally violated Koreans who had nothing to do with it!!!

ㅡA terrible reality!!!

Black people, who had been victims of racism, became corrupted and turned into cruel perpetrators!!!!

However, should we condone them becoming perpetrators just because they were victims!!

“Those bastards!!!!!”

Absolutely not!!!!

“I will never forgive them!!!!!!!!

We have to burn all the bastards to death!!!!!!

Black people weren’t always victims!!! We have to think from the perspective of the weak who were exposed to the mad looting!!! Just because you were a victim doesn’t give you the right to harm other innocent people!!!

That’s why I can’t forgive victims who have become perpetrators!!!

“Kkieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeek!!!!!!!!!!”

ㅡThose thoughts struck my brain faster than the speed of light.

This was an inhuman realization.

An ideology that humans must think about in order to live as humans, in order to save other humans as humans.

ㅡSalvation is enlightenment.
ㅡEnlightenment is deliverance.
ㅡDeliverance is salvation.

The essence of Fusion Confucianism.

ㅡWharururuk!!!!

That imbued my sword with swordflame.

An energy more refined than sword energy. However, an energy that raged even more violently. It sublimated the karma of cutting and destruction into the most beautiful thing. My swordflame was like that, and the flames of righteous judgment bloomed on the blade.

The raging blue swordflame.

“Come, monster!!!!!!!”

It writhed, emitting a chilling aura.

ㅡTsupat!

At that moment, the mutated being, who was grabbing a person’s shoulder and preparing to shove a tentacle into their mouth, stopped and looked at me.

“Kkyu, kyuaaaat!!!”

ㅡPuljjeok!

It let go of the person’s shoulder and jumped high as if trying to escape, but.

ㅡChwahak!

It couldn’t escape my swordflame.

The two severed sections of the bastard, still in mid-jump, burned with an unpleasant smell, and ㅡthud. Soon, those unpleasant piles of flesh fell and sprawled out.

“Next.”

ㅡKwang!

I instantly sliced up another monster next to it and charged towards the brain monster dangling its long tentacles over there.

ㅡHororong!

The brain monster quickly spread out its tentacles, but it couldn’t block the solemn swordflame with such piles of flesh. I aimed at it precisely and shot out my blade.

ㅡWharururuk!

The surging Vugal was heavier than a guillotine blade, and the brain monster, which was hit directly by that strike, was split in half and died.

ㅡPushak.

The crimson blood evaporated from the swordflame before it could even splatter.

ㅡPatsutsut.

The split corpse of the brain monster shriveled up.
Only then did the flames of the swordflame subside.

“I don’t forgive bastards.”

That is the solemn law of Fusion Confucianism.

“Kui kui.”

ㅡSreung.

I quietly sheathed Vugal and looked around the scene.

“…”

All that was in this scene were the corpses of the monsters, the people who were injured and unconscious over there, and me and my wives.

I looked at them.

“What the…?”
“…Darkie?”
“Katt?”
“What happened…?”

They were just standing there frozen, calling out to me with their mouths wide open, as if they had seen something very shocking and surprising.

“Nothing happened.”

I said to them.

“I just… did what had to be done.”

The most terrible kind of realization had unleashed my swordflame. A victim turned perpetrator. There was no story more unpleasant than that in the world. Especially if it happened to black people, who had been victims of racism and slavery.

However.

Before we sympathize.
Before we have compassion, we must first identify the bastards.

ㅡWe must not forgive bastards.

We must accurately judge what is a bastard and what is not.
I walk the path of Fusion Confucianism to find that. That is what I, as a seeker of truth, must do.

ㅡThis world is stained with terrible violence and evil.

Illuminating this dark world.
And thus, practicing the spirit of benefiting humanity.

All… is what I must do.

“Let’s go. They seem to still be alive, so I’ll spare them.”

I picked up the people who had fallen. It seemed they were still alive. If we go back right now, we can save them.

“Of course, I’ll charge a fee.”

Those bastards must have a bunch of rare metal junk they’ve collected, so let’s take that as payment. If it weren’t for us, those bastards would probably be transformed into those mutated beings and searching for other victims by now.

No parents want their children to become such mutated beings!!! There’s a limit to plastic surgery!!! What would parents think if they saw their children whose appearance and ideology had completely changed!!!

“U-um… K-Katt-nim? What about the corpse of that brain-like monster?”
“That’s right. We have to take that too.”

I immediately put the people down and had them put the remains of the monsters into sacks and carry them. For now, let’s call this brain-like monster, the brain monster for short, whatever. Anyway, since this is what turned humans into mutated beings, it needs to be studied. It will be an important piece of evidence.

After dividing the sacks, I picked up the people.

And so, I left the palace with her, who were still bewildered.

* * *

As soon as we got out, we made inquiries to find the companions of the people we had rescued and immediately received payment. We did all that work, but it wasn’t particularly late.

I should say it was still a leisurely afternoon.

I immediately went to the shower room by the lake to wash my body and then returned to the carriage. From now on, let’s take a look at the brain monster, organize the information, and then take some time to rest.

“H-hey! Wait a minute! What was that just now!!”

As I was about to take out some snacks, Karin, who had been frozen all this time, shouted.

“Y-yes! What was that!! Why are you acting like nothing happened!!”
“Katt…! Could that be!!”

Liz and Claudia also reacted to Karin’s words, shaking my shoulders urgently. They must have been too flustered to move until now.

“What else could it be.”

I answered naturally.

“It’s just the next stage of sword energy being unleashed.”
“How all of a sudden!”

This is a natural thing.

“Because I’m Kim Katt.”

That’s why I was able to do it.