The Ruler Of Darkness - Chapter 557



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Episode 557

Chapter 6 Selection

The Gam(?) family of the Imperial Capital.

“Turn on the light…!”

A sudden downpour of rain.

As the day grew dark enough to be indistinguishable from night, the servants of the Gam family were running around busily, trying to light lanterns and braziers.

“I told you to turn on the light quickly…!”

As the Gam family’s butler stamped his feet and urged him on, the large servant swallowed dry saliva and pushed the torch he was holding into the brazier.

however.

Chewy!

“… … ?!”

It seemed like the fire was spreading to the woodpile, but then it just went out.

“What are you guys doing…?!”

The butler, who had been unable to hide his anxious expression as he kept looking up at the dark sky, gave a shout.

“Would a fire just start on firewood in this rain…?! Shouldn’t we properly pour oil on it and light it…?!”

The Gam family’s butler was usually known for yelling at the yard to leave, but now he was swearing in a muffled voice.

like.

Like someone is afraid of hearing something.

“Yes, I did it…!”

“what…?!”

The servants were saying something, but they couldn’t hear properly because it was buried in the heavy rain.

As the butler quickly approached, he could see that the face of the servant holding the torch had turned pale.

The servant spoke with an expression full of cold and fear.

“Butler Nari! We definitely poured a lot of oil on ourselves…!”

“…what?”

Even though oil was poured on it, the fire did not spread.

The butler felt a chill run down the back of his neck, but he suddenly became angry.

“gibberish…!”

As if denying the fear you feel.

“Hand it over here right now…!”

He snatched the torch from the servant’s hand with a bang.

“… … .”

Gulp.

He swallowed dryly so that no one could hear him and tried to thrust the torch into the firewood in one breath.

however.

Cheeeeeeek-!

“… … ?!”

“… … ?!”

This time.

In the end, the torch just goes out with the smoke.

“What, what is this…?!”

The butler hesitated and stepped back, unable to hide his bewilderment, holding the dead torch.

at that time.

“Butler…!”

He quickly turned his head and looked at the servants on the other side who had called him.

“Oh, it’s not burning…!”

Kururung…!

Let the lightning flash fiercely.

Across the yard, the faces of those who had failed to light the brazier were blue with fear.

“Butler, here too…!”

“No matter what I do, the fire won’t light…!”

“… … !”

The butler’s face turned pale as if he was about to faint.

like.

As if no one was allowing this family to shine a light on it.

The fire in the brazier is not burning.

“Oh my god, this is crazy…!”

My chin was trembling.

It was not because of the cold caused by the heavy rain, but because of fear and dread.

And then.

Bam!

“It was true…!”

Someone rushed through the front door and shouted.

“The rumors were all true…!”

It was an unmanned vehicle that the head of the household had released outside to gather information.

The unmanned man, who had suffered a misfortune from the heavy rain and strong winds, shouted like a madman without even having time to catch his breath.

“The blood that flowed along the outer wall of the Min family has flowed like a stream, and the head of the Bokyang family of the sixteen families has been murdered…!”

“… … !”

“… … !”

The servants’ faces turned pale and their bodies began to tremble.

The unmanned vehicle did not go out alone, but returned alone.

But no one dared ask him what had happened.

And unmanned too.

He didn’t stop shouting for even a moment.

“The main house of the Bokyang family is burning, the screams inside are never-ending, and the surviving Bokyang family members are running in all directions…!”

Everyone’s heart sank.

Those who are here now, like the Bokyang family whose head was murdered and burned down.

They are members of a powerful family.

but.

Musa’s cries did not end there, and he continued on.

I ended up shouting out words that no one wanted to hear.

“He is the Lord of Dark Heaven…!”

“… … !”

“… … !”

Even in the heavy rain, his voice was heard clearly enough to pierce everyone’s ears.

“The Dark Heavenly Lord has appeared in the zodiac…!”

My heart felt like it was frozen.

* * *

A splendid conference room that was always the pride of the Gam family.

But the conference room felt as if all that luxury and glamour had faded away in an instant.

Groan, groan.

There were many people wearing silk clothes, but even their silk clothes seemed to have lost their luster under the dim light of the lanterns.

Why is the light from the street lamp so dim today?

“Really…?!”

The middle-aged man asked back in disbelief.

“Really, that Dark Heavenly Lord-!”

“Ahem…!”

“Ugh!”

As uncomfortable coughs poured out from around him, he quickly changed the subject and asked.

“‘It’ appeared…?”

The Dark Heavenly King certainly was, until recently.

It was just a superstition to them.

But now, it was funny how I couldn’t even bring myself to mention that name.

“… … .”

“… … .”

Not to mention funny.

Everyone was looking anxiously toward the entrance of the conference room and listening intently.

“That, that’s what they say…!”

The butler told them with a look of fear on his face.

“The rumors are true…!”

“this…!”

At the butler’s report, the family conference room was suddenly in an uproar.

“This is not an ordinary thing…!”

“I heard that even the great families are unable to properly light their yards…!”

“They say that wood doesn’t catch fire and oil doesn’t burn…!”

“No, even if you could light it, wouldn’t it make no sense to light it?!”

“Why is that so?”

“Huh…! Think about it! If ‘it’ were to look down from the sky, wouldn’t it only see that family?!”

“… … !”

The dark ecliptic in the rain and darkness.

A dark shape and eye-like ghost fire floating in the thunderous sky.

And the house that shines alone looking down on it.

“…crazy!”

It was a terrifying thing to even imagine.

“… Right now, tell the servants to turn off the lights indoors too!”

“Tell them to only light the rooms on the inside so that no one can see outside! Make sure no light leaks outside!”

at that time.

“Quiet!”

The head of the Gam family, who was discussing with the senior officials at the upper table, shouted.

“… … .”

“… … .”

Everyone looked at him, said the head of the Gam family.

“Now is the time, before any political decision or action, to lie flat on the ground as if dead.”

“… … .”

“… … .”

The family nodded in agreement in silence, and the Gam family continued speaking.

“We must strictly control the children who often cause accidents so that they cannot go outside, and we must absolutely not allow them to become the talk of the town as they usually are!”

The head of the Gam family emphasized.

“This must never happen, do you understand?!”

As everyone nodded, someone chuckled.

“They look funny.”

“… … .”

“… … .”

The people of the Gam family all looked at one place.

In this situation, there was only one person in the Gam family who could say such a thing.

“Second, you bastard…!”

The headmaster’s face turned red with anger.

“Where is this-!”

The second son of the Gam family, who was called the second son, calmly cut him off.

“So wouldn’t it be great if everyone lived a little more kindly in everyday life?”

Groan, groan.

He was always considered a problem child and a headache for the family.

But actually.

When this situation arose, the problem child was the only one who remained calm in the conference room.

“You little guy…!”

Even his older brother, the successor to the Gam family, growled at him, but the second son spoke without even blinking.

“Everyone seems to have been blinded by gold and power, and now they seem to have realized what they have done.”

“Shut up…!”

A scream burst out of the mouth of the Gam family.

“It’s not too late.”

But the second one looked straight into the eyes of his father, Gaju, and said.

“We must immediately liquidate all ties with the Sixteen Clans. In particular, we must clearly resolve our relationship with the Yue Clan, of which we have not heard any news, and swear allegiance to His Majesty the Emperor.”

“Didn’t I tell you to shut up?!”

An inkstone flew at him at once, but the second son caught it easily.

It was possible because Gaju had no internal energy and he had it.

“… … .”

But the second one couldn’t do anything about the ink that was filling the inkstone, and while he was closing his eyes and mouth to the flowing ink, the master shouted.

“Didn’t I tell you not to be fooled by that ‘loser’s’ letter?! If he talks nonsense one more time-!”

“Father. That loser….”

The second son of the Gam family wiped away the ink and asked the head of the household.

“I know that he is the eldest disciple of the Great Hwasan Sect, my cousin, and my father’s nephew, Hwasan Sword Dragon Kam Woo-hyeon.”

“He’s not even a long-sleeved person anymore!”

Boom!

The owner banged his desk roughly and shouted.

“That guy completely messed up things in the North and lost his position as the eldest son, and our family, which had been funding the Hwasan faction, almost perished because of him!”

“but-!”

“Don’t say one more word!”

The head of the household covered the second son’s mouth.

“You should know how to completely erase your name from the family register.”

“… … .”

When the second son closed his mouth with a deep sigh, the head of the Gam family, who had been glaring at him for a while, turned his eyes away.

“Back to the meeting-.”

“My lord…!”

Bam.

The door opened and the family’s butler appeared, and this time he burst right into the conference room and shouted.

“There’s a guest in front of the gate right now!”

“customer?”

The head of the household shook his head cleanly.

“I apologize politely and send him back. Now is not the time for that-.”

“My lord!”

The butler, feeling rude, cut him off and shouted:

“You are the head of the Akga family…! The guest outside is the head of the sixteen families, you yourself…!”

“… … !”

“… … !”

While the head of the household, who was as shocked as if struck by lightning, closed his mouth, the others began to stir.

“The head of the evil family…?!”

“Didn’t you say that the head of the Bokyang family passed away…?! But it looks like he’s safe…!”

The butler shouted.

“He said he would like to meet the lord and ask for his cooperation…!”

“… … !”

The commotion grew louder in an instant.

“Ugh…!”

“…that!”

Everyone’s eyes were focused on the head of the household who had his mouth shut.

It was said that the head of the Bokyang family was murdered by the Amcheonjonja.

However, the head of the evil family that was with him escaped and visited this place, the Gam family.

That too, asking for cooperation.

“… … .”

When the head of the Gam family could not open his mouth easily, the butler stamped his feet.

“Your Majesty! Normally, we should have brought him inside as soon as he arrived! If we delay any longer, the wrath of the Sixteen Clans will be-!”

“i get it.”

“father…!”

“My lord…!”

Several people shouted at the same time as they saw the owner get up.

The head of the household raised his hand as if to cover their mouths and spoke to everyone.

“I will go see him in person and express my apology.”

He said, wiping the cold sweat that kept running down his face with a handkerchief.

“It’s late at night so it’s difficult, but we’ll meet again tomorrow when the sun rises.”

It was an unusual appearance for the head of the Gam family, which was known for its large gall bladder.

“However, I swear that our Gam clan remains loyal to the Sixteen Clans.”

“father…!”

The second one shouted.

“Now is the time…! Now is the time to completely cut ties with them-!”

“I told you it was noisy!”

It was a voice closer to a scream than a shout.

“… … .”

The second one kept his mouth shut without saying anything, and the Gam family leader wiped the cold sweat with his trembling hands and shouted.

“How did this family, this Gam family, get to this point…! If we completely turn our backs on the Sixteen Clans because of something like this, what are we going to do in the future?!”

He screamed loudly.

“Do you think that ghost will be in the zodiac tomorrow or the day after?!”

Spit flew out of his mouth roughly.

“If a ghost disappears like a ghost, what happens after that?! What happens after that?!”

As soon as the screaming stopped, he stormed out.

“…father.”

The second son of the Gam family, Gam Hyo-seong, lowered his head.

The contents of a short letter sent by his cousin, the Hwasan Sword Dragon Gam Woo-hyeon, came to his mind.

“There isn’t much time left. Before that ‘time’ comes to the Zodiac, the Gam family must be put right.”

Even after receiving the letter, Gam Hyo-seong did not understand its contents for a while.

Not only that, everyone who saw the letter, including his father, Gaju, did not understand it.

What do you mean before it’s too late?

What do you mean there isn’t much left?

but.

Now, he knew that the ‘then’ that the Volcanic Sword Dragon had spoken of was right now.

I was realizing it.

“… … .”

and.

He seems to have decided on something.

He grabbed the letter from Volcanic Sword Dragon Gam Woo-hyeon and hurriedly left the conference room.

The last line of the letter sent by the Volcanic Sword Dragon Gam Woo-hyeon flashed through his mind.

“It’s not a choice.”