Chapter 189 – Dream of the Demon God (9)

Blood Brain Prison.

A Bright Cult prison and exile place made using a hollowed rock gorge.

The ground prison was a place where ordinary criminals were confined for a certain period before returning, but the underground whose end was unknown was completely different.

That place was where former masters who raised rebellions, Bright Cult martial artists swept by madness due to unstable internal energy running wild, and masters captured in fights with the Orthodox Faction were imprisoned forever.

Puwak!

A hole opened in the ceiling of the deep underground prison where even light didn’t enter, and Sun-woo descended to the floor.

“Really deep.”

He seemed to have descended more than 100 meters already, but the end of the cave still couldn’t be felt with the spirit of earth.

Moreover, the upper part was sandstone-type ground that was relatively easy to dig through, but the lower part was hard granite type.

“It’s not a cave eroded by water but a path where lava erupted.”

Furthermore, except for one place, it was filled with rock walls boasting tremendous thickness, so even for Sun-woo it was hard to dig through and descend easily.

“The side with holes is up ahead.”

Sun-woo continued walking along the path where torches lit fires here and there and prisons with iron bars on both sides lined up.

Though the prisons were empty now, traces of recent use were visible.

Probably everyone had left the prisons after the Blood Cult and contaminated summoners came.

Whether they left dead or were dragged out was unknown, but it was certain they hadn’t been released on good terms.

While examining the surroundings and heading toward the hole felt through the spirit of earth, a shout reached Sun-woo’s ears.

“Intruder! Emergency!”

Sun-woo’s intrusion seemed to have been discovered. He thought he descended carefully, but since he dug vertical holes through countless caves while coming down, there was no way he wouldn’t be caught.

However, Sun-woo wasn’t very worried. He thought there wouldn’t be anyone who could face him in such a cave-like maze.

However, since it would be bothersome to encounter them, Sun-woo kicked off the floor and increased his speed.

After a while, Sun-woo was able to arrive at a considerably large underground plaza.

A round-shaped underground plaza with a large hole in the center where several martial artists were guarding the place.

“Strange composition?”

Sun-woo looked at the martial artists and tilted his head.

Three Bright Cult members who he thought originally guarded this place, and several Blood Cult members wearing black clothes.

And even a mage had taken position beside the hole.

The Blood Cult members and mage were all contaminated, and the Bright Cult members were curiously all fine.

Low martial arts and hands with calluses, and a basket that could carry several people placed beside the hole with a pulley.

“Manual cable car?”

The Bright Cult members’ eyes were dead black.

A feeling like living because they couldn’t quite die.

“What’s your affiliation! This is a restricted area!”

One of the Blood Cult members shouted toward Sun-woo. But thanks to illusion arts, no one seemed to think of Sun-woo as an enemy.

Sun-woo placed his hand on the wall and checked memories. Fortunately, Nanseol had passed through here.

Though carried while unconscious, she went down below riding that basket with other people.

“There’s an intruder so I came to report. May I go down? I must report to those who went down too.”

“Intruder? Ah, then we must report.”

At Sun-woo’s words, the Blood Cult members nodded and told the Bright Cult members to move the pulley.

The Bright Cult members moved toward the pulley beside the basket with puzzled expressions.

That was when it happened.

Pang!

“Snap out of it!”

The mage struck the floor with a staff and shouted.

Mana burst out and vibrated the air. The Blood Cult members who were blankly following Sun-woo’s words snapped to their senses.

“Tsk, still too much?”

Sun-woo clicked his tongue looking at the Blood Cult members hastily drawing weapons. The next stage of illusion arts was still too much for those with high mental strength.

“What are you!”

“This crazy guy! Playing tricks with sorcery! Isn’t he completely insane?”

Though they came to their senses, they still only thought Sun-woo had gone mad from contamination.

They couldn’t think that a contaminated person could rationally be hostile to contaminated summoners.

“Capture him! Kill if he resists.”

The mage gave orders to the Blood Cult members, and following that, contaminated warriors emerged from the cave behind.

They were guards who rushed over to catch the intruder.

“The intruder is here!”

“Catch him before he runs away! He has martial arts that dig tunnels!”

Surrounded front and back, Sun-woo sighed. He planned to move quietly if possible, but failed again this time.

And the sword hanging at Sun-woo’s waist shot forward.

Shushushuk!

It was an instant.

The moment the sword that swept the underground plaza once was caught in Sun-woo’s hand again, all the contaminated warriors who had surrounded Sun-woo collapsed to the floor.

Each had a hole in their chest and neck.

Only the three Bright Cult members frozen in fear and one mage who had an arm blown off instead of chest thanks to a shield remained in the plaza.

“Kkeok… what are you!”

The mage’s question was similar to before, but the nuance was completely different.

There were no more pursuers nearby. Sun-woo released the illusion arts.

“No way! A multiple skill user?”

“Another nickname increased.”

Though Sun-woo’s face was covered by illusion arts, the mage immediately recognized who Sun-woo was.

“Since you know who I am, you know I’m not nice, right? I have a few things I want to ask.”

Sun-woo approached the mage with a sinister smile.

“Huh?”

Unfortunately, Sun-woo couldn’t get information from the mage.

Perhaps Sun-woo’s reputation was excessive, the frightened mage caused mana to run wild and committed suicide.

“This is troublesome.”

The hole’s depth was no joke to just chase down.

Sun-woo looked at the three Bright Cult members trembling beside him.

“I want to know a few things.”

“Please ask!”

“We’ll tell you everything we know!”

The three people stepped forward saying they would speak first.

Originally all three were prison guards who showed authority in this prison.

But after the prison passed to the Blood Cult, they lived lives close to slaves, and when someone who made that strong mage commit suicide appeared, they were struggling desperately to live.

“Then what’s down there that made those guys take control of this place and go down?”

As Sun-woo’s question fell, they spewed words like a machine gun.

“The real Blood Brain Prison is down below.”

“It’s a place to put masters who are too strong.”

“It’s a place they never return from.”

Synthesizing the stories poured out for a while, below this several hundred meter hole was an exile place from which one could never escape.

Below the hole, numerous caves and underground plazas made like a maze surrounded by granite were positioned.

From ancient times, masters who couldn’t be killed but also couldn’t be brought back or controlled later had their internal energy removed and tendons cut before being abandoned there.

“We load them in this basket and put them down below, then pull it back up after a while to dispose of criminals.”

“Long ago they occasionally went down to check, but from some point couldn’t go down.”

“Martial artists who didn’t die and adapted down there appeared. Since there’s nothing to eat, you can fully predict what they ate.”

From their words, what kind of neighborhood was below could be roughly understood. But no story came out about why the contaminated guys took Nanseol down below.

“What I want to know is why the Blood Cult guys took a female Orthodox Faction master down. Don’t you know anything?”

At Sun-woo’s words, the three desperately wracked their brains.

“I heard they sent down a tremendous Orthodox Faction master decades ago.”

“I heard there are old cult ruins here.”

“There’s also a rumor that an old Blood Cult master was captured and brought here.”

After that, rumors flowed from their mouths, but they didn’t seem very meaningful.

Sun-woo ignored them trying to chatter more and approached in front of the hole.

And jumped into the hole.

The three people left behind looked at each other.

“Did he just leave?”

“Did we survive?”

“That’s not it! If he leaves like that, what about us! Strange guys are everywhere! We’ll be eaten!”

With tearful faces, they eventually looked at the basket.

“Could we survive if we follow after him?”

“He looked incredibly strong.”

“But he didn’t look like he had a good personality.”

“We’ll die if we stay here anyway.”

“No one who went down has come back up… Won’t it be the same?”

“Still, better than being eaten alive…”

The three looking at each other eventually sighed and walked toward the basket.

***

Shwuuu!

The hole was much deeper than expected.

Sun-woo examined the walls while falling down and only then could understand why no one had escaped.

The hole wasn’t vertical but shaped like a laboratory flask, widening the further down it went.

Moreover, the walls were full of slippery moss. The thickness was considerable, so even trying to climb up with wall-walking would likely slip.

It was the moment he thought he had descended more than a hundred meters. He felt the ground rising from below.

Sun-woo spewed internal energy outward through the Yongcheon acupoint on his sole.

Dalk!

Sun-woo’s body falling to the floor slowed down.

Continuing to spew internal energy and reduce speed, Sun-woo was able to descend to the floor after a while as if riding a parachute.

“Hmm, is sky-walking like this too?”

Sky-walking. The highest realm of lightness arts, walking the sky.

“Tsk, completely wasteful internal energy and showy martial arts.”

But the legendary lightness arts ended up condemned as trash martial arts by Sun-woo.

“Let’s see.”

As expected when coming down, this place was like the bottom of a flask.

At the end of the gradually narrowing ceiling, a hole connected, and several holes were open in all directions of the plaza.

Sun-woo placed his hand on the floor and began checking memories of where Nanseol was dragged.

After a moment, Sun-woo who removed his hand contorted his face and began dry heaving.

“Damn it, I looked too far back.”

Because he checked quite far into the past just in case, he ended up seeing the terrible past that happened here.

Murder, rape, cannibalism, and all the worst things humans could commit had all happened here.

“They definitely came aiming for something. They seem to know the way.”

Sun-woo who calmed down a bit began walking toward one of the caves.

According to what he confirmed from memories, those who came down here didn’t look around and immediately headed to the cave Sun-woo was heading toward following one person’s guidance.

And they encountered those who survived here in front of the cave.

“Newbie! Stop right there!”

Just like now.

Dozens of people wearing rags blocked Sun-woo’s path.

When they blocked the group that took Nanseol, there were only three or four, but this time several times more people blocked.

Probably because they killed all those who blocked them, this many appeared.

“What on earth happened? What happened above? A proper guy entering this place? Did those who died earlier get done in like that too?”

A beautiful woman’s voice was heard from among those who blocked. When that voice was heard, people made way with frightened expressions.

Through the path they made, though wearing equally ragged clothes, one incredibly beautiful woman walked over with a bored expression.

Seeing her, Sun-woo also asked.

“What happened? Wasn’t internal energy completely destroyed before putting people inside? How is there a peak master here?”

The woman before him was peak. A female master with super-peak right before her eyes.

At Sun-woo’s words, the female master’s expression hardened stiffly.

Recognizing her skill meant at least the same level!

The female master’s body shot toward Sun-woo like an arrow.