Chapter 834 – Mythology Academy
“… Sujeong suggested that we rip out the souls of the victims and share them with our ancestors. That we could become stronger through that power.”
“You’re crazy.”
“Yes. It was crazy.”
However, Seonjo, who was already driven to a dead end, had no choice but ended up accepting Sujeong’s offer. Based on the great power he received from Sujeong, he becomes several times stronger than before and commits an atrocity by ruthlessly purging all of his internal enemies with his own power.
The ancestor killed every single person who resisted within the family, cut off their heads, and sprinkled the blood near the crystal to share the power of his soul with the crystal. After completely organizing his internal affairs, he commits an ugly atrocity, wiping out the untrustworthy ‘collaterals’ and leaving behind only his ‘direct lineage’.
And King Seonjo’s obsession with blood and relatives grew stronger, and he repeatedly captured talented young women from nearby areas, took them as concubines, and impregnated them.
As if that wasn’t enough, King Seonjo did not hesitate to commit crazy acts such as raping and incestuously raping talented women among his relatives.
“… No matter how strong the ancestors are, they left them alone?”
“It seems that King Seonjo literally wielded an iron fist in the family. I don’t know how he seized power like that…”
The head of the family raised her direct blood relatives in such a crazy manner. He goes one step further and decides to use a clever trick to hide the existence of the crystal and make this bloody ‘ritual’ look more convincing.
They secretly buried the cave containing the crystal and built the family’s ‘shrine’ on top of it. He strongly preached to his family’s relatives that the area was a place where great revelations were made and that they could receive the blessings of their great ancestors here.
In the past, this would have been dismissed as crazy, but everyone who resisted inside was killed and only those who completely submitted to the matriarch were left. Therefore, it was said that the relatives did not complain about the matriarch’s opinion without much opposition.
“So… Our ancestors established the ceremony at the shrine to announce the ‘end’ of infancy as a very natural and important ceremony.”
“… A lot of people must have died?”
Dean Gerhard frowns and expresses doubt when he says that there has been no significant opposition from the family, even though the number of deaths may have increased significantly due to the ritual.
“Because expressing doubt meant death. And all the children who actually passed the ritual became super-powered. In that period, which was almost a half-barbarism, ‘super-powers’ were equivalent to nobility.”〈 Br〉
‘It’s like a techno barbarian.’
Although it was a world in which superpowers had developed remarkably, paradoxically, the world at that time was a world in which the capable and the non-competent were thoroughly discriminated against, and only ability was everything.
It was obvious that a non-talented person would lead a humble life anyway, so he was loyal to the head of the family. Alternatively, it is said that the brainwashed relatives came to perceive the sacrifice of their young relatives as ‘natural’.
“… In order to be recognized, the ancestral family had to have many children. That is how they could leave behind many descendants even through the great ‘ritual’.”
“You’re crazy… You’re crazy…”
“Yes. It was crazy.”
The ancestral family grew in power through the sacrifice of their relatives. Based on that power, King Seonjo began to merge surrounding families one by one.
Originally, it would not have been strange if he had become a public figure and was attacked from all sides, but paradoxically, the family of King Seonjo had been persecuted by surrounding families for a very long time.
Therefore, when King Seonjo attacked and merged with the surrounding families to avenge his past grudges, the surrounding great families, who believed that his actions had their own justification, only intervened and did not stop him.
In any case, from the ancestral family’s point of view, it was a ‘rich’ surrounding land, but from the great family’s point of view, it was still a miserable land on the outskirts of the continent.
Our ancestors swept the surroundings like a storm. He finally succeeds in wiping out the North and becoming its loser, even in remote areas.
In order to avenge the old family’s enemies captured in this way, all men, regardless of age, are killed and sacrificed to the crystal, and women are also killed and sacrificed to the crystal, except for those who are capable of conceiving, committing the atrocity.
“That’s how the ancestors became monsters.”
He used to communicate with crystals using a secret passage he secretly built in the basement of his shrine. As a result of such steady communication, he was able to talk with Sujeong somewhat freely, and he even learned various secrets from Sujeong.
Of course, the price was a sacrifice. The ancestors, who were intoxicated by the powerful possibilities offered by the crystal, began to quickly lose their humanity at some point. However, paradoxically, he was so intoxicated with power that he was completely unaware of that fact.
“… Until his death, King Seonjo used cunning tactics to expand his territory by attacking surrounding families or forces.”
However, no matter how strong one becomes, humans have the limitation of being mortal, and the ancestors’ physical strength also begins to decline.
A paradoxical situation in which the superpower is still strong, but the body is aging and cannot support it. Even as the power of the head of the family began to weaken little by little, cases began to arise where his authority was implicitly challenged among his relatives.
A representative pressure is succession design. The family’s prominent successors demand that a legitimate successor be appointed to prevent the family they have managed to build from collapsing due to infighting.
Since this actually made sense, many of the thick-headed children of the family began to put pressure on the head of the family. However, the head of the family, who did not want to give up power after being corrupted by the power of the crystal, feels a strong resistance to their pressure.
However, since the cause itself was not wrong, the head of the family temporarily resolved the conflict under the pretext of choosing a successor.
“… And he becomes completely corrupted.”
Everything in life has an end, but human greed has no end. The ancestor, who was completely corrupted by the crystal, seeks teachings from the crystal without even knowing that he has been corrupted like a devil.
To the ancestor, Sujeong replies with an evil whisper that she will grant his wish if he offers a worthy sacrifice. That is, offering a strong ‘blood relative’ as a sacrifice. If he does so, Sujeong offers to use his secret power to allow the ancestors to steal the body of one of the sacrifices.
It was a terrible act that no human should have done, but the ancestor, who was already completely morally corrupt and firmly believed that only he could lead the family perfectly, committed an evil act by complying with Sujeong’s request as if possessed.
On the surface, our ancestors calmly announced the blood relative they had been eyeing as their successor under the pretext of choosing a ‘worthy’ successor. On the outside, he acts as if he is giving him this or that effort in order to transfer power peacefully.
The ancestors, who thus solidified the position of the ‘sacrificial sacrifice’, take him and drag him to Sujeong under the pretext of telling him the family secret that only previous head of the family knew.
“… Did you steal it?”
“Yes. The ancestor shamelessly took away the body of the successor. He sacrificed the soul to the crystal.”
An ancestor who plucked out a blood relative’s soul alive and then stole his body. He commits the atrocity of sacrificing the extracted soul to the crystal. Furthermore, he then takes his aging body back to the family home and pretends to be his successor, announcing that his great ancestor died in an accidental accident. Now, it’s a bonus that he has declared himself the head of the family.
“And then a tragic civil war broke out.”
Naturally, there were people who were suspicious of their ancestor’s death, and some influential successors used that as an excuse to become the new head of the family. No, it showed political pressure on King Seonjo. There are those who share power or even refuse to recognize him as the head of the family.
Naturally, King Seonjo, who wanted to take control of everything in the family, refuses such a request without even blinking. He falsely accuses his blood relatives, who are his children and brothers, and begins a terrible bloody purge.
In fact, although it was a difficult problem, it was a problem that could be solved through strategy or conversation, but he deliberately took a coercive attitude to secure the ‘offering’ to offer to the crystal, which soon led to internal strife in the family.
The surrounding families, who were nervous about the threatening growth of the ancestral family, saw the situation and felt that an opportunity had come. In order to destroy the ancestral family through civil war, external families empower other successors and act to ignite family fights.
“Nevertheless, I guess King Seonjo won.”
“Yes. He… Has already become a powerful superpower with the help of the crystal’s power.”
In the first place, superpower was a power based on the power of the soul. Therefore, only the body changed, but the ancestor’s supernatural power was still strong, so he led the remaining gasols and not only defeated all the rebels, but also succeeded in destroying all the enemy families that reached out to them.
