The Calamity-Class Artifacts in Ghost Stories Are Obsessed with Me - Chapter 111

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Catastrophe-Class Relics from Urban Legends Obsess Over Me — Episode 111
It’s a trap.
Hwa Ryeon didn’t know exactly what the situation was, but she said this was all a trap.
Usually, when people think they’ve fallen into a trap, the first thing they feel is despair.
But Woo Ju found his mind growing calmer at her words.
The Investigation Team employees who had been helping them so far. The ones pouring in from outside. They weren’t actually people at all.
“Verify it.”
On top of that, Hwa Ryeon produced something from her pocket and held it out.
It was an artifact the Response Team members used to confirm each other’s identities.
With that alone, there was no need to separately verify whether the other person was really who they claimed to be or if they were in their right mind.
And the Hwa Ryeon before his eyes was genuine, and not under any kind of enchantment.
“That’s good.”
Woo Ju’s mouth curved upward.
If Hwa Ryeon was right, it meant he no longer needed to hold back.
Crack.
Woo Ju gripped the iron pipe on his back firmly and looked ahead.
Of course, not everyone could accept the situation as quickly as Woo Ju did.
“So, they’re all not people? Does that mean these people too……?”
Chae Wol pointed to the ones she and Woo Ju had subdued earlier.
Hwa Ryeon answered simply once more.
“Look at them again. Really check if they’re people.”
At those words, Chae Wol turned to look at those lying on the ground and flinched in surprise.
Their forms hadn’t changed drastically. But up close, she saw they weren’t people at all—they were stone.
Yes. Stone shaped like a human.
“How……?”
It was natural for Chae Wol to be confused, since she’d felt nothing strange even while subduing and binding them.
But now there was no time to dwell on that confusion.
“Let’s talk about the details after we escape. We move to where the vehicle is, now.”
“Yes!”
The moment the order came down, Woo Ju threw open the gate between the stone walls without hesitation.
Then the things outside greeted them.
“Grrrrr……”
“Arrrrrgh—!”
On the surface, though they’d become strange, they still looked like living people.
But after learning their true nature from Hwa Ryeon and confirming it with a method of verification, he could see something was different.
Over the ordinary human forms, hazy shapes overlapped.
The forms of oddly-shaped stone statues.
At that, Woo Ju kicked off the ground and charged forward, swinging his iron pipe.
Crash—!
The moment Woo Ju began exerting his full power, the things blocking the way were swept aside in an instant.
They’d barely lasted a few seconds even when he was holding back.
So now that he was using his full strength, they scattered like dust each time he swung the iron pipe.
Tap!
And as the others followed behind him, they dealt with the ones Woo Ju hadn’t yet cleared.
‘The numbers are incredible.’
Woo Ju swung the iron pipe frantically while thinking.
The number of things blocking his path looked to be at least in the dozens at a glance. Maybe close to a hundred.
If their strength had been just a little stronger, Woo Ju would’ve had a real struggle on his hands.
Crash—!
But that also meant it wasn’t nearly difficult enough to give him serious trouble right now.
Woo Ju cleared a path cheerfully and moved forward, and before long he could see the vehicle they’d arrived in ahead.
It was only natural, perhaps, but the vehicle was in no condition to be called intact.
Several people were on top of it, the tires were already punctured, and there were dents scattered across its surface.
“You goddamn bastards!”
At the sight, Hwa Ryeon shouted in a voice no one had heard from her before.
Come to think of it, the vehicle they’d ridden in today wasn’t company property—it was Hwa Ryeon’s personal car.
Woo Ju silently paid his respects to Hwa Ryeon’s vehicle and then asked her.
“The car’s completely destroyed! What do we do?”
“Just go!”
Hwa Ryeon shouted as she gritted her teeth.
There’s no way they could’ve escaped in a vehicle in that condition, no matter how hard they tried.
Which meant the car itself wasn’t the target—something inside it was what they needed.
From what he could see, that vehicle had seen better days and wouldn’t roll much further.
Woo Ju pressed forward without hesitation, clearing the remaining path until he reached the car.
“Buy us some time!”
The moment they arrived, Hwa Ryeon hurled herself through the car’s door.
Woo Ju and the others took up positions around the vehicle, holding back the approaching creatures as Hwa Ryeon worked.
About three minutes passed.
Whoooooosh—!
A tremendous burst of Radiant Light erupted from inside the car.
But what came next was truly astonishing.
Everything the light touched froze in place, mid-motion.
“G—.”
“A—.”
Those further away managed a few seconds of movement, but none held out long—three or four seconds at most before they too went rigid.
When the light finally faded entirely,
every single creature that had swarmed around them stood motionless, petrified where they stood.
“Is it over?”
“For now.”
Hwa Ryeon stepped out of the car and exhaled heavily as she answered Woo Ju’s question.
“More precisely, they’re in an Inactive State. They’ll move again if reactivated, but until then, they’re just ordinary stone statues.”
Hwa Ryeon leaned against the car with a weary expression, then caught sight of the wreckage she’d made of her own vehicle and her face grew complicated.
Just then, Chae Wol spoke up, her face still clouded with confusion.
“What… what exactly is happening here?”
Honestly, Woo Ju was wondering the same thing.
A village struck by a plague. A deity. An attack. They’d thought they were piecing together clues, however slowly—and then this suddenly erupted from nowhere.
None of it made sense.
Rather than answer immediately, Hwa Ryeon stuck a pipe between her teeth and thought for a moment before speaking slowly.
“First, nothing we’ve faced so far was human.”
“Not even the guide we met at the very beginning?”
“No.”
She furrowed her brow and continued.
“The Investigation Team members we found had already been subdued and were being held somewhere.”
“They’re alive, though their condition isn’t good.”
Chung Woo added from beside her, and Hwa Ryeon went on.
“The surviving villagers we found were being kept with them.”
“Surviving villagers… you mean…”
Chae Wol caught the implication in those words, her face growing darker.
Hwa Ryeon answered with a measured tone.
“There were casualties. Many of them. The corpse we saw when we first arrived was likely a villager from here.”
After listening to the account, Woo Ju asked Hwa Ryeon a question.
“How did you determine that none of them were actually human?”
“The clue was in the statues. From the one posing as an Investigation Team member to all the others pretending to be villagers—they all carried the same distinct aura.”
“Before we returned to the village, I used an Artifact to analyze that aura and discovered a widespread Sorcery had been cast across this entire area.”
Hearing Hwa Ryeon and Chung Woo’s explanation, Woo Ju narrowed his eyes.
“So this was all orchestrated by people?”
If so, they were wielding no ordinary power.
But this time, Hwa Ryeon shook her head.
“Not entirely.”
“Then…?”
“The essence remains what we first discovered. There was a deity that had been enshrined here for a long time, and that deity came under attack.”
Hwa Ryeon gestured with her pipe as she spoke.
“Someone contaminated the deity here, causing it to rampage. Then they used that rampaging deity as a conduit to weave their Sorcery.”
“That’s no small feat either.”
Though the “deity” they spoke of wasn’t the omniscient sort—more akin to a Supernatural Being or Monster—its power was nonetheless formidable.
Even a severely weakened Tatarigarni had proven a difficult adversary, hadn’t it?
“Right. Using the contaminated deity’s power as a medium, they animated these stone statues mimicking humans, and constructed the entire village as a single stage.”
Woo Ju nodded.
Now the situation was clear. Yet questions still lingered.
“But why? Why do all this?”
What was the meaning behind such a scheme?
Of course, Woo Ju wasn’t asking for a definitive answer—merely venting his frustration.
But instead of denying knowledge, Hwa Ryeon answered with a troubled expression.
“We were the target.”
“Us?”
“Yes. The reports that came through the Investigation Team recently were likely falsified by that thing. And one of them contained this.”
The situation is escalating rapidly. Immediate deployment of the Response Team is necessary.
That was the note written at the end of the report.
Headquarters saw it and decided to dispatch the Response Team.
But considering that the Investigation Team members were already subdued and confined, the report itself was likely sent by the Malevolent Entity orchestrating this.
“So we change tactics.”
Hwa Ryeon struck a match and lit her pipe as she spoke.
“We hunt it down. If it went to this much trouble, it has to be nearby.”
Her words carried certainty.
She hadn’t simply reasoned that the instigator would be close by because the operation was large in scale.
The traps laid throughout the Village required constant maintenance regardless of their scope.
In other words, it was highly probable that the orchestrator had remained in this area the entire time the plan was unfolding.
Though admittedly, they’d likely fled immediately upon seeing things go wrong.
Whoooosh—
And fortunately, this location had someone specialized in ‘pursuing’ targets.
As smoke poured from Hwa Ryeon’s mouth, it coalesced into the shape of a person.
“This should be what the orchestrator looks like.”
While the shape wasn’t precise enough to identify a face, it revealed approximate height and build.
Whoosh—
Soon the form began moving in a specific direction.
“Let’s go.”
It was a relentless forced march, yet no one voiced complaint.
They understood well that a pursuit could only succeed if the moment wasn’t lost.
Shhhhh—
The smoke form Hwa Ryeon created moved with fluid grace, as if alive.
The group followed close behind without losing pace.
Naturally enough, the smoke didn’t lead them directly to its source.
After all, it wasn’t meant to pinpoint an exact location, but rather to retrace the original’s movements from a certain point until now.
Whoooosh—
Hwa Ryeon continued feeding smoke into the form, which wandered here and there before finally heading toward the mountain.
After walking for some time, a familiar place appeared.
The Shrine.
The form settled near the Shrine and remained motionless for a long while.
“Around the time we arrived here, I think.”
Hwa Ryeon observed where the form had positioned itself and which direction it faced as she spoke.
Indeed, the form was gazing toward the Shrine.
As if watching something.
But that was brief. A short time later, the form turned upward toward the mountain.
They all continued following it up the mountain—for nearly two hours.
The longer the pursuit dragged on, the paler Hwa Ryeon’s face grew, yet she didn’t utter a single groan.
Though she must surely have been in intense pain.
The others likewise showed no sign of fatigue, following the form in steady silence.
How much time had passed?
Around the moment sweat soaked everyone’s foreheads except Woo Ju’s—
“There.”
They discovered a narrow, dark-looking Cave.
But upon reaching the Cave’s entrance, the smoke form suddenly turned, and they saw it look back at them.
And then a mouth-like shape formed on the smoke’s face, moving as if speaking.
No sound emerged, but Woo Ju grasped its meaning immediately.
‘Waiting.’
It was a message from whoever dwelt in that Cave.
To be continued ▶
Supernatural Beings Within Urban Legends: Catastrophe-Class Relics’ Obsession
Author
Yi Se-gye
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Kim Seok-hwan, Choi Se-ra
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Publication Date
May 26, 2026
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