The Calamity-Class Artifacts in Ghost Stories Are Obsessed with Me - Chapter 112

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Catastrophe-Class Relics from Urban Legends Obsess Over Them — Episode 112
Everyone saw it.
The smoke moving its lips, speaking words they could not make out.
Soon, Hwa Ryeon opened her mouth.
“There’s a high probability traps have been laid.”
At her words, everyone nodded.
It was a cave that looked suspicious no matter who looked at it.
This smoke was showing the creature’s movements from not long ago, which meant it had come here deliberately after seeing the thing turn back.
There was a reason to find this place.
So they had to be careful.
“Let’s organize the formation and go in.”
Before entering, Hwa Ryeon first arranged their order.
Woo Ju was at the front.
He had the ability to respond in any situation.
Right behind him was Hwa Ryeon, then Chae Wol, and finally Chung Woo at the rear.
“We’re entering.”
They proceeded in order, one after another.
The cave’s entrance was very narrow and low, forcing them to bend at the waist as they entered, but once they went a little further inside, it suddenly opened up into a wider passage.
Woo Ju straightened and looked ahead.
So far, nothing seemed out of the ordinary.
Still, just in case, Woo Ju maintained high alertness and followed the smoke drifting ahead of him.
It was only natural, but the cave was damp and dark.
Hwa Ryeon was shining a light from behind them, and as Woo Ju swept his eyes across the walls by that glow, he suddenly felt something strange and slowed his pace.
Those following behind felt it too and looked at Woo Ju.
Woo Ju sensed their gaze from behind, swept the wall once more with his eyes, and opened his mouth.
“There. That mark. I think I saw it before.”
In the spot he pointed to was a wall with a small scrape on it.
It was the kind of size they could have passed without noticing if they hadn’t examined it closely, but Woo Ju hadn’t missed it.
“You think you saw it?”
“Yes. To be precise, this is the third time.”
At those words, Hwa Ryeon’s eyes narrowed.
Three times—not even twice—made it hard to dismiss as mere coincidence or mistake.
That’s why Woo Ju had spoken up.
“Could we be circling the same place?”
Hwa Ryeon answered that such a possibility was entirely plausible.
That kind of ghost story was common enough, and there were many sorcery techniques to achieve it.
“What should we do?”
Of course, now that they knew this, they couldn’t simply proceed as if nothing had happened.
Hwa Ryeon hesitated at Woo Ju’s question for a moment before speaking.
“If they’ve set a trap, they’d have planned for our response too.”
“Wouldn’t they?”
“So let’s go with a method they’d find hard to anticipate.”
The method Hwa Ryeon suggested suited Woo Ju just fine.
“Then I’ll do it right now.”
Woo Ju immediately lifted the Iron Pipe.
The others watched with slightly anxious eyes, but Woo Ju himself carried out the instruction without hesitation.
Crash—!
He had swung the Iron Pipe against the wall.
Of course, it was an extremely dangerous act.
In a place like this cave, one wrong touch could bring the whole thing crashing down.
But the collapse everyone feared didn’t happen.
The spot struck by the Iron Pipe didn’t crumble—it only cracked.
“Hmm.”
Woo Ju’s brow furrowed slightly.
From the direct impact, he could tell: the wall was abnormally hard.
To be precise, the moment the tip of the Iron Pipe touched the wall, he felt something like a rebound, and it gave the impression that sorcery had been applied to it.
If that weren’t the case, ordinary stone couldn’t possibly withstand such a blow.
But it didn’t matter.
If sorcery had been cast on mere wall, didn’t that mean something significant lay beyond?
In other words, he’d struck the right spot.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
The Iron Pipe struck relentlessly at the same spot.
At first, only shallow cracks appeared, but as time passed, they deepened and widened, and then suddenly, beyond some critical threshold, they began to spread exponentially.
And when that threshold was crossed—
With a tremendous crash, the wall that Woo Ju had been striking crumbled inward.
The others, braced for the collapse, watched the wall come down from where they’d clustered together.
Fortunately, the collapse didn’t spiral into the uncontrollable disaster they’d feared.
Instead, beyond the rubble, a yawning passage opened before them.
“Hmm.”
His intention had been to break through the wall precisely because he’d suspected some kind of sorcery layered over this space—breaking it would require breaching that barrier first.
But he’d gained something he hadn’t anticipated.
“I’ll examine it first.”
It was Chung Woo who stepped forward in that moment.
He approached the opening, withdrew several Inspection Tools from his pack, and began probing the space beyond the broken wall.
After manipulating his instruments for a time, studying the interior, Chung Woo finally nodded and spoke.
“Nothing immediately apparent. At least, there shouldn’t be any traps of the sort that trigger the moment you step inside.”
Chung Woo hadn’t given an absolute guarantee, but when he spoke with that degree of confidence, the odds of him being wrong were virtually nil.
“Good then. Let’s go in.”
“Yes.”
The absence of danger near the entrance offered no assurance about the interior, yet still they advanced without hesitation.
The space beyond the broken wall was surprisingly vast.
Had news of such a Cave ever become known, it would have drawn seekers in considerable numbers.
Most people imagine caves as naturally spacious chambers, but in truth, such caves are uncommon.
More typical are the cramped passages where a person can scarcely move about at all.
Caves with broad chambers like this one could be counted on one’s fingers.
And naturally, if such a space had existed naturally, word would almost certainly have spread already.
“This isn’t a natural formation,” Hwa Ryeon said, her eyes narrowing the moment she entered.
Woo Ju couldn’t have sworn to it with such certainty, but he understood why she’d say so.
The ceiling, the walls, the floor—
everywhere bore the marks of human labor.
It seemed less like a space that had never existed and more like an existing chamber that had been deliberately enlarged.
But for now, the form and origin of the interior mattered less than something more urgent.
Catching whoever was behind all this.
“Whoooooosh—”
The moment they entered, Hwa Ryeon placed the Pipe Smoke Divination to her lips and exhaled another plume.
Again, the smoke took shape.
He’d half-expected it to lead them back down the long Corridor they’d been walking earlier, but instead the smoke drifted deeper into the vast Chamber.
The possibility that the long passage itself had been a trap from the start rose considerably higher.
The culprit was somewhere near.
The shape wrought of smoke continued to drift like a living thing, sliding deeper into the Chamber, and they all followed in its wake.
Then they sensed something wrong.
‘It’s dark,’ Woo Ju thought.
Specifically, an unnatural darkness had settled over the deeper reaches of the Chamber.
From a distance, it had been easy to miss, but as they drew closer, he could feel how much denser the shadow was here than anywhere else.
‘Something’s coming,’ he sensed.
Woo Ju pressed deeper into that darkness, every sense alert, scanning the surroundings without pause.
No clear evidence had caught his eye yet, but his instincts had sharpened.
They’d drawn considerably close to him—whoever he was.
The others too seemed to feel the weight of the atmosphere; their eyes grew sharper and more vigilant.
They’d taken perhaps ten steps into the darkness when—
—Are you fearless? Or simply foolish?
A voice cut through the silence.
Coarse and turbid, like gravel dragged through water.
Woo Ju glanced first at the others’ reactions, checking whether he alone had heard it.
From the sharpness in their eyes, he saw at once that they all had heard it clearly.
Each of them was now studying the others, as if searching for the source.
—Is it normal to walk straight into a place that screams trap to anyone with eyes?
The voice continued, heedless, pressing on with its words.

His tone carried mockery toward Woo Ju and the others, who strode without hesitation into what was obviously a trap.
-Well, that’s why he came running here so eagerly, knowing nothing at all.
Of course, no one actually took offense or grew displeased at hearing this.
They all let the useless chatter go in one ear and out the other.
“Don’t listen to it.”
At that moment, Chung Woo suddenly spoke and drew something like a Spirit Whistle from his sleeve, blowing it hard.
Piiiiiiiii-!
A sharp sound drove into their ears.
At the same time, a pain like something tearing through their brains seized them.
It was natural enough that Chung Woo wouldn’t use such an instrument without reason.
“Huh?”
“Mm.”
After that brief moment of pain, the darkness that had enveloped the space vanished without a trace.
Without understanding the precise mechanism, the voice that had been trying to manipulate something through the power of words seemed to have been seen through.
Whether it was because that intent had been laid bare or not, the voice that had been speaking so eagerly until moments ago cut off abruptly.
And beyond that, things that hadn’t been visible before came into view.
Straight ahead.
Where darkness had pooled before, a low altar now stood revealed.
And upon the altar sat a Blue Crystal the size of a man, emanating a soft, deep blue light.
The smoke that Hwa Ryeon had conjured drifted steadily toward the altar, reaching a point just behind the Crystal before dispersing softly.
The meaning was simple.
The target was right there.
And then Woo Ju spotted someone sitting directly behind the Crystal.
“…….”
He was a middle-aged man with a gloomy face, dressed in shapeless clothes that concealed his build.
A far different presence from the mocking voice that had echoed through the darkness until moments ago.
But what drew attention more than anything was something connecting the Crystal and the man.
A bright thread-like line extended from the Crystal toward the man, binding them together.
Though the presumed culprit stood before them, there was no way to approach recklessly here.
How many times had they encountered the traps he’d laid before reaching this point?
Though he appeared defenseless at the moment, there was no knowing his true state.
“Do we advance?”
So Woo Ju first asked Hwa Ryeon before moving, and after a moment’s deliberation, she spoke.
“Yes. Chung Woo and Chae Wol will provide support.”
Then Hwa Ryeon moved close beside Woo Ju.
Woo Ju began moving forward only after her words fell away.
At that moment, the voice came again.
-Turn back now.
The same voice he’d heard before, though far lower and more somber now.
The two paid it no mind and continued walking.
-I was deceived. This isn’t that kind of power. Withdraw.
He continued speaking, but his words couldn’t halt their steps.
-This is something humans cannot bear. I cannot endure it. No more. I cannot endure it. Ah. Ah. Ah—. Who am I? What am I?
But as his voice grew increasingly incoherent and ceased to form proper sentences, they couldn’t help but pay attention.
Because it didn’t feel like he was feigning distress to attempt something else.
And then, immediately after.
Boom-boom-boom-boom!
The space around them shuddered violently.
With it, Woo Ju and the others saw something clawing its way up from beneath the earth.
They were Stone Statues. Yes, Stone Statues.
‘Sick of them.’
From the earlier incidents to now—he’d seen so many Stone Statues that the sight had become unbearable.
Of course, setting such feelings aside, Woo Ju immediately picked up an Iron Pipe and stood alert.
Whoosh-whoosh-whoosh-.
But the Stone Statues crumbled to dust the moment they rose, falling back to the ground.
Then they rose again, formed shape, crumbled to dust, and repeated the cycle.
As if something was going wrong.
-Aaaaaa, aaaah, aaaaaagh!
The man’s voice shifted into a scream.
Crash-crash-crash-!
Immediately after.
A brilliant radiance burst forth from the Blue Crystal, which had been suffused with an otherworldly glow, sweeping across the surroundings.
To be continued in the next episode ▶
Catastrophe-Class Relics from Urban Legends: Their Obsession
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Lee Se-gye
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