The Calamity-Class Artifacts in Ghost Stories Are Obsessed with Me - Chapter 113

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Catastrophe-Class Relics from Urban Legends: Chapter 113
Woo Ju squinted against the blinding light but refused to look away.
An attack could come while he was distracted by it.
But then, a strange sensation swept through him—as if his body were floating upward.
The feeling was oddly familiar, and though it unsettled him, he gripped the Iron Pipe firmly and waited for the light to fade.
After several moments, the radiance gradually dimmed, and Woo Ju’s vision cleared.
“Hm…….”
The landscape that emerged was nothing like he’d expected.
He’d assumed the Cave would simply be ringed with Stone Statues, but instead the entire environment had transformed.
Walls, ceiling, floor—everything felt jumbled together.
Or perhaps like something carefully kneaded only to be haphazardly stirred by a child’s hands.
‘What kind of power is this?’
Was it warping space itself, or showing him an illusion?
Either way, the critical fact remained: his Artifact’s power couldn’t stop it.
And there was something else.
‘No one’s here.’
The area was completely empty of people.
Chung Woo and Chae Wol had been some distance back, but Hwa Ryeon had been right behind him, moving together—she should be here.
Deciding to assume it was an illusion, Woo Ju focused his mind on the Bangangshi Mask.
If anything could see through an illusion, the mask was capable of it.
“…….”
But as time passed, his vision didn’t change.
It was as if this twisted state was the true form.
Eventually, Woo Ju abandoned his attempt to perceive anything through the mask and gripped the Iron Pipe again.
‘That Crystal is suspicious.’
Woo Ju recalled the events moments before.
The man’s state had become strange, then light had erupted from the Crystal, and then… this.
If what appeared on the surface was the truth, the man had lost control of the Crystal.
The Crystal had gone haywire, and that’s how they’d ended up in this situation.
‘Though it’s possible that was all an act.’
But he couldn’t rule out that even that might have been a trap set by the man.
He’d been deceived by him since the moment they arrived in the village.
‘I need to look around, at least.’
Woo Ju turned these thoughts over in his mind, then slowly surveyed his surroundings.
Again, the strange landscape caught his eye.
First, this sense of ‘twisting’ was profoundly unsettling.
One might argue that since this was a stone cave, mixing its parts wouldn’t make much difference—but that wasn’t the case at all.
How to describe it.
As a lack of continuity between sections?
Right beside a stone jutting upward, the ground suddenly appeared. In a shallow depression, something like an inverted stalactite had been driven down.
‘Looking at it this way, it’s like watching a game with a graphics glitch.’
Woo Ju thought so, then silently cursed his own poor vocabulary before stepping forward slowly.
But something that could be called a clue appeared in his sight faster than he’d expected.
‘That’s……?’
He caught sight of a pale navy-blue light seeping from between the twisted walls.
Though the warped space made it hard to gauge exact distance, Woo Ju decided to head toward that light.
After several more steps.
“……!”
Suddenly, his vision twisted violently.
He’d been walking along the ground just moments before, but now a wall stood directly ahead.
No—looking closer, it wasn’t a wall.
His feet were attached to what he’d thought was the ceiling, and he could see the ground below.
Confronted by an incomprehensible phenomenon, Woo Ju hesitated, then took a step backward.
His vision flipped again, returning to normal.
He walked forward and back several times, taking in the situation.
‘It’s not just that the appearance has changed—space itself is distorted.’
So what he’d just encountered was a boundary line of the Spatial Distortion.
The discomfort he’d felt all along had come from recognizing this warping of space itself.
“This place is absolutely miserable…….”
Woo Ju exhaled a long breath.
For now, it didn’t seem physically dangerous, but I decided to move with greater caution.
After all, this Spatial Distortion could prove far more treacherous than it appeared.
So Woo Ju continued moving without pause for quite some time, and in doing so, discovered several additional facts.
First, the place seemed considerably smaller than he’d initially thought.
Even after walking for over thirty minutes, he found no end—but realized the problem wasn’t simply a matter of size.
‘The Spatial Distortion is the issue.’
It was similar to when he’d first entered the Cave.
He’d think he was moving steadily forward, yet due to the Spatial Distortion, he’d find himself circling the same spot endlessly, or retracing his own footsteps without realizing it.
Just now, for instance, he’d passed through the same location twice already.
Despite taking what seemed like a different route.
So Woo Ju identified several places where the Distortion was particularly severe, and made a deliberate effort to discern the pattern centered around those points.
The effort bore some fruit.
‘I’m getting closer.’
The indigo light, which had shown no sign of approach when he’d wandered aimlessly at first, gradually began drawing nearer.
Though its pace was slow, Woo Ju pressed on without hesitation.
And finally, after another thirty minutes had passed, he reached the source of that indigo glow.
“Hmm?”
Yet what he found up close was somewhat different from his expectations.
He’d half-expected to see a Crystal or something similar, but there was only a hole from which the indigo light poured forth.
Woo Ju deliberated for a moment, then picked up a small stone lying nearby and tossed it toward the opening.
Ping!
The stone disappeared inside, only to ricochet back out almost immediately.
Woo Ju’s expression grew puzzled once more.
‘What in the world is this?’
Another riddle had surfaced.
He furrowed his brow deeply and considered the matter with genuine seriousness.
‘Maybe just smashing through it is the answer?’
After all, once you smash something, it tends to work out fine, doesn’t it? There’s an old saying—if the body is strong, the mind doesn’t have to strain.
Woo Ju possessed strength that required his mind to strain about nothing whatsoever.
“Woo Ju!”
It was then that a familiar voice cut through his thoughts.
Woo Ju, who had been slowly raising an Iron Pipe, froze and turned around.
Chung Woo was walking toward him, his expression worn and weary.
“Senior!”
“Good—I’ve made contact with you first, then.”
Chung Woo approached with a faint smile.
His condition looked decidedly poor. His clothes were tattered in places, and blood was seeping through in several spots.
Woo Ju approached him with a look of concern.
The moment he drew near—
Slam!
Woo Ju’s hand flashed out like lightning, driving the figure to the ground.
“Gasp!”
Chung Woo, caught off-guard, stared up at Woo Ju with an expression of pure incomprehension.
“Why? Why…?”
“Why? Because my senior would never address me so familiarly.”
Chung Woo approaching with a smile and gentle words?
That was nothing like the real Chung Woo.
The real Chung Woo would have approached with something like, “Luck wasn’t on our side. Have you found anything?” even if he were badly injured or in dire straits.
Or more likely, he would have first tried to confirm whether Woo Ju was truly Woo Ju.
That was Chung Woo’s nature.
“Return to your original form. You’re just another Stone Statue anyway.”
Woo Ju gave the figure a light kick as he spoke, and it promptly went rigid.
As expected, this too was an animated Stone Statue.
Looking more closely, it didn’t actually resemble Chung Woo much at all—merely a statue with a superficially similar feel.
‘I need to finish this here, one way or another.’
Whether the man had lost his mind or not, once I pin him down, I should be able to extract something—that would ease my mind.
With that thought settled, Woo Ju turned his attention back to the hole where the indigo light was spilling forth.
Or rather, he’d meant to.
“So this is where you are.”
A voice laden with annoyance and lethargy sounded once more.
This time it was Hwa Ryeon’s voice.
When Woo Ju turned his head, sure enough, Hwa Ryeon was standing there.
She gazed at the Stone Statue at Woo Ju’s feet and frowned as she spoke.
“It’s exactly the same as what I saw on the way in.”
“…You saw something like this too, team leader?”
“Yeah. I was with Chae Wol.”
“Hmm. I think I get the idea now.”
“First, let’s verify our identities. It seems like we were stuck together and fell separately.”
“Understood.”
Woo Ju nodded at his own words, then suddenly swung the Iron Pipe down like a thunderbolt.
Clang!
Something solid rang out, and Hwa Ryeon collapsed.
Just like before, she transformed into a Stone Statue.
“Put some effort into it. Some real effort.”
Hwa Ryeon doesn’t call Chae Wol by her name—she calls her Employee Chae Wol.
Besides, the Long-stemmed Pipe she’d been holding the whole time was nowhere to be seen, and her speech pattern was subtly different too.
Woo Ju clicked his tongue and peered into the hole again.
“Hmm.”
The hole seemed to lead somewhere.
The opening itself was too narrow for one person to fit through, so he couldn’t verify it directly.
So Woo Ju hesitated for a moment.
Was this right? Wouldn’t it be better to look around a bit more?
But such doubts inevitably led to a predetermined conclusion.
‘Then it’ll be too late.’
That Woo Ju—his body didn’t always rush ahead of his thoughts.
Rather, there was something he’d learned from Hwa Ryeon during training.
It was that in situations like this, thinking and acting conventionally wasn’t always the right move.
‘Unexpectedness.’
That was what Hwa Ryeon had called his strongest weapon.
After all, even overwhelming force was an element that could create such unexpectedness.
‘Let’s go.’
So this time too, Woo Ju decided to push that unexpectedness forward.
This trap clearly didn’t look like it was designed specifically for him.
Whoooosh!
Acting like this would be outside the enemy’s expectations.
Boom!
With a thunderous crash, the stones around the hole shattered.
After repeating this process several times, the hole rapidly enlarged until a person could pass through.
Woo Ju patted his Leather Jacket and muttered to himself.
‘I trust you.’
Then, without hesitation, he thrust the Iron Pipe into the hole.
‘How is it? Safe?’
After asking the Iron Pipe, it fell silent for a moment, then trembled violently.
That tremor was tinged with betrayal.
It seemed indignant at being pushed in as a safety test.
But that passed quickly.
“I’m doing this because I trust you. There’s no one more reliable than you, right?”
At Woo Ju’s words, the Iron Pipe vibrated a few times, then finally answered for the sake of its beloved master.
It’s not safe.
But it should be manageable.
In other words, you’d be more than capable of handling it.
At that, Woo Ju nodded and this time threw himself through instead of the Iron Pipe.
Whoosh!
His body felt as if it were being pulled in somewhere, and again he felt that floating sensation.
And when his vision cleared once more.
“Unexpected.”
Standing right before Woo Ju was a Middle-aged Man.
That Middle-aged Man who’d been shouting like he’d lost his mind.
“I didn’t expect you to arrive first.”
Eyes brimming with madness and desolation gazed upon Woo Ju.
To be continued in the next episode ▶
Catastrophe-Class Relics in Urban Legends
Author
Lee 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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