The Calamity-Class Artifacts in Ghost Stories Are Obsessed with Me - Chapter 90

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Catastrophe-Class Relics Within Urban Legends Grow Obsessed – Chapter 90
It took less than five minutes to ride the Elevator from the In-house Cafeteria to where the Production Team was located and back.
There might be a bit more time spent in conversation and requesting support, but given Hwa Ryeon’s personality, the odds were high that she’d simply ask for help and come straight back down.
Over twenty minutes with no word was clearly wrong.
“Maybe this too is the power of that stone statue.”
It could be mere speculation, but recalling the situation when Yeon Woo had stepped away earlier, it wasn’t impossible.
After all, right now Woo Ju still hadn’t grasped what exact powers this stone statue possessed.
Woo Ju pondered briefly, then gestured to Yeon Woo to convey his meaning.
Yeon Woo understood perfectly and spoke.
“You want me to keep watching the statue, right? Don’t take my eyes off it. At a slight distance?”
Woo Ju nodded.
With Yeon Woo back, they could resume what they’d been doing before.
Exploring this Dark Space itself.
He’d stopped because it was difficult to explore while keeping his gaze fixed solely on the statue, but now that Yeon Woo was here, that changed.
Whoosh.
After confirming that Yeon Woo had her eyes fixed on the statue, Woo Ju began walking slowly.
Of course, he had no intention of venturing so far that the statue vanished from sight entirely.
In that interval, Yeon Woo might fall prey to it again.
But even being able to glance away momentarily made moving around far more manageable.
‘Not as wide as I expected.’
Woo Ju surveyed his surroundings with that thought.
He’d expected a fairly vast space given how dark it was, but as he looked around fully, the area turned out to be roughly the size of the In-house Cafeteria at most.
The cafeteria itself was expansive for a dining hall, but still only one section within the building.
“Hmm.”
But apart from that, the exploration was making slow progress.
His vision remained severely limited even with the mask on.
Unlike looking with his naked eye, he could at least make out the outlines of objects, but that was all.
Given his physical abilities, he was unlikely to trip over anything, but there was still the risk of overlooking something, so naturally he moved slowly.
Thirty minutes passed.
Save for the remains of the stone statue he’d found at his starting position, nothing caught his eye, and he was beginning to wonder if this place was simply empty when—
“Huh?”
Something entered Woo Ju’s line of sight.
Multiple objects clustered densely in one spot.
From a distance, they’d looked like one large mass, but as he moved closer to examine them better, he realized that wasn’t the case.
Several smaller forms huddled together, which was why they appeared so large.
And upon closer inspection, he could make out what they were.
‘Stone statues?’
They were stone statues.
Not just one—easily a dozen or more stone statues clustered together.
Woo Ju immediately picked up the Iron Pipe and remained vigilant toward them.
But the more he looked, the more something felt off.
They were stone statues, yes, but he didn’t feel the same sense of caution that he’d felt upon first seeing the one in the cafeteria.
As Woo Ju pondered the reason, he took the risk and moved closer to the statues.
And soon he noticed something.
The statue in the cafeteria was purely an ordinary stone statue—one with a somewhat antiquated design.
But these statues here were different.
‘They’re dressed far too ordinarily.’
These statues were wearing everyday clothes and sporting everyday hairstyles.
In other words, by modern standards.
And there was one more thing.
All of these statues were crouched down, their faces twisted in expressions of terror.
From this, Woo Ju’s instinct supplied him with a hypothesis.
‘Could it be?’
Could these statues originally have been people?
The people who’d been drawn here by the statue in the cafeteria, in other words.
Woo Ju took a step closer.
The lighting was still dim, but up close, he could confirm that the statue was detailed down to a degree that made his skin crawl.
As if a living person had been frozen solid, preserved exactly as they were.
“Senior!”
But then, suddenly, Yeon Woo cried out in a loud voice.
At that, Woo Ju reflexively turned around.
Two scenes flooded into view at once.
In the cafeteria, Yeon Woo was backing away in terror, while a stone statue before her raised both arms.
But there was also a stone statue on this side.
He’d distinctly seen it reduced to rubble moments ago, yet somehow it had been fully restored and now stood with both arms raised toward him.
‘The positioning…….’
What struck him most was how precisely the statue was positioned.
It stood at an angle that could target both him and Yeon Woo simultaneously.
‘Wait—was this deliberate? Was I led here?’
Woo Ju’s eyes narrowed.
Why had he stopped here in the first place? To observe the statues.
He’d been placed at this spot according to the intention of whoever designed this space.
And the only entity he could suspect of being the architect of this space was the statue standing before him.
‘Was the destruction an illusion? Or did it recover in the meantime?’
Woo Ju’s mind raced.
But he consciously forced himself to stop.
Hadn’t he learned this lesson countless times already?
Thinking things through was fine, but he’d discovered repeatedly that moving first, acting without delay, yielded far better results than overthinking.
Crack!
So Woo Ju pushed off the ground and charged straight at the statue.
The moment his gaze locked on it, the frozen statue suddenly lurched into motion.
It reached out its hands toward him as he rushed forward.
Then, in that instant—
Crash!
Woo Ju felt his vision fracture into dozens, hundreds of pieces.
It was a strange experience.
Countless landscapes flooded his sight.
A snowy plain. A grassland. A barren wasteland. A desert. Mountains. Forests. The sea. A city. A small village. And countless other places—all visible at once.
Moreover, Woo Ju existed in all those places simultaneously.
The torrent of information made his head throb as if it might split open.
Yet among all those landscapes, there was one constant.
The stone statue.
Standing with outstretched hands toward him.
Then nothing had changed.
Tap, tap!
Thud, thud.
Boom!
Diverse footfalls. Countless sensations beneath his feet. Pushing through the chaos of those bizarre sensations, Woo Ju pressed forward.
The statue stirred again, but only belatedly.
By then, it was already far too late.
Woo Ju had already reached the statue, and the Iron Pipe was descending in a clean vertical arc from its apex.
Crash!
The Iron Pipe drove into the crown of the statue’s head with a deafening boom unlike anything before.
Crack!
Fractures spiderwebbed across the statue from skull to heel.
And in that same moment, cracks splintered across portions of the visions filling Woo Ju’s sight.
He watched the statues in the fractured sections crumble and collapse.
Crash!
He swung the Iron Pipe again.
Another crack sounded, the fractures widened, and another dozen statues shattered and fell.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
The cracks spread relentlessly.
Statues collapsed. The worlds visible before him vanished one by one.
The hundreds of landscapes overlaying his vision dwindled to dozens, then to mere handfuls.
Crackle!
A different sound echoed through the space.
It was not merely the surface of the statue fracturing—something fundamental at its core was breaking apart.
The statue stumbled backward, its face twisted in terror.
Its expression seemed desperate to say something.
But Woo Ju did not hesitate, and the Iron Pipe drove into its head once more.
Bang!
And so there came a tremendous crash, and one of the two landscapes crumbled away.
The Dark Space.
“Senior!”
Yeon Woo’s voice reached him moments after.
Woo Ju realized belatedly that he had returned to the In-house Cafeteria.
“Huff, huff.”
Catching his breath in ragged gasps, Woo Ju lifted his head and looked toward Yeon Woo, who wore her mask as always.
Behind her, a stone statue had once stood, but now only fragments of rubble remained.
“Are you alright?”
“Yeah.”
At the concern in Yeon Woo’s voice, Woo Ju nodded and turned the question back to her.
“Am I still overlapping in your vision?”
“No! You look perfectly clear now!”
“That’s a relief.”
It seemed destroying the statue had pulled him fully back.
As he exhaled in relief—
Creak!
A door at one side of the cafeteria swung open, and a familiar face appeared.
“Finally.”
It was Hwa Ryeon.
Hwa Ryeon’s eyes swept quickly over both of them, and she let out a sigh of relief.
“Whew. Looks like it’s over.”
She brushed back her sweat-dampened hair with one hand.
Others followed behind her, all of them equally drenched in perspiration.
“Seems something happened outside as well.”
Woo Ju asked, letting the Iron Pipe dangle loosely in his hand.
Hwa Ryeon’s mouth curved into a half-smile as she answered.
“Sure did. Ah, we broke a sweat trying to get that door open. It was barricaded pretty solid.”
“I see—so the crisis ended and the door unlocked itself, then.”
“How a thing like that even reached Headquarters in the first place…”
They shuddered, each muttering their thoughts. Then Hwa Ryeon turned to Woo Ju.
“So, what exactly happened in here?”
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The stone statue that had suddenly appeared in the cafeteria seemed to warrant quite a high classification rating.
That made sense—Woo Ju, being inside, hadn’t realized it, but the statue had wielded its influence over an impressively wide area.
For one thing, the rapid exodus of people from the cafeteria that day had been the statue’s doing.
Patrons who had finished eating felt an inexplicable urge to leave quickly, contrary to their usual habits.
They noticed nothing amiss until much later, when a sense of incongruity finally crept over them.
“That was precisely when the statue shattered.”
“So it was exerting its influence over multiple people simultaneously until that moment.”
“Exactly.”
Hwa Ryeon nodded at Woo Ju’s words, then spoke again.
“And it caused various machines to malfunction.”
“The Elevator stopped working properly, didn’t it?”
“Yeah. We were going up when it suddenly froze. So I forced the doors open and ran down to the Staircase instead, but those doors were locked and wouldn’t open.”
There was a reason for Hwa Ryeon’s delay.
Most of the electronic equipment had malfunctioned, blocking her path.
By the time she’d overcome those obstacles and reached the Production Team’s office, there was no one there.
Everyone had gone elsewhere.
Later, when she asked around, she learned that they too had felt compelled to go somewhere other than their office after leaving the cafeteria.
“But when you account for everything you mentioned, it seems the thing was also interfering strongly with space. And you said the people looked like they’d been turned to stone by it, right?”
“Right.”
“Just from what we know so far—Cognitive Interference, Spatial Interference, Electronic Device Interference. Any one of those alone is dangerous, but it was wielding several simultaneously.”
Hearing all this, it really did seem like an extraordinarily dangerous entity.
“You were lucky to be right here. And Yeon Woo too.”
“That’s true. Yeon Woo played a big part.”
Woo Ju nodded once more.
Yeon Woo had pierced through the statue’s power and seen straight through it.
If she hadn’t done that? They might have been caught unaware and fallen to it completely.
And as Hwa Ryeon had said, if Woo Ju hadn’t been there, even if they’d noticed it, they could never have destroyed it so thoroughly.
But Hwa Ryeon’s words were far from over.
“And I’ve discovered one more thing.”
“What is it?”
Woo Ju instinctively sensed that what she was about to say was the heart of the matter, and he regarded her with a grave expression.
Hwa Ryeon spoke.
“This was a terrorist attack directed at our Headquarters.”
Continued in the next chapter ▶
Catastrophe-Class Relics in Urban Legends Obsess
Author
Lee Se-gye
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Publication Date
May 26, 2026
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