The Divine Twilight’s Return

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Although the attribute of the [Single Eon Fire] was ‘doom’, not ‘regeneration’ like the [Fire of the Eight Trigram Brazier], its original attribute had not completely disappeared.
Rather, the Eon Fire destroyed the Hohwan Mama inside Eun-Seo’s body, which would surely have tormented her for her entire life, and thus purified her body.
Chang-Sun controlled the fire to destroy all the negative effects of Gildalization and only leave behind the positive effects.

[The Single Eon Fire and the Hohwan Mama are clashing fiercely!]

Naturally, it took a while for the Eon Fire to finish its restorative process.
However, as with Baek Gyeo-Ul, Eun-Seo would have to undergo part of the process herself without Chang-Sun’s help.
Eventually, all Chang-Sun could do was wait.
He let go of Eun-Seo ’s wrist, then headed over to the small platform to see what was on it while the Jigwi’s Eon Fire burned the Hohwan Mama.

[The Celestial ‘Calamity Tiger’ asks what has happened to your ambition of taking everything!]

Chang-Sun chuckled dryly; he could see what trick Heoju was trying to pull; it was an attempt to make him interested in Gildals and Ghost Soldiers, thus leading him to do what Heoju wanted.
Just as everyone in the White Tiger Clan had been blindly manufacturing the pawns Heoju wanted, he wished for Chang-Sun to do the same.

He muttered, “I didn’t say I wasn’t going to take anything.”

[The Celestial ‘Calamity Tiger’ tilts his head in confusion, unable to understand you.]

Thinking it would be better to show Heoju what he meant to dismiss any doubts, Chang-Sun activated his Authority on the spot.

[The Authority ‘Soul Exploitation’ has been activated, exploiting the ashes of all the beings you have killed over the past 24 hours!]

Oooo!

Kieeeh―!

In a flash, ghostly wails filled the room with Chang-Sun at their center; several gloomy gray whirlpools raged, filled with distorted specters and their ashes.
They all belonged to the deceased people and monsters Chang-Sun had killed over the past day, including the dead Ghost Soldiers and the Hohwan Mamas within them.

[Absorbing the ashes.]

[Strength has increased by 0.01!]

[Absorbing the ashes.]

[Agility has increased by 0.02!]

…

[The Hohwan Mama mixed into the ashes attempts to avoid being absorbed.]

[The Authority’s power stops the Hohwan Mama’s attempts and tries to integrate it by force!]

[Successfully integrated.]

…

[Successfully purified and used the integrated Hohwan Mama as fuel for the Eon Fire.]

[Magic has increased by 0.02!]

[The Celestial ‘Calamity Tiger’ bursts into laughter, dumbstruck.]

[The Celestial ‘Calamity Tiger’ shakes the shrine with his loud, manic laughter!]

Just like the Jigwis, the Hohwan Mamas originated from spirits; seeing as all the spirits Chang-Sun encountered had ended up belonging indefinitely to him so far, it was natural that every Hohwan Mama in the Secret Tiger Lab would likewise be absorbed into him.

Click!

Click!

An immense amount of magic flowed into Chang-Sun like a flooding river, the way it had when he absorbed the Jigwis’ fire.
Seemingly already used to the process, his magic integrated circuit absorbed the flow without any difficulty by installing additional shunts.

[Magic: 325 (+60)]

As he watched his Magic stat increase by 40, Chang-Sun smiled in satisfaction.

[The Celestial ‘Calamity Tiger’ cannot stop his manic laughter!]

Heoju continued to laugh strangely.
Chang-Sun stopped walking, feeling nervous for some reason; he recalled what Lab Director Sang-Won had said.

While he lay dying, the director had said two things: He had mentioned the ‘Gildal’, but the other phrase had been ‘Before they come…!’ When Chang-Sun had pressed him for information on who was coming, the director had answered ‘Inspection Department’.

‘If my previous investigation into the White Tiger Clan was right, the Inspection Department is on the side of Director Gwon Hyo-Hae, Executive Director Oh’s rival… but Executive Director Oh didn’t do anything even though he heard that they were coming,’ Chang-Sun thought, analyzing the situation.

Of course, Executive Director Oh could have attempted to stop Director Gwon and the Inspection Department on the outside without Chang-Sun knowing about it.
However, the Inspection Department members making a move meant they had detected something suspicious from the lab; thus, Executive Director Oh would not have been able to smooth things over without making a very attractive offer.

The problem was that Executive Director Oh had personally asked Chang-Sun to close the ‘Black Blood Mountain Range’, even making his asset Song Yoo-Jun tail Chang-Sun.
However, those efforts would never be enough to avoid Director Gwon’s terrifying inspection—no, how could Executive Director Oh be sure that Chang-Sun would be able to close the Dungeon before Director Gwon arrived?

‘The Dungeon Closure is a separate matter, so it must mean he can get rid of all the evidence related to him before the Dungeon closes…’

Executive Director Oh just needed the Dungeon to be closed ‘naturally’ to erase any evidence he might have left behind by accident.
That sly fox of a man would definitely have taken action to make sure everything would be fine even without a Dungeon Closure.

In truth, a question had been bothering Chang-Sun the whole time.
If his conjecture about how Executive Director Oh’s weakness was hidden in the Black Blood Mountain Range was right, would he have simply relied on Chang-Sun to take care of everything? For a moment, Chang-Sun had thought that Executive Director Oh simply had no weaknesses, but finding the Gildal had forced him to discard that conjecture.

Then, why had Executive Director Oh not used the method he had to destroy the evidence, even though he had it? He should have destroyed, hidden, or at least done something about the Gildal.

It did not take long for Chang-Sun to come up with the answer—Director Hyo-Hae.
Executive Director Oh was waiting for his rival to visit the Secret Tiger Lab.
If Chang-Sun’s guess was right, was Heoju laughing madly because he knew what was going on and having fun watching Chang-Sun?

‘…Wait!’ Chang-Sun thought urgently, quickly coming back to reality.

He had no time to sit idly.
He quickly threw everything on the platform into his inventory without checking.
Carrying the still-recovering Eun-Seo on his back, he ignited the Eon Fire.

[The Title ‘Jigwi’s Phantom Body’ has been applied!]

[The Skill ’Windstalking Tiger’ has been activated.
Escape from your current location as soon as possible!]

Pah!

Quickly breaking the ceiling, Chang-Sun escaped the interior of the research wing.

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Shortly afterward…

“Why isn’t anyone coming out?”

“Didn’t the Inspection Department members enter the Dungeon? The Lab Director should have gotten out quickly, but why isn’t he…?”

The researchers stomped the ground anxiously as they watched the explosions in the research wing grow larger.

Tumble…!

Deep underground, the ground began to shake.
However, no one on the surface felt it due to the explosions in the research wing.
In the end, however, disaster struck.

“Do you feel…?!” someone eventually began, but it was too late.
Their voice was drowned out by an explosion that overturned the earth.

It was as if a volcano had erupted: Pillars of fire soared wildly into the air, eating away the remaining research wings and manufacturing facilities.

Boom!

Rumble, rumble―!

Tumble…!

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In mythology, these refer to the spirits of mountains, rivers, trees, rocks, and the like.
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