Seoul Object Story
Chapter 329: The World at the End (10)

As the Uniformed Hungry Ghost with its mouth full of teeth opened wide, white flames began to surge through the narrow room lined with mirrors.

<Protect us!>

<Help us escape outside!>

The Blue Reaper and the pink girl, surrounded by a large water droplet, were propelled out of the room at high speed.

BOOM!

No sooner had they escaped than white flames filled the surroundings.

It was the power of the White Hungry Ghost, flames that could burn Objects.

The mirrors containing various stories were caught in the explosion and shattered into pieces.

They must have been precious records, but now they were all smashed and scattered on the floor.

Crunch. Crunch.

The sound of glass shards being crushed underfoot could be heard.

The Uniformed Hungry Ghost was slowly walking out of the room.

“Grrrr.”

The Uniformed Hungry Ghost, which had seemed so intelligent, was gradually transforming into a beast that had lost its reason.

Its uniform had burned away, and it was crawling on all fours instead of two legs, growling with white flames enveloping its entire body.

Then, with white flames surrounding both hands, it brought them down towards the Blue Reaper.

<100 Walls of Water to block the flames!>

Seeing this, the Blue Reaper used all its strength to cast magic.

The water magic conjured by the Blue Reaper was instantly pierced, but it succeeded in altering the trajectory.

BOOM.

The White Hungry Ghost’s heavy attack hit the building’s floor instead of the Blue Reaper, and the powerful shockwave caused the floor to collapse.

Everything in the building that had been ravaged by white flames began to crumble.

Walls and floors collapsed, and stones and white flames flew about.

And the Blue Reaper, caught in the shockwave that swept everything away, lost consciousness.

‘…’

Amidst the sounds of burning fire, shattering glass, and things collapsing, a small coughing sound was heard.

In the underground of the rubble, where nothing could be seen clearly.

Cough, cough.

‘No…’

When the Blue Reaper turned its head, it saw the pink girl collapsed with a hole in her abdomen.

The water droplet shield created by the Blue Reaper had failed to properly block the white flames.

<Don’t die, please!>

<Heal all wounds!>

<Don’t lose consciousness!>

<Don’t be in pain!>

<Please, don’t hurt…>

The Blue Reaper, with tears streaming down, kept writing text strings over and over.

But the white flames clinging to the wound were hindering the Blue Reaper’s healing.

“Haha.”

At that moment, a dry laugh escaped from the pink girl’s lips.

“Don’t cry.”

“This is as far as I go.”

<No!>

The Blue Reaper shook its head vigorously.

The pink girl, seeing this, gently stroked the Blue Reaper’s head.

“There are no humans in this tower anyway. I was the only survivor.”

“I wanted to go to the Academy so badly, I wanted to become a great alchemist like Grandpa…”

Haah.

And the pink girl exhaled a small, long breath as if it were her last, then slowly closed her eyes.

<Heal all wounds!>

<Heal all wounds!!>

<Heal all wounds!!!>

The Blue Reaper kept writing text strings in the air without stopping.

But the Blue Reaper’s magic didn’t reach the pink girl.

‘No.’

‘This can’t be.’

The Blue Reaper threw away its staff.

And opening its small mouth, it began to create magic.

[Heal all wounds!][Heal all wounds!][Heal all wounds!][Heal all wounds!][Heal all wounds!][Heal all wounds!][Heal all wounds!][Heal all wounds!][Heal all wounds!][Heal all wounds!][Heal all wounds!]

Every time its mouth formed characters, telepathy created magic.

Continuously, without stopping.

And with each burst of telepathy, it felt as if power was descending.

Far away, high in the sky.

A brilliantly white shining power was descending.

[Heal all wounds!!!!!!]

At the moment of the final silent cry, a pure white flash enveloped the Blue Reaper’s body.

Finally, the water magic broke through the white flames and reached the pink girl.

The pink girl’s wounds vanished in an instant, and she began to breathe with an expression free of pain.

‘Thank goodness.’

The Blue Reaper looked down at the pink girl with a warm expression, then slowly turned its head.

“Grrr grrr grrr grrr.”

There was the White Hungry Ghost with its disgusting teeth, slowly crawling towards them with an unpleasant grin.

‘I didn’t particularly dislike White Hungry Ghost before…’

‘But now I’m starting to dislike them a little.’

The Blue Reaper slowly walked forward to protect the pink girl.

In the ruins of the collapsed building, telepathy was creating magic.

[10 Spears made of Water!]

Ten spears made of water formed in the air, then shot at high speed towards the Tooth Hungry Ghost.

‘It’s getting stronger and stronger.’

The magic created by the Blue Reaper was becoming increasingly powerful and faster.

But even the Blue Reaper’s magic, which had become so powerful, couldn’t reach the Tooth Hungry Ghost and simply evaporated in the white flames.

The Tooth Hungry Ghost, as if knowing the Blue Reaper’s attacks were useless, was clicking its hard teeth together with a smiling face.

Click. Click. Click.

And with flames enveloping its entire body, it charged towards the Blue Reaper while clicking its mouth.

[Protect us!]

A water droplet shield twice as thick as usual surrounded the Blue Reaper, but the Tooth Hungry Ghost easily pierced through it.

Crunch.

And as the Tooth Hungry Ghost passed by the Blue Reaper, it bit off one of the Blue Reaper’s arms.

‘!!!’

Click. Click. Click.

The Tooth Hungry Ghost kept clicking its teeth as if playing, smiling with a cruel expression.

‘It hurts.’

‘It hurts so much.’

Fuel clumped together like water droplets and flowed from the torn-off arm.

‘It’s getting colder.’

‘The fuel Mom gave me is disappearing.’

Life was draining away.

But the Blue Reaper didn’t stop the wound, instead slowly creating magic using the flowing life as ink.

‘Mom isn’t here.’

‘In a far-off dimension, my voice can’t reach.’

‘But I won’t give up.’

‘Even if my life runs out, I hope I can protect my Attachment Human…’

The Blue Reaper began to scoop up fuel from the wound of its severed arm with its remaining arm, and started sprinkling it into the air.

And speaking to that fuel, it began to create magic.

As it engraved Word Spirits with the fuel, the amount of power descending from the sky began to increase.

It was a somehow familiar power.

The Tooth Hungry Ghost was in high spirits.

No, the world was filled with ecstasy.

The moment it swallowed the Core, everything that had been binding it disappeared.

It became free.

It became perfect.

Its body was twisting in all directions, but that was a blessing.

It felt pain as if its internal organs were being torn apart, but that was right.

‘Kyuhihihihi.’

The only slightly disappointing thing was that its body had twisted so much that it could no longer naturally produce the laughing sound.

But that was okay.

It could express that laughter with its newly grown teeth!

Click. Click. Click.

Tormenting the weak Blue Grimoire, the Tooth Hungry Ghost made teeth sounds as if enjoying itself.

Click. Click. Click.

At that moment, the faint golden light emanating from the Blue Reaper slowly began to grow in size.

‘!’

Like the Sun-Eating Spider, an ominous presence began to pour out.

But it wasn’t afraid.

It was now a more perfect ‘Guardian’!

The Tooth Hungry Ghost shot all the white flames dwelling in its body at the Blue Grimoire.

Those flames erased not only the disgusting human traces, but also the fallen human and even the Blue Grimoire without a trace.

Click. Click.

The Tooth Hungry Ghost felt a little disappointment that it ended so anticlimactically.

But that was only for a moment.

The Tooth Hungry Ghost’s twisted heart began to sink back into ecstasy.

Just as it was about to move, expecting greater destruction, the Tooth Hungry Ghost’s limbs were suddenly frozen.

‘!!!’

And a massive telepathy that seemed to shake the heavens descended from the sky.

[Shatter all legs into pieces!]

“KEEEEEK”

As its elongated and twisted arms and legs were shattered, the Tooth Hungry Ghost let out a miserable scream.

From the twisted Hungry Ghost’s mouth, no sound resembling an Hungry Ghost came out anymore, only the sound of a monster flowed.

Before the Hungry Ghost’s eyes, the Blue Grimoire, whose presence had explosively increased, descended.

A slightly shorter skirt.

And a strangely shaped staff.

The Blue Grimoire looked down at the Tooth Hungry Ghost and shot telepathy by putting its mouth to the strange staff.

[Now, please die!]

Thud.

At that moment, something inside the Tooth Hungry Ghost stopped.

Simultaneously, it felt as if one filter covering the world had disappeared.

And from its twisted body that didn’t fit together properly, pain as if its internal organs were being ground began to be clearly felt.

‘Ah, so this is how the Guardian who ate the Core went mad.’

‘This is the end of a Guardian who lost its master.’

In the gradually darkening vision, the sky seemed to split open and a massive form appeared.

At first it was just a blurry silhouette, but gradually its appearance became clear.

Eight legs like giant pillars.

Eyes shining black like inorganic matter.

And a brilliantly shining Halo placed on its head.

The ‘Sun-Eating Spider’ that should always be on the highest floor began to reveal itself.

To the Tooth Hungry Ghost’s eyes, somehow the light of the Halo seemed to have diminished a little.

In the Otherworldly Resort filled with clear, rippling water.

I was suddenly surrounded by Stone Statues calling me “Mom”.

‘Mom!’

‘It’s Mom!’

Then the Stone Statues began to decompose into black liquid one by one.

Wriggling like slimes.

And they slowly began to crawl towards me.

As they crawled, those slimes observed me with two brightly shining eyes, and gradually began to resemble me.

They started spewing white fuel all over the floor.

Short arms and legs like humans grew.

And antennae sprouted.

‘Mom!’

‘Mommy!’

Now completely transformed into Black Reapers, they began to toddle on unfamiliar legs.

Some rolled over as they approached.

Some bumped into each other as they hurried.

They were crawling towards me on the floor, toddling along.

When they reached my feet, the children began to rub against my ankles, hugging them tightly.

‘It’s Mom.’

‘It’s really Mom.’

I looked down at those children blankly.

‘Again, the number of children has increased enormously.’

I grumbled like that, then gathered the Black Reapers and hugged them tightly.

Thus, numerous Black Stone Statues transformed into Black Reapers, turning me into a cocoon of Black Reapers.

‘Mom!’

‘Mom, don’t go anywhere now.’

‘Mom, always together.’

‘Mom is warm.’

‘Mom doesn’t hit!’

‘She doesn’t eat us even if we approach!’

‘Mom is gentle.’

As I lay there, distributing a little fuel to each of the Black Reapers, I noticed something strange in the corner of my vision.

There were Black children spewing something golden from their stomachs.

Surely not…

Upon closer inspection, it was the remains of the Golden-Mecha-Tyranno Armor.

‘!’

‘No way!’

‘Mom is bullying us!’

And the will of the Black Reapers echoed throughout the resort.