Chapter 111
The King of Power Appears as the King of Fame
Ha Jeong-hak felt his back grow light as he ran through the darkness. He stood alone in a space where nothing could be seen.
‘Huh?’
His only remaining family in the world was his younger brother, yet he had been running so frantically that he hadn’t even noticed when or where the brother he’d been carrying had fallen off. It was absurd and infuriating.
All the deeds he’d committed were things his brother had done to survive. If his brother was no longer in this world, it would be hard to become any more miserable.
Ha Jeong-hak, who had been a boy when he ran through the night but was now a middle-aged man, looked around and shouted.
“Brother! Where are you?!”
Why won’t my voice come out? Just as I tried to shout again, someone leaped out of the darkness, grabbed my throat, and lifted me up with one hand. At the same moment, the pitch-black darkness surrounding Ha Jeong-hak shattered into pieces, and light flooded into my eyes.
“Guh…”
Ha Jeong-hak, his eyes wide open as the light forced its way in, saw Kwon Wang glaring at him, his hand still clamped around his throat.
Or perhaps it was the Immovable King.
Since the King of Light originally bore the character for ‘bright’ (明), Ha Jung-hak’s delusion had a strangely fitting aspect to reality. The Immovable King of Light is fundamentally an entity that subdues all afflictions and demons. Therefore, Ha Jung-hak, whose neck was seized by the Immovable King of Light, was himself the embodiment of affliction and a demon who had lived a rough life in the underworld.
