The Dark Room was the Jin Family's most important place—and its true secret Communication Room.
It was small, only about ten square meters, but every wall was covered in dense blood-colored runes.
At the center stood an altar built from obsidian. On it sat a dark red crystal orb that spun without stopping.
Blood mist churned inside the orb. Through it, the faint outline of a human figure could be seen twisting, suffering, and struggling...
It was the Living Sacrificial Soul needed to maintain the connection.
Two people stood before the altar.
One was an old man with snow-white hair and a face covered in age spots. Dressed in a traditional Hanbok, he was Kim Chang Soo, chairman of the Kim Corporation.
He gripped a Bone Staff. A pulsing Demon Core was set into its tip, continuously feeding demonic energy into the crystal orb.
The other was a grim-faced man in his forties, dressed in a suit. He was Kim Chang Soo's eldest son, the man who actually controlled the Kim Corporation, and Kim Hyun-joon's father: Kim Jung Ho.
In the dark red Communication Room, Kim Chang Soo and Kim Jung Ho had knelt before the spinning crystal orb for a full ten minutes, their foreheads pressed to the floor.
The Demon Core at the staff's tip had begun to flicker. Maintaining communication across worlds cost far more than they had imagined. The sinister device kept draining the demonic energy and vitality from their bodies.
At last, just as the blood mist inside the orb was about to swallow the struggling soul completely—
Rrrip.
A soft sound rang out, as if space itself had been torn open.
The blood mist suddenly collapsed inward and condensed, sketching the outline of a figure.
The Undead Demon God.
The Kim father and son