A Wager of Lives

The eerie green Dead Sea hung at the edge of Yongin City, filled with an aura of utter stillness, as though it were the end of all life.

Yet upon that sea's surface, where not even a fly's feather could float, an Impossible Ship appeared.

Unaffected by the Dead Sea, it rode the raging waves, seeming to stand above the ghastly green sea of death!

The sky above the sea was red, and so were the clouds.

The crystalline red spread across the heavens was dazzlingly gorgeous, like a fairy-tale paradise.

Yet the million ordinary people of Yongin City did not find it beautiful in the slightest. All they felt was fear and submission.

Their submission came from their inability to resist.

That scarlet sky had completely devoured day and night alike. Both light and darkness dissolved into the "scarlet."

It was as though it meant to dissolve the entire real world into blood—and naturally, that blood included them.

It seemed that if it wished to, it could devour everything.

That did not seem like the sky, but the eye of hell, about to bring all things to an end.

Yet that ship, having reached the shore, could gather that scarlet light upon its sails and have it wave its banners for it.

Everyone was stunned!

At the same time, they suddenly awakened to the truth.

The eerie waters stirred the waves, and the crimson sky waved the sails. Everything came from that blurry figure at the ship's bow. The sky and water had never represented death and finality—he did!

He was the true master here!

The seven people summoned aboard had known this long ago.

Ah-yeon, Charlotte, and the others, including Ah-yeon's mother, had long understood that Wu Heng was not merely the master of this crimson sky and