Where is such a god, who is omnipotent and omniscient?
—Demon Lord

Kang Yoon-Soo opened his eyes. His companions were still fast asleep, and he was the only one awake. He walked some distance from their camp before falling to one knee.

“Kuheok!” He vomited blood, sensing that his body was in an abnormal state.

The Frost Demon’s Winter Fragment had allowed him to transform into a Frost Demon to fight the Colossus. Afterward, his body had returned to its normal state, but the price he had to pay manifested as an unending curse that tormented him when he tried to sleep. Once again, the fragment deep inside his body moved to stab his lungs.

‘I can never get used to this.’ Kang Yoon-Soo barely managed to get up by holding onto a boulder, but he struggled just to stay standing.

“Kuheok…” Kang Yoon-Soo vomited blood again, and its metallic taste filled his mouth. He felt as if his lungs and heart were being shredded to pieces.

‘Why did you abandon me?’ A child’s voice, sounding sufficiently eerie and sinister to give one goosebumps, asked from behind.

Kang Yoon-Soo closed his eyes. He was drenched in cold sweat, but he told himself, ‘That’s just a hallucination. Don’t mind it.’

‘I’m asking you… Why did you abandon me?’ the child asked again.

The child’s question pierced through Kang Yoon-Soo’s heart like a stake. He could not take it anymore, and he slowly opened his eyes. What he saw was a bloodied child, with a face so dark and disfigured as to be unrecognizable.

“I’ve already forgotten you,” Kang Yoon-Soo said.

‘You brought...