What starts as a whisper in the dark will soon become a war louder than any scream.
[Scene 1 – Return from the Abyss]
Jiwoon emerged from the Abyss Gate.
But the world he returned to… felt different.
The air was heavier.
The shadows longer.
And the people—uneasy, even if they didn't know why.
System Fragment:
[Phase 2 Complete – Sin Core Stabilized]
[Warning: World Stability – 76% and dropping]
Jiwoon looked to the horizon.
Something was moving in the cracks of reality—whispers crawling into dreams.
Jiwoon (thinking):
"It's begun."
[Scene 2 – The Whispers Take Form]
At the edge of the continent, in an abandoned cathedral torn from time itself, they gathered.
Figures in white robes stitched with silent runes.
No names. No eyes. Only voices.
The Whispering Ones.
Voice 1:
"He walks again…"
Voice 2:
"He has awakened two fragments.
The cycle breaks."
Voice 3 (the deepest):
"Then we no longer wait.
Begin the war."
From the cathedral's altar, they pulled a sealed coffin.
Inside—a hollow child with ten mouths and no soul.
Voice 3:
"Let the world remember fear."
[Scene 3 – Jiwoon and the School Unrest]
Back at the academy, the ground shook.
Students began collapsing from hallucinations.
Nightmares. Voices. Trauma from memories they never lived.
Professor (panicked):
"It's spreading again… but there's no system! What is this?!"
Jiwoon arrived—calm, cloaked in shadows still dripping from the Abyss.
Kaelya (worried):
"Did you bring something back?"
Jiwoon (firmly):
"No.
But something followed me."
He walked past the frightened students—
His Divine Mark glowing over his chest now fused with two sigils: one of justice… and one of eternal sin.
[Scene 4 – First Strike from the Whispering Ones]
That night—
Without warning, a section of the city collapsed inward.
Reality twisted. Buildings folded. Time slowed and fractured.
From the cracks, came the first Herald of the Whispering Ones—
A twisted knight with a helmet shaped like a mouth, and a blade that bled light.
Jiwoon (summoning partial armor):
"Let's end your whispering."
They clashed.
Steel against concept.
Blades against memory.
Jiwoon's Sin Echo – Depth Version activated mid-fight—causing the Herald to scream as visions of his true sins tore through his mind.
Herald (screaming):
"No… not that memory… not that—!"
One strike.
Judgment.
And the Herald shattered into black glass.
[Scene 5 – Aven Watches… and Chooses]
Aven, from the royal city, stood upon a divine balcony.
He watched the disturbance from afar.
Aven (to himself):
"If he's fighting them…
Then for now… I'll fight with him."
He turned.
Aven:
"Assemble the Divine Marks Corps.
We ride at dawn."