The Abyss Citadel was not built — it was grown.
Twisted black stone rose like fangs from a bleeding earth, and shadows moved without light.
Jiwoon arrived at its gates alone.
No backup.
No mercy.
System Update
[New Area: Domain of the Crownless King]
Sin Distortion: 89%
Survival Rate: 7%
Note: You are being judged.
Jiwoon didn't hesitate.
The gates opened before he touched them — as if the citadel itself feared him more than its master.
Inside the Labyrinth
Each floor was worse than the last.
Hallways screamed. Doors bled.
Sins whispered in forgotten languages.
On the sixth floor, he passed a child — frozen in time. Eyes hollow. Sinless.
"He kept them like trophies," Jiwoon muttered.
"Souls stolen, not saved."
The Throne Room
At the summit stood the Crownless King.
Not a man. Not a demon.
But something in between — tall, robed in chains, face obscured by a rusted crown that floated above his skull.
"You come for my crown?"
"No," Jiwoon said.
"I come to end your cycle."
Final Sin Duel
The room twisted.
Time bled.
Each of the King's chains represented a soul devoured. Each attack brought back their echo — cries of mothers, screams of kings, silence of martyrs.
Jiwoon endured them all.
Then whispered:
"Sin Sentence: Soul Collapse."
A circle of crimson runes spun beneath the king.
Every chain shattered.
Every sin reversed.
The echoes screamed — at him now.
Judgment
The Crownless King fell to his knees.
"Who are you to judge me?!"
Jiwoon's eyes glowed — not red, not black, but white.
"I'm not judgment."
"I'm the debt you never thought you'd pay."
One punch. One scream. One silence.
System Update
[Target Eliminated]
Sin Points: +60
Total: 5,000
WARNING: Threshold Exceeded
Initiating Phase Shift…
His body shook.
Reality distorted.
Something huge — otherworldly — reached out from inside him.
And the Eye in the sky opened again.
Watching.
Smiling.