Yongjin is an orphaned high school student and a grounded realist who scoffs at ghost stories, spiritual omens, and superstitious folklore. Focused solely on surviving the daily grind, his peaceful disbelief is violently shattered on his sixteenth birthday when a mysterious classmate named Huisu approaches him, drawing him directly into the line of fire of bloodthirsty spectral entities. Awakening to his ancestral lineage and the ritual power of the Jakdu, the sacred blade upon which Korean shamans balance between life and the spirit plane, Yongjin is thrust into an ancient supernatural war. Armed with razor-sharp spiritual steel, he must navigate deadly curses, malevolent spirits, and hidden demon factions to protect the fragile boundary between the living and the dead....more