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THREE YEARS AGO

JAPANESE FORCES

JOSEON FORCES

SANGJU

Is this the plant that can bring the dead...

back to life?

Yes, my lord.

If you put...

the essence of this plant onto a needle and insert it in the glabella of the dead,

the body will revive as a monster that eats the flesh and blood of living people.

But if the center of the brain is damaged,

or if the body has already begun to decay,

resurrection will be impossible.

We are surrounded by Japanese troops.

Sangju is the last place standing in the Gyeongsang Province.

I heard they have reached the Unpo Wetland.

If they invade the Unpo Wetland, Sangju will fall as well.

Then are we all...

going to die?

BASED ON THE KINGDOM OF THE GODS BY YLAB

How can this happen in broad daylight...

Hold your weapons and get into position.

It will not catch fire!

Burn them!

Move back!

Ready the boat! Hurry!

Hurry and ready the boat!

Pull! Now push!

Block them! Block their way!

THE CITADEL OF SANGJU

The infected are approaching.

Master!

The monsters have arrived at Byeongseong Stream!

BYEONGSEONG STREAM

They will get through soon, Your Royal Highness!

Prepare the cannons!

Bring the arrows! Hurry!

Get the arrows ready!

Do not fall back!

If they get through, we will all die!

Yes, Your Royal Highness.

Your Royal Highness!

We cannot fight them any longer!

We must go, Your Royal Highness.

THE CITADEL OF SANGJU

That is the fallback signal.

Prepare the rope ladders!

Oh, no.

-Oh, no. -Goodness!

He got bitten!

No...

It is just a small bite.

It will be okay.

Stop.

No!

No, please!

Help!

-Stay back. -Help!

Go away. Do not come any closer.

Please!

Help!

No...

What do we do now?

We must go to Sangju.

There will be a path there.

What if the monsters are there, too?

Do you want to freeze to death here, then?

BYEONGSEONG STREAM

THE CITADEL OF SANGJU

-Help! -Please help!

-Come on! -Help!

-Hurry! Climb up! -Help us!

-Save me! Get down from there! -Come up!

-The infected are here! -Help me!

The infected have passed Byeongseong Stream.

Your Royal Highness, we must head to the north branch of the stream.

There is a passageway there that was made during the war.

Let's go. Escort him!

Hurry!

HONGCHI GATE

-The gate is locked. -Damn it!

Damn...

-Move aside! -Form a barrier!

-Form a barrier! -Make haste!

-Form a barrier! -Quick!

Hurry!

They are coming.

They are here!

The infected are coming!

Hurry!

Form a barrier!

Make way!

Hurry!

Get out of the way!

Your Royal Highness!

The gate is open!

-Your Royal Highness! -The gate is open!

-Your Royal Highness! -Your Royal Highness!

Your Royal Highness!

Your Royal Highness, hurry!

This way!

Go inside! Now!

What are you doing?

You cannot do this.

Escort Lord Ahn! Hurry!

We must go.

I am sorry.

Your Royal Highness.

What happened?

You told us they return to being corpses in the morning.

I do not know what happened.

They used to disappear when the sun came up.

I am sure of it.

The reason...

is not important.

Seo-bi, help me. Please.

Seo-bi!

Why are they still moving around?

Did they not disappear when the sun came up?

The resurrection plant likes the cold.

If they have the same tendency,

they are not afraid of sunlight.

They only hate high temperatures.

But since it is winter now, it is still cold even when the sun is up.

That is why they have not fallen asleep.

Their number has not increased since yesterday.

What do you mean?

They are the only monsters nearby.

That is why their number has not increased at all so far.

Let us say there are no other monsters around here.

But there will be hundreds of them near the citadel.

How do we get all the way there?

No, we should head up there instead of to the citadel.

We may be able to stay away from them up there

since they cannot cross the water.

Seo-bi. Up the mountain?

Where are you thinking of going?

Did you not tell me before

that you will be safe because you belong to the Haewon Cho Clan?

Let us go to Mungyeong Saejae.

Wait, Seo-bi...

SUNGRYE GATE

Make sure you do not miss a spot.

Spread some over there too.

There will be a plague soon in Hanyang as well.

Hurry up.

I hear that ghosts are coming from the south.

The Chief State Councillor has gone to Mungyeong Saejae due to urgent matters.

What is so important that I had to leave the State Council and come here?

What do I need to see?

It is a very important matter.

You must see this for yourself, my lord.

What is this?

We found these women outside the north gate last night.

According to the autopsy,

one of the women had just given birth.

The baby found with this woman

was strangled to death before we found them.

Did you find the culprit?

They said this woman said something before her death.

She said that the people living in her village hurt her and her child,

and that they would kill everyone else as well. Those were her last words.

Where is that village?

Naeseonjae of Samgye-dong, outside the north gate.

"Naeseonjae"?

Yes, it is where the private residence...

of the Queen's family is located.

The Royal Commandery Division has found out about Naeseonjae.

We must seek help from the Chief State Councillor.

No, we cannot tell my father.

We must keep this a secret...

from my father.

I just need to give birth to a prince.

Then whether it be the Royal Commandery Division or anyone else,

no one will be able to challenge me.

Before the crescent moon sets,

set a ritual table for the Goddess of Childbirth.

That day,

you will have a prince in your arms.

THE WALLS OF MUNGYEONG SAEJAE

He had a jade ornament of the Haewon Cho Clan,

so we let him enter the gates.

Uncle!

It is your only nephew, Beom-pal.

On the first day as a magistrate in Dongnae, a strange disease broke out.

I barely made it out alive and came all the way here.

Please take me in.

Right.

I was the one who made you the magistrate of Dongnae.

But the only thing you did in that position of high responsibility...

was save your own life?

Uncle, I do not understand what you mean.

Your job was to take care of Dongnae.

What were you doing while the Commander of the Royal Army...

was killed by the Crown Prince in Dongnae?

Are you saying Beom-il is dead?

I did not know.

I really had no idea!

Please believe me!

You should be grateful...

that the Haewon Cho Clan's blood runs in you.

He is the magistrate of Dongnae...

and the only heir to the Haewon Cho Clan.

Treat him accordingly.

What about that woman?

The thing is, she is a physician who worked for the physician Lee Seung-hui.

She helped me get all the way here alive.

"The physician Lee Seung-hui"?

Is that true?

Yes, my lord.

Prepare some lodgings for her too.

THE CITADEL OF SANGJU

Even if we save the food and eat little,

the food will only last us five days.

There are so many refugees.

Hand out food to everyone here each morning.

It is right to save food,

but the people should not starve.

This is not the disease we know.

It was not like this three years ago.

The infected only ate human flesh.

Getting bitten did not lead to infection,

and the infected did not go wild like this after sunrise.

Lord Cho Hak-ju...

was hiding something about this disease.

He deceived you...

and all of us, my lord.

What exactly are you trying to say?

I believe...

we are paying for what we did then.

We are being punished.

Do you regret it?

My lord.

I do not regret it.

Three years ago, we saved Sangju.

We saved Gyeongsang.

If I were given the choice again,

I would do the same.

My apologies.

I must have lost my mind for a moment.

I will go and check the security around the citadel with the others.

Your Royal Highness.

Your Royal Highness.

I overheard Lord Ahn Hyeon and one of his men...

saying something strange.

They seemed to know many things...

about the disease.

And it seems like Lord Cho Hak-ju is involved as well.

Your Royal Highness.

It would be best to leave this place as soon as possible.

I will escort you, Your Royal Highness.

It will be safe once we go back through the passageway

and cross the north branch.

Why are you telling me this?

Pardon?

Did Cho Hak-ju order you to?

Your Royal Highness.

Lord Ahn Hyeon told me...

that the palace guards knew I was coming here.

Was it your doing?

Are you...

trying to drive a wedge...

between him and me now?

Your Royal Highness.

Do you not trust me?

I left my pregnant wife,

my family, and everything I had...

and followed you all the way here to Gyeongsang.

Do you still not trust me, Your Royal Highness?

Fire!

There is a fire!

Fire!

Fire!

What about the food?

Did you take out all the food that was inside?

We could not, sir.

What were you doing all this time?

What were you doing while that happened?

We do not know, sir.

There was a sudden explosion, and...

You fool!

Do you not know how valuable that warehouse was?

The lives of everyone in the citadel depended on the food that was inside!

I am sorry.

It is all my fault.

Such insolence!

It was me!

It was me.

It was not their fault.

It was me.

I did it.

I could not let my child starve to death,

so I was just trying to take some rice.

I did not know this would happen.

I accidentally...

I accidentally dropped my lamp.

I am so sorry.

Just...

Just kill me.

We are all...

going to die anyway.

Whether we starve to death...

or get bitten by those monsters,

we are all going to die.

MUNGYEONG SAEJAE

Do you think that will provide some way to stop the disease?

However severe the disease, there was always a way to stop it.

This disease will not be any different.

If I study this plant some more,

I am sure I can find a way to stop this disease.

We will be safe as long as we stay in Mungyeong Saejae.

I believe there are people still alive in the citadel of Sangju.

We have to save those people.

Right, His Royal Highness...

What are you holding in your hand?

Hand it over, now!

Do you know what this plant is?

It is called the resurrection plant,

known to bring back the dead.

That plant...

is what caused this disease.

How do you know this?

I only found out through this physician.

Tell him how you learned about this.

"The resurrection plant brought the dead king back to life.

And that caused the disease."

Is that what Lee Seung-hui told you?

What do you mean?

"The dead king"?

Please have mercy.

I only found that plant after reading about it

in his patient journal.

You read about it in his patient journal?

Then do you know...

how to resurrect the dead as well?

"If you mash the resurrection plant, put it on a needle,

and insert it one pun deep into the glabella,

the dead will come back to life in two hours."

That was what was written in his journal.

I will take that girl to Hanyang as well.

Make the preparations.

Yes, my lord.

Are you going to Hanyang? When?

There is still something I must do.

Something I must finish.

I will go back to Hanyang after I finish it...

and meet the new future prince.

SANGJU, LORD AHN HYEON'S RESIDENCE

What...

What did you just say, Your Royal Highness?

I will go to Mungyeong Saejae.

Your Royal Highness.

How do you plan to go there with all those monsters outside?

I must go there if I want to save everyone.

Please pick out the best of your men.

I will lead the way, Your Royal Highness.

Let's go.

Put out your fires now.

The north branch is very close to the passageway.

The monsters fear water, so if we cross the river,

we can get away from them.

Even if you cross the north branch,

it will not be easy to enter Mungyeong Saejae.

The Five Armies will be guarding the gates.

The number of soldiers has dropped to a tenth due to the war three years ago.

There are about 5,000 elite soldiers in Hanyang alone.

Even with Cho Hak-ju's power,

it would have been difficult...

to send all those men.

At most, the number...

will not go over 2,500, which is half of that.

That would be a small number to be guarding...

all the gates in Gyeongsang.

That is right.

If they are spread out and guarding every gate,

the number of men guarding Mungyeong Saejae...

will not be more than 500.

They would not be able to guard

every part of Mungyeong Saejae's walls with that number.

The northwest side of the first gate has high walls,

so it functions as a defense by itself.

There is a high chance that fewer men would be guarding it.

WEST SIDE, SOUTH SIDE

So, what do you plan on doing once you get to Mungyeong Saejae?

I will...

kill Cho Hak-ju.

He disregarded the poverty and starvation of the people,

and tried to take something that he should not have.

I will punish him and return to my rightful place.

I will save the people from this disastrous starvation and disease.

And I will survive...

and create a new world.

Subtitle translation by Liya Choi