Home/Horror/Hatching the Mire-Stork's Curse

by john1208·Translated by Novel AI Studio
The stilt-village of Ghol-Doro survived the caustic mudflats for centuries by worshipping the Nang-Tuk, a giant, golden-crested mire-stork that filters the toxic waters. But when the village patriarch slaughters the final matriarch stork to cure his heir's fatal rot, he unleashes a horrifying karmic plague. The stork’s spirit returns, demanding its stolen unborn brood be returned. Now, the guilty family members are violently gestating spectral fledglings, their bodies warping into living, agonizing nests. Mokhwa, a lowly mud-diver and undertaker, is tasked by the terrified elites with finding a cure. She quickly realizes there is no breaking the curse through prayers or medicine. The only way to stop the plague from consuming the innocent low-caste villagers is to safely 'deliver' the spirit's monstrous offspring. To save her home, Mokhwa must meticulously orchestrate the gruesome deaths of the corrupt elites, feeding them to the very curse they provoked. Can she finish the grim harvest before the spectral rot claims her own blood?