In the 13th year of the Western Wei Dynasty, strange creatures called mobs began appearing — easy to scatter at first, with a few people and wooden clubs. By the 25th year they had grown strong enough to attack entire villages, uproot families, and breach the palace itself. The emperor sent General Suyou to eliminate them. He succeeded — temporarily. Thirty years later, in the reign of King Yeongwi, the mobs returned stronger. The emperor who ordered the first campaign was dead. His young successor's court had been seized by the traitor Dong So, who focused entirely on protecting his own power and ignored the suffering population. Into the vacuum stepped King Sura — a royal relative with a small provincial castle — who recruited an army alongside the great monk Dharma and launched a second elimination campaign without the imperial court's support or blessing.