Episode 446
Kwaaaaang——
Paris, France, a large event venue where VIP auctions are held.
The wall exploded with a loud noise, and the venue was instantly turned into a scene of chaos.
After a while, thugs wearing black gas masks burst into the darkness and brutally murdered the people inside the venue.
—Gyaaaaaaah!
—Security Team 1 here! Armed men have broken into the hall!
Security personnel moved quickly in response to the intruder’s intrusion.
That was when.
A pure white light flashed and the agent running at the very front fell down, spewing blood.
The agents stopped walking in confusion at the sudden situation.
A man in a gas mask holding a long spear stood in front of them, blocking their way.
“I’m sorry, but you can’t go past here.”
The agents stared blankly at the spear in the man’s hand.
A spear that exudes extraordinary energy. It was the Bangcheon Hwageuk, known as an S-rank weapon.
“… … Okay, Jawoon?”
“answer.”
Phew!
As soon as he finished speaking, the spear swung and red blood soaked the floor.
The agents were killed by the spears wielded by the man without even putting up an ounce of resistance.
At that moment, a voice was heard from the communication device hanging on the man’s ear.
—I’ve secured the divine blood. It’s genuine.
“Okay. We retreat.”
The man exchanged glances with the group behind him and jumped out the window onto the roof to escape.
Let’s go up high and see the scenery on the ground
This caught my eye.
A scene in chaos.
Sirens were blaring everywhere, and citizens were running away screaming.
The man smiled with satisfaction as he admired the scenery.
“Yes. This is it.”
I wanted to enjoy the scenery on the ground more, but there wasn’t much time left.
We must escape from here before the Association’s assistance arrives.
… … At that moment, when I was about to run away.
“Baek Eun-seong!”
He heard a voice calling him from nearby.
When he raised his head, there was a man. No, there were four people standing in front of Baek Eun-seong.
They were familiar faces.
Because they were Europe’s top special agents who had been chasing Zawoon for a long time.
“… … Jacob? It’s been a while. Is there a newbie behind you?”
Baek Eun-seong looked at the blonde woman standing behind them with a tense expression.
As their eyes met, the blonde woman gripped the sword in her hand tightly.
“By the way, I think I’ve seen your face somewhere… …
Baek Eun-seong opened his mouth as if he remembered what he had been muttering.
“Ah! I got it! The British prospect, Lily Rose! Right?”
Jacob turned around when Baek Eun-seong called him happily.
“Lily. Go down and help evacuate the citizens.”
“I’ll help too.”
“Okay. We’ll take care of this.”
Lily bit her lip.
Although he was angry, he knew that he was only becoming an obstacle in the battle.
“All right.”
Lily jumped straight towards the ground.
Jacob stared blankly at the sight before turning his gaze to Baek Eun-seong.
“It seemed like it was quiet for a while. Are you back to being active again?”
Instead of answering, Baek Eun-seong smiled and quickly ran forward, swinging his spear.
Jacob blocked the attack with the sword in his hand and released a thorn of flame.
Whoosh! Whoosh!
“The style of mixing the reinforcement system and the manifestation system is still the same.”
Baek Eun-seong swung his spear and blocked the thorns of flame flying towards him.
Then, other agents attacked from both sides, but Baek Eun-seong narrowly avoided the attacks.
“……plaguy.”
At that moment, as I was turning my body to counterattack.
A voice was heard from the communication tool.
—Baek Eun-seong. Get ready. Spray.
“okay.”
Phaaaang!
Black smoke began to rise from unknown sources and fill the ground.
The agents reacted in bewilderment as their vision was suddenly blocked.
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-Knock knock knock! What is this?
—Ugh! Magic control… …?
The smoke that rose throughout the building was a special gas that temporarily caused magical damage.
The agents who noticed this used their magic powers
We tried to block the sea gas, but that also had its limits.
—Escape during this gap.
“okay okay.”
Taking advantage of the moment when the agents were in panic, Baek Eun-seong quickly ran across the roof.
When I turned around, I saw the agents who still hadn’t come to their senses.
Baek Eun-seong smiled with satisfaction at the sight, then took off his gas mask and looked to the side.
Jin joined Scar on the roof.
“It ended more blandly than I expected.”
“That’s right. How long has it been since I’ve had such a clean success?”
Jin, who was showing satisfaction with the successful mission, turned his gaze to Baek Eun-seong.
“But Baek Eun-seong. Why is your expression so stiff?”
“Huh? No. I guess I just got anxious because things turned out easier than I thought… …
Baek Eun-seong scratched his head.
“I hope it works out. What are you worried about?”
“Every time things seemed to be going well, ‘that guy’ would show up and get in our way.”
That guy, Kim Seon-woo.
It seems like it’s always been like that for the past two years.
Whenever we planned something perfectly, he would always show up last and interfere, as if he knew all our moves.
And if it’s according to the guy’s pattern, it’s probably about time for him to appear.
……but.
Boarding the airship prepared by a colleague
Until that moment, Kim Seon-woo had not revealed himself.
In a situation that ended blandly, Baek Eun-seong felt a sense of emptiness and at the same time realized the death of Kim Seon-woo.
“… … Miss. Are you fond of me? I feel empty for no reason.”
The top floor of the Magic Association, the president’s office. Kim Jin-cheol is sitting in a chair and talking about what happened today.
I was listening to reports of the incident.
“It has been revealed that there are a total of 7 mysteries that Jawoon has visited. It is said that among them is the divine elixir called Shinmokhyeol.”
“It’s the new tree blood… …
Shinmokhyeol.
It was a mysterious tree with a strong life force that lived up to its name, as if it was a red-tinged firewood.
Just having it nearby would grant you tremendous mana regeneration abilities, and drinking the sap flowing from the tree would also provide significant healing effects.
It is called ‘heavenly elixir’ in the world.
Prayer, however, had another hidden use.
“… … That was the purpose after all.”
It was precisely the ability to regenerate the human body.
And the fact that Jawoon was aiming for the Shinmokhyeol acupoint contained his intention to revive Jincheonwoo’s body.
“Okay, I understand. You can just go out.”
The subordinate bowed his head and left the chairman’s office.
Kim Jin-cheol, left alone, looked out the window, lost in complicated thoughts.
“… … You continue to torment me even after you die.”
Four months have passed in the world of borders.
During that time, I became Kim Jeong-hee’s disciple and received teachings of numerous auxiliary magics.
In fact, I didn’t have any desire to develop auxiliary abilities, but I used auxiliary synergy magic such as disc attack and magic rain.
As the usage rate increased, I thought it wouldn’t be a bad idea to learn it systematically, so I accepted.
Of course, it would be absurd to refuse teachings from a great wizard with the ‘Educator’ trait.
“It seems like the basic 5th form of the auxiliary system is almost complete. And to have come this far in just 4 months… … It’s truly unbelievable.”
Kim Jeong-hee looked at me with eyes that said she was tired.
Excessive praise that even Lee Seo-jun would be proud to hear.
I felt a sense of unnecessary embarrassment so I didn’t react.
I also couldn’t shake off the idea that it was a fake talent that came about thanks to ‘outsider benefits’.
“Oh, right. I’m thinking of moving on to type 8 starting tomorrow.”
“What about types 6 and 7?”
The training of auxiliary magic can be seen as a kind of game similar to baduk.
Interpretation and solution methods for various types of magic. And you must learn the solution methods for each situation step by step.
“Formulas 6 and 7 are about how to interpret the formula. However, since you are strangely good at interpreting formulas, it probably doesn’t mean anything.”
Now that you mention it, I’m speechless.
“… … Home, home. Okay, I understand. So, is today’s training over here?”
“Okay. I guess I can rest now.”
“Thank you for your effort.”
I got up from my seat and stretched out loud. My eyes were getting tired after staring at the table all day.
Today’s training after a simple stretch
I checked the results.
[I received high-level teaching.]
[The proficiency of ‘Art of Understanding (A)’ increases, and has a small effect on ‘Magic Control (S)’.]
[Slightly increases the proficiency of ‘Magic Control Technique (S)’.]
[Skill, ‘Spell Decomposition (B)’ acquired.]
[Skill, ‘Synthesis of Magic Techniques (B)’ has been acquired.]
[Spell Comprehension (A)][Skill: 33%]
Several months have already passed since I began receiving instruction from Kim Jeong-hee.
In the meantime, I acquired several auxiliary skills, and my proficiency in understanding magic increased by 33%.
Considering that the next level was E, it was an incredibly steep growth spurt.
Of course, as your skill level increases, there will be limitations, so it will be difficult to maintain this rate of growth.
However, compared to the manifestation magic that I had been learning for a long time, there is definitely a taste of growth.
Learning new magic is also quite fun.
Maybe, as Kim Jeong-hee said, I really do have a talent for being an assistant.
“……Phew.”
After thinking about that alone, I looked up at the night sky.
Life on the border becomes more familiar as time goes by, but my anxiety also grows.
Because in the world of the living without me, I was always worried that something might have happened to the main characters.
“… … What is everyone doing?”
I thought about the things that Lee Seo-jun, 20 years old in the original story, had experienced.
As the stage of activity changes to a special task force, Lee Seo-jun faces new incidents.
The one that takes up the largest proportion of all is the original’s main villain.
There is a ‘jaun’.
However, since my intervention completely turned the plot upside down, it is now unclear whether it will continue as planned.
As I was thinking about the development of the original story, something suddenly occurred to me.
“Oh, right. There’s something I’ve been wanting to ask you.”
Uh..2”
Kim Jeong-hee, who was preparing to go back, looked at me with questioning eyes.
I said, staring intently at his face.
“Do you know Lee Seo-jun?”
The first day he met Kim Jeong-hee, he responded to the name ‘Lee Seo-jun’.
That means he also knows of Lee Seo-jun’s existence.
But there was a flaw in this.
Because Lee Seo-jun wasn’t born when Kim Jeong-hee was active.
And at my question, Kim Jeong-hee’s face became very serious.
“I know. He’s probably around your age.”
……also.
As I expected, he had a hidden story that I didn’t know about.
“How do you know Lee Seo-jun?”
“That child’s father once came to see me.”
Late at night.
Han Se-yeon, who returned home after work, was staring blankly at something small on the table.
“Ugh.”
The small something had the shape of a tree the size of a palm.
For the first three days we met, it was in the form of a sprout, but at some point it grew rapidly and became a small tree.
“Gretel.”
Gretel blinked cutely at Han Se-yeon’s call.
A few months ago, when I was with Kim Jinwoo, he was so big that he felt like a child, but now he has completely shrunk to the size of a baby.
Gretel didn’t recognize herself because she had lost her memory.
In the past, I would get scared and run away whenever I saw myself.
“Ugh.”
Gretel cried softly as if answering Han Se-yeon’s call.
Han Se-yeon smiled happily at the sight and lightly patted Gretel on the waist.
“Ugh.”
Gretel smiled angelically, as if she liked the touch.
But that was only for a moment.
The angelic smile disappeared in an instant and tears welled up in her large eyes.
“……oh.”
Gretel was one of the most frequently seen casualties recently.
Even though he shows a happy smile as if he is in a good mood, he suddenly bursts into tears more sadly than anyone else.
Han Se-yeon, who lacks knowledge about parenting, was embarrassed when she saw that sight.
“Don’t cry. Don’t cry.”
He quickly pulled out a tissue and wiped away the tears that had gathered in Gretel’s eyes.
But Gretel’s tears did not stop, and she held Gretel in her arms.
“Aaaaaaaaaa… …
Seeing Gretel crying nonstop, Han Se-yeon felt like crying too.
I couldn’t figure out why I was crying.
I’ve heard that when babies cry, it’s usually because they’re hungry or because of their period, but that wasn’t the case either.
“Don’t cry. Don’t cry. Stop.”
“Waaaaaa… …
Han Se-yeon suddenly had that thought while comforting Gretel.
I wonder if Gretel still has faint memories of her past.
So maybe that’s why he’s crying because he misses his former owner, Seonwoo Kim.
Thinking about that made me feel bad too.
Because he missed Kim Seon-woo too.
Gretel soon fell asleep from exhaustion.
Han Se-yeon carefully laid Gretel down on a small blanket and barely regained her sense of relief.
And as she looked at the sleeping Gretel, she felt anew the greatness of her parents who had raised her.
The extra who returned becomes a genius
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