chapter 21
21 episodes
“… … .”
Seits felt more embarrassed than angry at the confident Lee Se-hun.
‘What the hell do you believe in?’
As he is the head of the department receiving public attention, information about Lee Se-hoon was already circulating below the surface to some extent.
And according to that information, Sehun Lee’s physical ability is the lowest among freshmen this year.
He had never learned combat techniques separately, and had no proper armament.
‘If it’s a variable, it’s the weapons they showed at the entrance ceremony, but I can’t see that either… … .’
I looked again to see if I had missed anything, but I didn’t see anything that could threaten Lee Se-hun.
‘… … That’s it too.’
Seits, noticing the confidence Lee Sehun was showing, sighed deeply and slowly opened his mouth.
“okay. You too are going to enter Babel, so there must be at least one hidden number. If you do your best, you won’t even be able to compare with other guys, that’s what you were thinking.”
The baseless idea that you would be the most special at Babel. This was often seen among cadets from poor families, for a simple reason.
“But this is Babel. Every cadet has that talent and power, and you are only one of them after all. Do you know what I mean?”
Since there is no environment to meet someone who is better than you, you fall into such a absurd illusion that you can do anything you want if you put your mind to it.
And usually, such freshmen will have a bitter taste before the first semester is over.
“You are nothing.”
Today will be such a day for Sehun Lee.
Keying!
As the barrier reacted to Seits’ magic, the surrounding environment changed.
The gloomy air and the shadows are thick and dark in the forest.
And from within, dark shadows began to run rapidly through the bushes.
Paz!
The strange, low-pitched cry reminded me of a wild beast, but it was obscured by the shadows and the shape was not clearly visible.
A sight that provokes fear of darkness and beasts. If you looked up to this point, you could have thought that it was an illusion created by the barrier.
Snack!
He warned me that the shadow that passed by the side of my head was not just an illusion.
“Hmm.”
A few strands of hair fluttered and fell as if cut by a sharp object.
As Sehun looked at it calmly, Seits continued the story with cold eyes.
“This is really my last chance. Apologize to Ms.”
Even if you say this, if you don’t understand, you just have to make them understand. Sehun thought about Seits’ warning for a moment and then asked.
“Just that. Is this your story?”
“… … What?”
“I don’t think it’s just words that show emotions. It looks like you got it right when you were in first grade?”
Seits’s mouth opened wide in response to the unexpected answer, and Lee Sehun nodded at that.
“Well, I understand. I thought I was the best, but when something like that happens to me, it’s bittersweet.”
“you… … you… … !”
“Still, you have to be proud of yourself. I don’t think I’m going to grow up myself, I’m swearing by other people, and I’m going to be behind the scenes… … Ttttttttttttttttt.”
Lee Se-hoon, who shook his head and licked his tongue, looked at Seits with pitiful eyes.
“So you listen to it.”
A word that is calm and penetrates deep into the heart. Seits’ patience was cut off at once.
“Shut up!!!!”
The magic of the whole body exploded, and the shadows of the forest rushed towards Lee Se-hun at once.
────!!
Dozens of black wolves with their teeth exposed while screaming.
It was a C-class barrier that created shadow wolves while suppressing the movement of the target with Seits’ main technique, ‘Gwirang Asa’.
Tap!
These shadow wolves are basically nothing more than an illusion created by the barrier, but if you inject additional magical power, they can take on reality and inflict damage.
Therefore, it was a tricky skill to turn into rags in an instant if you couldn’t distinguish the real from the virtual.
‘Black Spirit.’
It was a story only for those who did not recognize it.
Fuwaak!
The moment when Lee Se-hun’s hand, covered in black spider web, pierced the shadow wolf.
The form scatters like a mist and disappears.
“What… … .”
“After all, it wasn’t just made with magic.”
Receiving Seitz’s astonished gaze, Sehun Lee looked at the object in his hand.
A black dagger that appears to be about 20 cm tall. There was a lot of magic engraved on the surface, but traces of magic had been injected until now.
“Is the dagger used as a medium to increase the magic efficiency and make it possible to attack even when it is an illusion? The idea is not bad.”
“How do you… … ?”
Seeing through your own magic and application methods in just one shot. Seits looked at him as if he couldn’t believe it, and Sehun looked at him with a puzzled expression.
“What how? I can hear it out loud.”
“sound? Wait, please… … .”
The sound of a dagger used as a medium. Did you hear the sound the first time you passed by and notice everything?
While Seits was bewildered by the fact that she couldn’t believe it even after hearing it, Sehun Lee glanced around.
‘The number of daggers is about 25. It seems that I can use about 10 at a time, but… … It’s not very good though.’
If you go to a long-term battle, you are at a disadvantage because you lack stamina and magical power. So, Sehun Lee decided to move simply and boldly.
‘Relationship imprint.’
[The bond engraving ‘Tamcheol’ is activated.]
Quad Duck!
As Sehun Lee’s right hand is dyed reddish, the dagger he was holding in his hand seeps into it like it melts.
S-class hero weapon eater Ryu Eun-ha’s bond stone. ‘Tam-cheol’, which gains strength by eating iron, was only activated from Lee Se-hoon’s right hand.
“sleep… … stop!!!”
The special dagger, which cost more than 1 million won per sack, melted and disappeared from Lee Se-hoon’s grasp without a trace.
Seits, who woke up belatedly at the sight, raised all his magical powers and rushed all the shadow wolves.
Although he realized that Lee Se-hoon’s power was beyond his imagination, he exerted all his powers late.
‘ah.’
That judgment was far too late.
‘Did it taste like this? … .’
The taste of radish that rises from the mouth as if stabbing the whole body, which cannot be felt with ordinary food.
At the same time, the blood that boils from his right hand runs through his body in an instant.
Se-hun Lee, whose hair had changed like a very faint flame, slowly glanced at the shadows that came around him.
‘Blast.’
The body slammed into the floor, compressing the distance in an instant.
Chae Chae-chan!
The shadow wolves, who were attacking with a terrifying force, swept through the air, and the daggers inside collided with each other and scattered on the floor.
And Lee Se-hun, who broke through the gap at once, reached Seits’s eyes.
Whoa!
His clenched fists were raised with a force to pierce his lower abdomen.
“Cuckoo!?”
He must maintain the barrier that was unfolded even before he died.
It was a saying often passed down to shield magicians, but Seitz’s assassination was released in a single blow.
That’s because Lee Se-hoon’s fist hurt terribly.
“sleep… … .”
I don’t know what method he used, but if he gets hit more than that by that fist, what will happen to his head?
Seits sensed this and tried to stop Lee Se-hun by talking to him somehow.
wow!
First of all, Lee Se-hun’s hand gripped his neck violently.
“Kek!”
Seits, who had been deprived of the right to speak, looked at Lee Se-hoon with trembling eyes, and only then knew everything.
“Did I tell you earlier?”
It wasn’t that Lee Se-hun looked down on him or ignored him.
“It’s my specialty to turn myself into a stupid bastard.”
Without any emotion, it was as if he was evaluating the materials placed on the workbench. There was nothing more and nothing less.
In a word, for Lee Se-hun, this fight is a kind of ‘refining’.
“Come on, wait… … .”
And smelting does not stop until the weapon is completed.
“Be human.”
Lee Se-hoon, with his shoulders relaxed, clenched his fists tightly.
“Then it will stop.”
* * *
“Tell me.”
Seits, who had a swollen face at Lee Se-hoon’s question, opened her mouth with a hoarse voice.
“Regardless of the circumstances before and after… … Recklessly forcing our position… … I apologize.”
“and.”
“I will never project my shortcomings onto others again… … Exceeding what was ordered… … I will not commit… … .”
“Hmm… … .”
Seiz’s shoulders twitched at the voice of Lee Se-hoon, who felt something regretful. It’s because every time I do that, people beat me up again for saying it’s less.
‘please… … please… … .’
It would have been easier if he had passed out after being hit, but he was in pain and his mind was clear no matter what he did.
When Seits shakes her body at the strange and terrible beating of Lee Se-hun.
“Well, okay.”
Sehun Lee nodded as if he couldn’t help it.
“Still, I’m a senior, but I can’t be too harsh.”
“… … .”
If this isn’t serious, how serious is it?
Seits’s face turned white at the sight of his teeth trembling just by imagining it, and Lee Sehun stood up and continued the story.
“Instead, go back and tell the master. Don’t let me get involved in this useless fight.”
“… … .”
“answer.”
“Yes, yes… … .”
Seeing Seits answering reluctantly, Sehun kicked his tongue and slapped the back of the head with all his might.
Whoa!
“Ok!”
“Ehh. pathetic guy… … .”
I don’t think that all groups are bad, but how good would it be if only a good place to send people for this kind of thing?
You might think that you have become a member of the Inoue family, but to Lee Se-hoon, it just seemed like a replaceable part at any time.
‘I’m sure you’ll realize something from this.’
If you don’t realize anything, it will be used as a part, but someday it will break and be thrown away.
Lee Se-hoon, who had brushed off his thoughts on Seits, picked up the jacket he had thrown on the floor.
“Goes. Please take care of the rearrangement.”
“Yes… … .”
“And the next time we meet, we’ll take care of it.”
After those words, Sehun walked back on the same road as Sehun had come back, and Seits, who had been kneeling and bowing his head until no footsteps could be heard, was relieved of his strength and lay on the floor.
“… … damn it.”
It’s not enough that he came to warn the freshman and was beaten up.
Even if he was miserable, he couldn’t be this miserable, but there was no way for Seits to do it.
It’s because the book was already caught at the point when he couldn’t beat his temper and spent more than necessary.
‘No, the biggest problem is that I lost even after doing that.’
I was in the upper-middle class in 3rd grade, but I thought that if I fought properly, I would be above the upper-class… … .
It seems that it was not Lee Se-hun who had fallen into the illusion, but himself.
When Seits sighed deeply with a disappointed expression on her face that had not changed since then and now.
“It’s over.”
A girl walked out of the forest.
“Oh, lady… … ?”
Seits’s eyes widened at the appearance of the girl, Erika, who appeared in front of her.
Since when have you been watching? Seits’s complexion turned pale at the thought that he might have seen all of his extravagance.
“that… … that is… … .”
“I don’t care about your excuses. From now on, only answer the questions.”
Both eyes are directed towards himself, but he does not see himself there.
Seits swallowed dry saliva and nodded at the more empty gaze than Lee Se-hun, who saw it as a weapon.
“Ah, I see… … .”
“Did Sehun Lee absorb your dagger and spread something?”
“Yes… … .”
“That dagger. bring it.”
“Yes!”
At Erika’s command, Seits immediately looked at the dagger that had fallen on the floor, and then her eyes widened.
‘what. Why are there only 14?’
Since Sehun Lee broke one, there should be 24 left. How did this happen?
10 missing daggers. At that moment, Seits’s mouth was wide open when she realized her whereabouts vaguely.
“what are you doing?”
“Go, go.”
At the prompt from behind, Seits hurriedly brought all the remaining daggers, and Erika glanced over the surface.
‘The anti-robbery enchantment is also engraved.’
The weapon used as a medium is immediately powerless if robbed by the enemy, so preventing it was the most important.
So Seits’ dagger was also enchanted with such an enchantment, but Sehun Lee destroyed it casually.
‘The thing that made it possible was that black spider’s web-like magic… … .’
Judging from the form and effect, it is clear that it was newly created based on Professor Robert’s ‘The History of Blood’ and the ‘Muryeongjin’ that he showed.
A magic that has been further optimized by removing only the versatility of the two barriers.
Although there were still inexperienced parts, it seemed enough to be recognized as a ‘skill’.
In the meantime, Erica, who remembered the potential shown by Lee Se-hoon, slowly revised the evaluation in her head.
‘The aptitude for smelting technology is S or higher. Raised the aptitude of magic from B to A or higher.’
With this potential, no matter how sluggish it may be, it will be able to grow to the lowest level. Having made that decision, Erica looked at Seits.
“Are you going to report to your brother when you get back?”
“… … Yes.”
“You don’t have to report it.”
Seits’ eyes widened at Erica’s calm talk.
“Well then, the master… … .”
“it’s okay. I will report to the head of the family separately. Okay?”
“Oh, yes!”
“And you start working for me tomorrow.”
Seits couldn’t help but be puzzled by the sudden turn around, but she quickly regained her composure.
He’s already been choked up. Then, even in this unknown flow, you have to get on board and endure somehow.
“All right. Do you have any orders?”
“Take care of Sehun Lee and help him if he needs anything. That’s your main job.”
Seits’ expression, which had been terrified at Erika’s command, hardened for a moment. If we meet again, do it yourself, didn’t Lee Se-hoon leave a warning like that?
And above all, seeing 10 daggers casually taking them, it was obvious what would happen every time they ran into each other.
“I… … If we meet again, we may be beaten… … .”
“okay?”
To Seits’ cautious question, Erica answered coldly.
“It’s good because it will relieve stress.”
“… … .”
“Give me with all your might.”
“… … .”
Seits, a 3rd year student in Ur’s shaman department.
It was a defining moment for the rest of his academy life.