Chapter 155: Chapter 155 - Five Mountains of Penances (5)
Chapter 155: Five Mountains of Penances (5)
[Ho! Finally!]
[Red . It definitely fits the fire property . ]
Yeon-woo looked at the Aura Blade on Carshina’s dagger and glanced at Shanon and Hanryeong .
‘Is there a difference in the color of Aura?’
Shanon grinned and shook his head .
[Not much . The color doesn’t affect the power . Since Aura is just the difference of training . ]
‘But?’
[You can slightly see the user’s subconscious with this . ]
‘Like?’
[Your Aura is red . That probably symbolizes the Holy Fire and the fire property you have . ]
‘Mm . ’
[But looking at it now, it looks like fire burning up . Or . Kind of like blood?]
Yeon-woo thought what Shanon was saying was both right .
Red was the color he saw the most on Earth and the Tower .
Explosions . Fire . Bloodstains . Yeon-woo thought he wouldn’t be able to escape from the color .
Yeon-woo observed his Aura Blade with his Extrasensory Perception .
[Alright, let’s continue . Congratulations on making Aura, but this is only the first step . It’ll probably break if you lose your focus even a little bit . Until you’re completely used to it, you have to continue practicing . ]
Yeon-woo nodded his head .
[But this time, let’s change it up . ]
‘How?’
[What do you mean how? Using it in actual situations . ]
Shanon glanced at Hanryeong . Both of them suddenly pulled out their weapons from the subspace like they had planned it beforehand . Shanon his sword breaker, and Hanryeong a sword from his nine swords collection .
Shanon smirked even though he didn’t have a face .
[Sparring . ]
Clang!
He was a master now, but he still had a long way to go .
Normal players would see that he was pretty skilled, but actually skilled people would see that he was lacking .
The skills and weapons he had weren’t related to his sword technique skills . He could only improve by working hard .
However, he didn’t have a lot of time . So he tried to use the time he had efficiently .
So the place he chose to train was the 20th floor . And to make up for the amount of time, he went through years of time in his mind by himself . It was impossible for normal people to do . It was a fight with himself .
And Yeon-woo added something more to do .
Sparring .
With just his sword, he sparred with Shanon and Hanryeong . It was to proficient use his Writings of Divination and Aura .
Shanon had said before .
That he now only had the basic qualification .
Yeon-woo knew he was lacking a lot, so he tried to make up for it with his quick thinking abilities and his sword .
As metal and metal clashed, sparks flew everywhere .
[Nice! This is fun as I expected! This is it!]
Shanon’s happy voice rang out .
Behind him, Hanryeong tapped, no, struck his sword on the ground as if telling Shanon to hurry up .
[Mm . This isn’t it either . ]
Victoria swept her hair back with a frustrated face . She couldn’t feel anything, so she didn’t feel the need to shower, but she mentally felt she was dirty . However, she didn’t have the time to worry about that right now .
There were problems in her system .
She had checked over and over again for calculation errors, but her magic this time didn’t work .
She didn’t know how many times, no, how many years it had been .
She entered the Five Mountains because she didn’t want to think about anything else and build her magic to take her to a new level .
But that goal was still far away .
[The calculation isn’t wrong . I’m sure of that . ]
Victoria calculated backwards from the area that wasn’t working . But she didn’t get anything .
Then, there was only one reason left .
[The amount of times . ]
Sigh . This was so annoying . Victoria cursed for the first time in a while .
This was the problem with rune magic .
One could use this without much setbacks, and it was powerful because of its purity . That was why people who wanted to become war mages like her like this study .
However, for all it’s pros, there was a large con .
Letters . It was made up simple, but if it became even the slightest bit more complicated, it would immediately fail .
For example, the simple command of ‘freeze’ was easy . However, the command to ‘freeze and crack’ was impossible . It was because the two letters clashed .
Victoria supported this con with artifacts . She drew them in the special bracelet that she made and erased one to use it every time she needed .
But not only was this limited in the amount of times it could be used, a large amount of jewels was needed every time the rune letters were written . And because the bracelet only lasted a week, it was extremely inefficient .
So Victoria was researching a solution to this problem .
She was trying to look for a combination of runes that fixed the bracelet once it was used .
It sounded impossible, but she had somewhat finished the theory of it after a long time spent researching .
But that was it .
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The calculation was perfect, but everything it was made, it ended in failure .
She became frantic . She was scared she wouldn’t be able to accomplish her goal if this kept her .
Because of the limits of rune magic, she hadn’t been able to climb the Tower, and she might be trapped on the same floor until she died .
But she could assume why it failed every time .
It was because of the amount of times .
There were too many ways the artifact could be damaged . And there were too many different combinations of runes .
Because there were quite a bit of letters, the different combinations also increased in number .
The amount of times that something unexpected would happen eventually reached towards infinity .
Then there was only one method .
To make a combination that could solve whatever came its way .
And to do that .
‘I need to model it after someone who’s proactive . ’
Theories flashed by her head .
She needed to imitate someone .
If she could understand their way of thinking into an artifact, it would be able to resist unpredictable situations .
However, the person would have to be quick at learning and proactive .
And thankfully, Victoria knew someone like that .
‘Cain . ’
At first, she considered Kahn . Since he was young and motivated . However, he spent more time on meditating than training, like he was researching something like she was .
Yeon-woo was different .
He only spent the first month in meditation, and after that, he continued to train moving his body . Making anyone who watched think his body would be ruined .
And he quickly progressed . Even she, who didn’t know too much about martial arts, could tell that he was improving everyday .
Like what was a day to everyone else was a month for Yeon-woo . She saw a deep understanding that would take others a few months to comprehend from Yeon-woo .
[I hope he does this favor for me . ]
The problem was that people didn’t like having their thinking patterns analyzed . Because their weakness might be shown .
It was why she didn’t consider the other high rankers including Kindred . The moment she brought it up, her head would be blown off .
But she wouldn’t know if she didn’t try with Yeon-woo . After organizing her thoughts, Victoria slowly stood up . She found where Yeon-woo was with her senses .
Fortunately, he was near where he was staying .
As she erased the rune for Blink, she quickly transported to where he was .
And as she moved, she was surprised .
‘What’s this?’
The entire forest around Yeon-woo’s little house was a wasteland .
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Like Hermes’s symbol, the boa had slid past it . It looked like something had pressed down on it .
The problem was that even though it was like this, she couldn’t feel any traces of magic power .
‘Then…he did this purely with his strength?’
She thought he was impressive when he released his magic power against Kindred . But this was incomparable to before .
Victoria estimated where Yeon-woo was based on the hints she found . And she became even more sure .
She arrived at a small pond at the end of the forest .
Yeon-woo was bathing himself . She could see that his body was incredibly firm . Muscles without any imperfections . They were muscles from training .
Victoria was about to smile and froze . She saw all kinds of scars on his muscles . Just what had he been through to… . . ?
[What brings you here?]
Then, Yeon-woo turned towards Victoria without any signs of being surprised .
Victoria felt the color come back to her face and slowly smiled .
[A woman came to sneak a look at you but you don’t seem too surprised . ]
[Since you can’t see anyway . But can you wait a moment so I can get dressed . ?]
[Then can’t you just stay naked?]
Yeon-woo ignored her and entered the forest on the opposite side . It was to get his clothes .
[Boring . ]
Victoria grinned, then narrowed her eyes .
[I can feel the remnants of magic . The energy of darkness? But there shouldn’t be any undeads on the 20th floor . Is it a power of Cain?]
Did he have more than physical strength? She was curious, but she couldn’t ask . Since that was the unspoken rule around here .
Then, with the sound of rustling, Yeon-woo came back .
[Please speak now . ]
[So you want to make my thinking patterns into an artifact?]
Yeon-woo asked Victoria after hearing her explanation . He was resting while bathing after sparring with Shanon and Hanryeong . Then, Victoria had come .
[Right . ]
Victoria nodded her head .
[And you know how rude that is to ask of a martialist . ]
[Right . So I want to offer a trade . ]
[A trade . ]
During the time he spent on the Five Mountains, he became closer to Victoria speaking with her when they saw each other . But that was it . They weren’t close enough to ask for a favor this rude .
But Yeon-woo thought this wouldn’t be too bad .
‘Because whatever she tries, she won’t be able to imitate my way of thinking . ’
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Yeon-woo was confident in his mind blocking . His Cold Blooded skill was like the greatest enemy of mental magic . And so was his mind after awakening his Dragon Body . His subconscious was no different than a dragon’s now .
If she tried to interpret his mind, it would be as hard as interpreting a dragon’s mind . It was clear she would fail .
On the other hand, Yeon-woo had a lot that he wanted from her .
Rune magic . It was simple to use, and if he could only learn attack magic .
‘Blink, Heist, and Magic Power Strengthening . I want to learn at least these 3 . And it’s nice if I can understand other magic as well . ’
Blink, to quickly change his location . Heist, which would provide his fast movement . And Magic Power Strengthening to increase his magic power .
And more than anything, rune magic would greatly help Boo .
[If you want, I’ll even give a demon’s contract . So I request this of you . ]
A demon’s contract was summoning a high demon and having him grant a wish . It was incredibly expensive . That was how serious Victoria was .
Yeon-woo pretended to think about it carefully and nodded his head .
[Alright . But instead, I want to learn the language of runes . Is that ok?]
[Rune language?]
Victoria’s eyes widened . It was something she thought was too weak of a condition .
And even if you learned rune magic, it was hard to learn right away . It was hard to use the magic of the gods .
She brightly smiled, thinking that she had found a pushover, not knowing that Yeon-woo had Dragon’s Knowledge .
[Good . Then I’ll tutor you . I’ll leave it in your hands . ]
[Thank you . ]
Yeon-woo smiled while shaking her hand . It was a smile for when one saw a real pushover .
They both put extra strength on the hand that they were using to shake .
And meanwhile .
[You are the first person to enter the dungeon ‘King Mifune’s Palace . ’]
Kindred entered a cave that was on the top of the 5th mountain .
It was a cave that no one had found before . The reason why he had spent 10 years on the 20th floor was right in front of him .
A lake filled with water . And a door past it . The golden door was sparkling, lightning up the entire cave .
“Found you . Magic Stick . ”
Kindred smiled wide enough for his canines to be showing .
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