episode_0027

“Never disturb that child.”

He told them firmly.

It was an unknown feeling. It was difficult to decide whether to be happy or hate it.

‘That’s incredible.’

Mana is rushing. It was as if a guard dog that had been guarding the house was welcoming its owner back after many years, or rather, as if he had accidentally met his long-lost companion.

As if wondering why it had come to him only now, the mana atmosphere filling the space endlessly surged into him, making a whining hum.

“Hmm… .”

Han Sejun let out a small scream. The constant flow of mana rushing into him scratches the inside of his blood vessels and puts pressure on his heart.

Just like people rushing to get on the subway during rush hour, the Mana Road is greedily seeking a place in the body of a fragile boy who has not yet been created.

The blue mana burns bright red. It’s not Han Sejun’s special ability, the red flame. Indeed, the mana itself was buzzing and vibrating in anger at each other.

Mana in its pure state, whose properties have not been converted, is very harmless. No, it would be easier to understand if it were a little more accurate to say that it was completely insensitive.

It’s like water. No matter how much we try to harm the water, we cannot make it angry. Even if you cut the water with a knife and heat it, the water never shows emotions.

That’s because water is inanimate. No matter how many times you hit it with a club or split it with a knife, it just comes back together again and returns to water, it doesn’t change any differently. The same goes for mana.

But it was different now. Just as the S pole of a magnet is naturally attracted to the N pole, mana was naturally being drawn into his body.

I need to get inside his body! So you come out! The energy turns red as they get angry at each other.

‘I told you not to disturb me, but it won’t work if I leave it like this.’

I attempted to control his magical power by touching his body.

If things continue like this, his body might explode like a rubber balloon that has been continuously inflated.

My will materializes at my fingertips and attempts to exclude excessive mana coming into his body.

Stinging!

I felt a slight pain at the tip of my finger. A stinging pain as if someone pricked me with a needle.

Mana resisted my control and rebelled lightly. This is ridiculous huh. He let out a laugh.

‘It’s ridiculous.’

A feeling of anger began to rise in my heart. How dare you rebel against me?

He spreads out both hands and extracts mana from Han Sejun’s body. The will of mana, which is in conflict with my will, meets and begins a fight to the death.

‘damn. The problem is that the mana concentration in the classroom is too thick.’

If it had been outside of a lecture format, it wouldn’t have been much of a problem. However, the high-concentration mana zone created for the purpose of making students feel mana came back as poison.

‘What should I do?’

There is no end. Even if the mana is expelled from his body, the mana filled in the atmosphere is pushed back into him.

On a day with heavy rain, no matter how much water you scoop out of the jar, the water fills up again. No matter how hard you try to scoop out water, all you can do is buy time.

In this case, the only solution is to stop the rain or put a lid on the jar.

Make the rain stop?

I looked around at the students in the classroom. Quite a few students were looking this way out of curiosity, but when they made eye contact, they quickly looked straight ahead and continued practicing mana control.

Among them, there was a female student whose eyes were slightly filled with resentment. I felt like I was the kid who got kicked in the middle of nowhere.

When I nod as an apology, she nods, smiles, and looks away.

With over a hundred students training, harvesting mana did not seem to be the best idea.

Then I have no choice but to put the lid on.

“Instructor. I want you to go to my bedroom connected to the principal’s office and get me a rope and handcuffs. The rope will be easy to find as it is still on the bed, and the handcuffs will be there when you open the first drawer of the bedside table.”

“Yes, I understand… yes? Yeah?”

“Why are you doing that?”

Oh no. After saying this, the instructor puts on his red instructor cap and hurriedly leaves. His face looks a little embarrassed.

As I was looking behind him in bewilderment, not knowing why, I felt eyes on me from around me.

Tell them to stop worrying about this and just practice. When I give him a look, he hesitates and looks away again.

By the way, Han Sejun is a really unique guy.

Even though no one had taught me, I was sending magical energy to the Danjeon location on my own. Did he instinctively realize that that was where the magic should be located?

It’s really absurd. Why did such a monster wake up so late?

Are mana affinity and awakening order related? I’ll have to do some personal research later.

As I was thinking about this and that and trying to block the mana flowing into Han Sejun’s body, I saw the instructor hurriedly entering the classroom carrying the items I ordered.

“I brought it, Professor.”

“Thank you.”

He was handed a rope and hand cuff.

Toy handcuffs coated with a green rope similar to the military gun rope used by military police and black rubber to prevent the wearer from chafing.

These items are handcuffs and ropes used when taking prisoners or other work in 『Grandis Saga』. Both have the property of sealing the wearer’s mana.

As you might expect, handcuffs or ropes aren’t actually used much in gameplay.

In addition, a video in which a user was tied up and ridiculed became controversial, and the developer’s patch made it unusable for users, making it an even more useless item.

It was an item that was only used occasionally for NPC quests to catch someone.

However, I found it quite useful. When I slept as a human, I often found myself unknowingly releasing my polymorph and throwing away a set of pajamas, so to prevent that, I would sleep with a rope lightly wrapped around one arm.

I used it just last night too.

When you wear this, your mana is fixed at the time you put it on and you cannot move your mana until you take it off.

First, the rope was used to wrap around Han Sejun’s body, which had drained an appropriate amount of mana.

With each turn, the surrounding mana screams and makes an angry buzzing sound.

After three rounds, the sound of the air’s anger gradually decreased, and as the remaining length was consumed, the mana in the air no longer paid attention to him and became quiet.

The storm that had raged just a moment ago subsided, and the silence of the place where the storm had passed filled the classroom.

“It’s over.”

Because it was roughly wrapped for the purpose of mana sealing rather than binding, Han Sejun looked like prey caught in a spider’s web.

It’s not tied too tightly, so if he wakes up, he’ll be able to take it off himself.

I told you to bring handcuffs for no reason. I didn’t even need handcuffs.

“It’s like prey tied up in a spider’s web.”

As I looked at Han Se-jun, who looked ridiculous, and laughed, I heard the sound of him swallowing his saliva next to him, as if he was nervous.

When I looked in the direction of the sound, I saw a blond man smiling awkwardly as he looked at Han Sejun and me in turns.

“What is it? Do you want to see it too?”

“No! I’ll try it on my own for now.”

“It’s a good attitude.”

Alexander Ivanovich. From what I saw in the documents before, he has lightning abilities. This guy also seemed quite talented at mana.

The lightning ability is a very rare ability, but I managed to awaken it. Did you wake up on a day when there was thunder and lightning?

He seems to have a mana affinity comparable to Jang A-hyun, so this guy will be able to create a Danjeon in no time.

I looked at Han Sejun again.

The mana within his body is sealed and he cannot move. When I saw that, I felt proud.

When I saw that angry guy who had been resisting my will unable to move because he was caught in the sealing rope, I secretly crossed my arms and raised the corners of my mouth in satisfaction.

At first, Han Sejun’s mana, which was squirming even in a sealed state, gradually slowed down and finally returned to a water-like state.

Without resistance. As if it was flowing from high to downward, it just became quiet, following the laws of nature.

I looked at the time and saw that 15 minutes had already passed the scheduled lecture time.

“Some people will succeed in feeling and controlling mana right away in the first hour of the day, while others will not. But don’t be upset. Since time is not limited to today, Mana will surely answer your call as long as you do not lose your will. Thank you all for your hard work. You can go now.”

“I… professor. Is it okay if I practice a little more here?”

“No, everyone go out. The motivation is good, but if you stay in a mana oversaturated space for a long time without a mana hole, your cells will destroy themselves. As I just said, today is not just the day.”

“Okay. Thank you for the good teachings today. Professor.”

After I finish speaking, I say hello and the students begin to leave.

“And we will have question time at this location this afternoon. Those who have questions can come here, not the professor’s office, after 14:00. I will be here until 18:00.”

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In the classroom where the students had disappeared, I looked down at Han Se-jun, who had rope wrapped all over his body.

The sight of him sitting cross-legged with his eyes closed looked somehow spiritual.

In ancient times, a legend came to mind that a high monk who worshiped a certain god entered nirvana and his body hardened into stone.

The current Han Sejun also seemed to have left his body in this space and traveled to a faraway place where no one could find him.

I felt a little anxious that I would never regain my senses and that my eyes would never open again.

What should I do with him now? He is in a trance with his mind seeping deep inside him.

I think it would be better to first remove the mana from this space. That way, it will be okay to untie the seal.

‘But if that happens, I’ll fall into the same cycle every week.’

A fundamental solution is needed. Couldn’t we make a mummy out of Han Se-jun next week as well?

In that case, I have no choice.

I stood behind him, placed my hand on his back, and attempted to move the mana in his body.

It felt very heavy.

His mana, bound by the sealing rope, was so massive. I felt resistance as if I was trying to break through a water pipe clogged with limestone.

It felt like I was squeezing something in a solid gel state and forcing it to move. Han Se-jun convulsed and groaned under that oppressive external force.

‘this.’

I thought about loosening the rope a little, but I knew that his mana would run wild like a wild horse again, so I couldn’t do anything about it.

It has been mentioned in this work that pure mana must be used to create Danjeon.

It was said that if mana with even slightly different properties is used, the user will be greatly affected by the properties of the mana.

Just like the nature of the mana that was flocking to him, I imagined Han Se-jun turning into a fierce villainess holding a fan and smiling, and it was a bit scary.

‘How on earth did this guy create Danjeon in the original work?’

When feeling mana and creating danjeon, it was almost a given that it should be done in a space full of mana.

Han Si-woo also made a Danjeon in the Manasil of Sejong Academy.

Jang Su-ri had already completed her Danjeon even before entering school with the support of Taesung Group.

Anyway, this method probably isn’t wrong… .

Could it be that this guy just naturally created Danjeon while working? There was no academy when Han Se-jun and Jang A-hyun were active.

Although that is the most normal process, it does not mean that you can be told to skip Wednesday’s lecture until you create your own Danjeon.

‘It’s so frustrating not knowing the growth stories of the first generation hunters. Can not help it.’

I turned in front of him and gently pressed his lower abdomen.

It’s going to hurt, but just hang in there, Han Sejun. You have caught a truly rare opportunity today.

As I concentrated my magic power on my fingertips, a mana sphere the size of a small bead appeared.

A blue mana bead that is a symbol of pure mana. I stabbed the mana bead into Han Sejun’s lower abdomen.

“eup… !”

A sound of wind coming out of his mouth due to the sudden intrusion of mana. An alien force forcibly invades the center of the dantian.

Now his mana is sealed. In between, heterogeneous and dynamic new mana is forcefully introduced.

My mana sphere invaded his Danjeon and forced his Danjeon to be called Babang.

“Ugh… Ugh… .”

The sound of his teeth grinding together could be heard, as if he was in great pain.

But you have to endure it a little longer. Nothing is gained without pain.

The chunk of mana I had injected was being eaten away by Han Sejun’s mana.

Since my movements are sealed by the sealing rope, I fill the empty space by slowly eating away at my magic power, little by little.

Like biting into a cookie, the blue beads disappear little by little, leaving behind crumbs.

After about 20 minutes, Han Se-jun’s mana finally ate up all the beads in the Danjeon and he greedily filled their place.

“Phew… .”

I breathed a sigh of relief. It’s a huge success.

His Danjeon had been replaced with Han Se-jun’s own mana according to the size I had called.

As a result, the pain seemed to gradually decrease, and Han Se-jun’s expression, which had been painfully distorted and breaking into a cold sweat, also regained its stability.

Likewise, my forehead was also full of sweat, so I took a handkerchief out of my suit pocket and wiped my forehead.

‘It’s hard.’

I tried to untie the rope that was wrapped around his body a little. With the completion of the dantian, his mana control seemed to have increased, and he released five rounds, but his condition was very calm.

‘It’s really the devil’s talent.’

After completing a big task, I guess I was relaxed and my legs were starting to hurt, so I took one of the chairs the instructor was sitting on and sat down in front of him.

I thought about a cigarette and almost took out a cigarette, but because of the location, I put it back in.

I felt suddenly tired. After all, the human body gets tired too easily.

As he was yawning loudly and untying the rope around his body, he heard someone softly knocking on the back door of the classroom.

Has it already been like this?

I looked at the time and it was already time. I skipped lunch.

“Come in.”

At my voice of permission, a girl comes in and bows to me.

“Ahyeon Jang. What question is this?”

As Han Se-jun was in the back of the classroom, Jang A-hyeon looked a little embarrassed, perhaps because she encountered him at close range.

However, he soon returned to his original elegant and proud appearance, lowered his head again, and opened his mouth.

“Before that, I would like to apologize first. Two days ago, I made a really big mistake during the professor’s lecture. I’m really sorry.”

“… .”

“And thank you very much for being merciful and bringing me a summary of the lecture content for my misbehavior. Never again in a lecture─”

“It’s a hassle, so either apologize or be thankful.”

He deliberately interrupted her and spat out coldly and crookedly. As the snowstorm hit and the cold weather hit, she froze as well.

His eyes are shaking, and his fingers are shaking a little as if he’s embarrassed.

“Sin… Sorry… .”

“I will not accept an apology. Just be grateful. So you don’t need to apologize to me.”

As she waved her hand, a chair placed on the other side of the classroom floated towards her and landed behind her.

“Reply that apology with results. Everyone makes mistakes. All you have to do is make up for it with sufficient performance. why? Are you really not confident?”

He smiled and smiled lightly and answered in a light tone.

Jang A-hyun still seems to be quite mentally weak, so she will need some care.

“No! certainly… I will definitely not disappoint you!”

She speaks confidently, clenching her fists cutely with both hands.

“Yes. Become someone who can proudly stand next to me someday. I look forward to that day.”

okay. I want to quickly become stronger and stop the monsters, and if possible, become a teacher to alleviate some of my work.

Of course, this applies not only to her but to all Ellada students.

Fighting against monsters alone, attending GDO, managing the academy, and even preparing for lectures isn’t usually hard work.

I would be really happy if he had at least some level of skill and could be used as a force to take my place when the gate breaks out in the future.

When she heard what I said, she had a blank expression for a moment, but then seemed to understand what I meant and smiled brightly like a sunflower in full bloom.

Her surroundings were dyed in golden light, as if her supernatural ability had secretly appeared, and the blue-colored mana convection reflected it, creating a new feast of light in the classroom.

Blue and sparkling gold mix together to create a light green color that is closer to cyan rather than green.

The fresh sight was accompanied by an apple scent that I couldn’t tell was her shampoo, making it feel like I was in the middle of a green orchard.

“Then let’s listen to the questions. What are you curious about?”

“Ah yes! What I wanted to ask is… .”

She answered brightly in a lively voice as she took out a handout from her bag.