episode_0179

My body is a little unusual.

Even aside from having a penis above my vagina, I fundamentally possess the property of absorbing all mana.

Because of this, I show a significant difference from ordinary people in terms of the efficiency of magical combat, as well as in learning and growing in magic.

I’ve especially felt it recently.

Whether it’s because I’ve become adept at manipulating ether, my flow control and mana breathing have improved, and the activation of incantations themselves has become considerably faster.

Simply put, my body warms up quickly.

When you lie down and suddenly stand up to run, it takes a lot of effort, so usually you do some warm-up exercises beforehand.

It seems that my warm-up time is getting shorter and shorter.

The speed at which I create swords with ether is increasing.

The speed at which I draw and swing those swords is increasing.

Even my maximum swing speed is increasing.

Most useful of all, as the speed at which my muscles awaken and ether spreads throughout my body increases, I get injured less often and recover quickly even if I am injured.

Just as my muscles get stronger every time they tear and heal, the faster recovery has noticeably accelerated my growth.

Thus, an opportunity to properly showcase the new techniques I’ve acquired has come, after a long time.

Krrlut- Keheng-

“Haap…!!”

Chwaak- Puhaak-!

As the time to hunt the beasts passed, the tide continued to turn in our favor.

The priests’ coordination started to improve, and I let them hunt freely for a while so they could focus on the hunt.

It’s a simple tactic where they just have to maintain their formation and continuously use one spell. There’s no reason for me to act as a ranger and help them from above.

Tat-

I leaped over a tall branch, diving deep into the forest.

The Gray Wolf pack continued to emerge endlessly, and there was no sign of their numbers dwindling.

As expected, the origin of the Gray Wolves was this Chaos Forest.

Pushing those guys towards Tarun Mountain, and even blocking the entrance to the lair where they were hiding, it wasn’t any different than the reason why the wolves were unusually ferocious during the last dungeon break.

Past is past.

There’s no need to dwell on it further, nor the need to.

I’ll just do what I have to do now.

With a dagger in my hand, I tore through the branches with the air and landed on the ground.

Seugeok- Ssusut- Shkuang-!!

Thanks to the dense undergrowth layered on the forest floor, no dust was raised, but the vibrations that shook the ground spread outward.

The Gray Wolf pack, which had been aiming for the ‘light,’ turned their heads toward me as one.

Gnashing their teeth- kkaddeuk-, and tearing through the grass and trees with their claws.

Driven by their hunting instinct, they swarmed toward me.

“Huu… Finally, I can use it.”

With my legs spread shoulder-width apart, I slowly inhaled.

The ether surging within my body slowly spreads to my fingertips and toes along with the air flowing into my breath.

Ether freely circulating throughout my body following a certain current.

In this state, where I’m activating the ‘Mana Breathing Technique,’ the activation of magic is smoother than at any other moment.

However, it only facilitates the activation of the incantation and doesn’t significantly affect the magical power itself, which is the potency of the magic.

In short, it’s a state where I can shoot weak magic quickly.

Therefore, to unleash a powerful blow, a magician gathers mana in one place.

The exact center of the body, including the limbs.

That’s the Dantian.

The place where the circulating ether passes most frequently.

In terms of the geography of South Korea, it could be considered the metropolitan area, where the map is densely packed with roads.

It’s as easy to accumulate it spontaneously outside of my will and to directly gather it by fully utilizing my will.

However, because I’ve often gathered ether in my Dantian using this breathing technique…

For some reason, my libido would often explode in proportion to my growth rate.

There’s a reason I can guess.

The location of the part I call the Dantian during training is often called by a different name during sex.

‘…Uterus.’

That’s right.

My uterus, where testes and ovaries coexist, becomes more and more overflowing with libido the more I stimulate it with ether.

That’s why Yuri has been suffering lately.

We do it when I wake up, before school, after skipping class, before meals, and during meals.

In empty classrooms, in the bathroom, in the kitchen, and even in dark alleys.

I don’t even remember how many times I’ve done it with Nix and Yuri to satisfy myself.

In fact, relieving my libido was also part of the reason I came to Tier.

Anyway, I’ve learned something from ejaculating more than ten times a day.

Anything accumulates well in the center of my body, which I call the Dantian.

Whether it’s libido hormones or ether.

It’s like a container that mixes various ingredients; the more you put in, the more its capacity increases.

Because of that, this became possible.

“Huu…”

From earlier, I have been slowly manipulating the ether flowing through my body, constantly accumulating it in my Dantian.

Originally, when I created the [Myeongyeong Sword], I channeled the ether through my hands.

I used to gather and refine the ether outside of my body to complete a single sword.

But ultimately, this skill is a form of magic, so it follows the correlation between incantation and magical power.

The more pure and condensed ether I channel into the incantation, the stronger the magical power becomes.

“Hutt…!!”

[Myeongyeong Sword-Draw].

The magic sword drawn from my Dantian, instead of my hand, surpasses imagination in its strength and magic penetration power.

Ssusut—

Emitting a blindingly intense pure white light, the Myeongyeong Sword revealed itself with the potential to distort the surrounding space.

“Huuaah… It’s a little tiring to squeeze it all out at once.”

I poured all the strongest power I could muster into this single sword.

Aside from the sublime sight of drawing the sword from below my navel, it’s arguably the ultimate technique embodying my entire life.

Chijit- Tsuzjujt-

The ether contained in the blade is so intense that it keeps trying to burst out, tearing the shape of the sword I’ve compressed.

I can improve this flaw by tweaking the incantation a bit, but it already has sufficient intimidating presence.

Kreuk- Kreurru—

The Gray Wolf’s habit.

They attack when they see weak light, and they fear strong light.

Perhaps one Myeongyeong Sword is more frightening than the combined light of five priests, the wolves surrounding me hesitated to attack me.

They were hiding their claws and closing their mouths.

Some were even slowly backing away.

“Lie on your back, show some affection, and I might spare you once.”

I flung the Myeongyeong Sword, as if throwing a bone to a mastiff at a butcher shop.

Kyaeng- Kreung- Krut-

I thought they’d rush to bite, but they instead fled without looking back, terrified.

Paat—

I ran, trampling the ground.

Before the sword touched the ground, approaching even faster than it, I grabbed the hilt.

Twisting my body widely, I swung it in a circle.

A sword that gathers strength in a circular orbit to cut; not a straight line.

The Myeongyeong Sword’s Third Form, Samsara.

Sgak—!!

A round, pure white sword energy, like a full moon, bisected the bodies of the fleeing wolves.

Auuu-

Auuu—

As three or four of them were struck simultaneously, they seemed to have decided to retreat and howled loudly.

I’m planning to let them go for now but reducing their numbers would be better.

I aimed the sword towards the direction where the howls were coming from, stepping forward and swinging heavily.

The Myeongyeong Sword’s Second Form, Cheonggonggalgi.

However, I couldn’t cut down the surrounding trees, so I adjusted the properties of the sword energy to cut only the flow of mana, rather than matter.

Paang—!!

As the sword energy shot out like a shockwave and penetrated the Gray Wolves’ bodies, they tumbled one after another without any wounds.

Teueok-

“I think I’ll stop here for today.”

I rested the sword on my shoulder and caught my breath for a moment.

Looking around, the corpses of the beasts were scattered everywhere, and soon the priests came through the undergrowth.

“Hiik… Its head is split in half…”

“We heard their cries just now… What happened, Miss Philbrogue?”

I shrugged, dispersing the ether from the Myeongyeong Sword and absorbing it into my body.

Even so, it was clear that I was the one who created this mess.

Everyone stared at me with wide eyes.

“Well… I do adventurer work sometimes, so this isn’t that amazing—”

“Ama—zing, Miss Philbrogue—!!”

Led by Jay’s exclamation, they surrounded me and bombarded me with all kinds of words.

It’s true that they were praising me.

However, more than that… they started gushing about the results of the hunt, sometimes emotionally and sometimes calculatingly.

They seemed incredibly happy at having successfully hunted the beasts on their own.

Perhaps until now, they could only help other party members when they went into battle.

“The tactics I showed you today will likely work on most beasts. Especially if they’re undead, they’ll be thrilled.”

Tier also seemed delighted.

She was already a skilled healer, but seeing new possibilities in battle is always exciting.

Even I get restless and want to use new techniques immediately as soon as I get them.

“Well,… it was more fun than whale bait.”

“I’m sorry about that.”

Ultimately, we successfully hunted the Gray Wolves.

While we haven’t wiped out all the beasts that appeared this time, it’s worth noting for a party consisting of five support members and one extra.

‘I should start cleaning up the hunting grounds…’

I glanced at the priests.

“By any chance, is there anyone who knows how to dismantle beasts?”

I held out a little hope, but the result was disappointing.

They were all fidgeting with their hands.

Even though they were priests who read scriptures and prayed at the temple… I thought at least one of them would have hunting experience.

There’s nothing I can do.

I opened my subspace storage and neatly stowed the Gray Wolf corpses.

. . .

Compared to the heavy steps I took to get here, my return journey was light.

“I really wonder what expression that receptionist will make when she knows we succeeded in the hunt—!!

“Amen…”

I don’t think they’ll change their attitude or tone even if they have achieved results.

Would the head office employee show courtesy to a lowly employee of a small regional subsidiary?

However, if we prove our performance, our treatment is bound to change.

The ones who need help are the Sacred Kingdom, and we’re here to help.

However, there’s something that bothers me.

Beasts swarming is undoubtedly a dangerous problem.

However, unlike the items in the dispatch support document, the Gray Wolves that appeared this time didn’t attack nearby houses or even come out of the Chaos Forest.

It says a large number but there has been no threat.

There’s something else suspicious.

If they determined the beast infestation to be a dangerous situation, they should have sent tons of knights to hunt them, right?

However, I didn’t see a single knight from the Sacred Kingdom in the Chaos Forest today.

No exaggeration, not a single one.

Where are they and what are they doing?

Were they disobeying orders and going to eat some mountain-grown food?

That’s impossible.

As I saw yesterday, all the people related to the Great Temple were under the Pope’s [Sacred Words].

They could not question orders from the Great Temple, and if they questioned them, they wouldve heard stronger [Sacred Words] or died.

Therefore, a reasonable guess would be that ‘the Great Temple didn’t deem this beast infestation dangerous.’

Thus, the right question is.

Why did they call us, especially Saint Tier, to the Sacred Kingdom?

“This… smells only fishy.”

“Eh- Does it smell fishy—?! Knu- Knuu-knuu—”

“No, I don’t mean you. Shall we have meat for dinner today?”

“Yessir-!!”

They were pretending to avoid meat until yesterday, but after having a taste, they couldn’t stop.

They have awakened to the joy of meat.

There was still some time to settle the hunting rewards, so I opened my wallet first.

After treating them all to a good meal and letting them spend the night in a warm place.

Late at night, I slipped out without them noticing.