Constitution

Chris was asked to bring all the Clan members.

However, due to Dwarfneer’s unique characteristics, not all of the Clan could enter.

Only the core members were selected: Chris herself, Hong Joo-ah, whom I had met before, and Jang Yu-ha.

I met the three core members of the First Home Clan.

Americano, after meeting them, immediately resolved one of the tasks for which she had called them.

She handed them [Wish Stones],

Had them offer a [Prayer],

And bestowed [Geass].

Straight to the point without much explanation.

It stung to use 20 [Wish Stones] on Chris alone, but thanks to receiving double the amount of [Wish Stones] at EX rank, it was an amount that could be quickly replenished.

It wasn’t considered a loss since it was an unplanned expense.

It was just seen as a freely usable surplus.

That was the extent of my perception.

First, I had Chris learn [Geass].

“To learn Severed Meridian Syndrome, you’ll have to start with a Frail-like Geass at first.”

I wondered if it would be okay.

While Chris offered her [Prayer], I and the other Clan members sat on the back pew, waiting for our turn.

In my case, I learned [Frail] first and then moved on to [Nine Yin Severed Meridians].

But to do that, I had to undergo a first Rebirth and have unallocated points.

Since I already had 60 points saved up, would I have to undergo a second Rebirth?

‘Or can I skip it?’

My head naturally turned to Hong Joo-ah.

“Let me ask you something.”

“-, huh?”

“You have a Geass, right?”

“Huh? I don’t?”

“You do. Just by seeing how your Awakened Ability doesn’t decrease even when you use it so freely, you must have chosen a constitution-based Geass.”

“Really, I don’t.”

“Then have you ever looked at the Geass list?”

“…I haven’t.”

“Go look.”

Hong Joo-ah did as she was told.

The section to check [Geass].

She hadn’t paid attention to [Geass] since creating her Avatar.

Unlike others, she had good Magical Power recovery and thought Magical Power was infinite because laws similar to reality applied.

But,

“You do, right?”

“…Yeah.”

She did.

“What does it say?”

“Nine Sun Heavenly Body.”

“….”

Americano muttered, “Nine Sun,” and crossed her arms.

“You said you’ve never touched Geass, right?”

“Y-yeah.”

“Then that’s a Geass that’s been applied since you created your Avatar. So, even in reality, you had the Nine Sun Heavenly Body constitution.”

“What?”

“Magical Power in Full Dive flows the same as in reality, right? Or is there anything different from reality while you’re using Magical Power? Even in reality, your Magical Power recovery was exceptional, right?”

“….”

Hong Joo-ah’s expression hardened as if I had guessed correctly.

I was only half guessing.

‘So, a martial arts constitution can manifest in reality?’

I swallowed my doubts,

And filled them with conviction.

“I knew it. I thought so when I saw how you fight.”

Then what about Chris?

Chris’s Awakened Ability is Plasma.

Flame is also a type of Plasma.

It’s fitting for the most direct destructive ability. The Awakened Abilities of the Rankers who dominated the top ranks were similar in type.

‘I might actually skip it?’

Skipping one stage alone is helpful enough.

Rather than prematurely undergoing Rebirth and incurring losses, I decided to trust her innate talent.

Chris finished her [Prayer].

She returned to us, who had moved back so as not to disturb her [Prayer].

“What did you choose?”

“Nine Yang Constitution.”

“Huh? From the start?”

“Yeah.”

“….”

What a talent.

It felt a bit hollow to have struggled to get from [Frail] to [Frozen Heaven: Nine Yin Constitution].

“And Nine Yin Constitution too.”

“Huh?”

“I chose it because I could choose it together. Did I make a mistake?”

“No…”

[Nine Yang Constitution] and [Nine Yin Constitution].

‘There really is such a thing as talent.’

I prided myself on being a genius, but I admitted that in terms of constitution, I was inferior to them.

‘Just because a martial arts constitution is good from the start doesn’t make you a genius.’

I could use Magical Power almost infinitely with the help of [Nine Yin Severed Meridians] and [Nine Yin Constitution], but that helped improve my skills, but it wasn’t an absolute standard.

The more resources, the better.

Magical Power was a resource for battle.

I gave her a thumbs up.

“Good job.”

And I also offered a [Prayer] and wished for what Cappuccino had asked for.

[Resurrection].

It works.

As a bonus, I raised [Heal] to level 9, and the [Wish Stones] ran out.

After that, we went to a secluded place, but there were hardly any secluded places in Dwarfneer.

So, we went to Ibon’s workshop.

“What? You want to borrow the Duel Arena? Of course, you can borrow it. Here, the Key.”

She immediately agreed.

Ibon was resting in the workshop. She boasted about how good the [Phoenix Feather] was without even being asked.

She said to look forward to a good Cuirass being made.

“Is Ibon a high-level artisan?”

“So?”

“You seem very close.”

“I gave her good materials.”

The Duel Arena.

It was wide.

I had a duel with Skilla here.

I took out the [Magic Sword] from my Inventory.

“You know if you’ve seen my strategy video, right?”

I ignited the Blue Flame.

The Blue Flame immediately transferred to my body.

[Frost] offset the flames and raised my Magical Power even higher.

“I used this to gather Magical Power to the maximum and enhance my Strength. Power. Physical. Well, things like that.”

I look at the Blue Flame.

And the Cold Energy implemented with [Frost].

I compared the two.

The Cold Energy does almost no damage.

Therefore, the usefulness of the Blue Flame, like the Steel Cuirass, was now questionable.

It was natural for a weapon obtained early in Full Dive to become weak. I gradually needed a stronger weapon.

Still, it wasn’t completely useless.

I created superconductivity in my hand.

I circulated [Frost] to the extreme and applied Electrical Ability to more easily implement superconductivity and gathered the flames attached to my body.

Blue Flame gathered on my palm, creating a spherical fireball.

I soon clenched my fist and extinguished it.

“Then Chris.”

“Yeah.”

“I’ll teach you what I’ve experienced. First, can you draw out only the Magical Power of the Nine Yin Constitution separately?”

“I’ll try.”

And she did.

“The Nine Yang Constitution and Magical Power seem to be playing separately.”

“….”

I didn’t know if this was a good thing.

Or if it had become messy.

“It’ll be resolved later when you choose Yin Yang Harmony Constitution.”

Anyway,

“Draw out as much Nine Yin Magical Power as you can withstand.”

“Yeah.”

Chris drew out Magical Power.

Cold Energy bloomed on her body.

A heavy fog descended.

Chris’s body shrank.

She hugged herself with both arms.

“Cold…!”

“Not yet. Raise it more.”

Chris’s [Yin Energy] stat would be 0 points, so I could guess that her resistance to Cold Energy would be similar to the cold I experienced during [Nine Yin Severed Meridians].

Judging from the Cold Energy she was emitting, it was barely less than 20 percent based on my maximum [Magical Power] of 30 points at the time.

“It’s just a game anyway. No matter how cold it gets, there won’t be any aftereffects, so draw out Magical Power until your body breaks.”

“Even if my body breaks?”

“You’re already doing that much training, aren’t you?”

“Did you hear it from Dahyun?”

“…I heard it.”

Chris trains consistently.

She’s a skilled person who surpassed Hong Joo-ah, despite having a talent like Hong Joo-ah by her side, and recorded 1st place domestically and 3rd place internationally.

For reference, Hong Joo-ah was ranked 1st in the world in terms of Magical Power talent alone.

I saw it on the news.

On YouTube too.

“Just do it. It’s good to know the maximum you can draw out for both Nine Yin Constitution and Nine Yang Constitution.”

“It’s too cold.”

Her complexion was pale.

Her eyes were wide open.

Her whole body was trembling.

“Do it. I did it too. There’s no way you can’t do it, right?”

“I, I can’t do it like you, Unnie.”

“Dahyun told me that you’re the most hardworking and coolest person he knows. Was that all a lie?”

“Ugh…”

Chris trembled.

Chris was weak to things like this.

Someone’s expectations.

The tendency to want to meet expectations hadn’t changed even in the game.

Chris started to draw out Magical Power again.

“Yeah, like that. Even if it’s cold, it’ll be bearable if you assume you’re going to die.”

“Die?”

Hong Joo-ah asked from the side, and Jang Yu-ha also looked like she wanted to ask something.

“You can figure out your limits by dying just once. Isn’t it easy?”

“Did you do that too, Unnie?”

“I didn’t.”

“Huh?”

“I get better at fighting when I’m fighting. So, I’ve never tried to draw out Magical Power to the limit through separate training. You can do it while fighting anyway.”

“….”

Hong Joo-ah’s eyes turned to the side as if recalling past memories.

“It was really nice when I fought you.”

“Hmph…”

Her shoulders trembled.

I smiled because it was cute.

I leaned my upper body slightly towards Hong Joo-ah.

So that my voice could reach her better.

“I didn’t even know I could draw out that much Strength. I feel like I can show you something new if we do it one more time. Do you want to fight again next time?”

“…No thanks.”

“Too bad.”

Of course, if we fought again, I wouldn’t be able to use Resurrection using the third Rebirth like last time.

Even if there was a fourth Rebirth, I didn’t know the conditions.

At that time.

Crack.

“Ugh!”

Chris grabbed her neck and sat down.

“Hoo, hoo, hoo, hoo…”

She looked really cold.

I approached her.

The temperature had dropped quite a bit.

‘Still not enough.’

She needs to know how to raise it more so that she can raise it even more when using it in conjunction with [Nine Yang Constitution].

Just like the ability to use [Boost] was different when you knew your limits and when you didn’t.

First, I looked at the area where the cracking sound came from.

The skin on the back of Chris’s neck was cracked.

No, it was quite deep.

Even the bone was visible.

“….”

[Heal]

The wound healed.

“Keep going.”

“If I, I, I, I do it more, I, I’ll die.”

“That’s what I told you to do.”

“Wha, wha, what?”

What’s so new about it?

Chris turned her stiff gaze with shocked eyes.

‘Is it difficult if it’s not during a fight?’

Was the method I used the best way to draw out Magical Power and be less susceptible to cold?

Such questions arose.

During [Nine Yin Severed Meridians].

When was the last time I used it to the maximum?

It was when I faced Witch Win.

‘Ah…’

I remembered that and realized it.

I was ashamed of what I had said to Hong Joo-ah.

‘It was during a battle, but it was in high heat.’

As if the skill The Sun had been applied, Win created a high-heat Barrier using the entire floor as a Magic circle.

I endured it by maximizing the Magical Power of [Nine Yin Severed Meridians] inside.

I told Hong Joo-ah that I had only endured it with Cold Energy, but in fact, Witch Win’s high-heat Barrier, the [Magic Sword]’s Blue Flame, and Win’s [Heat] Magic had been with me all along.

‘I’ve never used only Cold Energy.’

The only time I froze to death at once was when the Magic was released.

That was also as cold as dying, but I froze to death against my will, so it didn’t apply to this case.

“Hmm…”

I took out the [Magic Sword].

I applied Blue Flame.

Chris burst into flames.

Her expression gradually came to life.

“Then keep going like that.”

“….”

Jang Yu-ha was silently watching that scene.

She had been silent ever since meeting Americano.

Hong Joo-ah asked.

“You said you had something you wanted to say after meeting her, right?”

“Huh? Oh…”

That’s right.

But,

‘If you see something like that, it’s not easy to talk.’

Jang Yu-ha saw a scene from the future.

Americano’s face became a window to the future.

It was beautiful.

The moment she saw that face,

The faces of the present and the future overlapped and moved to the scene of the future.

In the future, she raised her hand high and destroyed the world by striking lightning at people in despair and sorrow.

The world collapses.

Space shattered.

Just like when the Gate opened.

That had a feeling of ‘opening’,

But in the future scene, it was closer to ‘shattering’, like a glass window shattering into pieces.

She also felt how she would regard Americano in the future.

Admiration.

Fear.

Worship.

She was embarrassed.

Moreover, judging from the feeling of having seen the future several times as a precognitive, that future was not far off.

At most, half a month.

‘Worship?’

Was it possible for her to worship someone?

Jang Yu-ha, a precognitive, sees various possibilities while looking into the future.

The future was not one, but appeared superimposed in the form of possibilities.

The most likely one was the clearest, but that didn’t mean that other faint futures were invisible.

Therefore, although she had never told anyone, she had never been disappointed in anyone.

It had been a long time since she had given up on expectations.

Even Chris, when she heard that a non-Awakened man named Da-hyun Lee was going to be a Hunter, she thought there was a high probability that she would keep him tied up and raise him at home.

Even Chris, the most likable person she had met so far, was like that.

‘Is it because my abilities have weakened?’

She wondered if the fact that she couldn’t see the future and had no reason to be disappointed in others had had an effect.

Still,

‘Worship is too much.’

The experience of being disappointed by seeing the future hadn’t gone anywhere.

Worship.

Worship.

‘Worship, huh.’

What on earth would she see in the future that would make her worship her?

She looks at Americano’s back as she burns Chris with Blue Flame. She feels a strange feeling and ends up looking forward to it.

After finishing the [Nine Yin Constitution] training, she raised her Strength to the limit relatively easily in the [Nine Yang Constitution] training.

Plasma was also a type of flame, and just as there was high-heat Plasma,

Chris’s Awakened Ability had many aspects that were familiar with heat.

Thanks to this, Chris was able to draw out the Magical Power of [Nine Yin Constitution] based on [Nine Yang Constitution] and release 100 percent of the output she could currently produce for 1 hour.

“Can’t you do more?”

“I think I can.”

“Then do more.”

When she raised the Magical Power of [Nine Yang Constitution] even higher, the Cold Energy disappeared and the heat drew heat haze.

She soon withdrew the Magical Power.

Chris breathed out, “Hoo.”

“I think I know why you told me to do Nine Yin Constitution first.”

“….”

“I can’t feel the heat well, so you wanted me to gauge it with the cold, right? If I hadn’t felt the cold first, I wouldn’t have been able to draw out even half of what I did now.”

“…Really?”

“Yeah.”

Chris had a somewhat bewildered expression.

“With this, it’s twice the power I put out in the Duel Arena. I’ll be able to fight until my Magical Power runs out.”

“You’re saying you got that much stronger with just that?”

“Unnie, I’ve always been strong. Officially, I’m an S-class, but unofficially, I’m called an SS-class.”

I know.

An S-class in the world’s top 10 is considered an SS-class, meaning they have a different level of Strength than other S-classes.

‘Still.’

I shook my head.

Talent is something else.

This side is the type that builds up skills through hard work, but she gained two martial arts constitutions and increased her destructive power to twice the power of splitting a city, and her combat endurance is almost infinite.

But,

‘I’m not really jealous.’

Why?

I know.

‘It seems boring.’

Anyway,

I think I’ve taught her everything I need to teach her about [Geass].

“Geass is good, right?”

“Yeah. Can I teach it to the other kids too?”

“Of course. I called you all to share this.”

“Thank you.”

“Don’t thank me. I’ll be in trouble if you guys don’t get stronger. What I wanted to ask for was something else from the start. Rather, this is like paying the commission in advance.”

Along with Chris, I called all the Clan members of her Clan, First Home.

It would be a problem if they didn’t engrave [Geass] to strengthen their Awakened Abilities.

“What do you want to ask for?”

“Let’s clear a Dungeon together. I don’t think I can clear it alone. Will you listen to me?”

“…Yeah. I already received it.”

Chris answered reluctantly.

First, that’s it for today.

After sending Chris and the others away, I returned to the accommodation and Cappuccino was awake.

Cappuccino glares resentfully.

She opened her mouth and then closed it.

“Never mind. You’re not going to change no matter what I say, right?”

I didn’t know what she meant by not changing, but

I answered anyway.

“Yeah.”