episode_0027

Leon, who had moved to a new location, quickly calmed down his surprised heart and looked around.

It was dark, but not so dark that I couldn’t make out anything.

The space was very cramped.

Leon was currently standing on a circular stone slab, but he could climb down in just three steps.

Also, when I got off the stone slab and took another three steps, I was blocked on all sides by walls.

Even one wall was occupied by a study, and another wall was occupied by shelves and porcelain bottles that came to about Leon’s waist.

‘What is this… … .’

Eventually, there was only one wall left, and that wall was the door. Next to it, a familiar lever appeared.

Leon shook his head.

‘I think I’ve been caught in a magic circle… … .’

Leon stared at the magic circle engraved on the stone tablet for a moment.

The wooden sword has the ability to disrupt the flow of magical energy, so it seems that the moving magic circle does not work.

‘The blink magic worked well… …but does it have an owner recognition function?’

Leon used his navigation magic to extend his magical power beyond the wall.

“Oh no.”

The sounds of people and the flow of magic beyond the wall.

Some things are familiar, some are unfamiliar.

The familiar flow of magic is the armor golem.

Several were standing in front of the door, and the unfamiliar sounds seemed to be those of gargoyle golems loitering around.

Even if you look closely, there are more than 10 of them.

“Ah… … A wooden sword. Damn it.”

Unfortunately, the wooden sword doesn’t move with it, so there’s no way to escape.

Leon took out the emergency teleportation scroll from his bosom.

‘Should I use it?’

Suddenly, the Secret of Creation in-depth chapter came to mind.

This meant that if you used the scroll like this, you would also have to give up the wooden sword.

I couldn’t teleport back there because I didn’t know exactly where I was right before I was moved.

It wasn’t even clear whether it was on the second basement floor or somewhere deeper.

There were two places that Leon had in mind as emergency teleportation destinations.

The training room Leon used when he was a regular disciple.

And the entrance to the first district of the herbal medicine shop, the job that Leon was most satisfied with.

Leon sighed and looked around.

First of all, the study.

The red sign was the first thing that caught my eye.

[The Secret of the Creation of the Megrippa System (Advanced)]

“ha… … .”

Leon let out a hollow laugh and looked at other books.

[Golem Blueprint]

I opened the book after seeing the title, but unfortunately, it was all blank.

‘Hmm… … It doesn’t seem like an ordinary blank sheet of paper.’

Leon, who was rubbing the blank paper with his hand, tilted his head.

It seemed that they had made it possible to find out through other means.

That floor was entirely occupied by basic books and papers on golems.

Leon’s gaze was directed a little further down.

A book lying there, seemingly ignored, at the bottom.

“Huh?”

[Ernita Series Storm]

After a quick glance, I see that it is a high-level magic with the wind attribute.

To be exact, it’s just at the level of a secret technique.

In addition, there were several basic magic books placed there.

It doesn’t seem like the owner of this rare learned it himself, but rather brought it here to use as a reference when creating a golem that can use magic.

Leon looked away from the study and scanned the shelves that occupied the other wall.

Most of them were empty bottles, but among them I found three bottles containing small beads.

integer?

As soon as he saw the familiar form, Leon immediately used emotional magic.

“Huh.”

The first white orb to use emotional magic was an A-class essence.

One Class A integer.

A-class elixirs are effective even if consumed by an Insight-class magician… … Furthermore, since Leon has a constitution that is good at reliance on elixirs, it might be an elixir that would be effective even if consumed by a Transcendent-class magician.

Even the method for manufacturing it is rare, and even if it is made, the method is extremely difficult, so the quantity of the elixir is limited… … .

‘Did you save it to eat when you reach Insight? Or is it something you’ve already reached the Transcendent level and don’t need to eat?’

A sudden impulse arose within Leon.

‘Shall we practice here for a bit?’

Leon managed to calm himself down and looked at the other vials.

5 B-class integers.

17 C-class integers.

“… What is it?”

Even if you have a lot of money, can you buy this much essence?

Did you make a fortune by creating golems?

In fact, people’s current evaluation of Golem is not very good.

A luxury item that is definitely useful to have, but costs too much to keep.

Was it different in ancient times?

And next, a soft-looking silver fruit in a ceramic bowl.

When examined with emotional magic, it turned out to be a fruit that would not spoil for a long time and would provide all the nutrients with just one bite.

‘No matter what, it still doesn’t rot?’

The reason was found in pottery.

The porcelain itself was a precious artifact with a preservation magic attached to it.

It looked like it was a C-class.

“Is this the real training room?”

Leon realized.

This is the place where ancient wizards trained.

‘Even if you just use teleportation with this, you can’t compensate for the damage from the Demon Sword… right?’

But it was too heartbreaking to really give up.

As Leon was pounding the abacus in his head, another thought crossed his mind.

‘If I train here and become a secret master, wouldn’t I be able to deal with the golems outside?’

Of course, it was likely that not all the golems were outside.

If the ancient wizard was a transcendent level rather than a mystical one as Leon had expected, then there wouldn’t be only golems of this level.

But there was no harm in trying and escaping once.

“I can’t stand this.”

Leon was already thirsty for training.

My heart raced when I saw the piled up high-level essence.

How long will it take if I upload it as fast as possible?

Leon took his time.

Even if you practice 20 hours a day and sleep only 4 hours, it takes a long time.

Even if I practiced for a total of 30 hours, including 10 hours of meditation, and then slept for only 4 hours and woke up to repeat the practice, it was the same.

If you leave too late, the chances of the wooden sword remaining in place are low.

Besides that, I couldn’t stay here for long, thinking about the people who would be in trouble if I were to assume they were dead.

Leon thought of a way to quickly level up.

If we look at the elixir alone, you would need to consume over 50 E-class essences to reach rank 5.

During this time, Leon was unable to obtain high-grade essences in sufficient quantities due to the probability system.

If you keep gathering while looking at the next realm, when you reach that realm, you will have collected about 20 to 30 essences.

So the total I’ve collected so far is 20 E-class and 5 D-class.

Based on my experience while consuming essences, 7~8 F-class essences have a similar effect to 1 E-class essence.

If we assume that 7 E-class Essences have the same effect as 1 D-class Essence… … .

If you drink all the elixirs you have left, it will be equivalent to drinking 55 of them in total, which is enough to reach level 5.

However, this consumed all the elixir Leon had received as a reward.

The problem was that I had done nothing to prepare for the next stage.

‘If it were like that, it would be like that… … .’

Leon looked at the vials on the shelf.

17 C-class integers.

49 effects with just one bite.

This means that you can reach level 5 in one go.

Of course, this is a simple calculation, and enlightenment was needed to advance to a higher level.

That was the problem.

A side effect that occurs when you raise your level too quickly.

Simply raising the level in one go with an integer would require a tremendous amount of time to reach enlightenment, unlike gradually raising the level by training Arpina 4-star magic.

There was also a problem with the core.

Why don’t people of low level eat high level essences without permission?

Of course, this is because the core cannot withstand it.

It was too greedy to hope that one could absorb all the high-grade essences one could eat, no matter what level they were at.

‘Am I being greedy too?’

I couldn’t be sure that Leon, who had a full-time body, wouldn’t have any side effects.

‘I’m not sure, but… … why do I think it might work?’

Leon, who had made up his mind, first put all 20 E-class essences and 5 D-class essences into his mouth.

The temperature begins to rise rapidly throughout the body.

The heat built up, built up, and built up until it became as hot as lava.

Leon struggled to control his burning core, which was hotter than he had expected.

The core thumped and thrashed as if it was struggling to break free from its shell, causing Leon pain.

A burning sensation and pain pounded Leon repeatedly.

I don’t know how much time has passed.

The stone slab was covered with traces of Leon’s sweat, both wet and dried.

Normally, if you take an elixir and practice for 10 hours, you will naturally digest one elixir, but Leon was trying to force himself to digest 25 at once.

Leon groaned and focused all his energy on stabilizing his core, and when he came to his senses, he found himself in the latter half of the 4th level.

“Haa… … .”

A clear, refreshing feeling that one feels when completely digesting the elixir swept through Leon’s body.

The heat was completely washed away.

‘You look hungry… It’s been about 3 days.’

Leon fell asleep on the spot without even thinking about solving his hunger.

And when Leon opened his eyes again, he ate some fruit and fell into thought.

Now, to break through the barrier, enlightenment was needed.

There are currently 163 hours of jewel time remaining.

It took another hour to put the golem’s remains in.

‘It is difficult to attain enlightenment in this amount of time alone… … .’

Leon spent 640 hours just to reach level 4.

It was woefully inadequate.

Leon hesitated for a moment, then closed his eyes tightly and poured three C-class essences into his mouth at once.