episode_0042

When I open the door to the mana room, the rich mana inside the room welcomes me.

Am I a wizard too? When I am in such a high concentration of mana, I feel like I have taken some kind of bad medicine.

I guess it could be said that I am a little excited, my back is tickling, and my mind is filled with a happy feeling.

gulp. The sound of swallowing can be heard somewhere in the mana room. She is seen lying on the hard bed in the chamber, with both hands placed on her abdomen and looking towards us.

“Can you feel the mana? Can you see the blue light filling the air? I hope you answer honestly.”

I repeated the question I asked her earlier. At those words, she gave a grunting look and then carefully expressed her opinion.

“Umm… The air feels slightly heavy. It’s not that much of a concern, though. I’m sorry I don’t have any talent… .”

“No, that alone is a big improvement. Good start.”

Is it possible that the sensitivity has improved slightly compared to the glass dome that was the first lecture on Ability Development?

It’s hard to say she’s satisfied with empty words, but she seemed to have made a desperate effort and was showing some level of improvement.

There is nothing in the mana chamber. There is only one small bed in an empty space like a gosiwon, about 3 to 4 pyeong in size. Since it is a space used for the same work as it is now, there is no need for it to be large or decorated, but it feels a bit empty.

Some of her rich, long hair was falling down from under the small bed that was the only piece of furniture.

A little shine flows from the hair. When I first saw her, her hair was rough and damaged due to lack of care, but perhaps due to continued care, the condition of her hair had improved.

She must have sensed my gaze lingering there, and she blushed and made an excuse in a low voice.

“I’m sorry. I should have always shown my good side. Before I came here, I wasn’t interested in self-care… .”

” Stop it. Let’s start now.”

He cut off her attempts to reveal his private information and focused his magic on his fingers.

A bead of light, like a fairy light bulb, born at the tip of the index finger, illuminates the dark mana room a little brighter.

“It will be quite painful. Be patient.”

“Yes, professor.”

At her words, I inserted my finger into her lower abdomen, where her dantian would be located.

“Tsk!”

At that moment, her back bounced and a clear tremor was felt on her skin. Her whole body was shaking.

“Ah… Ugh! Ahhh… ”

A strangely piercing, painful, yet desperately enduring groan filled this narrow space.

Her slender fingers strongly grip the bed sheets, and the moans she lets out blend in with the blue light that fills the mana room.

“I will hang a seal. It may be painful, but endure it.”

A rope of mana sealing was wrapped around her arm. Then the weak flow of mana felt inside her stopped.

If the flow of magic power of a typical mana awakened person is like a river, she was like a stream in a stream.

And the stream disappears, revealing its bottom as if drying up in the middle of a drought, and the owner of the stream writhes in pain.

“Ah… Ugh… .”

She forced herself to chew her lip when I told her to endure it. I felt sorry for her as she suppressed her moans as if trying to comply with my words, so I held her hand lightly.

“15 minutes. Just endure it for 15 minutes. It takes that much time for the mana hole to increase.”

Her reaction slowed to the warmth she felt from his hand, and a small smile appeared. I didn’t know what to say, so I took a moment to gather my thoughts.

Although I have saved the world by force, have I never saved an individual?

Although I fought for humanity, I never got closer to each person who was saved by me. Therefore, this situation was very unfamiliar to me.

She was looking at me quietly with eyes trembling in pain, wondering if she was the same as me or if she was waiting for me to say something.

“Imagine the future you desire. Because I believe in you.”

“Ah… .”

I didn’t know what to say, but I thought I had to comfort her, so I desperately tried to say the words that came to mind.

“There must be a secret to your ability. People say your abilities are useless, but I don’t see it that way. You are a child with the right will and the first being I have saved since coming to this world, so there is no way you are a useless person.”

Ichae is young in her eyes. I raise my trembling hand and lightly hold the brooch on my chest. The hand stroking the brooch trembles dangerously, wondering if it will break if I hold it too hard.

“At least I think so, so hold on and be patient. You have to hear the answer you want from me.”

“That… word… Written by.”

“Yes. To hear that, we have to be together. And I believe it is possible.”

“Remember… There you are… .”

“It was only a while ago, so there’s no way I could forget it. I am not a person who talks nonsense.”

At my words, her shoulders trembled slightly and her face flushed. However, the tremors were significantly less than before, as if expressing her will.

The words that when the period of struggle is over, I will give her my answer.

At the time, I simply said it to calm her down, and in fact, my intentions have not changed from then, but as if my words had reawakened her will, her trembling in pain gradually decreased.

I looked at the time and already 15 minutes had passed.

As I quickly untie the rope around her arm, the sealing sphere is dismantled and my mana filled with her Danjeon begins to dissipate.

Now she has to fill this inside with her own mana.

“Drink. It is a potion that fills the mana in your body.”

“… Ah, thank you.”

Take a mana potion from your inventory and give it to her.

She brings the dark blue potion to her mouth, filled with a bright smile of freedom and refreshment from the pain that oppressed her.

As I watch the small neck moving up and down, I feel a slightly different energy coming from her.

The mana around her is vibrating slightly. It was a very faint and small movement that you wouldn’t even notice if you weren’t concentrating, but the mana was moving.

That means she is controlling her magic power.

Looking at her lower abdomen, I could feel that a cute little finger-sized danjeon had been formed.

“… Did I do it?”

“Okay, good job. You’re doing quite well.”

Without realizing it, I was stroking her head. I don’t know if it was because of the sense of liberation and accomplishment, but I think I was extremely nervous while I was working. Before I knew it, a wide smile was forming on my face.

When I saw her smiling with tears in her eyes, as if my hand on her head felt good, I felt a little embarrassed, so I tried to spit it out coldly.

“This guy is really poor value for money. You even use precious potions to make people suffer like this.”

“Ehehe… sorry. And thank you. I always get help from the professor. ah… This is mana. I see a blue light filling the room.”

I looked at her for a moment, feeling my hand with a truly happy face, as if she knew that it was just a clumsy complaint based on shame, and then withdrew my hand.

The moment my hand fell from her head, she looked as if the world was ending, but at my silent urging, she got up from the bed and straightened out her disheveled clothes.

“Hmm.”

Now that I think about it, her magic wave is somehow different from other people’s. It felt like a transverse wave spreading out in all directions when a drop of water was dropped on the surface of the water.

I flicked my fingers slightly to create vibration on my side and tried to get closer to her.

As if hitting the edge of a teacup, the waves of mana spreading from me interfere with her waves.

“Ah… I can feel the professor’s mana. Hehe, it feels warm.”

“But, are you using this ability now?”

The fluctuation of mana around a person with an ability occurs when that person is activating a special ability. Additionally, the shape of the wave changes significantly depending on the intensity of the ability’s activation.

However, the waves coming from her were occurring continuously at regular intervals.

“Yes? ah… No, I’m not using it.”

She answers my question in a slightly nervous tone.

He turns his head towards me with a nervous look on his face, as if he is thinking about whether he made a mistake or offended the professor.

At that sight,

“… You.”

“Yes? radish… Anything happens.”

*

“Concentrate! Try it with the sense that you are extending your mana to the weapon in your hand!”

“Ugh… .”

“Hasn’t the creation of the mana rod leading to the arm been completed? But why can’t I turn the things I have in my hands into mana weapons?”

One day at the end of spring, students were gathered in the academy’s gymnasium and doing something.

Each person is holding real swords in their hands, sweating profusely, and staring intently at their weapons with glazed eyes, trying to do something.

Everyone’s faces were scruffy, and the gym clothes they were wearing were dirty and covered in dirt. This was because I fell violently on the playground under the pretext of physical training before a weapons class.

The new curriculum launched at the request of GDO was extremely sadistic. It was the same when I looked at it as I approved it.

This is because it was a schedule that pushed humans close to their limits until they were exhausted.

The first generation of Ellada students were currently having a very tightly structured military-like schedule from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m.

Saturday was not a red day in the new curriculum. The only holiday is Sunday. I also had to train until morning.

“Han Sejun! You idiot! Do not use special abilities to strengthen yourself! Now I’m training to make a mana weapon!”

“Ack! crime… Sorry.”

When I saw the red flames of his special ability, the longsword he was holding, I kicked him hard in the shin.

After cracking the joint with the toe of his shoe, he screams, drops his sword, and jumps up on one foot.

Inside the gym, the sound of something being kicked is occasionally heard. Since the new curriculum began, the instructors in the red hats have also become extremely harsh with their murderous schedules.

If I made even the slightest mistake, I would be ignored and beaten to death, or scolded so severely that I would burst into tears. It was a good idea to simply end up with a joint.

After listening to rumors among the cadets, I heard that the instructors are even saying that they are bullying the students because they feel unfair about their failure to awaken. hmm.

“The same goes for guys with ranged or auxiliary abilities! This is training and future preparation. Don’t think that just because you’re supporting the rear, you’ll never have to use mana weapons!”

There is not much time left now. There is now less than a month left until the promised half year. I had to finish everything within this month.

In particular, it took longer than expected to create a new blood map called the Mana Road.

The general repertoire of martial arts is usually to achieve enlightenment and release sword energy, but the world view of this “Kiss Siege Sense” is different.

Rather, it creates a new thick acupoint that extends to the palm of the hand and transfers magical energy directly to the weapon held in the hand.

Therefore, there is no need to reach the peak and achieve enlightenment in order to use sword energy. This is the power of medicine and science.

“The only way to block attacks from monsters is with substances containing mana. Training now will save your lives in the future. Do you understand!”

“Yes!”

“Look at the voice!”

“Yeah!”

A high-pitched sound resounds that is loud enough to explode the windows of the gym. Seeing that makes me feel happy.

Now that I think about it, these instructors are really quick-witted and good at their work. Although he is not the instructor Hartman of Fullme

Where did GDO get these talented people? He is excellent at martial arts and even treats people well.

When I looked back with a happy expression, I saw someone with short black hair whimpering while holding a spear in his hand.

A spear is a weapon that is more difficult to turn into a mana weapon than a sword. It is bulky and has low weaponization efficiency.

He held a spear with a diamond-shaped blade, which was his trump card, and scolded her in a low tone as she was crying.

“Müller, do you regret choosing Chang?”

“Yes? no… Not really… .”

Although she muttered and hesitated, her emotions were already evident on her face. Seeing that, he smiled slightly and opened his mouth in a cold voice that gave me goosebumps.

“This is the window you chose, so… .”

“Yes! yes! I will endure it with all my might!”

At the sound of my voice, she looks as if she is about to burst into tears, her expression pale and exhausted, and she screams as if she is going to vomit. Behind her, many shadows were trembling.

“Try harder. The spear requires a lot of mana to turn into a weapon and is difficult to turn into a weapon, but it has a great advantage in reach and freedom of offense and defense, so if used freely, it becomes an excellent all-weather weapon.”

Did you think there would be a big shout out? At the beginning of the semester, she was very excited, but as the new curriculum began, she seemed to be gradually becoming intimidated.

We had to comply, but we should not kill each individual’s personality, so we hurriedly moved on as if nothing had happened.

She lowered her head as the words continued as if it was no big deal, and only after a while did she raise her head as if she realized that those words were my words of comfort to her.

After gathering myself and seeing her gripping the spear bar tightly again, I smiled slightly and moved to the other side.

Looking at Jang A-hyeon, I thought she would soon succeed in turning into a mana weapon.

The shorter the weapon, the easier it is to infuse mana into it. It was a sword of appropriate length for someone with a long-distance ability.

On the day of weapon distribution, I think it was her own strategy to ask me a question and choose a short sword as soon as I got the answer. It was a great choice.

I nodded slightly as I saw her closing her eyes and concentrating on the short sword in her hand. The light from the ceiling reflected off the sweat that formed on my forehead and shone.

‘Then is that child really…? .’

From the beginning of the lecture, I felt a unique wave coming from a corner of the gym and headed there.

Toward the owner of that wavelength.