episode_0060
by fnovelpia“This is the Eclipse Research Department.”
Just after leaving Astra’s office.
I left Lir in Gayeon’s care for a while,
I went to bring traitor 1 to the research lab.
“Oh.. At this level, it’s almost similar to Z-Bio’s main project research lab, right?”
Traitor 1 looks on in amazement at the size of the research department.
“Then, please, Doctor.”
“You are a valuable talent brought to us by Maker, so we will treat you with respect.”
“Don’t treat it preciously, but use it diligently.”
“Me, Maker..?”
What. When you said you’d come in, you said you’d work yourself to death, right?
“Then.”
Taaak!
◦Take %◦.”
“Hi!!”
“Woohoohahahaha!!!”
“Huh, huh..?”
As the doctor flicked his hand and gave an order, researchers appeared from somewhere and grabbed Traitor 1’s arms.
“You’re my junior, you’re my junior!!”
“Welcome to hell!!!!”
“Keeek!!!!!!!!”
“Kiyooo …
“Research is awesome!!!”
Researchers with dark circles under their eyes and squinted eyes, as if they have lost their appetite.
Traitor 1, who felt creepy about him, looked at me urgently.
“Goodbye~”
With a smile and a wave, Traitor 1 was dragged away by the researchers.
‘Go well, really.’
They will probably be busy for a while with the handover and other things.
At the same time, he’s also entrusted with Lir’s health check-up, so his life may continue to be so busy that it’d be better to just die.
Anyway, the important thing is that I don’t have to see that guy’s face anymore.
“..Maker?”
“Oh, sorry. How far did we go?”
As I was smiling cheerfully, the doctor looked at me questioningly.
I quickly came to my senses and asked the doctor.
“..About the analysis of the item you entrusted to me last time.”
“If it’s something you left behind?”
“’Unidentified tree branch’.”
Mysterious traces, unidentified tree branches.
You will become a branch of the world tree.
After looting the goods at the last Idu-geop party and auction,
Astra and I immediately consulted and left it to the doctor for analysis.
“How much progress have you made?”
“In numerical terms, it is about 30 percent.”
It certainly seems to be a trace of mystery.
Even though it’s been about two months since then, the progress is at this level.
Considering that the last time I had the whip analyzed, it took less than a week, the difference now is quite significant.
I was wondering if he was just slacking off…
Kuuung!!
“Please kill me, a loser who couldn’t repay the trust of Maker.”
Kwung! Boom!
Looking at that, I don’t think that’s the case.
“..Wake up.”
I looked at the doctor, who was bowing to the floor and burying his head in it, and said in a tired tone.
Kuung!
“That can’t be!”
Despite my words, the doctor shook his head again, hitting it hard.
bang!!
“Please kill me, I’m so useless..!!”
“Get up. This is an order.”
“Yes.”
At the word ‘order’, the doctor raised his head with blood dripping down his face.
Are these researchers all like that, and there’s no such thing as normal?
“Sigh..”
A sigh escaped my lips.
“I take it for granted that analysis takes a long time. Isn’t that a sign of mystery?”
There have been many people who have tried to analyze the traces of mystery over the years.
As a result, the majority achieved some degree of progress.
‘The problem is that after making some progress, they accidentally ruin the traces of mystery.’
Because of that, the already rare traces of mystery became even more precious.
As we struggle to minimize the damage to the traces as much as possible, the research period naturally becomes longer.
“Did you damage any traces of mystery during your research?”
“That’s not it.”
The doctor looked at me with a stern expression, as if he would rather bite his tongue and turn around.
“That’s fine. Rather, I’d like to praise you for getting 30 percent done without any damage.”
If it were other researchers, they would not have been able to achieve the speed of the doctor while maintaining the traces of mystery intact.
‘And from the beginning, analyzing the branches of the World Tree was purely my greed.’
More precisely, just in case.
Anyway, as long as it wasn’t destroyed, it would have been fine.
“So, get up, Doctor. I want to go check out the mysterious traces.”
“..Okay, Maker.”
At my words, the doctor suddenly stood up with a strangely moved expression.
***
Woohoo-
The pure and clear energy felt the more you go towards the branches.
“This is the analysis room where the mysterious traces are analyzed.”
As I opened the door and went in, I saw a tree branch surrounded by tempered glass, standing alone and proudly.
“It is a clear energy that makes you feel noble every time you see it.”
“Noble, that certainly seems to be the case.”
“Yes, it’s just a trace now, but if it was a real mystery, how much more magnificent would it have been?”
The traces of mystery are what remains of a mystery that existed in the past.
Strictly speaking, the traces of mystery were something like the weakened power of mystery.
Of course, the main body, Shinbi, has even greater power than this.
“If the mystery still exists, I would like to see it at least once.”
A doctor looking at a tree branch radiating energy, burning with academic passion.
Looking at that doctor, I smiled and turned my head away.
“I would like to see the research materials, where is it?”
“Please wait a moment.”
Whirik-
The doctor rolled his eyes at my question for a moment.
“Oh, ugh.. Did you call me, hyung..?”
His secondary personality, Sad, emerged, shivering.
“Yes, Mr. Sad. I called you because I wanted to see the materials on the mysterious traces.”
“Please wait a moment…”
Sad approached a nearby drawer with tears streaming down his face.
Ti-tititti tiring-! Titititti!!
He quickly entered a password of several dozen characters, opened a drawer, and took out a bundle of papers.
“Ugh…I printed it out in advance…huh…”
“Thank you, Mr. Sad.”
“Oh my..Thank you for the kind words..!!”
What else had triggered his tear ducts? Sad was crying again.
It was a bit jarring to see the doctor, who had been showing a nearly expressionless face until just a moment ago, sulking like that.
But soon I decided to let it be, so I ignored him and started reading the article.
“..I think I know what you’re thinking, hyung.”
Shit…shit.
“Ah, maybe if I were to guess, you want to use your brother’s powers to replicate the mysterious traces..”
Swish, swish…
“Definitely..I’m impressed by that idea…T,then it’ll be easier to prepare for the situation…”
A sack..
“I’ll work as hard as you expect…! Of course, the analysis isn’t completely finished yet, so it might be dangerous to try to clone it now, but I’ll work hard so that you can perfectly clone Shinbi!”
Bam.
“Okay, let’s give it a try?”
“…Huh?”
I put down my research materials and started to relax my hands.
“…What did you hear me say!!”
“Huh? What did you say?”
I was so focused on the material that I couldn’t hear anything else.
Sad looks a little hurt, with a genuinely embarrassed expression on his face.
“..Uh, anyway, it’s dangerous..! If you doubt what I’m saying, call the other hyungs and discuss opinions together…”
“Hmm.”
Let me take a moment to recall the contents of the research materials.
‘hmm..’
What, do I have to die?
Wooow-!!
I activated this ability.
“Ahhh!!! You crazy human!! You crazy brother!!”
Sad, who was shedding tears and grabbing my shoulder, shook it loudly.
It was quite noisy to hear him talking so loudly next to me, but as he gradually began to focus on his creation, his voice began to fade away.
‘You shouldn’t just think about memorizing information.’
Woohoo-!!
‘It’s necessary to make it like this too.’
Even with limited information, there was certainly an understanding gained through the process of making it myself.
The difference between knowing something in your head and feeling it with your five senses by making it yourself.
My ability is a tricky one, as the effectiveness of the ability increases the more you understand what you are trying to create and the more knowledge you have of it.
‘However, memorizing only knowledge is not very efficient.’
If it is impossible to reproduce it perfectly, try to reproduce it by feeling with your hands to the parts you know.
To put it simply, it only creates the part that you have read.
It may seem like a simple and basic method, but it was the most efficient method.
Wooow-!!!
If I had a passive ability like the trainer’s knowledge sharing, I wouldn’t have to go through all this trouble…
‘There’s no such thing, so what can I do but hit it with my body?’
There is no need to feel aggrieved, as we have always expanded the scope of our ability to create in this way up to now.
Woof-!
It doesn’t matter since I’ve failed many times.
If you just try it, you’ll end up losing a lot of mana.
So, it’s okay if you fail a few times…
…
Woohoo-!
Woof-!!
Woohooo-!!
‘But why doesn’t this stop..?’
Mana was draining like crazy, more than I thought.
It has so much mana that it can be said to be S-class.
‘This is fucked up..’
It was only then that I realized something was wrong, and at that moment, I was about to cut off the supply of mana.
Before that, I ran out of mana.
“Phew..!”
Boom. Boom..
I lost consciousness, with red blood flowing out of my mouth.
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