episode_0340

Most people employ others in some form of employment.

It is a peaceful and rational way. You can find common ground and work satisfactorily.

It’s also a hassle.

We need to find common ground, and if we can’t find it, we’ll split up.

Even if you find a compromise, you can’t use it excessively. You have to take into account various circumstances and conveniences from the perspective of the person being used.

From a peaceful point of view, that’s natural.

-Um… No need to bother talking indirectly.

But in history, less peaceful methods often appear.

-If you don’t want to die, follow me.

Slavery is a convenient method.

There is no need to find common ground or to accommodate circumstances or convenience.

You can just take it and use it, use it appropriately, and then throw it away when you no longer need it.

[You were Hong Yeonjun’s slave. So you couldn’t refuse orders?]

“To be exact, it was no different from being a slave to something that was embedded in Hong Yeonjun.”

Estado was caught like that.

One day, as I was about to go back after receiving the commission, I was stopped by Hong Yeonjun.

Of course I rebelled, but I was forced into a contract because I was afraid of losing my life.

“If you look at the back of the title, you will find an imprint. It is a type of curse that is more powerful than the slave imprint that is commonly distributed in the dark.”

[Curse? Did he put it on you himself?]

“Yes, it is a function that forces the command to be obeyed.”

Even before the Great Cataclysm, slaves were common. Now that we have the convenient tools of magic and supernatural powers, it is easier and more certain to create slaves than in the past.

[hmm…]

Beyond the wall that had become as transparent as glass, Lee Ha-yul nodded calmly after hearing the situation.

… why is it that it remains like that?

It was a very strange sight to see him floating in the air with his eyes closed.

‘Certainly, there were rumors that the special admission students were difficult…’

I knew it would be really hard. But I don’t know why it became hard.

He also showed interest, albeit with a hint of indifference, in the subject of curses.

Questions rose one after another like bubbles of air.

‘I don’t have the courage to ask.’

I swallowed my doubts with a lump in my throat.

The power of life and death is held tightly by the other side. Lee Ha-yool’s whim could cost him his life.

Rather than revealing the question here, we need to prove its usefulness.

[So, you had no choice because of the imprint? You were forced to do it?]

Lee Ha-yul nodded and asked.

At that moment, Est felt the pressure of the world watching him.

At the same time, I realized that the question was a kind of test.

“… I am not claiming innocence or wrongdoing.”

I didn’t lie. I could lie, but it seemed like Lee Ha-yool would see through it all.

“I am not an ethical person, and I value myself more than others. In the end, I did it to survive. It is still the same now. I want to live. ”

[So, are you saying that this time I will follow orders and be spared?]

“Yes.”

[What about that engraving? Is there a way to fix it?]

“… I tried, but it didn’t work.”

Est’s specialty is the bow, but he also learned magic. He tried to solve the problem hanging around his neck, but he didn’t get any clues.

[Hmm… What about these guys?]

Lee Ha-yool turned his head. On either side of Est were Spada and Yang Yi-hwa, who had been captured together.

Spada is the guy who pulls out a sword from his body, and Yang Ihwa is the guy who swings a spear.

He was dragged out of the solitary cell he was originally in for interrogation.

But there was no need to open my mouth right away, so I left the gag on.

“I don’t know the details. All I know is that one is crazy about swords, and the other is crazy about spears. As for whether there are any engravings… I came in last, so I don’t know for sure. ”

[They’re both on the back of the neck]

“Oh, I see.”

[hmm]

Lee Ha-yool nodded his head in question. He looked so young that the world seemed cute to him.

‘… It’s scary.’

But Est wasn’t completely fooled by appearances. He swallowed hard as a memory came to mind.

On the other hand, Est witnessed the true face of the murder weapon called Lee Ha-yul.

A strange circuit rising out of the body, six pure blue wings, six arms…

Countless monsters were slaughtered by even more magic.

Spada and Yang Ihwa, who had no merits other than their skills, rolled on the ground with wounds all over their bodies, and Hong Yeonjun couldn’t put up much of a fight.

… For some reason, he was defeated by a villain who looked similar to Jiha Yul, but had absurd power.

Didn’t the guy who was wrapped up in Hong Yeon-jun eventually avoid Lee Ha-yool’s seat?

I couldn’t forget the fear as I remembered the ominous weapons spread out behind that beautiful face.

“… Honey? Your tone is very, very classy. Do you always talk like that outside? ”

“Huh? Oh, no… ? I’m just talking normally… ”

“Hmm? You were talking like that? You were talking so elegantly, but you were also swearing like that… ”

[No, wait a minute…]

“What? Double swearing? Who?”

“The polarity, that’s it… ”

… The image of a young child struggling between two women and the image of a horrifying weapon of mass murder do not easily overlap.

[First things first…]

“… … ”

After a while.

Lee Ha-yool, who had shrunk in front of Rihanna’s gaze, opened the door to the solitary cell and went inside.

Rihanna let out a deep sigh and followed her in. She received a look of resentment from Lee Ha-yool. However, she shrugged and followed her in.

Lee Ha-yool, who had been floating around, warned.

[I’m going to check briefly, so don’t move]

“Yes.”

Est nodded obediently.

It had to be that way.

Era, who appears to be standing side by side with Lee Ha-yul, is glaring at Est with murderous eyes as she comes forward slightly.

On the other hand, Rihanna.

I don’t know her true identity, but judging from the dozens of high-ranking spirits that emerged after her, she is no ordinary person.

If you try to act like a dog here, your head will explode from a lightning-coated fist, and you will die from the fire of the higher spirits without leaving a single bone fragment…

-Whoooosh…!

‘What the fuck.’

So, even though the small hand wrapped in fear was coming towards me, I couldn’t dare dodge it.

***

As a result, we decided to leave the two guys, including Est, alive for now.

It doesn’t give you freedom.

As if he had confessed it with his own mouth right away, the imprint on his neck still remains.

Since he might be ordered to run wild at any moment, we decided to lock him up in the prison at the association headquarters.

And whenever I have time, I plan to go there and try to erase the imprint.

‘I can use it for practice.’

It is to remove the ‘curse’ given by the ‘Purgatory Tower Lord’.

It will be a very useful experience for me later on when I have to do Baek A-rin’s curse.

Of course, the entity that gave the curse and the curse status are different, but the experience itself is important.

By the way, the experiment I just did on Est was a failure.

It was possible to burn the curse with fear itself. However, it was impossible to do so without harming Est.

‘When I do it to Baek A-rin, it has to be safe and less painful.’

He nodded, recalling the screams of the prison being left behind.

Especially when Baek A-rin’s curse is applied, it is highly likely that I will have a hard time concentrating.

Experience and skill are important.

‘Well, how can I lift the curse? I can just put on another leash and use it…’

-Kkuuk…

That was the moment.

I exhaled heavily from the pressure pressing down on my stomach.

“Junior, aren’t you feeling overwhelmed or anything?”

[Feeling full]

[yes…]

It was Lee Ji-yeon’s hand. She came into the healing room and gently rubbed my stomach, filling it with life.

“When manipulating life, the total amount is important, but more than anything, you need to manage the continuous flow”

[…yes]

“Taesan is especially good at bringing life to the ground. At this time… it’s similar to the feeling of putting down roots.”

The use of Changhae and Taesan was discovered by the troops of the three major clans.

Naturally, Lee Ji-yeon also noticed that I was using Taesan.

As a result, whenever Lee Ji-yeon would inject life into Taesan, she would also begin to provide him with detailed education.

While listening to the soft explanation, I secretly observed Lee Ji-yeon’s expression.

“Why are you so observant?”

I got caught right away.

When I flinched in surprise, Lee Ji-yeon shrugged her shoulders and patted me on the back.

“Are you still worried?”

[… Still, it’s a lie, after all…]

“You learned it through a mentoring class and practiced it on your own? I’m fine. To be honest, even if I were you, I would have learned it like that because I was scared.”

Even though she knew why I had asked her to mentor me, Lee Ji-yeon didn’t care and put me at ease.

Instead, he held out his hand and snickered, asking why I was worried about that.

“Okay, try doing it yourself like I just showed you.”

[…yes]

He took Jiyeon Lee’s hand while observing her expression, and used the imitation Taesan to slowly suck out Jiyeon Lee’s life force.

-Woooow…

The fresh vitality that Lee Ji-yeon possessed was sucked in without resistance.

The energy filled my insides and I felt full and bloated.

-Ugh…

Immediately after, a small trim appeared, and the body became languid.

Lee Ji-yeon hugged me with a familiar gesture and patted my back.

I couldn’t understand why sucking life energy would cause trimming.

But now, because I wanted to feel this comfortable feeling, I quietly surrendered my body to Lee Ji-yeon’s hands.

Now that I’m used to it, I feel comfortable instead of embarrassed.

“Hmm… ”

As I lay there comfortably for a while, I felt eyes staring down at me in her arms.

When I raised my face, wondering what was wrong, Jiyeon, who seemed to be worried about something, gently grabbed my cheek.

“As expected, junior, it would be better to go back to the cradle first… to the mansion.”

[yes?]

suddenly?

***

A space filled with only red rocks and flames.

The Lord of Purgatory, who was leaning on the throne in the middle of it, waved his hand.

‘I almost lost the bowl I had just saved.’

In a normal dimension, you can enter the real world without any restrictions, but in a dimension with strong resistance, you must first go around it through a vessel.

I could have waited for the two who were going to invade first to put up resistance, but I didn’t really want to do that.

If I had lost here, my invasion would have been delayed and I would have just wasted time.

‘It won’t be a big problem, but it won’t be fun if you’re late alone.’

fun.

The Tower of Purgatory burst into laughter at those words.

In the meaningless time with nothing to do, I thought of the fragments floating in my mind.

‘A trick performed by the two-dimensional tower lords… Perhaps a prediction of the future that included the world.’

Although it is included in the Tower of Purgatory’s main text, it feels foreign, but most of the memories are not recognized. It is trivial data that cannot be interpreted.

The lords of this world must have known him and acted accordingly.

But what if they didn’t expect it?

There will be a fake that will come into being, facing the realized tower of purgatory, and inflict a shock so strong that it will reach the main body.

“flaw”

Among the fragments that could not be interpreted, the tower of purgatory that brought back a particularly vivid memory raised its tail.

He was never broken.

All kinds of attacks and oppression could not break him, and in the end, even the flames of purgatory broke through him head-on and struck him with their fists.

The sky collapsed at the fist filled with resentment.

There were few who could take his authority. Neither the snake’s toys nor the ice’s tricks could withstand it. So no one tried to confront him head on.

The Tower of Purgatory fought head-on. Swords and fists, fights and skins, life and death were exchanged.

It was a fun, scary, and thrilling match.

If he had fought until the end without any interference from those around him, he would not have been able to guarantee victory.

That’s why I’m curious.

‘I want to fight him again.’

I want to fight with my true self, not with a false embodiment. This time, I really want to decide the winner.

So I tried to implement it using dishes and tools, but unfortunately it didn’t work out.

‘Even if it was implemented, it wouldn’t have been in perfect condition…’

It can’t be helped that he feels regretful. The Lord of the Tower of Purgatory leaned his body against the throne, clicking his tongue slightly, but there was a smile on his lips.

I wasn’t completely disappointed. I felt regretful, but my expectations were raised.

‘Lee Ha-yul.’

The enemy chosen by the two-dimensional tower owners.

The real one, not the fake 11th one who competed with the Tower of Purgatory.

And, while restraining the past vessel, I accidentally encountered a small fairy in another world.

How could one not look forward to it?

Even now, the incredible skill that Lee Ha-yool displayed remains vivid in my mind.

It’s still like this now.

What will happen as time goes by?

The Tower of Purgatory’s owner, who had been glancing at his clenched fists, tilted his head back.

The purgatory that was swaying in the sky grew stronger. The anticipation naturally made the flames boil.

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.

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Meanwhile, at that time.

Lee Ha-yul’s mansion in the central area of Shiyoram.

“Dad, this is really too much… ”

-Whoosh…

[Ugh]

[Mia, Mia…]

Lee Ha-yool, who was called a murder weapon by some, cried as Lee Seo-yool grabbed his cheek and pulled it.

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