episode_0023

As Leon retrieved the wooden sword, blood gushed out from the center of the man’s pierced chest.

Leon looked at the recovered wooden sword for a moment.

‘Is it because the other person let their guard down…?’

Or is it simply because the magic sword is strong?

Because of the ability to interrupt drinking?

Or is it the influence of magic that pours out magical power?

A number of possibilities came to mind.

However, Leon’s magical power wasn’t that great yet, so I didn’t think it was simply because Leon’s magical power was strong.

Leon wiped away the cold sweat flowing from the tension and carefully searched the surroundings with his exploration magic before entering the jewel carrying the man’s corpse.

Kito wasn’t around.

After confirming that she could fly normally, I had her explore the vast space within this orb.

Leon took the silver disc and went back outside.

Leon quickly wiped away the blood-soaked floor with water magic.

‘The fine floor and the wall the man hit when he was first attacked were… … .’

Leon finally summoned the 4-star magic spell Alpina, the Earth Summoner, which had been memorized.

“EOSweet.”

A round, brown, sleek-looking head rose from the ground.

The earth magic that could be linked with Eosweet was a magic that instantly destroyed the ground or a magic that gathered rocks and threw them, but Leon used this appropriately to fill in the fine floor and walls.

‘It’s not possible to make it completely natural, but… … .’

I decided to settle for confusing the odds in making an informed decision.

There was a loud noise so I didn’t know when the wizard would appear.

Leon quickly left the place after using the magic trace remover.

Leon, who eventually returned without even thinking about selling the items he had, was experimenting with the power of the ‘Sword that Scattered Moonlight’ inside the jewel.

Leon poured all his magical power into the wooden sword floating in the air.

“Pierce.”

The wooden sword flashed and flew towards a thick tree far away from Leon in the blink of an eye, piercing through it.

The wooden sword did not stop there, but continued flying at a speed that did not slow down at all.

Kwajik- Kwajik- Kwajik-

Several trees fall one after another.

The wooden sword flew to a place where Leon had difficulty recovering it with basic psychokinesis and disappeared.

“Ugh… …gasp… ….”

I gasped for breath and wiped away the sweat as my magical power was suddenly emptied.

‘It’s true that the more magic power you pour into it, the stronger you become.’

It’s true that Leon has a hard time handling it, but that’s because he’s poured all his magic into it.

‘Magic becomes stronger with just the amount of magical power… … .’

In the current situation where magical power is low, a method to strengthen magic with magical power has been created.

Leon, who was confident in his magical power, welcomed this.

Leon sat cross-legged and took a deep breath.

As clear mana circulated through Leon’s body, his mind became somewhat calmer.

The mana in the jewel always made Leon feel good.

After becoming a full-time adult, that feeling grew stronger as my affinity for mana grew.

There was no denying that this was the driving force behind my consistent training.

Leon, who had caught his breath to some extent, retrieved the wooden sword himself and put it in his subspace pocket.

‘Is it time to take a look now… … .’

Leon approached the man’s body.

There were two subspace pockets that emerged from his arms.

One is a pouch containing only mana stones.

Just looking at it roughly, there were over 1000 mana stones.

Leon put the mana stone pouches aside and emptied the contents of the other subspace pouches onto the floor.

The first thing that caught my eye was a black magic book.

The title is ‘The Mark of the Void of the Acripa Lineage.’

Leon took out a book titled ‘Call of the Abyss’ from the makeshift magic book cabinet he had made.

It was a black magic book obtained by killing Porn.

The Void Mark was a high-level spell that could be used by arcane magicians, but it didn’t seem to have any particular connection to the Call of the Abyss.

Call of the Abyss is one of the lowest-ranking spells that an apprentice wizard can learn.

‘On the other hand, the mark of emptiness is… … .’

Leon frowned sharply at some point.

‘These guys are really crazy… … .’

The Void Mark was basically a spell that could only be used if the wizard had a core.

I’m not talking about your own core, but another wizard’s core.

Since the core is not a physical entity, it was natural for it to disappear when the wizard died.

What Leon found unpleasant was the black mucus that was forcibly pulled out and clumped together.

A wizard is a being who can influence reality through will alone.

The slime made by mixing the wizard’s core gave off an ominous aura, as if it contained a vengeful spirit.

In addition, there is an artifact that can hold the core and temporarily store it… … .

Leon picked up the purple crystal that was lying next to the spellbook. It was small enough that he could hold the ends between his index finger and thumb.

On the purple surface of the crystal, seven gray stripes were writhing as if alive.

The wizard’s core is placed in this crystal, and the core is combined using the magic of the Void Mark.

The more cores you can combine, the more powerful the slime you can summon.

‘What an unpleasant magic.’

Leon put down the book and crystal and picked up the token.

A token similar to the one Leon had, but with a more elaborate design.

When examined with emotional magic, it was found to be an artifact capable of forming a D-class defensive barrier.

Since the porn he had was E-class, it went up in rank.

D-class is a class that can be used for beginner level magic.

There was no evidence of token usage yet, so it seemed like it could be used 5 times.

‘I guess I was right to let my guard down… … .’

The fact that he had this artifact but did not use it means that he thought he could block the wooden sword with magic alone.

‘Well, if I saw a normal wooden sword flying at me, I would laugh and try to block it.’

The magic sword has a deceptive ability to confuse the wizard’s ability to manifest magic, but it has a weak point in the artifact that only requires magic power to be infused.

Leon looked at the token in front of him for a moment, lost in thought.

Clearly, the man seemed to have noticed something when he saw Leon’s token that had fallen to the ground.

‘Is this some sort of token that allows black magicians of the same affiliation to recognize each other?’

I felt bad about writing that it was good because it was a D-class.

It was unclear whether the man had tracked Leon through the token’s tracking magic, or whether he had started chasing him himself because the research journals Porn had been sending him every week had not arrived.

Emotion magic couldn’t detect whether a tracking spell was cast.

‘Let’s put it in the jewel for now.’

Even if there was a tracking magic, I couldn’t possibly think that it would penetrate the space inside the jewel.

The same goes for the red orb next to the token.

It was a communication bead, and he intended to keep it in the jewel box and drop it overboard whenever he returned on the ship.

The next thing I noticed was a vial of potion containing a dark blue liquid.

When examined with emotional magic, it was found that spraying the liquid had the effect of returning damaged terrain or buildings to their original state.

‘It wasn’t for nothing that they launched a surprise attack in the middle of the magic city.’

Leon felt regretful as he thought about the place he had returned to after only roughly cleaning up.

‘Because now I can’t go back.’

Besides that, the last thing left are 5 E-grade elixirs.

I thought that since E-grade elixirs would lose their effect when reaching the secret art level, they left them without taking them when reaching the secret art level.

Leon put aside all the other items and sat down with the black magic book and purple crystal in front of him, lost in thought.

The Seal of the Void of the Akripa System.

Shadow Talent, which was simply a movement spell separate from the magic that united the wizard’s core, seemed useful, but that wasn’t the reason Leon was worried.

There was another reason why Leon felt such a sense of crisis upon seeing the secret-level black magician.

To learn black magic quickly, you need the dark attribute.

The dark attribute is considered to be the most outstanding talent, excluding all-attribute forms, along with the light attribute.

Because it was irreplaceable.

The reason was that it had to go back to the beginning, when God and the Devil were at war.

After the war of the gods ended, magic, which was called a byproduct of the gods, remained and was systematically established by ancient magicians.

That magic system led to the current magic system.

According to that system, when you learn attribute magic that matches your attribute body, your level rises quickly.

So, of course, in order to become a sorcerer at a young age, you need to have dark attributes.

But what I learned from examining the Void Mark is that there are ways for even those without talent to quickly level up.

Create a new core around the heart.

This core was different from the core that naturally forms in the cervix.

It involves sacrificing one’s own heart to create an artificial core.

‘Of course, that would require some talent as well.’

There must obviously be side effects to this method, but they aren’t written down in the magic book.

Naturally, I assumed that he had learned the secret and continued with the content.

‘There was a reason why the wizards persecuted… … .’

The term “forbidden technique” was fitting.

Leon’s gaze turned back to the purple crystal.

Seven little gray stripes that wiggle as if they were alive.

Could this be the core of the 7 apprentice wizards?

It may not be that the soul was truly trapped, but Leon had no way of using it anyway, and it was awkward to keep it as is.

Should I break this fix?

Leon thought about it for a while and then picked up the black magic book.

It seemed that the magic that was mentioned in this spellbook to unite the cores of other magicians could be modified to release them from the purple crystal instead.

‘Is that too superstitious?’

The Void Mark was a magic that could be used based on an artificial core created in the heart, but it was not applicable to Leon.

Well, Leon had a talent for the dark attribute.

There was no need to create such an artificial core.

‘This isn’t something we should do right now.’

Leon took out all the items from his original subspace pocket and spread them out.

It was to decide what to put in the subspace that could be used immediately.

To put it simply, it’s about setting priorities.

But Leon’s plan didn’t go as planned.

This is because the wooden sword started to tremble as soon as it was taken out of the subspace pocket it was originally in.

And soon the purple crystal began to vibrate, and something was sucked out of the crystal and absorbed into the wooden sword.

“Oh, no… … .”

Before Leon could take any action.