episode_0104

Of course, it’s not like Do Yu-jin hasn’t encountered the heroine even once in his travels so far.

Even if we assume that Han Si-yeon is the main character and move on, Rias is one of the true heroines of [Circle Academy].

‘But things are a bit different now.’

Strictly speaking, the person who had a conversation with Han Si-yeon and Rias was not a new student of the circle named Do Yu-jin, but an unidentified person named Yoo Ryeong.

‘But this time, I met you without a mask and with my bare face… ‘

Sigh-

Do Yu-jin let out a light sigh and sorted out her complicated thoughts.

‘Let’s think about this later.’

After pushing the anxiety in her heart to one side, Do Yu-jin focused her energy and began the full-scale pharmaceutical manufacturing work.

“But can you really get rid of the nine-syllable pulse with a potion made with alchemy?”

“Yes.”

Do Yu-jin spoke in a flat tone.

Well, that was an undeniable fact.

‘Well, it’s absolutely impossible for me to make something that great at my current level.’

It wasn’t even just a matter of lacking skill.

There was a severe shortage of things like materials and facilities.

However, the reason Do Yu-jin was so confident was because there was a way to save him other than making the medicine.

That’s right… …

‘I’m just going to hit it with my body like I always do.’

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After quickly finishing making the necessary medicine, I was driving stakes that would serve as pillars for the barrier on the outskirts of the annex a little way from the village.

“Over there, over there!”

Suddenly, a voice full of urgency reached Do Yu-jin’s ears.

When he turned his head in the direction where the sound came from, he saw Shigure standing there with a very anxious look on his face.

She kept moving her lips as if she had something to say, then soon blurted out a short sentence in an extremely cautious voice.

“… … Please take good care of me.”

Sigh-

Looking at that sight, Do Yu-jin let out a sigh without realizing it.

‘Why do I keep thinking about that time whenever I see him like this?’

To be honest, Do Yu-jin didn’t like her very much.

Just because she’s one of the candidates for the heroine?

Of course, there was a reason for that.

But the bigger reason was that if she hadn’t shown herself crying for no reason in the first place, and if she hadn’t seen her past in that way, this annoying situation wouldn’t have arisen in the first place.

A simple feeling of resentment towards the person who made you do something annoying.

“Huh? That, that’s what it is… … ”

As Shigure fidgeted with the light sigh that escaped him because of that, Doyujin opened her mouth lightly.

He would have liked to tease Shigure a little, but there was only one thing he could say to her right now.

“Don’t worry. Your family will never die.”

“Uh, yeah… … ”

Do Yu-jin nodded absentmindedly and confirmed that Shigure was gradually calming down, then went inside the annex.

“Are you here?”

There, lying, was the leader, who had become considerably haggard in the meantime, his eyes sparkling with excitement that did not match his face.

“Okay, so what should I do now?”

“Nothing.”

After saying that, Do Yu-jin handed over white medicine and black medicine.

“Just take the white pill first and then the black pill. By the way, the white pill is a strong sleeping pill, so take the black pill as quickly as possible.”

“Hmm, so what you were making earlier was a sleeping pill? If that’s the case, we could have used the one we have in our village… … ”

“How can you use sleeping pills for work when you don’t even know what their proper effects are?”

Knock knock-

“That sleeping pill, is it really working?”

“Poohahahaha! Of course it won’t work! Most of the poisons made in our village won’t work on me!”

The leader said that, smiled, and then accepted the medicine.

“Oh, well, I thought this would happen based on your personality, but it’s too bad. I really wanted to see what your secret to curing me was.”

The leader said that it was regrettable, but he quickly put two pills into his mouth.

Then, not long after, the leader fell asleep.

Click-

Do Yu-jin, who confirmed him, quickly exchanged his characteristics.

[Welcome to my castle (5★)].

As the trait changes, a barrier is created like a curtain, obscuring the warehouse.

In an isolated space where no one could know what was happening inside, Do Yu-jin quietly began working.

Phew-! Phew-! Phew-!

Shadows condensed in the form of threads were successively placed on important acupuncture points.

‘It’s just as I thought.’

Through the shadow, Do Yu-jin felt the magical power inside him moving wildly like a storm, destroying the inside of his body.

This was because of the black medicine made by Do Yu-jin.

An elixir that contains a large amount of dark attribute magic mixed with the resentment of monsters, made by grinding down the cores of numerous monsters.

It collided with the cursed energy within the leader and acted as a kind of detonator.

‘good.’

Even though the leader was turning into a corpse in real time, Do Yu-jin was satisfied.

Because the guys who had originally been secretly hiding all over the body were now out in the open and running wild without leaving a single one behind.

‘In other words, all we have to do is deal with the guys who are running wild right now and it’s over.’

Click-

Do Yu-jin manipulated the shadow while changing the trait.

The ends of the shadow threads that had been stuck in the nine blood vessels began to unravel into smaller pieces, mixing with the magical power that had spread throughout me.

‘It’s important from here on out.’

Do Yu-jin, who had raised her concentration to the max, sucked in all the integrated energy existing in the blood vessel as [One Standing at the Edge of Darkness (9★)].

And the energy absorbed in this way was accepted by the strengthened body as [To You, Connected to the Origin of the Beginning (10★)].

The guys who were excited and running wild and realized the situation too late resisted and tried to challenge them to a tug-of-war, but it was no use.

Although the amount of magical power that Do Yu-jin possessed was overwhelmingly less than the amount of magical power that made up the nine-syllable system.

Kwak-

Since the guy was stepping into the darkness, the winner had to be Do Yu-jin.

Gulp-

Every time the shadow threads devoured the energy inside the leader like a snake, black, dead blood flowed out of his nose.

‘I’m a little sorry.’

The method Do Yu-jin is using now is the only way to save the leader.

But at the same time, this method also allowed Do Yu-jin to use his body as a kind of filter, absorbing the magical power within his body without any side effects.

‘… … Well, it’s good, it’s good.’

Do Yu-jin, who had stopped thinking useless thoughts, focused on absorbing magic power again.

The task of simultaneously and minutely manipulating numerous shadows that are so small they are invisible to the eye.

Naturally, this was Do Yu-jin’s first time doing this kind of work.

‘A little more, a little more neatly… … ‘

His talent, which was beyond common sense, handled the work neatly as if it were no problem.

“Hoo… … ”

Do Yu-jin, who had sucked out all the energy inside the leader through such a long period of work, let out a light breath filled with fatigue and satisfaction.

At that moment.

Paaaak-!

“Kkaaaak!!!”

Do Yu-jin, who felt extreme pain, screamed and got up from her seat.

“What, what?! I put up a pillar outside the warehouse, so even if I changed the trait, the barrier wouldn’t disappear, right?”

Do Yu-jin was so surprised that she lowered her gaze with her eyes wide open and was speechless.

The summoned beast that would have been summoned as soon as you arrived here, a crow that flew a total of 449.4km from Tokyo to Kyoto.

Kaaaak-

Because Yuna was looking at Do Yujin while crying the most sorrowful sound in the world.

‘It passed through the barrier because it was my summoned creature.’

A sudden realization struck Do Yu-jin’s head, but that wasn’t important right now.

“Excuse me, Yuna? I was going to call you right away, but all of a sudden, a series of events happened and I lost my mind… … Ugh!”

Do Yu-jin tried to explain the situation with an apologetic heart, but stopped talking and quickly sat down.

[You have successfully absorbed the energy of the Darkness.]

[I saved a village that was on the verge of destruction.]

[You earn 82,430 EXP.]

[Absorbed a large amount of dark attribute magic power.]

[Magic power ability increases significantly.]

At the same time, a message announcing success appeared before Do Yu-jin’s eyes.

It was good news that his most important ability, magic power, had increased significantly, but unfortunately, Do Yu-jin was unable to see the news.

Ugh-

Because the large amount of impurities that existed within the absorbed magic power began to run wild.

‘It’s more violent than I thought.’

The curse in the leader’s bloodline clearly contained something that could be called a self, and the elixir made by Do Yu-jin contained something that could be called the resentment of a monster.

And those two thoughts had now been transferred from the leader’s body to Do Yu-jin’s body.

‘We have to quickly subdue these guys before they run wild any more… … ‘

The moment Do Yu-jin was about to use his magic, an unexpected message appeared in front of him.

[Summoner ‘Doyuna’ senses small fragments of dreams within your magic.]

[Summoner ‘Doyuna’ uses a large amount of magic power and countless wills to restart her delayed awakening.]

“Huh?”

Do Yu-jin, flustered by the sudden system message, reflexively looked at where Yu-na was.

“What is it?”

There, instead of the glossy plumage of a crow, Doyuna, a black egg was floating there.