chapter 5
Episode 5. Admission preparation (1)
Episode 5
One
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Congratulations to [Lee Si-woo] on passing the 99th academy.
Please check the attached file for the admission ceremony schedule and dormitory admission procedure.
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It is a dry acceptance notice without rhetoric. I was a little nervous about what to do if I fell, but fortunately it happened.
I read the acceptance notice carefully. I didn’t know for nothing, but seeing the disadvantages hurts.
There was no content whatsoever. The entrance ceremony held several events, but freshmen only had to keep their seats, and the admission process also required only a few required documents to be prepared.
It’s not that different from college, his eyes trembled violently at the last line as he thought so.
-The cadet card and academy livery will be delivered to the <current place of residence of the resident registration copy> within 1 day from the date of notification of acceptance.
“Oh, f*ck.”
So he was on his way home in the fourth grade zone.
2
A mansion that is about to collapse.
There is no such thing as a common entrance, so the overwhelming openness that outsiders can come in and out freely comes out with applause.
It’s the first time I’ve seen a house, but I sigh and come out of my chin. I prayed earnestly that it would be stolen, but I went up the stairs.
His house was room 502. Fortunately, there was a luxurious box in front of the door that did not match the old hallway.
“Huh, no one robbed it.”
There is no sign of opening, and it is heavy, so it doesn’t look like someone opened the box. As expected, running as soon as I checked the text was the right choice.
When I opened the box, there was a cadet ID card, smart watch, and a congratulatory card for admission on top of the cadet uniform. Siwoo, who was about to return, suddenly looked back at the front door.
“Shall we go in just once?”
I’m a little curious about his life as an orphan in a 4th grade area, and I don’t know much about this body… .
When I entered the academy, I thought that there was nothing to come, so my heart was even more moved.
After a brief thought, Siwoo grabbed the doorknob.
“Let’s look around for a moment.”
I don’t have a key to the door, but it doesn’t matter.
“Suck!”
I grabbed the doorknob and pulled as hard as I could, and the doorknob came out with a crackling sound.
There was a hole the size of a fist in the middle of the iron door, and the iron door was slightly dented around the hole.
Siwoo looked alternately between the doorknob in his hand and the hole in the iron door, and smiled.
“Hey, not even a troll.”
Siu just didn’t use his energy. It means that it is the result of only pure physical strength.
A power far beyond the normal range.
It was the day after entering the rift that he noticed his own strength.
Siwoo went into the house, recalling that time.
3
“Hoo-wook! Whoop!”
Even though he swung a sword that weighed 5 kg dozens of times, his strength surged instead of feeling tired.
It seems to be true that a healthy mind comes from a healthy body. He felt a little excitement and pleasure in his first swordsmanship training.
Love love liquid-!!
Love love liquid-!!
Only the sound of the wind and dripping sweat as he swung his sword echoed in the quiet fissure.
While he was in the midst of training, he suddenly became curious.
I know very well that black wastes are removed from the body, and the body has improved with the compositional level characteristics.
So what level am I now?
In order to respond flexibly to the situation, you need to accurately grasp the subject, and you need to gauge your current strength in terms of becoming stronger in the future.
Disguising his desire to test his stronger body for one reason or another, Siu stood facing one side of the wall.
As much as spontaneous curiosity was the motive, he acted quickly.
I tightened my right arm holding the sword and swung it against the wall with all my might. I only wanted to see pure power, so I didn’t use any energy.
Love love liquid-!!
Siu’s sword that fiercely cuts through the air.
It was a bloody sound that could not be compared to the previous one.
However, I didn’t have high expectations. The wall of the rift is famous for being very hard, so there is such a thing… … .
This is because, in Desire’s worldview, the scale of strength is mostly determined by skills and characteristics, so I thought that strong strength was not comparable to the ‘superpower’ skill.
Kwaaang-!!
However, countless fragments were seen along with an unexpected roar.
How is he at the sight beyond common sense and expectations? I spat out a sound, and soon lost my sword due to the repulsive force that seemed to shatter my bones.
“Turn it off.”
Even in the pain of fainting, he felt the distance from reality.
Is this pure physical strength? how? why? Questions like that filled my head.
The fragments that had bounced up into the air flew several tens of meters before falling to the floor, and Siwoo suffered enough pain for another hour before finally coming to his senses.
“When are you going to calm down?”
Aside from his relief from the pain, the trembling in his right hand did not stop.
I checked the sword first. In place of the trembling right hand, the left hand picked up the sword scattered on the floor, to be exact, the sword hilt.
The black, shattered along with the wall of the crack.
This is absurd beyond understanding the situation.
“What the f*ck.”
Siwoo, who threw the sword that had become paralyzed, threw it to the other side and glared with his right hand.
However, his right hand trembled as if to claim ‘I am a victim’.
Siwoo sighed and looked at ‘what was the wall’.
Where did the wall go, and there was only a huge crater like a whale with its mouth wide open.
he rubbed the bridge of his nose.
is it a dream Was there an overwhelming correction effect on strength in the sub-effects of the trait?
When I checked the system, of course it wasn’t.
So, what is the cause of this unbelievable supernatural power?
His eyes naturally turned to the red rosary and the scar.
“No matter how you look at it… … .”
they are the cause
I can’t be sure. Because I haven’t checked my body properly yet.
Siwoo decided to measure his physical ability accurately. I couldn’t help thinking that maybe my left arm and both legs would use their strength.
In conclusion, only the right arm can exert supernatural strength.
Siwoo organized his condition based on the information he found through his own detailed examination.
first. Physical ability is definitely the realm of the Awoken. It can be said that it is quite high even by the standards of freshmen in the academy.
“It doesn’t seem like that from the beginning… … .”
It is clear that this is a change that occurred after Siwoo became possessed, as his body ranked at the bottom of the physical strength and magical power evaluation before the monster opponent.
And, of course, this will be the effect of the compositional characteristics.
The ecstatic thrill I felt when I first gripped the sword and the black wastes leaking out of my whole body… … It is certainly.
There is a word that refers to such a phenomenon in martial arts, which he has often seen.
“Is it true that the metamorphosis is… … ?”
Bone metamorphosis, or metamorphosis.
Breaking down the wall with sufficient internal energy and high awareness, and changing the body in a direction more suitable for learning martial arts.
The main description of the metamorphosis is that the bones are broken and rearranged, and the wastes of the body come out with terrible pain and give off a bad smell.
It is usually used as a turning point for the main character to rise to the top of the ranks… … .
“I don’t think so.”
Although there was pain in his eyes, it was tolerable, and it is true that his physical ability improved, but it was far from being a top-notch master of martial arts.
And this body lacked internal energy, or what is called energy or energy in this place.
As the black wastes were pierced through the large and small passages of the airway called Imdokyangmaek and Semaek, takgi escaped, and the five senses developed greatly, which matched the description of Muhyeopji.
It’s not a round bone metamorphosis, but it’s a half round bone metamorphosis that’s hard to say it’s not completely.
“Semi metamorphosis.”
That was the identity of the thrill and pain he experienced.
The second is the identity of the power that halved the crack wall.
Right arm strength is abnormal.
A 20m long low-level Earth Drake’s tail slam is enough to break the crack wall.
If you use skills, even humans can’t do it, but if it’s only strength, well.
It is bizarre that there is not much difference from the left arm in appearance even after showing such strength.
On the other hand, it did not have the durability to match its strength.
If you hit the ground as hard as you can, the ground will break, but your arms can’t withstand the repelling force.
If it wasn’t for his resilience to easily catch a troll by the collar, he would have been lying in the hospital at the academy high school.
The most unusual thing is that the more this power is used, the stronger it becomes.
I don’t feel much when I use a little bit of strength, but my right hand tingles whenever I use all my strength. If your arm doesn’t calm down and trembles, it may be because something is changing inside you.
Like new bundles of nerves being stretched out and bones being reassembled.
“I’m anxious.”
The current surreal power that lacks anything is a great help to him, but you can’t like it blindly.
Equivalent exchange is a truth that is commonly applied whether it is a game or reality.
What Siwoo was paying for this monstrous power, he was even more reluctant because he couldn’t think of anything.
This power, too, is a power that he did not have before he woke up.
If there was, it wouldn’t spoil the physical ability evaluation so much. Even if his other stats were sh*t, he would have overturned them all with his strength alone.
“Not even a rosary.”
At first I thought it had something to do with this unusual rosary. A red rosary with a golden cross was not common.
I took it off for a day, but there was no noticeable change.
I’m just wearing it because I’m wondering if it’s really used to cover scars… … .
While rubbing the scar on his right wrist, thinking about the cause, Siwoo soon put the rosary back in place and started looking around the house.
Either way, it’s not very pleasant.
If possible, I should minimize the use of my right arm as much as possible, I made up my mind.
4
It’s been a long time since the flashback I had on entering the house was cut off before I knew it.
Contrary to expectations, there is nothing to find out or use in the house, which is beyond empty and eerie.
A bankbook worth about 5 million won found in a drawer is the only harvest.
I searched the house like a tooth to find it, but it’s not like the house.
It seems like he became a petty thief, but Siwoo steadfastly searched through the house under the self-hypnosis of ‘this house is my house’.
Well, I searched for a long time to see if there would be anything to come out, but there was no other harvest.
Shi-woo slumped down in the chair, feeling discouraged.
After sitting like that for a while, I thought that it might be natural to call it this easy-going or poverty.
As you know, security here is a mess… , It would be the right way to live without being noticed and collecting the minimum amount.
It could have been because I was possessed by this body, but I just felt a bit pitiful.
“The Palace.”
Originally, the idea of a person named Lee Si-woo ended there.
In fact, if I were to judge it as a pitiful thing, even he who had been living well and then fell into a world of sh*t was not pushed back.
Oh, didn’t you live well?
well, anyway.
Siwoo said goodbye and decided to go back now.
It was that moment when he got up from his chair and walked towards the door.
‘… … … !!’
Instinct warns.
‘How does this feel?’
A feeling of awkwardness that I felt for the first time in my life covers my body. A sensation that was like muddy, damp mud, or like a snake slowly coiling around your neck.
This creepiness comes from the wall on the side of the bed where there is nothing.
However, a wall is just a wall. I don’t see any oddities.
it just feels There is something, or something is about to happen.
From the moment Siwoo recognized this, somehow this old house seemed to be filled with red.
‘What is this?’
Before taking even one step, Siwoo’s thinking accelerated and he tracked down the cause of this unfamiliar sensation.
Siwoo couldn’t understand why he was suspicious of this situation itself. He was just looking for some clues without even knowing what he suspected.
Dirty bed duvet.
It’s not unusual to see a house that isn’t so clean.
wide open window.
There is an iron bar, making it difficult for anyone to break in.
No wonder.
There is no doubt about it.
It’s just an ordinary, shabby house.
However, his intuition speaks. There is someone here who is not you. I’m aiming for you. Now is the time to act, not the time to think. believe in yourself
Siwoo pondered for a moment whether it was okay to trust her intuition, which whispered to her as if she had life.
His left hand is stretched out.
As if he was swaying to balance his stride. Its movement was like that of a snake, but also like that of water.
It was extremely natural, and because of that, it was secret.
His hand reached the top of the bed. And it shows up.
The air shreds like black scales, and the monster hiding in it opens its mouth wide and lunges at him.
However, Siwoo’s outstretched hand grabbed him by the neck.
He immediately recognized the creature’s true identity, and slammed it to the floor.
bang-!!
“To the height!!!!”
A form of black flame imitating a human with limbs.
The minion of gluttony, Blur.
“f*ck.”
I don’t have to worry about why the monsters that appear only in the middle and late stages are here.
Recalling the characteristics of the guy and killing it.
That was what he had to do now.
Blur is the lowest ranked entity among monsters, and those who specialize in stealth have no other abilities.
One of the few objects that can be killed with physical force without divine power.
Siwoo squeezed the guy’s neck tightly with the momentum to break it.
So killing is his job.
“Keye!!!!!”
The guy went mad, and then he desperately tried to remove his left arm.
The wounds were growing on his arm. The blood flowed from the wound and stained the arm red.
Although invisible because of the blood, Siwoo knows the wound is turning black. Because the magic element, also called the particle of magic, must have penetrated the skin.
I can’t even take my hands off it He can hide anywhere, anytime. If you hide in a special sub-space that only he can use, you don’t know where he will pop out.
He gave more strength to his arms.
like this. have to kill
“a little… ! Search for it, you bastard.”
“Keye!!”
The magical energy that gnaws away life and tough vitality are the characteristics of monsters. That’s why it only appears in the mid-to-late half when you can acquire the holy relic… … .
He felt the absurdity of why the unbalanced development was happening to him.
It’s not that this kind of fight that could go to the goal wasn’t in the plan at all, but it was definitely not in the plan for it to happen so suddenly.
“Kege… Gegegeg… !”
Fortunately, his movements were gradually slowing down. At this time, Siwoo, who wanted to, even started choking him with his right hand, which was defending his neck.
When the supernatural power that even smashed the wall of the crack was added, Blur began to burn vigorously as if squeezing out the last strength.
“Ke-keggeeg!!”
Siwoo immediately sensed his death.
And Blur showed strange behavior.
The guy tried to bite Siwoo’s wrist. For some reason, it seemed to Siwoo that he was about to break the rosary.
It could be that he is overreacting to the cornered guy losing his temper and making a fuss.
“f*ck, really.”
Blindly ignoring the monster’s ironic behavior is not the right attitude to live in this world where bamboo spears may come out at any moment.
For a monster’s attack that squeezed out its last strength, it felt like it didn’t match.
Siwoo immediately removed his right arm.
As the right arm that had been strangling his neck fell off, Blur, who seemed about to die soon, felt his strength recover again.
However, that did not overturn the tilting plate, and Siwoo did not intend to lose the momentum once he got on.
He, who was in a mounting position, slowly raises his body. As if driving a nail in, I firmly pressed the guy’s body with my right foot.
Gradually raise your energy and concentrate it on your left arm. Fingernails dig into his fiery skin.
No need to dig further. That’s enough.
Then, slowly lift your left arm up.
Crisp-
Was it because he had a hunch about what was about to happen, or was it because of pain? Blur began to struggle.
“Kieack!!!”
“Damn it, stay still.”
Eventually, the moment when the entire arm was densely filled with energy.
“Huh!”
with the sound of flesh breaking
Chiiyiyiik-!
Aww-!!
His neck was broken to the bone. Blur’s blood splattered around the room in a circle, following the path of the drawn neck.
Siwoo, who was kicking his butt backwards with recoil, spit out a short comment after seeing the scene.
“Uh, come on.”
Concentrating only on his arms, his legs almost slipped, which served as support, but he endured it anyway.
Purple bodily fluid flowed down his hand.
Siwoo, who was exhausted, caught his breath for a moment.
The house is a mess itself.
I barely survived, but my head was already hurting from the post-processing problem.
“… … ”
I came into the house just out of a little curiosity about this body… … , How did this happen?
Shiu sighed heavily as he stared blankly into the void.
There were monster corpses on the floor, so I couldn’t help it.
Wouldn’t it have been much easier if there was a sword… … , it was he who muttered. The more he thought that it was he who smashed the sword, the more he felt a sense of shame.
He groaned and went to the bathroom.
I need to take a look at the wounds first.
The magical energy of monsters interferes with the healing effect and depending on the type, a ‘curse’ dwells, so it is useless to force healing with only the healing power.
It is said that even if the regenerative ability of the grotesque right arm managed to recover itself, there could be a problem.
Only divine power can remove magic power. Siu wished there was a church or shrine nearby, but immediately shook his head.
What’s in the 4th grade zone… … .
Shaaa-
I put my arm hesitantly in the water in the sink.
“Oh, it’s so hot. really.”
It hurts more now than when we fought. I heard that in extreme situations, thanks to hormones, it hurts less than expected, but I never thought that would be true.
“Was it endorphin?”
It must have been adrenaline, he muttered and washed his forearm, revealing dozens of cuts. The wound turned black, and a black scar remained where it had healed.
“It’s f*cking hideous.”
It was fortunate that I didn’t feel lethargic, shivering, or cursed at all.
It makes me angry that I met a monster that only appeared in the middle and late stages out of the blue, but if it was even cursed… … Only sigh came out.
I came out of the bathroom, wiping my arms roughly with the towel hanging on the wall.
I saw a fallen monster dripping blood.
It really pisses me off just looking at it, and I don’t know why it popped up all of a sudden.
Still, he caught the monster.
Then, of course, it’s your turn to claim the reward.
3
Siwoo, who came out of the bathroom, kicked Blur’s corpse and sat down in front of the randomly placed head.
With the kitchen knife I brought from the kitchen, I carefully cut out his yellow eyes.
“When you go, even if you go, you have to take care of things.”
The monster has jade. It comes in yellow, green, blue, purple, red, black, and white colors, and is possessed by rare and strong monsters.
Jade is embedded in the body and serves as an energy source, or in the case of Blur, it is used as an organ.
Even topaz alone is treated as a precious commodity at this point, so if it is put up for auction, it will become a big money.
Enchanters with a lot of money who are obsessed with artifact production will be waiting for a sale with their eyes wide open.
His hands were tingling from the magical energy and his right arm was still shaking as if convulsing, but he managed to pull out the topaz.
Blur’s corpse was dusted and scattered.
It was then.
[Incredible achievement! Catch the monster Blur.]
[<Title> Monster Hunter will be unlocked.]
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<Title> Monster Hunter
-All creatures imbued with magical energy have an instinctive sense of rejection and fear.
Novice Monster Hunter: ‘Intimidation’ is always activated. When using monsters, ‘Intimidation’ is changed to ‘Contempt’.
(Locked) Intermediate Monster Hunter
(Locked) Mature Monster Hunter
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[Currently, novice monster hunters can be equipped.]
[Do you want to install?]
[A title once equipped can be replaced by equipping another title.]
Siu nodded.
[The Novice Monster Hunter title will be equipped.]
[<Intimidate> is always activated.]
An unexpected harvest, but not very happy. The reward I thought of from the beginning is also topaz… .
Coercion by itself is not very helpful in combat.
Easy to resist. Although it is despised for being limited to monsters, currently it is not very useful because it is limited to monsters only.
“I can catch some bluff.”
That’s about it if you’re looking for something useful.
He would not be able to respond to his words unless he had a lot of courage and a high strength stat.
It would be quite helpful to have a situation where you can express your opinion at the academy.
You can’t unlock it until you acquire the next title, but… … , it doesn’t seem like a big deal. The more they are together, the less effective it is.
Of course, from the intermediate monster hunter, the effect is greatly increased.
“Now… … … ?”
Then, another window popped up again.
[There are unconfirmed notifications.]
[Are you sure? Y/N]
It was because there were more messages left that I thought the title announcement was over.
“what?”
Siwoo nodded cryptically, and an overdue notification appeared.
[Do you want to absorb the topaz? Y/N]
“?”
He unequivocally never saw a message like this while playing Desire.
Jade is a monster’s energy source and part of its body.
It can be processed and built into a weapon, but absorbed directly?
If a human puts jade into the body in any way, the result is one of two things. Either die painfully due to the repulsive action, or slowly die as a result of becoming a demon.
[caution! I’ve seen warning messages such as “You can become a demon due to the monster’s jade”, but I’ve never seen anything so inviting.
He glared at the message with uneasy eyes, then nodded.
The system is optimized for the player and does not intentionally trap the player. Even if you make a wrong choice, a warning message is displayed.
However, the message that followed left him speechless again.
[Crush the topaz with ???’s hand.]
“… … ?”
A hand is a hand, what is the question mark in front of it?
However, his eyes naturally turned to his right hand.
[Crush the topaz with ???’s hand.]
… … Apparently, the right arm does not belong to this body.
Siwoo looked at his right hand with eyes filled with questions, then grabbed the topaz and broke it.
The fragmented topaz soon turned into particles and melted into his palm.
“This is the end… … Ugh!”
That moment.
“Keuuu!”
A great pain overtook him.
Right hand moving wildly. Five fingers wriggled wildly.
I hurriedly grabbed my right wrist with my left hand as the pain gradually spread to my body, but I couldn’t stop it. can’t let it go Because his right arm is getting out of control.
The problem didn’t stop there.
The veins sprouted from his hands, the skin thickened, and his skin turned dark gray. His fingernails grew long and turned black.
“Turn off”
don’t know what’s going on However, it is certain that the results will not be good.
The right arm, which was trying to control it somehow, was getting stronger. It was absolutely impossible to block that monstrous power with the left arm.
Shi-woo became far away in a different meaning to his arm, which began to run wild without listening to his master. I didn’t eat it like a child used raw.
It seemed that he was desperate to let me go, who are you to try to suppress me?
“Why are you like this today, f*ck.”
What would happen if I couldn’t stop the runaway of my right arm, would I become a demon and run amok and die? Am I being killed by a hero?
He cursed wildly, imagining the world as unpleasant.
Feeling that he was getting more and more out of his strength, he threw the winning number.
“under.”
His right arm jumped wildly, or he grabbed his neck with his left hand. He held on tightly until he was out of breath.
this is his best
If I die, you die too.
The reaction was instantaneous.
The monstrous right hand tried to extend his left. Siwoo gave more mana and grabbed his neck.
As a result, he grabbed his neck with both hands, and it looked like it, but his left and right hands were fighting fiercely.
If the right hand had been able to use all its power, it would have been overpowered quickly, but it was the right hand whose muscles were torn from being bitten by Blur.
The fact that he had been able to control his right arm with his left hand up until now is proof that his right hand couldn’t use that power.
However, it is self-healing in real time with its extraordinary resilience. Time was not on his side.
That’s why Siwoo didn’t intend to take a long time.
I used the qi in my body as it was. As if it didn’t matter if I died like this, I gave strength to my left arm.
I don’t know what secrets the right arm holds.
Siwoo has no intention of being dragged around by an arm or a part of his own body.
That’s why you hold your own neck and ask.
Hear me out if you don’t want to rummage with me.
“Kuh, f*ck… .”
Laughter ensues.
The hand that used to strangle the monster a while ago is now threatening him, so he is choking himself and compromising his life.
It was ironic that he was strangely placed in an incomprehensible reality even after waking up after dying a hundred times.
‘What is this doing?’
vision gradually darkens.
He had tinnitus in his ears and it was difficult to tell whether he was breathing or not.
The eyelids are closing, the left hand is still strangling the neck and the right hand is trying to remove the left hand.
It was at that time that I was slowly losing my mind.
[The topaz has been absorbed.]
“Kheuk, Heouk, Haeok!”
His right hand lost strength and began to return to normal.
Then, Siwoo released his left hand and took a deep breath.
However, in the extreme situation of dragging all the ki, I couldn’t even breathe. His eyes slowly began to close.
[You can use ‘Surface Confidence’ of Blur.]
The result of topaz absorption was visible in the blurred vision.
The use of the monster’s ability, it can be said to be a fraudulent effect.
Siwoo smiled at him and said.
“f*ck you… .”
I lost my mind.