I Became the Leader of Academy City

117 – Discipline 31. The Leader Corrects Order in Academy City (19)

Ahn Woo-jin did not understand what happened.

Because suddenly her whole body was free.

In my field of vision, I saw a huge crack in the sky slowly closing.

Slowly.

It felt like time had lost its speed.

‘Is he dead? What happened… ?’

Soon, I blinked and the sky turned red. Woojin blinked her eyes and looked around, wondering about the unusual sight.

The sensation of her whole body being touched was the same as the sensation that Se-ah felt when she fully released her magical power. That creepy power spread throughout Neo Seoul.

Woojin lowered her head.

Before she knew it, she was floating in the middle of the red sky, and a landscape she had never seen unfolded before her.

Neo Seoul was showing off an eerie color covered in red.

Numerous people, presumed to be human, were tied up here and there with their shapes twisted or deformed. Managing them was an elongated creature wearing a black mask.

His kidneys, arms, legs, and fingers were abnormally stretched out, so they fluttered every time he walked, resembling reeds or taffy sticks.

Those monsters were wandering around and enjoying cultural life like the citizens who took over Neo Seoul.

“… !”

Woojin, who suddenly felt the enormous presence of a human being, turned his head in that direction.

The outskirts of Maheon High School Autonomous District.

A huge tree stood tall where Moon Chae-yeon’s underground hideout should be. It was so large that it was clearly visible even from here.

However, the tree trunk was not ordinary.

A form in which numerous people are absorbed sparsely.

The body was combined with the tree trunk to form a single organism, as if it had been genetically modified.

“… ?”

Woojin tried to use spatial leap to approach the tree, but for some reason his unique ability did not activate

‘I can feel magical power within my body… ‘I can’t use it.’

It was then.

“!”

Three elongated creatures that were walking around the city spread their wings and jumped up, quickly reaching Ujin.

Monsters surrounding Woojin.

Woojin was embarrassed.

Three black masks glared at Woojin. When I looked closely, I saw that it was not a mask but skin. It was a body part that seemed to be made of minerals, like fingernails, toenails, or animal horns.

Red eyes glowed on the masked face. It looked similar to the eyes that Se-Ah displayed while fully demonstrating her power.

“How… What’s going on… ?”

My mind was filled with confusion as incomprehensible things happened one after another.

The long monsters stretched out their arms towards Ujin. I felt the same power as the magic power that SeAH had unleashed in those arms.

‘This…’

The moment it touched, Woojin guessed what it would be like.

Aren’t the humans currently rampant in this city no different from flesh-colored creatures that have been transformed in one way or another, as if they have lost their days as humans?

If this world is not this world but a place like the afterlife.

Woojin judged that their power was to manipulate the shape of the soul, just like manipulating genes to twist the body.

Woojin tried to escape from their arms. This was possible because I instinctively learned how to fly.

However.

“!”

The long monster flapped its wings and caught up with Woojin at once.

It was a time when I thought that everything would end here due to the mysterious power of Se-Ah.

Damn it!

A crack formed behind Woojin, and the girl’s arm stretched out, grabbed Woojin’s arm, and dragged him away. Woojin went over the crack, and soon the crack closed.

The monster’s arms had to wave in the air.

Whiuuu!!

I went through the wormhole and came out of the crack.

The place where Woojin was taken was a large flower field full of his gold flowers.

The sky was brighter than the sunset and shone like gold. It was a beautiful scene in contrast to the scary cityscape just moments ago.

In the middle of the flower field, a hut stood tall.

And in front of the cabin.

Boom.

Woojin, who was forcibly dragged away, was unable to keep his balance and fell down.

Geumyang, who was dragging Woojin, looked down at him and clicked his tongue.

“Wow, this guy requires a lot of work.”

“Geumyang… ?”

“This is my labyrinth. “You were able to come in because you are who you are now.”

Woojin raised his upper body, and Geumyang squatted down in front of him to meet his eye level.

A warm wind shook Goldmari. It was a very gentle place that did not fit the expression ‘labyrinth’.

“What happened… ?” ?”

Woojin still did not understand the situation.

When she attacked Se-ah, her red eyes suddenly took on an eerie color and she suddenly fell into this world.

“Should I have told you? Run away. Ise-ah, that child’s power is not a concept that can be judged by the laws of the world or discussed as superior. “For you humans, this is an area that is beyond common sense.”

Geumyang shook his head and grumbled as if he was pathetic.

“You’re a lot older than me, but you don’t listen to me… ” . She is literally an adolescent kid. Well, it just turned out well. “You are not dead yet, and your time is passing very slowly now.”

“… “Did you notice something?”

“Hmm.”

Geumyang got up from her seat and headed toward the cabin.

“Where are you going?”

“Let’s have a cup of tea. Follow me.”

Woojin got up from his seat and walked towards the cabin.

“Sit there and wait.”

The golden sheep gestured towards the wooden table in front of the cabin. Woojin sat on the chair in front of the table. Eventually, Geumyang served warm tea inside the house.

Two cups of tea, presumed to be green tea, were placed on the table.

It was unscented.

Geumyang sat down across from Woojin and relaxed her expression as she smelled the scent of her tea. There is no smell, so why are they making so much noise? Woojin couldn’t understand.

Woojin looked down at the car again.

I didn’t even feel like drinking.

So she turned her head and looked at the flower field full of her goldfish.

Gold Mari swaying gently in the wind, showing off its golden color.

A dazzlingly large number.

Moreover, the flower field was so vast that it was impossible to tell the end.

If the situation were not like this, it was a beautiful scenery that I would want to see endlessly.

“Please explain. Did you find out something?”

“They said that time in the other world is passing slowly right now. I could spend some time leisurely. He’s in a hurry.”

Geumyang put the teacup down on the table and looked at Woojin.

“Well, I wasn’t sure either. That’s why I just didn’t talk about it. But now I know clearly. Because I didn’t pay much attention to it.”

“What?”

“It’s about what you saw.”

“Just that city?”

“Okay. That place is ‘the other side of the world’. It wasn’t supposed to exist in a place like this. A higher species like me, no… To borrow a phrase from you humans, it is God’s world, so there is no need to understand.”

Geumyang took a sip of tea.

“Neo Seoul is twisted. They are all principals, so… It’s the work of a little guy named Lee Doo-hee. I ended up doing something that no human being should ever do. “I brought in someone who shouldn’t have been brought in.”

Geumyang said.

“The power of this guy’s unique ability is ‘communication.'”

“What do you mean communication?”

“It’s a unique ability that makes you feel naive when you hear its name, but it’s the power to communicate with other beings like me. You can’t ignore it. “Dialogue means negotiation becomes possible.”

Geumyang took another sip of tea, looked down at the teacup, and continued his words.

“So the headmaster talked to gods with decent powers and had them bestow their powers on the children he wanted. Your girlfriend, Kim Dal-bi’s unique ability was also obtained after the headmaster negotiated with the goblin king. Unfavorable and unfair to Kim Dal-bi… “Through a contract.”

It was only then that Woojin realized.

Geumyang solved Dalbi’s cruel penalty problem by making a match with the Goblin King.

“Originally, unique abilities are pieces of power bestowed by a higher species like me.”

That was something I had already learned through a conversation with Geumyang previously.

Intrinsic abilities are not determined at birth, but rather acquired.

Just as Geumyang gave power to Woojin.

Through such a process, unique abilities are determined.

“Why are beings like you giving us pieces of power?”

“Did I tell you before? Well, it’s entertainment. It’s pure fun. There may be others with other purposes, but they don’t have a very grand reason. Isn’t it the same for you humans? There must have been many times when people did not hesitate to go to war because they were offended or because they wanted to enjoy better things.”

“…”

In fact, because human history was like that, Woojin did not refute.

“And the guy who always hangs around with the headmaster. Dressed as a nun…”

“Son Ye-seo.”

“That guy is capable of manipulating the contract of his unique ability. Taking out a unique ability or moving the contracting party for a unique ability. If God rejects it, it becomes meaningless, but if the headmaster steps forward and talks, the problem is solved. The work of removing Oh Baek-seo’s unique ability last time was also possible thanks to Song Ye-seo’s unique ability.”

“Son Ye-seo.”

“Eh, tsk! A picky guy. “Isn’t it okay to communicate with Song Ye-seo or Son Ye-seo?”

In other words.

The combination of Principal and Son Ye-seo was said to be capable of granting and exploiting unique abilities.

“Anyway. “The principal committed something that should never have been committed.”

Geumyang said.

“He made a contract with someone in exchange for the children he destroyed. And he has built his own world in Neo Seoul, where he manipulates the souls of the dead as he pleases.”

“Who is that? No… “What kind of power does this guy have?”

“A guy with the power of manipulation. His name is ‘Ak Tonom’. Well, I guess he doesn’t need to know the name.”

Geumyang continued speaking.

“Remember how Isea revived dead children as if turning back time? That’s a unique ability, the power to reorganize fate. It is not at a level that you would often dismiss as a unique ability, but at a level close to the original power of a god.”

“Are you saying that there is no way to fight with an ordinary unique ability? .”

“It’s tough. Even the source of that power is the giant human tree you saw. Isea can fight without using her own magic power. The main fuel used for that power is the children who were sacrificed by the headmaster or those who were treated as reactions.”

Woojin recalled the tree that stood tall on the outskirts of Maheon High School Autonomous District.

Consisting of humans.

“So, it can be said that there isn’t even a cost for using the ability. Because he didn’t use his own magic power.”

Now I can understand why Se-Ah remained fine even after using her incredible ability to revive dead children in the first semester.

“Can’t we do anything about that tree?”

“No miracle is possible with your strength, and I cannot guarantee it with my strength. Since it has been refined over a long period of time, it will be very sturdy. There may be a route to the core somewhere, but it will take some time to figure out. In the meantime, those elongated enemies you saw might get in the way.”

“It’s literally a scam…”

A top-level unique ability that does not use the body’s magic power, but only uses the nearly infinite magic storage.

No, intrinsic ability is just an expression used by humans.

It would be correct to think of SeAH’s power as ‘power.’

“That’s why I told you to run away. “Because you can’t do anything on your own.”

“The situation was much bigger than I thought…”

“I think it was enough to guess that the matter had grown from the beginning. In the sense that you already come from another world.”

“… “What?”

Woojin looked at Geumyang with a surprised face.

“Did you know?”