Chapter 49 – Metamorphosis (2)
Pat your back lightly and inhale quietly and deeply through your nose, which is lightly touching your breastbone.
The fragrance like baby powder permeates deeply into your nostrils.
If Ajumma’s body smell is ripe and dense, this one’s is a little lighter and fresher.
Maybe it’s because they’re mother and daughter, but whenever I feel something, I end up comparing her to her.
Quite a long time.
Shin Yoo-jung shrugged her shoulders and sniffed at her.
Then it slowly starts to fade.
“Uhm… !”
I release my arms that were holding my head and gently push me back as I step back.
I looked at the guy’s expression, feeling regretful that her body odor had gone away.
Her eyes are swollen and her face is red.
Judging from the fact that her eyes lost their way and swayed here and there, it seems that she did not know that she would cry out of emotion.
“It’s okay?”
“Gwa, it’s okay, then!”
He is also responding vigorously to light questions.
Then a moment of silence came.
I had nothing to say, so I kept my mouth shut, and he looked at the box on the desk, contemplating something.
What are you doing?
As if contemplating, the guy nodded briefly and headed in front of the box.
Then, he took out several bottles of potion from the box and put them on the desk.
A total of nine potions lined up in front of the monitor.
Shin Yoo-jeong pointed at it with her finger and told me.
“This is yours.”
She said something close to notification and closed the lid of the box containing the remaining six bottles.
“This is mine.”
When I asked what he was thinking about, he was thinking about how to distribute the potions.
If I had nine bottles and Shin Yoo-jung had six bottles… , It was divided by 6:4.
I raised my head and looked at the boy’s face.
I’m a little surprised
I thought he’d take at least 5 or he’d take more than that.
Shin Yoo-jung’s face, which met my eyes, turned a little redder.
“What, why, what. Do I deserve this much?”
I didn’t say anything, but when I saw him do that alone, it seemed like he was stabbed by something.
The distribution of rewards is usually the same.
It is very difficult to divide it neatly so that everyone is satisfied.
Usually, when dividing rewards, the ratio is divided by position in advance, the reward is divided according to the contribution after clearing the dungeon, or evenly distributed at all.
I tend to follow these three, but each has its pros and cons, so it’s not easy to satisfy everyone.
That’s why it’s not uncommon for fixed parties or raid groups to be broken, and in even worse cases, knife fights.
Shin Yoo-jung kept her line well.
She suppressed her greed, but took as much as she could.
“Hey, can I get another bottle?”
I’m opening the box myself, as if staring at her without any reply has put a lot of pressure on me.
It was so cute, he smiled and shook her head.
“Nope. I think you take less than you think.”
“Uh… ?”
It became a slightly flustered expression.
I feel like I didn’t expect this kind of reaction to come out.
For a moment, a look of hesitation crept across the boy’s face.
Even now, I wonder if I should put my face down and pack one or two more bottles.
“Hey, am I not such a shameless person? Your contribution to dungeon clearing is higher, so you should take more.”
There are two things when you look at boldly cutting off hesitation.
Either he had a conscience and took care of my reward, or even this was a high-level goal to make it look good to me.
Or maybe both.
Well, I don’t care either way.
“Are you going to sell the potion right away? If so, I will help you.”
I shook my head at the guy’s question.
“I’m not in a hurry with money right now, so I’m going to have it for now.”
“What… , I guess.”
Shin Yu-jeong put her box on her side.
“So am I going?”
“Oh, be careful down there.”
After that, I left my house with a relieved expression, like someone who had completed a used transaction with ease.
Judging by how fast he was walking, he must have been quite happy or embarrassed about what happened a little while ago.
“He’s a funny guy.”
Even when I first saw him, he showed signs of dislike and pushed me hard, but now he makes such an embarrassing expression in front of me, laughs, and does everything.
Although I feel deeply moved, I am curious about the not-too-distant future.
It’s been like this since we went through the dungeon raid together once, but how will it change later?
“Ugh.”
My whole body trembled with pleasant goosebumps, and then I turned around.
“That’s something to think about later.”
Because now there’s something else that’s important.
Looking at the nine bottles of potion on the desk, I wonder if heaven is helping me.
It was a car that I needed because of the secret technique of metamorphosis.
“That’s enough to make this wretched body human.”
I’ve thought about it once before, but this body is truly a body that God created fairly.
I have all the talents a wizard can have, but my body is trash.
This is a level that cannot be covered even with the secret technique of growth power.
I’m not good at being born in the first place, but if I get better here, how much better can I get?
Ultimately, there is only one fundamental solution.
I have no choice but to change my innate muscles and bones once.
The reason why he didn’t know this until now was because he had no means to restore his body after using the secret technique of metamorphosis.
I needed a healer to keep healing by my side or a potion to fully restore my body, but I finally fulfilled that condition.
“Whoa.”
Ah, but I’m worried because I’m actually going to do it.
“This really hurts, oh.”
I don’t want to do it just thinking about the pain, but I have to.
If you succeed, you will be able to have things that this body does not have by nature.
“Status window.”
[Status window]
Name: Kim Dojin
Gender: Male
Age: 20 years old
Height/Weight: 167CM / 81.6KG
[Muscle: 15] [Stamina: 20] [Agility: 11] [Magic power: 35]
Attribute:
Mutual Inviolability[2022.06.09]~[2025.12.31]
Prohibition of disclosure[2022.06.09]~[2025.12.31]
The speed of losing weight is gradually slowing down, and the growth of abilities other than magic has slowed.
Even though it is still a section where growth should not be slowed down.
It’s not a matter of effort, it’s a matter of talent.
If you have good muscles and bones, you can grow more even if you try the same as others, whereas if you have bad muscles and bones, you have to work harder than others to barely keep up with the average.
This body is like that.
My musculature is weak, so I wonder if I can even get to the middle no matter how many times I work harder than others.
If this is bad, I won’t say anything.
But the problem is that he was just a human with bad habits.
Due to a sedentary lifestyle, the body is out of balance everywhere.
If that’s the case, don’t speak again.
The sitting posture itself was crooked, so the body was also crooked.
Now, sitting in a normal posture is uncomfortable.
In fact, except for the muscles and bones, they are all things that can be fixed without secret techniques.
The problem is that it is not as easy as it sounds to change a habit that has been acquired for decades.
It takes a long time, and it takes effort.
Moreover, it is impossible to completely undo it.
Ordinary people wouldn’t feel it, but it means that people who are familiar with the physical structure, like me, have to live with a weak discrepancy that keeps bothering them for the rest of their lives.
However, the secret technique of metamorphosis can restore everything once it hurts.
So can you
I should
“It seems like it’s possible even though magic power is intermittent….”
With the amount of magical energy accumulated so far, even if it is perfectly impossible, it seems possible to return the balance of the body and make the muscles and bones more solid.
“The horns are also sweet, so let’s finish it quickly.”
I put all the potions on the desk down on the floor.
Then, sitting cross-legged in front of him, he loosened up his body in order to relieve the force from excessive tension.
“Whoa….”
I also take a deep breath.
Are you okay.
You’ve already done it once, right?
“… Fuck.”
So that’s more of a problem.
I did it once so I know how painful it is.
Still, I don’t think I should quit.
Right now, my appearance is close to impossible to be popular with women.
Somehow, things went well and he had sex with her auntie, and even got fella from Ji-an Yoon, but she couldn’t erase the feeling that she was beaten.
If you want to solve all of them, you have to waste a year.
I do not like it.
Even though life is short, you have to play when you’re even a year younger.
“Let’s do it, do it.”
So do it.
To enjoy things you have never enjoyed before.
Breathe slowly and close your eyes.
Contemplation.
The internal structure of the body comes to mind clearly as if looking directly through the magical power inside the body.
A weak and out of place body that makes you sigh when you look at it.
Now, I have to break them one by one with my hands and reshape them into the desired shape.
As an S-class hunter Son Si-woo, the years and experiences of living have overlaid the ideal shape on the body that is out of sync.
This is a combination of the part I was most confident in and the ideal I thought I would like this part to be like this.
It is an ideal form that can move gracefully at any time and in any situation, and is not biased in either direction in demonstrating momentary and continuous abilities, and can play an active part in any environment and constraints.
If you follow the base as it is, you can have it.
The most ideal body in my opinion.
“Suck!”
Exhaling briefly, it crushes and crushes all the bones and muscles in the upper body that protect organs.
“Big… !”
A moan of pain that could not be prevented escaped from between the lips.
I have crossed an irreversible river.
The number of times that human bones and muscles can receive the secret art of metamorphosis is only once.
Of course, you can do more if you force yourself to do it.
In fact, my old body used the secret technique of metamorphosis three times.
Didn’t three times get a more perfect body?
Not.
The shape may have changed to be more ideal, but the strength has weakened considerably compared to the beginning.
It was because human bones and muscles could not withstand it and suffered permanent damage.
If I had known that in advance, I might not have been the number one hunter in Korea by now, but a hunter fighting for the number one spot in the world.
So regret once is enough.
This time, you have to create an ideal body shape with just one shot.
Awesome! Wooded!
Boom!
An eerie sound hits your ears.
The pain I felt with him was beyond words.
In the past, when attacking an S-class dungeon, I was caught in the clutches of a giant monster on behalf of a colleague.
At that time, the time when my whole body was smashed in his grasp was similar, if it was similar to now.
Of course, in terms of the degree of pain, it hurts more now.
“Hoo-wook, whoo… !”
It protects its organs with a portion of its mana, and reassembles broken bones and muscles with the remaining mana.
At this moment, the magical power is in my hands.
Following the image projected in your head, you knead your bones and muscles as if you were playing with clay.
Things that have lost their shape and become crumbly change into a harder, tougher, and more ideal shape.
After confirming that all the bones and muscles of the upper body were finally in shape, he carefully reached out and held the potion in his hand.
Pong!
Currently, only the bones and muscles of the upper body have been formed intact, and countless incontinence is drawn throughout the bones.
If I move even slightly, the bones in my body will turn to powder again and fall apart.
Before doing so, you must restore all incontinence to the bones through potions to harden the form.
He brought the spout of the potion that he had struggled to open and poured the contents into his mouth.
The restorative power of the potion that flowed down his throat seeped through the cracked bones.
It is felt.
The bones and muscles, like a sandcastle that would be swept away without a trace by a single wave, are getting stronger every minute.
“Whoa….”
After the pain swept through me once, I looked down at my solid upper body.
The flesh is still attached, but the shape has changed.
Obviously, my weight hasn’t changed by even 0.1kg, but my belly fat seems to protrude less.
To be honest, I don’t see a miraculous change as much as the pain I endured on the outside right now.
But you can be sure.
As time goes by, the body will see a dramatic change.
The hard bones and muscles felt beyond the flesh prove this.
“Let’s keep going.”
The secret technique must be finished before the heat of the body cools down.
So it hurts less
Pudeuk! Boom!
Kwakdeuk!
Quick!
Repeatedly making a terrifying sound, turning the body into powder and re-establishing itself repeatedly.
Head, neck, chest, stomach, arms, thighs, knees, shins, feet.
It is becoming more and more like the ideal body structure that I drew in my head.
Gulp! Gulp!
I drank the sixth potion.
Due to the consumption of several bottles at once, the recovery ability gradually began to decline, but fortunately, it is still effective enough to harden bones and muscles.
“This is the last….”
Fine adjustments are complete.
Because of the throbbing pain all over my body, I want to lose my mind right now and collapse.
But it’s not over yet.
There is one last task that can be said to be perhaps the most important.
A joint that connects bones to bones.
There is a slight misalignment between the bones that were rearranged arbitrarily.
If you play all these according to the changed shape….
Pudeuk! Boom!
Feel the joy along with the pain.
Confidence that comes to mind at the same time.
Ah, the secret technique of metamorphosis this time has become more perfect than I thought.
Every time a joint is aligned, a feeling of uplift is transmitted from deep within the bones and muscles.
This was a kind of joy that even an S-class hunter had never felt before.
Most of the joints and nodes are positioned in the optimal form for body movement.
Boom!
The moment when even the last remaining joint is woven into a perfect shape.
[Succeeded in absorbing information that will affect the search for attributes suitable for the user.]
[Narrows the scope of attribute exploration based on the information absorbed.]
[Absorbed information has a decisive effect on trait search.]
[The scope of the trait search is greatly reduced.]
[Time left until attribute search: 335:59:55]
I guess I have a characteristic too… ?
The remaining time hidden behind a question mark finally revealed the real time.
336 hours, 14 days, 2 weeks.
Coincidentally, it coincided with the special admission to Korea University.
