## Chapter 184 – Mana Man Kim Kat
A pitch-black space.
“What… is this?”
It was a dark, dark space without a single speck of light, but for some reason, my body was clearly visible. A macho-warrior’s physique covered in scars and hickeys. My primordial form, without a single thread on.
What the hell?
“The form you were born in, I see.”
I habitually performed the 3rd stance of the Stallion Fist. ㅡPa-pa-pat! There was nothing particularly wrong. Gravity was the same, and there were no restrictions on moving my body.
ㅡInner world.
Instinctively, I realized.
“Could it be… this is my inner world?”
As I became aware of it, the surroundings began to distort as if the scenery of a dream was changing. I entrusted myself to the flow. I didn’t know well, but it wasn’t harmful. And then.
ㅡBba-bam.
A spotlight turned on, and light poured out towards me. I raised my arm to cover my eyes, but of course, it didn’t hurt. I dared to guess that it was because it was not real light but the light of the inner world.
I was standing in the center of that world.
“ㅡAh…”
Faint afterimages began to appear.
It was an image of me fighting.
From all sorts of miscellaneous monsters to past battles, and even relatively recent blood battles. The videos were rotating from all directions like a panorama, but everything was clearly visible, as if I had eyes in the back of my head.
Is this the effect of the circlet?
This meditation is very detailed.
Then I should do what I have to do.
I reached out. And I grabbed a sword. No. I didn’t actually grab it. Because I didn’t have a sword. ㅡMind Sword. It was a sword of the mind.
I focused on one screen.
The most recent one, the fight with the orc.
Then the feeling at that time felt like reality. Precambrian. Jazz past its prime. An orc in a tuxedo. And people rejoicing at the unification of East and West Germany, contrasted with children dying of starvation in the Third World.
Finally,
The completion of the Tower of Babel.
It was a collection of chaotic concepts that even I couldn’t understand.
The confusion of being drunk on mana and fighting a bloody battle in a state of oblivion came like reality… It was not something that could be recognized with a sane mind.
“The small things don’t matter.”
I moved my body.
At the same time, I reviewed the past.
The power boiling within me.
Unbelievable courage.
A fighting spirit that reached omnipotence.
All of those things were clearly felt.
“Hmm.”
So this was the feeling.
I swung my sword.
No.
I reached out.
Like threads scattered, several emotions, subtle but. At the same time, they existed clearly and were caught like thin strands of silk. Wavering, emotions surging like a hastily made dream that wasn’t properly constructed.
I caught it.
“…!”
Then an uncontrollable impulse soared… I have to run! I suddenly sprinted. I sprinted and sprinted again.
“Runㅡner’s Highㅡ!”
The pitch-black space was infinity itself. No matter how much I ran, the end was not visible, and the horizon was constantly being updated. “Dejaaaaaaaat!!!” Let’s see who wins. I ran to the end of the inner world.
How long have I been running?
I didn’t have a clock, so I didn’t know the exact time.
ㅡWall.
Was that the “limit”?
What was in front of me was a huge wall darker than any black color that existed in this world. That wall also stretched endlessly along the horizon.
“The cage that confines me.”
Looking up, I still couldn’t see the end.
This.
Can I overcome it?
I didn’t know well, but I felt like I could only grow if I overcame this.
Then.
I have to overcome it.
“But I can’t overcome it right now.”
Of course.
I can’t overcome such a big wall.
It would be right to train and overcome it. Anyway, I felt like I knew a little about this space and the circlet. This place is my inner world. And the circlet is a tool that helps me come to this space.
Just now, I looked at and felt the past battle videos and reviewed my emotions.
If I repeat that, I will surely be able to overcome the limit.
I felt that way.
As I made up my mind, the light of the spotlight gradually grew larger. The light that only shone on me now shone on the surroundings. Then the objects around me began to gain color and be revealed. Like criminals committing crimes at night.
“Hmm? This is?”
They were familiar objects.
A computer, a television, a dresser. And a knife and clothes. Even biographies and baseball bats. There was even a carriage or a car, my armor, and a killer whale that had died with its intestines pouring out of its mouth.
“…This is?”
Among them was the Loneliness Jar.
A jar containing dreams from my boyhood.
ㅡGulp.
Slowly, I approached it.
I checked
the inside.
“…”
Fortunately, there were no insects inside.
Just pitch-black darkness.
Was what was contained in Pandora’s box really hope?
“I don’t know.”
I can’t know.
“Because I’m not Pandora. I can’t know what I haven’t seen.”
Anyway, in that space where the familiar objects were lined up, I knocked on the door of my inner self again and recalled the battles of the past. Fantasies that seemed to have bloomed in the world of a madman floated around.
ㅡTss! Tss!!
When a crisis situation arose, I overcame adversity by awakening my inner strength. Can that be said to be entirely my strength?
Until now, I thought it was a macho power derived from my training and discipline.
But it was mana.
ㅡQuestion.
When did I awaken mana?
When fighting the orc? Or before that?
To confirm that, I concentrated as if I was possessing the me who was fighting the orc. Burning passion, hot blood… An orc stronger than me. If I fought in a normal way, would my win rate be about 50%?
50%.
That’s the win rate when fighting the orc.
It’s a very good figure for a human. No matter how much you train, killing such a monster one-on-one is very difficult.
But.
100%.
If I use mana, I won’t lose.
What about the Kobold Guardian? This time, I recalled the memory of that underground labyrinth. ㅡKyuuuu-ssaaat! The dark surroundings were assimilated into the underground labyrinth. I watched myself fighting the Kobold Guardian from a distance.
ㅡKyuuuuuuuuu!!!
Strong.
But… compared to the orc?
It was subtly weaker.
But the difference was absolute. I would never lose to the Guardian. I even overwhelmed it with my bare hands. Then did I use mana at that time?
“…!”
I feel it!
Very faint, but compared to the mana I have now, it’s just a tiny grain of sand on the sea, but there was definitely a wriggling power!
“Is it this time!”
So I fell into a state of ecstasy and sank into the past. It was quite interesting to watch my battle from the position of an observer. I felt the shortcomings, and a better attack trajectory came into view.
Indeed, perhaps because I was surrounded by familiar objects, the efficiency of training was high… Were those objects in the inner world for this reason?
After doing that for a long time again.
I checked all the memories from quite a long time ago.
Then I felt myself getting tired rapidly.
The world around me began to collapse.
ㅡPachik.
In the dark world, a pitch-black crack appeared and the space collapsed… Is this the limit? Whether it’s my mental strength, the duration of meditation. Or the strange power of the circlet. It seems like I’ve consumed quite a bit.
I felt the circlet on my head.
Even though I was naked, I was wearing the circlet.
“Well… is this it for today.”
I grabbed the circlet. A strong force, and at the same time an unknown attraction, was transmitted through my fingertips. If I take this off, I will return to the real world.
I tried to take it off.
ㅡThud.
At the last moment, something came into my sight.
“What is it?”
It was… I couldn’t know exactly, but it was like iron bars that confined something. But I couldn’t check it in detail. Because I had already taken off the circlet.
“…”
I opened my eyes.
“Ah, ah. Major emergency.”
It was the accommodation.
I was sitting cross-legged on the bed, holding the circlet. When I released the posture, my whole body was covered in sweat. The place where I was sitting was also soaked.
ㅡGurgle.
I also felt a crazy hunger.
First, I got up from my seat and came down to the floor.
“What time is it…”
I clearly started from broad daylight, but it’s the time when the sun is starting to set. Was I immersed in the inner world for about 4 hours? Looking at it, it seemed that Claudia and Winia had not returned yet.
I felt a little uncomfortable, so I took another shower. And to fill my hungry stomach, I ate the bread and sausage I had bought earlier.
But I really have so many hickeys on my body.
Am I going to die of internal bleeding like this?
Anyway, I felt a little better after eating. I simply put on my underwear and sat on a chair, thinking about “mana.”
ㅡMana.
Meditation.
But even though I tried to recall it, it felt blurry and vague, like an old dream that I couldn’t remember. When I was immersed in the inner world, mana felt clearer than anything else, but it wasn’t the same in the real world.
I couldn’t think of it properly.
The feeling was also unfamiliar.
“Hmm… difficult.”
I picked up the sword. ㅡSreung. I grabbed the sword drawn from the scabbard and took a stance. And I performed the Stallion Sword Technique. The ultimate sword technique created by combining the swordsmanship I learned from Karin with my own unique combat technique, the Stallion Fist.
ㅡSwoosh!
ㅡSwish!
The sword that fiercely cut through the air cut through the heavy air that filled the accommodation. This feeling… this is not the feeling. The movement is light, and the swordsmanship is fierce, but I didn’t feel like I was using mana.
“Frustrating.”
Of course, the training is still lacking.
“And… annoying.”
It was very frustrating that it was a power in my body, but I couldn’t control it as I pleased. And it’s annoying. Can I make this power completely mine?
“It’s a pushover.”
I can make it.
Didn’t I catch a clue in the inner world?
I can definitely do it, I.
I am Heavenly Demon Kim Kat.
There is no impossibility for the Heavenly Demon.
It starts tomorrow.
Starting in the morning, until noon, I will devote myself to physical and technical training at the Swordsman’s Guild, and when I return, I will immediately put on the circlet and hone my mind. That’s how it will be.
ㅡCreak.
As I was making a plan, the door opened.
It was Claudia who came in.
“Oh? Claudia? You’re alone? Weren’t you out with Winia?”
“You were here first? I went out separately from Winia. She said she had something to do?”
Looking at it, it seemed like she had been shopping or something. Did she buy clothes or something? Or sightseeing? She put down her luggage and took off her coat.
“Hmph… but.”
Claudia, who was in her underwear, came to me.
Purple underwear, as if she had matched the color with her hair.
Her long, straight legs were reminiscent of a model. Beautiful legs. And above all, her childbearing hips and big butt felt very sexy. Is her waist a little thinner than Winia’s? There was no fat at all, so it was elastic.
Is this the body of a dark elf?
“Hehe, what’s with those hot eyes looking at me like that. Come to think of it, it’s been a long time since it’s been just the two of us like this? Shall we enjoy ourselves intimately until Winia comes?”
As expected, an obscene half-elf older sister who does everything!
She knows my heart so well!
“That’s an offer I can’t refuse!”
Claudia, who came closer, grabbed my stiffly erect penis. The sensation of her slender fingers gently wrapping around me excited me.
“Hmm?”
Then, as if she felt something, she repeatedly groped my thing.
No, it’s been treated like a toy too much these days.
“…Kat? Mana?”
Claudia raised her head and looked at my face.
It’s a bit much to say that she felt mana while touching my dick, but I proudly declared in that state.
“Have you “felt” it? My “mana”.”
Her eyes widened.
“…The guild leader said I have mana.”
Slightly, shyly. As I said that while scratching my cheekㅡ
“Kat!”
ㅡClaudia, who shouted my name, pounced on me with a fierce momentum.
Immediately, the chair fell over and I fell backwards.
“Wa, wait a minute! Go up to the bed!”
“Kyaa!”
Claudia, with hearts in her eyes, began to violate me without hesitation. I couldn’t come to my senses because of the more intense squeezing than usual.
