Chapter 27 – Episode 27
“You’re piled up?”
“Is it really necessary to express it that way?”
“I think it was the most appropriate.”
“Damn.”
Right after Sparrow told me about the magic tattoo, I came to the underground with him.
I hate tattoos.
It’s not that I hate people with tattoos, but at least I didn’t want to have them on my body.
But if you want to survive, you can’t help it, right?
When I entered the store where Sparrow had recently received the procedure, I saw a blonde woman with her head pressed against the counter.
“Sister! “I’m here!!”
When the sparrow called out in a friendly way, her face lifted from her spot on the counter.
She must have been deeply asleep, so only one of her eyes was open and blurry, and a clear liquid was flowing down the side of her chin.
“Eh…?”
“Eh, no, a guest has arrived~”
He roughly cleaned up her messy hair with his hands.
Boom!
She started sleeping with her head on the counter again.
Her head swayed forward, and a strong smell of alcohol, presumed to be a woman’s, filled her nose.
“That person… Is he okay?”
“He’s a class A psychic. “I’ll guarantee you one skill.”
“What about the rest?”
“I guarantee you one skill?”
“This bastard?”
The woman seemed to have barely come to her senses from our conversation and shook her head.
“Uh… Guest…?”
“Maybe?”
“Or can you please go… I drank a lot of alcohol just now…?”
“Then shall I guide you?”
“So…”
The woman waved her hand as if she was annoyed and then forced her left eye open.
“But… Who are you?”
“Kim Chan-sae, a C-level psychic who underwent surgery here two weeks ago.”
“Chansae. Cold bird… Sparrow… Heehee. “How can a person’s name be Sparrow… Ugh.”
“Then let me take a look at the introduction booklet.”
“Sparrow… Hee… Sparrow chirp… Hee.”
As if he was familiar with this situation, the sparrow took the thick book next to the counter and placed it on the desk in the corner of the store.
I also pulled up a chair and sat down next to the sparrow.
“Is it okay…?”
Same question.
“Skills.”
It was the same answer.
“But what exactly is a magic tattoo?”
When I asked the guy who happened to be the store owner and explained it to me, the sparrow opened the book.
“Do you know how scrolling works?”
“Recording-related psychics borrow the power of magic-related abilities to record magic on scrolls. You tear it up and activate it.”
“I thought I didn’t know anything because I was unemployed.”
“I’ve been eating association food for a month, right?”
“It’s condescending to only have one month.”
The sparrow chuckled and pointed with his finger at the book with the picture on it.
“Like you said, the scroll is made by tearing up enchanted paper. But tattoos are different.”
“It’s not a scroll, it’s using your skin as a medium.”
“Tear your skin? Like a bear tearing a person apart?”
“You crazy guy, you saw what I just wrote. You can activate it by bumping your fist or stroking it.”
“Hmm?”
I looked at each picture in the booklet as he explained it.
Strengthening physical strength.
Enhanced agility.
Summon fireball.
Summon the lowest fire spirit.
There were many abilities that were universally known and popular in their own way.
On each page, a small piece of paper with a tattoo-like drawing fluttered beneath it.
“What is the paper here?”
“Sample. You know the tattoo stickers? If you erase it with water, it will be erased. Like that, it disappears on its own after a certain period of time. My sister here, about 30 minutes?”
“Oh. Can I try an experiment?”
“Sister!! Can I try a sample?!”
“You think a sparrow took it? Hehe!”
With the owner’s permission, I tore up a sample of the lowest-level fire spirit summoning tattoo that I often used.
I put the paper on my arm and rubbed it with my palm, and a 30-minute tattoo was made on my arm.
“Oh. How do I use it?”
“Except for a few tattoos, you only need to touch most of them.”
He nodded his head at those words and made a tattoo with his finger! And stabbed him.
I felt an itch and my tattoo was sparkling! It shone.
The spirit that appeared through the tattoo circled around me as if it recognized me as its owner.
“This is amazing.”
“Right? “If you tattoo it on your body, you can use it for life.”
“No overload or anything like that?”
“Uh. Instead, things like the number of uses per day and efficiency are set, but they vary depending on the tattooist’s abilities.”
“So, if you get it from someone who is good at it, it’s really expensive. “It’s less expensive if you get it from someone who can’t do it.”
“It’s expensive after all.”
“You gain abilities you didn’t have before, but of course it’s expensive. These days, even wealthy ordinary people are said to be getting one for self-defense.”
After parting ways with the sparrow, I returned home.
After 30 minutes, the tattoo disappeared.
“Magic tattoo… I should seriously think about it.”
There is no inconvenience of having to tear it apart every time you use it like with a scroll.
Once treated, there are limitations, but it can be used semi-permanently.
It was only an ideological issue, but performance-wise it wasn’t bad.
I searched on the Internet just in case, and there was also a site specializing in magic tattoos.
“Wow… All the real monsters are in America.”
It was said that Sparrow stole 10 billion won for two B-class tattoos.
America’s best magic tattoo artist was receiving 10 billion won for D-level tattoos.
There is only one reason why the price is the same even though the grade is two levels different.
“Use 100 times a day? “I can’t even use it all!”
“And the sample duration is 12 hours? “Can’t I just keep refilling the sample and using it?”
From what I heard, magic tattoos are also difficult to erase.
So, you have to put in something good from the beginning, but it’s too expensive.
It’s efficient and doesn’t leave any residue on your body! Are there any such fucking tattoos? While thinking about it, an idea occurred to me.
‘I just need to copy the sample, right?’
The world’s No. 1 magic tattoo artist not only performs the procedure himself, but also sells samples.
I took a preview sample of the lowest level fire spirit summoning tattoo posted on the site and [Pasted] It.
Even though it was F-class magic, it was the world’s number one item, so I felt a headache, but it wasn’t uncomfortable.
I drew a tattoo on the back of my right hand and tapped it with my finger.
The tingling sensation was similar to just now, but the light coming out was on a different level.
“Crazy… Is this really an F-class spirit summoning?”
The summoned fire spirit was three times larger than the Korean fire spirit I knew.
At this level, it seemed like it would work comfortably in an E-class labyrinth, not an F-class one.
Besides.
“Because it’s three times bigger, it’s three times cuter. Damn.”
I felt three times better at the charm of the spirit that recognized me as its owner.
The one summoned by the scroll disappears after 2 hours.
I took a nap to see how long this guy would last.
“You… Why are you still here?”
[Rumble?]
Even though I woke up after 8 hours of full-time sleep, everything around me was floating.
“Oh, it was 12 hours. It’s okay to go in now.”
[Kwaerung!]
After canceling the summons, I sat in front of the monitor and started [Copying] Toil.
What I’m doing now is [Lesser fire spirit summoning tattoo sample].
[Edit] The level seems to have increased, so wouldn’t low level players be able to do it? I wanted to experiment.
Although it was overloaded, it was manageable if you tried hard.
If a moment of patience can make your future easier, you should persevere!! I endured the pain with the single thought and [Copied].
What I’m aiming for is the second effect of [Edit].
[Edit] LV.11
You can edit what you see.
LV.5 – Add 1 storage space
LV.10 – Auto save with 20% chance for consumables only
I worked hard, hoping that if I [Copy] With a high or low probability, I would get an authentic product.
“This is it!! Argh!! It fucking hurts!! Clear! Release!!”
After failing about 7 times, I got the real [Lesser Fire Spirit Summoning Tattoo Sample].
Hehe. Now, I too am a munchkin… I can play in class E water, even if it’s not bad!”
After picking up the key from the real thing [Copy].
As expected, the real thing seemed to consume less power, and I had fewer headaches than before.
When I drew the copy that appeared on the back of my hand and stimulated it, a fire spirit appeared.
If only the lowest level showed the form of fire.
The lower classes had their own appearance.
Even though it looked like it was just a ball of fire with eyes, nose, and mouth.
“Wow, you think you can win even if you fight a mid-level spirit?”
Still, the energy it gave off was incredible.
After stroking the head of the charming spirit, I sat back down in the chair.
Before I started working, I set one goal.
“Ruler. Shall we go to the water spirit next?”
I decided to make my own magic tattoo sample booklet.
A week has passed.
“Hehe… Hehe… It’s a mess… Reveal the odds, you bastard…”
For a week, except for the time spent sleeping, eating, and packing, I invested the rest of my time into [Copying].
Even so, only 41 samples could be copied.
“Isn’t it 0.2%, not 20%? How can it not stick like this?”
My goal when I started was to copy all the samples on the site and turn them into a book, but I didn’t have the confidence to go further.
“But whatever. Because the editing level has also been raised a lot. “I’ll have to work harder later when I need to.”
[Edit] LV.14
You can edit what you see.
I smiled at the satisfying numbers I saw on the monitor and opened the thin book.
First, there are all low-level summoning skills for the four major spirits of water, fire, wind, and earth.
There are tattoos that strengthen the body and there are recovery tattoos.
With just this book, I can become an all-rounder munchkin!!
As much as I worked hard, I wanted to experiment right away, so I took a shower and got dressed after a week.
I was about to leave the house when I stopped.
‘Wait a minute… It’s dangerous if strange rumors spread if you go out recklessly like this again.’
Just like the company got ruined after playing around with it.
A superpower who uses 41 abilities at will!
Even if a passerby sees something strange, I think they will report it to the association.
I nodded and opened the closet, but there was no useful disguise.
I was going through the winter clothes I had stuck under the bed and found a good one.
A gray Barbary coat so large that it covers the entire body and a hat with a huge brim.
A coat that got dirty while editing a video from the old west.
It was a waste to throw it away, but I was so sick of it that I threw it away.
“I never thought the day would come when I would wear this.”
I smiled and put on my coat.
The puffy design looks sick even now, but it was good for covering up the body.
Let’s cover her face with a hat with a huge brim.
“There are no criminals…”
A piece of shit that hides its identity.
I became a degenerate who attracted more attention from people.
