Chapter 35 – Chapter 01: Elf Heavenly Horse
In that sense, even though he is a martial arts person, Eugene is not the type who is as extreme in martial arts as Yeonhwa. To be honest, I am worried that he may be disappointing Yeonhwa, who had high expectations.
But that doesn’t mean he can’t help but use the actual sparring partner in front of him who can recover his strength the fastest, so Eugene just hoped that Yeonhwa would keep her level limit.
“Hmm? “Where are you going?”
Anyway, when Eugene, who had completed the basic training and special ability training that was almost like rehabilitation, tried to leave the front yard of Yeonhwa’s house, Yeonhwa asked him with a puzzled expression.
“I’m going to pick up my clothes that you said you threw away. … As a bonus, I plan to secure food for myself and check the locations of the dungeons near my house.”
As Yujin began to respond with an attitude that Yeonhwa’s question was no big deal, Yeonhwa said in a tone that she could not recommend it.
“With that body? “If there was a dungeon near my house, there would be no way I wouldn’t have known about it, right?”
“You wouldn’t have known because it was so cleverly hidden. And if you are in good shape, there is no need to worry. Thanks to Unirut, hunting animals isn’t that difficult as long as you don’t overdo it.”
It goes without saying that Unilut, which has been used for a lifetime, has better control abilities than essence that has not gone through any processing.
Therefore, Eugene, who creates a planet and then draws Unirut from that planet, is in a more comfortable state of controlling his body than when he drew essence from the atmosphere.
Thanks to this, Yeonhwa provides a place to stay and shelter, but does not provide other food and clothing, so she is able to obtain the food she needs to be self-sufficient.
“There is no way I would have worried about anything, right? … By the way, is it really possible to use future knowledge like that?”
Yeonhwa, who answered in a dry voice that she was not particularly worried about Eugene, turns her interest to the dungeon that Eugene knows about.
“Among those dungeons, are there any that I can conquer?”
“Uh… “It’s not like it doesn’t exist, but why?”
The current level of Yeonhwa is one that can be trained simply through meditation without the need for actual combat experience.
No, since there is a wall of reality in front of you in the first place, all you have to do is wait for an enlightenment that you do not know when will come.
The problem was that I didn’t know whether that realization would come while I was eating, running errands, or fighting for my life.
“You never know what will lead to enlightenment. Do you know anything? “I wonder if I will gain enlightenment while conquering the dungeon you told me about.”
“… “I heard you’re not particularly interested in the knowledge I have about the future?”
“I’m not interested in future knowledge, but I’m interested in the location of your dungeon.”
That was Eugene’s answer, trying to figure out what was the difference between saying that words are different and words are different.
“… “Once I confirm the location, I will hand you some.”
“Hehe, it’s good to talk. However, I am in a position where I have to try various things to achieve enlightenment, but there is no need for you to conquer the dungeon, right?”
That’s because if Eugene calmly continues his basic training and practice of his special abilities, he will quickly regain his original status.
Of course, in the process, you will need to gain a sense of practical combat through actual combat, but that can be satisfied by sparring with Yeonhwa and no one else.
So is there any reason for Eugene to attack the dungeon? Yeonhwa expressed her doubts, but Yujin responded with an expression as if she was asking something obvious.
“I need to make money.”
“…”
“Even if I entrusted myself to the Heavenly Demon and received protection, didn’t you say that I should take care of the rites and ceremonies? Even if we manage to solve this problem by hunting the beasts of the forest, self-sufficiency is not possible. So shouldn’t we make money and take the time to go back to the system and buy it?”
And the most legal and reliable way to do so was to sell magic stones obtained by hunting Enemies in dungeons.
“Are you thinking of becoming an adventurer?”
“Well… “Maybe after I graduate from the Academy and prevent the destruction of the world.”
He didn’t really plan on becoming an adventurer right away, but if he wanted to make a living after everything, the adventurer industry would definitely be the best fit for Eugene.
… It was quite a sad fact in that it was, in a way, similar to the exorcism industry that was used as a living on Earth.
“Academy… , Now that I think about it, you said you need the protection of this place until you enter the academy, right? “Why do you want to enter the academy?”
As she continues her conversation with Yu-jin, Cheon-ma asks her straightaway what she is curious about. In order not to offend her, Yu-jin answers as honestly as she can.
“A means to prevent the destruction of the world I mentioned… Should I call it a turning point? … “Well, most of that happens at the Academy.”
“Hmm…”
Yeonhwa, who had an expression on her face that didn’t tell whether she understood Eugene’s explanation properly or not, soon turned her body around.
“Well, that would be nice. Let’s do whatever we want during the two months under our protection. “I hope you can meet my expectations.”
“… “What are you arbitrarily expecting?”
“Kukkuk, you don’t seem to know that your attitude makes me look forward to this meeting even more?”
In response to Yeonhwa’s words, Eugene resists the urge to criticize her by saying, ‘No, I know, but wasn’t that at least something that happened after you became her student?’
Yeon-hwa, who was aware of her loneliness due to her many years of solitude, said that although she liked to communicate with others as equals, she limited her conversations to those she recognized as her own, such as her students.
Even though she promised to be generous, it is said that this is not the attitude she would show to Eugene, who she is sure has not developed that level of favorability yet.
So, to what extent is there bound to be a gap between Eugene’s game and reality? It is said that he was thinking of moving in the opposite direction from Yeonhwa, who was returning home to take care of her tattered clothes.
‘… By the way, is it a magic stone?’
At the same time, Eugene took out the gatekeeper’s magic stone that he had retrieved from his pocket and predicted the possibilities that had come to mind during the conversation with Yeonhwa earlier.
‘Is it possible? … First of all, if you want to experiment, you will need to obtain a certain amount of magic stones separately from the magic stones sold in the system.’
And for his sake, Eugene decides to first secure the location of the hidden dungeon that exists in this forest.
‘The dungeon where the hidden pieces are hidden is one superhuman level dungeon, and the rest are for leveling purposes.’
However, unlike regular dungeons, these were also difficult to find unless you obtained information through some route and searched separately.
It’s not for nothing that Yeonhwa, who lives in the Lina Forest, doesn’t know about its existence.
And that’s why these dungeons had better leveling efficiency than other dungeons.
‘I wouldn’t say it’s a bonus hidden piece, but the rewards for the strategy are pretty good.’
Well, as hidden as they are, all of these dungeons are subspace-type dungeons, so if you attack them, they will be closed, so Eugene was planning on leaving them alone until he got rid of them.
In any case, it is said that for that reason, Eugene was moving non-stop for his future plans, even though his body had just begun to recover.
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About a week has passed since Eugene began living with Yeonhwa, taking her under her protection, recovering and training her body, and practicing her special abilities.
The year has become a new year, and as winter deepens, the temperature in the atmosphere drops even more, and the liana forest where the two people are staying is also covered in cold.
In addition, as a result of heavy snowfall from January 1st to today, January 2nd in the year 896, when the year began, snow piled up throughout the forest, creating an environment in which it was difficult for people with disabilities to walk properly.
Eugene, who had been training his basic physical strength by making his own exercise equipment while staying in the forest, left the forest in a week and headed to the islands, but then returned to the forest again.
‘Whoa… , I can bear it because I put on some clothes.’
Eugene, who returned to the forest, had a bag on his back that did not exist when he left the forest.
Also, after wearing it all the time for a week, the academy’s school uniform had become so tattered that it was now doubtful that it was even clothing.
Eugene, who was wearing the school uniform until he left the forest, is now in a completely different situation from then, walking through the forest through the snow wearing a winter coat that looks quite thick.
“… Hmm?”
Eugene, who was moving forward without wandering as if he was used to it, suddenly felt something caught by his sixth sense and stood there.
“Hmm…”
He then stopped in place as if thinking for a moment, then took out something from the bag on his back, injected Unilut into the object, and threw it with all his might.
Shuung! Sigh!
“Kkieek!!”
“Bingo.”
Eugene’s skill in throwing the object in his bag, the butcher dagger, was close to a state of art.
Although she could not express her supernatural abilities in her movements like Yeonhwa, the movements themselves pursued efficiency to the limit.
Therefore, until the moment the throw was made, the ‘beast’ that was the target was not even aware that he had thrown something.
‘Let’s see… , It was a wild boar, after all.’
Eugene, who had finished hunting the wild boar, an animal that had been captured by his sixth sense in an instant, went through the grass covered in pure white snow and found the wild boar hiding there.
The butchering dagger that Eugene had thrown was strengthened with unirut, splitting its skull like tofu and turning its brain into mush, so the boar had already lost its ability to breathe.
Therefore, Eugene, who checked the condition of the wild boar, which was bleeding and not even moving, nodded his head and thought as he removed the butcher dagger stuck in the animal’s head.
‘This will solve the food problem for a few days. ‘I went to the islands today and bought as much food for preservation as I could, but I don’t know what will happen to people.’
So, Eugene was planning on slaughtering the wild boar with a dagger pulled from its head, thinking that he would save up the food he had bought for preservation and eat the wild boar he had just hunted for a few days.
“… Ah.”
Then he suddenly realized that the winter clothing he was wearing now was the new winter clothing he had purchased today. He was scratching his head and muttering.
“… “Let’s take him home first, change his clothes, and then slaughter him.”
In preparation for times like this, I bought a few sets of clothes that were relatively inexpensive, unlike winter clothes. Therefore, Eugene immediately grabs the boar’s hind feet and starts dragging it along.
“Okay… , This is heavier than I thought. No, it feels that way more because of the weight.”
The weight of the wild boar being dragged was also heavy, but after returning to the island in a week, Eugene bought all the necessary items and training tools to train his body.
There was also a piece of metal tied to the limbs, in other words, a weight to efficiently load the body, and Eugene was currently wearing it.
In the first place, Eugene trained his body to the limit by wearing the weights he made himself all week long, which he had made by putting clay in a cheap sack that he had obtained by asking Yeonhwa.
After a week, not only my entire body but also my right arm was almost completely healed, so it was natural to wear the right weights all the time.
‘Lina Forest is a low level section.’
Because it was the forest closest to the island, soldiers, knights, and adventurers from the island periodically came to clean it.
