Chapter 13 – Chapter 01: Elf Heavenly Horse
Therefore, I gritted my teeth and held on to my mind, which was becoming dizzy, and adjusted my breathing and the essence inside my body that was starting to boil.
By putting a tolerable level of essence into the damaged body part, it somehow induces self-recovery, and through the essence that follows the intention, the body that is about to collapse is forced to move.
It was a situation where I had surpassed my limit, but if I passed out in this situation where everything was over, it would be impossible to deal with it.
If Boss Enemy doesn’t retrieve the core of the defeated dungeon, it will be safe for the time being, but that was only for the time being.
Over time, the dungeon core will create Enemies to replace the defeated Boss Enemies. They say that the dungeon core must be recovered before that.
Of course, it wasn’t that I didn’t have any free time until then, but if I passed out like this, my essence would start running wild like I said, so I needed to grit my teeth, maintain my sanity, and wait for the essence to calm down and settle into my body.
In addition, you can save time by doing what needs to be done while you are awake.
Therefore, Eugene used essence to constrict blood vessels, performing an almost miraculous feat that is unthinkable in his current state, stopped the bleeding in his right arm, and began to take heavy steps.
‘These armors and the great sword…’
As Eugene walked like that, the first thing he saw with his bloodshot eyes due to overexertion was the gatekeeper he had defeated.
‘If you want to root, you can do it.’
In the case of Orbital World, which was a game, looting armor and great swords was impossible.
In the first place, in the game, if this gatekeeper’s HP was completely consumed, he disappeared, leaving only the magic stone behind.
Like Eugene, he was defeated by ignoring HP and extracting magic stones during the battle, so unlike the game, he probably still has armor and a great sword.
… Otherwise, due to the limitations of Orbital World, which is just a game, there could have been no armor and great sword left.
“… Tsk.”
Well, either way, it didn’t really matter to Eugene now.
Unlike the game, it was good that Eugene, who was broke, was able to obtain quite good armor and a great sword, but the problem was that there was no time to move those items to Eugene right away.
I don’t know if there was an inventory or something like in the game, but there was no way Eugene could afford to move something that weighed that much when he was in a situation where moving right away would kill him.
If he had some spare time, he would have made capital by selling it to a blacksmith shop, no matter how much armor he had damaged or a great sword with a broken blade here and there.
Even since it was an item from a dungeon, it was unknown what metal it was made of, so the price could have been higher than expected.
But right now, Eugene doesn’t have the strength to move those items, so they’re just a piece of cake in the picture.
Eugene, well aware of that fact, clicked his tongue and trudged past the gatekeeper, who had soon become a simple piece of armor and a great sword.
“Is this the compensation room…?” …”
Eugene passed the guard’s corpse(?) And arrived in front of a fairly simple-sized door compared to the huge door he opened when entering the boss room.
However, in front of the door that was more welcoming than the boss room, Eugene nodded after briefly looking inside the boss room, which existed only to battle the boss.
‘The flow of essence has changed. After all, it can’t be opened without dealing with the gatekeeper.’
Eugene confirms once again what he already knew after trying to open the door and enter, ignoring the gatekeeper, a boss who boasts a considerable level of difficulty, several times in the game.
Through him, Eugene becomes convinced that his hard work was not at all in vain, so he opens the door and walks in.
As he opened the door and entered, he was able to see the dungeon core floating in the center of the room, emitting a pale purple light, and the martial arts book of Guyu Demon Lord.
‘That’s interesting. ‘Books are really replacing mana stones, right?’
The dungeon that exists in the Orbital World was originally an alien space that occurred when the essence in the atmosphere accidentally gathered at a high density.
In some cases, it was created by overlapping reality, and in other cases, like the dungeon that Eugene entered, there was only an entrance in reality and the dungeon existed in a completely separate subspace.
However, all dungeons have a common dungeon core, which can be said to be the core of the dungeon, and this core is usually composed of mana stones called consumable essence stones.
In the first place, the setting was that mana stones were created when essences enough to create a huge amount of mana stones were accidentally concentrated in one space, and the space where the twisted laws were imprinted by the mana stones was the dungeon.
And since this Mana Stone is created with dense essence, the Chinese character for stone (石) is used, but it is difficult to classify it as a rock using a scientific approach.
Essence, which originally did not exist physically, gained physical power after being concentrated in such an enormous amount that it physically existed…
In other words, it is a contradictory object in which non-physical energy is physically gathered together. In other words, although it may have the form of stone, it is difficult to say that it is a stone when approached physically.
So, in theory, there was no need to turn the dungeon core.
Most mana stones are in the form of stones, but in some cases, something other than stones replaces mana stones, that is, dungeon cores.
However, this case is a very rare case, and even if you search through all the rounds in the game called Orbital World, there are no more than 100 cases.
And as that rare case was now unfolding before Eugene’s eyes, he couldn’t help but be amazed.
“On the outside, it’s just a military book, but you said it was transformed into an imitation sacred weapon by the dungeon, right?”
It was a type of supernatural tool that could be made by those who had production-related powers among those who used a supernatural ability called imitation divine power.
For example, let’s say that someone who has the power to create magic swords with various special abilities creates a magic sword that spits fire.
In that case, the magic sword could be said to be an imitation divine device. The texture was different from the artifacts that wizards create by imprinting their magic on tools.
Even though the end result is a magic sword that uses the same fire, the process is made up of completely different abilities.
‘At first, I thought the game setting reflected realistic theories about power and magic…’
And this setting was actually also true in the world behind Earth.
That’s why Eugene was a little impressed by the fact that magic and power were incorporated into the game sold to the public.
Of course, now I have personally experienced the fact that the reason is that the game was created by running a simulation of a world where supernatural abilities actually exist.
‘At the time, I thought it was just a coincidence… !’
I also thought that the game creators had characters related to the behind-the-scenes world. Who would have imagined that this would be a game set in the real world?
‘No, there were a lot of people who imagined it…’
It’s just that, foolishly, I wasn’t that type of person. Eugene, who was sighing at that fact, quickly shook his head and walked towards the military office in front of him.
‘The dungeon is a huge power user created by nature, and the supernatural tool that appears within it, and the chimpoum is an imitation magic device created by the dungeon… Did you feel like that?
In some cases, it appeared not as an imitation sacred device, but as a chimpum, meaning an object containing artifacts.
Well, one way or another, the important thing in the end is that in dungeons, supernatural tools and acupuncture items with unique abilities appear in some cases.
And among those chimpoums, there were rare but rare items called nuclear chimpoums, in which the chimney itself played the role of a dungeon core, like the martial arts book of Guyumagong in front of me.
‘The performance of nuclear immersion products is overwhelming compared to other immersion products and flat immersion products… That was the setting, right?
There were monsters and demons on Earth, but dungeons did not exist.
As this is the real world, it may be because the essence density of the Earth is so low, but the point is that dungeons do not exist on Earth, so this was Eugene’s first time seeing a supernatural tool called acupuncture.
Well, I’ve been sick of artifacts and counterfeit magic since I’ve inherited the profession of exorcism, but this is the first time I’ve encountered a supernatural tool like this that was born in a dungeon, that is, in nature.
‘No, since it was born in nature, it is a martial law, right?’
Of course, it was not an ordinary martial law. This is because it is a martial arts book in which a new skill called Guyumagong is recorded, and the martial arts book itself is also an object that contains the will and inner strength of the Heavenly Demon.
Therefore, the midday book, which is not even a mana stone, could have become a dungeon core. And in this way, the martial arts book that became the dungeon core changed from being just an object that contained the will and power of the Heavenly Demon to an imitation divine device.
In that sense, it may be said to be a spit created by humans and nature together.
Thinking like that, Eugene quickly retrieved the military service book of Duke Guyumagong that was floating before his eyes.
‘… Is this really how it is written?’
And the moment Eugene retrieved the military officialdom, he could naturally feel the means of how to use the military officialdom appear in his mind.
This must be the ability that this martial arts book possesses as an imitation divine device. If the owner uses this book of martial arts, it is an object with the imitation power that imprints all the knowledge of martial arts contained in the book of martial arts into the owner’s mind.
As a part of it, the martial arts book imprinted its use in the mind of Eugene, who became the owner. And how to use it…
‘I just have to start from the first chapter of the book and read it all the way to the end, right?’
… There was no need to understand the contents of the book. There was no problem even if I didn’t know the characters of the martial arts world written in the contents of the book.
Just by looking at the letters written on the first page to the last page one by one, everything about Guyumagong recorded in the Book of Military History will soon be imprinted in Eugene’s mind by the imitation power of the Book of Military Affairs.
And through this, Eugene is able to learn Guyumagong, an unprecedented new technique that guarantees him the status of a ruler, which he could not achieve even before being possessed here, and the status called Hyeongyeong in the world of martial arts.
“… “I don’t plan on doing that, though.”
But soon, even though Eugene had acquired such a huge collection of military books, he did not devoured them, but kept them in his arms.
That’s because, as this martial arts book said, it was a landmine to learn.
The moment you learn martial arts, you will naturally possess the inner energy of Gu Yu Demon, the Gu Yu Demon Energy, within your body thanks to the tremendous new skill, Gu Yu Demon Gong.
Even if the amount was extremely small, Guyumagi was the inherent strength of the Elven Heavenly Demon. Even if it is the same Neegongsimbeop, its nature changes depending on the person, but there is a degree.
In other words, the Old Yumagi cannot help but react sensitively to the same Old Yumagi. Should I call it a kind of resonance?
Therefore, the moment Eugene leaves the dungeon after learning this Guyumagi, he is unconditionally caught by the Heavenly Demon.
Then, wouldn’t it be okay to get out of the forest and learn martial arts? It could have been said, but in that case, the moment you are about to escape into the forest, the Heavenly Demon appears and takes the Book of Military Merit.
As I said, this book of martial arts contains the intention and inner power of the Heavenly Demon who created the Old Demon Gong, so the Heavenly Demon senses it and appears like a ghost.
‘That’s why the most efficient way to use this old Demon Lord’s martial arts book is to use it to take the route of becoming a disciple of the Heavenly Demon.’
The elf Cheonma, Yeonhwa, was a female Cheonma in a world where the genders were reversed, and had a personality close to the male Cheonma in the world where Eugene lived.
Even if the genders were reversed, the parts that were difficult to accept, either women’s tastes or men’s tastes, were not reversed.
In other words, it was natural for women to like cute and pretty things, and it was also natural for men to like cool things.
