Chapter 39 – Chapter 01: Elf Heavenly Horse
Kuuk! Kwasik!
… However, what is different from usual is that Yeonhwa, who was staying at home while Eugene was conquering the dungeon, followed him and watched him conquer the dungeon?
Eugene, who must have been internally concerned by that fact, grabbed the giant centipede, which boasted the size of a large dog, by both ends and pulled it to both sides, discarding the half-grained bamboo shoots, and glanced at Yeonhwa.
“It’s amazing every time I see it. The way he casually catches bug-type enemies that men would be so disgusted and scared of. “This clearly shows that the values of men and women have been reversed.”
However, even though Yeonhwa knew what Eugene’s gaze meant, she partially ignored it and only expressed her own feelings as she watched him hunt Enemy.
“… It doesn’t really have much to do with the gender reversal. “To begin with, I absolutely hated bugs.”
To a certain extent, when I was young, if I saw something crawling on the floor, no matter what kind of bug it was, I would get angry and run away.
In a way, Eugene hated bugs more than the women on Earth.
“Hmm? “If you look at your current attitude, it’s not true at all.”
“I had no choice but to get used to it.”
However, even though she was a child who hated bugs, she had no choice but to become accustomed to bugs as she engaged in exorcism in order to survive.
In addition to monsters and demons, there were also a lot of villains who demonstrated supernatural abilities using insects.
In that sense, even if she were an Earth woman, if she rolled around like Eugene, she would have been able to kill a centipede the size of a large dog and kill it with her bare hands without a problem.
Therefore, even though the current Eugene feels like crying inside, she has a calm expression and is able to extract the magic stone from the body of the centipede that she tore up with her bare hands.
“If I just listen to what you’re saying, it sounds like you’ve lived a more difficult life than I did when you fought all sorts of desperate battles to become a Heavenly Demon in Shingyo?”
“I didn’t really mean that when I said it, right? “It’s ridiculous to argue about who has had a harder life in the first place.”
The story goes that if Yeonhwa had her own hardships before becoming a Heavenly Demon, Eugene also went through his own hardships after inheriting the job of exorcism from her parents.
Isn’t it just sad to argue about whose hardships were more difficult and to argue about something that has already happened?
That’s why Eugene diverted the topic by retrieving her magic gemstone, which had been extracted from the inside of her centipede’s corpse and contaminated with her centipede’s bodily fluids, in the air.
“More than that, why did you follow me today? “He usually doesn’t even care if I go to the dungeon.”
In the first place, no matter where Yeonhwa went, she was not a cat that Eugene could stop, so she left her alone, but she was curious.
For a week, she didn’t even pay attention to him even though he had been exploring the entry-level hidden dungeon hidden closest to Yeonhwa’s residential area in order to obtain her magic stone.
At least Yeonhwa was slightly interested in the absolute self-sufficient dungeon that Eugene had forced her to teach her, which was almost threatening, but she lost interest in even that after a few days.
The absolutely self-sufficient hidden dungeon hidden in the Lina Forest was a typical open-ended subspace type dungeon with nothing special about it.
You can literally think of it as an instance dungeon in a typical RPG game, where you hunt down the enemies that appear inside the dungeon, reach the core, hunt the boss monster, and retrieve the dungeon core, which then closes.
Unlike closed dungeons, this is an instanced dungeon where you can freely enter and exit through the entrance whenever you want.
In short, should I say that it is a dungeon that is nothing special and feels more like a hunting ground that exists for quick leveling up?
‘Then you could say, ‘Why did you hide it?’ But…’
Rather than giving the feeling of a hidden piece being hidden, this dungeon was intended to cause trouble to the player by causing dungeon breaks depending on the route if left unattended without being aware of its existence.
Therefore, in the original work, it feels like leveling up and ignoring the dungeon break in advance, conducting research to confirm the location of the dungeon and then attacking the dungeon in advance.
And for that reason, Yeonhwa lost interest after taking a look at this dungeon that Eugene had told her about.
Since it was a dungeon that I couldn’t find anything special about, I probably didn’t see a reason to go through the trouble of clearing it.
… Well, as Eugene, who secretly wanted Yeonhwa to conquer this dungeon in advance, it was quite disappointing that it didn’t go as planned.
‘The point is, why did someone who wasn’t even interested in the absolute self-level dungeon I told you about follow me as I explored an entry-level dungeon?’
Since Yeonhwa did not show much interest in the absolute self-sufficient dungeon, it is unlikely that she followed the dungeon with interest.
That’s why Eugene skillfully shakes off her centipede’s bodily fluids and keeps her magic stone in the pocket on her waist, which he purchased exclusively for her magic stone, and honestly reveals her doubts to her.
“Are you asking the obvious? “I came along to watch you fight, as you will soon join my throne.”
“Keck…”
And when Yeonhwa returned, her carefree answer could not help but be heard by Eugene as, ‘I came along to come up with a strategy to figure out how to destroy you!’
“Cook, cluck, you don’t have to be so offended. Is it possible that the Heavenly Demon, after seeing your fighting method that had not even recovered to its original status, created a law to destroy it, made you unable to use your hands or feet, and then came after you to beat you up?”
That’s why Yeonhwa smiled and spoke to Eugene’s outright reaction of disapproval.
… The problem is that for Eugene, her comments will do the opposite! Although it sounded like it meant that!
“I was just bored waiting for you to recover to the level where you can fight with the main throne, so I followed you because I was curious about how you hunt Enemy when you haven’t even reached the proper level. Well, in some cases, I could have been generous and given advice.”
To put it simply, Yeonhwa explained that she followed Yujin because she was curious about him fighting. Yujin looked at her with a slightly suspicious expression, then sighed and spoke.
“Is that so… “Then, can you please tell me your impressions of me fighting?”
Even if you ask him for advice, he knows very well that he is not the kind of person who will give it if he doesn’t feel like it, so he asks you to just share your impressions.
Yeonhwa recalled Yujin’s battle after entering this dungeon to express her feelings as if Eugene’s words were not particularly difficult.
Unlike her own internal energy, she strengthens her body by drawing on her supernatural energy called Unirutra, which is stored in her outer core.
… And the battle that Eugene showed after that would be best described as quite simple and ignorant to her killer.
Originally, the level he has reached now would have been close to impossible, and he dispersed the Unirats in the air with a control ability.
Through this, Eugene formed a detection network that was in sync with his sixth sense, walked into the dungeon in that state, and responded immediately the moment a reaction came from within the detection network.
Enemy is a giant centipede that crawls on the floor or attaches itself to the ceiling and surprises you in an instant.
No matter how silently the centipede enemy approaches, the detection network that Eugene built through Unirat allows it to be immediately detected the moment the enemy enters the detection network without a delay of 0.00001 seconds.
Therefore, Eugene calmly avoids the centipede’s surprise attack with minimal movement and snatches the huge centipede out of the air with his bare hands before the centipede even falls to the ground.
Then, Eugene’s hunting method so far was to use his physical ability, which had been strengthened through Unilut, to tear the centipede from both sides and cut it into pieces as before.
This was possible because the dungeon that Eugene entered was an entry-level dungeon at best, and the Enemy that mainly appeared was a giant centipede, which was equivalent to a beginner level.
In short, as Eugene’s level is higher, he is able to kill the centipede without any particular battle.
Therefore, it would not be strange for an ordinary person to say that Eugene looks ignorant when he sees him hunting centipedes. However, in the case of Yeonhwa, opinions were slightly different.
“It seemed quite efficient. “You form a detection network with that supernatural energy called Unirat in the air. Considering the level you have reached, it is not that strange to recreate it at your current level.”
Therefore, Yeonhwa was not surprised to see Eugene forming a detection network through his sixth sense.
In martial arts, when one reaches the level of transcendence (the highest level of superhuman), one realizes how to project one’s own energy into the five senses.
Through this, he disperses his inner energy into the air to form a sensing network like Eugene does now, and then he becomes able to see, hear, smell, and feel through just that sense.
Therefore, even if Eugene, who has reached the status of an absolute being, is not at that level, it is not surprising that even in his current state, he is forming a detection network with Unirat.
Even though the body and energy have been reset, the mind that controls energy remains the same.
In fact, after Yeonhwa was reincarnated, even before she reached her peak, it was possible for her to disperse her energy in the air and resonate with the energy to form a sensing network.
Therefore, the part where Yeonhwa, who did not pay much attention to Yujin forming a detection network, was interested in his fighting style was his military education.
“So what I mainly focused on observing was your movement itself. And thanks to that, I was able to find out. Your movements are very efficient. As you said, I can see that the hard work you did on Earth was not in vain.”
A movement that gives a glimpse of the combat logic that can be seen built up through all kinds of practical combat experiences on a solid foundation.
People who didn’t know the movements that Eugene showed while hunting centipedes could have thought they were just stunts, but Yeonhwa, who was confident that she had reached the pinnacle of martial arts, was able to observe the experience that Eugene had accumulated in them.
“… But to put it another way, that’s it. Based on a foundation that anyone can learn, we have built up the ability to respond in any situation through all kinds of practical experience. However, it is closer to pushing forward through accumulated experience rather than capturing a mysterious group.”
Because the foundation was strong and the accumulated experience was experience, it was not something to just ignore. But it wasn’t anything special either.
“It is not a martial art created on the premise of being in harmony with other abilities, like the martial arts of martial arts. The type of martial arts that deals with special abilities through perfected martial arts. In other words, it’s close to the actual martial art used by martial artists in this Orbital World who don’t really know anything about martial arts.”
Not only that, but among the actual martial arts used by such martial artists, it was also not the martial art of the Judo school, which was developed to subdue the opponent through long fights after spending time studying all kinds of herbal techniques.
“When fighting by exchanging weapons with each other, sometimes it is necessary to fight with moves, such as giving up efficiency and laying the groundwork for the next move.”
And the actual martial art of the Judo school developed to win a fight through martial arts.
Among those martial arts, there was even a school that included a group of mysteries that even Yeonhwa could purely admire, if you look only at the physical aspect, excluding supernatural abilities.
“But I can’t feel that kind of depth in your movements or nothingness. All I feel is the experience of thinking about the optimal response to all kinds of situations, built on a solid foundation. Yes, it is a typical martial art of the reactive school.”
And through those clues, Yeonhwa came to a conclusion. The martial arts that Eugene deals with are a type of martial art called the reactive school.
“To be honest, looking at this aspect alone, it is a disappointing position from the perspective of studying martial arts. … Well, since I haven’t learned martial arts, I understand that I haven’t learned the mysterious group of martial arts that is premised on harmony with other abilities.”
Mubeop, the main fighting method of martial arts, was a fighting method that gained meaning only when the body’s movements, the flow of herbal energy and internal energy, and myori resonated.
