Chapter 325 – Pocket Girls
She thinks things have worked out and her Seong-il transfers herself to Dr. Jun’s secret lab.
‘Oh…! Come to think of it, I got an extra black ball!!’
The black ball that I completely forgot about as the situation flowed urgently. Seong-il carefully takes out her cheek and examines her belongings.
“Customs!”
『Black Ball: 100,000 Duty Points』
‘Whew… Fortunately, I think I can use it without any problems…?’
Seong-il was worried about the explanation, “There is only one black ball in this world,” Written on the black ball item description window, but fortunately, she sighed in relief when it seemed that there was no problem in using it if she obtained it as a perk. Exhale.
‘Anyway, that’s it… The points I have now are only around 40,000, but when will I collect 100,000…’
She has been struggling to get a fraudulent item, but when she can’t use it due to lack of points, Seong-il feels a bit discouraged.
‘I need to think about how to earn points…’
Thinking that there must be a way… Seong-il attaches a black ball to his waist and enters Dr. Jun’s secret laboratory.
‘…Should I contact you?’
We arrived, but the entrance to Dr. Jun’s lab was hidden in a shabby warehouse. Seong-il told him that she had arrived and that she was contemplating whether she should call or not. The floor cracks and a hidden entrance appears.
‘Hmm? Can I just go in?’
“Come in.”
‘Oh…?’
Interestingly, the doctor’s voice coming from the lab door. Seong-il calmly enters his laboratory at the sound of that voice.
“Uh… How are you?”
“Ah, you’ve arrived. Sit here.”
“Yes? Yes…”
“After…”
The figure of Dr. Seong-il sitting in the corner of a shabby laboratory and staring at him while standing still, looking like he is in deep pensive.
He tries to open his mouth several times, then closes it again, then opens his mouth to sigh over and over again.
‘Looks like he’s worried about something.’
Seong-il has many things he wants to say, but he patiently waits for the doctor’s decision.
“Whoa… The effect of the potion is amazing.”
“Is it so…?”
“Yes. I carefully analyzed the potion you gave me, but it was no joke.”
“Um… What was it like?”
“Umm… How to say… It’s like the power of unheard-of laws beyond the scope of science.”
“…”
“It felt like… A superpower. Not just a superpower, but a mighty superpower…”
Seong-il flinched at the doctor’s precise expression and was unable to say anything.
Fortunately, he didn’t see Seong-il’s expression. He doesn’t respond much, and continues to mutter the results of his own research.
“It felt like a material embodiment of a superpower. The power of a very high-level superpower.”
“Ah… Yes…”
“Anyway, the more I researched it, the more it seemed to me that it was an amazing thing.”
“Hmm…”
“Especially, it was astounding to ‘restore’ a life form with a physically impossible mechanism.”
“…Restore?”
“Yes. Restoration. This potion is not a recovery, it just restores the target to its most ideal state.”
“Hmm…”
“It even worked for objects…? It was a fearsome force. How in the world is that possible…?”
“Even if you ask me that…”
“Ah… Um… Sorry! I’ve developed a bad habit without even realizing it. When I find something interesting, I become very talkative…”
“I understand. But, that’s it… Can you perform the procedure on me?”
Dr. Jun smiles bitterly at Seong-il’s question. He nods and answers Seongil.
“Haa… It’s ridiculous to be honest, but if you use this potion as you said, it seems possible to have a procedure without side effects.”
“…Really?”
“Yes. Because this potion restores a person or an object to the most perfect form, even if problems arise from nanomachines, there is a high possibility that it will normalize your body as well as the nanomachines that caused the problem.”
“Oh oh…!!”
Seong-Il gets excited about the doctor’s positive answer. However, Dr. Jun replies as if reading the excited Seong-il.
“However, there are conditions.”
“Yes? Which…?”
“If it seems that the side effects will be expressed too severely during the experiment, the experiment should be stopped.”
“Eek?! You can drink the potion, right?”
“If the side effects are serious during the experiment, you won’t even have time to drink the potion?”
“…”
“Even if side effects occur, we will conduct experiments only within the minimum controllable range. If there is an extreme problem, we will stop the procedure unconditionally.”
“Hmm…”
The words of a wise doctor. When Seong-il gets to that point, he also thinks that there is no reason for him to undergo surgery.
‘Well, if I die before I can even take the elixir, I’ll be dumbfounded.’
He also returned to this place with a precious resurrection spell, but he was in trouble if he died in vain.
‘I haven’t even paid the new blackball tariff yet, but it’s even worse if I get killed by a dog…!!’
With all his thoughts in order, Seong-il approaches Dr. Jun and nods his head in reply.
“I won’t overdo it. If there’s even the slightest problem with my body, I’ll tell you right away.”
“…Good.”
After saying that, the doctor takes Seong-il and moves somewhere.
‘Oh…’
Interestingly, the appearance of a new laboratory hidden inside a seemingly ordinary laboratory.
‘Another hidden place in a hidden place…’
Admiring the thoroughness of the doctor, Seong-il follows him and enters the interior.
“Oh…”
Dr. June’s lab looks very similar to the lab where Dr. Lowe performed telekinesis in the past.
“Is this it?”
“Yes. Isn’t it very similar to the one I saw before?”
“…Just about the same level?”
“Haha… It’s a related procedure, so that’s why.”
“Ahh… Then, can I go into the cylinder like the last experiment?”
“Oh, not now…”
“…?”
After stopping Seongil for a while, he moves to what looks like a walk-in refrigerator and takes out something of his from there.
“…That?”
“The drugs you need to take and the nanomachines you will inject into your veins.”
“Oh…”
“It will hurt a lot.”
“…”
Having said that, the doctor sits down on his holy day and brings a box that emits cold air.
“Drink this first.”
“Hmm…”
A strange potion made of white liquid. Seong-il quietly swallows the potion as he tells him to.
“Kehehe!!”
“Doesn’t it taste a little? But it will protect your organs during the experiment, so bear with it even if it’s hard.”
“Khehe… Yeah…”
The last day I drank a bitter and sticky liquid. When he finishes drinking, the doctor pulls out an injection the size of a child’s forearm from an elaborate mechanical box.
“Hee… Hee…!!”
“…If you’re afraid, should I quit now?”
“…No, just do it.”
“Haha…”
Dr. Jun smiles bitterly at Seongil’s fearless attitude. After he nods his head, he begins injecting a strange silvery fluid into his injections.
“Is that so…?”
“Yes. It’s a nanomachine. It looks like a simple liquid to the human eye, but it’s actually a collection of many machines.”
“Ohh…”
“This will enter your body. Then you will enter that cylinder and shoot a special wavelength at your body like last time.”
“…”
“Then the power of the information contained in that wavelength will program the nanomachines to suit your body.”
“Ohh…”
“For reference, the side effects are…”
Dr. Jun explains the side effects to Seong-il.
“…If you feel that way, don’t hesitate to tell me. Okay?”
“Yes. I promise.”
“Okay. Then let’s begin.”
The doctor starts injecting thick injections into Seong-il’s arm, who looks nervous.
“Kuh…”
The intense pain felt as the thick needle pierced the blood vessel. And at the same time he feels the pain, Seong-il feels a strange liquid being injected into his veins.
‘Okay…’
Although he was very sick, Seong-il was forged through countless battles and training. He tolerates the pain effortlessly.
“Oh… You have a lot of patience?”
“Sure. I could have been stabbed to death, but that’s all.”
“Haha…Then the hyper team?”
“Yes. That bastard… Even thinking about it now, I want to kill him.”
Oddly enough, Seong-il’s words were not lies because Tae-seong, who had cut himself, had now committed himself to the Hyper Team.
“It’s done. Let’s go.”
“Yes.”
With a tense mind, Seong-il moves to the circular glass tube in the center of the lab.
“If it hurts…”
“I know. I will tell you. I promise.”
“Haha… Yes.”
After that, the doctor busily moves his hands and starts operating his machine.
Ugh!!
An intense noise echoed shortly after. At the same time, Seongil’s body begins to radiate unusual wavelengths and light.
“Kuk…!!”
At the same time, the nanomachines begin to be vigorously active in the body… To be precise, along the blood vessels.
Seong-il gritted his teeth desperately and endured the recoil.
‘In case you didn’t know about 『Emotion』…’
Seong-il projects 『Sensation』 On his body in order to grasp the critical point where his body cannot withstand the experiment.
At the same time, mad stimulation flows through his blood vessels, and Seong-il feels the pain limit him.
‘Fuck… It hurts… But according to the information 『Emotion』 Gives me, they say my body can still hold on… But the pain is too much!! I can’t do it… Even if it’s my strength…!!’
When he gets to the point where he loses consciousness due to the intense pain, Seong-il tries his best to endure the pain.
‘Oh…?’
The state of the body improves even more when you use your inner energy to practice the heavenly, earthy, yin and yang divine art.
That time when he is relieved of the pain of being quiet. Surprisingly, even the nanomachines start to move around the body stably according to the flow of inner energy operated by Seongil.
‘Oh… This kind of effect…?’
At the same time, the changes felt in the body. It was a very small and subtle change, but the sharp sense of 『Emotion』 Fully grasped the change and informed Seong-il in detail.
‘I can feel the little machines combining with my body.’
And the action that doesn’t feel particularly bad. Seong-il believes in the information provided by the response and calmly waits for the machine to settle in his body.
“Nice…”
The pain that came back as the process deepened. He desperately suppresses the pain and spends an eternity of patience.
Wooooo…!!
In the meantime, the sound of the machine dwindling in his ears. Seong-il realizes that it is a sign that the long suffering is over.
‘Whoa… I thought it would end.’
Weeing!!
At that time, Seongil was exhausted. The glass wall opens and Dr. Jun hurriedly approaches Seong-il.
“Are you okay?”
“Yes? It’s okay. There doesn’t seem to be any problem…?”
“Let’s drink that potion first.”
“Yes? I don’t feel any side effects yet…?”
“I’ll have to remember the experiment I did with Dr. Low. I can’t rule out the possibility that side effects will come later, just like that time. Drink it right away.”
“…Then how much potion to give to the doctor?”
“Of course the potion is valuable, but not as much as your life.”
“…”
Dr. Jun’s personality is admirable. Seong-il admires how there are so many such personalities in Shelter in such a terrible apocalyptic world.
‘Not only Dr. Jun, but also Dr. Woo and Dr. Low, there is no person in the leadership who is not a person of character.’
Impressed by the group called Shelter, Seong-il calmly takes out an elixir from his chest and drinks it instead of answering.
“Gulp…!!”
Then, intense stimulation spreads throughout the body. It was as if the elixir was penetrating into every small blood vessel of Seongil.
‘There must have been side effects.’
The effect of the elixir felt more stimulating than in Dr. Low’s previous experiment. Based on that, Seong-il realizes that there was a problem with this experiment.
‘Well… There seems to be a problem… But the Elixir seems to heal anyway, so it should be fine.’
“…How are you?”
“There are definitely side effects.”
“What?!”
“It’s okay. I could feel the potion normalizing my body.”
“Hmm…”
Even though he knows that the potion has a powerful effect, the associate doctor’s attitude is still uneasy.
Seong-il smiles at him and tries to reassure him.
“Don’t worry. This stimulation is the same situation I felt the last time Dr. Lowe. I’m sure it’s healing.”
“Whoa… That’s what it should be.”
“First of all… Would you like to take a break today and come back to the lab tomorrow? To check the side effects and see if the injected abilities are working well.”
“Great!”
“…But for now, don’t use any powers today and just rest. Okay?”
“Sure!! Take this first…!!”
Seong-il takes out the elixir from another potion bottle and hands it to him.
“Ah, thank you.”
“Yes! Then see you tomorrow!!”
Seong-il moves to the lodging with a thrilled heart, and calmly takes a break as he said.
Next day.
“Oh… It works! It works!!”
Seong-il confirms with his own eyes that lightly injured areas recover quickly. He is delighted like a child and brags about his abilities to Dr. June.
“Looks like it went well! Congratulations!!”
“Whoops… It’s a complete success!!”
The course of the procedure that looks successful even from your own eyes. Dr. Jun looks at the potion bottle containing the elixir with as much excitement as Seong-il.
‘If this child succeeded in the procedure because of that potion…!!’
One dose of potion that was still half left and one additional dose given by Seongil. Looking at the remaining elixir, he feels hopeful.
‘Perhaps…! I might have found a way to save this world!!’
Two people who were happy with different thoughts. They experiment for a while, checking out their new abilities.
‘Certainly, the use of telekinesis has become more precise than before.’
In the past, it was a holy day that required a lot of concentration to use the ability. However, after the procedure, I feel that it is possible to operate more easily and precisely.
‘Not only that… It seems that the air efficiency has improved a lot?’
In the past, when normal psychokinesis was operated at maximum output, internal energy ran out within 5 minutes.
But now, I don’t feel much strain even if I pump out almost 10 minutes at full power.
“I… Doctor.”
“Yes why?”
“Can you tell me how to hone this ability? The description says that if you pass this test, you could theoretically turn your telekinesis into another form of power, just like wild psychics do.”
“Ah… That?”
“Yes! If there is a related manual or something…”
“…Sorry, after this we don’t know what to do yet.”
“…”
“That… That’s true, less than six people in history have passed this project, so there is no data… Most of those who passed died in the war…”
“Aha…”
“So I honestly don’t know how to help you…”
“Yes…”
“Ah… We can do research together! We studied together for about a year…”
“…”
Meanwhile, Dr. Jun secretly looks over Seong-il with a selfish look. Seong-il responds by quickly leaving the place in his eyes.
“I’ll try it myself for now! Thank you!!”
“Huh…”
Leaving behind him, who is slightly disappointed, Seong-il quickly leaves the laboratory and returns to his dorm.
‘Hmm… I’ve acquired excellent abilities, but I don’t know how to train.’
‘Come to think of it, except for martial arts, I’ve never received instruction on combat-related superpowers.’
Seong-il, who was a non-combatant in real life, had hardly ever taken a combat-related lecture.
‘Kkeuh… It’s only been a month since I’ve taken combat lessons in real life.’
Seong-il lived for almost a year adventuring in the game world after awakening his fighting ability, but in reality, he only lived for about a month to hide his awakened ability.
Unfortunately, he was unable to take combat-related classes at university.
‘It’s a pity… How nice it would be if there was someone who could guide me to use my abilities properly…’
Seong-il was worried alone. A thought runs through his mind.
‘Hey? A game like that…’
