Chapter 346 – Mythology Academy
So the two had a drink and chatted for a while, and Seong-il, who had enough conversation, moved back to the world of the academy.
『Wheein!!』
“Eh?”
An alarm rings upon arrival in the world of Mythology Academy. Seong-il looks at his phone with a puzzled look on his face.
“What else…?”
『Emergency mission failed!! : Do not leave the academy world for one month.』
“Ah, that’s right! Holy shit…!!!”
Seong-il left for another world without thinking in a hurry. He feels his insides boiling after having lost 10,000 bloody points.
“Ah… Crazy…!!!”
Seong-il is so angry that he beats his chest to let go of his anger. Then, he catches his breath and attempts self-consolation.
‘No, that’s all right. I was lucky enough to get a chance to get my hands on Elaine anyway, but it’s ridiculous to miss it because of 10,000 points.’
‘Meeting the old man and sharing advice with him is never a wrong choice!! After all, he never lost money by discussing with that old man, right?’
That time when I lost my temper with such a mental victory. The alarm rings again on his phone.
Weeing!!
“…What else, fuck.”
Seong-il gets angry at the game master’s attitude of setting fire in the middle of annoyance. He cries and eats mustard while checking his phone’s alarm.
『Resurrection of the Loser!! : You who failed your first emergency mission. Now, you realize you have to be careful in accepting the mission, right?
We give you a chance to learn a sharp lesson.
If you spend 10,000 points now, you have a chance to try again!!!
Reward: 2 gold draw tickets
(P.S. No two times!!)』
“Okay…”
Probably, like the first death in the past, it seems to compensate for the failure of the first emergency mission in this way. Seong-il holds onto his phone and worries about the game master’s attitude of giving him medicine and giving him sickness.
“Fuck, how…”
However, after thinking about it, the answer is fixed, and he clicks Retry with a bug-bitten expression on his face.
‘Anyway, you pay a penalty for failing, or you pay 10,000 points for trying again, but in reality, the cost is the same, right? I can’t afford to lose, so I have to accept… Now I really don’t want to go to another world!!’
After patting his head lightly and blaming himself, Seong-il moves to the classroom to take another class.
“Whoa… When are you coming?”
On the first day, Seong-il went to his dormitory after all the lectures. He watches the clock in his room and waits for Elaine to visit.
Smart!!
‘Come!!!!!’
Since Elaine is the only person visiting him at this time, Seong-il quickly runs to the door with an excited expression on his face.
‘Oops!! Facial expressions…!! Facial expression management!!!’
Seong-il stands in front of the door and takes a deep breath while looking in the mirror. After managing his expression, he opens the door and shouts.
“Who are you?”
“Hey… It’s me!! Elaine.”
“Oh, you’re here.”
As expected, Seong-il cheers inwardly at the appearance of the target he has been waiting for. However, he does not show her expression, and greets her with her most indifferent attitude.
“Hi.”
“…That?”
“Uh… But it’s a visit, so it’s kind of like coming empty-handed…”
“Aha! Hold on, I’ll get some tea, wait…”
He probably brought his favorite cake as a gift. Seong-il cautiously moves to the kitchen, opens his inventory, and brings out the 『Matna Teapot』 He picked up from the lottery a while ago.
‘Although the delicious series is garbage in terms of combat use, the taste is certain…’
When he pulled it out, he was furious that he had blown bloody points, but Seong-il muttered, ‘I have a place to use it because I was swept away,’ and went back to Elaine with a teapot.
“Oh, what is that?”
“Uh… This? That… Our hometown specialties?”
“Oh!! I like that!!”
“Uh, yes.”
Calmly pour a drink into a teacup from the teapot. Then came the reddish-brown drink.
‘Is it black tea?’
She speaks like she’s familiar with Elaine, but since it’s her first drink, on her holy day, before she asks about her drink, she quickly mouths it and savors it.
‘If you don’t even know what the taste is like saying it’s a local product, that would be a gag.’
The flavor of the fantastic black tea felt in the meantime.
‘Fuck? This black tea is damn delicious?!’
While Seong-il is startled by the taste of black tea, Elaine, who drinks black tea with him, also looks very surprised, and she looks at the black tea and Seong-il alternately.
“Wow… Seongil-kun must have been a great foodie? This… It’s the first time I’ve had such a fantastic drink…”
“Oh, well… Not really…”
“Anyway!! How can I get this? If I can get one, I’d like to personally stock up on some…”
“…This is rare in the south, so it’s hard to find it in normal ways. Anyway!! Let’s get to the point!”
“Ah… Yes…”
‘If I make him a follower later, I’ll give it as a gift.’
Seeing her slightly disappointed Elaine, Seong-il thinks that he should give her a teapot as a gift someday, and she asks Elaine.
“You asked how I stabilized my mana earlier?”
“Ah! That’s right! Can you tell me?”
“I can tell you, but there are conditions.”
“…What?”
The appearance of Elaine looking at Seongil with a slightly wary expression. Seong-il begins to recite an excuse prepared in advance for that attitude.
“Never! Do not leak this secret technique outside!”
“Ah…”
“Since it’s a vision that my family has struggled to obtain, leaking it out can be a big problem.”
“Uh, then shouldn’t you let me know?”
“…”
Seong-Il is momentarily speechless at Elaine’s sharp words. He swallows her dry saliva and shamelessly makes a prepared excuse.
“…But seeing you go through the same pain as me, I can’t bear to do that.”
“…”
At Sungil’s words, Elaine looks at him with a very moved expression.
“Wouldn’t you have done that too?”
“Uh?”
“Literally. If someone was going through the same pain you went through, and you saw it from the side, would you go through it?”
“…”
Elaine is immersed in her thoughts while looking intently into his eyes at Seongil’s words. Seong-il savors those beautiful brown eyes and thinks.
‘I’ll never get over it. He usually maintains a thorny attitude because of his high self-esteem, but he’s a kind guy by nature.’
Having already figured out Elaine’s personality, she eventually begins to act according to the intentions of her holy day.
“…I can’t say no.”
“Yes?”
“Huh…”
“So, I want you to know that what I’m doing is a favor, and I want you to keep it a secret. It’s better if you make a magical contract.”
“…Can’t we use the mage’s oath?”
“Well, it doesn’t matter.”
Even if it is not a contract, if you make a magical oath, the world of Mythology Academy is surprisingly reliable.
In terms of martial arts, it was a kind of oath made with magic, so if the oath made with magic was broken, the wizard would pay a huge price in any form.
“…I swear by my magic. I will never share the secret arts I learned from you with others.”
“Good.”
When the atmosphere seems to have been moderately serious with an oath to deceive, Seong-il explains the double-handed technique with a serious expression.
“…This is a secret technique obtained by deciphering a document obtained from an ancient ruin that our family secretly discovered ten years ago.”
“Ancient…?”
“Yes. The training method itself is unique, so I’m sure you’ve never heard of anything similar.”
“Hmm…”
“And, this training method is basically a two-person training method.”
“…Two people? But what is that training method? Wasn’t it a secret technique that changed the constitution?”
“That’s right. It’s a secret technique, but it’s also a training method at the same time. Anyway, if you use this training method, you can stabilize your constitution, as well as enjoy a powerful magic boost effect.”
“Huh…?!”
An explanation of a secret technique that is astounding to hear. Even just changing her constitution would be considered amazing, but at the fact that she even improved her magic power, Elaine listened to Seongil’s words with a look of surprise.
“The method is simple. One step is for the practitioner to put his hand on the back of the subject and inject magic into it.”
“What?!”
Elaine is taken aback by Seongil’s words, which are virtually identical to dying together. As if Seong-il had guessed her attitude, she continued her words without blinking an eye.
“What do you want to be surprised about? Do you remember what I did for you when your mana went out of control during meditation class earlier?”
“Ah…”
“I pretended not to know that people around me would notice, but what I did to you earlier is actually the secret technique I just mentioned.”
“!!”
“You’d have to feel it with your body, right? That gentle power.”
“…”
If anyone else had said that, she would have dismissed it as bullshit, but Elaine actually experienced the help of her seongil during her meditation class, and in that situation, her mysterious and warm power normalized her body. . Because of this, she couldn’t bear to deny her Seongil’s words and was silent and worried.
“This power is a secret technique created by magicians who worshiped nature in ancient times with their own philosophy.”
“…Nature?”
“Yes. They believed the world to be heaven and earth, yin and yang… So hot and cold? Anyway, they believed that the two extremes were the forces that made up the world. Of course, not all of them are. There were others… But anyway, I believed those two were the most important.”
“Hmm…”
So Seong-il calmly begins to explain her Daoist ideology to Elaine.
‘Hmm… The content is too deep to be called a lie…?’
And Elaine, who heard all of her Seongil’s words, finds it difficult to deny his words because of the profound content.
Although it is said that it does not exist in this world, Taoism has been one of the main ideas that has dominated the East for thousands of years, and the subtle philosophy accumulated by countless wise men makes even Elaine, who knows nothing about Taoism, admire.
“…Anyway, it’s a secret technique based on that idea. At first, even my family was concerned about it, but since the philosophy underlying the secret technique has a depth of origin, I trusted it and started researching it. I actually started to incorporate it into my training.”
“Hmm…”
“I was the first beneficiary of that. Well, thanks to that, there was a lot of trial and error.”
Seong-il unravels the false history he has been properly preparing for. After he finishes explaining everything, Elaine starts asking him questions with a firm expression.
“So… How effective was it?”
“It was perfect. In the past, I used to hear rumors of half a penny, but as my constitution improved, I became able to do this.”
In order to provoke her Elaine, Seong-il deliberately uses her nickname ‘Banpun-yi’, which she called in her hometown, as if it were her own.
Then, Seong-il raises her cruiser ganggi in front of Elaine’s eyes and shows her off to her.
“!!”
Then, to Elaine, who can’t take her eyes off her own flame, Seong-il gives her 『Memory Jewel』, Which she has prepared in advance.
“And… Would you like to take a look at this?”
“That…?”
“My family’s arcane artifact. Using this jewel, we can visualize and preserve certain events.”
“And!!!!”
Elaine is shocked by the words of Seong-il, who has the precious artifact for video recording. Since the way to record video was extremely rare in the academy world, the jewel Seong-il took out made Elaine see Seong-il and his family again.
“What kind of video is there!?”
“Do you know Albert Raibolin in the third year?”
“…Leader’s? You’re in charge of that senior’s enforcer.”
“Yeah. By the way, I had a fight with that senpai last week, didn’t I?”
“What? Are you crazy? I know that senpai is quite strong among the 3rd graders? Fighting with that senpai?!”
“…I tried sticking around, but it wasn’t a big deal, was it?
“What?!?!?!”
Elaine looks shocked at Seong-il’s words that he had beaten the leader of the leadership team.
On her holy day, whether she is astonished or not, she picks up her memory jewel, infuses her memory of her time back into her jewel and then hands it to her.
“I was going to send the battle scene back then to my family, so that I could get help if something unsavory happened.”
“…”
“Well, I recorded it for that, but would you like to see it? You will be able to understand the power of the power I have awakened.”
“Hmm…”
“Don’t overcomplicate it, just take a look.”
So Seong-il taught Elaine how to use her record jewels, and with the help of Seong-il, she watches the battle against Albert in real time.
“Nonsense…”
And Seong-il’s divine position seen in the Daejeon. Elaine, overwhelmed by her overpowering power, looks back and forth between her Holy Day and her jewels.
“1… 1st year for 3rd year?!”
“…I don’t think that’s important? Have you seen the power of the flame?”
“Uh…? Did you see it!! It was amazing…?!”
“Would you believe me if I said I couldn’t even handle a flame like that before, and couldn’t even use unreasonable power?”
“!!!”
In fact, Seong-il’s words were not lies because he couldn’t perform the Sunyang Ganggi before he mastered the Heaven, Earth, and Yin-Yang divine art to a certain level.
“If you can properly practice this training method, you too can handle the power of lineage.”
“!!!!!”
In the end, Elaine focuses on Seong-il’s conversational skills, which she has mastered through numerous scams.
“How about it? Do you want to learn this secret technique?”
“Ugh… Ugh!! Koo… Must!! Please!!! Please!!”
‘It’s surprisingly easy, is it because I’m desperate?’
Elaine, who came over more easily than she thought, gave her a sinister smile and Seongil taught her how to train.
“Okay. Then, the first thing you need before training is to find someone with similar traits and magical powers and welcome them as a partner.”
“What?! That…But to save someone like that…”
“Shh!! Questions later.”
“…”
“It’s possible with someone who doesn’t have similar traits, but of course the risk is high, right? For safety’s sake, finding a partner with similar traits and magical powers is the most important thing.”
“Hmm…”
Seong-il secretly spits out her flattering words that she has prepared so that she has no choice but to choose herself. He spews deceptive words to Elaine with a good mix of truth and lies.
“The second is that if possible, it is good to be of the opposite sex.”
“Eh? Why…?!”
“As I said earlier, this is a secret technique based on ancient ideas. As I said before, did you explain the concept of yin and yang?”
“Huh? Eh…”
“This secret technique is a secret technique that identifies males as Yang and females as Yin. Therefore, it is more effective to accurately classify the gender.”
“Hmm…”
“So, if you want to properly train the occult in the future, you’d better find a male partner.”
“Ha…”
Elaine feels that her strength is draining because of the difficulties she encounters even before she starts her training. Seeing her like that, Seong-il slowly continues her explanation.
“Well, you must have a lot of questions, but first, listen to the training method.”
“Okay…”
In this way, Seong-il calmly begins to carefully explain to Elaine the flow and sharing method unique to the double-handed method.
“Hey, did you hear the rough explanation?”
“Huh…”
Seongil’s training method, which doesn’t seem easy even if you listen roughly. Because of this, the more Elaine hears her explanation, the more her heart feels heavy. And Seong-il, who read her expression, made a request to her while hiding her sinister intentions.
“Then let me demonstrate. Will you turn your back on me?”
“Oh, a demonstration?”
“Yes. Wouldn’t experiencing it once be more effective than hearing it a hundred times?”
“Well, that’s true, but…”
“In addition, in the meditation class earlier, you accepted my secret technique without any problems, so there should be no big problem. Let’s try it as a demonstration.”
“…Good.”
Her Seong-il’s words were not particularly faulty, so instead of her refusal, Elaine gently nodded her head and began to turn her back.
‘Cook cook…!! Shall we start training soon?’
As she puts her hand on Elaine’s back, her Seong-il begins to think of insidious thoughts.
