Chapter 654 – The Doll’s Knight
Seong-il also listened to the explanation for a while with an expression of interest, and his day passed quickly.
‘The more I use it, the more I feel great.’
Seong-il finishes sparring with the doll using only the bankruptcy card, and then lies down on the floor and exhales heavily.
‘My martial arts skills, which have reached 11 stars in Heaven, Earth, Yin and Yang, should be at a fairly high level even in the martial arts world… It’s so sweet that a being close to immortality who copied that ability as it is becomes my minion, isn’t it?’
In fact, including psychic powers, magic, and artifacts, Sungil’s fighting ability was already close to the top level in the martial arts world.
Even his pure inner strength was several times more abundant than those of the Murim people who had learned general mental methods, so it was almost impossible to find other Murim people who were at the same level as Seongil in terms of inner strength.
However, apart from that, the only martial arts Seongil learned were bankruptcy priesthood and Taegeukgeomgyeol. In addition, since he did not devote all his strength to martial arts training alone, it was difficult to see Seongil’s realization of martial arts as deep.
Because of this, Seong-il knew very well that he had become a powerful being armed with overwhelming inner strength and all sorts of superpowers, and that in terms of pure martial arts, he was not even at half the level of Eun-wol, let alone the top in the world of martial arts.
‘As much as the bankruptcy priesthood was created by the Murim leader himself, it was a chaotic and strong climax, but…’
However, the Bankruptcy New Rights had clear limits that they were too short-lived and the reaction was severe. The black magic field was closer to a kind of special skill rather than martial arts, so Seong-il felt the need for additional martial arts.
‘…Strictly speaking, Taegeukgeomgyeol is a season among seasons, but geomgyeol requires a sword instead.’
Seong-il himself can use Arun Labe, but his alter ego doesn’t, so he thinks that sooner or later he will make Eun-wol his true follower and visit the world of martial arts to acquire various martial arts.
Weeing!!
Seongil’s smartphone rings while lying down to rest. He takes out his phone and examines the contents.
“Oh. It’s only been about 15 days, but you’ve already learned the secret art…?”
Seong-il is surprised by the quicker-than-expected contact and quickly moves into the world of mirrors.
“Are you here?”
When Seong-il appears through the mirror, Ruchel and the others are sitting on the chairs installed across the mirror, and when Seong-il appears, they all look at him.
“Did you learn all the secret arts in just 15 days?”
“Whoops… The mechanics are different, and the idea is genius, but I was lucky to learn it quickly because the secret technique itself didn’t require an extremely high level of difficulty.”
“Still, if it’s a full moon, it’s great.”
At Seongil’s praise, Aira and Yuna look at Lucille in unison with strange expressions on their faces. Realizing that there is something hidden behind that gaze, Seong-il looks at Lucille again with a puzzled expression.
“Actually, learning the occult itself took less than a week. Three days to understand the different magic systems. Two days to learn the magic inscription. Two days to actually use it freely. Like this.”
“Oh my god.”
Chant. So, unlike the world of puppets, where magic is based on rhythm and emotion like songs, the world of detectives is a world specialized in magic tools, so the magic system related to the magic circle is extremely developed.
Therefore, there was a high possibility that the directions and magic systems pursued by the two worlds were extremely different, and thanks to that, it would not have been easy to learn new knowledge. Seong-il looks really surprised when Ruchel says that he has mastered the imprint perfectly in just a week.
“Wait. Then why did it take 15 days…?”
Seong-il looks puzzled when Ruchel says that he spent extra time saying that he learned everything perfectly in a week. As soon as that response appears, Yuna approaches him as if she had been waiting and speaks like a rapid-fire gun.
“Luchell is truly a genius of magic!! In just one week, he completely understood the magic system of our world and learned the magic imprint! He even upgraded the existing imprint!?”
“…Upgrade?”
Amazing Yuna’s answer. When her seongil looks at her blankly in surprise, Ruchel smiles leisurely and replies instead of Yuna.
“I didn’t do anything super-great. I just made the scroll a little more detailed and scaled down so that Miss Aira could engrave magic on the wooden doll.”
‘…Isn’t that great?’
Since wooden dolls are small dolls the size of an adult’s palm at best, the area to engrave is very small, unlike an adult’s wide back. However, after successfully carving an imprint on the little doll and talking about it as if it was nothing, Seong-il looks at Ruchel and looks a bit dumbfounded.
“It’s really not that great. If the existing inscription was engraved on a thoroughly two-dimensional floor plan, I just solved it and interpreted it three-dimensionally. Like this.”
On Seong-il, when Ruchel raises her hand and holds something up, she naturally examines it. Then he was able to find a wooden doll made by Aira and runes engraved in detail like tattoos all over its body.
“Like this, hands, feet, back, face, etc. If you unwrap and engrave runes instead of magic circles all over the doll’s body, you can use them like magic engravings. Of course, it’s not good to do it to people. The human body is like a wooden doll. Mana isn’t evenly distributed throughout the body. Usually, it’s in the heart or brain…”
As a mage who has mastered magic, Ruchel begins to explain by lengthening her explanation beyond the knowledge of the holy day. Uncharacteristically, when the words seem to be lengthy, Seong-il stretches out both hands to dissuade him from explaining.
“Okay~! I understand! However, if you explain the principle anyway, I’m not a wizard, so I can’t understand it properly.”
“Haha!! I’m sorry. Magic is my favorite study and hobby. When I discover an interesting theory, I become more talkative without realizing it.”
“Ah… Yes yes.”
Seong-il smiles awkwardly at the fake Lucille’s words and glances at Aira. As if she had read the question in his eyes, she quickly nodded her head and said that she had learned her secret art.
“I’ve learned the basic concept too! I’ll have to practice a little more… But I’m sure I’ll be able to apply it to wooden dolls. But the level of difficulty will go up…”
If Ira manufactures kokeshi dolls in the normal way, she could make dozens per day, but she reports that with this new technology, she can only make at most five dolls per day.
“It’s okay. There aren’t many branches of Withgrassil… The raw materials for dolls are not common, so even if you make fewer, it’s a situation where making them high-end is the answer.”
“Hehe! I’m glad.”
In addition, Seong-il is thought to be a good opportunity to raise Aira’s doll-making skills, which have been stagnant due to being caught by cultists, so I view the emergence of her new technology more positively.
“First of all… Learning the secret arts and teaching them is roughly finished, so let’s move on to the main topic.”
“Ah. Yes.”
Seong-il feels alert when Ruchel tells him to make a video to fool Aaron. He gives Lucille a memory orb containing a scenario he discussed with his followers beforehand, making it easier for him to examine.
“Hmm… You mean to extract memories after making Seongil-nim’s eyes only show me?”
“Yes. If it’s my point of view, there’s nothing to reveal my identity. I think it’s the safest.”
“Then, wouldn’t it be better to leave someone else as a theater goer to be safer? Like Yuna-sama or Miss Aira…”
Lucille’s words made sense. Seong-il was tempted by his words to completely control the situation, but soon shook his head and denied it.
“It’s not that I haven’t thought about that method. The problem is that the two people next to me can’t borrow the power of the ultra-high-performance nanomachines inside me.”
“Hmm…”
“The second problem is that the caster and the subject must be close to each other in order to transmit memories. Aira and Yuna are not free from that problem. They do not have a status in that world.”
“Okay…”
“Well, there is a way to bring in followers from the world of Mythology next month… But aside from that, there is no way for Claudia and other Mythology followers to secretly approach the professor’s quarters. After all, there’s no one else to do this except me. No.”
Seong-il explains several reasons why it is difficult for followers other than himself to take on this task. Ruchel, who heard all the realistic difficulties, nodded his head in agreement as if he couldn’t help it.
“If it’s something like that, it can’t be helped. But…”
“…?”
“Will that Professor Aaron really act as Seongil-nim thinks? His skills look amazing even by my standards. You shouldn’t ignore such a talented person.”
“Hmm…”
At Lucille’s words, Seong-il is momentarily speechless and unable to say anything. Then he gets wet, takes out a gold coin from his bosom, and bounces it into the air.
“This act is beneficial to me. It is not beneficial.”
A head that appeared after bouncing a gold coin. Seong-il shows the result of the fortune-telling to Ruchel and explains the fortune-teller’s gold coin. After hearing all of this, Ruchel sighs lightly and replies.
“Then you should do it. But remember, too much reliance on fortune-telling can sometimes lead to misuse of fortune-tellers. Don’t rely too much on fortune-telling to make judgments, okay?”
Seong-il nodded his head with a flinching expression at the words of Ruchel, who was loaded with bones. However, he believes in the revelation of the effect and response of gold coins and decides to push ahead with his plan.
“Okay. I’ll do as you say. But! Don’t be careless. You know?”
“Yes.”
Seong-il senses something at Lucille’s words and nods with a firm expression. He promises that he will never let his guard down.
So, as they planned in advance, they use Ruchel to start a play about the magic imprint for awakening psychic powers to Aaron.
Ruchel decorates himself like a secluded great mage, and scatters his mighty magic everywhere to show off that he is not a fake mage.
In the process, he doesn’t like the current situation, which is divided into two ideologies, so he directs the appearance of wanting to share the theory about the imprinting of supernatural powers he ‘accidentally’ discovered this time.
As if they were doing this because of the ’cause’ of bringing the divided world together.
Of course, because he is not familiar with the play, Ruchel repeats that he is awkward and clumsy at first.
However, after repeating the same act hundreds or even thousands of times over the course of a week, Ruchel’s performance began to rise. Seong-il eventually succeeds in obtaining a satisfactory video.
“Whoa!! I think this will be enough!!”
Seong-il plays a detailed video using nanomachines on the monitor installed in the Little Pineapple House in the mirror world, shows it to the party, and exclaims in a satisfied tone.
“That sounds great.”
“Haha! Are you satisfied with your acting?”
Seong-il smirks at the words of Lucille, who spits out the word amazing while watching the video, and asks him. However, Ruchel shakes his head and replies.
“No. It’s not about acting, it’s about the ‘nano machine’ ability. Of course, it extracts the owner’s memories. I mean, it’s amazing that you can project it onto that ‘machine’ and show it to a third person.”
“Ah yes…”
Seong-il scratches his head with an awkward smile when he realizes he’s had a wild misunderstanding.
“Well, as Seongil-nim said, my acting isn’t bad either. Under normal circumstances, even if I were the target, I don’t think I would be able to find fault with that acting.”
“Whoops! It’s thanks to all the hard work.”
Seong-il expresses his gratitude over and over again to Ruchel for thoroughly helping him with his plan, even though it is fake.
“You’re welcome. You’re doing your best for our world. You even half-finished the Shinigami.”
Having said that, Ruchel asks Seong-il to tell her that she will pass on her realization to Aira as much as possible for the remaining days.
Thanking him for his kindness in trying to help him with the best of his remaining time, Seong-il moves from the mirror world to reality after a long time.
“Whoa…Then shall we go?”
I will also prepare the necessary materials. Seong-il decides to end the chaos in the world of Mythology.
In this way, he calls all the followers of the related world to work in the world of Mythology for the first time in a while, and then starts entering the world all at once.