Chapter 5 – Adaptation
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“Cooooo…”
Chorin fell into a deep sleep within 10 seconds of laying her down. I hear her little snoring.
“Whoa…”
Gaon sighed at the thought that he could now enjoy her private time, and narrowed her eyes as he approached Chorin.
He opened her eyes and scanned her appearance.
The first thing I noticed was her hair. A unique color that is different inside and outside, green inside and black outside.
If it’s hair, it could be if you dyed it. But for Chorin, her eyes were also emerald green. A color that is not possible for ordinary Koreans.
The secret to it was magic.
Normally, when coming to this world, earthlings awaken to the system, and their eyes and hair are dyed in their own magic color.
So, it is an acceptable color.
But something else is important.
From the mildly drooping eyes to the height that reached the tip of Gaon’s chin, and his outstanding figure. Everything was familiar except for the hair color.
I’ve definitely met them in my previous life.
At that time, her hair was white as if all the pigment had been removed, but everything else, including her features, was the same.
‘It was a biological elixir…’
At that time, Lee Cho-rin was a saint of the healing church.
It’s easy to mistake her for being a saint, giving hope to everyone regardless of status, but she wasn’t Chorin.
A special ability that returns life force. That was Chorin’s ability.
Time is an equal resource for everyone. Although it is possible to expand its limits somewhat, it will return to a handful of soil when its lifespan is over.
However, human greed knew no bounds, and Chorin, who had the ability to escape from that absolute truth, was a must-have for those in power.
In order to utilize her ability, the church brainwashed her Chorin and used it as their chess horse.
Gaon in his previous life was able to approach the top of the power with just his own strength, and was naturally able to join their community.
There she heard her talk about Chorin.
She later recalls that although the Order was eventually devastated by invaders from her dimension, she continued to be exploited by her until then.
Gaon, who recalled her memories up to that point, looked at her calmly and returned to her original place.
At that time, things had already become non-existent.
She came now and she didn’t have to care. There’s something to do right now, but it’s useless, so there’s no reason to waste her energy. Gaon leaned her back against the wall with her head toward the entrance.
“Sueuuuuu-“
Take a breath.
The clean, uncontaminated, and refreshing air was taken in through her nose and filled her lungs.
The mana or qi that dwelled within it permeated the body through breathing.
The energy felt through the new body gives a strange yet familiar contradictory feeling.
Until the body adapts to it, it was simply accepted and then exported repeatedly.
The Union brings races from various dimensions. Of course, people from the world commonly called Murim were also brought in, and their internal air defense method became widely known throughout the world.
The aura practice method and the inner core method that exist in the fantasy world. As the two technologies of the same yet different mechanisms met, a more advanced technology was born.
Rubella.
The new skill that Gaon learned was also a method of thinking that was born in that way. As the meaning of the flow of the wind moves, rubella deals with the wind.
Visualize a storm.
A greedy whirlpool that seems to swallow everything.
But at the same time, a huge air current that seems to embrace everything in the world. Through them, they form a danteon.
Usually, warriors sit cross-legged when practicing simbeop. Sky and earth. It is to put the harmonious energy of heaven and earth into one body.
Unless you have a special constitution, such as a polar yang or a polar yin, you can quickly build up your energy.
Of course, in general, this is the way to go.
However, as I said, in the case of Gaon’s method of learning, a storm is used as an image.
A storm is wind, that is, air.
Air exists everywhere. There are bound to be fine currents in the sky as well as in the ground.
Even in the depths of the sea, there is air that humans cannot get drunk on.
Even in the universe, there is an interstellar wind that blows between stars, so it is fair to say that there is no energy in the world that Gaon cannot take.
It gathers such energy one by one and builds it up in a certain form. That’s exactly what it is. It was an institution that would be of great strength to Gaon before and after his return.
Even in the midst of that, Gaon’s eyes were on the entrance. Rubella is a new technique that can be practiced without having to sit cross-legged or close your eyes.
It was one of the supernatural abilities created by the combination of the Aura Yeongongbeop and the Naegongsimbeop.
‘It’s going well.’
It’s a road I’ve already walked.
Of course, the second time you have to be more proficient.
The energy that seeped through his nose gathered in his lower stomach without any hindrance.
The orb coiled in the center began to spin like a spiral and suck in the energy around it.
The energy mixed with the flow is quickly trapped in the sphere, and it soon becomes one with the body and melts into the body.
“Whoa…”
Finally, the series of processes is over.
Of course, there is still a long way to go, but the immediate goal has been achieved. From now on, you should slowly call out your internal energy and expand the blood flow throughout your body.
Within Union, it is mainly called Mana Road.
I don’t know why they don’t bother to unify, but what can I do when they call it that?
Gaon did not intend to go against the trend and become an angular stone.
Gaon raised his head, feeling the storm that continued to spin in his lower stomach and raking in his energy.
Looking at the position of the moon, five hours have already passed since it formed a danteon.
It’s time to wake up Chorin.
He was right next to me, so I didn’t even have to get up and move. When I turned around, I saw Chorin, who was unconscious and asleep.
Sometimes, he tosses and turns as if he is talking in his sleep.
When I turned my body from straight forward to the direction of Gaon, the skirt naturally flowed down, revealing my thighs wrapped in stockings.
It’s breathtaking as if the underwear is exposed.
His instincts as a man fueled the urge to reveal himself, but Gaon resolutely resisted the temptation.
Now is the time to build trust. Ruining a relationship by doing nonsense is foolish.
Gaon reached out and shook his shoulder.
“Lee Cho-rin. Wake up.”
“Yes… I’ll sleep a little longer.”
He probably thinks that where he is right now is home. Even in the case of Gaon, at the time of the first episode, he wakes up from sleep and cannot grasp the reality for a while, and he was dazed, so I understand.
But I don’t have time to worry about that.
“Lee Cho-rin! Wake up!”
As he shook her shoulders even more strongly and raised her voice, only then did Chorin’s eyelids open. The emerald-colored eyes contain a hazy energy and stare at her warmth.
“Huh… Ugh? Hmm… Who-“
“I am on vacation. It’s time for the night shift.”
Without waiting for her to finish speaking, as she explained her warmth, Chorin opened her eyes wide as if she had understood the situation and raised her upper body.
“Ah, ah! I’m sorry! I forgot and fell asleep.”
“Did you blink?”
“Oh no! Now I’m going to watch the net. Hyuugaon, please go to sleep.”
“… Yes. All right.”
I think I know roughly what Chorin is thinking.
Falling asleep for a while would be the literal meaning. It’s only been a day since Gaon and Chorin met.
A little bit of trust might have built up in the process of defeating the goblins and moving the mountain together, but sleeping in a small place alone with a man must have been burdensome. He must have been trying to see if he would do something while he was asleep.
Of course, Chorin did not fulfill her purpose.
She overlooked the level of fatigue accumulated in her own body. In the end, I fell asleep within 10 seconds of lying down.
Gaon lay down and closed her eyes, feeling a strange gaze. This is because her senses became sharper as she formed a dantian. Her level wasn’t that great, but she was able to detect the obsessive gaze she has now.
Gaon tried to fall asleep while feeling the gaze. He stayed conscious for about 10 minutes and looked at Chorin, then decided that he would be fine and fell asleep.
Meanwhile, Chorin, who was looking at Gaon, let out a small sigh of relief inside her.
‘Thank god…’
While I was sleeping, nothing I feared happened.
I thought that Gaon wouldn’t do such a thing, but he couldn’t completely put his mind at ease.
I was going to secretly look at it in case of an unexpected situation, but I ended up falling asleep.
When she closed her eyes and opened them, there was Gaon right in front of her.
He couldn’t comprehend the situation for a moment, and later recalled his memory before going to sleep and showed an unseemly appearance.
When she remembered that time again, her cheeks burned hot with shame.
When he turned his head, he saw Gaon sleeping motionless with his body stretched straight.
Maybe even sleeping is as hard as usual… It’s like a man made of machines.
Chorin leaned her back against the wall, knelt down and laid her face on it, staring at her entrance.
There are forests on the ground and countless stars in the sky. It was beautiful, but above all else, it was alien.
“Where is this…”
Chorin was worried about her family, her mother.
If all the people living on Earth were brought here, wouldn’t they be experiencing similar things by now?
Will her mother, who has lived with a gentle personality, not knowing that she is fighting all her life, will be able to overcome her crisis?
She was her mother who gave birth to Chorin at a young age and raised her with difficulty alone. She just wanted to be safe.
“I’m on vacation…”
She used to hear from her mother that she should meet men well. The stories she told based on her own experiences became her bones and flesh.
So, Chorin used to knock out all the men who approached her on a regular basis.
But now it’s a situation where even that is considered a luxury. As a chorin, you have no choice but to take the risk you don’t know.
So, without saying a word, I entered this narrow wooden pit.
“Interesting.”
How can they handle windows so well?
How can he think and act so calmly when he is only 21 years old?
There was nothing but doubt. He was truly a man full of secrets from head to toe.
But would it be strange if it made me feel more secure?
In a world where everything is a stranger, there is a man who can be called a mystery itself, so I thought that he might be able to get along somehow.
Like this, he was so trustworthy that I wanted to rely on him for everything.
But,
“It shouldn’t be.”
Chorin wanted to find her own role.
She cannot become a colleague simply by relying on her.
If you rely on one-sided favor, you will be in big trouble someday.
The only thing he is confident in is cooking, but even that can only be demonstrated with the right ingredients. I have no choice but to find something else.
Chorin immediately opened her status window and clicked on her life swap in her unique abilities tab.
“Life. Absorption. Grant.”
What does this mean?
Chorin stared at it endlessly, devising a way to use her.
So, the night went on.
