Chapter 67 – A New Connection
#067.
Storms rotating in different directions are contradictions themselves. His arm caught in the middle was grinding in both directions, sparking.
The aura covering his arm is shattered.
The arms that were already caught in the storm were meekly exposed to the attack without being able to go anywhere.
He shouted, resisting the suction power of the storm, his veins standing high.
“A wormy bastard! You hit this! But you’ll die soon anyway!”
He seems to have noticed that he had used the innate genius.
Certainly, the quantity of Shen Tian Jin Qi was limited, and since it could not be replenished, it was the gnomes who won as time passed.
However, there was no way Gaon could just leave things like that alone.
He rotated the dantian violently again, pulling out the ancestral jinki in real time, accelerating the rotation of the spear even more.
As a side effect of it, blood flows from the nose and eyes as well as from the mouth, but the effect is outstanding. His arm started twisting.
Awesome! Wood deok!
“Kuaaaaa!!”
The blade of the storm slashed his arms here and there, and at the same time, his joints that could not withstand the rotational force were twisted and his bones were crushed.
Lastly, Gaon vigorously injects Seoncheon Jingi, bending his twisted shoulder even more to give it a spin.
Kwajajajajak—!
“Keuuuuuong—!”
The shoulder that went beyond the range of motion of the joint was dislocated with a booming sound, but thanks to that, the rotational force of the storm became stronger and eventually completely disintegrated the guy’s arm.
It was truly terrifying to see the blood and flesh scattering and disappearing like fruit juice ground in a blender, but the storm did not stop there, escaped the window and moved into the body of the creature.
“Aagh! Away!”
It climbed up his arm and waved it around as the tempest greedily gnawed at his flesh.
But it was nothing more than a futile struggle.
The storm engulfed the whole body without stopping, and then scattered like a breeze after going wild.
What was revealed was a staggering, red-stained doll with hundreds of scars all over its body.
He raised his fading red eyes and stared at Gaon.
“Kreuk… Kreuru─ a burr, a rudge-like person… Liver.”
Cooong!
Until the very end, he couldn’t let go of his stubbornness. He didn’t deny the way he had lived and drowned himself in an embrace.
Cool-
Gaon, who was looking down at him, suddenly squeezed his throat and bent over the fireball that came out, and vomited it out.
Clear crimson blood continued to pour out, probably from a serious internal injury. He felt the small spark of life remaining in his body continue to grow smaller.
‘Certainly overdoing it.’
I don’t even have the strength to stand up anymore.
Gaon didn’t bother holding on to his body as he was about to fall. There were hands supporting him as he lost his balance and just before his leaning body reached the floor.
When he turned his head, he saw Chorin, Hayeon, and Yoo Jihee.
“Miss Gaon! Ugh… Does it hurt a lot? Wait a minute. I will treat you.”
Chorin showed off her physical abilities strengthened by the karma she had accumulated so far, lifted the warmer, laid it upright on the floor, and started feeding the potion.
As the red liquid flowed down her throat, the wounds carved all over her body regenerated with a refreshing feeling.
However, the effect of the potion was not that great.
Above all, there was no meaning in restoring the congenital jinki. As Chorin drank all of her potion, she immediately placed her hand on her chest and released her magical powers.
Pahah-
The green light bursts out and even the scars that remained insignificant are erased. After mastering her magic, the quality of her magical power has obviously improved, as if she had worked hard.
Wounds are healed with much higher efficiency with the same amount of mana. So while she was treating her, she opened her mouth smaller than Chorin and she scanned her whole body to see if she felt something strange.
“The vitality… Too little.”
After dealing with the energy of life for a long time, it seems that he has been able to estimate the vitality of others. Gaon praised her newfound abilities.
“I can feel that too. Great.”
However, at such praise, Chorin rather cried. Clinging her bite by the tail of her eye, and pouting her mouth, she reprimanded him for his insensitivity.
“I’m not happy even if I praise you! Someone told me to fight until this happens! It’s really stupid.”
“… Sorry.”
As Gaon closed her mouth with her apology, Chorin wiped away her tears and turned her attention to the other two women.
“It’s Ha Yeon-ah and Ji-hee. I’m sorry. I’ll use some of your comrades’ blood. I’m really sorry.”
“Yes? What does that mean… !”
“Absorption.”
Ji-hee tilted her head at Cho-rin’s words, and Ha-yeon asked what she meant, but she didn’t drag on the conversation any longer and put her hand on the floor and murmured softly.
Then, the roots of the tree that stretched through her hand in an instant reached the corpse scattered on the floor and began to absorb her blood.
The red mist-like energy travels through the roots of the trees and seeps into her body. And that energy was converted into life force and radiated through her hand placed on Gaon’s chest.
The blood that filled the cavity quickly disappeared with a dazzling radiance. Compared to him, Gaon’s Seoncheonjingi recovered very slowly, making it frustrating.
Before even a minute had passed, all the blood that had soaked the floor and the corpse had completely disappeared.
“I can’t do this… ?”
That’s 9 people. It was impossible to replenish the life force of one Gaon even after absorbing all the blood that life had.
As expected, the ability to convert blood into life force is far behind.
Gaon grabbed Chorin’s hand as she bit her lip and raised her upper body.
“This is enough. It’s worth living right now.”
“But… !”
“No. That’s really fine. Treatment is… Let’s do it later.”
“… All right.”
There is no more spare mana. All the magic stones were used to bind the beastmen earlier, and all the blood was absorbed.
Then, all that remains is to absorb the semen as always, but it is unreasonable to do it in the current situation with Ha-yeon and Yoo Ji-hee.
Gaon has nothing to do with it, but wouldn’t Chorin feel ashamed? He didn’t want to force Chorin to do anything he would dislike.
In fact, I had enough to hold on for now.
Gaon looked at the spear that had been slammed to the floor by him as he collapsed while giving a rough reply to Chorin, who repeatedly asked if he was okay.
‘As expected, I can’t use it anymore.’
The window was badly damaged.
The traces of the two lines of aura continued from the spearhead to the spearhead, and especially the spearhead was caught in the aftermath of the collision and had teeth chipped here and there.
As Gaon clicked his tongue in regret, Ha-yeon and Yoo Ji-hee, who had temporarily retreated for treatment, approached.
“Mr. On vacation. Thank you very much. Thanks to you, I live.”
“Thank you. If you hadn’t helped, something really big would have happened.”
Ha-yeon expressed her gratitude with a bitter expression of helplessness, and Yoo Ji-hee lowered her head with a gloomy expression, hiding her white skin with a robe.
Gaon doesn’t know how to comfort these people. Instead, she could alleviate some of the practical problems.
He pointed to the artifact Chorin had placed on the floor to heal.
“… Then can I accept the price as an artifact? Of course, we will share some compensation. With that money, you will be able to live comfortably without risking anything for a while.”
I received 1000 gold only as an advance payment.
If so, how much will I get if I complete the quest?
Maybe even if I can’t, it won’t be 3000 gold? At that level, even if they gave out 500 gold each, they could live comfortably for several years.
Compared to knighthood and elixirs, 1000 gold was the price of gum.
At Gaon’s suggestion, Yoo Ji-hee widened her eyes and opened her mouth, but soon rolled her eyes and stared at Ha-yeon.
Gaon also stared at Ha-yeon at the unspoken act of following her judgment, and he bit her lip hard and could see her contemplation.
‘Am I being greedy after all?’
She may not know it well, but she would know that artifacts are not mere things that can be converted into money. Even if she were to share the reward, she would know that it was small compared to the value of the artifact.
So, it is natural to be greedy, but it is also inevitable to feel a bit disappointed.
In the end, if you put material things in front of you, benefactors or whatever, you want to lose value.
However, contrary to Gaon’s thoughts, Ha-yeon expressed an unexpected meaning. She glanced at Yoo Ji-hee as if she had made up her mind, then looked straight at Ga-on before opening her mouth.
“Ji-hee would like you to do that. However, I want to ask you another favor instead.”
“Ask for it?”
She took a long breath at Gaon’s question, and she soon knelt on her floor. She then lowered her head and cried out.
“Teach me spearmanship!”
Silence fell within the cavity. The situation has become quiet with a different atmosphere than before. Gaon turned his gaze upward, which had gone down, and looked into the eyes of the other two before asking cautiously.
“Spearcraft… You mean?”
“Yes. I saw you fighting. It’s not flashy, but it’s flawless and efficient spearmanship. It was always what I dreamed of. Artifacts have nothing to do with it, so please help me to be a little bit stronger, so I don’t have to go through something like this again!”
After briefly raising her head and explaining, she put her head on her floor and begged.
It was at that time that I was thinking about how to do this.
I heard loud footsteps from across the aisle, and soon a large number of soldiers appeared.
They looked around for a moment, and when they saw the seemingly unusual dagger in Chorin’s grasp, they aimed their daggers at them and shouted.
“Lay down all weapons in your hands!”
“If you refuse, I will attack right away!”
It’s clear that he came after seeing the signal flare, but he doesn’t seem to know that it was fired by Gaon.
I was thinking about how to take out the pendant because it was ready to stab me even if I moved just a little bit, but a knight appeared after harming the soldiers.
“Get your weapons! These are the mercenaries commissioned by the Viscount. You are trustworthy, so stand back!”
─Yes!
That person was one of the knights who fought alongside Gaon and his party in the Demonic Realm of Lesti Territory, Lord Halfman.
He approached Gaon with a friendly smile.
“Sorry. The soldiers made a mistake. Look at the situation… It looks like there was a big fight. We will take care of the aftermath, so please rest in peace.”
“Yes. Then the artifact…”
When he glanced at the dagger in Chorin’s grasp, Harp Mangyeong’s eyes lit up and he accepted it with a satisfied smile.
“Thank you for your effort. His Excellency, too, will greatly appreciate it. There is a potion here, so take it.”
“Thank you.”
There was no need to drink the potion since all of his wounds had already been regenerated, but there was no reason to refuse the favor, so he took the potion and drank it all at once.
A sweet yet refreshing liquid poured over him, giving him a little bit of energy.
After a brief conversation with Chorin, Lord Half Man began collecting his corpses. He checked the identities of each one of them, and soon thought that they were meaningless, so he ordered soldiers to pile them up in one place.
Seeing that, Hayeon flinched as if she would wake up at any moment, but kept her seat while watching Gaon notice.
Yoo Ji-hee, too, could not act recklessly because of what she had just experienced.
Gaon gestured toward the place, thinking that an unfortunate incident might occur where the bodies of the victim and the perpetrator were buried together.
“Go ahead. I will slowly think about Joo Ha-yeon’s proposal.”
“… Yes. Then I’ll go. Jihee, let’s go.”
“Yes, sister!”
When Ha-yeon put off her answer, Ha-yeon turned around and put on a dark expression as if she thought she was rejecting, then she and Yoo Ji-hee approached the soldiers.
After explaining this and that based on the mercenary certificate, they soon began to talk with the prisoners while grabbing the corpse that had been dropped a short distance away. The drooping shoulders make him look weak.
As I stared at her, Chorin started talking to her.
“… Mr. Gaon, will you accept it?”
“Well. I do not know. First of all, I think I have talent, but the fact that I teach someone is awkward. I’ll have to think about it.”
“Is that so? All right. Then… Let’s go out for a while Treatment, you have to finish.”
When she turned her head at her unexpected suggestion, she saw her blush and her blushing Chorin. The way she rubbed her stretched cheeks with the back of her hand looked quite embarrassed.
Gaon looked around her and noticed that there was no sign of presence in her aisle, so he grabbed Chorin’s hand and hurried her steps toward it.
