“Is this Hanzo’s house… .”
A desolate house with only an empty refrigerator, a washing machine, and a bed as the furniture.
There are black clothes in the closet.
Inside the drawer, well-manicured cutlery is neatly arranged in rows and rows.
It was a landscape that gave a rough idea of what Hanzo’s personality would have been like.
“tired.”
If I had the same mind, I wanted to collapse and go to sleep, but I couldn’t because of the blue window that appeared in front of my eyes.
「Sub Quest – Treasure Hunt」
Find the treasure hidden inside the house.
-compensation: ???
The word ‘treasure’ was quite harsh, but what I was more interested in was the expression ‘sub-quest’.
“Sub Questra… .”
The previous tutorial quest gave me psychological pressure that something big would happen if I didn’t do it.
However, there is no such pressure in this ‘sub-quest’.
Do you think it’s like saying, ‘Do it if you’re going to do it, and don’t do it if you don’t want to do it’?
“A treasure hunt at this age.”
Of course I will.
Did he give you a quest for nothing?
There’s nowhere to hide it, so a quick scan is all it takes and you’ll quickly find what you call a ‘treasure’.
* * *
“… Was it already an hour ago that you thought so?”
I don’t know where to hide in this little house.
I searched everything from under the bed to behind the toilet, but I couldn’t find the treasure.
“What is the treasure in the first place?”
At first glance, you could feel that I was a treasure, or you could tell by clearing the quest.
“I’m not kidding, the process of treasure hunting is a real treasure. Just do this.”
Sometimes, if you look at it like a fairy tale, there was a case where that kind of content came out.
Could it be that it can’t be?
30 minutes to carefully search the room again.
“found… !”
I finally found it.
A scroll wrapped in blue cloth.
It is certainly. this is a treasure
「Quest cleared!」
“The compensation is settled.”
「Second level 備急 – Book of Blue(靑)」 has been acquired.」
“I never thought they would have hidden it by creating a double-structured space inside the drawer.”
A drawer full of cutlery.
I thought that the space inside the drawer looked smaller than it looked from the outside, so I carefully observed it, and it was not an illusion, but the size was really different.
With the thought of breaking it in half, I opened the entire drawer and said ‘like this and that’, and a blue scroll rolled out from inside.
“This, if I hadn’t found it, it would have been in big trouble.”
I only skimmed through it lightly, but I could fully understand why this scroll was named ‘Second Level’.
Mana, aura, ki, internal energy.
The calling method is different, but the raw material is the same as mana.
Even so, the reason for the different calling methods is that the methods of accumulating and using mana are so different that it is necessary to distinguish them.
This is a book with ‘how to deal with mana’ written on it, like a magic book or martial arts secret level.
“great. I understand perfectly.”
I never thought my improved memory would be so helpful.
I threw the finished scroll on the bed, sat down on the floor, and turned cross-legged.
“after… .”
I have a general characteristic that I received as a quest clear reward called ‘Mana Circuit’.
A trait that literally creates a circuit that allows you to use mana.
However, what I can use is the body enhancement that can be made possible by channeling mana into the mana circuit.
Even so, the speed increased a little, the body became slightly harder, and the power was only slightly stronger.
In addition, ‘Mana Circuit’ is a very basic and basic thing.
As it was written in the description, the efficiency was not very good.
‘But being basic and basic also means that there is room for development in the future.’
That’s why what was needed was an emergency book with more efficient mana usage written on it.
From what I’ve read and understood, changing the mana management method as written in the secret level doesn’t change much from the current usage.
It’s just an improved way to use mana more efficiently.
It’s just a development of my ‘mana circuit’.
‘How long will it take to learn?’
It’s not a lot of time, but it’s not to the point of impatient.
If today doesn’t work, tomorrow.
If tomorrow doesn’t work, sand.
There’s a lot of work to do, but I’m going to have some training time alone for at least a few weeks.
‘Then let’s start.’
It is said in the Bi-level that the first thing to do is to understand one’s own body.
They say that this process alone will take several months no matter how short it is, but thanks to the help of ‘chest arts’, it wasn’t too difficult for me.
‘see.’
The movement of muscles, the beating of the heart, and the position of the intestines.
When I closed my eyes and quietly observed the inside of my body, the scene inside my body came to mind as clearly as if I had taken an X-ray or CT scan.
‘Once I solved the first one.’
Then, in the second stage, we talked about raising the senses to a higher level.
A sixth sense that transcends the five senses.
It is said that if you do not have an excellent sixth sense, you cannot use it.
Although I have been told that it will take more time here than in the first step.
“Sigh… after… .”
I already had the experience of stepping into a higher level of sensation.
‘… Remember.’
Even in the dark, it seemed as bright as broad daylight, and it felt like time was passing slowly.
The experience of using ‘Poetry of the Crow’ with full power for an ambush in the practical exam.
‘I feel it.’
A large stem that crosses the center of the body.
A small stem that extends from that large stem and wraps around the whole body.
‘It doesn’t matter if I ignore the small stem for now.’
What I need to focus on is the large stem.
The root, which starts at the top of the head and slowly moves downward, becomes the source of strength.
Following the pulse of mana wriggling inside his body, he arrived at the lowest point.
‘It starts again from here.’
From the lowest to the highest, this time going backwards.
The ‘mana circuit’, which I had been vaguely aware of, began to feel more clearly.
‘… Something is blocking it from going against the flow.’
Like the heart valve, there is a ‘door’ in the mana circuit.
A door that serves to prevent backflow and at the same time filter mana like a filter.
‘Such a door along the great trunk of the mana circuit… ten.’
The only thing I was allowed to open and close at will was the lowest door.
I moved Mana and knocked on the second door, but there was no jaw.
‘I don’t need to open the second door right now.’
Once you have become aware of the doors in your body, you can move on to the next step.
‘Clean up the mana circuit.’
It is not possible to perceive all of the mana circuits that are spread throughout the body, but it is possible to know about it through the senses.
This time, I was conscious of the small stem, not the large stem.
Some circuits are thick, some circuits are thin.
My body was like a huge tree, resembling a small universe.
‘Then, what I’m going to do from now on must be close to pruning or opening roads.’
A mana circuit with inefficient circulation, such as winding and turning.
In order to use mana efficiently, it is necessary to organize the circuits spread out with medium heating.
Wood Deuk- Woo Deuk- Wood Deuk-
Pain that travels through blood vessels and nerves.
A pain he had never experienced spread through his entire body.
“Ugh… !”
『Cut out your emotions.』
Only the pain I could endure was left, so I was able to endure without fainting.
It was the second time I got sick in my entire life.
In order to recall the first painful memory, you have to go back to the fourth grade of elementary school.
‘… I didn’t know you’d fool me by saying you’re going to eat pork cutlet.’
I hate paper cups.
I hoped to reconstruct the mana circuit by referring to the contents of the secret class.
『The unique attribute ＜Memory of the body＞ responds.』
It didn’t take long.
Not only the ‘memory of the body’, but also the ‘mana circuit’ and ‘physical arts’ that he already had were quite helpful.
『The normal attribute ＜Mana Circuit＞ changes.』
『You have acquired the rare attribute ＜Siwangmun＞.』
＜Siwangmun Gate＞
classification
– Rare traits
Explanation
-A type of mana circuit modified in a special way.
-You can temporarily increase the output of mana by opening and closing the door in the circuit.
– Depending on the opened door, the nature of mana may change.
‘done… !’
Standing up from a seated position, mana was applied to the body to strengthen the body.
“It definitely feels different.”
It is a different sensation than when using body reinforcement before.
Like the word ‘improvement’, you can feel that handling mana has become much easier.
I’m not used to it right now, so it still takes time, and there is still a lot of mana that is consumed unnecessarily.
This will get better with repeated training.
“next.”
I took the mana out of my body and made it into a small sphere on my palm.
The mana, which had been swaying in small ways, could not form a perfect sphere and wriggled before eventually scattering into the air.
“Is it difficult at the current level?”
If you practice a few times, it might be possible for a while, but right now there was not enough mana to practice.
I was even more tired because I used the mana that was not much left.
‘Currently, the amount of mana remaining in the body is less than 10%.’
Maybe it was because he consumed a large amount of mana while using ‘Poem of the Jackdaw’ in the practical test.
The natural recovery rate of mana is also quite slow.
Until fully recovered, it would be better to spend time training the body rather than training using mana.
“From tomorrow onwards. I found the treasure, and I must have strengthened the mana circuit. I can sleep now.”
If I had the same mind, I wanted to throw myself into bed, but I felt uncomfortable trying to sleep without washing.
I’ll just pour some water on it and go to sleep.
“In the scattering flowers~ the scent of your shampoo… .”
He hummed and took off his shirt and threw it in front of the washing machine.
The moment I saw Hanzo’s body reflected in the mirror, the hum naturally stopped and an exclamation flowed out.
“Hey, is this what I’ve only heard about, ‘the type that looks amazing when you take it off’?”
When I was wearing clothes, I had a strong impression that I was thin, but the muscles hidden inside the clothes were amazing.
“Oh, I don’t need a washboard.”
Abs split into eight pieces.
Angry back muscles that look like a demon staring at them.
It was a small muscular body without any superfluities, which reminds me of the word ‘practice compression muscle’.
“To build a body like this, how much do you have to work hard?”
There will be no difficulty with any training.
The old wounds, which had healed but were not erased, were telling instead that Hanzo’s life was not smooth.
“Thanks to that, I won’t get caught up in terms of physical ability.”
I’ll have to check it out myself to see what level it is.
“under… ”
shoot ah-
When I step into the shower, lukewarm water soaks my body.
It feels like it’s being washed over my head.
As I was idly bathing in lukewarm water, I remembered that there was something I had been putting off for a while.
-General Trait Options
There were too many options, so I put my choice on hold for a while.
When I think of options like that, the list comes to mind once again.
Maybe because I checked it roughly, the headache caused by checking the list has decreased considerably.
‘I don’t need this, let’s put this in the options for now. And this… .’
As I was hit by the water pouring from the shower, I slowly thought about it.
Of course, there were too many options to choose from in just a few minutes.
“For now, I see three things worth using.”
Of course, you will have to work a little harder.
Tuk-tuk-tuk-
I got out of the shower, wiped myself properly, and threw myself on the bed.
The bed was hard, but the pillows were soft enough.
… Two weeks passed like that.
Is he a hanma?