Episode 120
Whoops.
gurgling.
‘… This is considerable.’
I felt the same way when I was taking Cheonghwandan, but the intensity was different.
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My body shakes at will every moment, and sometimes I even feel like someone is beating my organs or bones with a hammer.It seemed that it would be easy to understand why now there are cases of death from taking an elixir of higher grade or higher.
“Huh.”
I released it freely without holding onto it as much as possible, and with the help of the shaman I installed, I received Guryonghwan’s energy and went out.
woo woo woo.
Pasch.
Paz.
At first, I couldn’t control the rushing energy. As I endured and endured, the momentum gradually diminished and I was able to regain my leisure.
‘About half of it has been absorbed.’
As the setting sun passed and the sun was setting completely, I was finally able to receive the energy of the elixir into my body.
“Whoa.”
As I did last time, I have only transferred energy to my body so far, so from now on, I have to make it my own through training for a while.
In that respect, training with Hwang Ji-gak here would be of great help.
crumble.
Tub.
Tub.
“Are you done?”
“… Thanks to.”
Hwang Ji-hak, who felt the energy had been lost, returned to me, and after erasing all the magic circles I used, we started to return together.
‘My vision is clearer than usual.’
Not that it’s not, but the senses of the whole body are much more sensitive than before.
Apparently, he had just taken the elixir, so the reaction seemed to be more evident.
And in my senses, a place with a strange aura was captured.
“Where?”
“Ah, the coffin of poisonous sounds?”
When he asked a question about the name he had heard for the first time, Hwang Ji-hak began to explain in a meaningful tone.
“To be honest, I don’t know much. The same goes for family members.”
“From the family?”
“Maybe you don’t know. The elders might know something. However, in modern times, it is a place that has been completely forgotten.”
It seemed to be a fairly mysterious space even in the Huang family.
“According to a legend of the past whose source is unknown, it is said that inside there are sealed items left by the ancestors of the family for posterity.”
“Then it’s not an important place, is it?”
“It is not. For many years, the elders of each generation have searched through them, but in the end they could not find anything.”
So now, it is said that the claim that the legend is a lie or that someone in the past has already taken everything has been accepted as orthodoxy.
This was the first time I had ever heard of it either.
Not only the story of the original, but also when I was working as a developer.
‘There was no mention in the sequel.’
If so, it’s one of the three.
A place that has no real meaning, a place that is still waiting for it to appear in the story someday, or a place that was added exclusively for Hell difficulty.
It was a very interesting matter, so I asked Hwang Ji-hak for his understanding and decided to check out the place called the coffin of poison.
“It is here. When you open the entrance, there is a little space under the ground.”
“Can I open it?”
“Does not matter.”
rattle.
Kugugu Palace.
When I opened the entrance on the ground, as Hwang Ji-hak said, a small cave that could barely fit a few people opened up.
Rather than a treasure trove, it just feels like a warehouse in an attic.
‘yes?’
In the meantime, a strange thing caught my eye.
The entrance is on the ground, so when you open the door, light has to come in. Strangely, not even the slightest light enters the entire interior.
When he paid attention to it, Hwang Ji-hak, who was beside him, added an explanation.
“Natural light does not affect it. But strangely, I can see the scene inside with my eyesight. It was because of this characteristic that the aforementioned legend was not dismissed as a mere rumor.”
In short, it was said that there was something, but in the end, nothing was found, and this is the place of misfortune that was forgotten by the family.
“Are you going in?”
“Of course it doesn’t matter. Like I said, nobody cares now.”
Even the elders who called them the best said they couldn’t find anything, so it was highly likely that they were mistaken, but as a player, they were telling me that something was sleeping here.
‘Hey, if not, why would we make such a useless place?’
Even with a magical treatment that can block the light coming in.
fight.
tuk.
turuk.
Slowly squeezing through the entrance and stepping into the cave, I looked around while raising my spiritual power to the max, using detection-type magic as well.
However, no abnormalities can be found either.
‘Well, if I could find out something like this, the high-ranking exorcists of the family would have unraveled the secret right away.’
There was nothing to be disappointed about. Rather, it was just the beginning.
It’s not that I’m ignoring the elders of the imperial family, but I have overwhelmingly more knowledge than them in this area.
Whoops.
In this situation, I began to test the effective spells one by one and estimate the series of magic applied here.
I’ve tried using most of what I know, but unfortunately, to no avail.
‘Is it unreasonable to use this level of alcohol?’
However, seeing that there is no reaction at all, it is probably not such a problem.
It was evident from the fact that the high-ranking exorcists of the family shoveled each time. Among them, there must have been those who were able to use the detection-type advanced techniques or more.
‘Then, I’ll have to change the approach altogether.’
The strangest thing I’ve learned so far was the light.
Clearly, all light coming from the outside is blocked, but from the inside, the surrounding scene can be recognized as a field of vision.
A contradiction already arises here.
‘… … .’
When I thought about it carefully, even when I used various magic a while ago, the diffusion of light by spiritual power did not affect the inside of the room.
After a few more tests, I was finally able to come to a conclusion about the secret.
‘Somehow, I guess the interior scenery I’m seeing now isn’t real.’
Since a completely different space was covered, the sight reflected in the field of view would not have changed whether a fire was lit or the sun was shining.
If so, there is a guy who can borrow power in such a situation.
I raised my spiritual power and called out the name of a shikigami in the shadows.
“The Four Hwanje (徙換濟).”
It was the goblin ghost who caused the disappearance of many people at the Dohwawon (道畵園) last time.
slurp.
Fuwaak!
[…] Keek.]
When he came out of the maze of eternity, he had already been completely suppressed, so it wasn’t difficult to turn him into a shikigami.
However, his technique is very difficult and his direct combat ability is not much to look at, so he has not been able to play an active part until now.
‘Because the level was high and even rebelled against the instructions.’
He was a troublesome guy, but since then he has been bullied countless times by Gongsam, and now he is completely exhausted.
Just by looking at his droopy body and tired face, it was clear that he no longer had the will to rebel.
“Phantom Priest, use your magic tricks to explore the surroundings.”
[Kiaak.]
Whoops.
The Phantom Priestess moved around the inside of the burrow and began to use a unique space-based technique.
Since he is a monster called the Mirror Goblin, he would have really excelled in this type of magic.
Unsurprisingly, the apprentice, who had been moving for a while, turned his head and sent a signal to me.
[Keek.]
The place he pointed to was the lower part of the front end of the crypt.
It doesn’t seem like anything outwardly, but it’s clear that there’s something magical about it, as he said it.
“Can you influence this space with your magic?”
The servant priest, who had been radiating magical powers here and there for a while, shook his head as if he couldn’t do it.
Since it was a space where the ancestors of the imperial family were involved, it seemed that a higher level of magic than that of an enchantress was spread inside the crypt.
Then from here, it was my turn to solve the puzzle again.
“Good work. Now go in.”
[Kiaak.]
slurp.
poof.
‘… Interesting.’
What unfolds is the magic of the space series. And it cannot be unlocked in the usual way.
Seeing that the Phantom Priest pointed to a specific point, there was a high possibility that some special condition had to be cleared from that point.
‘Does this mean that you need a key of some sort?’
If it’s in the form of an object, I have no idea what to do with it.
As he was immersed in trouble without making any progress, Hwang Ji-hak, who had been watching the situation from the top of the burrow, followed him inside.
“… Did you find anything that bothers you?”
“The Priestess responded. The goblin youkai that we fought in the last time at the Dohwawon.”
“Is it the guy who created an unknown passage by touching the space, that’s definitely interesting.”
Hwang Ji-hak, who was lost in thought after hearing my words, gave another piece of information with a slightly hazy look after a while.
“By the way, there was a saying in the legend. It was said that the one who brings light to the coffin of poison will become the owner of the thing.”
“… … .”
If that statement is true, I think you can get a glimpse of what the conditions are.
Isn’t it enough to shed some light into this space?
Even in my memory there was a guessing magic about him.
‘The imperial family’s own magic, Doho Gwang (燾護光).’
A method of strengthening the body that increases recovery and defense by changing the spiritual power in the body into life energy.
When deployed, the caster’s body is covered with a soft golden light, scattering brilliance around it.
Toho-gwang (燾護光) is a magic that has been passed down from the past, so it certainly looked like a possibility.
However, there was still one problem.
‘There are very few people in the family who are familiar with it, but at the elder level, one in two would be able to use it, right?’
If that was the key to unlocking the secret, then there is no way that generations of elders could have found anything here.
‘… … .’
At that very moment, a hypothesis ran through my head.
‘Ancestors, exactly when do you mean ancestors?’
I thought so. People of this age may not know it, but there is actually a secret behind the origins of the three great families: the Cheongga, the White House, and the Yellow House.
That is, the two families, except for the Cheongga, were originally the same power as the Cheongga.
‘First of all, Cheongga was built, and some of those who existed in the early days fell out and raised the other two families.’
If the existence of Seonjo, who created the coffin of this poisonous sound, refers to the founder of the imperial family, then it is highly probable that the magics he used at the time had their origins in the Qing family.
In other words.
‘In order to break the seal, it may be necessary to use a magic unique to the Qing family, not the imperial family.’
And I knew.
It also fits the story of bringing the light, and it is a magic unique to the Cheongga that is presumed to be the origin of the Doho Gwang (燾護光).
‘A higher level of magic that consumes a portion of one’s own vitality and evokes a powerful yang energy to defeat all kinds of negativity.’
That was the key to unlocking the secret of this coffin of poison.