Episode 78
Chapter 17 Laying the cornerstone (3)
types are differentiated. With normal skills and magic.
As for general skills, various types of knowledge have been updated, starting with mana management, swordsmanship, spearmanship, shieldsmanship, and so on.
And magic is again divided into permanent magic and disposable magic, and all of them even display the type and grade of attribute magic.
It does not end there, but the available sections for purchase by grade are divided.
This means that there are separate tabs for tie and lose tabs.
When it is a copper tile, the hidden tab is locked and cannot be used.
Potions were also subdivided into types. The price difference between the upper, middle and lower potions was tenfold.
‘No, a hundred times.’
Ten low level potions have 150 mana, but intermediate potions have 1,500 mana.
It is an indication that if you go to a high-ranking hunting ground, a low-level potion will not be enough.
It’s been awhile since I’ve been fiddling with the ring and examining the changes.
‘Let’s wash first.’
It’s time to move slowly, even for today’s schedule.
I was afraid that Belta would wake up while I was away, so I just washed my face and brushed my teeth and came out.
Fortunately, it wasn’t until a little more time passed that the child woke up.
“cellar… … .”
twitch twitch.
Her ears, which had been limp and limp all the time she slept, twitched and moved.
Still rubbing his eyes as if he was sleepy.
‘… … Cute is cute.’
Looking at the wagging tail that went back and forth, I thought I could understand Yeon-woo’s desire to have an animal.
‘I’m not going to allow it though.’
I hugged the half-awake guy and headed for the bathroom.
When I woke up, I was thinking of washing my face.
The guy who finished washing his face in my arms while still in a daze immediately purrs and brushed his face.
Then it climbed right over me and slipped out of the bathroom.
A little late, I followed him back to the bedroom.
But, all of a sudden, during the brief moment I went from the bathroom to the bedroom, I was biting into the bottle of toner that Belta had left on the bedside table.
The stories Centler had told me about the beasts flashed through my mind.
– Beasts are born with strong bodies, so it’s natural.
They say that guy has enough strength to blow a person’s head off, but a glass bottle won’t break it.
As I reached that point, my voice rose involuntarily.
“hey!”
Startled, Belta jumped up from the bed and banged her head on the ceiling.
Even so, I landed swiftly on the floor, and I snatched the bottle that fell under the bed in the gap.
When I turned my gaze, I could see Belta, who had lowered herself to the floor before she knew it.
The boy’s pupils were greatly dilated. Just like when a cat is excited.
The place where that gaze reached was my hand.
I put the skin back into the locker before Belta even kicked the floor.
Almost at the same time, his hands became heavy.
“uh?”
The seat I was looking at just before was empty.
Because Belta, who was there, was already clinging to my hand and chattering.
“doesn’t exist! Why not?”
Even if it was really 1 second, no, even 0.1 second late, the skin bottle would have ended up in Belta’s hands.
Belta’s movement, far out of my perceptual realm, was shocking.
However, the face of the guy who gave me that shock was innocent.
The sense of alienation from that incongruity was quite frightening.
In the moment I was frozen, Belta put her nose in my hand and started sniffing and sniffing.
“Give me this, smelly stuff quickly!”
And then tightly, until you raise your voice.
The moment I came out after washing my face and applied the toner to my face floated around in my head.
‘I can’t believe it’s been stuck in my head… … ?’
Apparently, what Belta was aiming for was my face, not my head. I like the smell there.
My expression twisted strangely right after I understood Belta’s behavior, which had been strangely clinging to me.
I feel relieved because the questions that have been following me have been resolved.
It’s absurd that they came to me crying and screaming all night just because of the smell.
I waited for a while to look at Belta, who still refused to let go of my hand and kept complaining about asking for a skin bottle.
“Kei-sama, did you cough?”
Chentler knocked on the door.
* * *
“Give me! Give it! I mean Lord!”
Rashar’s gaze kept going up after inviting me to have breakfast together.
Belta was sitting on my shoulder again, pulling out my poor hair.
‘This spoiled little boy… … .’
With a feeling of almost liberation from him, he regretted his earlier choice.
‘Did I just give it away?’
A few minutes ago, in case of any accident, I even removed the lotion that was still on the bedside table and followed Chantler.
What if I had just given it away instead?
‘At least by the time I arrived at the restaurant, Belta wouldn’t have climbed over my head and protested.’
A sigh came out of my mouth at the touch of my hair.
‘No matter how annoying it is, I can’t give a child something that could be dangerous.’
It’s kind of like a chemical.
The bottle was not something that could be given as a toy for a kid who would stick to it as soon as he saw it.
So, he showed no reaction and continued to remain ignorant.
In order to carry out the meaning that no matter how hard you try, you cannot give.
Eventually, the quarrel between me and Belta got longer.
Rashar, who was watching the confrontation from the other side, awkwardly curled up the corner of his mouth and tried to persuade the child.
“Belta, you shouldn’t do that to your guest… … .”
“Give me!”
However, if he was a guy who would listen to me just because he said something nice, he wouldn’t have done this in the first place.
From what I’ve heard, Belta is only four years old.
‘I really hate four years old.’
Did he want to prove that he was a hateful four-year-old? Belta started crying again.
Meow, meow, as if the world was collapsing, the sad cry reminds me of the last dawn.
I opened my mouth in embarrassment.
“excuse me.”
“uh?”
Rashar, who was looking at me and Belta in turn, reacted in amazement.
But I just said what I had to say in a calm manner.
“Are beastmen vulnerable to poison or something like that? Is there anything in particular that I shouldn’t eat?”
I didn’t know anything about this unknown creature, so I asked for advice.
“Poison… … .”
Rashar, who was staring at Belta after receiving my question, said with an awkward smile.
“If you’re aiming for poison, you’ll have to use five or six times the lethal dose for humans.”
“her.”
“It’s not that there aren’t poisoned prisoners, but… … It’s not rare.”
If you look at the conclusion alone, it means that the probability of what the prisoners eat and go wrong is low.
My heart was shaken because it was a little bit of a bit of a bit of a bit of a bit of a bit of a bit of a bit of a bit of
‘Then wouldn’t it be okay to lick it lightly?’
Although it is a chemical drug, there must be quite a lot of modern people eating cosmetics.
It is not uncommon for people to lick their lips and swallow cosmetics applied to their face.
‘I heard that a man eats a few tubes of lipstick in his lifetime.’
Seeing this guy’s stubbornness, he doesn’t seem to give up and continues to bully me.
Wouldn’t it be better to just let it go and be comfortable?
It would have been okay to give it as long as I had heard that the hand sign was exceptionally strong.
I also brought extras, so I didn’t feel uncomfortable not having this.
Even so, I couldn’t give it away because I was afraid that something would happen in the end.
‘Let’s just get our hair pulled out.’
If the skin bottle breaks and you get hurt, things might get worse.
In that case, it would be better if my hair was pulled out.
I raised the spoon, thinking that there was no child above my head.
Unfortunately, I couldn’t eat the soup with it.
A bright light that stung my eyes seemed to flash, but a person’s foot landed on the table.
“This is discrimination!”
All of a sudden, my soup bowl, which was where that foot had landed, fell miserably.
“under… … .”
It’s really blue since morning.
I, who was staring at the spilled soup, raised my head.
That orange back of the head that appeared with an angry voice was definitely Ahel.
“… … Hey, are you here?”
Rashar, who was facing Ahel, who was standing with his back to me, uttered a single word before ten words returned.
“Have you come? Yes, I’m here! You didn’t want to come, but what? I have come all of a sudden!”
“… … .”
“Does it make sense that you can’t use the portal because you don’t belong to the church? Because they discriminated like this, the wizards beat the betrayal as a group!”
“… … .”
“I should have followed Master at that time, but what kind of wealth and glory did I have to stay here!”
The dining room, large enough to accommodate a large dining table for 10 people, was filled with Ahel’s voice.
“I was in such a hurry then… … .”
On the other hand, Rashar’s voice when dealing with Ahel was so faint that it was barely audible.
“If you’re in a hurry, you can just leave me alone, right?! Even on the battlefield, if you are in a hurry, you will abandon me!”
“… … Didn’t you come safely though?”
Rashar, unable to meet Ahel’s gaze, mumbled.
“Of course you arrived safely! Because I was afraid to die in a polluted area, I only went to heaven!”
“… … .”
“Every time I fall where there is an aerial monster, my blood is very dry! I must complete the magic before he eats me, before I fall to the ground, this is what life is like!”
For some reason, as the conversation got longer, Ahel seemed to grow bigger and Rashar seemed to get smaller.
I listened to the one-sided conversation between the two and roughly grasped the situation.
I have already heard that it is possible to move between temples through portals.
‘Necessary conditions for the competition between denominations.’
And I just heard that you can’t use the portal unless you belong to the church.
According to the flow of the story, it is concluded that Ahel, who was unable to use the portal, has returned at last after repeatedly using her own movement magic all night.
‘It makes me angry.’
Of course, I don’t intend to understand Ahel’s situation even if I understand what he did.
My hands, which were wet with the soup, were too uncomfortable for that.
I wiped my hands while listening to their one-way conversation.
‘Anyway, it’s a betrayal… … .’
Glancing, I turned my gaze to see the shackles on Ahel’s neck.
‘Is that an incident related to that?’
The magician’s betrayal, I’m going to look into this sooner or later when I get a chance.
I had no intention of asking the question right away.
Because that subject might be a taboo subject here, like a rebellion.
‘The word betrayal wouldn’t be positive.’
So it would be better to look at the timing and ask quietly at the right time.
No matter what I was thinking in my head, the one-way conversation between Ahel and Rashar continued.
“It stinks!”
Adding to that, Belta’s grumbling, really, the saying that it was 5 minutes ago was right.
‘… … It might not be a very good place to stay.’
I sighed and started eating the freshly prepared soup.
If you don’t want to be late for your appointment, you have to eat and leave quickly.
* * *
Ahel, who was busy getting angry at Rashar, changed her expression as soon as she saw me.
– How cool, Kay?! You are here!
It was such a quick change that it seemed heinous at first glance.
I skipped over receiving his greeting.
In fact, it would be more accurate to say that he was busy taking off Belta.
Somehow, as soon as I got rid of the child with the help of Rashar, I felt like I had done something bad.
Because Belta was shaking and struggling.
Rashar carried the child who was crying and making a fuss and went inside, but his mind was complicated.
However, today’s schedule was promised even before the server was connected, so it could not be postponed.
I kept looking back for a while at the sound of crying from afar.
I rode out of the mansion in the carriage prepared by Chentler.
Shortly thereafter, I arrived at my destination.
As I greeted the coachman and got off the carriage, all eyes were on me.
I ignored that gaze and approached the one who had arrived first.
“Could it be, Kei hyung?”
“uh.”
It was Kim Yul. The guy who looked me up and down clicked his tongue.
“Anyway, it’s Yunnan.”
With only the eyes exposed while wearing the mask, there’s no reason to say such a thing.
However, I have no intention of taking off my mask here.
“You sell your face, because I hate it.”
Selling one’s face among players is a specification.
Yesterday I didn’t care who saw me. I didn’t wear anything, and I didn’t do anything in particular.
However, today you have to wear equipment, and there is a high possibility that you will use elemental magic while hunting.
‘We have to assume that we can run into Korean players at any time.’
In fact, there are more than 5 players I found while traveling to and from Seoul.
In such a situation, there is no way to show your face comfortably.
Moreover, Kim Yul is not the only person who has decided to meet today.
Looking at the person standing next to Kim Yul, I pretended to know him first.