155 – 155. Silver in the Beginning (2)
-Pacang!
With a shrieking plosive sound, silver liquid fell to the ground. At that moment, both Ahn Su-ho and Aigis stopped moving as if they had promised.
-Wriggling.
The primordial silver that fell on the floor wriggled once. Obviously different from when the spilled liquid spread, the primordial silver began to pulsate like a living creature.
– Kumt.
Soon, a small sense of touch sprouted from the middle of the liquid.
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Like a bug’s antennae, or a snail’s sense of touch.
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Like an animal in an unfamiliar environment tilting its head, the silver sense of touch looked around.
‘…… What is that?’
A line of cold sweat ran down Ahn Su-ho’s cheek. As far as he knew, the primordial silver was never an artifact that moved alone like that.
A mental link must be established for the artifact to activate. I must have read something like that.
-Wriggling.
At that time. The eyes of the primordial silver that had been looking around were fixed on one place. It was a story based on the premise that there was a sense that could be called a ‘line of sight’, but the primordial silver pointed its protruding head precisely to Ahn Su-ho’s right hand.
To be exact, to the Talisman in that right hand.
-Kiiiiing.
Talisman was still emitting a soft blue light and absorbing mana in the air. The primordial silver stood still with its tactile keenness as if fascinated by its brilliant light.
Ahn Soo-ho waved his right hand left and right as a test. The protruding tactile senses also swayed slowly from side to side as if responding to the movement.
‘Could it be that he’s reacting to the talisman?’
How did that happen. The moment I thought so, the primordial silver sense of touch went back. Not in the direction of Ahn Su-ho, but in the direction of Ryu Tae-hyun, who is fighting in full swing.
-Quaang!
Unlike An Su-ho’s side, where the battle stopped for a while, Ryu Tae-hyeon’s side was still fighting. Blue bullets rained down from all directions, and the traces of knives flashed with sharp light. Amid the stormy attacks, Ryu Tae-hyeon was desperately playing with his body. The talisman in his right hand emits intense light.
-Jureuk.
The primordial silver, whose eyes were drawn to that light, began to slowly turn toward it. At that moment, an unknown feeling of anxiety rang in Ahn Su-ho’s mind.
‘I can’t send that to Ryu Tae-hyeon.’
There was no evidence. However, unfounded anxiety consumed his mind. The primordial silver was no longer the original artifact he knew. It was impossible to send such uncertain elements to Ryu Tae-hyeon, the main character of the original work, who is also connected to his own life.
That’s why.
-Kiiiiing!!
Ahn Soo-ho activated Talisman with all his might. The magical power that spread around him was sucked into his right hand at once, and as if following the current, the silver eyes of the beginning also turned to Ahn Su-ho again. Like a hedgehog setting up thorns, countless tiny senses of touch sprouted from the silver body that was twitching.
-Paat!
Right after that, like a beast rushing at its prey, the primordial silver flew into Ahn Su-ho’s right hand.
“Wow?!”
Extremely fast movement unlike before. At the moment when Ahn Su-ho was taken aback by the sudden charge, the long stretched tactile tip clung to his right hand. Right after that, other tentacles clung to each other, and soon the entire primordial silver stuck to Ahn Su-ho’s right hand.
– Pounding. Pounding. Pounding.
The pulse I could clearly feel was not Ahn Su-ho’s own. The original silver itself was pulsating like a living creature.
With each beat, the silver body, which was the size of a palm, began to slowly swell.
“Keuuugh!?”
Intense pain that attacks at the same time. Ahn Soo-ho felt an indescribable pain in the area touched by the primordial silver.
‘It’s like hundreds of sharp needles are piercing my pores!’
I wanted to drop the stuck silver, but I couldn’t put my hands on it. Ahn Soo-ho, who was worried, raised black smoke with all his might from his right hand.
However.
-Pabababababak!
“Quaaagh!!”
That was rather counterproductive. The silver body, swollen by the smoke, clung to it, covering a larger area in order not to fall from the Ansuho. Needless to say, the pain intensified.
‘What the hell is going on?’
Aegis stared at the scene in amazement without a word. He, too, was equally disconcerted. For an artifact to arbitrarily break out of its container and attack the user was something that would normally be impossible.
Even in the meantime, the silver of the beginning was steadily increasing in volume and putting pressure on Ahn Su-ho. A silver body that went beyond the wrist and covered the elbow.
“…… Suho hyung?”
Even Ryu Tae-hyeon, who was fighting the anomaly, was distracted. He did the same with the other three people who were fighting with him.
“Brother! That’s fine-“
“Don’t come!”
Ahn Su-ho managed to stop Ryu Tae-hyeon, who was trying to approach him. With a face that showed signs of pain.
“You can’t come! You’re reacting to Talisman! If you come close, even you will get caught up in it!”
At that desperate attitude, Ryu Tae-hyeon stopped walking. He turns his gaze to others.
As if he wanted an explanation of what was happening.
“What is that…… ? Silver in the beginning was such a thing…… ?”
However, the others did not understand the situation, even Xiao-Mei who brought the artifact. Everyone present stopped their actions and lost their eyes to Ahn Su-ho. In the midst of that strange attention, Ahn Su-ho groaned in pain and broke into a cold sweat.
‘Yes! Status window!’
At that moment, An Su-ho’s eyes flashed. He perused his status window with a half-doubt.
—–
[ ‘Ahn Soo-ho’ status window]
Name: Suho Ahn
Gender : Male
Height/Weight/Age: 182.3Cm/76.5Kg/24 years old
Occupation: Academy security guard
Affiliation: Green House Guard Special Countermeasures Division
Possessed Superpowers: Black Smoke (D), Magic Absorption (A)
[ Abilities ]
Muscle Strength C++
Agility A+**
Endurance B*
mana A*
Fineness A*
Will C*
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Lucky S*
1. Strength and agility are given a positive correction due to the wearing effect of .
2. Due to the effect of , All stats have temporarily increased significantly.
[ Possessed skills ]
1. Academy guard (Unique. C)
2. Frost Spirit’s Contract (Unique. E)
[ Equipment List ]
1. Talisman of Magic Absorption
2. Morning star’s breath
3. Proof of the Frost Spirit
4. Primordial silver
—–
‘As expected!’
Sensing that his prediction was correct, he immediately activated the detailed description of the primordial silver.
Now then.
—–
The Beginning of Silver (Express)
-The beginning of silver. Also called Philosopher’s Stone or Ether, the identity of this artifact is a living metal creature. The primordial silver communicates with the user’s spirit through magic and can freely change into the user’s desired shape, autonomously assisting the user’s movement in combat situations.
-Early silver is an artifact that has its own ego. Therefore, in order to use it skillfully, it is necessary to take a long time to imprint the user’s magical power on the primordial silver and form a mental bond.
-However, if the primordial silver is exposed to excessively strong magical power during this process, there is a possibility that it will run out of control regardless of the user’s will. In that case, the user’s safety cannot be guaranteed.
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‘The Heavenly Demon of Pleasure, you f*cking bastard, there was no such content in the original work!!’
A Living Artifact, an Inherent Ego, or a Runaway by Magical Power.
It was only the contents that were completely unheard of. The primordial silver that appeared in the original work was just an all-purpose weapon that could change shape at will. There was not a single aspect of living metal like the description in the status window.
‘f*ck that angel, I shouldn’t have warned you about something like this!’
I belatedly resent it, but the water was already spilled. Runaway regardless of the user’s will. As the saying goes, the silver in the beginning was running out of control. Before one knew it, the range covered by it had advanced beyond Ahn Su-ho’s shoulders and reached his chest.
In the original setting, it is near the heart, the place where superhuman mana gathers.
-Fu-wook!
A sharp tactile sensation penetrated Ahn Su-ho’s chest. Then, like a mosquito with a snout, it begins to ravenously crave the magic that resides in his heart.
Only then did Ahn Soo-ho know the cause of the inexplicable pain he felt. It was the pain of the primordial silver consuming Ahn Soo-ho’s magical power. Before the mana absorbed into his body through the talisman settled in his heart, a predator with a straw inserted it from the outside and intercepted it in the middle.
‘Yes, we must stop Talisman now… ….’
A belated thought, he tried to stop Talisman’s magic absorption. But Talisman did not listen to him.
As if the command given by the brain was cut off in the middle.
‘No way… ….’
Ahn Suho glared at the primordial silver clinging to his right arm. Ever since the sense of touch was implanted in his heart, Ahn Soo-ho began to feel a strange sense of unity with the primordial silver. If this is the “Mental bond” Mentioned in the description… ….
“Damn it… ….”
An ominous feeling flashed through Ahn Su-ho’s mind. And as if that premonition was true, regardless of his will, Talisman began to activate at full output.
-Whee Oh Oh Oh!!
A classification of magical powers pouring in from all directions. The intangible aura that had thickened to the point of being visible was concentrated in his right hand, on the primordial silver clinging to it. The more it devours its mana, the more its silver body begins to noticeably increase in volume.
-Kulleong.
Soon, it covered the whole of Ahn Su-ho’s body. Its appearance was like a metal casting made by an incompetent sculptor.
“Suho, hyung…… ?”
Taehyun Ryu asked with a trembling expression. But he got no answer back. Is he just no answer? He couldn’t even tell if he was conscious or alive.
“…… Hey. Aegis. What are you going to do with that?”
“… ….”
Cube’s anxious question. Aegis silently looked at Ahn Soo-ho’s ‘what was’.
‘…… Dangerous.’
His instinct, his intuition unique to a superhuman who had reached the realm of the S rank, repeatedly set off alarm bells.
Towards the primordial silver that ran out of control and swallowed the user, it’s dangerous, so run away.
“…… The silver of the beginning gives up. Let us retreat now.”
“What? Are you going to leave it as it is?”
“There are too many uncertainties to take risks. If you waste time like this, a special lease will come in without anyone knowing-“
That moment.
-Kiyiying!!!!
With an ominous echo, the Aegis’ vision was filled with silver.
***
A plaza near the main gate of Neverland.
There was a crowd of people trying to get out of the amusement park due to the sudden terror. Kang Ha-neul and his party were waiting for Ahn Soo-ho to bring Ryu Tae-hyeon to a place slightly away from the crowd.
However.
“I think more than 20 minutes have passed already. Why are you not coming…….”
Kang Ha-neul was looking in the direction they came from with anxious eyes. Next to him, Naeun Sol was with him with the same expression. The people who wanted to come back were different, but both had the same worries on their faces.
“Shouldn’t we go too?”
At Na Eun-sol’s question, the other students nodded. They didn’t know much about Ahn Su-ho, but they definitely knew about Ryu Tae-hyeon’s skills.
The fact that Ryu Tae-hyeon, the strongest freshman in name and reality, did not come back for such a long time meant that it was not an ordinary situation.
“What are you going to do? Are you going to fight together? Joy. If that happens, we’ll all get along well and end up behind bars, right?”
“Ha Seong-min, what do you mean? Aren’t you worried about Taehyung?”
“I just told the truth. Wasn’t the reason why the guard went alone to stop Ryu Tae-hyeon? But seeing as he hasn’t been able to come back so far, it’s obvious that he got caught up in a fight. Even if we go, there is nothing we can do.”
It was a nervous attitude, but it was an argument. The fact that Ryu Tae-hyeon has not returned so far means that he has been fighting voluntarily or he is in a situation where he cannot bear to retreat. Even if they went, there was nothing they could do.
But.
“Heaven. Are you okay. Believe in suho You will be doing well.”
“Sister. But…….”
From the point of view of the people left behind, the anxiety only grew as each minute passed. Kang Ha-neul, in particular, was particularly worried.
It wasn’t that Ji Ye-won wasn’t worried about Ahn Su-ho, but he tried to cover up his worries with his trust in Ahn Su-ho. He would do well As always, I will come back safely this time. I believed so hard and believed again.
-…… Too-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta!
At that time, they raised their heads at the sound of a helicopter coming from afar. Sure enough, five dark helicopters were approaching at high speed from across the sky.
“That… ….”
“What is that? Broadcasting Helicopter…… I don’t think so.”
“It’s a special-purpose helicopter.”
Unlike other students, Ji Ye-won recognized her identity at once. However, his expression darkened even more.
‘It’s not an ordinary thing to even go to the special rental unit… ….’
But if she gets anxious, her river sky will become even more anxious. That’s why Ji Ye-won tried hard not to show her anxiety.
-Too-ta-ta-ta-tata!!!
In the meantime, the helicopter approached right above the amusement park. The helicopters had 40 crew members on board, 8 for each helicopter.
They were looking down at the whole view of the amusement park from above. Their eyes are focused on one place all at once.
“…… What is that?”
One of the crew members pulled down his mask and was surprised.
“…… f*ck. I’ve heard that superhumans are fighting against each other. What is that monster?”
In his eyes, there was a silver monster running amok, swinging tentacles in all directions.