140 – Perelcus
Euroran has returned to the Perelcus family. Since he was located at the northernmost part of the continent, he immediately changed into winter clothes at the portal station. It took him a few more hours in his carriage, shrunken by the cold north wind, to reach his destination.
The city owned by the Perelkus family was clean and the streets were clean, but defense facilities in preparation for battle stood out everywhere. The continent was soaked in peace after unification, but the reality in the north was different. A place where it is not strange even if a battle breaks out at any time.
Because of the monsters driven to the edge of the continent and the contractors of different races and demons, soldiers could always be seen busy patrolling.
The Perelcus family’s mansion in the center of the city was the size of a small palace. Although he was inferior to the northern loser, the Prax family, he was majestic enough to be evaluated as the No. 2 Man in the world. However, the people of the Perelcus family secretly felt that it was not enough to close the distance with the previous one.
Euroran headed straight to her housekeeper’s room, being greeted by a passing maid and attendant. She knocked on her door with her family’s unique knocking method, and the door opened immediately as if she had been waiting for it.
With the appearance of a cool-headed aristocrat who would not allow even a speck of dust, the family head was reading a book while sitting at his work desk. Gazoo, who slightly raised her head and exchanged glances with Euroran, passed the next chapter without saying a word. Sensitive Euroran quietly closed the door and went to her guest table and waited for Gazoo in silence.
Lycan’s older brother, Raellan, the head of the Perelcus family, has had a cold and sharp gaze since childhood, befitting his position as head of the family. His long, narrow eyes and snake-like smile always seemed to be wary of something, and his subordinates felt unknown fear.
As if he had finished organizing his reading, he heard Raellan deliberately closing the book aloud. Euroran got up and sat down on the chair across from Raellan.
“According to Lycan’s request, the procedure was performed on the student.”
Euroran, whose mouth was itchy, went straight to the point.
“The procedure was successful. But huge…. No, something happened that is impossible to explain. Maybe he figured out a new possibility of the intangible.”
I didn’t mean to make a fuss about her, but I couldn’t help but feel her emotion in her voice.
Hearing that, Raellan laughed soundlessly, stretching the corners of his mouth. He looked at Euron, his dark brown eyes glowing like he was a snake.
It was a fearful look as always, but Euroran, who had experienced the primal fear he had seen in a Lycan apprentice, was no longer afraid of it.
Perhaps he realized that, Raellan said with a pleasant smile.
“I listen while eating. I think the story will be interesting.”
***
“That’s not it!”
At the lycan’s scream, I reflexively shrugged her shoulders. Today, as always, I am being trained by Lycan, but Lycan didn’t like the intangibility I showed at all. Thanks to that, I let out a sigh of relief.
As I nervously pulled out the Spear of Destruction from the scarecrow for training, the Lycan strode forward and shouted.
“It means to operate as before. Just like the day we first learned!”
I scratched my head with a stupid expression at the sight of Lycan talking as if he was frustrated. Obviously, as requested by Lycan, he managed to breathe using magic as he had learned, but Lycan continued to shake his head, saying he was wrong.
The Lycan sighed and spoke in a serious voice like never before.
“Listen carefully. The intangible that you showed that day had a primitive intensity, as if something that had been suppressed so far exploded in an instant. But the intangible you are using right now is not enough for a simple kid’s breath. I don’t feel the intensity of that moment in my breath at all.”
At the Lycan’s words, I groaned and furrowed my brows. It’s not that I feel bad. I just looked back at the memory of that day. What is the difference between then and now?
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Not long after, I realized the crucial difference between my current magic use and the magic use back then. I felt a bit bitter that I noticed it right away, to the point where I wondered if it was just this.
On that day, Euroran inserted needles into my body to turn the flow of magic within me. When I still think of the pain I felt then, my back gets wet with cold sweat.
When the mana he was operating was blocked, he tore his blood vessels and ruptured his organs. In the agony that felt like scraping the flesh of my body, I used magic amplification like an instinct to pierce the restrictions that Euroran had ingrained in me.
It was a simple thought that if it was amplified mana, it would pierce the needle blocking the flow. It worked, and I learned the intangible.
In the end, the only thing that can be said to be the difference from that day that Lycan points out is magic amplification.
If my guess is correct, the intangible breath was affected by magic power amplification. Come to think of it, I already had a combination of ability and ability in a similar way.
Like berserk warriors and indomitable courage interlocked, intangibility and magical power amplification interlocked to create synergy.
Intangible is a breathing method that absorbs mana from nature into the body, and magical power amplification explosively amplifies the magical power itself. If the two effects are applied together, the intangible efficiency can be explosively amplified.
During my training so far, I had focused on simply using intangibles as requested by Lycan, so I had no intention of using magic amplification. Even if your guess is wrong, there’s no harm in it, so it’s worth trying.
I calmed down my rapid breathing and immediately applied my mana. The moment you breathe in while using Magic Amplification. I feel what Lycan said. An intense sensation like this hit me directly in my brain like a thunderbolt.
The power is wriggling. For a moment, I feel a sense of reverse, as if the world is slowing down. I felt this feeling when I used Dimensional Jump, but the essence is different.
Dimensional leap is the feeling that an instant moment becomes eternal, but this is falling into the realm of super senses and making the world seem slow.
I firmly planted that feeling in my head so as not to forget it, and as soon as I exhaled, I stabbed the spear at the scarecrow for training.
Quaaang-!
Unlike a moment ago, the scarecrow for training exploded with a roar so unrecognizable as if it had been stabbed with the power of destruction.
Without even time to smile with joy at that sight, I couldn’t take another breath, so I lost all my physical strength due to the belated feeling of exhaustion along with the intense pain that seemed to be twisting my internal organs.
“Keep it off… !”
I didn’t even have the strength to support myself. As if the aftereffects of doping had arrived, his vision was shaking and he had no strength to move even a finger.
Looking at me groaning on the floor, Lycan said in a pleasant voice.
“Good job. Unfortunately, one breath seems to be the maximum right now.”
As he said, I couldn’t continue my intangible breathing. I couldn’t breathe, as if something was blocking my throat. My lungs were squeezed, and my heart was pounding in pain.
It’s not that I’m being mean, it was actually like that. It feels like a load is placed on the body as much as the power is used.
After the pain subsided for a while, I turned around and laid my back on the training ground. Still, I feel a small sense of accomplishment in fulfilling Lycan’s request.
“Don’t worry. You can train by increasing the number of breaths. If it shows that much power even once, it will be the last special move hidden.”
A special move.
I felt a strange feeling at the resonance of that word. I feel like my heart beats a little bit.
I already have one special move. Killing Tarantra, the green mage lord, and an officer of the church. A special move that even killed Professor Dewin.
Dimensional leap.
If you use an intangible to jump to that dimension, what kind of destructive power will it show? Just imagining it made me feel like I was a few steps closer to Roel.
***
There were all sorts of banquets on the table, but Euroran focused on the explanation rather than the meal.
“… In the end, he destroyed the Suction Stone.”
Euroran had a kind of anticipation when he said that. She was a little excited to see what kind of reaction would come back to her own words.
“Ohhh, the absorption stone….”
Raellan’s eyes widened slightly and she muttered something interesting, but since she was Raellan who usually doesn’t show emotion, Eurolan twitched the corners of her mouth in satisfaction. However, her reaction was a bit disappointing, so she slightly looked away from her and looked at the heir of the Perelkus family who was sitting next to the head of the household.
Euroran wet her lips with saliva in anticipation at the look on her face, in disbelief at her own words, and the wavering eyes at the thought.
Come on, come on, ask me!
“No way, no way. How could he destroy the absorption stone on the first day with only collateral breathing! A lie, a lie, right? That can’t be!”
As expected, Euroran could not hide her joy at the good response and groaned. She said to the girl, who smiled and put on a desperate expression.
“It is true. I was also suspicious and questioned the lycans. Didn’t I tell you about the breathing of her hometown? But that doesn’t make sense. If I had learned that in the first place, I wouldn’t have asked for the procedure. Because even Lycan knows that the procedure is tantamount to suicide while learning intangible breathing.”
The girl chewed her lips in anger at Euroran’s explanation. She furrowed her brow, looking as if she was looking for something to refute, while she was looking at Euroran with her gaze mixed with shady anticipation. Raellan opened her mouth.
“He showed that much ability with only collateral breathing. Interesting.”
Raellan, who smiled with the corners of her mouth extended, turned her head and asked her own daughter.
“We’re in the same academy combat team, aren’t there any ties?”
The girl who noticed that if she knew anything about Ross, she had an inner meaning to explain, she told what she knew about Ross.
She became the head of the fighting department with some crazy thing, and with her tremendous skills in dueling, she became the second-year student at once.
Rumors also circulated in her academy that she had tremendous resourcefulness and brute force similar to her older brother, her second year senior. And unlike her older brother, she was a monster with cruelty, she said. It’s not normal to burn the island for her grades.
It was impossible to confirm whether the rumors were true because we weren’t close enough to say hello… Seeing her expressionless face and melancholy look as if she were going to kill others, Navier thought that the rumors were not false.
After hearing Nabier’s explanation, Raellan put her arm on the table and rested her chin on her intrigued expression.
“Coming from a commoner, the head of the combat department and the second rank of a freshman. In addition, she destroyed the suction crystal with the collateral breathing method… He’s a very attractive guy.”
Seeing Raellan’s sinister smile, Navier tried to turn her attention to her steak in front of him, but her Raelan’s voice was faster.
“Now is the time for you to start looking for a marriage partner.”
“Yes… ?”
When the embarrassed Navier answered stupidly, Raellan narrowed her eyes and glared at her.
“Oh no, I heard he has a girlfriend.”
“Dating and marriage are different. I’ll arrange a place for you if you want.”
She was an invitation, but Nabi was well aware that she had no choice but to refuse. Even if he was her father through blood, Raellan was such a person.
“Al, I see.”
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Navie answered in a voice that seemed to make her cry.