176 – Hwaryeon is back-2
After Hwaryeon finished the ramen, she finished the bill.
Hwaryeon’s ramen was paid for by Mina, but unlike before, when you put it off by telling her to pay, I witnessed a heartwarming scene where each other held out their wallets to pay.
It seems that people can naturally change into beings who can control their anger well in the presence of a stronger being.
“I had a good meal. I’m sorry I just got back and I don’t have the money to pay.”
“no!”
“Then they say the meeting is still in progress so that I can return to work.”
“Yep!”
Both Mina and Ayeong jumped up and disappeared.
It looked so simple that anyone who saw it could mistake it for running away.
‘Am I really running away?’
“Are you a little less angry?”
“Didn’t you say they were Mr. Baek’s subordinates? I can’t be angry at the benefactor’s family for trying to buy food for them.”
I didn’t know if he really understood the situation or if his sensitivity disappeared simply because he was eating delicious food and looking at me, but I thought the immediate crisis had been resolved.
“How have you been in China?”
“I just got things done and I came back right away. Needless to say how I’ve been, since I spent most of my time in China at the gate.”
“It’s okay if I tell you at least what happened inside the gate.”
“It didn’t matter. The Cheonma Shinkyo was overflowing with manpower. Did you say it was a climbing gate? More than 5 gates appeared, but each sent an S-class Awakener, so it was easy to break through. The one I entered was especially easy.”
“I’m glad.”
“After clearing the climbing gate and finishing the minimum meeting, I came back right away. There is nothing else to say.”
I leaned on Hwaryeon’s body as I walked slowly.
“Did you miss me a lot?”
“I missed you a lot. The longer I was in China, the more difficult it was to hold back the feeling of wanting to meet Ahae. I wonder how I could have endured nearly 20 years without Ahae.”
“If I told you to hold on now, wouldn’t you?”
“You sound obvious. I don’t want to imagine a life without children anymore.”
“I can’t imagine life without you anymore.”
I took a walk slowly to digest food.
“What do you think will happen in the future?”
“What do you mean?”
“They say new dangers appear, and there’s a new climbing gate. Will they be able to withstand it?”
“Of course I can hold on. Ahae doesn’t know who I am? I’m a thousand. With moderate risk, you can’t do me any damage. And isn’t the climbing gate a good gate for us?”
“Can you get to the beneficial gate? Isn’t it just a gate where monsters don’t come out?”
Hwaryeon shook her head lightly.
“Climbing gates are not only meaningful in preventing monsters from coming out. As a result of our experiments, we saw that Awoken with low-level abilities slightly increased their mana whenever they caught a monster. It’s not, but if you don’t deliberately kill the boss and only kill the monsters in the lower layer, it’ll be a place where you can steadily increase your overall power little by little.”
If you catch a monster, mana grows?
‘Then I can get more mana if I catch monsters too, right?’
I caught close to 10 monsters with my pistol, but Hyeonsu didn’t hear that my mana had grown.
Didn’t catch it from close range, but caught it with a gun, so mana didn’t grow?
“Can I raise mana too?”
Unknowingly, the tension rose and attached to Hwaryeon, and Hwaryeon began to avert my eyes sadly.
“Are you the Heavenly Demon?”
“That is…”
Hwaryeon couldn’t make eye contact with me and kept messing around.
“As a result of experiments on people who have mana like Ahae but have not properly awakened, it was not possible to observe their mana growing. While the awakened people grew slightly, they did not grow at all.”
“ah…”
A low sigh escaped involuntarily.
Even though I thought I shouldn’t show disappointment, my tension dropped.
Hwaryeon started to pay attention to me, as if she was concerned about my lowered tension.
“Perhaps there is another way for Ahae to grow. It is too early to be disappointed as the research has not yet been completed.”
“I’ve never been disappointed.”
Seeing Hwaryeon who was dumbfounded while looking at me made me feel a little better.
‘Yes, it’s been a long time since I gave up on becoming stronger anyway, right?’
Even if I say that I can’t get stronger now, it won’t hurt me that much.
“Doesn’t mana increase even if you and I are skilled?”
“It does increase, but the amount is so small that it is practically meaningless. The Chunma Shinkyo plans to use it as a training ground for low-level Awakeners without closing the climbing gate. There’s a lot of merit there.”
“Are we going to come to that conclusion?”
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No matter how fierce the faction fight is, it won’t end anytime soon.
If there is a team dedicated to these issues, I wonder if they will come up with answers similar to Hwaryeoni’s.
I can’t believe Shaking’s words 100%, but the merit of the Awakeners growing is so great.
‘Wait, people in my city don’t know that climbing gates grow Awoken people?’
“Hwaryeonah.”
“Ahahahaha. I told you not to call me by name. Do you want to punish me again?”
“Heavenly Demon, can I talk to Yeon right here?”
“Since you can guess where it is, it’s quite possible. Why is that? Is there anything you want to say to your younger sister?”
“Could you tell the younger generation that mana increases when you catch monsters in a climbing gate?”
As soon as I said it, I felt sorry.
The information about the climbing gate is information that can be treated as confidential, but in fact, it was no different than telling me to pass the information of the Heavenly Demon Church to Sol.
I tried to correct it by opening my mouth again, but Mr. Hwaryeon, who was quick to act, had already handed over the information to my younger sister.
“He said. It’s so cute how the younger sister is flustered. I’m breaking out in a cold sweat right now thinking about how to convey this.”
“It’s like a secret of the Heavenly Demonic Church, can I tell the Sun Guild?”
“Anyway, this is a fact that will come to light after a little more time. There is no need to hide it as a secret. And aren’t there more people in Korea than China? nothing to see.”
He raised his right thumb and showed it to Hwaryeon.
“I got a call from Hayeon.”
“What contact did you receive?”
“The meeting is going to be very long. He judged that it would take at least 10 more hours. The Sun Guild, unlike the Celestial Demon God, has many factions and will make a fuss to put the Awakened under his command, so it will take that much longer. say it will.”
“Ten hours? That’s really long…”
“They say there are no factions in the Heavenly Demonic Church… Ha-yeon is also mistaken.”
Are there cliques? It was an image that Hwaryeon would beat up all factions.
“Is there a faction in the Heavenly Demon Church?”
“Of course, it’s not a politically fighting relationship, but since the Heavenly Demonic Church is basically made up of a teacher-teacher relationship, there is a sense of closeness between those who have the same teacher. After I left, I didn’t teach even to the general disciples.”
“Is the sword demon faction and sword demon faction divided like this?”
“Yes. Other than that, factions were divided by those who were accepted as disciples after other S-class Awakeners, Sword Demons, Sword Demons, and Liu Ying. Even small meetings were held because of factions. It was obvious that there would be a fight. These guys are so obsessed with being strong that if I hadn’t intervened, there would have been a bit of a riot.”
“Did the Heavenly Demons hold meetings like we did for ten hours?”
The Heavenly Demon shook her head resolutely at my question.
“What kind of a meeting is this? Of course, it must have been decided who was right with the rain. In that case, it was obvious that the children under the Sword Demon’s command would monopolize the gate, so I delayed meeting Ahae for an hour and still came.”
“Everyone’s life is the same.”
“Everyone wants to take care of their children. It’s not a problem as long as it’s not too much. But with 10 hours left, are you going to stand still?”
“yes?”
“You called me by name earlier, so now you have to be punished.”
Huaryeon grabbed my wrist and started dragging me to the street where there are hotels.