190 – in the gate -3
In the stiff atmosphere, even Ansung stood still, watching Hwaryeoni notice.
Ansung, who had already returned to his monkey form, was looking at Hwaryeoni’s notice, if it was cute, he was cute.
-Hey… Guys? Did you get all the ingredients?
“Whoa… yes, I’m glad you saved them all…”
The war of nerves between Hwaryeon and Sua ended with Hwaryeon’s defeat.
If Ansung hadn’t appeared, there was a chance that Hwaryeon would have won the victory even by giving Sua, but Ansung suddenly appeared, making that impossible.
Even though it was said that he won through a verbal fight, which was not Hwaryeon’s main domain, he decided to applaud Soo-ah in his heart for winning over Hwaryeon.
‘That is amazing!’
Of course, these words never came out of my mouth.
It was because I was going to be afraid of tonight if I praised Sua when I knew Hwaryeon was angry.
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No, it was clear that I would suffer from Hwaryeon not only tonight, but for at least a month from now.
-Can I increase this boy’s mana?
“Yes. How much do you think it will increase?”
– Depends on the ability of the person receiving it. People who can’t handle mana at all will see a slight increase, and people with the ability to handle even the smallest amount of mana will be able to achieve satisfactory growth.
‘Wait a minute, then I can’t come out?’
Hyeonsu and the baton touch let him dominate my body.
“yes?”
-what?
Sua and Ansung reacted almost simultaneously.
Even though Hyeonsu and I had very similar habits, I recognized Hyeonsu as soon as my consciousness changed.
Are these strong people?
“Who are you?”
Sua’s eyes trembled.
“The person who will become Mr. Lee Soo-hyun’s younger brother will come. It will be easier to think of him as a second personality rather than a real younger brother.”
“Uh… since when did Suhyeon exist in your mind?”
“Even when you and Lee Soo-hyun met again after a long time, I was in this guy’s mind.”
Sua’s mouth opened wide.
From her point of view, the fact that I had an alter ego seemed to be too big a deal to even talk about.
“Then why did you appear all of a sudden?”
“Because I handle mana much better than Lee Soo-hyun, I heard that you have to handle mana well to increase your growth? That’s why I came out.”
“That… that’s right…”
Sua couldn’t meet Hyeonsu’s eyes.
Watching him tremble with anxiety, I had no idea what he was thinking.
-Then can we start right now?
“Is there anything else I need to prepare?”
– Oh, no. You just need to be comfortable. I’ll do all the important things.
Ansung made numerous ingredients into powder by grinding or grinding them.
He drew the powder on the floor in an odd way, then lifted me up and placed me right in the center of the pattern.
– Then start? You just need to have the feeling of capturing the maximum amount of mana coming into your body.
“okay.”
I followed Ansung’s words and stood in the middle of the magic circle, so I felt as if something was pushing towards me.
“Oh… Is it a mechanism that induces mana to the center?”
-It’s much more complicated than that. It also contains conversion in a way that humans can hold in the body, so it’s probably very difficult for you guys to follow?
“It certainly seems so.”
A large amount of mana rushed towards my body.
Most of the mana collided with each other and shattered and left my body, but some of the mana came into my body, and our hero, Hyeon-soo, concentrated his whole mind on trying to confine the mana inside his body.
After 15 minutes, when he could clearly feel his concentration and hard work, Hyeon-soo opened his eyes as the powders used for Ansungi lost their light.
– You absorbed more mana than you thought?
“As far as I can see… that’s enough…”
Hwaryeon was speechless.
-Still, I can’t go crazy with the Awoken… If I could have locked up a little more mana, I would have been able to awaken for sure… It’s a pity.
I didn’t become an Awakener by a small difference, but it wasn’t a waste.
I immediately felt how hard Hyeonsu had worked, so even if I expressed my gratitude for the increase in mana even this much, if I felt it was a waste or was disappointed in the middle of it, it was clear that it would be very disrespectful to Hyeonsu.
-If you practice steadily for a few months, your mana will increase naturally and you may awaken.
“Okay. I’ll have to train harder from now on.”
Until now, I thought that I had to resume training, which I had been resting for the reason that I couldn’t do it anyway.
Like Ansung said, if you slowly add mana, you might wake up as an F-class Awakener.
-Then I’m leaving. I used too much energy in the process of procuring materials and inducing mana.
“thanks.”
– Thank you, you worked with that promise in the first place.
As Ansung disappeared, he looked at Hwaryeoni.
– Later on, let’s compete with each other sincerely.
“I get it.”
Ansung smiled broadly and disappeared from our sight.
As soon as Ansung disappeared, a black gate occurred and Hyeonsu passed his consciousness to me.
“Are you Soohyun?”
“Oh, it’s me.”
Sua came up to me and hugged me.
“I was really surprised when I thought you were gone…”
There was a lot of crying in Sua’s voice, but there was not a single lie in her voice, so it seemed that she really thought that I might disappear.
“Where am I going to disappear all of a sudden?”
As I hugged Su-a and reassured her, I could feel Hwaryeon’s prickly eyes at me.
“I… Shall we go out? There might be people outside waiting for us.”
“Okay, let’s go out now.”
Come to think of it, Ansung, who said it would take about two days, appeared in front of us not long after.
“Ansung… You arrived much earlier than expected…”
As I muttered as I headed toward the gate, Hwaryeon gave me an appropriate answer.
“Ansung was considerate of us. It actually took two days for Ansung to feel, but he coordinated the time inside the gate and made our time pass quickly.”
“Ahh…”
Talking like that made me understand.
I was ignoring him a little because he was a monkey, but he’s smarter than I thought.
“Anyway, let’s get out quickly. I don’t want to see Ah Hae and Lee Soo Ah stuck together any more.”
Seeing Hwaryeon’s stern expression, he quickly took Soo-ah and went outside.
It was very calm outside the gate.
Even though it had been about two hours since we disappeared, there were many people nearby and it seemed to be working very well.
‘yes? Why do you think Six is over there?’
“Goddess! What happened inside?”
“What’s your relationship with the man you’re holding?!”
‘Fuck?’
10% of the crowds gathered around were reporters, and the other 90% were civilians who came to watch the reporters.
In a way, it was natural.
There were quite a few people who saw us being eaten by the gate, but as they were not folding screens, but human beings with their own wills, ‘Wow! Someone got sucked into the gate! I have to do my own thing!’ It wasn’t like this, but everyone would have reported it in surprise, so it wasn’t that strange that this amount of people were gathered.
It seems that from the moment she was dragged into the gate, someone recognized that one of the people who entered was Sua.
Otherwise, no matter how many people were sucked into the gate that suddenly appeared, there would never have been such a large crowd waiting for us, and even Six, the head of this city, would not have been out.
“Inside was an ordinary gate, and the man next to him is a friend. An old friend from childhood.”
“Who is the woman next to him?”
“You are a civilian.”
Unlike me and Hwaryeon, who were dumbfounded, Sua dealt with reporters very skillfully.
‘No, but why are there reporters?’
Mir is a city that has just been revived.
‘Even in the days when people were ruled by dictators, there must have been reporters. Shouldn’t there be a reporter in Mir?’
Hyeonsu’s instructions sounded in his head.
‘It’s not like that…’
It’s because something is awkward.
The barrage of questions from reporters, which proceeded like an impromptu press conference, could only be stopped after Six stepped in and intervened.
“I hope everyone will disband!”
Six’s shouts and guards’ activity slowly dispersed the reporters.
“Whoa… that’s tough…”
Six, who had dispersed everyone, came towards us.
“What the hell happened? Why are you here?”
“I stopped by because I had some work to do.”
“Follow me. Our city isn’t in an uproar because of you right now?”
I was going to go back to my city right after I got out of the gate, but it seemed like I couldn’t go back right away.
Because Six’s eyes were shining very sadly.