136 – Building a Nest
“It was successful, though.”
Jinseong slowly stood up at the foot of the mountain far from the well.
His body was full of piles of undried dirt and grass, and his body gave off a unique smell that can be smelled in the mountains. It looked like a sniper in a Ghillie suit.
Jinseong lightly brushed off his body and strengthened his eyes to look at the well at the end of the world.
There, soldiers were returning to the military base on the Doo Donban, and Seong Min-hyeok was also seen riding a Retona and moving together. However, it was seen that he was arguing with the officer inside, whether it was something he did not like, or if there was something getting in the way.
hahahaha. He looks like he’s dying of frustration.’
The officer’s face as he spoke to Seong Min-hyeok looked like he was about to explode at any moment.
It wasn’t an explosion of anger, but the expression of someone suffering from terrifying frustration, as if talking to a wall. And on the other hand, Seong Min-hyuk was consistent with the attitude of ‘I said something, and it’s the right thing, so you should understand it’.
Even without listening to the contents of the conversation, I could guess what the conversation was going on there.
However, there is a huge difference between guessing and confirming.
Jinseong focused and looked inside Retona.
Then, as if it were magnified, the face was clearly visible, and the shape of the officer’s mouth could be read as it was.
『I am in charge of the elderly Kim Jong-soo! 』
Jinseong laughed at the officer’s expression of resentment.
“Oops. That bear covets other people’s things.”
I could tell the conversation inside Retona just by looking at that one.
Seong Min-hyeok covets Cheon Hee-soo.
He must have thought that there was nothing better than this, since he could take the initiative even though he had the smart enough to be just right if he worked with him, and he could even take revenge on Kim Jong-soo, who had beaten him.
Of course, it’s not like that stupid guy like that bear coveted that officer…
He must have gained some confidence by answering the second question Jinseong gave earlier.
‘He’s the smart guy with no great talent, but once he realized that he wasn’t perfect, his reluctance disappeared and he became greedy.’
Jinseong thought that was not bad either.
Just like an ignorant ghost who doesn’t know amulets, Seong Min-hyeok alone was rather difficult to deal with.
The sudden actions of an ignorant person are truly beyond imagination.
It’s not ‘beyond common sense’ that smart people do.
I just do things that I couldn’t even imagine, outside of my thoughts.
For example, in a D-book box (קופסת דיבוק), ‘I told you not to open it, but it was not written that you should not crush it with a hydraulic press.’ Incidents such as people playing with gasoline being said to have high caloric value and eating it, causing a huge fire to vomit on a bonfire.
Sung Min-hyeok was also a human being who could do such a thing.
However, having an externally attached brain would reduce these variables and make it easier for him to control.
‘Cancer. It’s a precious line for the National Guard, so it should be easy to control.’
Jinsung thought soThought about it for a while
‘By the way, was the Patriots’ original management at this time the same before the return, or did it happen because the future has changed?’
If it was like that even before the return, it’s just an happening because the information on the true nature was lacking or wrong.
However, if it is different from before the return, it means that the future has changed, which means that Jinseong’s actions gradually began to affect the world.
Jinseong, who was thinking hard, picked up a few rolling branches and started to burn them with a fire in his hand. Then, the tree branches began to dry up, and Jinseong put embers into the drying tree branches and burned some of them to make them into a specific shape.
Before long, the branches changed into shapes resembling chopsticks, just like the mountain branches carried by fortune tellers.
However, Jinseong did not score fortunes with it. According to the divination method from Zhou Yi, he had to use 50 sticks, but he only had 4 sticks. Instead, he made a figure by erecting the branches at an angle with a single vertex, which resembled the shape of a square pyramid.
He stared at it, then sat cross-legged, and then the ground beneath him began to shake as he opened his mouth in silence. And a hole was made in the ground where it was shaking, and the worms began to come out of it.
Gold.
Gold, which had played its role in the well earlier, swam across the land and arrived at Jinseong.
Jinseong closed his eyes and led the flowing gold that became liquid to the square pyramid.
Then, the gold settled around the pyramid like a pond, and some of the gold began to climb up the branches and fill the top part. Then, the gold on the filled top was naturally nicked and began to draw a pattern, which looked very similar to the shape of a human eye.
The pupils tilted to the right and then to the left repeatedly as if they were alive, and eventually, the gaze focused on the direction where Jinseong was sitting.
Eyes of the Mystical Pyramid.
The eyes carefully examined Jinseong.
As if a machine was scanning, the light was inorganically shot at Jinseong, and the king looked at him from the tip of his toes to the top of his head with the eyes of one of the insignificant people, and closed his eyes as if he was not interested.
And Jinseong, who saw that, nodded his head.
“I don’t think my presence has reached that level yet.”
It was a way to measure the danger of external existence by borrowing the gaze of the soul protecting the body sleeping in the pyramid.
Of course, this method was not accurate in a rule-of-thumb way, but it was also a way to measure presence, albeit lightly.
Presence here refers to the impact it has on the world.
It’s not just about having a certain amount of energy in your body or being able to use certain magic, but the ability to influence the world. In other words, it refers to something intangible, such as a lot of causal relationships between people or a huge destiny.
Of course, a monarch over many people exudes a stronger presence than a warrior with a sword, and a general who walks around with an army feels a stronger presence than a single traveler traveling alone.
In a way, the magic that linked this presence with the degree of danger was also the magic that showed the pride of Egyptian civilization.
It also meant that no matter how strong an individual was, he could never harm Egypt.
PowerlessnessThe method of measuring the degree of danger with numbers and influence, which was not the case, contained the confidence that Egypt could never be violated unless it was a huge number of soldiers or a powerful monarch.
However, history has proven that Egypt’s confidence was arrogance.
This was proved by the old necromancer who left Egypt with a group, the curse of the Jews that fell all over Egypt, and the necromancer with the power of the Legion who coveted the records of the Book of the Dead after returning.
However, even if it is arrogant, the technology itself is not wrong.
At least, it was right that the presence and ability were proportional.
And the sorcery that speaks of existence was saying that Jinseong is now a useless being.
He was saying that he was like a child without any power, unable to properly show his presence.
‘A person can stand up for himself and live on his own only when he becomes an adult. And only when he can move on his own can he write history with his own hands. The coming-of-age ceremony is a ceremony that clearly imprints one’s existence on the world, and it is a turning point that allows one to exert an influence on the world.’
I didn’t have a coming-of-age ceremony.
Because he has not yet reached adulthood, he has no influence on the world.
Jin-seong was convinced of the results of the sorcery.
If it were warriors, summoners, or wizards, such a result would not have come out.
However, since Jinseong was a sorcerer who used sorcery and symbols, he must have been bound by a symbol that was extremely important to a ‘saint’.
And, if that’s what the sorcery said.
‘I must have misunderstood the information.’
The effects of witchcraft were telling.
The world doesn’t change that easily.
The work of an individual cannot change the great flow of the world.
It is said that you wandered around after returning, but that alone cannot change the future.
‘See. If that’s the case, I’ll just have to build a good relationship with the Patriotic Association without worrying too much.’
But Jin didn’t care.
I didn’t work properly, I just went around a few places to establish the foundation of witchcraft and create a base, so what was there to be disappointed about?
The important thing is witchcraft, and it is necessary to have a close relationship with the Hogukhoe for witchcraft, and to do so, it is necessary to help them in the crisis that has come.
Jinseong took out her smartphone and texted RiSe.
『Do you have a technique to create or manipulate a monster? 』