Teacher (1)

'The director is right. It has to be a training that makes up for what is lacking in actual combat.'

It was actually the way Seo Mun-yeop did during the war.

After attacking the dungeon, he trained to make up for his shortcomings based on his experience.

In that way, all of his abilities were raised to the limit, and because of that, Seo Moon-yeop thought he knew himself very well.

But then and now, Seo Moon-yeop was completely different.

The lack of strength and speed is now limitless. In addition, psychic powers such as 'immortality', 'amplification', and 'weapon spiritualization' have been developed.

The difference was so great that in the old days, you had to team up with fellow supermen and risk your life and death to attack dungeons that were impossible to conquer, but now you can attack by yourself.

It was indeed a huge power gap.

There was no choice but to change the fighting style that had been adhered to since the past.

'Yes, since I trained based on my past self, my abilities won't increase. I have to redefine my fighting style again through actual combat.'

To do so, Seo Moon-yeop needed a strong enough opponent to risk his life.

It is a powerful enemy that cannot be defeated even with all of 'immortality', 'amplification', and 'weapon spiritualization'.

'A mighty monster. In other words, I want it to be a dungeon with monsters based on the monsters of prophecy.'

Then, it was possible to do a battle simulation in preparation for the day of the decisive battle, killing two birds with one stone.

'I'll have to ask if it's possible.'

Seo Moon-yeop called Pietro.

Pietro didn't answer the phone. instead.

Dig!

"What?"

Pietro suddenly appeared in Seo Moon-yeop's office at the YSM Clubhouse. It was Pietro, the former geographer, who was more comfortable moving through space than on the phone.

"Have you met the monster of prophecy?"

"We met several times in the spirit realm."

"I heard you don't know what you look like and what powers you have in the spirit realm?"

"As long as he's hiding it. His ability to handle souls was superior to mine. If he hides it, it's hard for me to figure out. Of course he knows what I'm trying to figure out."

"Other than the spirit realm, you've seen it once before in the world where it lives."

"They tried to trick me into capturing my soul."

"At that time, did you figure out what he looked like and what kind of powers he had?"

"They surrounded me and imprisoned me without the slightest gap. So I couldn't even see what it looked like."

Pietro's answer was somewhat disappointing. But words soon followed.

"But I did feel a slight presence in the process of escaping from his bondage."

"Be as specific as possible."

"It was a thick-bodied mollusk like a giant tree thousands of years old. They coiled up and locked me inside. It was, as expected, a huge snake."

"It's a huge snake. Anything else?"

"An unimaginable amount of aura was flowing like a river along the coiled torso."

"Isn't the torso itself strong too?"

"If the monster created by bioengineering has grown to that level, it won't hurt even if stabbed with an aura-infused weapon."

"...that's going to be fucking counting."

"If you can't even overcome the burden of the present, there is no future anyway, so just die."

I remembered the venomous remarks of the Emperor of Maninling.

Even in the undead state, the Emperor of Maninleung used weapon spiritualization.

If Seo Mun-yeop had not mastered weapon spiritualization, he would not have been able to win no matter how much he worked together with Pietro.

It meant that weaponization was the minimum condition to deal with the monster of prophecy. If you don't do this, you won't be able to wear it.

Hearing the description of a far-off enemy with no hope at all, Seo Mun-yeop was not discouraged.

"Couldn't we talk to the queen and bring that kind of monster to the battlefield?"

"Is it for actual practice?"

"okay."

"The Queen's technology will not be able to create something that does not exist."

To be precise, it was the skill of the Queen's underling, 'Observation'. 'Observation' has the psychic ability to embody the object stored in memory the same way. However, new things that are not even in memory cannot be implemented.

Pietro continued.

"If I help, it will be possible."

At those words, Seo Mun-yeop frowned.

"Then you should talk about it right away. He talks all the time, but at the end he shows condescension to his abilities."

"I didn't show any respect."

"Because your way of speaking is specialized for conceit?"

"If that's all you need to say, let's go and discuss the matter with the queen."

Pod!

Pietro is gone.

***

And soon after, I received a call from the Queen.

- How are you? I saw your performance in Battlefield well.

"It's a kid's game. How about that one? Did you find any traces?"

- I couldn't find it. The first high priest is good at erasing traces, and even discarded the space itself where traces of movement remained.

It must mean that it completely disappeared.

The first high-ranking priest, the fallen high priest, had already fought with Seo Moon-yeop and Pietro and suffered greatly. The fifth high-ranking priest, who was the master of monster production, was also killed.

If I had any thoughts, I would never dare to fight again. She probably had to see that she never showed up on her own.

"So that means you're stuck somewhere and trying to figure out how to open the door, but that's even worse."

-Still, it must have been a big setback because I lost a lot of colleagues, including the 5th.

"Anyway, so you don't have any clues to track them down now?"

-There are still clues on which to hope.

the queen explained.

-To connect time and space with the Abandoned World, you need to know the location of the Abandoned World. The abandoned world is already sealed, so you can't find it by searching.

"I don't know all of your concepts, but if I can't find them through search, isn't there a way to know where they are?"

-that's right. However, the door was opened once during the reign of the Waninling Emperor.

"then······."

Seo Mun-yeop stopped talking and recognized the meaning of the queen's words.

"After many years, someone studying history found an abandoned world. Then, I had to recklessly open the space-time tunnel leading there."

There was a hint in the words of the Emperor of Maninling.

"I heard you opened the door while researching history."

-Yes, the history related to it has already been erased a long time ago, but there may still be historical materials that have not been disposed of. Maybe the first high priest is looking for it.

"Do you think there are any records like that left?"

-Did Seo Moon-yeop receive a gift a while ago?

"Is it a gift?"

-I heard that you received an inheritance left by a certain high priest in the ancient times.

It meant 'soul conversion' that constantly increases the limit.

"Aha, yes. Thanks to you, I am growing stronger."

- There must be many ancestors who secretly left their legacy in private space like him. Among them, there may be ancestors who wanted to preserve historical materials that should be discarded.

The more I thought about how to find such a personal space, the more my head hurt.

"Oh, I don't know, do it yourself. Rather, can you build the training facility I requested?"

-If the high priest, no, Pietro helps, I think I can make it somehow. It seems that the process of remodeling existing monsters and making them larger and growing over a long period of time must be quickly simulated in virtual space.

"I don't know what you're talking about. I know it will work anyway, so I hang up."

-wait a minute.

"huh? why?"

- In the meantime, why don't Seo Moon-yeop prepare separately?

"What preparation? If there is anything else I can do besides my training, I will do it."

-I heard from Pietro that you learned the basics of aura control.

"Ah, yes."

Aura allows you to draw circles in the air. A trick he suddenly realized while blocking Shuran's extinction beam with his bare hands.

But after that, I still haven't been able to dissolve the knack in practice.

- Then, doesn't that mean that Mr. Seo Mun-yeop can handle Auras like our Ji-Jeo-in?

"Something like space travel?"

- Ho-ho, that would be difficult. Spatial movement, like language learning, is an innate ability of underground people. If you solve it in theory, it will be a high level of difficulty. It's not easy for Mr. Seo Mun-yeop to explain his psychic powers in theory, right?

"I can't."

- Even if you don't have space movement yet, it will be helpful if you learn how to apply useful auras commonly used by underground people. We will send a teacher to teach you that.

"Um, what good."

Seo Mun-yeop readily accepted the queen's proposal. She decided that it was necessary to acquire as many abilities as possible.

-The space that Mr. Seo Moon-yeop uses for training can be used as a meeting place. I'll send someone down there.

"okay."

***

A small space no larger than a few pyeong surrounded by a black hole-like barrier.

In this small dungeon, an enormous gravitational field was weighing down the body for training.

Seo Mun-yeop did not feel burdened by the pressure of gravity because he had been training here all along, but the new guest was different.

Pod!

Cheeky!

As soon as a skinny male underground man appeared through space movement, he was crushed by gravity and could not stand up flat on the ground.

An underground person who struggles like an overturned cockroach but can hardly get up.

"What are you doing?"

When Seo Mun-yeop asked as if he was pathetic, the skinny Ji-jeo-in spoke in a language he couldn't understand.

"Speak in Korean, child. And what are you doing when you can resist gravity with an aura and shake it off?"

Seo Moon-yeop continued to talk and helped Ji-jeo-in learn Korean.

In no time, Jijeoin replied in stuttering Korean.

-That level 1...

It was only then that Seo Moon-yeop looked at Ji-jeo-in with an analytical plan.

-Target: Servant (Jeojain)

-muscle strength 60/60

- Agility 82/82

- speed 80/80

- Endurance 71/71

-Spirit 30/34

- Skill 55/55

-Aura 63/63

-Superpowers: Crisis detection, strongman detection

-Crisis detection: Detects situations in which life may be threatened.

- Sense the strong: You can recognize beings stronger than yourself.

He was an infallible first-class, lowest-ranking person.

Because they are accustomed to physical labor, their physical abilities are higher than their Aura values, and their psychic abilities are specialized so that they can hide when a crisis comes, recognize a stronger person than themselves, and quickly obey them.

Isn't even the name 'servant'?

'A first-class servant wouldn't even be able to raise an aura to resist gravity.'

Seo Moon-yeop gave his aura to the 'servant'.

Then, the 'servant', who temporarily gained an aura to resist gravity, stood up.

-Okay, let's go for a while!

Pod!

The servant who left like that eventually brought the person in charge of renovating the training ground.

-You're bothering me.

It was Pietro.

Pietro modified the dungeon core that maintains this space to release excessive gravity.

Pietro was busy, so he took care of that and quickly disappeared.

In a small space, only 'Servant' and Seo Mun-yeop were left.

When Seo Moon-yeop flinched, the 'servant' flinched.

-Oh, the human Seo Moon-yeop! I've heard a lot of notoriety! You brutally slaughtered our people, right?

"So are you dissatisfied?"

- Come on, no way.

'Servant' succumbed to the villain who ended the civilization of his own people with his name-worthy subservience. Being in front of Seo Moon-yeop and constantly feeling the 'strong sense', I had no choice but to be more servile.

"They say they will send a teacher to teach you how to apply the Aura, why are you sending a first-class servant? Hey, is your queen dissatisfied with me?"

-That, it can't be. The Queen sent me, saying that I would be enough.

"So, what are you going to teach me?"

-Let's start with how to talk with Aurors. From the point of view of us Ji-Jeo people, the vocalization with the air and vocal cords from earlier seemed very pitiful...

In this way, Seo Moon-yeop entered the world of applying Aura in earnest.