Admission is a waste of time (3)
Lesson 1. This is your status window – 3
‘Is this the boss room?’
Ban Yu-won thought as he looked at the iron gate blocking his view.
Up until now, there were no forks in the road and it was just a straight cave path, but now an artificial door has appeared.
Even if it wasn’t necessarily the boss room, it was natural to think that there would be something there.
[Life 13
Flesh 11.5
Soul 300
Mandok-an (萬讀眼) 100
Mancheongi (萬聽耳) 100
[100 words]
Ban Yu-won read his own body code.
All blind goblins had the same Life 0.2, Flesh 0.1, and Demon 0.1.
Starting from the first time he met her in high school, up until now, Ban Yu-won has somehow (if I go into detail, I’ll cry) defeated every blind goblin he’s encountered and absorbed all of their language concepts, and his current state is truly remarkable.
Now, even when I just held hands, I could clearly feel that my grip had gotten stronger.
Specifically, about 20%.
Judging from that, I guessed that the basic physical strength would follow the flesh, but the concept of life would amplify the overall status once again.
‘The problem is that even at this level, I still can’t fight a blind goblin one-on-one.’
Seriously, if it weren’t for his unique ability to understand the goblins and speak back to them, Ban Yu-won would have died long ago.
If there is any hope, it is the club he holds in his hand, with 15 blunt weapons and 1.5 demons.
Unlike himself, who still felt like something was missing even after eating 15 goblins whole, the change in the club was clear.
As more blunt objects were added, the club became heavier, and as more devils were added, the original brown color gradually turned black.
With each finishing blow to the goblins, I could feel my weapon changing significantly.
‘Perhaps the essence of my power lies in the creation and evolution of things rather than in my own growth?’
It was a somewhat rash thought, but I soon shook my head and shook it off.
It’s a bit hasty to jump to conclusions so soon after discovering the Babylonian Code.
‘Rather than that… …what should I do?’
Ban Yu-won is worried about the door in front of him.
To be honest, I really didn’t want to go in.
If I had to go in, I would have gone in after catching ten goblins… or maybe twenty if I was being greedy, to get a grasp of the concept.
The problem is that this cave isn’t that big and there aren’t many forks in the road, so even if you go back now, the chances of meeting another goblin are low.
What was worse was that he was beginning to feel thirsty and hungry.
If you spend hours wandering around trying to catch one or two more goblins, I can confidently say that you will never pass the practical assessment.
‘… … Let’s go in.’
The deliberation was long, but the decision was made in an instant.
I would like to avoid confronting these monsters head-on, even as a joke, but my reason and instinct are united in one, insisting that ‘it is the best’, so what can I do?
He opened the door.
What was waiting for him inside was a huge monster.
“Intruder… … You’ve finally arrived.”
This is wrong.
Ban Yu-won had a gut feeling the moment he saw the guy.
The creature was half as big as any blind goblin he had ever encountered.
“You… …were you watching?”
“You can know something even if you can’t see it.”
As the saying goes, the blind goblin’s den was blind, but to Ban Yu-won, it didn’t seem to matter much whether the goblin was blind or not.
More than anything, the weapon in his hand was threatening.
A long, single-edged sword with a sharp edge.
The tip was aimed straight at the peninsula, proving that the creature had excellent spatial perception.
“It was already boring because it took so long. It really took a long time to deal with those bastards.”
Even the way he spoke seemed to know what was happening outside the room.
Ban Yu-won, who intuitively felt that he could not win a fight against the bastard, briefly scanned the small room for something called a ‘core’, but all he could find was a small door behind the bastard’s back.
The core seems to be in that room. It is true that you must first fight the boss and win to get the reward.
shit!
“He won’t come? Of course not. A coward who imitates the words of my people and follows them around will never come running straight at me.”
The guy bent his knees slightly.
Coming.
The moment I had a gut feeling and lifted the club.
-Kaaaang!
A terrible crash accompanied by sharp pain shot through every part of his body that had strength in it, from his wrists to his forearms to his waist.
Just by bumping into the bastard’s sword once, Ban Yu-won was shocked to the point of fainting.
“… … You blocked it?”
“Ugh, gasp… … .”
The guy was surprised.
It’s a blessing for Ban Yu-won.
It took time to suppress the vomiting and hold back the club that was about to fall from my hand.
He had been prepared for death since he suddenly landed here, but his resolve was weak.
The intense pain he experienced for the first time since birth crippled his spirit.
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‘This won’t work, there’s no answer. Even if a miracle happens, it won’t work.’
I want to run away. I have to run away.
It seemed like that sound was ringing in my head over and over again.
But his body moved in the opposite direction.
The club he instinctively raised again was hit by the flying sword as if it was being sucked in, creating another shock and loud noise.
“That’s amazing.”
The blind goblin inspector nodded in admiration, still looking composed.
“I thought he was just a coward, but he’s also very talented… … and more than anything, his weapon is amazing. Where on earth did he get such a solid blunt weapon?”
From your own people, you idiot.
If I could, I would have snapped at him like that, but now I regretted wasting my energy talking.
Instead, move your body to block the flying attack.
-Kkaang!
Although he had only collided three times, his body felt as if he had been beaten for three hours.
My body is getting numb, my hands are throbbing.
Yet he never lets go of his club.
I was sure that if I let go of it, death would come, so I desperately held on to it and moved my body based on my intuition.
I was dumbfounded at myself for having adapted to such an unreasonable situation.
“As expected, it wasn’t a coincidence.”
‘This X is…’
I realized this after I successfully blocked the path of a guy whose trajectory I couldn’t even see, relying purely on my innate senses.
His innate fighting sense isn’t that bad.
However, if you do not have enough practical experience and strength to back it up, you will eventually just get lucky and block the bastard’s attacks a few times, and then get cut in half and die the moment your energy runs out.
-Bang! Kkaaaang!
As I was blocking the continuous barrage of sword strikes, I heard a cracking sound in my joints.
If it had been me before I entered the dungeon, my bones would have already broken and I would have been rolling around.
-Kagagak!
“Ugh… … !”
Although he was holding on thanks to his somewhat stronger body, the clash with the thing was quickly draining his physical endurance.
“I wonder how many more times I can stop it.”
‘What should I do? How?’
Ignoring the signals my failing body was sending, I desperately rack my brain.
Before entering the room, he imagined several people waiting for him in the room and thought about how to respond to them.
Among them, there was of course the possibility that an individual far superior to Ban Yu-won himself would emerge on his own.
‘There is no answer if things continue like this. Then… … !’
I have no choice but to put into practice the idea that just occurred to me, whether it leads to death or to food.
Bang! The blunt object and the sharp object collide again.
Aware of the limitations that were approaching, Ban Yu-won focused his mind on the weapon he was barely holding in his hand.
And within it, only the devil was separated and extracted.
[1.5 Devils are split into 0.75 Demons and Ghosts. Absorbs 0.75 Demons.]
Desperate will and concentration produced results quickly, skipping all the intermediate steps necessary to manifest the ability.
I accepted the concept of pure energy essence, which was created by separating all other evil energy, into my body.
The change that occurred the next moment was shocking beyond his expectations.
[I am aware of the devil.]
“hmm?!”
In an instant, the goblin felt embarrassed and stepped back as if he sensed something from the dazzling golden aura that burst out from Ban Yu-won, even though he couldn’t see it.
Even though this was perhaps a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity in this battle, Ban Yu-won was unable to attack the bastard.
Because I was busy just focusing on the changes I felt inside my body.
[You gain a new understanding of the concept of language within your body. You currently have 10.75 magical power. The activated magical power circulates through your body, strengthening your physical body.]
[During the practical evaluation, you realized your magical power and learned how to use it! This is quite an achievement for someone from a lower dimension where even mana was not spread out. You will receive a small bonus point for the evaluation!]
One is a notification window for the abilities you possess, and the other is a notification window for the Academy.
The funny thing is that the bonus points are much smaller than when you created an artifact with weak abilities earlier… … .
At that moment, Ban Yu-won felt a sense of elation that was incomparable to that of before.
His mind and body were not only fully recovered, but were also qualitatively different from just a moment ago.
By the colorless, transparent energy that flows through his veins.
‘I originally had this kind of power?’
I was amazed.
How have I lived my life without feeling such a splendid energy until now?
But perhaps it was because Ban Yu-won had not yet found the language to properly express it.
Ban Yu-won succeeded in separating the demon and recognizing its mystery, and the concepts in his body stimulated by it were finally activated!
“You… you realized your magical powers during the battle?”
Meanwhile, the goblin who was confronting him was looking dumbfounded as he realized what had happened to him.
“Was he so weak because he couldn’t even control his magical powers? But even so, he was only at the level of an ordinary human. He can’t surpass me at that level!”
Clang! The blunt object and the sharp object collided again.
The only thing that had changed compared to a little while ago was the horsepower, but the difference was enormous.
It was much more bearable.
However, just as the goblin said, this wasn’t enough to defeat him.
To begin with, Ban Yu-won was a beginner who had never even properly wielded a weapon, much less had physical ability to surpass a goblin.
“You are growing fast, human. But before you can surpass me, my sword will cut off your neck!”
“Shut up, monster!”
But perhaps because he had realized the true nature of his own abilities, even while his half-human body was repeatedly clashing with the goblins, his brain was spinning fiercely, plotting the next plan.
‘Isn’t it possible to just remove the concept of dullness from bluntness, that is, the word dull (鈍)?’
Ban Yu-won has so far extracted concepts from 14 clubs.
Every time that happened, this message appeared.
[Now that you have secured ownership of the object, it is possible to hijack the object’s linguistic concept. Would you like to absorb Blunt Weapon 1?]
In order to usurp the concept of a thing, one must secure ownership of the thing.
Perhaps you’ll have to kill the original owner of the object, or buy it for a fair price.
That’s why Ban Yu-won can’t steal the concept of Tao from that goblin’s hand.
But what if, on the contrary, we were simply giving a different concept to that sharp tool?
[Give Blunt 1 to an object you touch. That object will then have Blunt 2.]
This is the message that came to mind when I was giving concepts to things earlier.
That is, if you only give concepts to things, it is okay not to have ownership of them!
And from here on out, it becomes a semi-circular inference.
What would happen if we gave the concept of being dull (鈍) to a weapon that is sharp (銳) at first glance?
If you have opposing qualities at the same time, wouldn’t the concepts be canceled out? … !
“Do you have time to think about anything else?”
A sharp blade that falls vertically, aiming for his head.
Although he intuitively knew that the attack should be avoided or deflected, Ban Yu-won honestly blocked the attack by holding up his club.
“Ugh!”
“Huh, has even your somewhat useful judgment become dull?”
“It’s not my judgment that’s dull… …!”
Even if the magical power was activated, it was not a wise choice to take this much shock.
Ban Yu-won vomited blood and reached out to grab the bastard’s blade.
And the concept embedded in his weapon, he divided the 15 blunt weapons into 7.5 blunt weapons and 7.5 gi weapons.
“It’s your weapon!”
The goblin shouted in anger, thinking that he was trying to steal his weapon.
“I’ll tear your hands off!”
The moment Ban Yu-won pulled out all the blunt 7.5 from the bat and passed it to the bastard’s weapon through his own hand.
Even though the goblin swung his sword mercilessly, intending to cut off his hand, Ban Yu-won’s hand was just shaken away without any strength and remained intact.
“……what?”
“It was a success.”
Ban Yu-won chuckled.
In fact, I thought it would be a great success if I could just kill the anticipation of the day.
But the result wasn’t just that.
Dullness and sharpness.
As a result of the fierce clash between these two opposing concepts, the Tao in his hand became something that had once been a Tao, and was now a pitiful mess.
What a blessing it is to have been given the realization that the assignment of concepts should never be taken lightly.
… … when I thought about it.
[The concept of 0.75 ghost and 7.5 device remaining on the club are automatically synthesized.]
“huh?”
A change that Ban Yu-won had never expected occurred.
A bat that has had its devil’s curse removed and its dullness removed, leaving only the concept of waste.
… … No, the bat that I thought was just leftovers has undergone an amazing evolution!
[Due to the tremendous compatibility with the underlying object, a transcendent synthesis that ignores the depth of the concept was achieved, completing the Demonic Instrument 5. The tightly bound concept seems difficult to separate again.]
Who would have imagined that such a miracle could happen by removing the devil and dullness?
A ghost vessel, or in other words, a ghost’s vessel.
His bat, which had been stripped of other unnecessary concepts, evolved into a haunted weapon!
[An artifact that has no physical form but can influence physical forms, obeys its owner, and moves freely, the ‘Goblin Bat’ was born.]
The club had suddenly left his hand, and was floating around in the form of a whitish smoke.
Ban Yu-won just looked at it blankly.
It was clear that the Academy had not foreseen this situation.
Because the moment the goblin bat was completed, a message like Nodo appeared.
[During the exam, you have created an artifact of a higher level than any previously discovered artifact. An outrageous achievement! Regardless of the content of the practical evaluation, you will pass the special selection! The Artifact Production Department professor who received the report is eagerly waiting for the examinee!]
[The inventory function, which is only available to students who have made special achievements, will be provided in advance to students by unanimous consent of the Academy faculty!]
[Would you like to go straight to Union Academy Dormitory?]
Ban Yu-won, who had excellent language comprehension skills, grasped the situation in an instant.
It was with him that I regained some sense of freedom.
Go straight to the dorm?
If it had been me just a moment ago, I would have nodded without any hesitation at the words that I could move to a safe place.
But what about now? He had acquired the magical item called the Goblin’s Wand, and all he saw before his eyes was a blind goblin, lost and bewildered, sitting there in a daze.
“… … I’ll finish the test and go.”
Ban Yu-won replied in a somewhat firmer voice, then looked down at the goblin and gave an order to the goblin bat.
“Kill him.”
As the description said, the goblin bat obeyed its master immediately and responded to his commands.
WHEEK!
puck!
