How to Live as a Magician in the Martial Arts World Episode 12
Chapter 4. The Boss’s Disease (1)
The bearded man who was waving his hand, Mansu smiled faintly.
“It’s been a while, Waryong!”
“It’s been a while, Dolchu.”
Mansu’s expression distorted.
“It’s not a tolchu, it’s a bonchu.”
“Okay, Tolchu.”
Mansu’s eyes narrowed.
Mansu, whose expression had become expressionless, slowly approached Jegal Hyunmong with murderous eyes, and the next moment, he patted Jegal Hyunmong on the back.
“Anyway, I’m glad you came back safely.”
“I think things have gotten a little worse just now.”
Jegal Hyunmong and Mansu laughed bitterly.
He calls himself a nerd, but it doesn’t really feel bad.
Because Jegal Hyunmong, who tries to be polite to everyone else, treats himself openly.
“So, what’s going on?”
“It’s nothing much, but since some money came into the Man Geum Jeon Jang, I used about half of it to pay off my debt. I came to return the seized items.”
“Thank you very much.”
“You should be grateful. Where can you find a debt collector like this? Lend me money, don’t charge interest, find me a job, even bring me seized items like this… … Even in the whole of Central Plains, there won’t be a debt collector like this.”
Actually, that was true.
If Jegal Hyunmong and Mansu had not been classmates, and if Mansu had not considered Jegal Hyunmong a friend, he would not have acted this way.
“I heard. It seems like you’ve made quite a contribution to the parade this time.”
“I was lucky. I’m not good enough to deserve it.”
“okay?”
Mansu smiled faintly.
“Then, aren’t you willing to take a chance and do something?”
“Work, you say?”
“Yes. If everything goes well, I can give you two thousand nyang.”
Two thousand nyang.
Jegal Hyunmong looked at Mansu for a moment, then looked at his sleeve.
And after a while, he opened his mouth.
“Is this a question without a veto?”
“No way. Don’t worry, it’s not just talk.”
“Then… … For now, I will decline.”
“Really? I think two thousand nyang would be a pretty good deal.”
“As I said, I’m just a lucky ordinary person.”
“hmm.”
Mansu nodded at Jegal Hyunmong’s reaction.
“Well, if that’s what you think, then go ahead. Then I’ve already given you the items and seen your face, so I guess I’ll go.”
“Are you leaving already?”
“Okay. Next time I see you, I’ll bring you something nice. Of course, I’ll buy it for you.”
“I don’t have money.”
“It’s okay. There’s not much difference between a debt of 50,000 nyang and a debt of 50,000 nyang, right?”
As Jegal Hyunmong frowned, Mansu smirked and turned around.
Mansu, who was walking with his subordinates, saw that the servant’s expression was full of dissatisfaction.
“What’s wrong with your face?”
“No, seeing that white-faced scholar treating the young master so rudely… … .”
“Why, after seeing Baek Myeon-seo treat you rudely, did you want to treat me rudely too?”
“That, that can’t be! It’s a misunderstanding, Young Master!”
Although Mansu knew that he said it with a smile, the servant, who knew his true nature, immediately lowered his head.
“It’s a joke, so you can raise your head.”
“Yes, yes. I understand!”
“And, that guy isn’t just some white-faced guy.”
“What happened?”
Mansu nodded.
“We’ve been friends since we were kids. Well, that guy was a guy who would stay home all the time and I was the leader of the neighborhood, so we’d often get into fights with guys from other towns. I mean, neighborhood fights. I was undefeated, but one day, the guys from the neighboring town brought out a student who had studied at Cheongseongpa.”
“Are you a disciple of the Cheongseongpa?”
“Oh. He was a Taoist monk, and he was brought here in a lethal manner. Anyway, he was quite strong at the time, so no one could stand against him, but Jegal Hyunmong defeated him.”
“Huh… … By force?”
Mansu shook his head.
If I had won like that, we wouldn’t have continued our friendship until now.
“He lured them into an alley and limited the radius of his sword. The Cheongseongpa’s sword energy extends from the left and right, so when that is blocked, most of their power is blocked. In the end, he was able to win by pushing them forward and backward and striking them all at once.”
“… … You have good strategy.”
“And the amount of money he received from this trip was close to a thousand nyang. Even if Daeryongpyo-guk is doing well these days, he’s given away a significant portion of his profits. Think about it. Do you think you’d give that much money to someone just because they went on a trip?”
Only then did the subordinate realize Mansu’s intention and nodded.
“I was short-sighted.”
“Yeah, I don’t think I owed him a debt. I think I bought him a priority to use him with that money. You understand, next time you treat him like you would treat me.”
Mansu’s eyes lit up as he said that.
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With the sparkling eyes characteristic of an ambitious person.
“Because he is the one who will make me the branch manager of Haomen.”
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“Phew.”
When Mansu disappeared, Jegal Hyunmong let out a long sigh.
Although he thought of Mansu as a friend, he felt a little uncomfortable with him.
‘I thought you were going to make me do something annoying.’
They were all good friends, but strangely, they had a tendency to overestimate themselves.
It was just a lucky coincidence that it worked out well and it wasn’t something he had planned, but he acted like he was a dragon.
‘Two thousand nyang.’
To be honest, it was a strange suggestion, but I shook my head.
Because there’s no way that that much money could be given without any hardship.
‘Let’s check it out.’
Jegal Hyunmong shook his head and checked the items that Mansu’s servants had brought.
Father, Zhuge Liang’s (諸葛孜義) belongings.
It was a ritual tool that had been passed down through generations.
Since my father’s anniversary is approaching, I could understand Mansu’s intention in suggesting that we hold a memorial service.
Jegal Hyunmong’s fingers, which had been touching each of the tools, suddenly stopped.
“… … .”
It was an incense burner.
An ordinary, slightly worn-out incense burner.
There, I could feel the faint, reverberating power of magic.
A faint aftertaste that even Jegal Hyunmong felt as if it was a momentary illusion.
‘It’s broken.’
And once you figure out the reverberation, you can easily figure out the current state by following its traces.
The flow of magical power that would have played some role if it had been done properly was interrupted and erased here and there, so even if it was Jegal Hyunmong, it was difficult to determine its original form.
Just in case, I checked other things too, and it was the same.
Although they may be large or small, they all had a path engraved with some kind of magical energy flowing through them.
From the surface pattern, material, and shape.
It was all a kind of magic.
At this point, it wasn’t a coincidence.
And as I figured it out with magic power, I discovered something.
Click.
‘It breaks down?’
On the outside, it looked like an incense burner that had been cast in one shape from the beginning, but it was structured so that it could be disassembled if properly infused with magic power.
However, because it is so old, it does not break down, so it appears as if it was one body from the beginning.
Jegal Hyunmong looked at the incense burner for a moment, then without thinking much about it, he took it apart one by one.
It was quite a difficult task.
‘It’s stuck together. The structure itself is interlocked without the slightest error.’
Not only when assembling, but also when disassembling, if you do not follow the correct order and apply the correct force, the disassembly will not be done properly. Furthermore, delicate control of the horsepower was also necessary.
Even if you solve it correctly, it will not decompose if you do not put in the correct path of magic power.
‘This is the problem with Zhuge Liang.’
I had a hobby where I had to make things difficult and complicated when they could have just been made moderately easy.
It seems that things were not much different during the time of our ancestors.
‘But it’s fun.’
No matter what, I fell for Zhuge Liang because he was Zhuge Liang.
But it didn’t last long.
This disassembly required a lot of mental strength, so I had to use my head and magic power.
The current situation is that although I have enough mental strength, I lack magical power.
‘First of all, recovery is slow.’
I used a lot of magical power during a previous battle.
Although he used it efficiently, he used magic constantly, so he consumed a lot of magical power, and because of that, it wasn’t easy to gather that magical power again.
There are many things I want to do, but unfortunately I lack the resources.
‘Well, there’s no need to rush.’
From that day on, Jegal Hyunmong focused on studying magic and disassembling incense burners whenever he had time.
There were times when I had to go to work at the office, but unlike before, it wasn’t to the extent that I had to follow the office, and since it was just miscellaneous work here and there, there wasn’t really anything to worry about.
Since I came back from my trip a while ago, everyone has started to acknowledge Jegal Hyunmong, so it was even more so.
When he returned home, he took apart the incense burner and spent other times formulating and constructing his own magical theories.
He took apart in his head the magic he had been using so far, reassembled it, and developed it into a more efficient method.
There were also tasks that I could only do in my head because I couldn’t use my magic powers.
But strangely enough, I didn’t feel like it was blocked at all, and it was the same when I tried using it.
After a month had passed, Zhuge Xuanmong was able to finish disassembling the incense burner.
It was quite late, but there was nothing I could do. It was very old, so even the slightest mistake could have ruined it.
And I could see why the incense burner was broken.
The parts inside where the magical power was accumulated were old and damaged.
‘So that’s why it’s designed to be assembled like this.’
The person who originally created this must have known that the material would deteriorate if continuously exposed to magic power, so he made the incense burner into parts and released it like this.
Fortunately, the other parts weren’t that damaged, so it seemed like it would be fully functional if I just replaced the problematic part.
There was just a problem.
Because it was the core of the organ where all the magical power was gathered, it required quite a bit of elaborate work.
The material also didn’t seem like regular iron would work.
Naturally, as orders like this keep adding up, it starts to cost a lot of money.
‘Now that I think about it, I’ve saved up quite a bit of money.’
Jegal Hyunmong went out of the house.
There are many blacksmith shops in Seongdo. Among them, the one that Jegal Hyunmong headed to was the blacksmith shop that Daeryongpyoguk frequently did business with.
This is because I remembered Im Chung and other figures mentioning in passing that the blacksmith’s skills were outstanding.
And when he got close to the blacksmith shop, Jegal Hyunmong heard the voice of an excited man.
“No, this is not it!”
“No, I didn’t do what you wanted!”
“Yes! You did what I wanted! But this is not it! This is not it!”
Someone was talking crazy.
That someone was none other than Lim Jun-gyu.
‘Let’s go back.’
Jegal Hyunmong was quick to judge.
