How to Live as a Magician in the Martial Arts World Episode 65
Chapter 16. Rescue (1)
Jegal Hyunmong tried to establish a psychic connection with the raccoon by drawing out his magical power.
As soon as the magic touched me, I felt the shape that made up the spirit of the civet.
It felt like looking into the inside of a complex lock.
Jegal Hyunmong could understand why the professor at Matap placed such importance on communication.
Because this wasn’t something that could be done with alcohol.
‘How can I become close to you even if it takes time?’
“What do you think, do you know something?”
“As you can see, we are on high alert. We don’t know right now, it will take time.”
As he spoke, Jegal Hyunmong tried to scratch the raccoon’s head with his magic staff. However, the raccoon immediately dodged and instead began chewing on the tip of the magic staff.
* * *
It was around sunset when Danggon returned.
“I found a water source. It looks like the spiders were dumping their food there. If we can purify that water source, we should be able to completely eliminate the poison in the village.”
Danggon said while inhaling the dinner prepared by the village chief.
“Is purification possible?”
“Yes. It’s closer to neutralization and detoxification than purification. So it won’t be clean enough to drink.”
In fact, that alone is enough to do it.
“Uncle, I want to go with you too.”
“Hwaryeong, you too?”
“Yeah, I guess there’s nothing to do if I stay here any longer. I have things to buy.”
“What do you want to buy? Can’t I buy it for you?”
“No, he said I smelled like sweat.”
Danggon opened his eyes wide.
“So what if I sweat a little?”
Dang Hwa-ryeong made a face as if her clothes were about to burst.
I didn’t know it when I put them one by one, but when I put them together, the technique of making people’s hearts boil was truly in the realm of divine power.
“How on earth did your uncle get married?”
“Well, it was arranged through a matchmaker.”
“I don’t know who that matchmaker is, but I will be forever grateful to that matchmaker.”
Danggon snickered.
“What, I, the wife who serves this handsome, cool, and strong man, Dang-gon as my husband, should be the one to thank him.”
“You speak well, but you can’t say a word in front of your aunt.”
“What are you going to do?”
Danggon changed the topic to the technique of grafting.
Jegal Hyunmong thought for a moment and then opened his mouth.
“You’re going to come back anyway, right? I’m just going to rest.”
“You rested all day today.”
“People should take a break when they have the chance. No matter what anyone says, I will be lazy for a while.”
Tang Hwa-ryeong’s eyes turned cold with pity, but he didn’t say anything else.
Certainly, it is true that Jegal Hyunmong has been busy recently.
“Well, whatever. It’ll probably take about three days.”
The next day, as soon as dawn broke, Dang-gon and Dang-hwa-ryeong left the village, and Jegal Hyun-mong was able to enjoy some leisure time for the first time in a long while.
‘Good.’
I would lie half-lying on the porch and admire the view outside, read books by magically turning the pages one by one, and then when I got tired, I would doze off.
“What are you doing?”
“I am resting.”
A girl named Hyang, who had come to follow Jegal Hyunmong quite well, was lying face down, resting her chin on her hand, and giggling.
“You’re lazy! If you keep lying down like that, you’ll turn into a cow.”
“Life as a cow wouldn’t be so bad.”
“Yeah, show me something fun! That shiny thing from last time.”
Zhuge Liang thought.
‘I don’t think I’ll go back until you show me something.’
Jegal Hyunmong, who had been thinking about it for a while, got up from his seat.
There just so happened to be something worth showing.
As we opened the door and went in, the raccoon that had been in the cage raised its head. Hyang-ah’s eyes sparkled at the sight.
“Wow! So cute!”
“Don’t put your hand out. I might bite your finger.”
“… … .”
Hyang-ah’s expression instantly turned gloomy.
Meanwhile, the raccoon looked unusually docile today.
‘Were the Sacheondang people the problem?’
Because he was harboring venom, he might have acted even more nervously.
While thinking of being rude to the two Sachondang people, Jegal Xuanmong took out the Muhougo and lifted it with his magic wand.
“First, spread this out.”
As I lightly twirled my magic wand, the sticky liquid-like Muhugo began to spread out in the empty air, thin and wide like a plate.
“Wow… … so pretty!”
Hyang-ah’s eyes sparkled.
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It was only the second time in my life that I had seen such a mystical sight.
It was so amazing that even the raccoon was just blankly staring at the scene unfolding before his eyes.
Soon, Jegal Xuanmong sent a thinly spread out Muhougo flying towards the dambi.
“Squeak!”
While the dam-bi struggled to avoid the flying Mu-hu-go, Jegal Hyun-mong calmly spun the dam-bi around and buried himself in various parts of the dam-bi’s body.
Dam-bi was desperate, but from a third party’s perspective, it looked like she was dancing.
‘It’s kind of training.’
At first, I thought it was just a simple finger bite, so I created a magic trick on the spot, but when I actually tried it, it was a more effective training in controlling magical power than I thought.
But I didn’t intend to drag it out too long.
Chomp!
At one point, Muhugo, who had completely blocked the civet’s escape route, came out of the cage after wrapping only the civet’s wound, and the remaining medicine went back into the medicine bottle.
Clap clap clap.
“Wow.”
“It’s a secret from others.”
‘Even if I tell it, no one will believe me.’
Jegal Hyunmong smiled faintly as he thought such sinister thoughts.
From then on, Hyang-ah began to come to our house often.
Half of them came to see Jegal Hyeonmong, and half to see the raccoon.
After meeting Hyang-ah, Dam-bi also experienced some positive changes.
He began to let his guard down and even showed friendly gestures toward Hyang-ah.
One time, Hyang-ah mustered up her courage and fed the civet herself, and the civet obediently accepted the food without harming her or anything.
‘If this continues, I’ll get better soon.’
Although the wound was serious, it was well-received by the effects of Muhugo, and since it was a civet that lived in the harsh wild, its recovery power was also good.
Even though it was inside the room, we were able to see progress in our relationship to the point where he wouldn’t run away even if we let him out.
And on the third day.
Hyang-ah didn’t come.
“… … .”
Could it be because Hyang-ah, who used to come to my house every day to stamp her seal, didn’t come?
I felt a little uneasy.
‘I guess you went out to play somewhere else today.’
Common sense tells you that it’s correct.
However, Jegal Hyunmong felt an unpleasant feeling in his heart without realizing it.
More of an intuition than an unpleasant feeling.
Since long ago, Jegal Hyunmong had good intuition.
‘I guess I’ll go look for it just in case.’
I was about to leave with that thought in mind.
“Teacher! Teacher!”
Jegal Hyunmong’s expression hardened for a moment when he saw the village chief’s obviously bewildered look.
And then I asked without realizing it.
“By any chance, did Hyang-ah go up the mountain and get taken away by something?”
“How, how about that… … .”
“It doesn’t matter how you knew it now!”
Actually, I didn’t ask with any certainty.
He thought of the worst possible reason why the village chief would come to him in such a hurry, and said just that.
‘I hoped my predictions were wrong this time.’
Jegal Hyunmong closed his eyes tightly.
“What happened to those clothes?”
“Oh, they say he went up the mountain secretly with the kids to dig up some herbs and got caught by something. It was like he got caught on a fishing line.”
‘It’s a spider.’
It’s impossible with the size of the spiders I saw before.
If a young child is strong enough to catch a person, then there must have been an adult individual.
‘Why at a time like this?’
Danggon and Danghwaryeong left their seats.
He said he’d come back today, but I can’t be sure.
“Sir, what should I do… … .”
The village chief looked at Jegal Hyunmong with an anxious expression, and Jegal Hyunmong tried to calm his mind as much as possible.
In any case, the only thing the townspeople rely on is themselves.
Wouldn’t it be impossible for someone like that to show themselves wavering?
“Forbid others from entering the mountain, and choose a few people who are quick on their feet to go out to meet the great hero Danggon. Also, will you give me Hyang-ah’s clothes?”
“Hey, why is this?”
“I need to find Hyang-ah. And there’s something I need. Is it in the village?”
The village chief nodded as I listed a few items.
“Hey, there it is. There must be some leftover from the Lunar New Year… …!”
“Please bring it quickly.”
When Jegal Hyunmong earnestly urged him, the village chief also nodded.
I don’t know why he asked for such a thing, but he was the one who was called the second coming of the Wuhou.
‘It must mean something!’
When the village chief left without saying a word, Jegal Hyunmong felt relieved inside.
It would have been awkward if I had asked in detail why such a thing was necessary, but I felt that Heo Myeong had helped.
Although it was not without a strange thought to rely on empty promises, Jegal Hyunmong shook his head.
‘Now is not the time to think about that.’
Jegal Hyunmong immediately opened the door inside the room.
At the unusual atmosphere, Dam-bi immediately raised his head, but then looked at Jegal Hyun-mong and put his head back down in a daze.
It seemed that he still hadn’t opened his heart, but now was not the time to worry about Dambi’s feelings.
Jegal Hyunmong swung his magic wand directly at the raccoon.
‘It’s a bit forced, but there’s nothing I can do about it.’
Up until now, I’ve been trying to take my time, let my guard down, and solve things slowly and methodically, but this is an emergency.
Jegal Hyunmong connected their souls, hoping that Dam-bi would understand his heart.
“… … !”
It is on a different level from forcibly subjugating the mind, as was done to the Galsaryang or other microorganisms.
Just by using magic, you can connect your soul by breaking down the complex and labyrinthine psychological barriers.
It’s like sticking a needle in the ground, throwing a thread through it, and passing it through the eye of the needle.
And it worked, the spirits of Dam-bi and Jegal Hyeon-mong were connected.
“… … Queuk?”
Jegal Hyunmong, who had thrown away all the information that was pouring in, put Hyang-ah’s clothes in front of Dam-bi and spoke bluntly.
-Hyang-ah was taken away by something. Do you have any idea what it is?
“… … !”
The raccoon felt something on Hyang-ah’s clothes and shivered as if struck by lightning.
At the same time, the memory of the raccoon was compressed and engraved in Jegal Hyunmong’s mind.
* * *
The raccoon was originally a descendant of the chieftain who lived on this mountain.
His mother was the queen of the mountains.
Despite being a civet, it lived much longer than most civets, and reigned supreme as it roamed the mountains with its children.
But he was not the only king.
Deep in the mountains, there was a spider with spiritual powers like her.
The group of civets shared a territory with the group of spiders.
However, if the spider created a territory deep in the mountain, the civet formed a territory to protect the spider from coming out of the mountain.
The spider was afraid of the civet and did not dare come out.
Meanwhile.
An old man appeared before their eyes.
At first sight, Dambi thought the man was strange.
Although he appeared ordinary on the outside, some unknown energy surrounded the old man’s body.
“Is he the master of this mountain? He has considerable spiritual power, but… … Unfortunately, he is not the spirit that the old man is looking for.”
The raccoon’s mother was wary of the old man. But she couldn’t rush in.
The old man didn’t really care whether the raccoon’s mother was on guard or not. Instead, he met her eyes and said.
“There’s an opponent. Let’s go over there and take a look.”
The old man who said that disappeared into the spider’s territory and never appeared again.
Instead, what appeared was a spider.
And then the spider’s carapace reappeared, and a human face was drawn on it.
