Episode 954
‘Ugh…’
Raon bit his dry, pale lips. The blood flowing down his white teeth evaporated. He couldn’t come to his senses because of the heat of the sun that seemed to burn his entire body.
‘In the words of Lars, it’s f*cking hot.’
Even though the comics factory is operating at full power, it cannot absorb all of the sun’s heat. I don’t know what they did to create that kind of heat.
‘But….’
If I accept that heat here, will it affect reality?
The realm of swordsmanship is a spiritual growth unrelated to the physical, so it was certain that what I learned here would carry over to the outside world.
But it didn’t seem easy for the growth of the body and mind to continue into reality.
‘No, for now, it’s right to believe.’
The first head of the household would never have prepared for such a test without any meaning. For now, it was right to trust him and focus only on his training.
‘The heat is so intense that all sorts of thoughts come to mind.’
If it was pain, I would have endured it no matter what, but I couldn’t do anything because it completely stopped me from breathing.
If he hadn’t run the cartoon business, his soul would have already melted away like ice cream under the blazing sun.
‘The person who invited me was a worse person than I thought.’
The first lord in my memories always showed a kind and considerate side. I thought he was just a kind person, but now that I look back, he was the worst of the worst.
‘I don’t want to lose to poison either… Ugh!’
Raon let out a faint laugh and then shrugged his shoulders.
‘f*ck.’
The heat makes it feel like my skin, muscles, and even bones are melting.
No, it wasn’t a feeling. It was actually a pain that felt like a knife was cutting into the inside of my body.
‘I can’t stand it like this.’
This wasn’t something that could be solved with concentration. I felt a strange sensation as if my soul was gradually being erased.
‘Shall we run Glacia together?’
Glacia’s frost is the antithesis of heat, so it might help a little.
Wooooow!
I pulled up both Manhwagong and Glacia at the same time, as if I was in an urgent battle.
‘Is this not enough?’
Glacia’s cold did reduce the heat in the mana circuit and its vicinity a bit, but the difference was minimal.
The heat of the golden sun was so strong that the frost had no power at all.
“Ugh….”
A loud moan escaped Raon’s chapped lips. It wasn’t a sound he made on purpose. His soul was screaming from the intense heat.
Kookookookookook!
Rather than being next to a Balkan charcoal kiln, it feels like you’ve stepped inside one.
Cheeeeek!
The sensation of the skin disappears. This means the burn is getting worse. Anything more than this is really dangerous.
‘The first, the first patriarch wouldn’t give you a trial you can’t overcome… .’
The first patriarch only conveyed trials that were painful or difficult enough to overcome. Surely there must be a way to accept this heat.
‘What number should I use to receive the fire? Ah!’
As I was thinking about the intentions of the first lord, one method that I had not yet tried came to mind.
‘Ring of Fire.’
What the first lord passed on was not only the Manhwagong. It was also the Yeongong method, but there was also the Ring of Fire, which was not a Yeongong method.
When practicing aura training instead of combat, you should originally use only one training method, but now is not the time to follow that theory. A single manhwagong could never handle the heat of that sun.
‘Let’s go.’
Raon clenched his fist with the hand he had placed on his knee and used the fire ring and the cartoon ball at the same time.
Hwaaaaaaaah!
The ring of fire began to suck in the sun’s heat, emitting the brightest flames ever seen.
As the nine rings resonated, the cartoonist seemed to gain energy and took in more heat.
‘The pain has lessened.’
The pain of the heat did not completely disappear. It had subsided from the level of being in a furnace to being on a hot plate, so it was bearable.
‘The answer was the ring of fire.’
It seemed that the first lord wanted to teach us to always use the fire ring and the cartoon gong together, not only during battle, but also when practicing.
‘Please tell me in words… .’
I wonder if there’s a reason to make someone do something like this when it’s something that can be easily done with words. Thanks to this, I think I’ll never forget it again.
‘Let’s start again.’
He exhaled with a breath soaked with heat and focused on operating the ring of fire and the cartoon ball.
The nine rings rang and energized his entire body, and the cartoonist converted the heat into an aura and guided it to his danjeon.
Chaaaaang!
Raon fell into a deep, profound world of selflessness as he listened to the clear sound of the ring of fire resonating.
* * *
“You’ve gotten stronger.”
The mysterious blue-haired child nodded thinly at Lars.
“Is that the life you wanted?”
The child curled his lips up as if he was making a mocking smile.
“You even remind me of the times when I was bullied….”
Lars looked at the child who was smiling deeply, his lips pursed.
“You really know how to make the King feel bad.”
That blue-haired child was both his past and something that was not him.
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It was the worst and weakest time, so just watching it made me feel sick to my stomach.
“Don’t pretend to change.”
The blue-haired child smiled and shook his head.
“King of the garbage dump.”
The child gave me an eerie look and told me not to run away.
“It’s been a long time since I’ve heard that nickname.”
Lars put strength into his trembling fingertips.
“I miss you, but I feel so f*cking embarrassed.”
Although he is called the Lord of Wrath, he was not as strong as he is now from the beginning.
The deepest darkness of the Demon Realm. When I was born in that hellish land where all the world’s trash gathers, I was weaker than anyone else.
“You’re embarrassed? Isn’t this the hell you created?”
The blue-haired child bared his white teeth and asked why he ran away. His eyes were filled with both mockery and resentment.
“The King has fled? What are you talking about! Don’t you know better! The meaning of that damned war!”
Lars reached out towards the blue-haired child with a beastly roar.
“Yes. Tear my neck off. Just as you killed those precious to you with your own hands!”
The blue-haired child spread his arms as if to say, “Do whatever you want.”
“The King….”
Lass released the strength from his fingertips that had been blooming with life and hugged the blue-haired child in his arms.
“I have not forgotten the past. I just hold it deep inside me.”
I closed my eyes, recalling that hellish moment that I could never forget, even after thousands of years had passed.
“Ha! You son of a bitch.”
The blue-haired child twisted his lips as if he was not pleased, then disappeared into smoke.
“Was this a test?”
Lass gasped as he looked into the empty cave.
‘If the king gets angry, it’s a failure?’
Looking at the situation, it seemed that if one was angry at the mirror reflecting one’s past, one would naturally fail the test in the room of the ego.
‘You were lucky.’
I never thought that Raon’s face would appear there.
The past that appeared in the mirror reminded Raon of his childhood, when he had a deep desire for revenge.
Seeing how the guy had changed allowed her to calm down her own seething anger.
‘The Lord of Wrath must not lose control of his anger.’
Humans are greatly mistaken, but demon lords are deeply immersed in their power, but above all, they must be easy to control.
The test in this cave seemed to be to see if he could control his anger.
“This is the room of the self… .”
Lass narrowed his eyes at the mirror from which the blue-haired child had walked out.
In the black mirror, I saw my younger self covered in wounds all over, unlike in reality.
“I don’t know who he is, but he has a good name.”
He looked into the mirror and let out a laugh filled with annoyance.
‘Still, I feel like something is changing.’
Lars narrowed his eyes as he looked at his white hands, which looked like they had never seen sunlight in their entire lives.
Overcoming the past, I felt the power within my soul growing. I don’t know who named it, but the name, Room of the Self, seemed so fitting.
‘Of course, you can’t get everything here… .’
He felt that Raon and himself entered a space that was originally meant to hold only one soul, and a small crack appeared.
It seemed like I probably wouldn’t be able to take all the power I could get from here.
‘It’s a shame, but I guess I’ll have to keep going.’
Lars clicked his tongue briefly and entered the mirror where his past appeared.
Swish.
As I felt like I was walking on water, something soft like a blanket touched my toes.
Gooooooooo!
When I slowly opened my eyes, I saw a pure white snowy field that seemed untouched by anyone.
At the end of the snowfield, a world tree that seemed to be carved out of ice stretched its branches toward the sky, and a handsome man with black hair and black eyes was sitting on one of those branches.
“I had a hunch, and it really popped out.”
Lass chewed his lips deeply as he looked at the handsome man with black hair and black eyes.
“My lord of the former world.”
* * *
Hooooooo.
Raon lifted his heavy eyelids. He saw nine rings floating in the sky and countless swords playing in the sky.
‘Is this a world of imagination?’
It’s always the same here.
Entering the world of imagination through the room of the ego did not seem to change anything.
‘No, it’s not like nothing has changed.’
The nine rings of fire in the sky resonated intensely, forming a sun-like shape, and the swords floating in the sky depicted sword paths that had clearly grown based on the experience gained here.
‘I’ve grown up.’
Just by observing the world of imagination, I could feel how much stronger I had become.
‘Of course it’s not over yet… .’
Although we have achieved satisfactory growth so far, not everything is over.
This test will only end when you transform all the heat of the endlessly burning sun into your own.
Gooooooo!
Raon looked at the nine resonating rings of fire and woke up in a comical state.
He drew the image of the mana circuits of his entire body filling up with flames and directed the heat to his danjeon.
Dooooooow!
My heart beat like the sound of a drum being beaten on a high mountain. It was not the actual sound, but my own soul beating.
I woke up to the magnificent sound and focused on practicing the Manhwagong and Ring of Fire.
The heat received from the sun soon filled the lower and middle dantians and then rose to the upper dantian.
Paaaaang!
As the refined heat from the cartoon and fire ring reached the upper chamber, I felt a mystical sensation as if my soul was connected to the sky.
Woof woof woof.
The three danjeons and mana circuits became wider, and the red flames rising within them began to turn a deep golden color.
The cartoonist, who has absorbed all the heat of the sun, has overcome a new wall.
But his transformation was not yet complete. A new ring was rising above the nine rings of fire, overlapping them.
Kyaaaaah!
The tenth ring. As the ring of golden flames was about to connect with the other rings, a blue crack appeared in the sky and the world of imagination was shattered.
“Ugh… .”
Raon opened his eyes, exhaling heavily. The world of imagination had disappeared, and all he could see was the golden sun that had caused him pain.
‘What the heck happened?’
Did it fail?
It seemed as though I had been banished from the world of imagination after failing to fuse a new ring of fire, but something was off.
‘It definitely felt like success.’
The tenth ring of fire is not something that I drew out myself, but a shape that the ring of fire created itself. I don’t know why it was blocked.
‘Come to think of it….’
It looks like a blue crack was blocking the ring?
Just as the ring of fire was about to be completed, a blue crack suddenly appeared, seeming to shatter the ring.
“It’s stuffy.”
As Raon frowned, the sun disappeared and a man who looked like himself, but a little older and seemed to have lived a rough life, descended. He was the first head of Sieghart.
“I didn’t expect this.”
The first head of the household stroked his clean chin as if he was curious. His voice sounded familiar, but his words were muffled by the sound of the waves, making them difficult to hear.
“Maybe it’s because of the two souls… and… the influence…”
The first guest smiled faintly as if he found it amusing.
“What do you mean? Please explain it properly.”
“If you wait… there’s no need to be disappointed… this is another chance… .”
He nodded as if he didn’t hear what I said, as if it was all right.
“Now that it’s come to this, I guess I’ll be able to see you again.”
The last words of the first patriarch were heard clearly. He waved his hand as if to say that he would see them again later, and disappeared into the white space.
Phew!
As the first leader disappeared, the golden sun set, and the summit of the sand mountain where the first test had been held came into view.
It seems like he hasn’t moved from here from the beginning.
“So are the exams over then?”
If we interpret the words of the first lord, it seems that all the arrangements he had prepared were complete.
“It’s a shame to lose the tenth ring, but I gained so much more than that.”
I have learned how to properly use the Mangeom, and my swordsmanship has also greatly improved.
Since the three danjeon and mana circuits have also become larger, not only the flow of swordsmanship but also its power will have changed to a different level.
‘Of course there is something bigger than that… .’
Raon curled his lips as he felt the heat burning within his danjeon.
’10-star cartoonist.’
Unlike the Ring of Fire, the level of the Cartoonist has increased. It is hard to feel it now, but if it goes out into reality, it will probably be able to create fireworks of a different dimension.
“I want to try it out soon….”
Why doesn’t it end?
Even though the first lord said he would see me later, this world did not end and continued to exist. I wondered what was going on.
‘Come to think of it….’
Didn’t you say we have two souls?
Although I couldn’t hear it properly, the first host mentioned the idea of two souls.
‘One will be me, and the other will be….’
Could it be Las?
Judging from the reflection of Lars in the mirror before coming in here, it was clear that he had come in with her.
‘Then that sea must be the way to Las.’
Before climbing the sand mountain, I thought there was something familiar about the sea I saw, and it seemed to be the path that Las had passed.
I couldn’t help but laugh when I thought of the blue cotton candy flying across the sea with its tail wagging.
“So that’s why you said there was another chance.”
Raon took a deep sip while looking at the blue sea that rippled like Las’ hair.
“Shall we go and get some Las Vegas chips?”
