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< Encounter-2 >
During that day, Lee Seong-min practiced singing in the backyard, and only came into the house at night. It hadn’t been cleaned so there was a bit of dust accumulated, but I cleaned it roughly and it wasn’t a big problem.
There was a kitchen, but no meals were prepared. This is because there was food in the subspace pocket. After eating, I used my own skills.
As he entered the world of Simbeop, Lee Seong-min naturally thought of the fight against the ogre. The fight he experienced for the first time after coming down from the mountain, no, the fight he experienced as an expert for the first time in his entire past life and this life.
I felt many things. It felt disharmonious. The biggest problem was the lack of familiarity. The three years he spent in the mountains made Lee Seong-min’s body accustomed to prohibition. Thanks to this, I felt disharmony at the disappearance of the prohibition, and I again felt disharmony at the difference between the time when I was not a peak expert and now.
You have to get used to it.
There were many problems. Lee Seong-min’s body was now very unbalanced. When I lived in the mountains, I tried to balance my nutrition somehow, but the meals I ate under the taboo of taste were always terrible. Naturally, the amount of food decreased.
It’s not just about meals. I couldn’t sleep long or deeply. And that for almost two years. As smell, hearing, and sight were banned, the three senses were not developed very well. Only the sense of touch through the skin developed abnormally.
It wasn’t just a disadvantage. By blocking out all other senses, new senses that did not exist were developed.
the sixth sense.
It also existed as a skill in Lee Seong-min’s status window.
Sixth sense.
You can feel what your eyes cannot see, your ears cannot hear, and your nose cannot smell.
The explanation of the passive skill Sixth Sense was vague, like other passive skills. But what I was feeling was real. Although the explanation was vague and even the sensation felt vague, the sixth sense was real.
‘But you can’t just rely on your sixth sense and touch.’
There was a need to train other senses. Even if it wasn’t training, the sensory imbalance had to be corrected.
Jaha-shingong continued to be used and Nae-gong rotated. Lee Seong-min’s thoughts gradually disappeared as he breathed evenly. Before he knew it, he had fallen into unconsciousness. He was able to somehow hold on to his devastated spirit in the mountains thanks to mind cleaning magic and Zaha’s new technique.
next day.
Seongmin Lee headed to the mercenary guild early in the morning. He thought that since it had been a day, he would have received a rating card. He planned to first receive the grade plaque and check out the requests he could receive from the mercenary guild.
The Behenger Mercenary Guild was crowded since morning. This was because of the mercenaries who came for breakfast or those who had been drinking since the day before. The moment Lee Seong-min opened the door and entered, the noise from the mercenaries stopped. They stared at Lee Seong-min as he entered the door, and then began to whisper among themselves.
Lee Seong-min became a famous member of the Behenger Mercenary Guild. On the day he joined, he showed off his sword skills in front of everyone, and after that, he achieved an S rank or higher while subduing an ogre chimera. Moreover, he was still only 18 years old, so it was natural for other mercenaries to become interested in Lee Seong-min.
“Are you here?”
Bern had been outside the bar table since early morning. Bern put his hands in his pockets while talking to Lee Seong-min, who was approaching him.
“It just worked out. “Your mercenary team has arrived.”
“That’s what I came to receive.”
Seongmin Lee said with a smile. The mercenary badge handed over to Bern had the letter S engraved in gold. While fiddling with the mercenary card, Seongmin Lee recalled the mercenary card he had in his previous life.
‘At that time, it had C written in copper color.’
Bern opened his mouth to Lee Seong-min, who was laughing.
“S-class mercenaries are given a monthly subsidy of 5 million er. “It’s more than enough money to live on.”
Even if you don’t receive any requests, you receive 5 million er every month. An S-class mercenary had value just by existing. Even though Eria is large and summons all kinds of people from each dimension, it is not common for a master or wizard to qualify as an S-class mercenary.
“What happened to the Ogre Chimera’s body?”
“huh?”
Bern’s eyes widened at Lee Seong-min’s question. His face said that he had never thought that Lee Seong-min would ask that. Bern, who looked at Lee Seong-min’s face for a moment, shrugged his shoulders.
“We are investigating. Nothing special has been found in the line now… “There is a high probability that a warlock is involved.”
“Are you saying there was a warlock around there?”
“Maybe so. In the first place, the forest was not a suitable place for an ogre to use as its territory. “It would be reasonable to think that a warlock created a chimera out of an ogre and released it into the forest.”
“Why did you do that?”
“Are you asking for my opinion as a guild leader? Or are you asking for my opinion as a wizard?”
“It’s both.”
There was a reason why Lee Seong-min asked Bern this question. Bern was the branch leader of the Behenger Mercenary Guild, and at the same time, he was a wizard with outstanding skills. In response to Lee Seong-min’s question, Bern was silent for a moment and then spoke.
“I guess it was something I wanted to test.”
“test… “What?”
“I sewed my mouth shut. It made me not able to eat. Ogres are not very barbaric monsters. Reason is quite strong. “We don’t attack villages for fear of subjugation.”
I already heard about that from Rud. Bern continued as he saw Lee Seong-min open his ears and listen without asking questions.
“Starving monsters become very vicious. Humans become weak at the end of hunger… Monsters are the opposite. If you starve, you become stronger and more violent. Do you know why? It’s to survive. “You have to be stronger and more violent to be able to hunt.”
“So you’re saying you sewed up the ogre’s mouth on purpose?”
“It’s probably to create enforced starvation. If it had been just a few days later, a village would have disappeared. or not… “Did the warlock retrieve the ogre?”
Seongmin Lee thought it was the latter. In my memories of my past life, I had never heard of a rumor that the village was destroyed by an ogre. As Bern said. The warlock must have seen the situation by releasing the ogres into the forest and forcing them to starve.
And I guess they recovered it before he had an accident.
‘It’s changed.’
In the previous life, the Ogre Chimera was not subdued. But this time it was subdued. Wouldn’t that act as a variable? Seongmin Lee became worried about that. There is a high probability that the warlock who unleashed the Ogre Chimera will be the owner of the dungeon discovered half a year later.
“Maybe there was a warlock nearby. Are you… I think I got lucky. “If I had encountered a warlock, it would have been difficult to come back alive.”
“Is it that much?”
“It goes to the extent of subduing a monster called an ogre, turning it into a chimera, and controlling it. He must be a warlock who has reached a very high level. “But why are you curious?”
“I’m just curious. “This is my first time seeing a chimera.”
Lee Seong-min answered like that and put the mercenary badge in his arms.
“then. see you next time.”
“ah… for a moment.”
Bern caught Lee Seong-min as he tried to turn around. He said with an embarrassed expression.
“There is someone who wants to meet you.”
“Who is it?”
“Xeon. “Do you know?”
Bern asked. Lee Seong-min’s face stiffened at that question. Seongmin Lee shook his head, trying to break his stern expression.
“… I do not know.”
“I guess so. Because I just became a mercenary. As for Xeon… An SS-level mercenary. “He is of the highest rank among the mercenaries registered in the Behenger branch.”
know.
Seongmin Lee knew Zeon. SS-level mercenary. A lay disciple of Shaolin and a martial arts expert. The leader of the Corona mercenaries.
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How could I not know? The mercenary group that Lee Seong-min belonged to in his past life was the Corona mercenary group. In other words, Zeon was the leader of the mercenary group that Lee Seong-min belonged to. However, there was no relationship between Lee Seong-min and Zeon. Because Zeon cares… Lee Seong-min was such a small being.
The Corona Mercenary Group is a large mercenary group. There are more than 100 mercenaries, and with Zeon, an SS-level mercenary, as the leader, there are 5 S-level mercenaries under him.
There were dozens of C-class mercenaries within the Corona mercenary group. Among them, Lee Seong-min, who was from a no-class background and had no special features, was just a kid who the high-ranking executives of the Corona mercenary group did not even pay attention to. Even if Lee Seong-min has endured in the Corona mercenary group since E-level. Lee Seong-min, a C-level mercenary, was just a C-level mercenary in the Noh class that could be found anywhere.
“It wouldn’t be a bad idea to meet him once. If a person is as skilled as you, there will be many mercenaries who are greedy. Zeon and the Corona mercenary group led by Zeon are considered the best among Behenger’s mercenary groups. Of course, you don’t plan on staying in Behenger forever. “Zeon and Corona mercenaries are names that are known even in other cities.”
“… “Did you ask me to meet you right now?”
“They’re already waiting inside.”
Bern laughed bitterly.
“I know it’s sudden. but… ”
“All right.”
Seongmin Lee slowly nodded his head.
“I’ll see you sometime.”
Anyway, the choice is up to Lee Seong-min. If they refuse here, Bern’s situation will be difficult. For the sake of Bern, who had helped me in many ways, I thought it would be good to meet Zeon once.
In the end, it’s just an excuse.
Seongmin Lee wanted to meet Jeon.
The room was filled with cigarette smoke. The living room used by Bern had become Xeon’s private space at this moment. Bern, who was coming in through the door, frowned and looked at Zeon.
“Could you have at least opened the window?”
At those words, Zeon, who was holding a cigar in his mouth, shrugged his shoulders beyond the smoke. Seongmin Lee stared at Jeon as he put down his cigar.
It was my first time interacting with Zeon in this way. Although he belonged to the Corona mercenary group, there was no contact between Lee Seong-min and Zeon. Even when Lee Seong-min applied for recruitment to the Corona mercenary group and became a member of the mercenary group, he did not encounter Zeon. For the Corona mercenaries, a person named Lee Seong-min was only in the position of a choreographer in charge of errands and cleaning.
“It’s okay.”
Jeon muttered while looking at Lee Seong-min’s face. Zeon was a man with wide shoulders and short hair. always… Seongmin Lee saw Zeon from afar. For Lee Seong-min, a mercenary named ‘Zeon’ was an object of admiration.
Zeon is from No Class.
It was 15 years ago that Zeon was summoned to Eria. Zeon, who was summoned to the Noh class, accidentally became familiar with Shaolin’s Hundred Treasures Priesthood while living in Eria. He went to the head temple of Shaolin in Eria and became a lay disciple of Shaolin in recognition of his martial arts skills. Although the details of the saga were unknown, Lee Seong-min respected and admired Jeon simply because he was from the same Noh class. I want to be like Zeon someday. He used to have vague thoughts like that.
“… “My name is Lee Seong-min.”
“Xeon.”
Zeon put the cigar in his mouth again.
The object of his admiration a long time ago was sitting right in front of Lee Seong-min.
fantasy,
