Chapter 135 – Gaps
“Hey, you’ve never been to the woods before?”
“Huh.”
Senior Socheon nodded. Then, she suddenly looks up with a serious expression. Under the high blue sky, the cold wind sweeps down like waves, and Socheon’s hair blends with the sky.
You’ve never been out of a campsite before?
‘Then… The person who has been by my side…’
Cold sweat flows
“Before that, Taeho. What the hell were you doing in the forest?”
“I picked up some twigs… And went down to the underground city.”
“An underground city?”
Senior Socheon moaned briefly. When I put my hand on her forehead, Ia Lin, who was grilling fish next to her, approaches me. Suddenly, goose bumps come up on her side, which is particularly cold today.
“Isn’t there such a thing as an underground city around here?”
“What?”
Ia Lynn added her words, biting Beth on her skewer.
“This place is so far away. There are only mountains and lakes. There are no people to sell the land, and there are only monsters, but there is no way there will be an underground city, right?”
“Wait, wait. Really?”
Aah Rin nods her head as she munches her beth.
The underground city I went to… What is it? The cold air rising from her legs makes her forehead sore. Still alive
“Wait.”
Han Ye-rin sits on a fallen log and eats fish from her plate with a knife. Then, she puts on a serious look for a second, and then she looks at me.
“Taehu, how did you discover that underground city?”
“Seeing a strange cat…”
“A strange cat? ‘Where’s a strange cat?”
For sure…
“I saw a cat with ‘circular pupil’ eyes like humans, and found it soon after, right?”
“…Circular pupil?”
“Circular Donggoong…?”
“A circular pupil?”
“Your eyes are human?”
After passing through the doubt and getting closer to certainty, senior Socheon grabs a branch with trembling hands and starts a bonfire. What? Monster? Weird. No, it’s suspicious I didn’t feel the “Spirit” That monsters feel at all. No, when I think about it now, in the first place, I didn’t have the slightest ‘doubt’… Fuck.
Her head hurts
“Iarin is right. There is no such thing as an ‘underground city’ around here.
Let’s go just once.
“Whoa…”
Everyone nodded their heads in dismay. Under the direction of senior Socheon and Yerin Han, I hurriedly head to the ‘underground city’ I went to. Did you walk down for a while? Discover an underground city right in front of you.
‘…Uh?’
No, I should have found it.
“Tae-ho. Here… There are only walls?”
Iarin swallows her saliva and looks at the concrete-blocked cave. Everyone’s expression becomes more serious. I also look at the hole blocked by the concrete in front of my eyes with a serious expression. At the bottom, there are no entry signs scattered one by one.
“Obviously… There was.”
It is blocked. It is tightly sealed with pure white concrete, without any gaps. The cold sweat from embarrassment won’t stop.
“…It’s illusion magic!”
“Yes?”
Senior Socheon bit her lower lip, embarrassed.
“Is it an illusion magic?”
“Yes. Illusion magic. Or Illusion supernatural power. Taeho, you said you discovered the underground city by seeing a cat with ‘circular pupil’ eyes?
Senior Socheon gritted his teeth. I habitually look around, shaking my legs as if uneasy. The north wind blows
“It’s at least super high risk…”
When Seol-ah opens her mouth, everyone swallows. A new high-risk monster. Except for the ‘circular pupil’, it had a perfect shape. Now that I think about it, I can understand why I didn’t feel a ‘sense of incongruity’. Her heart keeps pounding after realizing that she came back to life after dying.
In general, illusion magic is ‘design’ itself.
Create an environment based on the other person’s memories, and make the other person fall into the environment. Uncontrollable lucid dreaming. No, something similar to forced VR is illusion magic.
However, no matter how perfect it is, there is a limit… All I felt was a slight sense of incongruity. He quickly forgot even that and focused only on teasing his waist.
Now that I think about it… I felt doubtful that the lights were on, but when I went inside, I ‘roughly’ passed. Even though stockings were suddenly put on, even though clothes were suddenly taken off, even though there was not a speck of dust on the table, it just felt strange, and I was blocked from actually trying to ‘explore’. Skill is not an ordinary bet.
The cold sweat doesn’t stop. Senior Socheon sighs briefly and taps my arm.
“What, didn’t you do something strange? Monsters who are usually good at illusion magic are all vicious. Really, there are no injuries or anything like that, right?”
Socheon sunbae massages my body. When I say she’s not there, she sighs in relief, but she keeps looking at me as if she’s uneasy.
“Do you know what the end of a knight who has been afflicted with illusion magic is usually against a knight who is afflicted with phantasmagoria and is unable to do anything- melt his brain and take it out through his nostrils, make him an idiot, have his limbs amputated, or break all his bones in the reverse direction. Throwing it away, etc. They usually come back dead or insane.”
There is still little known to the world about the monsters that use illusion magic. If you really need to know, that’s about it.
“Yes?”
“Tae-ho. I don’t know what that monster was thinking, but at least the fact that he came back alive… I can only say that it was purely ‘luck’.”
My heart thumps with tension. Really, I feel like I almost died. Because, it is questionable. Why did that monster keep me alive?
Seol-ah, who was next to her, helped.
“Stay still for now… I’ll check it out just in case…”
Seol-ah clings to my body and infuses it with magical power. 1 minute to closely examine if there are any injured or changed parts.
“…Nothing’s wrong. But, just in case you don’t know, stay by my side, Taeho.”
Seol-ah clings to my side, paying attention to the gazes around her. Now… That’s it. He smiles as he slowly strokes his hair. Looking at Han Ye-rin, she is calling somewhere in a hurry, and Socheon-senpai is also holding onto her cell phone and calling out to an employee at the top of her voice.
“First of all, I called everyone. It’s worse than I thought, so let’s stop camping here. Haha… I even prepared meat to make brisket…”
“I contacted my sister. She said she would bring the crew right away, so don’t worry and go home first. For now, let’s finish here today. Haa…”
Senior Socheon and Yerin Han couldn’t hide their embarrassment and couldn’t take their eyes off their phones. The two of them are busy moving, and Ia-rin interrupts.
“That’s right Seol-ah, you can find out where the monster is with your search magic, right? Can you try it right away?”
“Ugh, wait…”
Seol-ah hurriedly falls from my side, flies high into the sky, and scatters waves everywhere. The other day, I heard that the maximum range is several thousand kilometers… There is no exaggeration when I say that it is a walking military base. There is nothing in the world that can do this.
It is entirely thanks to Seol-A that I am able to be defenseless like this now.
Seol-ah, who spent time searching for a while, slowly descends to the ground.
“No…”
“You’ve already gone.”
Iarin sighs. Iarin slowly approaches me.
“Teho. It’s an important question. Taeho, look into my eyes. Huh? It’s a really important question, so please answer it.”
Ia Lin looks at me with her serious face.
“What kind of vision did you see?”
Both eyes light up. What? What illusion magic?
I saw the illusion of getting eaten by Socheon sunbaenim. Should I say this? As she kept her mouth shut, senior Socheon, who was next to her, joined in.
“You must know, Taeho. It is a necessary process to catch a monster. If the start and end of the illusion cannot be distinguished, the cat is not an ordinary super-high risk. It is a ‘smart’ super-high risk monster. Extremely dangerous. It might be a difficult opponent. That’s why.”
Irene takes a short breath. She grabs my shoulder and continues. A very serious look.
“Tell me. In order to know the monster’s characteristics, you first need to know what kind of ‘illusion’ the other person saw. Taeho, what did you do when you went down to the underground city? What, did you fight the monster?”
Glancing at Socheon-senpai, she opens her mouth.
“…Fucked up.”
“Huh? Uh, to my sister?”
Ia-Lin is taken aback when she notices her and nods her head. Senior Socheon, who was listening to her, is also taken aback. The two avoid eye contact. Me too, averting my gaze. I didn’t even know that the fucking monster would design it that way. I don’t know why she designed the illusion that way! If you avoid looking at her, Ia Lin opens her mouth.
“Hey, let’s go back quickly! Let’s go home and rest today. The holidays are still long, so let’s play later if we’re going to play!”
Ia Lynn can’t hide her embarrassment and she drags me to her camper with me by her side. Senior Socheon helps as well, runs to her camping car and organizes her belongings.
…Why would you do that?
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Did you get eaten?
After all, Taeho is also a man. It is clear that it was piled up. And… To see the vision of getting eaten by my sister! I can’t hide my bewilderment.
“…Sister.”
“Uh, huh?”
The older sister panics and shakes the steering wheel. As she climbs the slope, she runs down the already darkened pavement.
“Taeho seems to have a lot more sex drive than I thought. I thought Taeho would still have visions of him tearing monsters to shreds out of vengeance…?”
“…”
Monsters that mainly use illusion magic… Show a slightly different operating style from general illusionists. Illusionists on the human side are generally closer to ‘designers’, whereas monsters are more like primitive ‘releases’.
Demonic illusions are usually shown centering on the recipient’s ‘desire’. Showing something primitive, then twisting the whole body to death. Even ultra-high-risk monsters are not much different. Even if you have the appearance of a designer, in the end, the essence is a monster. It falls into illusion centered on ‘desire’.
‘I didn’t shake at all… I thought he didn’t like it at all.’
After all, Taeho is also a man.
“Ha…”
Glancing at her sister, she makes a mysterious expression. Until now, we thought Taeho would stand firm like a wall, be noble and perfect.
I knew for sure through this opportunity.
Tae Ho is not perfect. You can see the gap between the body and the mind.
…Temptation catches fire.
