Chapter 114 – Learn How to Break the Barrier (5)

After that, I went to the library for three days. Among the magic books, I read a book that seemed to be related to barriers, and as a result, I was able to conclude.

“Looking for it yourself is crazy.”

He set the ale glass down on the table. Patrick crossed his arms and sighed.

“Hmm… Is that so?”

“Yes, that is crazy.”

When I opened the magic book for the first time, I involuntarily let out a sigh. When I saw a page full of small letters, I couldn’t help but feel stuffy.

Still, this is what needs to be done. So I forced myself to read it. After reading a chapter like that, the swear word ‘fuck’ came out in my heart.

“I’m not kidding, it’s fucking difficult.”

“Aren’t you a jerk?”

Beside her, Belita chuckled. She raised her middle finger.

“If it were you, I wouldn’t have read a single chapter, single-year-old.”

To be honest, I thought I could read it even if it was a magic book. After all, I have finished my higher education in Korea. At best, how difficult must a medieval fantasy book be?

And that idea was shattered in exactly six pages.

Obviously at first it started with a light definition. However, after a few lines, he explained that if you substitute some formula, this formula comes out, and if you substitute a formula here, you get this result.

I don’t even know what the formula is.

In order to move on to the next content, I had to study the formula in another book. I realized that Korean reference books were very kind here. If you read the reference book at least, don’t you understand?

Anyway, I read only one chapter in three days.

One of twelve chapters.

Fuck.

“As expected, it seems that not everyone is a wizard. How is Mr. Patrick these days? Have you made any progress?”

Patrick shook his head with his shadowy face. Feeling frustrated when he remembered it, he drank ale.

“I’ve asked almost everyone I know if there’s anyone they know who’s good at magic or barriers. Everyone shook their heads. I thought it wouldn’t be easy, but I can’t help but feel exhausted.”

After Patrick’s sigh, our table went quiet.

While everyone was sipping alcohol, Belita opened her mouth as if thinking of something.

“Hey Han Yuseong. Come to think of it, isn’t there a wizard in your adventure party?”

“Wizard? …Ah, a woman named Orca? There is But why is that person?”

“I heard you haven’t decided on a faction for the adventure party yet?”

“…Couldn’t I be thinking that?”

Belita grinned and held out her glass of ale as if for a toast. I frowned and pushed her glass of ale with the back of my hand.

“My adventure squad life is at stake. It is not an easy decision to make.”

“Hey, don’t you know how great it is to have a face with a wizard?”

“If it was that good, all the adventurers would have gone under Orca. If you see it’s not like that, then that wizard has a flaw.”

“I think there are merits that overcome those flaws? If it were me, she would have gone under her.”

“Don’t give a damn. Mr. Patrick, please say something prickly to him.”

“…”

Patrick was seriously thinking about something.

“Mr. Patrick?”

“Keuheum… Wizard connections… Isn’t it good?”

Patrick cleared his throat and muttered, avoiding my gaze.

That man is really…

“Well… Think about it later.”

Belita gulped down the remaining ale in one gulp. She got up and looked at me.

“Wake up. Let’s have a sparring match after a long time.”

“Dalian? What are you talking about out of the blue No thanks.”

“Just do it once. Wake up.”

Belita grabbed my arm and tried to raise her up.

“What, why are you doing this indiscriminately? Could it be because I said it was single-celled?”

“Uh. Wake up because that pissed me off.”

Belita picked me up and she dragged me inside the guild. Suddenly, the sight of Patrick, who was left alone, sipping his drink gradually faded away.

“Listen to the sword.”

They dragged me to the gymnasium. Belita pointed to the swords on display. I looked around at them with a dissatisfied expression.

“It’s dangerous to fight after drinking.”

“Did you just eat that and get drunk?”

“It is not.”

I had no choice but to let go of the provocation that touched my pride.

‘I don’t know why he’s doing that, but I’ll just do it in moderation.’

With that in mind, she took out three dagger-type swords. Two were held in both hands, and one was tucked into the waistband.

“Are you ready?”

“Yeah… Amy, fuck!”

When I turned around, I saw a knife aiming at my neck. He quickly ducked and dodged. Before the follow-up hit, he threw himself to the side and rolled.

“Are you avoiding this?”

“Are you really just pissed off? With no other meaning?”

“You said it earlier. Didn’t you believe me?”

Belita peeked out and straightened her sword. She runs straight towards me.

‘If I get hit by that, I think it would hurt like hell.’

It’s because the blade isn’t sharp, so at least it’s painful and it’s over. But in the first place, if it wasn’t for Belita’s insistence, she didn’t even need to be beaten. With a little irritation, I threw the dagger from her right hand.

“It’s obvious!”

Belita lay down her sword to block it. A single dagger only lasted a very short time. Her Velita’s sword descends vertically. She put her two daggers side by side and brushed them away.

I moved her body just as she was and put her at a distance.

A distance of only one and a half steps.

It’s just a good sense of distance.

She swung her right dagger. Belita lowered her head to avoid it, then raised her sword to her oblique line. Due to her large movements, it was not difficult to dodge her.

“Chit.”

With her attack failing, she tried to distance herself by pulling back from her.

“Where?”

When the distance increases, it becomes annoying because of the range difference.

She immediately followed and attacked.

He decapitates her with her right hand and stabs her in the stomach with her left. She raised the blade diagonally and lowered the dagger she held in reverse.

“Damn it..!”

Belita frowned and was in a hurry to avoid or block her.

It was natural.

Belita’s swordsmanship is neat and destructive, but she doesn’t have any special skills. She only seems to have had her posture corrected by her swordsmanship instructor.

On the other hand, I learned martial arts. It is also from Sacheondangmun, one of the five greatest generations of martial arts.

Rather, it is more strange that I am pushed.

I spurred on the attack.

She was the one who hadn’t collapsed even though she was in a hurry to defend until now. However, as the attack sped up and the transformations mixed, that didn’t last long either.

Belita’s posture began to shift slightly. I tapped her calf when there was a gap in the liver.

“What?!”

Belita’s center collapsed.

With that, the sparring was over. She swung her dagger at Belita’s head. I’m not really going to hit her, she intends to stop right in front of me.

‘…Wouldn’t it be okay to hit at least one?’

Because he started it first.

It was time to ponder for a moment.

She felt strong resistance from the dagger she wielded, and it bounced back. Without a chance to be surprised, Belita’s sword aimed at my waist. She hurriedly ran behind her and she managed to dodge by a short car.

She ran so fast that I had to roll several times on her floor. She got up quickly and braced herself for her follow-up.

However, the clanking sound of Belita’s sword hitting her floor hit the back of her ears.

Her gaze turned to me.

“What are you?”

“What.”

What are you talking about?

I wanted to ask, but Belita’s expression was serious, so she stayed silent.

“You, are you aware that you have changed a lot from when you first started as an adventurer?”

“Hmm…”

“Don’t be fooled.”

Belita frowned.

“You were obviously no match for me when you first came here. But now, after about half a year, they pushed me against it. Seris and Kara are the same. When I saw the elves last time, they were very different from before. Not in two years, not in one year, but in half a year. Do you think this makes sense?”

Oh, is that why you’re doing this?

It’s definitely worth considering. It’s like a new employee with less than a year of experience beating a veteran with 10 years of experience.

If it wasn’t for the status window, this abnormality wouldn’t have happened.

‘How do I explain this?’

I can’t say anything about the status window. So how can I convince her?

He wrapped her hair tightly.

As if she didn’t like even that moment of silence, Belita strode forward. She grabbed me by the collar with a bloody expression.

“Hey, be honest.”

Saying so, he slammed her face.

If you try to take it off because it seems close, you put it back on.

‘I think I misunderstood something…’

It’s a very serious misunderstanding that comes out like that.

‘Do you think we are spies from another city’s guild?’

Or do you think you have some great birth secret?

I waited for Belita’s next words. She has to figure out what her misunderstanding is and then slowly clear it up…

“Are you on drugs?”

“…?”

It was so out of the blue that I narrowed my brows with an absurd expression.

“When it comes to drugs… When you do drugs, do you mean those drugs?”

“Huh? Uh, that medicine works, but…”

Belita’s eyes, which had narrowed at my reaction, gradually returned to normal.

“…Didn’t you?”

“…Let’s talk about this for now, shall we?”

He slapped Belita on the back of her hand. She put my collar down without a word. As I adjusted her clothes, she asked again with a puzzled expression.

“You really didn’t?”

“Sounds natural. I don’t know why all of a sudden there is talk of drugs.”

Shaking her head, Belita sighed and scratched her head.

“Uh… I’m sorry. I must have overreacted.”

“Why did you suddenly take drugs?”

“That’s what you mean…”

Belita scratched her cheek and explained why.

About a month ago, a silver-ranked adventurer died in a city called Bergen, a month away from here. The body found at home was badly damaged, but the skin was dead and the eyeballs were ruptured.

He who died was a so-called ‘Prodigy’ who only received a silver grade after 2 years of becoming an adventurer. Because of this, the guild thoroughly investigated the cause of his death.

But there was no sign of a stranger’s intrusion, no sign of magic or curse. When the investigation was in trouble, a wizard and an alchemist were dispatched from the Magic Tower.

After examining the body for several hours, they identified the cause of death.

That’s right…

“Drug addiction?”

“Uh. It is said that a large amount of magic herb was found in the blood. It served as a kind of stimulant by mixing with other unknown ingredients.”

“A stimulant?”

“They say they forcibly awakened mana and mana sensitivity. It’s thanks to him that he became a silver rank in two years. They said that the reason for his death was due to overload due to the ingredients in the medicine. I don’t know if it ends there, but there are rumors that the drug is circulating on the black market.”

“Is that why you doubted me? Do you think I took that drug?”

“…Uh. To be exact, Seris and Kara are the same.”

“…”

I stared at Belita as if I had nothing to say. Belita, unable to hold her gaze, turned her head away.

“…Sorry.”

I sighed and relaxed my shoulders.

“Then you can just say it, are you dragging me to sparring?”

“Sorry. I thought it wasn’t, but it looks like I was a little drunk too.”

“Write…Yes, I got it.”

I was worried that I would die, so what should I do?

The method was a little rough, but I apologized and it worked.

I turned my back on her and walked her out of the arena. Belita, who had come with her sword, put on her shoulder.

“I’m sorry. I’ll buy you dinner, so take it easy.”

“Roast pork. Call Seris and Kara too.”

“Kek… You crazy bastard is paying so much money.”

“Turn it off if you don’t like it.”

“Ah Okay. You can buy it Hey, but if it’s not medicine, what made you change like that? Do you have any secrets?”

This time it is a pure question.

I thought about whether I should make up a rough answer, but then I came up with another method.

It is to cover a question with a question.

“Before that, where did you hear the story you just said? I’m the type of person who cares about rumors and listens to them, but I’ve just heard of such a story for the first time.”

“…I just heard from someone I know.”

Belita answered with a puzzled expression.

“Okay? Ah, by the way, what was the skill you showed at the end of the couple? Your movements are noticeably different from before?”

I was thinking about something else, but it was to the point that I missed her movements.

Belita’s expression hardened even though it was very brief at this question. She quickly loosened her expression and let out a silly laugh.

“If you don’t want to teach me, just say no, bastard.”

“Oh, no.”

“You little bastard.”

“Because you’re a small bastard, you buy the alcohol too.”

“What? That is not the case.”

She returned to the guild hall in a flirtatious conversation. Patrick didn’t return and Belita ordered a whole pig roast.

I went home to pick up Seris and Kara while the food was served.

Ariel was sleeping soundly, so she left and brought the two of them to eat a whole pig.

Ariel wakes up the next day and hears the story from Sister Ceris.

“This, you bastards… They finally showed their true colors! By eating meanly…”

He gritted his teeth and glared at me.

“Are you not vegetarian?”

“No!”

“No.”

Ariel clenched her fists, making her tremble.