Chapter 201 – 201. It’s Hard to Use Anything in the Right Place

I planted a seedling of an incense tree in a sunny place with Heeseon’s older sister. For reference, the land was dug by Harin.

Like Harin, who is gradually becoming a beast, he seemed to feel a strange joy, pleasure, and fun in digging the ground.

I heard from Arum this morning that her daily routine is almost the same as that of a puppy…

I go for a walk alone, I run around… I judge the ground diligently when I sometimes plow the field while watching people. I sleep a lot too…

‘Perhaps the one whose personality has changed the most among all my women is Harin…’

It’s not that she wasn’t, but she was. At first, she was a guy who was obviously grieving the loss of a family member. She also had a high fighting spirit and often showed her blunt side.

However, after she lived with wolves in the meadow, her tension became much higher and more exciting. Yeah, she’s excited about nothing. She’s trying to hide her expression as much as possible, but her tail shows it all.

“Harin-ah, is digging fun?”

“Huh! Ah… No. Rice, not very interesting. Really..”

Lie.

“Okay? I see.”

“Huh.”

She says she doesn’t want to be found out, but she doesn’t have to. Maybe she herself is stressed out about herself changing.

I decided to just stroke Harin’s back. She is a very cute woman who is having fun.

“Huh…”

But for some reason, when you stroke her back, she immediately clings to her. Like a dog begging for more touches…

‘Half-man-half-beast… No, half-man, half-dog… Is it gradually becoming a dog…’

I think it would be really difficult if I even barked like this.

Harin-ah, please stay as a person. I mean, I have no interest in bestiality.

“June. Connected.”

“Oh. Sister, Nice.”

Because she is a druid, Heesun noona can communicate with plants. She held on to her corpse tree and meditated, and soon she made her corpse her servant. According to her own words, she says that it is an exchange through nature-friendly sympathy.

“Then shall we go down now?”

“Yep.”

“I have to go down first! Harin is there!”

“Ah! Lord, Lord!!! Go with me!!”

“Whoa whoop..”

As I ran down at random, Harin overtook me and ran down, perhaps feeling competitive. I didn’t miss the fact that her tail was wagging in excitement. As expected… The game of catching seems to have become more fun.

Heesun noona came down smiling as if she was having fun since we were kidding.

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“Hey! Son Ha-eun!”

“Uh? Uh. Master.”

“What are you doing.”

“Ah…That’s…”

School basement. It is a place where something indescribable mixed with the idol of God and solitude is enshrined, and it is Son Ha-eun’s workshop and private room, as well as her playground where she cannot sleep.

As a lich, she doesn’t eat or sleep because she’s completely a skeleton. So she stayed here all day and made something with the corpse that Dyurahan brought.

“Did you make that this time?”

“Yeah.. How did you connect it? I have to say that the connection is weak. I have some problems.”

What she made was a creature made of bones, like a human centipede. It’s a bizarre thing that can catch and kill most awakened people.

“I’m not sure what it means to have a weak link. Take this.”

I handed over the parasitic tree to Son Ha-eun.

“This…”

“I heard that it parasitizes on the corpse and controls it. It suits your class, so I gave it to you to check it out.”

“Wow.. I’ll take a look.”

That was the moment Son Ha-eun answered me and received the corpse parasite tree.

“Uh, uh uh!!”

The parasitic tree of the corpse began to cling to Son Ha-eun.

“What is this!!!”

“Kuaaaaa”

Son Ha-eun screams.

She must have lost most of her sense of pain since she was only bone, but she screamed in terrible pain.

I panicked and tugged at her corpse-parasitic neck, which had begun to cling to her body. However, only the part I was pulling cut off like a lizard cutting off her tail, and then hid inside Son Ha-eun again.

“Quaaaaa!!!”

“Hey! Oh fuck!!! Stop!! Stop!! It is an order!!”

“It hurts!!! Aaaaa!!!”

The order didn’t work. Son Ha-eun just screamed at her and struggled in her pain. It seemed that she felt much more pain than the pain that came when she disobeyed orders.

‘Isn’t this… Dangerous…?’

The corpse parasite was originally described as a creature that attaches itself to the remains of a corpse, sucks up nutrients, and takes root. It is a unique creature whose intelligence increases or decreases depending on the intelligence of the parasitic corpse.

But now Son Ha-eun has neither brain nor flesh. It can be said that it is a complete skeletal state. Sure, she’s wearing clothes, but it’s just a skeleton gourd. There was nothing left to nourish Ha-eun’s body.

Even so, she is now trying to parasitize. From this point on, it makes no sense. This was obviously odd.

Moreover, there is an idol of a god defending the base here. Hyoseon Girls’ High School, where we are located, is defending against the attacks of ghosts and miscellaneous things due to the idol of God.

In such a place, the parasitic tree combined with Son Ha-eun and started a runaway. If I do something wrong and the god’s idol is broken or destroyed… All my efforts to crawl into the forest of the missing and tell them to die may be in vain.

‘I have no choice but to kill…’

I tried to put an end to it with Abyss Maw.

Because the interests of the group take precedence over individual lives.

But at that time, Son Ha-eun, who was rolling on the floor, rushed toward the god idol placed in the center of the underground warehouse.

“Hey!!! Fuck you!!!!”

It was so fast that it released its tentacles and managed to catch it. But until the end, Son Ha-eun reached out to the idol and grabbed a handful of ectoplasm that was overflowing from the idol.

Then he began to gobble it up.

‘What the hell is going on…’

After taking Ectoplasm, Son Ha-eun calmed down.

“I, master.”

“Uh? Uh.”

“Um… Can I eat a little more…?”

“You, Son Ha-eun right now, right? Hasn’t your personality changed?”

As in the case of Alcid last time, the control of the body could have passed to the parasite, and the effect of my slave brand could have disappeared.

I hurriedly approached Son Ha-eun and checked her stats.

‘It’s clearly visible.. It hasn’t changed..’

I was slightly relieved and let it consume the ectoplasm spewing from the idol of the god.

“Knock it off..”

Then Son Ha-eun ate her ectoplasm for a long time, and she sat down in a daze after her stomach was full.

‘Did her ectoplasm replenish the nutrients she couldn’t get from Haeun Son…’

The danger to her still remains, so I asked the question while preparing to kill her right away.

“Hey. Son Ha-eun.”

“Ah.. Yes. It’s fine now. The pain is gone.”

“Just what the hell is that? Where did the corpse parasite go?”

“It’s… Here… Inside me…”

Son Ha-eun unbuttoned the shirt she was wearing. Originally, when a woman unbuttoned her shirt, it was normal for her to look hot, but since the other person was a skeleton with only a female voice, there was no change of heart.

No, it’s rather dull.

“Come on, here.”

“Huh…”

Son Ha-eun opens her shirt wide and reveals her insides.

‘It’s so naked that I can see all the bones.’

But something was strange. A corpse parasitic tree was located in her upper body, where her heart would be. Like a heart

– Pound. Pounding.

“Hey.. Is this running?”

“Yes… Heartbeat… Long time no see.”

“Huh. What the hell is all this about…”

The roots of the corpse parasite branched through her body like blood vessels. And even the main body of the corpse parasite, which is wrapped around the ectoplasm at the location of the heart.

Maybe it’s because her class is a lich. Maybe that’s why the undead-related items reacted.

“Hmm… I think I can use some skills better.”

“Okay? In what way?”

“Something.. Skills just feel like using superpowers.”

“Yes?”

“But.. It’s not that.. This… Should I say it’s just the feeling of knowledge flowing into my head… It’s the feeling of disassembling the skill… And conveying the truth contained within it.”

“Her…”

“Here… Look at this.”

Son Ha-eun stretched out her hand toward the unidentified corpse that was on her desk. Then, black magic erupted from her hand, and she raised the body back to life.

“Whoa… Whoa…”

“Is it a skill..?”

“No… It’s not a skill. It’s just… It’s just mana.”

“What…?”

“Magic? No. Necromancer. Yes, I just used a necromancer, not a skill..”

“Now, in detail… Explain in more detail.”

“First of all, what I learned right away is knowledge related to reviving corpses… So…”

To put her explanation very simply, she said that she was in the process of changing from a psychic to a wizard.

To put it in order, it is said that the first Corpse Parasites attempted to combine, demanding nourishment in exchange for some unholy knowledge.

So, Son Ha-eun, who instinctively believed that she could live by eating ectoplasm, ingested it, and then her corpse parasitic neck passed on blasphemous knowledge and then fell silent again, she says.

To be honest, I don’t even know what it is… I’m just surprised by the new knowledge.

‘First of all, a skill is in fact consuming a set standard of power and a set standard of mana to release it with a set standard of power…’

In a word, the usage of the skill, the mana consumed when used, and the phenomenon that occurs when used are precisely determined. Even if it can be applied appropriately, it cannot change its fundamentals. It’s because we don’t know how to activate the skill at all, and we’re just borrowing and using it.

For example, in the case of releasing tentacles, I don’t know how to summon the tentacles by drawing the power of Carshinax. It’s just doing what the skill description tells you to do and causing the same phenomenon as in the description.

I’m not sure how a microwave oven heats food, but like when you press a button, the food just comes out warm.

However, those who are not bound by the system, such as Hellus, Palus, and Zeke, can use their power in various ways. It can be applied, used, and changed in various ways without being bound by a fixed framework.

Because they are outside the frame of the system.

But now, Son Ha-eun is also at a similar stage, with the traces of rebellion on her feet.

It meant that we were moving beyond a microwave oven that simply heated up food at the push of a button, and was moving toward a stage where microwaves could be directly sensed and used. It is out of system specification.

Yes, it would be more accurate to see it as being able to handle the power of magic itself.

‘Couldn’t it be… The operators aren’t going to take it?’

I am afraid of even these things because I do not know the standard of foul play. However, given that there is no response right now, it seems that he has no intention of catching him.

If so.. Maybe this is like discovering one more secret of this game.

‘Awakening in the true sense beyond the system… The realm of magic, not skill…’

For now, the example is Son Ha-eun, but later, like Son Ha-eun, if you get an item or a way to escape the system, it will become more certain.

Of course, you have to be lucky, but…

‘Because I’m on the lucky side.’

However, this is actually just my guess, and maybe Son Ha-eun is just weird. Even if you think deeply, you can’t get a clear answer right away… It seems that the evil gods are busy, and they don’t answer questions about these systemic things more than I thought, so I’ll just skip it.

Yes, in the corner of my head, ‘there was something like this.’ You should be able to remember that much.

Anyway, the situation right in front of me seems to have improved a lot, so I asked Son Ha-eun a few things and got out of the basement.

Now I need to show Hellus the thugs related to the Forest of Corruption and then go see Ella and Bella.

By the way, both Kessia and Keker have been sent to Hellus. Hellas’s alchemy workshop had an image of a gathering of unusual people, so they sent the unusual ones, Kessia and Keker.

‘Since you are the old man who uses Alcid infection as both a worker and a reagent material… Keker and Kesia will come up with a solution..’

I should also show you the slime jar.

‘I’m strong, Hellus… So please, I hope you live a long time…’

I prayed that he would get a new body as soon as possible.

May he escape the constraints of life…