Chapter 60 – 60. Macrophytes

Two months have passed since Seo Ga-hee left the country.
According to Seol Da-jin’s A-class older sister, she was still staying abroad.

‘Looks like he’s very busy.’

It wasn’t enough to chase her to a foreign country and pay for her trouble, so I decided to cover up the quests I had made for her for a while.

Maybe someday, if fate touches, we can meet again.

‘…If it doesn’t work, I can’t help it.’

The turmoil in the thesis ‘Trial of the Hero’, which made the Hunter Association and Academy professors run wild, also came to an end.

There was no means to prove it, so it seemed that the force was on the side of fake.

Well, when I saw it, I was sure it was real.

‘I wonder what kind of expression he will make when he finds out about the existence of S.L.U.S later.’

Imagine turning on S.L.U.S.
Will those involved in the academic world who claimed to be fake really feel ashamed, or will they be surprised and delighted with the new discovery?

‘At least graduate students will like it.’

I will write more papers.

‘Is not it?’

I do not know.

How can I know what graduate students think, since I never went to university in the first place? I stopped thinking and focused on my phone screen.

Quite a bit of time had passed, so it was with the intention of doing an interim inspection.

In the meantime, I dealt with wooden dolls under the guidance of Lee Soo-ri at the SSLK training center on weekends, and on weekdays, I went around the gate at Geosimryu Dojo.

Thanks to that, time flew by so fast that it had been three months since I joined SSLK before I knew it.

‘The SSLK training center is fine.’

The training I received at SSLK had its own results.

Although I didn’t even have a clue how to use magic consciously, the training I received while my abilities were down made my body and brain more suitable for battle.

In order to make up for the relatively lacking weight class, I paid more attention to swordsmanship and movements, and as a result, I started to fight more with my brain.

Well, it was a natural result.

Because the moment I made a mistake or miscalculated the distance, a huge wooden stick blew me away.

‘Thanks to that, my attribute level went up quickly.’

Before he knew it, his swordsmanship reached level 8, and he mastered Yeoncheol’s body and changed it to his evolutionary characteristic, the steel body.

Unique Attribute: [Steel Body (lv2)]
– Evolutionary characteristics. Damage received is greatly reduced.

Yeoncheol’s body, which reduces damage the more he gets hit, had the disadvantage of having to be able to withstand attacks, but the steel’s body did not have such a disadvantage as it is an evolutionary characteristic.

The damage was drastically reduced from the beginning, and now it was able to withstand the blow of the Orc warchief even when its stats declined.

‘I have accumulated quite a lot of points.’

In the meantime, the points accumulated by going around the gate exceeded 140,000. It was a figure he had collected while enduring drawing and raising his abilities.

The problem is.

‘It’s a giant river.’

Looking at the status window with no changes other than the steel body, I let out a drool.

For two months, he continued to receive training to withstand the heat and cold, but there was no significant change.

I didn’t think about developing characteristics, and I didn’t even think about increasing magic power.

‘Though I was able to last a little longer.’

Compared to Eunhwa Ryu, she was still far behind.
However, I couldn’t do that because of the regular magic checks performed by SSLK when I forced myself to raise my magic attribute with points.

‘It’s frustrating.’

She is pouring in her best efforts, but there is no visible result, so only skepticism and doubts increase. I wonder if this really works.

“Whoa.”

Still, you have to learn until you learn.

‘Because I paid for it.’

She has already paid the registration fee for next month.

Having made up my mind, I knocked on the door of Geosimryu Dojo again. Today, as always, Ryu Eun-hwa came out to meet her with a broom.

“You are here.”

Compared to the first time, his tone and expression are very soft.
It was the result of her face to face as she came to practice without missing a day for two months.

“Are you practicing that today?”

When I let her know that I was getting impatient, she replied with a smile.

“You know.”

Every know

I was told several times why I had to undergo this training. She gave the same answer each time.

This method is the most effective in breaking down the Dantian wall while increasing her mana, she said.

According to her, her magical powers were comparable to her stamina. The more you use it, the more it grows and becomes stronger.

It was possible to consume mana by moving the body directly, but the efficiency was not high.

Just as you need to focus on a specific muscle to see the proper effect when exercising, she insisted that magic power can only be grown properly by using magic power.

In addition, in order to withstand the heat and cold, you have to send mana through your body, and when you do that, the walls of the Danjeon will naturally break down.

To send mana more easily and efficiently.

Ryu Eun-hwa expressed it as spreading roots. It is said that only when the root is completed can the Geosimryu be used.

I entered her first training room while reviewing her explanations. After a while, she came in with her Hwajeongseok and her practice began.

Heat fills the room and squeezes the body.

I had already repeated this over 20 times, but I never got used to this pain, as if someone was grabbing my neck and choking me.

The tight mind was quickly released, and negative thoughts flooded in again.

‘…Should I continue with this?’

Is it worth going through all this pain?

It would be more convenient if I left my seat right now.
I’d rather go around the gate at this time.

Just learn the know-how to be conscious of magic power.

‘…’

Then all of a sudden

‘…I’ve changed too.’

Memories from the past came to mind with ridicule.

Before I got S.L.U.S, the time when I was stupid enough to go around the sewer just with the thought of wanting to be the top of the top.

‘I didn’t feel like this even after walking around the sewers for two months.’

Of course, it was physically difficult.
It was hard and difficult, so when I went home after going around the sewer, I often stretched out right away. There were many times when I was so exhausted that I couldn’t even lift a finger.

However, far from complaining, I was rather happy watching myself improve little by little.

‘Yeah, it was.’

It reminded me of the time when I was giggling that I had caught five large slimes. Compared to that time, such training.

‘It’s nothing.’

The moment you take a deep breath and relax your mind.

Booooong!!

The smartphone vibrated.

‘This…’

I check my phone so that Ryu Eun-hwa, who is sitting opposite to me, cannot see it. A message that appears as soon as S.L.U.S is turned on.

「Unique Attribute: [Magic Body (lv1)] Acquired.」

Unique Attribute: [Magic Body (lv1)]
– It is a specialized body of magical power.
– Increases resistance to magic.

It wasn’t what I was expecting, but this is somewhere. It was enough that the two months of hard work were not in vain.

There.

‘It’s much more comfortable than before.’

Probably because of the increased resistance to magic.

After completing the training using cryolite, I returned to my room and looked at the magical properties.

A body specialized in magical powers.

‘The magical power is the same.’

The magic attribute level was still fixed at 55.
That meant that there were other abilities that didn’t just raise stats.

‘I want it because the description is poor.’

Excluding the phrase that increases magic resistance, the degree of unkindness was almost mysterious: [Official manager (X)] Level.

‘Still.’

I had one guess.

‘Root.’

The ‘root’ that Ryu Eun-hwa insisted on must have finally spread out into my body. It must be the ‘magic body’ that is expressed as a characteristic.

‘First… Let’s raise the level.’

Over 30,000 points disappear in an instant. Level up in an instant. After reaching the highest level, I immediately chose to evolve my traits.

“The evolution condition was not satisfied.”
「Cancel characteristic evolution.」

…Uh?

‘Cancellation…?’

I’ve never had anything like this before.

If it hadn’t been for the evolutionary characteristic itself, it would have been marked as not being able to raise the grade like my class or official manager.

‘Really…Is it a megasim?’

If this is a characteristic that is the source of the giant current, it is understandable that the condition is not satisfied.

Because I hadn’t learned the geosimryu properly yet.

If so.

‘…I have to convince Ryu Eun-hwa.’

There is no need to train to withstand the heat and cold anymore.

I returned to Geosimryu Dojo and went into the training room without a word. It would be much more effective to show it with your body once than to say a hundred words.

“Let’s begin.”

The training to withstand the heat began by injecting her magical energy with a fire crystal stone. I stayed still until she spoke first.

How long has it been

Normally, it would be time to writhe in pain already, but I didn’t mind. It was thanks to the magic resistance attached to the magic body.

“Looks like you’ve gotten used to it.”

Ryu Eun-hwa speaks with a smile.
I was just giving a smile.

It was not yet time to speak.

An hour has passed.
When it was time for me to leave and she still didn’t budge, she lit up her eyes.

And when another hour passed, her eyes were filled with astonishment.

“…Kang Dae-woong.”

“Yeah.”

“Are you all right?”

“As you can see.”

“…”

I stare straight at her, giving strength to her eyes as if to check whether or not she is forcibly enduring it.

When another hour passed like that.

I got up from my seat. And he said while looking at Ryu Eun-hwa, who was looking at me with trembling eyes with strange feelings.

“Root.”

“…”

“It looks like it got off.”

“!!”

I opened the door and took a step out of the training room. There is no need to be in this training room anymore. I will never come back here again in the future.

Now.

“Let’s move on to the next step.”

Because it was time to learn the real thing.