Chapter 181 – Understanding Magic

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“So you came because you were curious about that book?”
“Yes.”

After hearing the story of Han Yeon-joo and Lee Seung-ah visiting her, she asked.
Lee Seung-ah had never met Han Yeon-joo, so he stood next to me and just kept his eyes open.

She seemed very excited and nervous at the thought of finally seeing the book in the catalog she had five stars on.
The musician looked at her as if she was cute.

“Sunggyu, where do you really find such cute girls?”
“Your sister is cute too!”

Lee Seung-ah spoke up at once.
He looked like he wanted to make a good impression on anyone who had the book he wanted.
Her attempt doesn’t seem to match her intentions, but she seemed to be pleased with the performance anyway.

“My lady, why are you curious about that book?”

Lee Seung-ah looked at me once.
I smiled to mean that I was fine.

Han Yeon-joo was a person who was open to anything, especially anything related to magic.
Could it have been a ‘secret location’ for nothing?
She was a person with a mindset that transcended conventional wisdom, common sense, and social norms.
So, she must have opened a store in an underground shopping mall and waited for the fate that might come someday.
There are still many unknowns about it, but anyway.

Lee Seung-ah answered Han Yeon-joo’s words.

“I am researching demonology.”
“Demonstruck?”

A musician opened her eyes wide, and she was startled.

“Demonstruck! I’m very interested too. Because it’s a bit difficult for me to approach. Should I say it’s not my area of ​​expertise? After all, summoning magic can only be used by talented people. Lady, by the way…”

Han Yeon-ju looked at Lee Seung-ah carefully.

“You don’t seem to be a normal person, what is your grade by any chance?”

Lee Seung-ah looked at me once more.
She was like a little daughter with her father by her side, asking permission every time she said something.
Nominally, I’m younger.

“…S rank.”
“S-class! You’re S-class, but you’re researching demonic magic? Have you had any results so far?”

For that part, I answered instead.

“I’ve seen it in person before. Seung-ah noona summoning the devil.”
“Really? Is it really?”
“Perhaps showing the book will be of great help to Seung-ah. If Yeonju noona is also interested in demonic magic, you can ask Seunga noona. I’ve been studying it for years. In my opinion, there is no one in South Korea who is as good at demon arts as Seung-a noona.”
“Hey~~”

Lee Seung-ah rolled her eyes at me as if she was ashamed.
The way his face turned red was so cute.
But what I said was true.
Who in South Korea has studied demonology and accomplished as much as Lee Seung-ah?

I know the world 20 more years after this, but I haven’t heard or seen it.
I could have assumed that Lee Seung-ah had probably left Korea for some reason, or perhaps had left the world early due to an unfortunate fate, but I decided not to think that way as much as possible.

“I see!”

Han Yeon-ju was delighted.

“Okay! I’ll show! I think we have a lot to talk about!”

I suddenly remembered something, so I asked Han Yeon-joo.

“Isn’t there a book or something that can help me study the basics of magic?”
“Are you interested in magic too?”
“Yes, to some extent.”

Han Yeon-ju looked at me with curious eyes different from when she saw Lee Seung-ah.

“Okay. If it’s a basic book, it’s in the diagonal room. You can see the book there. Because it seems like you and I have a lot to talk about.”

I don’t know why they keep calling me young lady since we don’t have much age difference.
Han Yeon-joo said she was much younger than Lee Seung-ah, so in reality she only looked like her sister, with a difference of a year or two.

“Yes.”

I left the room with the two of them.
Then, I found the diagonal room Han Yeon-ju said and entered.
I had glimpsed it before, but there were many books piled up here.

Even if I read the book, I didn’t think I could learn anything.
I just thought that expanding my knowledge in this way would be useful for learning magic skills later.

I looked through the thick books, mostly written in foreign languages.
Then I found a book that said ‘Basic Magic’.

‘It really exists, a magic book for foundations.’

Well, why not?
The field of magic is completely different from the field of hunters who use combat skills.

They were a class that could not use skills right away just by awakening.
Like Yeonjoo Han, Seungah Lee, and Haena Kim, we must continue to research and make efforts.
Of course, it is true that combat hunters always get stronger through training, but the fact that they mainly use their bodies and
It could be said that they were different from each other in terms of the long time they had to sit at a desk.

I took the Basic Spellbook from the bookshelf.
Then, after opening the book on the desk, he began to read it calmly.

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Two hours later,
I was patient and read about half of the book.
Many spells were written.

It was Korean, but I felt like it wasn’t Korean.
It feels like a simple story twisted into something.

However, after reading it, I realized that there was a reason for twisting it like that.
Detail.
It feels like that small difference makes a difference other than understanding real magic.

‘Shall we try it now?’

I got up from my desk.
As expected, I was the type of hunter who moved my body rather than sitting at a desk and selling books.
If I kept reading like this, I felt like I wouldn’t understand anything properly.

I decided to go back to the very beginning of the book and try a magic trick.

In this room full of books, there weren’t many magics to try.
I decided to try using magic to move objects.

It’s similar to telekinetic power, but it’s a little different from it.
A sub-skill of telekinesis?
Looking at it that way, it seemed right.

Of course, the power of a simple and weak magic would be different if it was used by a powerful wizard.

I gathered her mana into her fingertips as I ruminated over the contents of the book.

“Ha!”

I stretched out my finger toward the open book on the desk, but it didn’t budge.
I felt like doing this would do nothing.

Is the ‘Understand Magic’ special ability really useless?
A hunter like me, whose combat ability is a base, can’t use magic at all?

Of course it can’t be.
It’s because it’s located in the information window as a special ability.
If it didn’t work, this ability wouldn’t exist.

I went back to the book and read the magic section carefully.
I felt like I knew something, so I got back up and focused.

It felt a bit different than before.
The way mana was used was definitely different from when using combat skills.
In a sense, it was the mana management method that was at the opposite point, so I thought that the two classes really couldn’t overlap if they overlapped.

In that sense, it’s really great.
That I can use magic and combat skills.
This would have been absolutely impossible without the miracle of the system.
Because the system makes everything simple.
As long as you complete the quest, any path will open to you.

I gathered mana at my fingertips with a different mana management method than before.
And stretched it all the way toward the book.

“Ha!”

Fluttering-

The bookshelves moved quickly as if the wind had blown them.
Of course, it’s not really windy.
It was a room without windows.

I felt joy welling up in my chest.

Achievement!
You study magic with this taste!

I thought I knew why Lee Seung-ah had been obsessed with devilry for years.
He also knew why Yeonju Han spent most of her time studying magic here.

It was a great pleasure to awaken the magic one by one in this way.
If I could summon a demon, the feeling would not compare to what I feel now.

I tried to use the magic once again, remembering the current sensation.

“Ha!”

It would be better if it didn’t sound like this, but I’m a beginner anyway.
Even so, he wanted to pretend that he was using magic.

The mana that reached her fingertips changed the book on which it was placed.

Flutter flutter-

The bookshelves turned over faster than before.
But I wasn’t satisfied with this.
Once I confirmed that it would work, I decided to try something more drastic.

I raised my ‘understanding of magic’ to level 3, and with that, I’ve mastered the basics.
It is right that you should be able to use simple magic.

I continued to use magic in the same way.
Since it was A-rank, the amount of mana was not small, so I was able to continue to some extent without getting tired.

For the first ten or so times, it was just going over the bookshelf.
There is only a difference in how fast or slow it is.

However, as I persevered and tried, the thick book finally floated in the air.