Chapter 166 – Chapter 166 – Promise (9)

Dream world.

As soon as I arrived at this place with countless white backgrounds, I asked Hong Ma-dong for information about Merlin.

The meaningful information that Hong Ma-dong handed over yesterday before escaping from the dream world.

After hearing the sparsely disconnected information, ‘Homunculus called 13, cursed in the past…’, My curiosity was amplified.

And as if he expected my reaction like this, Hong Ma-dong smiled and nodded happily.

“Umm… Actually, I don’t know if this is that important. But I’ll tell you once, junior.”

“Yes, tell me quickly, no more tantalizing procrastination.”

“Quuck-cuw, yes.”

Hong Ma-dong, as usual, touched the dagger and opened his mouth.

“You know that Merlin was interested in dragons, right?”

“Yes, that’s extreme.”

It wasn’t for nothing that all the information came out that Merlin was obsessed with dragons.

If information about Merlin wandering around alone spreads that far, she must have been steadily doing things that would make her stand out.

A representative example is the extinction of the Imoogi clan.

In a way, it might have been inevitable that Merlin, who contributed to the extinction of the Imoogi clan more than anyone else, could use the dragon language.

Perhaps guessing my thoughts, Hong Ma-dong shrugged his shoulders.

“It’s such a perverted inspiration. I couldn’t even imagine digging it up to the point where I could reproduce ‘part of’ the dragon.”

Yes.

Some of the words Merlin used were.

He had been directly beaten by Areumie’s words as a test, so he could definitely compare them.

On the other hand, it is very difficult to get rid of Areumi’s dragon using a reversal technique.

Merlin’s dragon words could have escaped much easier than that.

However, just because he could use the degraded dragon language didn’t mean he felt relieved.

Merlin was not a dragon.

That meant that through her tenacious research, she had obtained an authority she could not use.

Because we don’t know how far the paradoxical behavior of using the power of the dragon with the body of a shaman will continue.

Rather, it was just a feeling of endless creepiness.

“Yes, I never imagined that I could use a dragon with a human body.”

Let’s mumble that I’m ridiculous.

Hong Ma-dong seemed to be wondering what he was talking about.

“… Huh? What are you talking about, Junior. Just looking at that inspiration, it’s not a normal human body, right?”

“Yes?”

“That’s true, junior. Doesn’t it make sense to say that you went against your age backwards in the first place?”

“Then what kind of monster could it be?”

“Ummm…”

Hong Ma-dong groaned and threw his dagger into the air.

Widely.

Hong Ma-dong, who received the dagger, brought up the story as if to ask him to listen.

“Perhaps, I think so. First of all, it seems to have some connection with what I’m about to tell you. I’ll just tell you what I was trying to say earlier.”

“I see.”

Hong Ma-dong smiled meaningfully, raised his tension, and then spat out his words.

“Yes, yes. First of all, the research on dragons that the inspiration first started with was probably Draculea.”

“… Draculea?”

Let’s murmur at unfamiliar words.

Hong Ma-dong corrected me with an easy word I knew.

“Well, that’s what it looks like. To put it simply, it’s just a word that means Dracula.”

Suddenly wondering why Dracula was appearing, she blinked her eyes.

Hong Ma-dong, who read my expression, immediately began to explain further.

“Draculea. Those who inherited the lineage of a cursed dragon. It’s like a name used proudly by vampires who are all extinct now.”

“Ah.”

Suddenly, a legend I had seen somewhere in the past came to mind.

Dragon’s son, Dracula.

It’s such a long story, so let’s roll our heads.

Hong Ma-dong shook his hand as if he didn’t have to worry about it.

“You don’t have to worry so much. I think it was superstition. And Merlin, the inspiration that researched this side ended up dismissing it as a tradition and ending the research.”

“Still, something seems to have come out.”

I guessed that I didn’t bring up this story for nothing, so I inquired.

Then Hong Ma-dong smiled as if he had the correct answer.

“That’s right. In order to dismiss this idiot-like inspiration as a tradition, I changed a lot of data. Among them, the most evil method, an artificial life form. The method of creating a homunculus.”

“Wait a minute, an artificial creature?”

“Yes.”

At Hong Ma-dong’s words, my heart was beating fast.

Blood of Dracula, vampire, and cursed dragon.

No matter how much Merlin dismissed them as traditions, the facts listed above pointed to yokai that were all too familiar.

As I am silent, rolling my head.

Hong Ma-dong agreed as if he knew what I was thinking.

“Yes, yes. The first time I heard about your suspicious little sister, I had similar thoughts to your junior. But no.”

“Why, I can say no.”

When I calmly questioned him, Hong Ma-dong continued his words, saying, “Listen first.”

“Listen first. Inspiration creates countless failures, and I found out that Draculea was just a tradition. In the end, I paid a pretty high price for realizing that it had nothing to do with it. In the process, inspiration was one achievement. . That’s the Homunculus 13 I was talking about earlier.”

“13.”

Muttering some meaningful number, Hong Ma-dong nodded his head.

“Yes, 13. The only surviving artificial vampire who inherited the blood of the progenitor of vampires the thickest. I saved this one, and the old man made a huge profit.”

Instead of disappearing, the doubts were amplified.

Still, Hong Ma-dong declared ‘no’ as if he were sure, so I silently listened to Hong Ma-dong’s words.

“This inspiration used this homunculus in many ways. First, it was used to dry the seeds of the vampire clan. After infiltrating this homunculus deep into it, it exploded at the most important timing.”

Hong Ma-dong pretended to slit his neck with his hand.

“I used the homunculus to annihilate them all. And in the process, the homunculus, which inherited the blood of the vampires more thickly, became stronger, and the old man used this homunculus for the last time to get the biggest benefit. The biggest benefit Do you know what this is, junior?”

“You’ve made the Imoogi clan extinct.”

As if to prove that he was right, Hong Ma-dong snapped his fingers.

“That’s right. The Imoogi clan used all their strength to transcend Isia. Taking advantage of Isia’s absence, the surprise attack led by the homunculus was a great success, as you know. Do you know if it’s not a homunculus?”

“Why.”

I stared at Hong Ma-dong.

Hong Ma-dong enjoyed my gaze, and then spit out a fact.

“That homunculus is dead.”

“Dead?”

In fact, when he asked in a tone that he might not have died, Hong Ma-dong nodded his head.

“Yeah, he definitely died. Perhaps because Yeonggam rolled so hard, at the last moment when he attacked the Imoogi clan, the control of the homunculus was released. As soon as the control was released, the homunculus immediately attacked the old man. The old man ended up killing the homunculus. “

“Still…”

Still, let’s take out his words in a way that we don’t know.

Hong Ma-dong cut off my words.

“Yes, I think I can survive this far somehow. After hearing this, juniors will naturally judge that it is not?

“What is it?”

“This idiot old man must have cared for this homunculus quite a bit, he did a crazy thing. Pouring all the blood of the Imoogi clan into the well where Isia ascended to heaven, and putting the body of this dead homunculus in a crazy thing.”

“…Why did you do that?”

“I don’t know the details, but from what I heard from the old man. I saw the possibility that this homunculus, which inherited the blood of the founder of the vampire, could survive if it absorbed all the blood of the dragon. But what about the result?”

Hong Ma-dong slapped his palm.

“Evaporation. The body of the homunculus that absorbed all the blood in the pond couldn’t stand it, and it vaporized along with the pond. That’s why I said this, junior.”

Upon hearing that, he could not refute.

Hong Ma-dong threw me a few more facts.

“And that inspiration was so obsessed, I wouldn’t have said this unless I had confirmed with my own eyes that it had evaporated and disappeared? I was sure of the nature of that inspiration, so I said this to me.”

“Then…Then, what is Areumi?”

I asked Hong Ma-dong, thinking of Ah-reum sleeping soundly in her room.

“I don’t know, how can I infer the half-dragon sister who suddenly jumped out, junior?”

Hong Ma-dong threw the dagger he was holding into the air.

“So, let’s stop talking about complicated things today. Let’s do some training, junior.”

“… Yes.”

Even if it’s not Crimson Cave, it’s a well stained with blood from the Trial of Wisdom.

From that blood-stained well, Areumie must have jumped out.

My mind was complicated.

The ordeal of foreknowledge of origin is a space of fantasy that is shown to bridge the gap for the future.

Could it be that because I heard this from Hong Ma-dong, I was able to show the face of that ordeal?

Or.

Did you show what actually happened?

As I sorted out the newly emerging confusing facts, I grabbed my bankruptcy sword.

* *

Tweed, tweed.

Hearing the chirping of birds, he opened his eyes.

“Mmmm.”

Unlike what he was beaten up in the world of dreams, he stretched out his body boasting the best condition.

Shake off the drowsiness remaining in your body and get out of bed.

I was able to face Areum who was waiting for me in the living room.

“Oh, brother, are you awake?”

“Yes.”

Sparkle.

Something sticky came out of Areumie’s golden eyes facing me.

“…?”

I wonder if it’s an illusion, let’s blink our eyes.

As if it had never happened, a kind Areumyi stood in front of me.

“Why are you like that, brother?”

She seems to be in a good mood, even humming.

Looking at Areumie’s exceptionally shiny skin, I scratched my head.

It seemed like an illusion.

“Want to have breakfast right away? This morning, I made some side dishes with the leftover eels from yesterday.”

“Okay, I went to the bathroom for a while.”

Click.

I went into the bathroom and pulled down my pants to urinate.

“… Yes?”

Strangely shiny, lying hair.

Even though it’s morning, Sojung keeps her head down.

Looking at my place, which is different from usual, I scratched my head again.

“Are you old?”

So I stayed up all night, not even guessing what had happened.

Hummingly, I approached Ah-reum, who was preparing a meal.