Dungeon House 74

Dungeon House chapter 74

I came back to my base in Korea, but what I do hasn’t changed much. It just repeats training, research, and dungeon raids.

Instead, lately, as much time as I devote to magic training and research, I’ve been immersed in other things.

It was.

It was just the amulet.

Needless to say, it was because of the amulet sent by the director of the Korea Operations Bureau as a gift.

For me, the talisman was about an oriental scroll. A scroll that can be ripped to reveal magic.

This is because amulets and scrolls engrave characters and patterns on paper in a specific way, and the use of special materials is no different.

However, that idea was completely changed by the amulet that the Director of the Operations Bureau gave him as a gift.

I am a 5 circle necromancer. Naturally, the amount of negative mana that can be controlled is enormous. It can handle 3 times the total mana in the 5 circles I have, or up to 6 times if I overdo it.

But scrolling isn’t like that.

If you put it on paper like A4 paper, which is commonly available in modern times, 3 circles is the limit unless there is special treatment. Even with special treatment, 4 circles is the maximum.

In other words, in order to make more magic scrolls, you have to make a special paper from scratch.

It was common sense for scrolls and talismans to me.

However, the amulet that the director handed over was plain paper. At least the material and durability were not as good as A4 paper.

Even though it was made of such material, it contained the divine power of the Hyeoncheonsangje. The amount of negative mana contained in the amulet was beyond my controllable mana limit.

The amount was well over 30 times my mana. Can you make such a talisman? It was just surprising.

“I think I would like to catch the director who is the creator of this amulet and extract knowledge from his brain.”

**Me too.”

Hyeoncheonsangje’s amulet was literally great.

Like the mana storage, he could use as many negative mana as he could, and in the process, there was no side effect peculiar to negative mana on the user.

However, unlike the mana storage, it was not possible to charge negative mana as much as it was disposable or decreased by use.

Even so, if you can hold this amount of mana on a single sheet of paper, it is rather a disadvantage. I wanted to figure out how to make it somehow.

But so far, I’ve been researching and experimenting with Chris, but I’ve found very little. That’s why I said the same thing a little before the baby got on.

【Are you still studying, master?】

As I was taking a break after stopping research, Castle suddenly spoke to me through a connection.

[He is taking a break.]

[Okay. you’re a guest So me.]

[Who is it? Is it Kang Hye-mi?]

[From the director of the operating bureau.]

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“master. Why?”

“The person we wanted to kidnap came from a while ago. let’s go.”

We headed straight to the drawing room. In the drawing room, Castle and Kai were watching a man.

The man named director was considerably younger than I thought.

The voice on the previous phone call was quite old-fashioned, and I thought the director would be quite old as he sat in a high position.

I thought he was in his 60s at the maximum, and he was in his 40s when he was young, but no matter how many times he hit the director, he looked like he was in his early 30s.

It wasn’t very big either. No, it could be said that he was rather small and skinny. He had a pale complexion, and he slept well.

I couldn’t sleep, so there were even dark circles under my eyes.

Other than that, to be honest, there was nothing so special that I doubted that the fortune was the British coat of arms. The amount of mana present in the body was also higher than that of the general public, but compared to the dungeon explorers, it was very small. There was no sense of any other kind.

I stopped looking at him any longer and turned to him.

“Looks like you’ve looked at it now.”

“Are you the chief?”

“okay. I am the head of the operating bureau. Externally, he is the person sitting in the president’s seat. And he is also the one who made the amulet for Hyeon Cheon-sang that I gave you.”

“You came here without fear. Don’t you know how terrifying magicians are?”

“You are a wizard. know. I know very well. Because I’ve dealt with it a few times so far. When it comes to magic, they’re merciless, and they’re disgusting and crazy, ignoring common sense, the law and even the human race. They’re still troublesome, but it’s gotten even more troublesome because of the abundance of mana in the world. By the way, the wizards I’m talking about are wizards from this world, not dungeon explorers.”

“After all, there are wizards in this world as well.”

“I guess you were guessing.”

“Mana already existed in this world.”

After the dungeon appeared, the concentration became much thicker, but mana was originally present on Earth as well. Of course, this is not true of being a dungeon explorer.

As a natural consequence, it was deduced that there were also those who used mana, and I thought that there would be wizards among them. After a while, I was thinking of going out and looking for it myself.

“From a long time ago, the mana gradually decreased and the weakest were the wizards. But they too have spent a long time developing their magic according to their environment. Are you interested?”

“Of course it is.”

There is no guarantee that the magic that has been developed over a long period of time will be stronger or better than the magic I am currently learning. But there must be something to be gained from another theory, so I immediately agreed.

The director smiled at my reply.

“Then give it to me. I’ll give you all the materials of the wizards I’ve killed. As an advance payment.”

“Order. Do I really need to get it?”

I said that and raised my mana.

“This is my hometown. It’s a wizard’s workshop. And you’re alone. Just pass everything on. Then I’ll send you back in good health.”

“It’s still better than other wizards though. They’re just trying to kill him and get his head. So, let me teach my juniors in particular.”

Woo woo woo!

The moment the director finished speaking, his body hardened with a huge wave of mana. Literally, his body became so stiff that he could not even move.

“In the wizard’s workshop, a wizard can deliver dozens of times his or her original skill. But, there is a way to neutralize the wizard’s workshop from outside.”

I don’t know what method he used. But it was clear that he did something, and that count left neither me nor Chris at all moving.

lost. This is my complete defeat.

The land I bought here was definitely in my control. But I never even imagined that I would be working outside the land. It was my defeat at that point.

As I was thinking about it, the director stood up and tapped my shoulder lightly.

“Today will be a good experience. Can I smoke a cigarette anyway?”

As soon as the director finished speaking, I could see that my body was able to move, and I sighed and answered.

Yes, smoke.”

“Thank you.”

He went back to where he was sitting a moment ago, took a cigarette from his pocket, and lit it. With a single breath, he smoked a cigarette and exhaled smoke as if he was pleased.

“Come on. Shall we continue the story? As I said before, the advance payment is the data of the magicians I have. Instead, I want you to move as I tell you to move for just 10 days.”

“I knew.”

I accepted his request. In the first place, I am at a disadvantage because of my work. Nevertheless, the director maintained the previous conditions. So it was simply accepted.

“It’s surprisingly easy to accept. Did you know what I was going to do and accept it easily?”

“I need data from modern wizards. The only way to obtain it is to fulfill your request, so of course I accepted it.”

“He’s also a wizard. It’s good to be obediently following a position once it’s decided. let me tell you at once I don’t know if I should give up the workshop.”

“It’s a pity, but it can’t be helped.”

“It’s a studio that put a lot of effort into, but is it okay?”

“Anyway, thanks to this work, we have to release the workshop and start over from scratch. So it doesn’t matter.”

Actually it didn’t matter. To be honest, I was angry as if my blood was going to run upside down right now.

If the director was an enemy, today I am dead. He did nothing and was killed.

That’s why I was so angry with myself. To myself who decided that the workshop was safe at will, and to myself who was proud of being strong.

The director smiled at my answer.

“I will introduce good land to my juniors later. Youngji better than this place

I mean.”

“… … Is it the commission payment?”

“Think of it as a bonus. The payment is annoying, so I’ll just pay it today along with the advance payment. As long as I say it, I’ll keep it. Then I will go Oh yeah. Take this.”

He handed me an amulet.

“It’s the Ministry of Communications. There is no guarantee that your phone will explode when you have to move. Then I will call you later.”

Finally, he took another cigarette and left the drawing room.

Only after making sure he was completely out of bounds did we move.

“… … I’m totally blown away. Hopefully, I will be able to use my hands on the entire workshop and the entire land.”

“It’s all because of our immaturity. We should have prepared for an outside operation.”

“sorry. Lord.”

“Oh, I got hit. You got it right.”

Kai apologized to me, and Castle made a gesture of surrender by sticking out his tongue. Meanwhile, Chris and I started discussing this matter.

In the end, very little could be found. All I could tell was that it wasn’t a widespread mana stop, widespread paralysis, or heavy pressure. In the worst case, I thought it might be a time stop, but I soon found out that it wasn’t. Anyway, as a result, it was oh limousine.

Immediately, we started the process of releasing the workshop and the realm. Although it was a waste of the effort put in, it could not be left as it was after checking the problem.

The day after the director’s return, while decommissioning was in full swing, Kang Hye-mi came with five 10-ton trucks.

“This is the commander’s message. advance payment and completion gold. I don’t throw it away whenever possible, so I put it all together, but I didn’t expect it to be this many. … … You told me to tell you.”

Although it was said that it was the material of all the wizards he had, he did not think that it would be the size of five 10-ton trucks, so I was just surprised.

“And I said that these three books would be the ones I wanted the most, and I told them to give them to me.”

I accepted the three books that Hyemi Kang gave me and looked at the titles. The basic theory of modern wizards, and the basic theory of amulets, the last was the basic theory of modern necromancy.

It was really what we wanted.

The data of the wizards, once delivered by truck, were moved to a secret warehouse prepared in advance. I didn’t have time to check right now, so I decided to take a quick look at the three books pointed out by the director and continue with the workshop and release work.

The first thing I looked at was the basic theory of modern wizards.

“A tower that continuously draws mana into the body and accumulates at the same time, and is it a class magic that is determined by the level of the tower? It’s fun.”

“In addition, you usually convert life to mana and accumulate it. Maybe that’s why I strongly recommend physical training. It would be more accurate to think that modern wizards are actually magic fighters.”

In a world where mana is gradually disappearing, modern wizards have chosen to keep sucking the mana around them and store them in their body.

The circle, which exists as the core of the heart, obviously continues to suck mana and store mana, but it is completely different from the tower.

For example, a circle could be said to be a vortex that exists in water called mana. It keeps spinning and sweeps away things around it.

But the tower can be called an ant hell. Manara ants were unable to go up and down the sand dunes, and eventually became possessed by the body of the magic book.

Mana storage and control methods that have developed differently depending on the environment taught me a lot in many ways.

First of all, in terms of energy efficiency and conversion of properties, the tower side was overwhelming. It was adapted in a way that somehow attracts mana in a world where mana is scarce, and uses it as diverse as possible.

In the case of the circle, the power, activation, and safety of magic were incomparably superior to those of the tower. Instead, when the circle is full of mana to the limit, the rotation speed slows and no more mana is drawn.

But the tower is different. The tower continues to draw in mana and build it up in the body. It is a sound that does not stop drawing in mana even when mana accumulates in the body.

As a result, if the amount that the body can store is exceeded, the vessel, the body, collapses, or the vessel becomes larger. But eventually the body will collapse. The tower will continue to draw mana.

In addition, towers are stacked, so unlike circles, mana does not cycle. As a result, mana is easily changed in the body. The altered mana will affect the owner’s body and mind. If you are lucky you will mutate, at worst you will be a maniac.

“In a nutshell, modern wizards are in a situation where their feet are on fire due to the ever-increasing mana.”

“We have nothing to do with it. No, why don’t you take this opportunity to subdue the mad wizard and test and check it?”

At Chris’s suggestion, I shook my head and said firmly.

“Kris. I’m human. At least as a human being, I have no intention of crossing the line.”

Chris didn’t hide his regret at my words, but he nodded.

“I knew. I’m sorry, but I can’t help it.”

“But if it’s a dead being, if it’s the corpse of a dead wizard, it’s a different story. After all, it’s just a corpse.”

There is a difference between a dead body and a living being. At my words, Chris smiled a little.

“I knew. I will remember.”

After that, we worked on the unlocking and spent time browsing the basic theory books of modern wizards and the basic theories of talismans.

So time went on and on.

Dungeon House chapter 74

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