Regress and Eat

056 Team Building 1

I returned to Korea quietly after I ended the acquisition with the original Bill Russell and witnessed the phenomenon that made his retirement declaration so global.

The first step was a luxury house rented under the name of the company in Hannamdong.

It's been almost a month. ’

Nate and Hibiki, it's been a while since I last saw these two.

It took me a while to target the Eight Dungeons of Siheung and stayed longer than I thought in the United States.

“Ah, Jin-wook! ”

I contacted them beforehand, so they were waiting for me in the living room instead of training.

Nate is single.

Whereas.

“Hello?”

Hibiki still greets you with a bold look.

“What? What is this? What is it?”

Nate's eyes were fixed on the large paper box I was holding.

“Something to eat. ”

He accepts it and opens the lid.

Elasticity exploded.

“Wow! It's been a long time! ”

There are ten beautifully listed hamburgers from his favorite fast food brand.

It was Nate's favorite food for a few short days until he got out of the lab and came to Korea.

Because I fed the whole box to the black snake and then took it out again, the food had the warmth I had just ordered.

I looked at Nate carefully and said,

“I'm surprised you're so tall in the meantime · · · Have you gained weight? ”

Nate's body, which was smaller and thinner than his peer at the time of rescue, is now beginning to find a form that matches his age. Hunter's body at several times the speed of a normal person.

However, considering that, the weight on both cheeks is unusual. The fact that Hunters tend to get fat as their active Mana increases, which makes them more likely to be optimized, means they've eaten some ridiculous calories.

He said as if he deserved it.

“The people who come to work are starting to suspect. Five refrigerators filled with food and ingredients won't leave any. I mean, isn't everyone who set up a free lunch shop in this house calling and feeding it? ”

Well, if you boil it now, you can turn the dungeon around and get back to normal.

Nate picks up a burger and hands it to us.

“Let's eat together! ”

“I've been eating. ”

“What about you, Hibiki? ”

“No, Nate. I'm done.”

As before, when there were three of them, they communicated in English to each other. Naturally, Nate was fine and Hibiki's English was not at her former level either, but she had no difficulty communicating. It's a big deal for Japanese people who are only fully educated to speak this kind of pronunciation and vocabulary. I can feel it in my senses, but I like the head of the original.

And Hibiki will learn something much faster than before. I have acquired a unique skill that is close to deception due to innate intelligence.

“But this is a franchise with no stores in Asia yet. Did you buy it from America? So · · that snake ate and vomited? ”

Hibiki already knows the power of Black Snakes.

I nod with a shrug.

Then her face darkened.

“· · · · · · So it was stored in the same place they usually eat? ”

Hibiki hasn't seen snakes eat people yet, but she's seen snakes eat other things.

It reminds me of the scene where the five giant snakes had eaten one pig each and their appetite disappeared. I think I imagined that burger box was mixed with that lump of meat.

I tried to explain that the snake's stomach is a kind of subspace, not the kind of structure she was worried about, but Nate, who was already eating a fearless hamburger, asked with his cheeks full and asked, "What's the big deal?"

“Hmm? What's wrong with that? ”

Taking Nate, who had just gotten rid of ten burgers in his seat, and Hibiki, who had never even touched his mouth, I headed to a large garden connected to the first floor of the basement.

Almost four months have passed since I was reborn. The seasons came into early fall and the wind was cool while the sun was still hot.

The garden that opened the underground door was open at the top, but because of the various seals, it was unable to look inside and sound leaked out.

It was a training ground for two.

“Well, let's do a homework check. ”

Nate cheerfully shouted.

“Fine! I'll go first”

“Yes, show me. ”

Cold Guy takes the pose.

Nate stares at the garden in front of him, concentrating on his mind.

You can see Mana in both eyes like a faint mist.

That's not a skill. It's a Mana operation that any trained hunter can do.

Hunter's enhanced body is stimulated with active mana. Nate's gaze was polished much more sharply than usual, so he caught everything he could not normally see.

“Wow, I caught it like that before, and it's like this again? ”

What he was looking at was mosquitoes hiding around the bushes as the sun was still up.

“How many are there? ”

“About 20 of what you see now? ”

You'll see more with a fluoroscope, but you haven't learned that skill yet.

With pure Mana control, this is great considering the length of training.

Sweat drips down Nate's forehead.

It's hard to keep going like this, he asks first.

“Should I catch it?”

“Yes, catch it. ”

The creature aggregates Mana at his fingertips and spreads it forward.

Ugh!

A pale blue film, visible only to Nate and me.

It flew away as if it were passing through another object, making little flashes everywhere in the bushes as it intended.

Pot!

Popot!

In each such place, tiny creatures fall down like pesticides.

Meanwhile, I was able to see a much more detailed and clear video than Nate was watching.

Instead of crushing the mosquito completely, the Mana pulse that he created gave him a profoundly adjusted shock that killed him. The body of a fragile mosquito that bursts with just the tap of a finger, the tissue is almost intact.

It's more than I imagined. Natural gifts don't go anywhere. ’

I think of Nate's condition when I first met him.

After a long time of Awakening, Mana activation was somewhat behind Mana Control. It's natural that there were no teachers.

So the first homework I gave Nate was to practice how to handle it delicately.

I'm showing you the results now.

“So, what's next? ”

The second homework, Nate was reluctant at first.

That's when I remember the reaction.

"Jin-wook what? Do we really have to do that? I don't like bugs. Do we have to make bugs our friends? ’

I thought the lab might have had measles because of bugs, but soon I didn't. For the sake of experimental environmental control, hygiene must have been managed thoroughly.

It turned out that Nate's deep hatred for bugs and hatred were due to the intense experience he still had before he was abducted.

In other words, it was a kind of trauma.

Bugs are no good! If you try to sleep at night, it makes you crouch, itch, bite, swollen skin · · Hides under the pizza you had left before, surprises you, lays eggs in the bathroom, and eats them if an animal is dead on the street · · ’

The distance to the slums he grew up in was a hygienic environment, and Nate seemed to recall suffering from bugs from his childhood.

Mosquitoes in particular! Mosquitoes are the worst! We have to get rid of the mosquito! ’

In the future, Nate cannot abide by the current principle that only those he likes can grow up as a true Necromancer.

I felt the need to change my mind.

Otherwise, Nate won't be able to extend his prison until the next people he likes are dead.

Ultimately, you have to increase your speed in the same way you did in your previous life.

Instead of making your favorite creature your friend, you should plant the concept of hunting down those who are harmful if you let them live and then making them your subordinates.

‘Nate, we will explore the dungeon together from now on. We have to hunt more monsters than you can imagine, to get tired of it. If we don't, we have to stop the monsters from spreading from the collapsed dungeons. And then the world falls apart outside the lab where you just got back. ’

‘I understand. ’

‘If you keep them alive, you'll kill them and turn them into your henchmen. I'm not your friend. Why don't you split up and think about it? ’

Nate agreed with me.

As a result, the scene in front of me now is · · ·.

Whoo-hoo!

The stream of Mana that stretched out from Nate reaches the mosquitoes that have fallen across the garden and rescues those little creatures that have lost the spark of life.

No, it mutated to something else the organism knew, to be exact.

Weeing!

What I wanted to see now was how many threads I could make at once.

Twenty of them, all zombieized. ’

Difficulty varies depending on individual characteristics, but this is the acceptance line. At the current level.

In the future, even dungeons can produce twenty monsters at a time.

Nate says, "What do you want me to do? ’and asked me.

“Next, let's look at the Hibiki homework. Nate, tell all the zombie mosquitoes to ‘fly moderately’ near Hibiki. ”

Nate nods and opens his mouth.

You can instruct them in your mind, but it is easier to speak in such a clear language.

“Fly around it all you want! ”

Immediately, it happened as he said.

‘When Nate controls a dead creature, it is not necessary to control the behavior of each individual to a small extent. ’

One of the conclusions we have made about his skills in the future is that even zombieized individuals have some judgment or vague reasoning.

Once the command is issued, how it is performed depends on the object.

It means that something in an individual functions on behalf of damaged brain cells, rather than leaving reason behind.

Whew!

Mosquitoes begin to fly around Hibiki mimicking the movements of their lives.

Unlike live mosquitoes that need to be rested for a little while, they used to burn Nate's Mana as a source of energy and fly like flies without rest.

‘Another skill is required to calculate twenty flight paths per day. Nate doesn't have that kind of power. ’

However, it is possible for Hibiki.

“Hibiki?”

She nods and closes her eyes as if she's focused.

I had no choice but to convey what I had heard to Hibiki myself in the future about [Multiple Accidents].

‘Imagine that a room in your head is divided into sections. And fill each room with a completely different idea. At the same time, uninterrupted. But each room is not completely disconnected. Each room is complementary. You're the only one who can control that variety of thoughts. ’

It was an awkward experience to say things I didn't fully understand.

However, Hibiki, who had already experienced the unique skill of [Multiple Thinking], seemed to quickly understand what it meant.

Consequences · · ·.

Whoo-hoo!

Hibiki activates the skill.

[Light!]

A very beginner and simple skill for magic.

However, Manat's movements were unusual.

Twelve at a time? ’

Twelve light-emitters smaller than beads appear around her all at once.

It was not the original magic guided by the skill card. She intervened and retrofitted. Luminescence is much smaller than normal light magic. Magic drawn by controlling your Mana.

It triggered 12 simultaneously.

It is the same process, but it forms 12 Mana patterns all at once.

‘But in the end, it's more like twelve times. We divide them into twelve, and then we all do the same thing. ’

From now on, it matters.

Weeing!

Boo!

On my command, Hibiki spills Mana.

Then twelve luminescences each begin to draw the path of light along one of the zombie mosquitoes around them. Maintain a constant distance, neither too close nor too far away.

Moving a magic sphere is not a reflex of the nervous system, such as the movement of a simple finger.

Each of its flight trajectories goes through a physician's judgement process through the brain.

In other words, the scene in front of us now is evidence that Hibiki's accident has been divided into 12 different operations.

“Okay, stop. ”

Both of them were satisfied with the results.

The light disappears on my signal, and the mosquitoes lose their movement and fall back into the grass.

“This is the end of basic training. Sure · · ·. ”

I snatched the horse cold as if I had a hunch that Nate would follow me.

“Then, finally?! ”

“Yes."

Both have completed the Hunter's registration since they came to Korea. I instructed Nate to be moderately E grade, and Hibiki, who was just awake, naturally came out E grade, without having to manipulate it.

It was only a month after that.

Nate developed a lot in that short time, but Hibiki also grew faster in terms of managing activation and control than Nate.

‘It will be much different from the results at that time. ’

I told two people.

“Shall we go into the dungeon now? But first, I need a promotion review. ”

And this time.

“Me too. ”

I was going to apply for the promotion review as well.

“Ah · · · Team Leader! ”

Meeting Kim again was a holiday when he did not go to the guild.

He left the Celestial Dragon Guild in secret that he would meet me.

“Oh, thank God. You're all right!”