Regress and Eat

Meanwhile, Seo Kyu-chul was approaching from a distance through the crowd.

I whispered to the corpse in my hand in a low voice that I couldn't hear from the people around me.

“Hey."

The answer didn't come right back.

It is very different from previous reactions.

“Fuck you?"

It's been like this ever since I signed an unfair contract that was unilaterally favorable to me.

The hope of brainwashing or seducing me is completely gone, so it is absolutely useless and does not consume energy.

I just want to quietly wait for the day when my life will end.

‘It's good to wait, but I've never been allowed to eat my horse. ’

I spoke powerfully in my voice.

“Have you forgotten the terms of the contract? Why don't you go home and light the furnace again today? ”

‘· · · · · Yes, yes. You wanted to see me, sir? ’

sarcastic speech.

I quickly ordered a few things in a small voice.

“Okay? If I give you the signal, you start right away. ”

Attitudes do not allow him to disobey my orders.

The moment I finished speaking, Seo Kyu-chul stopped.

“We meet at last. ”

After a deliberate argument in his office and escaping.

It is the first time I have faced this way.

He said in a clear voice that was as oppressive as possible, contrasted with the raging flames in his eyes.

“Let's go somewhere quiet and talk. ”

The tone was a little different from a few months ago.

Strange distance.

I nodded.

“Sure."

I looked at Nate and Hibiki.

Since it was an anticipated situation, two people who heard what they were going to do then nodded, making eye contact.

Seo Kyu-chul pulls out a scroll from his arms. I read that Mana pattern in advance.

Did you have to prepare today? No, it would be appropriate to assume that you've always had it handy when this moment comes. ’

The moment I was about to tear it up.

Kim Kyung-rock shouted.

“You bastards! Can't you hear me? Explain what's going on. ”

Seo Kyu-chul said in a cold voice.

“What you are protesting is something the Constitution will handle on its own. Shut up before I rip your tongue out. ”

“What, what? No, he really wants to see me. He's over the line! ”

Kim Gyeong-rok was humiliated and blushed in front of the four guilds.

Ignoring him, Seo Kyu-chul turns his gaze toward the Celestial Dragon Guild Member.

“Now that the brakes are over, I'm going to talk to my son for a moment. Team Leader One, I need you to wrap it up and clear it up. ”

“Ahh · · Yes! ”

Team Leader Yoon Ho-min nodded with a expressionless expression.

Seo Kyu-chul tore the scroll without hesitation.

[Widespread Teleport!]

I released the resistance and surrendered myself to the surrounding light.

‘Yes, there are too many eyes here. ’

When it comes to avoiding a position, the two agree on something.

After a while, we were on our way to the wilderness where he must have set his coordinates in advance.

“ · · · · · ·. ”

I thought he would say it right away, but surprisingly, Seo Gyu-cheol kept his mouth shut and stared at me.

But · · ·.

‘Yeah, those eyes. ’

I can see that I've already been through Park Chang-hee and Han Seol.

That pupil gives off a strange glow when it reveals its intense emotions in front of me.

I opened my mouth first.

“I saw it on TV. ”

I deliberately speak in a calm tone.

“You were desperate to find me. ”

Point out irrational behavior and excessive emotion in the process.

Will Seo Kyu-chul be self-aware?

“Distracting the media as an enemy was not my usual father. ”

Do you think you know that you're under the spell of madness?

The original Seo Jin-wook was objectively aware of his condition, but Han Seol and Park Chang-hee were completely engulfed and did not notice.

What about Seo Kyu-chul?

“· · That's funny. ”

He said in a low voice.

“Father?”

My lips twist.

“You fool the others, but you don't fool me. ”

His fierce eyes flashed.

He said in a voice as if scratching his vocal cords.

“Who the hell are you? ”

A sharp and cold wind blew in the space between the two.

“ · · · · · ·. ”

I underestimated the meaning of what he said.

To be honest, I was surprised.

Do you think the parents will notice?

With blood and instinct?

‘However, based on the usual attitude of Seo Gyu-chul, he was a human being who could not find at least any injustice. ’

I denied it first.

“I don't understand what you're saying. ”

“Shall I tell you again? I asked what the hell you were. Where did you come from, taking over my son's body? ”

I kicked my tongue in.

Spoken confident that I am not the original.

“The reason you came looking for me so urgently, was because of such a misunderstanding? ”

“There can be no misunderstanding. What are you, what right · · · I've been raising love for decades · ·. ”

Before he finishes speaking, he tries to get a hollow smile.

You raised a lovebird son?

From what I saw firsthand, he never cared so much about Seo Jin-wook.

The moment I was about to protest.

Finally, Seo Kyu-chul's words contained words that were completely unexpected.

· · · You've just caught a precious seed that's about to become the Blooming Wind ! ”

· · · · · · What?

*

My face hardened quickly.

‘Seeds before flowering! ’

It's a very common word.

In fact, there's nothing wrong with someone's mouth.

However, considering the name and description of a skill that has been exposed to several people in this guild, it becomes a completely different story.

[Mercadius Seed (Rank: SSS, Semi-active)]

Skill Effect: Engages in the host's spirit, boosts the most intense desire and emotion, and induces thoughts. It depends on the intention of the caster and the nature of the host to know what will happen after the growth is complete and the seed has eaten the host completely.

Restrictions: The stronger the host's mental strength and resistance, the slower the seed's erosion rate and the risk of 'voices’ of the seed being exposed to the host.

‘What are the chances that Seo Gyu-Cheol doesn't even know the existence of those two words · · Such a coincidence! ’

The assumption that Seo Kyu-chul is related to the plague of the curse is one of the scenarios I have drawn in my mind.

‘There were many strange corners. ’

When my seed destroyed the seeds of Han Snow and Park Chang-hee, the memories of the lives of the two people living there came to me.

Since then, I've searched through the piles of memories that I absorbed, and looked at what common motives they had for being possessed by madness. Incorporated into the control group up to the original Seo Jin-wook memory.

We haven't found any defining scenes yet, but we've found some awkwardness in the unexpected.

‘Seo Kyu-chul, what is this human? ’

In the memory of three people, words that were not easily understood were repeated in his appearance.

First, Seo Kyu-chul compared to Seo Jin-wook's gaze.

I just push too hard to think of it as dry.

Screaming for willpower to overcome mental illness repeats the same behavior knowing that it's weak, that it's deteriorating.

I really wanted to raise my son to be a great guild leader, and if I wanted to make him a sign for the Celestial Dragon's honor, I could pretend to be an exemplary father, but I acted like I was the worst father.

Seo Kyu-chul, who saw Han Seol, was also strange.

Although it was true that she joined the guild in the first place for Seo Jin-wook, Seo Gyu-cheol acknowledged that she was spending too much private time with her son.

Even though it was clear that his son pushing against the next guild leader was mentally dependent on Han Seol in the solid yard of the guild.

Seo Kyu-chul reflected in Park Chang-hee's gaze was just a stupid man.

Park Chang-hee and Seo Jin-wook, who are close to each other, are constantly pushed into one place.

So there was a constant conflict between the two of them.

While Seo Jin-wook called a meeting that he did not need to attend, he approved the first dungeon after the Awakening to be joined together by two people. It was Seo Gyu-chul who told Park Chang-hee about Seo Jin-wook's training plan in advance.

And in common, Seo Kyu-chul really often called these three people to his office, Seo Jin-wook, Han Seol, and Park Chang-hee.

Of course there was a reason. They were the sons of Seo Kyu-chul, vice guild leader, and head of the 2nd expedition.

However, it turned out that Seo Gyu-cheol was following a regular Tum when he called them. Like spending · · time · observing conditions.

*

I stared at him and said,

“[Seed of Mercadius] · · · Did you know it existed? ”

Grip the handle of the sword.

Seo Kyu-chul said with a flashing look in his eyes.

“Seeds? I'm a gardener. A faithful gardener who observes and cherishes seeds planted by his hands · · One day a selected one will harvest them when they bloom! ”

It contained one truth that I could never turn away from.

Acquiring, I gripped my teeth in an upward rage.

I changed my tone without even knowing it.

“· Him? A gardener?”

Seo Kyu-cheol's unique skill is not related to brainwashing.

It means he's not cursed, but he's connected to the aliens.

“Not only did you ignore the curse, did you observe if it was eating properly? Even though you knew the curse was driving you crazy? ”

“Curse! This is baptism! ”

His eyes are already filled with a dazzling frenzy.

“Sacred baptism to prepare the sacrifices to be sacrificed in perfect form! ”

What the hell for?

“Whatever the cost, it's what you do as a human being! ”

“The decision to sacrifice your offspring is the most noble sacrifice and the culmination of the holy offering! Don't you know that this is a sacred act that comes from virtually every religion without falling into scripture and myth? ”

I couldn't communicate.

I raise my sword.

“You stepped in the middle and everything went wrong. The day I woke up unconscious, I felt different. You've finally stopped resisting. I gave up, and I began to accept the will of the Seed as my own. Just like Han Seol and Park Chang-hee did! But it wasn't like that. The contents have changed!”

Who he says he is, what he intended to gain in exchange for the sacrifice of the guild members, including his son, and how he offered it.

All of those questions can be solved by reading · · · memory.

“You are out of your · · · seed's control! If your acolytes had manipulated you, you wouldn't have run from the gardener on purpose! Now I'm going to make things right again! ”

The moment Seo Kyu-chul pulled out his sword.

I rushed into the chasm, wrapped a few layers around the blade.

Grab it, grab it!

A swift back and forth attack.

I did not lose the black spirit of Seo Kyu-chul while shining my eyes, and the van sword spread close to his instinct.

But · · ·.

[Artha's Sword!]

The purple sword I spilled slammed into his sword, and instead of splitting straight into the air, it seeped into the blade.

A sword that starts to coalesce and resonate in a certain form.

And...

Tsk, tsk!

“Khh!”

Seo Kyu-chul's sword shattered in front of my eyes.

His face turns dark as if he had lost his weapon.

And then I saw the expression on my face that I had decided to do something.

Weeing!

There was a red Mana storm around him.

Unique skill activated.

[Ether Hwa Transform (SS)!]

Even Seo Kyu-chul's whole body and the clothes and artifacts he equipped soaked into the air, leaving only a faint shade at once.

It's not just transparency.

Unique skill that temporarily removes a confined area around its own body from the material system.

"Running away like that is the worst!" ’

I rolled my eyes at him deliberately as if I'd lost sight of him.

‘Even if you leave the dimension, you can see it clearly because of Mana, which is connected to the material system. · · ’

I keep on acting.

In the ether state, the substance can be passed through without resistance to will.

If I infiltrate the ground and run away, I will not be able to keep up with my speed, and even if I use [fluoroscope], I will eventually be out of sight.

But · · ·.

He's on the move!

Seo Kyu-chul flew to me in an ether state.

He didn't give up on me.

‘You can run away like that, but you can't fight. Once you've lost your weapon, we'll find something to replace it with! ’

Let him come to me.

He's in an ether state.

Pa!

I quickly returned a part of my hand to reality.

And he aims at my wrist with his hand wrapped around Mana.

I responded to the attack as if I had discovered it late.

However, the angle of the sword almost misses its target and his attack hits my bone.

Whee!

The sword you lost in your hand flies to the sky.

Seo Kyu-chul will not miss. After reconciliation, he kicks up in the air.

And again, only the hand was returned to the real-world dimension and grabbed the handle of the blade.

My first mate's plan to disarm and take the weapon back into his hands.

But this was also what I was aiming for.

I shouted.

“Now!"

At that moment.

“Ahhhh!”

Seo Kyu-chul fell to the ground with a veil of blood on his forehead, turning his entire body back to reality.

“Rrrrghhhhh! ”

He rolls the ground in agony, but does not hold the sword by his hand.

I know what that means.

[The voice of the sword!]

As soon as it touches the handle of a corpse, the spirit inside it activates the skill.

A rank's brainwashing skill.

Instead of using contracts like before, they will be repeatedly injecting implications, beating their minds with near-violent telepathy.

‘It's like a cold winter reaction exposed to [dominating touch]! ’

If you are already brainwashed and exposed to other brainwashes, there seems to be a severe rejection.

Even if it doesn't last long, it is enough to create this brief gap.

"Snake 3!"

I hold in my hand the artifact that the snake vomits.

One of the SSRank items I got by presenting it to the War Spirit today!

[Dain-Snoo House Slave House Whip (Rank: SS)]

-Item Description: This is the whip of the slave field that the Dain-Snoo family used to manage the gladiator army. To prevent slaves from countering with their swords, the stirring add-on absorbs and consumes the enemy's Mana. Unfortunately, the absorbed Mana will disappear and cannot be stored separately.

As soon as I whipped the polish, I stretched out for a long time and wrapped around Seo Kyu-chul's body.

“Grrrgh!"

The performance of the flogging was demonstrated immediately.

Whew!

I started sucking up Seo Kyu-chul's Mana.

All Mana must be consumed to prevent the Aether furnace from escaping.

‘Spirits and Dil became what they thought they were, so things got easier! ’

Mana from Seo Kyu-chul's core seeps into the whip.

As with the item's description, the blue light sucked out soon crumbles and scatters, as this artifact only evaporates Mana to disable the opponent.

The moment I got rid of Mana in Seo Kyu-chul's core completely.

‘· · This is the first time I've seen it alive. ’

“Grrrgh!"

Seo Kyu-chul collapses and reveals her teeth while her body is tied up.

I saw his core.

Inside the heart, there was not even a single point of mana, the red aura that was ripe with snow.

The Seed!

From now on, I can't be sure what the outcome will be.

‘Hansul and Park Chang-hee destroyed the parasitic seeds after the host's death. ’

But Seo Kyu-chul is still alive.

What will happen to the host if my seed attacks and destroys the living host's seed?

Live or die?

I decided to experiment with it.