Return To Level Up

Chapter 26

[Name: Insoo Myung][Level: 1][Strength: 3, Agility: 3, Stamina: 2, Spirit: 12, Magic: 0.3][Information Extortion (A)]

Kang Ha-jin looked at Myung In-hyuk’s younger brother, Myung In-soo, for a moment with a strange gaze.

[Information Extortion (A)][Access to the system and extract the desired information in return for magic power. The amount of magic required varies depending on the level of information. The standard for the level of information is set by the system.]

Wouldn’t this be better than the peek skill? Of course, it will require a lot of magic power, though.

‘It’s magic, you can solve it with level-up and equipment.’

There are also special potions that increase magic power. If you can make it, you will be able to increase the basic magical power of the mastermind.

‘I can amplify my magic through the title.’

In Kang Ha-jin’s mind, there were infinite ways to raise a mastermind.

‘But… the magic power is 0.3? Is it some absurd number?’

It’s the first time I’ve seen stats expressed in decimal units. Perhaps all other stats are down to the decimal point. But it doesn’t show up in the status window.

It was probably because it was less than 1.

So again I don’t understand. You have a skill that requires a lot of magic power at the same time as you awaken, but your magic power is so low?

That was absurd.

“I think you should tell me why you came and who you are now.”

Myeong In-hyeok was cautious about staring at his younger brother, so he carefully covered Ha-jin Kang’s view.

Ha-jin Kang suddenly came to his senses and cleared her thoughts.

And he stared at Myeong In-hyuk.

“How old are you?”

“Yes? Uh… I’m twenty-two years old.”

I didn’t ask because I didn’t know, but because I needed time to organize my thoughts.

“Your brother?”

“What are you doing?”

Myung Inhyuk tried to put his hand in his pocket. But he couldn’t.

Ha-jin Kang, who was approaching me, grabbed Myung In-hyuk’s hand and pulled the pager out of his pocket.

Hajin Kang glanced at the pager and threw it to one side.

It was a pager, but it was also a locator. It was an object that could be recognized from the other side at once if it was put into a subspace or destroyed.

“It is very comfortable to live as a slave.”

Myung In-hyuk was furious at the word “slave”. However, Myung In-hyuk held back his anger. As I endured it, it became a habit.

“I am not a slave. All the people who wanted me were bad people, so I just have to be careful.”

Myung In-hyuk said so and looked at Kang Ha-jin. His eyes seemed to burn.

Kang Ha-jin saw this and nodded his head. My mind is not dead yet. He was the kind of guy who would run away whenever the opportunity came.

Kang Ha-jin glanced at Myeong In-soo, which Myung In-hyuk was hiding.

‘Perhaps it was that guy.’

According to the investigation conducted by Ha-jin Kang, there was only talk about In-hyeok Myung, but not about In-soo Myung.

‘It could have been dead.’

Kang Ha-jin’s gaze turned to Myung In-hyuk’s hand. A white medicine bag that I still hold tight and haven’t let go.

Surprisingly, it was possible to check what was in the medicine bag with the system. This meant that it had to do with magic in some way.

[Compound Curse Reagent][A reagent that causes both magic suppression and magic passage damage. Because it was manufactured with crude technology, there are many impurities and the performance is poor.]

Kang Ha-jin looked at the medicine bag and Myung In-hyuk alternately with strange eyes. He could see why the magic power was 0.3. Could it be that he was intentionally taking that drug to make his younger brother a bad person?

Myung In-hyuk secretly hid his medicine bag behind him. It felt like Ha-jin Kang was aiming for that.

“Doesn’t it sound like a very expensive drug? Where are you hurting?”

“What do you care?”

Hajin Kang smiled brightly.

“Why did I ask you? I’m here to recruit you The younger brother behind you. Now, can I do anything about it?”

Myung In-hyuk frowned.

“I am not going. I have a reason to be here.”

“Is that a drug?”

“Yes.”

“Isn’t that what you eat?”

“Yeah. My brother is very sick. It can’t be without this drug.”

“And the drug is only available at the company you work for?”

“You know it well. So please come back. I’m not going to watch it. The people down there are really scary people.”

“Well, I’ll check later to see if it’s really scary or not… Do you know that your younger brother has awakened?”

“Yes?”

Myung In-hyuk’s eyes grew as bright as a fire. Awakening, he had never even thought about it.

So he reflexively turned his head to look at Ming Insu.

Myeong-in was also surprised. He shook his head blankly.

‘As expected… if the mana is less than 1, the status window doesn’t seem to work either.’

He learned something new, but he wasn’t feeling very well.

“Don’t lie and go back now.”

“It’s better not to take that drug.”

At those words, Myung In-hyuk looked at Kang Ha-jin with an angry face.

“If you keep eating that, you could die.”

Myung In-hyeok was angry because it was too serious, but he couldn’t act hastily.

“Why should I believe what you said suddenly? I don’t know who it is.”

“Hey, strong. First of all, it’s a healer.”

Myung Inhyuk paused at the word healer. Hope stayed in his eyes for a moment and then disappeared.

It was because he had already confirmed that even a healer could not help his younger brother’s illness.

“And I don’t think your brother is sick. Let’s stay still…”

Ha-jin Kang tried to infer the situation when the Awakened took that drug for a moment.

If you have a lot of magical power, you will immediately feel something strange when you take that medicine. His body aches, and every time he uses a skill, his body aches.

But what if your magic power is low?

‘That was the answer.’

Kang Ha-jin looked at Myung In-soo with confident eyes.

“If you don’t take that medicine, will your body hurt? It’s like being stabbed in the heart with a needle, and it’s like iron powder running around your veins. Right?”

Myung In-soo’s eyes widened. It was accurate.

“Then when you take that medicine, the pain goes away in an instant.”

“No, that’s right!”

“Do you know why?”

Myung In-hyuk did not open his mouth any more. I was just sucked in by Kang Ha-jin’s story and just stared blankly.

“That drug, a drug that suppresses magical power and destroys the magic passage. I don’t know if there is no magic power, but when magic power is generated, it moves through the magic passage, but it is natural that the passage is broken, so it is natural to cause pain. If you take the medicine, the magic power will be suppressed and reduced, and the pain will disappear at the same time.”

Kang Ha-jin’s explanation was somehow plausible, so Myung In-hyuk couldn’t respond.

The guys downstairs were trashy enough to do that.

So, I couldn’t ignore the possibility of Hajin Kang’s words.

As Myung In-hyuk was suffering with a complicated expression, Kang Ha-jin tilted his head.

“Still, it’s a little weird. No matter how much you use that kind of drug, once you’ve awakened, you’d have quite a bit of magical power, but if you take that drug then, it’s definitely weird. As soon as he awakens, he uses too much mana so that his mana engine is not damaged…”

“Ah······!”

Hearing Ha-jin Kang’s words, Myung-in-soo opened his eyes wide and shed tears without knowing it.

He had a guess.

He remembered the reason he became ill in the past.

At that time, Myung In-soo and Myung In-hyeok were in danger of dying. At that time, Insu Myeong longed for the life of himself and his older brother.

At that moment, something popped into my mind, and Myeong In-soo followed suit.

That’s how he survived the crisis, and then Myung In-hyuk was awakened. And Myung In-soo got sick.

Myung Insu was the moment of awakening, and he thought that his magic might have been depleted because he used a skill he couldn’t handle.

“You seem to have a guess?”

Kang Ha-jin, noticing the change in Myung In-soo’s expression and eyes, asked.

Myung In-hyuk looked at his younger brother and Kang Ha-jin alternately. And he finally checked the medicine bag he had in his hand.

Kang Ha-jin looked at Myung In-soo with meaningful eyes.

“How long can you survive without taking medicine?”

Myung In-soo knew what that word meant at once. A look of determination flashed across his face.

“You can survive without eating for the rest of your life.”

Kang Ha-jin chuckled.

“Are you still sick?”

In response to Kang Ha-jin’s question, Master In-su nodded his head. He was terribly sick, but he didn’t show any signs of worrying about his older brother.

“you······!”

Myung-in-hyuk opened his eyes wide and looked at Myung-soo. He told me to talk if it hurts that much. Just thinking about how much pain he must have endured by clenching his teeth made his eyes ache.

Myung In-soo chuckled.

“It’s okay, bro. If hyung is having a hard time because of me, it hurts me more.”

Myung In-hyuk was speechless. He just kept his mouth shut and kept his head down to hide his tears.

Kang Ha-jin said to Myung In-soo.

“Don’t take your medicine and hold on. I think it won’t be very long. Pain is a sign that the magic channel is recovering. It will get worse, but with patience, the pain will lessen.”

The mastermind nodded his head bravely.

“Yeah. I can stand it.”

Myung In-hyuk was still undecided, and looked at Ha-jin Kang and In-soo Myeong with confused eyes.(Read more @ wuxiax.com)

What if Ha-jin Kang is wrong? Then, wouldn’t Myung In-soo die in pain?

Can I trust someone I’ve never seen before so easily?

But when I think of Director Jung, and how vicious garbage he was, he seemed to be able to trust the person he was seeing for the first time.

While Myung In-hyeok was tossed and turned, the conversation between Kang Ha-jin and Myung In-soo continued.

“Are you going to stay here? I can take you somewhere else if you want. It looks like they are blocking the entrance to this building and even monitoring it.”

“Can you? The men guarding here are really scary people.”

Ha-jin Kang caught the subtle fear mixed in the tone of Myeong In-soo.

“Have you ever been threatened?”

With those words, Myung In-hyuk raised his head and looked at Myung In-soo this time. He had sparks in his eyes.

“Threat?”

Master Sue was startled and slapped his hand.

“Oh no, nothing like that. It was just a bit scary.”

But Myung In-hyuk knew right away that it wasn’t. They aren’t the only ones to talk a little scary.

“The fact that those bastards came up here when I wasn’t there is a problem in itself. I was never going to do that.”

He knew that Myung In-hyuk’s leash was his younger brother, but he was a fool who believed that they would have left him alone.

Myung In-hyuk looked at Kang Ha-jin with clear eyes.

“Show me one thing so I can trust you. Because I also want to get out of this garbage den.”

As Myeong In-hyuk said those words, he felt that he really wanted too much.

But he decided that he would do everything he could to serve him, even more so if he could trust this man.

Hajin Kang scratched the back of her head.

“I didn’t even think about it until now, but what should I show you?”

Master Hyuk opened his eyes and picked up the medicine bag.

“This, this drug… How did you know that this drug was bad?”

Kang Ha-jin chuckled.

“Because I can check magic-based item information. It’s my skill.”

“Hey, were you an appraiser? You were definitely a healer earlier…”

“What is the importance of a job? Skill doesn’t matter. There are only a few useful skills.”

Myung In-hyuk, who had been thinking for a while, suddenly took off his shirt.

A handkerchief was tied around his shoulder. This was something no one knew about. Because it was something I found by accident while working.

Ha-jin Kang, seeing this, said at once.

“Oh, are you doing something good? 30% increase in skill effect? It’s a little flawed that my stamina is weak. keep it well If you treat it like that, it won’t last long and will break.”

Myung-in Hyuk broke his waist 90 degrees.

“Thank you!”