Hunt (2)

Awenkal’s mage tower was in pain due to an unexpected department relocation.

Many departments were merged and not a few people were transferred to new departments.

The name of the department is ‘Circle Intensive Research Department’.

The slogan is a department that conducts more in-depth research on circles and magical powers, but looking deeper, it was just a department researching the theories announced by Yujin Kang.

The paradigm of artifacts that will change from now on must be led by the Mage Tower.

It will become the trend of the times, and those who remain in the past will be weeded out.

“A total of 113 people have moved to the department, Master. We will be able to respond sufficiently to new research topics as well as current research.”

“Yes. Good job, Sirion.”

Due to Mason’s whim, his disciple Sirion’s dark circles were increasing day by day.

He let out a light sigh, put the report down, pulled out a letter from his pocket and handed it to Mason.

“What is this?”

“This is a letter from Professor Yujin Kang.”

“Huh? That professor?”

A letter sent by Yujin Kang, is it about theory?

As I hurriedly opened the letter, a longer-than-expected text appeared before my eyes.

Mason’s expression changed strangely as he read the contents.

“The content is very informative.”

The first is the consultation of the multiple mediation theory, which was sought for advice.

And the second was the announcement of a new thesis.

The key points are more of a missing outline, but Mason didn’t particularly care.

This is because the subject of Kang Yoo-jin’s thesis drew great attention.

“The 3 major formulas for magic power?

“Yes. Professor Yujin Kang devised and announced the magical power calculation formula.”

Unlike the existing magic system, a theory consisting of formulas using numbers and symbols.

Therefore, unlike the magic formula, the same value can always be obtained, and the accuracy and delicacy are precise enough to even calculate the magical power of the record.

Although its versatility could not match spells and runes, it was clear that it would be useful for items requiring precise control of magic, such as artifacts and magic circles.

Are you going to publish those three formulas as a thesis?

This is news that cannot be missed. This was an achievement that the Magic Tower had to bring.

“By the way, the last line is a bit bold.”

end of the letter.

Kang Yoo-jin added a postscript that caught the eyes of the two.

-I will entrust this thesis to the person who visits me first.

And some coordinates are enclosed together.

So, there is Yujin Kang in one of these places, and whoever finds him first gets everything.

Perhaps, he sent letters not only to the Mage Tower, but also to other places.

“It’s normal for wizards to do crazy things, but this guy goes a step further.”

“I don’t know about the Mage Tower, but wouldn’t the other side be displeased?”

“No. I’m sure you’ll like it more.”

I have already thrown the bait of the three major formulas.

They promised something that was rated as superior to multiple mediation, but if they didn’t move because they were in a bad mood, they would only be third-rate.

A genius can be arrogant.

Mason foresaw that all the writers who received this letter would set out to find Yujin Kang.

“Okay. Let’s play with that friend’s rhythm this time.”

“Are you okay? Professor Yujin Kang’s arrogance is excessive…”

“It’s not for nothing.”

he immediately went to work.

“I haven’t spent much time with him, but I think I’ve seen enough to get a feel for what he’s like.”

Mason remembered Kang Yoo-jin from the record.

That meticulous yet shrewd person is acting recklessly. It is absurd.

“That kind of person has a purpose and reason for every action.”

“Is that so?”

“Yes. You’ll know when you meet him.”

I picked up the letter and looked at the coordinates stamped on it.

He soon prepared to head for Helios.

*

“Wow. There was a place like this in Helios~”

Academy’s basement.

The road leading to the ‘Old Equipment Warehouse’ gave off a completely different atmosphere from the ground.

It’s dark with no light, and the air is so dry that my throat stings.

In addition, the walls and floors finished with rough stone made me feel as if I was looking at an underground waterway.

The word ‘furniture warehouse’ written on the worn-out signpost only proves the purpose of this place.

“I heard that it hasn’t been written here for over 100 years. I think I know why it hasn’t been written.”

“Uh, can we… come in here…?”

“It’s okay, it’s okay~ I checked, but this place wasn’t among the places I shouldn’t go to!”

Even if it looks like this, they are always on patrol, and the places where they shouldn’t go in the first place are tightly sealed.

Reminding him of that, Ensia soothed Cynthia, who was trembling with anxiety.

Estelle, who followed, looked around, frowning at the dusty air.

“It’s dark.”

“Wait a minute.”

Holy power rose from Encia’s hand, and the bright glow eventually transformed into a spirit.

“Would you lend me some?”

“Huh? Eh.”

When Cynthia called Yongyong outside, Ensia made the summoned spirit dwell in Yongyong’s body.

As the small body emitted a bright light, the area around the aisle instantly lit up.

“Is this holy power?”

“Yes.”

“I’ve heard that angels can use holy power… but this is the first time I’ve seen it myself.”

Since holy power is originally the power of a constellation, humans cannot use it.

However, angelic tribes were an exception, and thanks to their birth close to the stars, they were able to use holy power even in human bodies.

Although, if you do not find the subject of your faith, you will die before reaching adulthood.

“Magpie.”

“yes?”

“Did you find the object of your faith?”

“Um~ should I say I found it, or should I say I didn’t find it?”

Encia tilted her head left and right.

The faith she seeks is the owner of the image dwelling in the winter forest.

I have a feeling that it might be Yujin Kang, but I haven’t found any solid evidence yet.

If you think about it, it would be right to say that I haven’t been able to ask for faith yet.

“Oh no!”

“…You. You’re the same age as us.”

“Yeah. I’m 17 years old. At this rate, I might not be here in two years.”

“·······.”

Ensia’s voice speaking of death was light.

Rather, Cynthia noticed, but Estelle continued to move forward in silence after that.

“You know. I have a question…”

“yes?”

“In fact, you guys also majored in Mathematics based on the professor rather than the subject, right?”

At the sudden question, Cynthia turned to Encia.

“I came in after seeing the professor. I was curious about what that professor did in the past!”

“Professor’s past?”

“Yeah. It seems like there’s a story for some reason, right? I was really curious about that.”

It was only for that reason that I entered the field of Mathematics.

It’s a trivial reason, but that’s why it was even more surprising.

Even though she came in with the midterm exam right around her corner, Encia’s grades were among the top in her department.

“I think you guys are somehow similar to me. What about you?”

“I’m just…”

you are human

That one word led Cynthia to this place.

Kang Yoo-jin was the only person who called himself a human being when he was born.

Those words comforted me so much that I came to Daema Mathematics where Yujin Kang was.

Because Cynthia could have been human in the place where he was.

“I see~ What about Estelle?”

“shut up.”

“Hey. It’s too cold.”

“Focus on the task.”

Estelle reacted very coldly.

After all, is it a noble lady from a prestigious family?

It was a hard answer that made Cynthia shrug her shoulders, but her smile didn’t go unnoticed.

She was still just laughing.

“Yes, yes. Assignments are the most important! Let’s do Saddam later~”

“···huh.”

It’s hard to curse at a smiling face, Estelle didn’t shoot at it any further.

I glanced at Encia and Cynthia, then just turned my head.

Angels with holy power and Demons with demonic energy.

It’s a really odd combination.

Although each other is at the opposite point, it is the same for both of them that it is difficult to live for a long time even if the poles and poles are connected.

A person who is weak and will probably disappear soon.

These are children who are difficult to attach affection to.

“You two. Stop playing and keep chasing Margie.”

“yes···.”

“yes~”

So, again, she leads the way.

Because I am the strongest

I hate taking the lead, but I’m used to it.

Estelle walks the loneliest lead today.

*

A gigantic spirit vein that supports the dimensional intersection.

It is a restricted area with the strongest entry ban in Helios.

The mana is so powerful that even a halfway person’s mana is overcharged and the circle explodes just by getting close to it.

For the sake of safety, only those who are core subject professors or higher are allowed to enter Youngmaek.

“That doesn’t mean you can just come in, though.”

“I’m just following you.”

Behind Skadi, who led the way, Roshua sighed and followed.

He was caught by Skadi who suddenly invaded and was brought to this place.

“I have to do that paperwork…”

“You can finish it quickly and go back.”

“No, where is that nonsense?”

“It’s important, this!”

She held up a map with the courtesy ‘X’ on it.

“Kang Yu-jin, that sneaky person couldn’t have drawn something like this for nothing.”

“·······.”

In fact, Roshua felt that too.

Kang Yoo-jin is a meticulous person who has intentions in every little action.

The reason why he drew the place like this must be because of that.

“Ugh… It’s really no joke here.”

My heart thumped because of the raging torrent of magical power.

At least, he was enduring against Skadi and Roshuagi, but if it was someone else, his heart would have exploded as soon as he arrived.

“It’s near here…”

“There’s something over there.”

Upon reaching the marked spot, Roshua discovered something.

“Box?”

It was a small chest the size of a soccer ball.

When I opened it, the dark color was somehow ominous, and inside it was filled with marbles called ‘magic bombs’.

“Huh? Eh, why is this here…?”

“indeed···.”

Roshua picked up the marble and looked up.

A huge flow of spirit veins covering the field of vision.

If this marble explodes, the surrounding area will turn into a land of death as the spirit vein is contaminated with demonic energy.

“I don’t know who it is, but it seems like someone has a lot of grudge against Helios.”

“Then, the points indicated here are…”

“It must be the place where these boxes are placed.”

The marked points are all places where the huge stem of the spirit vein flows.

If all of these places are contaminated, Helios and the entire dimensional junction will be covered with demonic energy.

“…they must be the ones who cheated on the midterm exams.”

“Yes. I think the same.”

The culprit is roughly guessed.

Skadi’s only question was, how did they finish the preparations so quickly?

It wouldn’t have been easy to manufacture a bomb like this, or to go in and out of the spirit vein.

“It’s not fast. Rather, it must have been prepared a long time ago.”

“A long time ago?”

“Yes. Helios had many enemies from before.”

The enemies of Helios are not only monsters.

There are many people like him who want to destroy Helios.

Survivors of a destroyed world, or those who sold their souls to demon beasts for personal gain.

They have been secretly in Helios for a long time, and it must have continued to this day.

“Has it been that long?”

“Yes… as long as humans are humans, they will never disappear.”

Unlike witches who obey the ‘group’, humans serve individual desires.

Witchbeasts are well aware of this aspect of humans, so their main method of attack is to dig into the weak parts of the human mind.

That’s how they corrupt them little by little, and make their seeds grow among humans.

Demons are born that way, and that is why they are dangerous.

In the end, their secrecy tricked even the Constellation’s eyes, and it reached the point where they penetrated deep into Helios.

“I didn’t expect it to go this far. Unexpected.”

“Kang Yu-jin… you know that person.”

“Yes. I don’t know how, but he always sees far ahead.”

There is no point in worrying about Kang Yu-jin’s method.

I must have found this in a way I never thought of anyway.

All they can do is quickly dismantle these marbles.

“I know how to do it. Deconstruction.”

“This? How?”

“Because I was once of the same kind as them. I can dismantle them.”

Roshua rolled up her wrist and showed a mark with an X on it.

mark of the witch.

It was a mark engraved on the body by demons.

“OMG.”

“It’s in the past, and now I’ve been purified and I’m a normal human. Looking at it with those eyes hurts!”

“Is this why you do all the chores every day?”

“Yes…Unfortunately…”

Helios accepted because he repented of his sins and had excellent skills, but his past history doesn’t go anywhere.

He swallowed the tears and burned the bombs in one fell swoop.

“Does Professor Yujin Kang know that?”

“Perhaps you know.”

“Did you tell me?”

“No. But he is the Most Holy Heaven’s Apostle.”

The Empress of the Constellation is behind her, and she should be able to access the necessary information at any time.

It was even more strange that someone like Kang Yoo-jin did not know Roshua’s true identity.

“Looking at the map, it seems that Professor Skadi had all of his intentions for visiting me.”

“Huh? Me? How?”

“It’s a little harsh to say this, but I’m a neighborhood drum among professors, and Professor Skadi goes in and out of Professor Yujin Kang’s office as if he were eating a meal.”

It’s a normal practice.

Kang Yoo-jin, who had good observation skills, would have been nothing to predict such behavior.

“What is that? I could have just asked for help.”

Roshua looked at Skadi, who was suffering from heartache, with an awkward smile.

Because he seemed to know why Kang Yoo-jin did that.

Verbal requests inevitably lengthen the story.

You have to be persuaded, you have to give orders, and it’s hard to expect an active response.

‘Sometimes, planting a little suspicion is better than a hundred words.’

Because doubt is one of the biggest driving forces that move people.

Witches used this to antagonize each other, but Kang Yoo-jin was someone who knew how to use it in a brighter way.

Indeed, his wiles were always admirable.

“There are 12 left. Let’s do our best, Professor Roshua.”

“It’s overtime today too…”

Behind Skadi, who led the way, Roshua followed with a drooping shoulder.

*

thump- thump-

“…He found this place.”

one man said.

As if the seclusion had come to an end, the violent shaking of the ground had reached the door.

“You lasted a long time against that professor.”

“···yes.”

The woman in the robe spoke, and the rest answered.

bang!

Before long, the steel door was ripped open, revealing the hunter.

A shabby coat and a tucked-in hat.

Yujin Kang hardened her eyes coldly as she looked at the demons gathered in one place.

“Here you are.”

The light did not illuminate.

The pitch-black darkness was so dark that he couldn’t even see his own hands, but Kang Yoo-jin’s eyes were focused precisely on his enemies.

“Welcome. Reaper preparing.”

“·······.”

“You are alone too.”

Quit-quick.

Laughter pours out all around.

“Even if they kill us all, the plan continues.”

Even if they die, the timer runs.

When the demonic energy is finished warming up, the bomb will detonate on its own, and the spirit vein will be stained with demonic energy.

“You lost.”

“·······.”

There is no time to persuade and move Helios.

They expected Kang Yu-jin to find this place, and they moved the plan ahead of schedule.

It was necessary to extract and refine all the demonic spirits of the same race, but the number was sufficient.

I died around 30, so the amount was just right.

yes. It’s thirty.

In Helios, which was considered absolutely safe from the Witchbeast, there were more than thirty demons.

This is the magic power.

No matter how strong a wall is built, as long as humans are human beings, they dig into the gaps in their hearts and eventually make the walls collapse on their own.

Humans can never defeat the Witchbeast.

Because they are on top of the human head.

That was the common conclusion shared by all demons and demons.

“How does it feel to lose for the first time?”

“Hmm···.”

Kang Yoo-jin, for some reason, was not taken aback.

“Two things. I need to correct something.”

“What···?”

“First of all, I’m not the first to lose. It’s the bitter cup of defeat. I drank it until I got tired of it.”

The revolver’s chamber rotates.

A pair of two-ringed revolvers engulfed in blue flames and burned.

“Secondly, I’m not particularly late.”

At that time, a red light came on the watch the demons were wearing.

Helios’ basement and the spirit vein that planted the bomb.

Adverse reactions followed in both places.

“It’s just your standard that it’s impossible to move Helios.”

“What have you done!”

“He recites commonplace lines.”

so much-

Grim Reaper holding a blue flame walked in the darkness.

“How do you think I developed the skill of mind control?”

“What are you talking about now…”

“That’s because I’m better at the workings of the mind and psychology than anyone else.”

thinking and acting.

He investigated in detail how mind and consciousness affect the two.

When he first became a Hunter.

The reason why humans who had neither magical powers nor supernatural powers were able to hunt witch beasts.

It was possible because he was unmatched in using the subject’s mind and psychology.

“I know how to see through people more fundamentally.”

craving. curiosity. suspicion.

The biggest motivators that move people.

Sometimes they are more powerful than ten words of explanation and a hundred words of persuasion.

And that speed is faster than the witch beasts corrupting humans.

Yujin Kang’s eyes saw them.

“Do you guys still think you’re on top of human heads?”