Chapter 164

Woohwang Guild Headquarters Master Room.

“What? Is that friend coming to our office building?”

“yes.”

“What did you do without informing me right away?”

“Well, it is said that he handed one elixir to Lim Rang, the head of the emergency team, and then turned around.”

“Elixir?”

“Yes, I think I gave it to Lim and the team leader because I wanted to make a request directly to our ‘Pagoda Research Center’.”

“… It is an elixir.”

Choi Deok-ho listened to the chief of staff’s report and naturally rested his chin.

I don’t know what it is, but if it’s to the extent of requesting the elixir directly to the ‘Pagoda Lab’… .

‘It must be a very important elixir. Stay still. It’s not the time for me to be like this.’

Deokho Choi was curious.

It seemed that he had to check with his own two eyes to solve the clue to this question.

Eventually, after putting on the coat hanging on the wall, he left the master room and immediately headed to the ‘Pagoda Lab’ on the basement floor.

***

Woohwang Guild Headquarters ‘Pagoda Lab’.

Even within the Woohwang Guild, which is called a traditional guild, the ‘Pagoda Research Institute’ had a reputation as the most specialized research institute in the domestic elixir development business.

As well as world famous overseas guilds.

Even in multinational corporations related to overseas elixir manufacturing, the ‘Pagoda Research Center”s experimental spirit and development ability have already been recognized and trusted, so it is famous for its annual investment of more than 3 trillion won.

“Director, I just got a call from the secretary’s office. Master says that he will visit here soon!” “What? Master? What are you doing here for?”

“I haven’t heard anything in detail, and I’m not sure why, as it’s just been delivered to me. Isn’t it because of the agenda of the awakening stimulant that went into the development of Shin Young Yak this time?”

“Awakening stimulant has already been adopted as a project agenda in the first half of next year, so there shouldn’t be anything you want to hear right now, right?”

“Then what?”

“Hmm, if you come, we should talk to you directly. First of all, we have to greet Master, so let’s get ready.”

“yes!”

Kim Han-gi, the general manager and director of the ‘Pagoda Research Institute’, hurriedly took off his medical gloves and threw them away.

Usually, if Master Deokho Choi visits the research center here, it is within three fingers throughout the year.

It was quite unusual to visit in a situation where the end of the year was not far away.

Eventually, by the time I was fully prepared to greet him.

The lab’s automatic door opened slowly.

Swoop-

“Are you here? Master!”

“It’s been a while, Major General Kim. Is there anything special?”

“Oh, no big deal. I say no.”

“Chief Kim, even if something extraordinary happens, you don’t see it as a big deal, so it feels like nothing special.”

“Why does Master seem to nag more and more every time he comes to the lab?”

“Could that be? hahahaha.”

Choi Deok-ho’s boisterous laughter resonated throughout the laboratory.

Before long, Deokho Choi began to look around the laboratory slowly.

“It’s new every time I come here. Should I say it feels like going to and from another laboratory? I think it’s about time I got used to it, but every time I come, it’s a new world.”

“I will take it with good intentions.”

“Of course you mean well, man. by the way.”

“… yes please tell me Master.”

Choi Deok-ho whispered in Director Kim’s ear.

“Let’s move to a quiet place first.”

Director Kim noticed that it was not something to talk about here.

He pointed to the director’s office and guided the Master.

“Let’s go to the warden’s office.”

Soon, Master and Director Kim head to the Director’s Office.

Upon entering the quiet director’s office, Choi Deok-ho brought up the main topic.

“I heard that an elixir came in as a request this morning.”

“Elixir? Well… Wait.”

Director Kim immediately checked the recent elixir requests on the tablet PC.

As usual, dozens to hundreds of elixir requests come in.

The elixir request data was always being updated in real time.

Has it been like 10 minutes?

As of today, the total number of elixir requests received so far is five.

I immediately checked the list and started showing it to Choi Deok-ho.

“Hmm… .”

In the midst of closely examining the number of elixir requests.

Choi Deok-ho only had one elixir request in his eyes.

“Virus-type cure elixir?”

Moreover, the person who requested this elixir was none other than Lim Rang of the Woohwang Guild Emergency Team.

Choi Deok-ho, who contacted Lim Rang, who immediately called the emergency team and requested the elixir, spit out several questions.

“Seeing here, you entrusted the elixir request this morning, right? Is it true?”

-That’s right, but since I was asked to do so, I delivered it to the research center.

“Request? Whose request is it?”

-That’s what I got from Cha Min-joon, a trainee at the Xenix Academy.

“… Cha Min-joon?”

-yes. I don’t know if they manufactured it themselves, but seeing as they requested a sample confirmation, I thought that the finished product might also be stored separately.

“Hmm, I understand first.”

To-to-

After a short phone call with Im Rang, Choi Deok-ho looked at Director Kim as soon as he put the receiver down.

“When can we see the test results for this elixir?”

“Wait! Well… We should be able to check it out by tomorrow morning at the latest. If only certain narcotic substances are not detected, it won’t take too long.”

“As soon as the results come out, report them to me immediately.”

“… Oh, I see.”

Several speculations suddenly began to fly in Choi Deok-ho’s head.

‘Could it be because of Jeong Do-yu? It can’t be.’

‘Even if it’s true… Why?’

‘What’s your relationship with Jeong Do-yu?’

‘At this timing, request a virus-type healing elixir… .’

Like biting tail on tail.

Choi Deok-ho was filled with curiosity about Min-joon.

***

next day.

Unlike usual, ‘Pagoda Lab’ was busy from the morning.

“How was the result of the request that Master asked about yesterday?”

“Yes, warden! The test results just came out. We will send the data right away.”

“okay.”

Director Kim immediately checked the results of the drug test requested by Min-jun.

“this! This?!”

The result of the test for the elixir request was shocking because it was quite surprising.

Magical power, which accounted for more than 80% of the components of the elixir, was detected, but the detected magical power was by no means ordinary.

“What are all these magical powers?”

For Director Kim, who has studied countless elixirs, it was a magic ingredient that he had never seen before.

Unlike the mana that is often detected among hunters.

The color of the magic power in this elixir was not only darker, but the more I looked at it, the more difficult it was.

“First of all, I need to inform Master-sama of the test results!”

Director Kim hurriedly entered the director’s office and called the master’s room.

“The result of the elixir request that Master has been waiting for has arrived. We would like you to visit our laboratory as soon as you confirm the call.”

Has it been about 5 minutes since Director Kim called Choi Deok-ho?

just as expected?

Deokho Choi went straight to the ‘Pagoda Research Center’.

“Yes, Director Kim. The results came out?”

“Yes, but this elixir differs from other elixirs in that it contains more than 80% of unique magic components.”

“Well… I thought it wouldn’t be ordinary, but it has quite a lot of magical properties.”

“by the way… That’s not the point. Master.”

Director Kim began to explain the elixir in detail.

“Of course, this elixir you requested is a small sample, but there were parts that were quite suspicious. That’s what the role of ‘non-awakening suppression’ is… .”

non-awakening.

As a hunter, there are many cases in which there is an infinite awakening due to some trigger, but on the contrary, it refers to the case of awakening despite not wanting it.

Usually these non-awakenings are not normal awakenings.

It is called non-awakening, and today it is also referred to as mutation hunter.

This is because it usually awakens as a virus-type hunter.

A cure for non-awakening hunters has not yet been developed.

However, the current elixir held by Director Kim could be regarded as a highly credible elixir.

“The magic detected in the elixir is absolutely not the magic that other hunters possess. Even as a person who has handled and seen numerous elixirs for decades, I have never seen a case where such magic was detected.”

Choi Deok-ho, who listened intently to Director Kim’s words, felt a flash of light.

‘Non-awakening? then… … ‘

He was the one who reminded me of Jeong Do-yu for a moment. Although it is still only speculation.

He was certain that it would not be the figure of Jeong Do-yu he had originally known.

It’s been a week since she fell asleep.

Ever since I found out that she went into hiding, I’ve thought hundreds of times whether it’s really the right decision to expel her, but… .

The uneasy feeling he felt after the Guild Wars was Choi Deok-ho, who never washed away.

‘Hmm, is it just a coincidence?’

Of course, there is no way to know what the efficacy of this elixir that Minjun requested yesterday will be.

Rather, it was Choi Deok-ho who was more concerned than that.

‘Magic eye!’

Choi Deok-ho was curious about the nature of the specific magic power that accounts for 80% of the components of the elixir that Director Kim mentioned.

Eventually, without hesitation, he opened the ‘Magic Eye’ that could analyze the nature of magical power.

‘Hmm, indeed… .’

The quantity of the elixir sample was very small.

Despite opening the ‘magic eye’, he took a considerable amount of time to analyze the nature of magic.

‘Should I load a little more?’

The ‘Magical Eye’, which could be analyzed by using only 5% of the normal magical power.

However, is it because it contains a certain magical component?

Choi Deok-ho gathered a little more of the mana distributed inside him and moved it to the iris.

When he gathered 10% more of the strength of his magical power and opened the ‘Magic Eye’, he was finally able to see the nature of the magical power contained in the elixir.

However, Choi Deok-ho’s eyes suddenly widened as he grasped the nature of magical power.

‘This, this!’