69 – Chapter 3. Transformation isn’t just for riders! (6)

Mulberry.

It may be sudden, but when you hear this word, each person will have a variety of fields that come to mind.

– Pong? What? Are you talking about farting?

Someone will think of the sound of ‘ppong’.

Perhaps it was watching popular dramas for fun, or thinking of one of the names of characters with similar names there.

– If you say mulberry, isn’t it a boob? Who did breast manipulation?

Some will think of pads to put on the chest.

Your girlfriend is kicking mulberry, or you will turn on the light in your eyes and try to find the person who manipulated it with the thought, ‘Which character did the breast manipulation?’

-Pongpong is gukppong after all!

Someone will think of Gukbbong, the basis of this light novel novel.

World-famous world-class beings will feel proud and proud that they are Koreans.

– Pong? you got stronger Charge!

Someone will think of a buff.

It is not possible to specifically distinguish whether mulberry is a kind of nerve enhancer or a stimulant, but usually in this situation, receiving mulberry refers to the moment when one’s physical or mental abilities improve.

Like this, the word mulberry is used in so many different places.

Therefore, when each person hears the word mulberry, each person thinks differently, so it is difficult to interpret the meaning of mulberry with just one word.

context is needed

I have experienced gukppong in this world and various things in this world, but there is one mongrel that I do not touch even before and now.

Do you think the mulberry is strange?

Don’t keep messing around?

So, what if we changed it to another word?

‘drug’.

A psychoactive substance called methamphetamine.

It is also used as a medicine, but of course, most of the people who want to use it want to enjoy the pleasure of drugs.

The mulberry I want to talk about is this narcotic substance.

It is also a material for ‘persons with special abilities’, not just for the general public.

If so, questions.

Is it a commonly used drug?

no.

To the general public, it is just an ordinary white powder, but there is a powder-type drug exclusively for people with special powers that shows a greater effect than drugs when inhaled by people with special powers.

The official name is ‘Mana Powder’.

It is a substance that is strictly forbidden even in associations, and when taken with the white powder, it is a substance that causes the improvement of one’s abilities, the amplification of magical power, and the enhancement of mana output.

After taking it, you become addicted to it like a normal drug and cannot do your daily life, and most of those who touched this object became ‘villains’.

Why does something like this exist in this worldview?

At first, everyone didn’t know.

According to the setting, as well as what I researched, it was around 2015 based on this global standard that Mana Powder began to be distributed in earnest in the market.

-Korea is a drug-free country!

It was a time when the word “someone” was often heard on TV and on the Internet saying that someone had administered drugs.

– Breaking news! A-class hero ‘Erectile’ is addicted to drugs targeting people with special abilities and is going on a rampage! Citizens living in Cheongju must evacuate immediately….

An accident happened.

A terrible thing happened, and the world tried to ban mana powder somehow.

In terms of efficacy, even if you don’t become a demon, it’s just a booster and a stimulant that enhances this ability, but there were opinions that it was okay to just use it.

However, the moment the method of making mana powder was spread by a conscientious person, the world fell into a pit of fear and hatred.

-Mana powder is created by using a dead person with special abilities!

-It’s a human bone! What could come out of a dead man’s body as white powder!

-That’s a huge amount of powder!

Ahh.

It is said that relics come out of the Buddha’s body.

Mana powder comes out of the body of the person with this ability.

To be precise, after the person with this ability died, when the bones remaining after cremating him were turned into powder.

In that powder, the mana that the person possessed before death remains in the bones, and as it weathers, the bone powder flies away and is scattered into the world.

what?

Is there any mana left in the ashes?

Then can’t I have that mana?

With the idea that someone had done something extraordinary, new knowledge about people with special abilities was eventually increased.

The remains of the dead become the blood, flesh, and mana of other people with special powers.

That’s mana powder.

In other words.

The only drug allowed to a person with this ability is ‘bone powder’ – bone powder.

After cremating a dead person with special powers, if the shape was maintained, the white bones were pounded with a hammer and ground to make them finer than flour. Bone powder.

And when a person with special abilities dies, Sejong Island is the place where you can quietly dispose of the body without being noticed by anyone.

If the ‘high-ranking people’ of Sejong Island are determined and want to hide it, there is nothing they can’t hide.

Yes.

In the process of this treasure hunt, F-class or E-class talented people who will be weeded out and ‘weeded out’.

Among them, those who have no family, or lack of a back even if they have a family, or those who have low-level abilities who don’t seem to get hurt after touching them.

-Is it all a blessing to be a person with special abilities? Unfortunately, being below E or F is of no use to the world. If, in the case of that case, they die, shouldn’t they use their bodies in a way that helps this country and this world?

yes.

The main character called himself E-class.

I tried to hide my strength, and I almost got eaten by those who wanted to prey on the weak after pretending to be the socially weak.

Due to the attack of the title heroine, Ermina Sternfert.

There was a paper bag in the black bag I found in a public bathroom late at night.

It is believed to have contained bone meal.

A dilemma here.

Mana powder is not yet illegal.

It’s because the process of making it is so bizarre, mana powder is a ‘naturally occurring’ thing from a certain point of view.

It’s just that the process of its occurrence is so sad, pitiful, or shocking.

– Everyone dies.

– There is no order to go.

It is difficult to give specific statistics worldwide, but death is equal to everyone and comes suddenly.

The same goes for talented people.

If there is a person who has made a noble sacrifice by giving his life to save someone, that person’s ashes will be placed in a charnel house and used the moment danger to the continuation of mankind arises.

because he was a hero

By the way.

If someone ‘deliberately’ tries to create mana powder.

What if the person with the ability was turned into mana powder, like forcibly stealing the devil’s seed from a woman who became a devil?

the sleeper

You won’t be able to escape the goblin’s bat.

* * *

After transforming into a goblin in the housekeeper’s room, I went out during the day and headed to the place where the treasure hunt event would take place, avoiding people’s eyes.

To be precise, on the roof of a 10-story high-rise building overlooking the place.

[Everyone gathered in the plaza. welcome.]

plaza.

A white-haired old man in a suit held the microphone at the center of the podium in a plaza as wide as Gwanghwamun Square.

Behind him, a super-large screen showing the old man’s face was shining.

[At the academy, we are always working hard to improve our people’s abilities. This time, as many of you know, it’s a treasure hunt.]

There were already too many people gathered in the plaza where the event was taking place, and most of them were students of the academy, except for the spectators who had fallen over a certain distance.

[From now on, you will be in teams of two, and each of you will have to find the treasure in the designated area. Information about the partner will be transmitted through Taegeuk Watch, and the treasure hunt contest will begin as soon as the information is transmitted. hehehe, are you careful? There are quite a few deaths and disappearances every year.]

He’s talking like a joke, but it doesn’t sound like a joke to me at all.

[…the first place in each district will be given a ‘privilege’. you all know? Like last year, this year’s president also prepared special privileges. Free pass for the midterm exam, prize money, and 5 certificates. This year, we specially issued a public certificate, so we adjusted it so that you can use it whenever you want.]

It seems like a person who thinks about and presents convenience for students every year, but what is it actually like?

[…And this time, the student council prepared an event. This will be announced by the student council president, Yun Yi-sun.]

[Thank you, President. Hello, classmates? In the student council, for your safe treasure hunt, about ‘Goblin’…]

Yoon Yi-sun did not express anything, but explained about the ‘goblin hunting’ as if they were actively involved in the process.

I hear a sound.

Everyone is engrossed in hunting the goblin, shaking their shoulders, saying that they would somehow find the treasure and get a good result, and that if they found the goblin, they would do something with the prize money for the discovery.

[Then, from now on, we will reveal your mate! Everyone, please check Taegeuk Watch!]

Along with the president’s cry, I closely watched the shiny blonde hair in the distance.

Ermina.

The direction in which she strode –

It was Ymir.