14 – Redefining human relationships (1)

I had a dream.

Today, as always, Lee Hyun-seong’s memories were incorporated.

“…my head hurts.”

I don’t think I’ve had a good night’s sleep since I was possessed.

succession of memories.

Lee Hyeon-seong’s life flows through his dreams.

If that’s all there is to it, there won’t be any problem…

“Emotions are sent to me needlessly and it’s a mess.”

It also comes with emotions from the past that Lee Hyun-seong felt.

I don’t need any of this.

Well, let’s consider it fortunate that we didn’t even learn our personality.

“But this is possession… is it?”

I feel it sometimes

Maybe it wasn’t simply possessed, but that I or Lee Young-woong were overlaid on the existing Lee Hyun-seong?

Oh, by the way, Lee Young-woong is my original name.

Anyway, to put it simply.

I wonder if I, who was Lee Young-woong, did not steal Lee Hyun-seong’s body, but rather that the two souls were fused together.

“That is a credible guess. Except for his personality, all the memories and emotions he felt flowed through him.”

Hyunseong Lee is Youngwoong Lee.

Lee Young-woong is Lee Hyun-seong.

Neither was wrong now.

It’s because I’m assimilated into the character Lee Hyun-seong.

I went into the bathroom, squeezed some toothpaste on my toothbrush, and looked in the mirror.

It has a strangely identical appearance to my original face.

The image of meekness has disappeared and the face has become extremely ferocious, but the basic frame is a face that has taken out the original me.

“Maybe Lee Hyun-seong was me in a parallel world.”

with sleepy eyes.

I put the toothbrush in my mouth roughly and add a plausible guess.

Well.

“I don’t know. What does that matter?”

I fell asleep after doing some trivial reasoning in the morning.

I decided to stop unnecessary thoughts.

“Let’s go, Kaebi.”

─Kei!

I rinsed my mouth with water, put on moderately comfortable clothes, and left the dormitory.

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There are two ways to increase stats.

You get it as a reward in a dungeon.

Or overuse your body to its limit.

Of course, each method has its pros and cons.

The former has the advantage of being able to raise stats in a short period of time, but has the disadvantage that you have to risk your life and that the luck factor is heavily involved. Because the reward of the dungeon is not fixed.

On the other hand, the latter has the advantage that you don’t have to risk your life, and you can achieve it if you just keep working hard. Even if you train ignorantly, your ability naturally rises.

As for the downside…

Of course, that takes a long time.

I’m not going to look at the explorer community.

You can get stats as rewards in dungeons, but why train so hard? There were a lot of explorers who said the same thing.

What a stupid idea.

Training is not given as an option.

If you are a seeker, it is just a virtue that you must have.

If one small ability level raised through training increases the probability of survival by even 1 percent when entering a dungeon, I can confidently claim this. Continuous training is an indispensable element. That little ability alone could decide life or death in a dungeon.

“Heo-eok, hee-eok…”

─Kei.

By the way

I wonder if Lee Hyun-seong in the past wasn’t really an asshole.

“little bit more···.”

─Kei.

I don’t even explore dungeons.

don’t train

Until he decided to pursue his career as an explorer.

“Lee Hyun -sung is a shit. I’m going to die of heat every morning!!”

─Keii!

Please, I hope that the inference that Lee Hyun-seong is a country in a parallel world is wrong. Because I don’t want to accept the fact that that guy was me from another world line.

How can your body be so messed up?

I feel it every day, but I can’t shake the thought that even an eighty-year-old grandfather would have better stamina than this.

It’s a waste to say that it’s low-quality stamina.

this is just nasty

I have to bow my head and apologize to the word ‘stamina’.

“I can’t run anymore…”

─Kei.

I laid down, leaving my exhausted body on the cold floor.

It’s about an hour after coming out in a laggy outfit.

After circling the academy grounds, my body no longer has strength.

“…But the first day was limited to 30 minutes, but it has increased.”

─Kei!

I was lying on my back and catching my breath, when a familiar figure approached me without warning and placed a can of soda by my head and sat down on the floor.

“Even though it’s the weekend, you work hard from dawn.”

─Kei?

I checked my upper body to see who it was, and I saw a ferocious man with skinhead hair.

“Instructor?”

“You may lie down.”

“no. I was just about to get up.”

Instructor Tak Jae-hwan, who is in charge of the first year.

He was a man who competed with Baek So-ah for dominance at the academy with a stern face.

If it’s my face, it’s new hair’s sebum.

“It’s great to see how hard you work these days. Even if it’s hard, don’t give up and keep going like this. Effort never betrays.”

“Ah yes···. Thank you for those kind words.”

“Well. Above all, it is very desirable to train your physical strength even though you are a summoner. Summoners these days are all lazy.”

···How long ago would I have been like that?

For some reason, Instructor Tak Jae-hwan’s eyes seemed to twinkle. Wasn’t this person interested in me?

When I moved my gaze because of something burdensome, a can of soda that Instructor Tak Jae-hwan had put down came into view.

You gave me this to drink?

After all, even though he has a fearsome face, he is a warm person on the inside.

He didn’t hesitate, took the drink as it was, removed the lid from the can, and gulped it in.

“No, that’s mine…”

“Puha! Yes? What did you say?”

“Ah, no… Drink.”

nice! It’s sweet!

It was sweet because it was a drink with real honey added, not a metaphor.

“Hmmm! Anyway, monsters… No, you seem to have a very close relationship with your summoned beast. As long as we can train together.”

“Because it’s important for a summoner to have a deep connection with their summoner.”

“That is correct. After I stopped drinking, I became a completely different person.”

Instructor Tak Jae-hwan’s lips drew an arc.

It’s scary how you smile.

“By the way, Instructor, why did you come to the academy on the weekend?”

“There is a lot of work left. I can’t relax even on weekends.”

“It’s overtime… You are suffering.”

“What is the job of being an academy instructor?”

When I turned my head and looked at Instructor Tak Jae-hwan, he was staring at my face.

Did you stay that way the whole time we were talking?

I can’t help but feel very burdened.

“It’s just an extension of that job. Lee Hyun-seong The information about your occupation is very poor. Do you have any other information? Except for the recent update, everything is just pointless information.”

“I tried to write and submit a detailed document separately.”

“is it? Then please.”

I’m surprised

The academy is finally showing interest in me.

It seems that the impact during sparring was quite large.

To put it bluntly, Lee Hyeon-seong in the past didn’t particularly hide information.

I just didn’t know anything about it.

“Instructor. By the way, are you still in the teachers’ office today?”

“Maybe it will stay until evening.”

“Then, it won’t take long to fill out the document, so I’ll bring it to you in the afternoon.”

“Well. If you do, I will be grateful. If I am away, I can tell Professor Choo Min-guk. Does the professor go to work every weekend?”

Professors and instructors seem to have no such thing as a weekend.

I had a vague idea of becoming an academy professor or instructor when I retired as a searcher in the future, but that thought was quickly withdrawn.

“All right. Then I first…”

Now that my body has recovered to some extent, I was about to go back to the dormitory.

“ah. But can’t you hear even brief information in advance? I have a few personal questions.”

Instructor Tak Jae-hwan seemed to have no intention of letting me go.

In the novel, he was a person who only showed interest in Han Seok-ho, who was a hard worker. Instructor Tak Jae-hwan seems to have taken an interest in me now, as if I looked like a hard worker.

I’m not particularly hard-working…

Maybe it’s because I was so lazy before, even if I show a little bit of contrast, I feel that way.

His attention was burdensome, but I didn’t hate it.

Rather, it is better to be friendly.

Instructor Tak Jae-hwan has more than 10 privately owned dungeons.

Building owner above the creator.

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Just as there is a saying “dungeon owner” above the building owner.

His wealth is beyond imagination.

In fact, I am not interested in wealth.

Only the dungeon he owned was my interest.

If it’s an acquaintance’s dungeon, you won’t have to buy a ticket like the dungeon owned by the Association, or you won’t have to pay 70% of the fee for magic stones and items, and you won’t have to worry about people bursting into the dungeon and wandering around all day trying to catch a monster.

I can’t go to the north, where there are many unowned dungeons, just because I don’t like the dungeons owned by the association, which are no different from gangsters.

There are ways to aim for dungeons owned by guilds and join guilds, but…

In my current situation, it is difficult to enter even a small guild. This is because it was only three months ago that he was expelled from the guild he originally belonged to after showing rudeness in the ranking match before entering school. At that time, the association and various guild officials must have seen Lee Hyun-seong’s poor skills, so word of mouth must have flowed to other guilds that did not attend.

It was fortunate that the first ranking match was not recorded separately. Because there is no clear evidence left that I am a crap.

well anyway

The main point is that I will not do hogu kicking away the giyeon that has rolled into my feet.

This is what happened today, let’s just build up a good impression.

If you build a friendly relationship with Instructor Tak Jae-hwan and your intimacy increases, you can call him privately when you clean your own dungeon, just like he did with Han Seok-ho in the play.

So I accepted without hesitation.

When he said that he could ask anything, Instructor Tak Jae-hwan started pouring out questions he had been curious about as a monster summoner.

The question and answer period lasted quite a while.

I started by asking whether monster fragments could be obtained from all monsters.

“Shards can only be obtained from 1-star monsters.”

A question about kkaebi.

“Yeah. Kkaebi is the name I gave it, and it is a species called ilgak dwarf.”

The question is, are the evolutionary paths of dwarves and goblins the same?

“I don’t know because I’ve never gotten a goblin fragment. It doesn’t appear in Korean dungeons.”

Since you are talking about the synthesis of fragments, questions about how the synthesis proceeds and what types of monsters can be synthesized exist.

“I haven’t done any synthesis yet. My guess is that if you get a goblin fragment, you might be able to combine it with a dwarf fragment.”

A question about whether you can get fragments of a variant called Naimd.

“I don’t know because I’ve never caught a variant.”

Finally, even the question of how many stars can be evolved.

“How many stars can you evolve? Well. It’s hard to give a definite answer. First of all, I’m sure it’s up to 3.5 stars, but I don’t know about 4 stars yet.”

As far as I know, I answered with sincerity.

The last question was a bit vague to give a definite answer.

Among the evolutionary list of kkaebi.

The 3-star monster, the ‘Bicorn Dwarf’, was not in its final form.

Even so, it was impossible to guarantee that a two-legged dwarf could evolve into a 4-star. I saw that there was only a 2.5-adult clone golem in the list of evolutions for the 2-star Clay Golem.

Perhaps the end was a key question, Instructor Tak Jae-hwan had a slightly embarrassed expression. He seemed to think about something for a moment, then opened his mouth.

“From 2 stars, you said you need not only magic stones but also experience points, right?”

“Yeah.”

“How about next week or so together in my own dungeon to gain experience, collect fragments and magic stones, and check out various routes? The dungeon cleaning schedule entrusted to the company can be left blank.”

···Yes?

You mean you’re going to let me use your own dungeon for free right now? I didn’t expect to achieve my goal so quickly…

“You can refuse if you are busy.”

what is rejection

It’s not that I was shot in the head.

I decided to accept it before changing my mind.

“I am not busy! I’m going to the dungeon!”

“hahahaha, you are full of passion. OK then next week or so is it okay? I’ll let you match the day.”

“I can do it anytime. If you call me, I can run right away, even in the middle of class.”

“No, during class… Well, does that mean there’s that much enthusiasm? That’s fine, I’ll set the day and let you know.”

Until yesterday, an unexpected growth route was pierced.

I’ll eat the free dungeon well.