Chapter 174
Chapter 174
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>Translator: Ryuma
>Chapter: 51
>Chapter Title: Three Eyes (1)
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Mok Kyung-un smirked as he looked at the eyeball huddled up in agony.
When it had a physical body, it had unleashed such immense demonic power and triggered his wariness. But now, rendered powerless, it could do nothing.
It had been a bit of a gamble, but the venture had succeeded.
If he hadn't dealt with it now, even more troublesome things would have arisen.
In any case, he had uncovered what its true form was, and its power had been nullified. Now, should he just crush it?
*Squish!*
‘Kaaaaahhh!’
Already suffering from the poison, the eyeball sensed its life in peril as Mok Kyung-un pressed down and hastily let out a voice.
-S-Stop!
“Huh? It’s talking?”
Yeo Su-rin stared at the eyeball with wide eyes.
Meanwhile, Mok Kyung-un lifted the eyeball up without any surprise, bringing it level with his own eyes.
He smiled faintly and said,
“You can talk, huh.”
-Kuhhhh. You bastard...
“You haven’t learned your lesson.”
*Squish!*
Mok Kyung-un squeezed his fingers again.
The eyeball urgently shouted at him.
-W-Wait!
“Wait for what? Just die like this.”
*Splat!*
As Mok Kyung-un applied more pressure, black blood spurted out from spots all over the eyeball.
Its attitude changed completely.
-Please spare me.
“What?”
-...Spare me! I’ll grant whatever you want, so let me live.
“Heh.”
Yeo Su-rin’s lips curled up in amusement as she watched the eyeball turn servile.
With a will dwelling within the eyeball itself, this was undoubtedly a monster.
For demonic energy to infuse an eye—essentially a part of a human body—and grant it its own volition.
This was new information, unknown even to what was recorded in the sorcerer world.
At that moment, Mok Kyung-un spoke.
“What can you even offer in that state?”
-Tell me what you desire. I’ll grant anything. If it’s gold and jewels you want, I’ll fill your storehouse. If it’s power, I’ll pull strings to make you an executive in the Heaven-Earth Society. Or if it’s strength you crave, I’ll procure any martial art or spirit medicine you desire.
The eyeball rattled off everything it could offer.
If it could just survive this crisis, opportunities would arise later.
There was no need to cling to pride.
Pride was merely an unnecessary emotion humans possessed anyway.
-Please, just spare my life. Once I grant your wish, I’ll leave far away and never cross paths with you again.
“You sure know how to pick the tempting offers.”
-Just let me live. I’ll keep my promise.
“How did you do that thing earlier?”
-What do you mean?
“You halted all sensations and movements except consciousness. Like time itself had stopped.”
-What?
The eyeball couldn’t hide its bewilderment at Mok Kyung-un’s words.
That was because, when performing the Super Forbidden Sorcery Space-Time Total Deception Reversal Method, only the caster could perceive the flow within that space.
All other lifeforms had time and space itself frozen.
‘What the hell is this guy?’
It didn’t make sense.
To retain consciousness within the Space-Time Total Deception Reversal Method?
This was a forbidden spell of super forbidden sorcery, prohibited even in ancient times when it was said the Immortal Realm had opened.
Though it came with restrictions, no one inside could possess consciousness.
To have awareness in that state...
-...You’re not a living being, are you?
“Rude question to ask someone breathing just fine.”
-No, how can a living human—
“Enough nonsense. How do you perform that spell?”
At Mok Kyung-un’s words, the eyeball fell silent for a moment.
Whatever the case, the priority now was to somehow ingratiate itself and survive.
-You mean the Space-Time Total Deception Reversal Method?
“Oh? So that’s the name of the spell?”
-...Yes.
“I’d like to learn that spell.”
Yeo Su-rin, who had been watching, interjected at Mok Kyung-un’s words.
“What spell?”
“Oh, there’s this thing.”
Mok Kyung-un casually waved her off as if telling her to mind her own business, but Yeo Su-rin approached, linking arms with him.
“Come on. We’ve been through life and death together like comrades. Teach me too.”
*Press!*
She pressed Mok Kyung-un’s arm close between her ample breasts.
She knew it well.
Men were subtly weak to such temptations.
She’d tried it on a few senior brothers, and it had been quite effective.
But,
“What are you doing?”
“...”
What?
This wasn’t the reaction she expected.
Usually, they’d get flustered or pleased.
Did this guy not like this sort of thing?
As she puzzled over it, Mok Kyung-un tilted his head and asked,
“Are you trying to seduce me with your body, by any chance?”
*Flush!*
Her face turned red in an instant.
“N-No! What are you talking about? Who’s seducing you with their body! You’re dirtier-minded than you look. Hmph!”
Yeo Su-rin released the arm link and stepped far back from Mok Kyung-un.
It was utterly embarrassing.
She’d seen plenty of men, but this was the first one to say something like that with such a blank face and eyes, completely unfazed.
She felt even more embarrassed for no reason.
Once she pulled away, Mok Kyung-un turned back to the eyeball.
“If there’s a written manual for that spell, even better.”
-There’s no manual.
“No manual?”
-The Space-Time Total Deception Reversal Method is a super forbidden sorcery composed of 6,638,397 hieroglyphic characters. It can’t be mastered in a short time.
“Hieroglyphs?”
-Yes. It’s made of script predating classical Chinese, and just memorizing and internalizing it takes years.
“Years... That’s a pain.”
-Even transcribing it would take considerable time. If you truly want it, provide a new body, and I can do it. Though it would still require that much time.
Mok Kyung-un smacked his lips at the eyeball’s words.
Memorizing wasn’t an issue for him.
But if transcribing alone took that long, it was effectively a spell he couldn’t learn right away.
Moreover, he couldn’t give a new body to this eyeball, of all things.
“You’re not lying, are you?”
-I swear on my very existence. This is no lie.
“Swear, huh... Well, got any other useful spells?”
-Apart from the corner annex, I have a private office. There are three manuals sealed with the Eight Arrays Formation. They record all the defensive spells and sorceries I’ve collected thus far.
“Nice.”
-Tell me if there’s anything else you want. If you just spare me, I’ll—
Before the eyeball could finish,
A massive shadow of flapping wings appeared in the corner annex where they were.
At the same time, the demon beast Toru appeared, shrunk in size, scraping its front hooves on the floor with a furious expression.
‘He got here fast.’
The eyeball inwardly clicked its tongue.
If he’d arrived just a bit sooner, this mess wouldn’t have happened.
But now it was too late.
One squeeze from Mok Kyung-un’s hand, and it would burst.
-Grrrrraaaah!
-Flutter flutter!
Yeo Su-rin drew talismans and assumed a combat stance amid the overwhelming demonic power from the two demon beasts that shook the surroundings.
“Tch. Forgot about these damned evil spirits.”
Mok Kyung-un glanced indifferently at the demon beasts blocking left and right.
“Yeah.”
“Hey! Eyeball! Order them not to attack, quick!”
‘Eyeball? This wench really...’
The eyeball seethed inwardly at her words but barely held it in and said,
-Toru, Heumwon, stand down.
-Grrrr! Grrrr!
‘!?’
Something was off.
He had commanded the two demon beasts, which could be called his familiars, but the atmosphere was far from normal.
Toru, scraping the floor with its hooves, seemed ready to charge at any moment.
“Hey, eyeball. Did you really give the order?”
-Damn it...
“What’s going on?”
-They’ve slipped control.
“What? What do you mean?”
-Damn it. Shouldn’t have split the bond.
The eyeball was just as baffled by the situation.
When he had first bound the two demon beasts as familiars, he had divided the bond’s dominion between Jo Tae-cheong’s soul and himself.
It had been an experiment to split command authority when commanding familiars, but he hadn’t anticipated this side effect.
-Rooooaaar!
At that moment, Toru charged straight at Mok Kyung-un.
Toru was furious at Mok Kyung-un for taking one of its eyes.
That was when Toru furiously barreled toward Mok Kyung-un.
*Shoooo!*
Toru passed through a portal of smoke that appeared in its path.
“Whoa! It worked!”
Yeo Su-rin had created a door.
-Kroooaaar! Thud!
A crashing sound echoed from beyond the door, followed by a massive boom.
Unable to create long-distance smoke portals without a medium, she had cleverly opened the exit high in the air, far above the fourth floor.
Thanks to that, the demon beast Toru plummeted straight down.
Having succeeded by sheer improvisation, she let out a sigh of relief.
But right then,
-Rooooaaar!
The fallen demon beast Toru roared and leaped back toward the portal with tremendous leg strength.
Startled, she twisted her hand that held the talisman in reverse.
Toru’s horn and head shot out so fast.
“Uwak!”
But,
*Crunch!*
Toru’s head got caught in the closing smoke door and was sliced clean off.
“H-Huh?”
What in the world?
Having never seen anything get stuck in a smoke door before, she was dumbfounded by the absurd outcome.
She had no experience capturing evil spirits of demon beast grade. Was this skill or just luck? She couldn’t tell.
‘Whatever.’
Either way, it was as good as caught by her.
Yeo Su-rin triumphantly turned her head, shouting,
“Hey! I caught Toru—!?”
Her eyes went wide in an instant.
Because somehow, Mok Kyung-un had pinned the body of the demon beast Heumwon—upper body a massive bird, lower body a horse-wasp hybrid—grabbing one of its wings.
‘Ha...’
Was that guy a real monster?
How did he grab a demon beast-grade evil spirit with sheer strength, no spells?
Even as Heumwon flapped its wings furiously, it couldn’t shake off Mok Kyung-un’s grip.
‘...’
She wasn’t the only one shocked.
The eyeball stared at Mok Kyung-un in disbelief too.
Heumwon was a demon beast that was tricky in its own way, even more so than Toru.
Yet before Heumwon could act, Mok Kyung-un had high-speed dashed over, stomped its back, and seized its wing in an instant.
‘He’s far stronger than most martial artists in the Heaven-Earth Society. What the hell is this guy? Never heard of Yeo Su-rin before?’
Even seasoned martial artists struggled against demon beast-grade evil spirits.
Yet this guy was overpowering Heumwon.
Such prowess would put him at the level of upper executives in the Heaven-Earth Society. What was his identity?
Then, holding the demon beast Heumwon, Mok Kyung-un said to the eyeball,
“Got a question.”
-What is it?
“Why’d you put that seal from the Blood River Valley annex there?”
-Seal? What are you talking about?
“That scroll in the wooden box.”
-Scroll? I have no idea what you’re saying.
“...”
Mok Kyung-un’s eyes narrowed at the eyeball’s response.
It didn’t know?
‘Well, this is something.’
He had assumed this eyeball had sealed that monster nine-tailed fox, given it was called Three Eyes.
But the eyeball seemed completely clueless.
Which meant,
‘...It’s not this one.’
This was an entirely unexpected result.
[Chapter 51 Three Eyes (1)] End