Chapter 112
Chapter 112
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Translator: Ryuma
Chapter: 112
Chapter Title: Magic Genius with Korean Patch
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The day after his meeting with Jeon.
Katrina left the White Magic Tower without any lingering attachment.
The princess, who had seemed like she would stay indefinitely, departed so suddenly that the once-bustling White Magic Tower was now filled with a strange mix of tranquility and emptiness.
"......Why did she leave?"
"Yeah, it seemed like she was going to stay a lot longer......"
Amid the rumors swirling among those who didn't know why Katrina had come or gone.
The man responsible for seeing her off, Jeon, immediately shut himself in his lodging.
"I'm really going to rest now, so no one come looking for me."
He had openly declared to those around him that he was going to rest.
After the intense ordeal with Katrina, he looked utterly exhausted, so even Lena couldn't bring herself to pester him about teaching her the Imperial Language.
"How long has it been since I had a proper rest like this—free time?"
After sleeping in luxuriously, Jeon opened his eyes in his lodging and stretched as he got up.
After Katrina left and he declared his rest.
For two straight days, he just ate and slept repeatedly.
This was because his mind had been so cluttered lately that he felt the need to empty it out completely, without thinking about anything.
"Have I grown even taller?"
It hadn't been that long since he ate the Hyeon Eunsam and shot up in height.
Jeon could feel that his eye level had risen even more.
For proof, the pajamas he had received in the mountain village where the Silvermont mages stayed—sized roughly to fit him—were already short in the sleeves.
"I wonder how tall I'll get?"
If you ignored his still-youthful face and just looked at his height and build, he could pass for a young man anywhere.
Moreover, his secondary sexual characteristics were kicking in properly now, with beard and body hair starting to grow in earnest.
At this rate, he might aim for 180cm—no, maybe even 190cm.
"The air's going to feel different."
His height was already about the same as in his previous life.
Imagining how much taller he would grow, Jeon got out of bed.
His morning routine started with washing up thoroughly and eating a proper breakfast.
Up to here, it was exactly the same as yesterday.
But unlike yesterday, when he had lounged around endlessly afterward, today Jeon sat down on the floor of his lodging in a cross-legged position.
Time to organize everything I've gained.
Jeon had set aside his complicated thoughts for the past two days and holed up in his room to rest.
Thanks to that, he could now approach what he had obtained with a much calmer mindset than before.
So the first thing Jeon did was prioritize what he had gained, in order of importance.
My body's grown, and the amount of mana I can hold has increased too... but the most important is the Mysteries.
It was the power whose quantity he could wield that had increased the most dramatically, and it was also the one with the highest utility.
Let me recall that sensation.
Sitting on the floor, Jeon gently closed his eyes and recalled his battle with Khan.
In truth, during the fight with Khan, Jeon hadn't used the Mysteries through precise calculation or prediction.
He had followed his instincts moment to moment, so even he was puzzled about how exactly he had wielded the power.
To fully recapture that sensation, Jeon focused intently.
The first thing he recalled was right after eating the Hyeon Eunsam—the feeling of using two Mysteries simultaneously for the first time.
He drew up the two dormant Mysteries within his inner world.
The two forces, which seemed utterly incompatible, blended naturally and circulated once through his body.
Flicker.
When Jeon opened his eyes, purple light shimmered from his right side, and golden light from his left.
What a truly wondrous experience.
The scenery before him was the familiar sight of his lodging, but with the two Mysteries, it felt like an entirely new world.
With the golden Mystery that pierced through mana added to the purple one that affected the mental world.
The properties of the visible mana came into even sharper focus.
So that's how it looks.
During the battle with Khan, the urgency had prevented detailed observation.
Now, he could grasp it clearly.
Combining the golden and purple Mysteries not only revealed mana flows but also let him instantly spot the mana he could effectively dominate among what he saw.
Back then, those black soldiers looked just like this.
Even in the fight with Khan, he had clearly seen that the mana bestowed on the black soldiers was dominatable.
And Jeon had followed that, dominating the mana granted to the black soldiers.
As a result, he could easily invade their mental worlds through the dominated mana and seize control from Khan.
It was similar now.
Among the mana in the room, the kind he could dominate immediately became his with just a thought.
And I can use it on top of my own mana.
It seemed possible to boost spell output by dominating external mana alongside his own reserves.
Turning neutral mana into his own with mere thought.
Depending on how he used it later, he might even dominate mana he couldn't currently control—or even mana wielded by opponents.
And on top of that, I can deploy a mana field here.
With the thought, a blend of golden and purple mana began emanating from Jeon's body.
The mana, which seeped out slowly at first, soon spread rapidly, filling the entire room where he stayed.
"Whoa."
Seeing his mana fill the room, Jeon let out a small exclamation.
In the urgent battle with Khan, he hadn't paid close attention.
The extended mana felt like an extension of himself.
I can feel everything.
Everything in the mana field space felt as tangible as if touching his skin.
The bed, pillow, blanket, desk, chair—even the dust on the floor.
Jeon shivered lightly at the chillingly precise sensations.
And that wasn't all.
He could cast magic anywhere the sensations reached.
Crackle-crackle-!
Small bolts of lightning sparked throughout the room at Jeon's will.
On the ceiling, above and below the bed, on the floor, by the window, near the doorknob.
Magic manifested everywhere according to his intent.
"......What an incredible world."
When he'd only seen others do it, he'd thought, Impressive.
But experiencing it himself was beyond such simple admiration.
The invisible became visible, the unfelt became felt, and the impossible became possible.
It was truly stepping into a new world.
And my mana field isn't just mana.
A typical mana field extended the user's mana to dominate space, but Jeon's was different.
Just looking at the gold and purple blend showed that his mana field deployed not just mana, but the Mysteries he harbored as well.
Depending on how I use it, I might blend Mysteries too.
Whether due to his low level or insufficient understanding of the Mysteries, Jeon wasn't sure.
But he had clearly seen in Anne's past recollections how she wielded the golden Mystery in various ways.
That memory lingered strongly, so Jeon anticipated that someday he could wield the golden Mystery—and the purple one—similarly.
"......Maybe even the Korean Patch."
Unlike the two Mysteries he could now wield directly, however gradually.
The Mystery he had brought to this world—the one he arbitrarily called the Korean Patch—was still impossible to control at will.
But if the Korean Patch was also a Mystery, then perhaps someday he could wield it directly, just like the gold and purple ones now.
"That day will come eventually."
And to hasten it even a little, all he could do was keep training.
"Let's focus properly."
Having reviewed his battle insights, now was the time to practice and research how to utilize it further.
Three weeks had passed since Jeon began training alone.
His routine over those three weeks had been almost identical.
Wake up in the morning, wash up, eat breakfast, train, then lunch, more training, dinner, train some more, wash up, and sleep.
He had stuck to that pattern religiously.
That said, he hadn't completely avoided people.
"Jeon! Let's eat lunch!"
Even without Jeon asking, someone came looking for him consistently.
Especially after the first week, Lena would show up every day at lunchtime with Risar, requesting to eat together.
"Oh, is it lunchtime already?"
Jeon didn't mind her requests much.
She helped him not miss meals when he got too absorbed in training.
Today too, as lunchtime arrived, Lena knocked precisely on cue, pulling Jeon from his immersion so he could eat.
"I had no idea it was mealtime already."
"What do you do alone in your room every day that you forget even to eat?"
"Just got focused, that's all."
Jeon stepped out the door and naturally walked with Lena toward the dining hall.
What should I eat today?
Eating at the same dining hall every day, he had tried every menu item at least once.
As he pondered what appealed today.
"Jeon, not there today."
"Huh?"
As Jeon turned from the hallway toward the dining hall, Lena grabbed him.
She pointed outside the lodging.
"Eat outside?"
He had eaten only in the lodging's dining hall every time, so the menu might feel repetitive.
But time's precious.
To Jeon, who wanted to finish eating quickly and get back to training, it felt a bit wasteful.
Still, grateful for Lena coming every day to ensure he ate, he figured once wouldn't hurt.
"Sure? Got a menu in mind...?"
Just as he was about to go out with her at her request for the first time in a while.
Lena grabbed the departing Jeon once more.
"What?"
"Look over there."
Puzzled by Lena's inexplicable action, Jeon followed where she pointed more firmly outside.
And there, approaching from afar toward the lodging, was one person.
A very familiar face to Jeon.
"She said she wants to have lunch with you today."
"......Lady Morgan?"
The deputy tower master of the White Magic Tower, Morgan, was heading toward Jeon.