Chapter 104 : Chapter 104

Chapter 104 - A Teacher's Grace is as High as the Sky

The person had changed.

As soon as the person who was to be the disciple realized she was the teacher.

“The title is Teacher-nim. And you will absolutely use honorifics. Until I leave the castle as a messenger again.”

“When will you be leaving?”

The polite speech came out quickly.

Since I came from a background where informal speech was awkward to begin with, its use was very natural.

Thus, it was instead the Teacher-nim’s eyebrows that twitched slightly.

“Quick, aren't you? As expected of a latecomer born in a mess, you know how to survive well. I was about to beat you up if you used informal speech again like a habit.”

“Yes, well.”

So when are you leaving?

The answer followed.

“The family sorcery education. If it seems like you’re getting what I’m teaching, I’ll leave right away.”

She picked her ear.

This time, it didn't go through, and she scratched the itchy spot well.

“I don’t want to put a lot of effort into someone who might die anytime, anywhere, whether they’re promising or not.”

“Still, since you are a gift, I will receive you with a joyful heart.”

“It won’t be as sweet as a gift.”

“We’ll see about that.”

Ransis smirked.

“Right. We’ll see. Before we do, just a moment.”

She threw off the clothes that were for, so-called, formal occasions.

The tight and uncomfortable clothes.

A purple velvet coat and a black lace skirt fell to the floor.

Underneath, instead of skin, there was a baggy shirt and also baggy linen pants.

Her dark blue hair, which had been tied up in a bun, was let down and changed into a ponytail.

“Phew. I can finally breathe.”

It took less than a minute to change from a flower of high society to a neighborhood noona.

“Let’s go anywhere spacious. We’re going to do it right now.”

As she spoke, two long, white socks flew through the air.

Why did she have to smell them before throwing them?

Was she a hyung and not a noona?

Physically, she was undoubtedly a woman.

And ‘Reconstruction’ was a family sorcery, so it was unlikely someone who wasn't a bloodkin had learned it.

‘Is there a setting I don’t know about?’

While the Youngest Son was deep in thought.

Ransis-hyung stretched and lightly warmed up her body.

“Let’s go quickly without dragging our feet. What, are you the type who needs something like a decoction?”

“No. I can go right away.”

That kind of buff was fine.

It wasn't my main focus anyway.

“We will go down.”

“Let’s.”

“Hold on tight.”

“…Hold on?”

Kuwaaaaaaaaaa─!

The floor collapsed.

It literally collapsed.

The ground abruptly separated from the outer wall.

Only the floor we were standing on plummeted downwards.

From the top floor, past the lowest floor, and even to the basement.

As we plummeted with the floor, the clothes that had been on top fluttered about.

Among them, I had a hard time avoiding the socks whose feet were particularly grayish.

“We have arrived.”

Having scattered the clothes in all directions, we arrived at the basement floor.

Ransis stood up, adjusting her pants.

“Phew. Give me a warning before you drop me, you brat. My balls almost dropped.”

“…?”

It was a statement worth pondering, but I tried to ignore it.

No, was this also a high-level trick to make me unable to concentrate on the sorcery lesson?

That was more likely.

“This is the castle’s basement floor. It’s safe to do anything here.”

“Nice, nice.”

“May I hear what you will be teaching me?”

“Hold on, punk. What’s the rush? Are you a rabbit?”

“……”

“I’m thinking right now.”

Ransis stood with her legs apart and moved her head from side to side.

Bobbing up and down like a sick chicken.

In the meantime, the Head Maid, who had come to the basement, left a towel to wipe sweat and a cold tea.

The moving head momentarily fixed on her.

Her red lips muttered.

“A D-cup to an E-cup… slurp….”

D-cup? E-cup?

As her superior, those were words that were hard to overlook.

“I pride myself that my Head Maid is an A-class.”

“What nonsense are you talking about? Ah, is it hard to gauge because you’re young? Never mind that.”

As if she had finished thinking, Ransis continued.

“I heard you use Bone Sorcery. Summon one.”

“Very well.”

Jjeo-eogeo-eok─

A Red-blooded Griffin charged out from the spatial artifact and took flight.

Although it was the basement, the ceiling height could be expanded endlessly, so it was spacious enough for the griffin to fly.

But the teacher’s expression was cold.

“Not something you’ve already made. Didn’t you hear me say to summon a new one?”

“A new one, you say.”

This was all there was.

Dalgeurak─!

“…Are you kidding me.”

“I am not.”

A Skeleton Soldier, peculiar only in its color, appeared.

I had built my foundation on this guy, so it couldn't be a joke.

The Teacher-nim, whose expression had become serious in an instant, looked back and forth between the Skeleton Soldier and the Youngest Son.

“How did you survive with such a piece of shit?”

Soldier. Cover your ears.

“Rather than surviving with this.”

“Ah, whatever. I get it, you mixed in a bunch of miscellaneous things.”

It was sad to have an epic title and an epic trait called miscellaneous.

Still, there was nothing I could say.

Because this body had no intermediate process to speak of.

There was no skill build-up, and I had brought in a lot of things with peculiar colors.

Demonization was like that, and so were the Magic Sword and Ma'eon.

It was because of the trait called skill copy, but that was the result.

The Teacher-nim saw through it in an instant.

“It’s better this way. Since you haven't touched any particular lineage, I can teach you anything.”

Does it mean that?

Before I could object, the Teacher-nim threw a question.

“Is there any family sorcery you wanted to learn?”

As the range widened to anything, the choice itself was passed to me.

Though it seemed she was just too lazy to think for herself.

This was also convenient for me.

“「Exploding Bone」”

“……”

“I want to learn the family’s Bone Sorcery, ‘Exploding Bone’.”

“Kehehehet.”

Ransis grinned, revealing her canines.

Seeing just that, it was a cynical smile that made one wonder who the vampire was.

“Have you lost your sense of fear? Do you know what you have to do to learn that?”

Exploding Bone was the result of combining a curse and Bone Sorcery.

A high proficiency in Bone Sorcery was a given.

After that, there was a training necessary to imprint the image of an explosion in one’s mind.

“I must entrust my body to explosions over and over again until I can manifest Exploding Bone.”

“Most of the guys who did that ended up deaf. No, they're lucky if they only lose their hearing. They lose a couple of limbs and their lives too.”

“That’s why it’s difficult for more than two Exploding Bone sorcerers to exist in one generation.”

“…You probably just read about it in some book and thought it looked cool. Give it up.”

“Didn’t you say you would teach me anything? I will give up if there is no progress, so please, at least teach me.”

Ransis’s brow narrowed.

“I’m telling you, this isn’t in the realm of teaching. I have to keep using a difficult explosion curse…. Don’t tell me.”

The disciple smiled.

A smile that revealed his canines.

It was the smile of a noble of blood.

The teacher narrowed her eyes.

The explosion curse was a difficult sorcery to control.

She was someone who could do that difficult thing.

And she was someone who came to teach the Youngest Son.

The cunning bloodkin had considered all of that and spoken of the next sorcery.

“Teacher-nim. You will have to teach me ‘Exploding Bone’.”

“……”

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Ransis, who had been silent for a while.

She suddenly stated her impression.

“The way he uses his head is just like his father.”

Since they were outside the Pantheon, the former Head Maid said whatever she wanted.

She soon sighed and nodded.

“Alright. I get it. I will teach you the family’s Bone Curse Sorcery, 「Exploding Bone」.”

“Thank yo—”

Peeeeong─!!

An explosion sound that was faster than my reply reached my ears.

The explosion that went off right in front of my chest had the empty air as its target.

But the explosion didn't just hit the intended spot like a fist or a bullet.

Kuuung─

The Youngest Son’s body floated up and fell unceremoniously.

To land stylishly, too much flesh had been blown away, to the point where my ribs were visible.

I blocked my innards from spilling out with my palm.

[Damn it. Don't you need the regenerative power of the Path of the Beast?]

Using the Six Paths for a long time would wear out my body.

Right now, when I needed to be exposed to explosions for a long period.

Swaaaaaaaa─

Increasing my regenerative power using magic was the more correct answer.

My ribcage was filled in.

The tinnitus that had made my ears ring also subsided.

Only then was I barely able to get up.

Peeeeong─!

An even bigger explosion than before.

My body floated up as if in zero gravity, then plummeted.

This repeated more than ten times.

A noble of blood? A direct bloodkin? What of it.

I rolled on the floor until I was in a worse state than the trash of Dusk Citadel.

***

Ransis let out a long sigh.

To be honest.

‘I thought it would be over soon.’

I thought he would be knocked out quickly.

Puseuseuseuseu─

In the ruins named the basement floor.

Ransis, the only one standing, rubbed her forehead.

It was a head that had meticulously used the high-magic-cost explosion curse all day long.

It felt like only a cool compress would cool down the heated head.

“But with this level of regeneration, wasn't a sorcerer of my level unnecessary?”

From beyond the remnants of the explosion, the smell of burning, and the dusty air, a slightly hoarse voice was heard.

“No. You would have been necessary.”

Cough. Cough.

Every time I spoke, a harsh cough followed.

The organs and flesh that were continuously destroyed and regenerated.

The feeling of becoming a piece of pork being hammered, screaming in agony at the slightest movement.

I invested all my recovering magic power into regeneration and stood up.

Barely, using my knees as crutches.

“An artificial explosion created with magic power. Because you can control it, you can create explosions that match my regenerative power.”

Knowing one’s limits was also an ability.

Pushing someone to their limits was also an ability.

And controlling that speed was also an ability.

Ransis was a figure like a collection of such abilities.

That was why she could also do the self-destructive training of obtaining the Exploding Bone sorcery.

But even with such an expert.

“I will give you a room.”

Exploding Bone did not come in a single day.

The Teacher-nim didn't look too pleased but nodded.

“Phew. Alright. I get it.”

“The Head Maid will send up your meals.”

“Ah. Can’t you have that demon big brother, the Butler, do it?”

“He himself will refuse.”

“Tch.”

Ransis, clicking her tongue, stood with her legs apart in dissatisfaction.

To prevent that dissatisfaction from turning into a tantrum, the Youngest Son bowed his head appropriately.

“I will see you tomorrow.”

She nodded her head.

“Don’t forget today’s experiences. Keep recalling and imagining them. To the point where it appears in your dreams and you have a wet dream. Got it?”

“I will try my best. Then.”

Deudeudeudeudeuk─

I manipulated the ground to send her up to her room.

In the basement, now left alone.

The Youngest Son, just as his teacher had said, looked back on the day.

‘…It wasn’t easy.’

Originally, a family sorcery like Exploding Bone wasn't obtained this way.

Family sorcery used a skill tree.

You went from basic sorcery to advanced sorcery and selected the family sorcery that fit that lineage.

It was a concept like a trait, but now it was really mixed with training.

‘To think I’d actually be doing the training method that was in the skill description window.’

They say you never know what life will bring.

The person who best fit that saying was right here.

[Is this really a gift?]

“Of course it’s a gift.”

I wiped the dust with the towel the Head Maid had brought.

This gift wasn't in its appearance.

It was like a clam.

Even if the outside was hard and rough, there was a pearl inside.

Taking out that pearl was purely my own ability.

Millesdusk's gifts were like that.

A gift where, depending on the recipient's capability, you could receive an apple peel or a golden apple.

“Until now, I’ve been scrambling to survive, but now that I have a place to stay and a source of funding, it’s okay to start thinking about the future a little.”

[You see that future in the family sorcery?]

“There’s a high probability of that.”

Besides, it was Exploding Bone.

The family sorcery, Exploding Bone.

“Exploding Bone is a great power for me, whose fighting strength mostly starts with Skeleton Soldiers.”

[Isn't it just bones exploding?]

“That’s right. That’s all there is to it.”

[Then what the….]

“If you stop thinking there, then that would be the end of it.”

But I will not do that.

There were things I had thought of, and things the players had thought of.

The remaining task was to properly mix those sources to fit the present.

As I predict now.

“I have a feeling it’s going to be very spicy.”

In the darkest basement of the Dark Moon Grand Castle, the smile he made shone exceptionally bright.

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The next day.

When today's sun had just begun to rise in the sky.

The lavender sky was pushed away and disappearing by the orange sunrise.

And the birds swam freely between the particles of light.

Beneath them, a human who had become able to move freely through the world stopped in front of a giant stone monument.

The monument informed that there was a barrier behind it.

Furthermore, it said one more thing.

─O ye who enter here. Abandon all hope.

The main headquarters of Millesdusk, the Pantheon.

Since she was stepping into the great Pantheon, it would certainly have to be so.

But her steps did not stop.

Hope? What hope?

“I’m here for a job interview.”

Seureureureuk─

The 2nd Great Witch visited the Pantheon to apply for the Millesdusk Elder position.

Or rather, she stormed in.

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