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My alter ego is becoming a big shot - Episode 54

#54

Elf (2)

a few days ago.

“Whoop—ha! Maybe it’s because it’s close to the mountains, but it’s refreshing..”

Harley arrived at the Iron Citadel, on the border of the Tulk Kingdom, bordering the northern mountains..

He started out as a mercenary in Tarak and had many twists and turns before he arrived here..

The world is big and there are a lot of crazy people.

There were some idiots who saw Harley's beautiful and massive muscles and started arguing about her being uncivilized and all that..

“That's what destroyed Ralph's gang.···.”

“Shh! Don't make eye contact.”

They must have been quite famous, so they seemed to attack with confidence..

Because they were skilled in using Aura, the energy that warriors control, at a high level..

“I broke all the bones in my limbs with my bare hands.?”

“They say the knife doesn't go in well.?”

When the fight first broke out, Harley was worried about how to respond since she had never fought a human before..

He is supposed to be a hero, but he can't control his strength and just kill people in the city..

‘So I grabbed them one by one and twisted their bones nicely.!’

That way you don't have to worry about accidentally killing them.!

In the process, he was able to experience how much force the human body can break under, which was a helpful experience for him as well..

‘In addition, I was able to learn how to use Auras..’

The body suddenly becomes stronger along with the haze rising from the struggling bodies..

Even though it broke when I applied more force, the increase in physical ability itself was not bad..

‘It's good that they thought it was useful and figured out a way to do it.···.’

The problem was that I couldn't use it with this body..

Because his body was closer to that of a magical beast than to that of an ordinary human being..

It was natural that technology created with the human body in mind could not be used..

He was much stronger now than when he returned his body's components to human ones and used auras, so it was a plan that he could not do anything about..

‘Once you know something, you can use it later..’

Harley quenched his appetite with regret and headed towards the northern mountains in search of game that would make him stronger..

***

“Whoa whoa!”

“Hahahahaha! Search!”

Harley's eyes returned, and she burst into laughter and swung her ax at the beast in the shape of a large bear..

As soon as the ax in the right hand struck the knee of the man standing on both feet and passed by, the ax in the left hand got stuck in the crook of his leg..

“Wow!”

The bear's front paw strikes straight down..

He let go of the attack by simply taking a step to the side, and then plunged the ax in his right hand into the man's forearm..

A sophisticated ax technique that does not match Harley’s wild appearance..

The double axes held in both hands drew a graceful trajectory and trampled the beast's entire body..

Kwasik!

“Turn it off···.”

The moment the guy stumbled from his seat due to repeated ax strikes..

“Hueup!”

Harley took a deep breath and lunged at the beast, twisting her waist as much as possible..

The bear's leg is strengthened by the expanding muscles and the rotational recoil.···.

Suddenly—!

threw a low kick.

In an instant, the monster's leg bones were shattered and its body rotated ninety degrees in the air and fell to the ground..

“Eurachacha—!”

A hunter who never misses an opportunity, Harley immediately jumps and slams the ax into the bear's neck..

“Guess what!”

The ax blade does not penetrate deeply into the tough leather and steel-like muscles..

Until it doesn't work out.

The exciting ax cutting began by alternately striking down the swollen muscles with both hands..

After such a short period of time has passed···.

“Hahaha! It was a pretty tough opponent.!”

Harley finally stood on top of the dead beast and burst into laughter..

Then he picked up the ax and threw it, stabbing his sharp, deformed hand into the heart of his prey..

Nails digging deep into the strong body of a magical beast.

Eventually, a fist-sized magic stone appeared in Harley's grasp..

He roughly brushed the blood off it, put it in his mouth, chewed it and ate it, lost in thought..

‘···Your bare body is stronger than using a weapon.···.’

The cruel truth that I tried so hard to ignore.

I even got an ax and practiced my ax skills, but it was of little use against monsters.!

The physical strength of those who used the mana contained in their bodies by altering it was beyond imagination, and they could not cause much damage with weapons that contained no energy..

For now, I was able to use my overwhelming strength to kill it with a single blow, but if this continues, no matter how strong the black steel ax is, it will be broken..

However, if you apply a moderate amount of force, you cannot cause damage, so you fall into the irony that the bare body that can give its best becomes stronger..

In this way, he was no different from a hidden expert who hides his true strength and pretends to be weak.!

‘what? That might not be bad either···.’

It was tempting for a moment, but it was a no-brainer because it didn't fit his goals..

“Whoa—now let’s take care of the requested items.?”

Harley sharply pulled out her fingernails again, feeling the composition of her body change through the magic stone..

Then, the bear's stomach was cut open to extract the requested bear snail..

‘「It's so easy to use the power of a demonic beast through "Body Transformation," but why do you use a weapon... Huh??’

For a moment his movements stopped..

The power and vitality of monsters that have corrupted the mana in their bodies..

Aura, the power of warriors purified from the absorbed mana within their bodies..

‘In any case, it is the power of processing the energy within the body to suit oneself. The only difference is how it is handled.’

Monsters use mana instinctively with their natural bodies, so there is no need for a complicated purification process..

In order to use mana through acquired efforts, humans have developed methods for refining auras and techniques for manipulating them..

The methods are different, but the goal is the same..

Then, combining those two advantages,···.

‘Wouldn't it be possible to skip the refining process and control vitality by using aura manipulation techniques??’

In fact, the important and complicated part of Auror training was the process of refining mana..

High-level technology has been passed down as the vision of each force..

But the method itself wasn't such a big secret..

Because it wasn't that difficult of a technique to begin with..

He immediately went to work based on his previous knowledge of Aurors..

Several trials and errors followed..

「Using “mutation” and “physical mutation,” we analyzed the differences between the human body and the current body and reconciled the sense of gap..

Dark magic, blood magic, divine power.

Thanks to my experience handling a lot of energy, the work progressed quickly..

The moment when I was concentrating on maintaining my vitality by eating bear meat when I ran out of calories..

A flash of light passed in my mind..

《The entity has achieved enlightenment by achieving the condition. Acquire the special skill “Biological Aura”.》

A haze rose from the ax held in one hand..

“Huh... hahahaha—!”

Harley's mad laughter explodes loudly.

It was the moment when a monster in the shape of a human gained human power..

***

Well done—!

A large decapitated head falls to the floor..

Cooung!

A huge ogre fell, causing tremors in the surrounding land..

“Hehehe... That guy is really strong..”

Harley, who had collapsed on the spot, lay down on her back..

His physical condition was also not normal..

My whole body was covered in blood, and regurgitated blood was still pouring out of my mouth..

「“Regeneration” was in constant motion, but the torn left arm was still being repaired..

Growling—

In the meantime, a crazy hunger surges through me..

As I was fighting, I used a lot of energy through “Body Transformation”, “Biological Aura”, and “Regeneration”, so all the energy I had accumulated so far was depleted..

“Ugh... I guess I need to eat something to gain energy..”

Harley, who staggered to his feet, approached the fallen ogre and applied aura to the ax in his right hand..

5A gigantic ogre nearly a meter tall..

The entire body is filled with muscles of overwhelming density, and not only strength but also agility are at a transcendental level..

His senses are so keen that even if he sneaks up on a sleeping guy and surprises him, he immediately reacts and counterattacks..

“Maybe it's because I only have muscle, but it's so mushy..”

During the battle, the bones of his entire body were broken several times and his internal organs were ruptured, but he survived through "regeneration" until the end and used "Biological Aura" to gradually eat away at the guy's physical strength..

“Hahaha—! But in the end, this body is the winner!”

Now I burst out laughing.

「Perhaps it was thanks to 'Geek Eating' that he finally regained enough stamina to smile..

“As he is a strong guy, the effect is good. It's worth the effort to hunt!”

As soon as you fill your stomach and store up energy, and even chew the magic stone, your body immediately reacts..

Muscles swell and compress repeatedly.

Bones became stronger, nerves became sharper, and skin became tougher..

“Phew... that's good.”

Feeling satisfied with his stronger body, he dismantled the ogre's body..

I collected enough loot to fill my subspace magical tools with rare materials, and after retrieving the ax in my left hand that I had missed, I looked around to move on.···.

“Now that I think about it, where is this place??”

In a dense forest.

Due to the intense battle with the ogre, the surroundings turned upside down and the direction was unclear..

Harley immediately climbed a nearby tree and looked around..

I felt refreshed by the wide open sea of ​​trees..

“Ah ha ha! I guess I got too excited about this and went in too deep.?”

Over the past few days, he had been tracking various types of prey using the beast's developed sense of smell, but as he blindly followed new scents, he seemed to have gone deep into the depths..

The accident occurred after traveling recklessly, blinded only by various genes, without considering the vastness of the northern mountain range..

“Well, when night falls, you can just look at the stars and move on.!”

Of course it wasn't a big problem.

Now that he had been living in Outerica for over a year, it was simple enough to check the direction through the stars, so there was no need to use the transmission line..

I couldn't use it anyway because it was on cooldown..

After coming down from the tree, he headed back into the forest with the intention of doing some more hunting until night fell..

As the day slowly became dark···.

sniff—

“hmm?”

The magical beast's sensitive senses detected something very familiar..

A nostalgic feeling, like the scent of hometown that I have smelled for a long time..

“Smell of dark magic?”

It was also a faint reverberation of magical power that seemed to have been suppressed through a cloaking field..

Based on my experience staying in Hans' secret laboratory for quite some time, this was 100% successful..

“Is there a warlock hiding??”

After thinking about it for a while, I secretly moved to where I could smell the smell..

Because the familiar energy felt by the magic beast's senses was somehow unsettling..

I was able to find it at the end.

A barrier spread by black magic.

‘I'm familiar with this too.’

Hans immediately interpreted the barrier seen through Harley's eyes and presented the results..

In the beginning, the barrier that Hans encountered right after he took the fragment of the first immortal king and became a demilich..

It was a concealment barrier used by the Oath of Yeokcheon..

‘Were they hiding here too? Well, they seemed like they were big enough to be found only in the Kingdom of Thalia. There was some kind of ban on them back then too..’

All the souls escaped somewhere.

Hans could have ignored that prohibition now, but he was hiding from the saint's pursuit and couldn't even think about looking for them..

‘But I found it like this.’

The moment when an unknown joy came over me···.

‘huh?’

Hans, who sensed the subtle flow of dark magic through Harley's sensitive senses, came up with a new diagnosis..

‘A sacrificial ritual in progress? And this···.’

「Analyzed the situation with the black magic knowledge of “Forbidden Knowledge”.

This level of sacrificial ritual is bound to leave traces somehow..

So, they usually move from place to place right away, but since they move by creating a negative dimension gate with black magic immediately after offering the sacrifice, it is nearly impossible to track them..

In other words, if you miss it here, you won't know when you'll be able to meet again..

“Hehe... we finally met like this, I should at least see your face.?”

He smiled viciously, showing his teeth, then took out an ax in both hands and concentrated his mind..

Perhaps due to hunting the ogre, a thicker haze surrounded the axe..

The bioenergy generated throughout the body is contained in the two ax blades..

“Hahahaha—! Break down!”

The two axes that passed behind the shoulders struck the barrier, drawing a large trajectory..

Kwaaang—!

With a loud explosion, a hole opened in the barrier, revealing a hidden cave..

A bustling noise was heard from inside, but Harley didn't care and walked confidently inside..

“I can't see you doing well again..”

It was a gang of guys who stabbed Hans in the back and killed the villagers..

I don't know if there's room for this side to take advantage, but in a situation where that's not possible, shouldn't we do everything we can to interfere?.

In the meantime, it would be nice if you could salvage something..

If you don't think it will work out, you can just jump out.!

‘I'm definitely not doing this because of the end..’

While running to a place with a strong black magic energy, a group of humans came out from inside..

“What?! Who are you?!”

“Block it!”

They were the warlock's minions..

One at knight level and five at mercenary level..

‘No need to wait! Go straight to full power!’

Harley's leg muscles swelled, and his body curled up like a wild animal about to attack..

Right after that.

Kwaang!

He was already right in front of the knight-level guy..

“Ugh! How dare this guy!”

Dark magic blooms thickly in the drawn sword..

Despite the sudden attack, he skillfully swung his weapon and knocked away Harley's axe..

Kaang—

“what?!”

But that was his defeat.

The moment his body was shaken by an unexpected and tremendous force..

Squeak!

Because the ax in Harley's other hand hit him in the neck..

‘Inattention is your biggest enemy..’

Considering his weapon swing and level of dark magic, he would never have died this easily, but thinking of Harley as a normal warrior was what hastened his death..

“Kahaha! Attack all at once!”

He burst into laughter and rushed at the remaining minions..

After some time has passed.

Harley was running down the aisle again with blood splattered all over her body..

‘I don't really care about the junkies. Are all the warlocks inside??’

When I was bracing myself for the decisive battle with those guys..

His senses felt something approaching rapidly from the ground..

“What kind of trick is this again?!”

It didn't feel alive, but there was no way that approaching him so freely in the enemy's stronghold would be favorable..

Just as I was about to swing the ax,.

“Wow!”

A little girl popped out from the ground..

A cute appearance that cannot be hidden even by shabby clothes and black shackles around the neck..

It was an elf girl with pointy ears, light green hair, and orange eyes, holding a tree branch in her arms..

And at that moment, Harley realized who this girl was..

“···Hahaha! This is in trouble!”

He deliberately laughed loudly and scratched his head to hide his embarrassment..

“Yes, little girl. What is your name??”

Still, I checked with myself again to be sure..

Trying to smile as softly as possible.

The muscular man she first met in the warlock's den immediately asked her name, but the elf girl only flinched a little and answered the question obediently..

“Se... Cecily... It's Cecily.”

In the middle of Yeokcheon's pledge hideout.

It was the moment when high elf candidate Cecily and barbarian warrior Harley met..