Chapter 8 Tutorial (6) (2/2)
Occasionally, there had been cases like this.
Cases of team members being ruthlessly discarded throughout the tutorial due to their uselessness. On Earth, people would point their fingers at this irrational behavior, but it didn’t matter here.
Within the tutorial, where players were focused on making achievements, it only natural to party up out of necessity rather than being acquainted.
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That’s exactly what happened to this young man.
The young man was on guard against Yeon-woo, but Yeon-woo could see just by looking at him that he was too weak.
His eyes were filled with embarrassment while looking at Yeon-woo. He wanted to run away from this situation, but he couldn’t because there were too many scarecrows around.
Yeon-woo began to wonder how did the young man think he would be able to enter The Tower and how did he get his qualifications to participate in the tutorial.
Consequently, Yeon-woo was just going to ignore him and leave him be.
In the first place, he didn’t care about anything except advancing through the tutorial and catching up with the frontrunners.
There was no reason to go out of his way and do something troublesome.
But the words the young man had shouted while he was dealing with the copper puppet grabbed his attention.
That the copper puppets were operating via sensors.
Yeon-woo was barely aware of it thanks to his enhanced senses, and he thought it was something the average players would never notice.
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So Yeon-woo was wondering how he knew about it.
For someone who appeared to be so weak.
Usually, the truth was very simple.
He could have noticed a pattern in the copper puppet’s movements after being trapped in the boss room for a long time, and made a guess out of it.
Or,
‘He could have read the flow of mana inside the copper puppet when it operated.’
‘Magic power’
It was Mana.
It was an unsolved problem that haunted Yeon-woo.
Yeon-woo stared at the young man for some time.
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After mumbling for a while, he finally spat some words out.
“I… I saw it.”
“You saw it?”
“Yeah… the threads of mana… surrounding the copper puppet….”
In the middle of the conversation, an idea crossed Yeon-woo’s mind. So he immediately activated his Draconic Eyes.
The pupils of his eyes sank deeply, and eyes resembling those of reptiles were revealed.
“Hup!”
The young man gasped in surprise.
Vertical slit pupils rose under the white mask. It wasn’t strange to be scared.
Ignoring his reaction, Yeon-woo examined him from head to toes.
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Then he chuckled.
“Why did you put on this look?”
For a second, the young man flinched.
“What?”
“The look you have right now. It’s a disguise.”
“…!”
The young man’s face stiffened.
Yeon-woo put more power into his draconic eyes.
Then, a very small presence was revealed inside the dozens of flaws surrounding the young man.
“Are you around 10 years old? You’re really young. Very small too. But it’s too blurry to recognize your face. You’re not a normal human, are you?”
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The young man clenched his teeth and moved his hand towards the sword he had left on the floor. He was ready to pick it up if necessary.
“What are you planning to do with me?”
It was a sudden question.
Yeon-woo tilted his head as he could not understand the situation.
“What do you mean?”
“I said, what are you planning on doing with me?”
“You? Why?”
“That’s because I….”
The young man was going to say something, but he managed to bite his tongue and shut his mouth. He was reluctant to say any more.
Yeon-woo snorted at him.
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“I know what you mean, but I don’t care who you are or what you look like.”
“Then?”
“What I’m interested in is how you can “see” and handle mana. I’m just curious about the how. So, can you tell me?”
“What?”
The young man opened his eyes widely.
Yeon-woo nodded toward the exit.
“Of course I wouldn’t ask you to tell me for free. I see you’ve been stuck here for quite some time. Then, I’ll help you out. You can’t get any food or attend to any business in here. How does that sound? It’s not bad for you either, is it?”
The young man’s eyes were filled with confusion. Everything he had said was just unbelievable.
“If there are other reasons you can’t tell, or if you think it’s not a fair trade, well, I can’t help it.”
Yeon-woo thought it would be a great opportunity if he could learn how to handle mana from this young man.
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The ability to see mana.
That meant that he had an extreme affinity to mana even amongst those who knew how to handle it.
If Yeon-woo could acquire such ability, it would be very helpful for him in order to learn how to handle mana.
Above of all, even if it was a secret that he wasn’t allowed to randomly pass onto others, it would be easy to dig it out from him since he was dealing with a child.
As for the rest, it wasn’t of his concern.
Of course, if the young man used this as an opportunity to ask for something preposterous, he was going to immediately decline. Even if not now, he should still be able find a way to handle mana later on.
Seeing as no answer came from the young man, Yeon-woo took his attention off of him and turned around.
“It seems like you don’t want to.”
“Wa,wait! Hold on for a second.”
Yeon-woo looked back at the young man.
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“What’s the matter?”
“About what you were saying, is it true? You really don’t know how to handle mana?”
“I don’t have any reason to lie, do I?”
“N…no way! Are you saying you did that without mana?”
The young man looked around Yeon-woo with an incredulous look. Chunks of the broken copper puppet could be seen.
A monster he had tried so hard to defeat with his teammates, but wouldn’t even budge an inch.
It was a puppet that survived through tons of skills and attacks without even a scratch.
But Yeon-woo, with only a few attacks, had just destroyed the puppet and was now saying he didn’t know how to handle mana.
It was simply incomprehensible, it was beyond common sense.
On the other hand, Yeon-woo also could not understand the young man.
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“Well, I just did.”
“….”
The young man recalled a man from his hometown who once painted a wonderful landscape and said, ‘It’s that easy’.