Chapter 359 Cha Jeong-woo (5) (1/2)

Team: HH, Yahiko, thursdays

The dreams were repeating themselves without my knowledge.

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“My friend. Your face is so blank. You look stupid.”

I jumped to attention at the face that suddenly popped up.

“What the heck?! Hey, don’t surprise me like that.”

“Your face is funny.”

“Hey. I could say the same.”

“No, you can’t.”

“You!”

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I was about to refute what he said when I stepped back in hesitation.

This guy was naively nice to me, but his body was hard to approach.

He was easily 3 meters tall with muscles that could crush Yvlke in one hit. Moreover, his scary face added to his unapproachable aura.

Valdebich. He called himself a descendant of the extinct Giants. He was a half-giant or something. He joked that his Giant genes were so faint that he was neither a human nor a giant anymore.

People would scoff if they heard the joke, saying that it wasn’t even funny, but…..

I had stayed in this world, the “Tower,” for a short while, and I knew how unbelievable this place was.

I knew he was joking, but he was actually telling the truth.

It was an extreme coincidence that I met Valdebich.

The task of Section A was to clear the path of arrows.

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For me, who spent my time pent up in my room studying, it was an intense place.

Half of me still thought that this world was an illusion, but I couldn’t stop myself from feeling fearful because all my senses felt vivid.

And what if this was really “reality?” If I was hit, I was on the fast track to death.

I thought about using the benefit or whatever it was to leave the Tower, but my feet didn’t move.

What Yvlke guaranteed continued ringing in my ear.

I could be granted a wish at the top of the Tower.

A wish.

The image of my sick mother flashed before my eyes.

My desire to see her smile brightly at us and hug us tightly like when my brother and I were younger made me waver.

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‘Alright. Let’s just try it once.’

I hardened my resolve and pressed on.

First, the item I chose was the scutum.

I thought it would be possible if I hid behind the shield and moved forward slowly.

However, my expectations were different from reality.

I couldn’t tell where the arrows were coming from. There was just a “swish” sound and a “pewk” sound that came after. The scutum shook like it would crack at any moment. There were multiple times when I almost lost my balance and my left arm hurt from holding the shield.

The biggest problem was the direction.

I could stop arrows coming from the front, below, and above, but there was nothing I could do about the ones that were coming at me from behind.

When I made some progress, an arrow flew at me, and before I knew it, my left shin was pierced.

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I fell with a yelp.

I tried to lift the shield again as soon as possible, but it was hard to raise myself because the pain was too great.

There were two thoughts that came to mind then.

One was ‘Am I dead now?’

And the other was ‘Why is this familiar?’

I felt a sense of deja vu, like I had experienced this in a dream before.

I had died from severe bleeding because I was mercilessly impaled by the arrows, but when I woke up again, my alarm was blaring.

It felt like such a realistic dream.

Of course, that was just gibberish.

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There was someone who saved me right before I died. It was Valdebich.

I couldn’t forget when I first saw him. Because of his large size, he was the perfect target for the arrows, but he just lifted me with one arm and swung his sword with the other, carrying me to the entrance.

He was my savior.

Although I was surprised when I saw his face.

Seeing how he turned around bitterly like he expected it, I got myself together and thanked him.

As we spoke, I learned that Valdebich only looked scary and was actually extremely kind-hearted.

Right now, people couldn’t approach him because of his intimidating air, but if they knew his real personality, they would run to try to get something from him.

Such a naive being needed protection. The world was such a scary place. I needed to step up to protect him, yes sir. It wouldn’t be easy to find a nice person like me. Of course, I was planning to have him carry me as the price.

“Hehehe!”

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“Friend, you look like you’re plotting something.”

Valdebich narrowed his eyes at me.

I scoffed.

“Nonsense. Anyway, remember what you told me last time?”

“Yun Qi.”

“Yeah. That. You said it was moving magic power, right? What do you do after that?”

Magic power.

An energy that I never felt back on Earth. But in the Tower, it was a bare necessity for players.

I was getting special lessons from Valdebich to enter the Tower. I felt like I wouldn’t be able to get past Section A if I didn’t have it.

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But…..

“No.”

Valdebich shook his head.

“Why?”

“Friend, you’re still a beginner. You can’t ‘accumulate’ or ‘move energy’ yet. But teaching you the ‘activation’ step would be like teaching a baby how to run…..”

“Huh? It works.”

“…..The f***.”

I spread my palm open. Something that looked like white fog wafted up and twisted like a cruller.

“Friend, you tricked me.”

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“What?”

“You know magic power.”

“I didn’t. I really didn’t.”

“But how can you do it so easily?”

“Well, I’m good at everything I do.”

“…….”

Valdebich looked at me suspiciously.

“Hey! You were the one who said my body was trash!”

Valdebich sealed his lips as if he remembered what he said the previous day.

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He touched my hands and feet after I told him to teach me magic power and said, ‘Friend, your body is really trash. You’re gonna die at this rate.’

Do you know how hurt I was because of that?

But the thing called magic power was easy to use once I felt it. It took about a day.

Valdebich said that if you weren’t talented, it could take several years just to feel it and even longer than that to use it.

Was this so hard?

Valdebich continued to teach me other things, not satisfied with what I could do.

The next steps to using magic power after activation was granting, settling, creating, strengthening, and changing properties.

Each step was fun, like a world I had never known before was opened. I begged Valdebich to teach me more.

Then, I found myself being able to use all the basics of magic power after a day.