13 Episode 13 - Relic, Part III (1/2)
Chapter 4. Relic, Part III
Translator: Khan
Editor: RED
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”Oh, it is filling up! It is filling up!”
Bang Hyun-wook admired the magically clear liquid filling the old-fashioned glass that had nothing in it.
On the other hand, the expression of Ahn Sun-mi holding the glass was not good. 'I can't move.'
Her body was just a conduit. Some unknown power was now pouring into the glass after undergoing a process similar to a water purifier inside her. The problem was that the moment she moved her body, the moment her concentration faltered, everything stopped. The concentration required by this process was beyond imagination.
Ahn was a doctor, and if necessary, a doctor needed to perform surgery in an operating room to keep a patient alive for ten hours straight. Her concentration could not be lacking. If it had been lacking, she would not have gotten even close to perfect scores on the entrance exam for university and entered a medical school. But she felt her concentration being consumed so fast that she could not compare with surgery. Eventually, she gave up.
”Huh, huh …” She was panting hard. It was not a trick, as the sweat on her forehead was not from the cold weather.
”Are you alright, sister?”
”It's all right, hoo... okay.”
Bang talked to the exhausted Ahn. Kim Tae-hoon silently looked at her and arranged his thoughts.
'Magic… She is like a magician.' The appearance of Ahn reminded him of the existence of magicians in games, movies, and novels. Magicians had to memorize spells for some time to use magic, and they required a lot of concentration. When they move or were interfered with while memorizing spells, the memorized spells became useless.
It was high risk compared to the Energy of Bang, and the telekinetic power of Kim. So Kim had to know if there was any merit to taking this risk.
”Did you say the effect was wound recovery?” Kim rubbed the wound on the back of his hand after taking some transparent liquid onto his finger. It half-filled the glass that Ahn possessed, and it could only be considered water.
Then the wound started to bubble and it began to heal! The sight took Ahn's breath away. She looked at Kim's hand with incredulous eyes and shouted, ”Oh my God, this is a miracle, a miracle!”
”Lower your voice.” Kim gave an order to Ahn, not a warning. She shut her mouth promptly.
The police station was quiet again. Kim, however, carefully moved his feet between the bodies without feeling relieved, and he extended his senses out to the gate of the police station. He examined the darkness around. There was no particular sign, but a sense of silence.
After Kim made a gesture that seemed to open his mouth with his left hand, Bang and Ahn exhaled softly.
Hoo…, the long wind drifted through the police station.
The conversation was a little bit later.
”That's great. It's kind of an item, isn't it?” Bang was the first to open his mouth, and Kim gave an order instead of an answer.
”Take pictures of all of them.”
”Yes?”
”Take pictures of all the antiques and check how many relics are there.”
”Ah!” Only then did Bang wake up and take all the antiques out of the bag and start taking pictures.
Meanwhile, Kim asked Ahn several questions. ”How did you feel using Mana?”
”Mana?”
”I decided to call it in that for the sake of convenience, but if you want to add something special, it's fine.”
”Mana does work.”
”So how do you feel?”
”My body feels like a water purifier. It feels like Energy goes through my heart and then into this glass… But it's really hard. It's like walking on a tightrope.”
Kim nodded. 'The risk is big, but the merit is great.'
The concept of relics and Mana had been put together.
'A relic is an item that helps us use Mana or any mysterious power. There exist relics among the historical objects like antiques. If we consider in the concept of games, things made by monsters can also be relics or items.'
'Mana requires many restrictions and conditions to use differently than Energy and Telekinesis.
'If we get weapons, the next destination will be the museum. Of course, we must secure as many of these relics as possible.'
In this world, there was no Sotheby auction, and even if an auction was held, Kim would not be able to buy the goods at such an auction with just his lifetime savings.
”Big brother, there's nothing else,” Bang reported, after finishing checking the relics, shaking his head.
Instead of answering Bang, Kim handed over the revolver he had brought from the arsenal. He also handed one to Ahn.
”The cylinder will open this way, put the bullet into it, and close it.” He taught them how to fill the cylinder of the pistol and how to shoot. ”Check the target, aim, and shoot. Hold it with both hands when shooting. Pull the trigger only once.”
Bang and Ahn began to fill the cylinders with bullets clumsily.
Kim told them so. ”Never point a gun at our people. Don't point a gun at me even when filling the cylinder and practicing.”