The moment Raon opened his eyes, a light resembling the light of the sun flashed in his eyes.
I put my hand on my left chest. The seven rings spinning vigorously told me that what had happened so far was not a dream.
“Is it finally complete?” .”
New hook. The seventh ring, completed by squeezing my head, was swirling around my heart.
‘It was just one difference.’
It was difficult to make the sixth ring, but not as much as this time. The time itself wasn’t long, but it was so hard that my whole body was drenched in cold sweat. If I had failed, I would have had to lie down for a few days.
Gooooo!
Raon exhaled slowly, listening to the resonating sound from his heart.
‘Is it starting with the Aurors?’
The seven rings began to further purify the energies of Mangagong and Glacia within the Danjeon.
Even with six rings, I thought the purity was perfect, but there was room to go further.
‘My senses have also changed.’
The range of sensations felt through the five senses, including sight and hearing, and auras has also increased by one level compared to before. It feels like the flow of the world has changed again.
‘The foundation has become even stronger.’
Although the level of martial arts does not increase immediately as the level of achievement in the Ring of Fire increases, the foundation for climbing to a higher level and faster becomes wider and deeper.
I naturally laughed because it could be an opportunity to advance beyond master level.
“It’s fascinating.”
The Ring of Fire is quite literally territorial when creating a new ring, but once the ring is completed, it welcomes you warmly. Even now, the six rings made a clear sound as if welcoming the newly created seventh ring.
Raon smiled, enjoying the ringing of the ring.
“But I’m glad it’s over quickly.”
Although I forgot the time, it seemed like only about two days had passed since I wasn’t hungry or sleepy.
-hurry?
Lars came up from the ice flower bracelet.
-Baaaaaali finished?
The guy gritted his teeth and pushed his face towards me.
-Are you telling me to hurry now after sleeping off for a week?
“one week?”
-That’s right! You didn’t move from that spot for a week!
“You said that?”
I didn’t know that a week had passed since I took the elixir and practiced the ring.
‘A person could have focused that much.’
It was my first time maintaining this level of concentration. I think I viewed human potential too low. My heart raced at the discovery of a further path.
-The king… This king… .
Lars’s rounded fists were shaking as if he was angry.
-I haven’t eaten a single meal in a week! Not even just one meal!
“hmm… .”
Words that were not at all unexpected came out of Lars.
I keep feeling it, but this demon lord’s gluttony was real, with no lies at all. So it was even more surprising.
“I kept all the food promises I made to you… .”
-Shut up!
Lars held up two fingers. He seemed to be threatening to stab his eyes out if he said one more word.
-You know what?
“What, what?”
-Your maids left food in front of your door every meal time.
The guy pointed to the crack under the door and bit his lip.
-Breakfast, lunch, dinner, and even two snacks in between! There were five meals a day behind that door, and I missed them all! A total of 35 meals disappeared before the king’s eyes!
Lars grabbed his head and started shaking it. Moisture seemed to be building up around the eyes.
-The sadness of being hungry and smelling but not being able to eat. Do you even know that despair? hell! okay. It was hell itself!
Hell is your home… .
Oh, is it the demon world? Well, it would be similar to hell or the demon world.
Anyway, watching the demon king cry just because he skipped his meal made me burst into laughter.
-Smile? Are you laughing now? After torturing this lord of wrath, you raise your eyebrows?
Lars gritted his teeth until they made a clicking sound.
-This is the first time I’ve felt this much anger. If you can’t see it, just endure it! I can see it and I can smell it! FYI, yesterday it was pineapple pizza! pineapple!
“Um, I’m sorry.”
Raon raised his hands as if putting his hands together.
“There are things that will make you more annoyed.”
-dog sound! There’s nothing to be more angry about than this… .
Before Lars could finish speaking, a message appeared before his eyes.
[A new has been created.]
[ has reached the level of 7 stars.]
[You will be able to see and feel more.]
[The level of the soul increases.]
[The level of the attribute increases to 4 stars.]
[The level of the attribute increases to 5 stars.]
[All abilities increase by 7 points]
My eyes were filled with the rewards I received from completing the ring of fire.
– Oh my!
Lars’ eyes, which had been muttering that he had nothing to be angry about anymore, bulged out to the point where they bulged out.
“I had some accomplishments during the week. I thought of course it would come out.
Raon smiled as he looked at the message. He created a new ring of fire, and the level of his abilities and characteristics increased, but Ras’ existence itself was a blessing in disguise.
-Off… .
Tendons sprouted from Lars’ forehead, and the cold, wrapped in anger began to burn over his shoulders.
I tried to move the now seven rings, thinking it would attack, but it bit its lip and didn’t move.
“Are you really going to endure it?”
-Bo, don’t look down on King Bon. I won’t do you any more good than this!
“Las has learned .”
-Shut up!
As Raon spoke as if a system was coming out, one more tendon grew on Lars’ forehead.
“No, I thought well.”
If all seven rings of fire resonate at the same time, it doesn’t matter what Ras does. If I had rushed at him like he said, I would have only gained additional abilities.
However, I laughed at the ironic situation of the Demon King of Anger suppressing his anger.
-If you have a conscience, go out and cook a meal right now! If possible, pizza. Pineapple and shrimp pizza would also be good.
Lars growled and even made detailed demands. He is truly an outrageous guy.
“I’m sorry, but no.”
Raon pointed to the window where the moonlight poured in.
“I’m going to wake up because it’s time for everyone to sleep.”
-Aren’t they all your subordinates? Wake up!
“I’m not your subordinate, and I have no intention of waking you up.”
He waved his hand at Lars to step away.
“I’ll eat something delicious as soon as the sun rises tomorrow. “Be patient.”
-I’ve endured it for a week, so how can I endure it any longer?
“Then there is a good way.”
“You might say something crazy again. Excited!
Lars snorted as if telling him not to be funny.
“Is there a way to get your lost week’s worth of meals back?”
-Hey, get back a week’s worth of meals? What is that method!
As soon as I said I would get a week back, Lars jumped up like a rabbit.
Raon smiled and unwrapped the wrapping cloth on the table. Seven ripe brown breads appeared in a round shape.
“Eating just one Nadine bread will fill you up for a whole day. “With seven of these, you can get back your lost week.”
-Whoa… .
The light disappeared from Lars’ eyes, and black darkness flickered.
-You are a human being who should not exist in this world… .
The guy rushed at me, arousing his suppressed anger and coldness to a level never seen before.
-Housing!
That night. Raon’s abilities increased by an additional 2 points.
* * *
Robert Gajujeon’s office where soft moonlight pours down.
Derus Robert’s hand, which had been working on paperwork like a machine, suddenly stopped. His cool gaze turned to the back of his hand holding his quill.
Pop.
Bright red blood flowed from the sword mark on the back of his hand, which seemed to have hardened, and dripped onto the documents. Blood spread across the white paper, erasing the wet ink.
“It got bigger… “Is it?”
Derus narrowed his eyes as he looked at the wound on the back of his hand. After being bitten by my dog, the marks that had not been erased for 20 years seemed to have grown ever so slightly.
‘There’s pain too…’ .’
Until now, I didn’t feel much pain even when the blood dripped, but today I felt quite strong pain.
‘I said it was a curse.’
To erase this wound, I visited priests, healers, wizards, and even shamans, but no one could heal me.
He said that there was a deep curse that would never be erased for the rest of his life, and that the only way to resolve it was to resolve the grudges of the parties involved.
However, Raon, the person who placed this curse, died and even his body was incinerated. I ignored the curse placed on the soul anyway, thinking it was meaningless, but today the wound opened up for the first time.
‘Has the curse become stronger?’
The last shaman I met told me in passing that the stronger the curse, the bigger the wound.
It seemed like the curse Raon had left on this wound had become more severe.
“That’s interesting. Was the resentment so deep that it tormented me even after death?”
Derus curled up the corner of his mouth, licking the blood flowing from the sword mark with his tongue.
Whoops.
When he placed his hand on the document, the white paper instantly burned to ash. It was a miracle that burned only the documents that had blood on them, without touching the desk or other documents.
“Matio.”
At Derus’s gesture, a black shadow rose from the floor.
The shadow swayed like a moonlit lake and was sculpted into the shape of a man wearing black night clothes and even his face covered with a mask. He bowed down before Derus without a word.
“Any information about Raon Sieghardt?”
“The line is connected to the north. “We are organizing information based on information coming in through shadows and what we saw in the Gazelle River and Lohengrin Dungeon.”
“You said you killed the Four Apostles in a sneak attack in the Lohengrin Dungeon, right?”
“It is said that he inflicted fatal wounds in a sneak attack and then ended the attack with a sword.”
“okay. I did. It’s a secret attack… .”
He nodded with a faint smile.
“Tell it to the shadows of the North.”
Derus Robert looked at the wound on the back of his hand and curled the corners of his mouth.
“Treat information about Raon Sieghardt on the same level as Glenn Sieghardt.”
“Are you saying that he is on the same level as Glenn?”
“He deserves that.”
Raon Sieghardt is a monster who decapitated Tiller of the North and South Alliance at the age of 18 and broke the hearts of the Four Apostles. It was worth gathering information about because he was not just a rumored prospect, but someone who actually had an influence on the situation on the continent.
“All right.”
Matio nodded and disappeared, turning into a shadow just as he had appeared.
“Hmm.”
Derus turned his chair and looked at the moonlight pouring in from the window.
“Raon. What is your identity? Is it just a genius? or not… .”
* * *
Raon ate a large breakfast, enough to relieve Ras’ anger, and headed to the training ground.
As I opened the door and entered, I saw Gwangpungdan swordsmen working hard on morning training.
“uh?”
“Raon!”
“Deputy Danju has arrived!”
“It’s coming in just one week.”
As soon as the Gwangpungdan members saw Raon, they waved their hands. Looking at the smiles on their faces, it seemed like everyone was confident in their achievements.
“surely… .”
Raon met the eyes of the Gwangpungdan swordsman and smiled.
‘You should be confident.’
I must have trained so hard that I became a completely different person than I was a week ago. Because he was well rested, his eyes were clear and his whole body seemed full of energy. He didn’t even see him growling like a mad dog.
‘After winning the Jeonma Dan, my passion must have burned even more.’
A week ago, they must have been out of their minds because they couldn’t sleep and were tired, but after resting and realizing that they had beaten the Jeonmadan, their enthusiasm must have grown. Because the joy of victory boosts the spirit more than drugs.
Raon went up to the stage and stood next to Dogoe, enjoying the strong momentum of Gwangpungdan.
“Commander General. Thank you for your hard work.”
“They took a lot of effort, but they weren’t bad.”
Do-Gae also nodded as if it was a satisfying time.
“Where did Danju go?”
“I do not know. “I can’t even see my nose.”
“okay.”
I wasn’t surprised since he was that kind of person to begin with. He nodded, wondering where he would be gambling.
Raon stood at the end of the podium and looked into the eyes of the Gwangpungdan swordsmen. I could feel the sincere will and power in the sparkling eyes.
“Thank you all for your hard work. “It’s more than I expected.”
“Wow!”
When I smiled and nodded, everyone in the Gwangpungdan cheered.
“Raon is great again.”
Runaan closed his blind eyes and breathed a sigh of relief.
“That guy also has a conscience.”
Martha chuckled and grabbed the back of her head with her clasped hands. She pretended to be relaxed, but she must have been anxious. A drop of sweat rolled down her forehead.
“I-I stayed… “I guess?”
Buren, who had been preparing for additional training from the beginning, lowered his head with a pale expression.
“It’s finally over!”
“Ahhhh, I lived! “He lived!”
“It’s worth holding on without dying.”
“Wow, I thought I was really going to die.”
“Being strong is good, but people need to get some rest.”
The Gwangpungdan prosecutors also had smiles on their faces at the thought that their hellish training was now over.
“What have you been doing, Assistant Manager Danju?”
Dorian, whose complexion became as bright as his hair, raised his hand. A sweet smile appeared on her lips, as if she thought the training was over.
“That’s a good question.”
Raon nodded, looking at Dorian.
“I didn’t leave my room for a week.”
“Is it even possible to do something like that just because you’re on probation?”
“I know. “You can move around as you please within the annex.”
“Anyway, it’s tight.”
The Gwangpungdan member shook his head, saying it was too much like the manual.
“That’s not it. As I was concentrating on practicing, I lost track of time. A week passed, but it felt like not a day had passed. “I felt something thanks to that.”
Raon looked into the eyes of each Gwangpungdan member and raised his eyebrows.
“There are no limits to concentration and stamina. “I realized that there was a higher place above the mountaintop where I thought it was the end.”
“uh… .”
“hmm?”
“that… .”
The members of the Gwangpungdan felt something strange going on and rolled their eyes.
“In essence, fire burns loudly only when the firewood is good. “I could not provide firewood to properly burn you.”
Raon clenched his fists. He wanted to make the Gwangpungdan feel the extreme concentration and joy he felt when creating the ring of fire.
-Yes, you don’t have a human heart?
Lars noticed Raon’s thoughts first and his chin trembled.
“What is that bastard saying now!”
“I guess you want to train more?”
“Raon?”
Marta, Buren, and Runan also swallowed dry saliva when they saw Raon’s eerie eyes.
“I promise. Starting today, I will help you push your limits to the limit. “Our goal is simple.”
Raon raised his index finger straight up.
“Expert low level becomes intermediate level, intermediate level becomes high level. The top grade is the highest level. “You will overcome your limitations during the three months leading up to the new year.”
“… … .”
At those words, the gymnasium was filled with silence. It was as if there wasn’t even air flowing, only the sounds of heavy breathing coming from here and there.
Slurp.
What follows after that is the sound of a sword being pulled out. Instead of training swords, thirty true swords were pulled out at the same time.
“Kill me. “You have to kill me right away.”
“If we don’t kill that thing, we will die… .”
“3 months? It won’t last even 3 days and it will dry out… .”
“Krrrrr… .”
“Growl!
The Gwangpungdan members looked up at Raon and raised their spirit of life. There were a lot of members growling like animals, as if they had gone back a week.
Coo coo coo coo!
Burren took a sword-fighting stance, Marta raised the Titan’s auror to full power, and the floor began to freeze to a silver color due to the frost created by Runaan.
“Hey! “I don’t want to die!”
Dorian took out a 3m long harpoon used for hunting large monsters from his stomach pocket and installed it.
“Aaaah!”
“Kill!”
“You must kill me at all costs!”
Raon resonated with seven rings of fire as he saw the Gwangpungdan members running towards him screaming loudly. He smiled and nodded in satisfaction.
“Voluntary participation is always welcome.”
* * *
Lohengrin’s dungeon where Raon destroyed the entrance and exit, making it impossible for anyone to enter.
The sound of hard shoes was heard from the lowest floor where Lohengrin’s white bones remained.
Again. Again. Again.
With the sound of sharp footsteps, a being hidden in black robes stood in front of the laboratory.
When I raised my white hand, the stone wall that could only be opened with Glacia disappeared, revealing a panoramic view of the laboratory.
Rob’s being entered the lab, took a deep breath, and then let it out. Blue eyes sparkled inside the robe that was just covered in darkness.
“Las?”
