Haroon

The afternoon exactly one month after the sword training began.

“The basic sword training is now over. ”

Instructor Lenny looks back at the trainees' faces with a grim face. I felt strength in his gaze as if everyone had something to gain.

“As a swordsmanship instructor, I've never seen trainees like you before. I am deeply saddened that I can no longer be with you at the same time as I am proud to have led you to the right path of the sword. In the meantime, the assistants with the instructor will feel the same way. ”

The faces of the sailors behind him proved his point.

“Now your training has come to an end. Those of you who have successfully completed your swordsmanship training will rest well this afternoon and begin your new training tomorrow. In the remainder of the month, you will naturally learn various knowledge as a mercenary, as well as weapons and other knowledge other than swordsmanship. This is the most relaxing time for you to study physically and mentally, as training is the most available but personal choice is possible. ”

His words remind me of a smile that cannot be hidden in the faces of the trainees.

It's because I studied hard and had a lot of time, but I'm too tired to endure it both mentally and physically.

It was a fierce swordplay that would have been handed to my comrades who had lost their training right next to me if they didn't want to fall behind instinctively.

“The wizards will remove the bracelet they've been controlling Mana with. You have one month left. You should use your time wisely to absorb the knowledge you need, fill in the gaps, and develop what you can do better. Until you become a special mercenary or head of a mercenary group, including mercenaries or mercenaries, there will be no further training, so make the most of this opportunity. I was happy to live with you all these years. ”

The clap vibrates the training ground.

The coolness that there would be no more swordsmanship, and the soft clapping of the trainees who mourned the time that they couldn't return after devoting their enthusiasm, overwhelmed the hearts of Lenny and the trainers returning to their places.

There is still an introduction to the trainees for the next month, so the trainees have not left yet.

Harun was in the outskirts a little distance from the trainees who came together to talk. His comrades and Nemion convinced him that he wanted to continue his training to this day.

“But are you really not going to tell me the end? What kind of magic have you mastered? I'm sick of curiosity.I can't stand curiosity. ”

Harun was embarrassed by Nemion's gentle questions, which were repeated in various ways every time he saw them, and he was speechless.

“Are you sure you want to be that mystical? ”

“I'll tell you later. I have my reasons. ”

“Blood! Just like Mana swore an oath. ”

Nemion seems to give up whether he felt sorry for Harun, who became a marked embarrassment.

Harun felt a desperate need to get back on track. In the meantime, you'll notice that she has a very persistent personality.

At that moment, Gali approached them. He was more interested in Nemion than Harun.

“Nemi, what's going on with the Spirit? What, is there some kind of special way? ”

“Hmmm… it's a secret. ”

Nemion stops trying to speak, then looks at Galilee in a strange way. It's as if you're not the same master or a famous wizard who never reveals the magic he's learned to others.

Harun's ears tightened as he spoke of the spirit.

Otherwise, he began to feel increasingly burdened by the fact that a group of four people were suspecting that he was not a wizard.

Though he was a master swordsman, such stories became public where he practiced.

That's why I naturally became interested in Harun, who wanted to learn magic as a trait if he could, even once.

“I just want to know a little bit more than the details. I have a famous spirit among my comrades, and I feel like I should know more about it now that I've been on good terms... ”

Galy's words, which he quickly enveloped in the heat, made him understand Nemion. A curious aura fades from her face, and I start to think of pride.

“Hohoho! That's it. But if you want to go somewhere later and tell them I'm your motive, you need to know more about Spirit History than anyone else. ”

“Well, that's it, that's it. I'm telling you.”

“You're a wizard, as I understand it, but you're also a spiritual just as sensitive to Mana as you are to learn magic. You have to be naturally sensitive to the four qualities of a Spirit classified as a Trait Spirit in order to become a Spirit. ”

“What does it mean to be sensitive to the nature of fire, wind, water and earth? ”

Gali tilts his head and asks again. I understand that Manae is sensitive, but it was a difficult word for Harun, a magical outsider.

“Don't be so hard on yourself, brother. You just have to understand nature and feel it easily and be friends with it. ”

She said it like it was easy, but she knew how hard it was. Only one or two out of a thousand ordinary people are born to be Mana-sensitive. A common spirit has a chance of one or two out of 100,000 people, so it can never be easy.

“Nature?”

“Yes, nature surrounds us. The most intense of them all are the four attributes. You become a spirit when you understand it and feel familiar with it. ”

“It's harder to listen to you. ”

Throughout their break, they talked about spirits, and Harun listened closely to their conversation with his eyes to the ground.

Spirit or Spirit Affinity is innate, but confirmed.

One of them is the character of an object with the attributes of four iconic Spirits in front of it. If it is Spirit Friendly, it is said that you can feel a different spiritual energy from Mana moving around.

If you don't have a high spiritual affinity like her, you'll have to check another way, which was even more difficult. It is a way to draw a magic team and summon the Spirit directly. In this case, the Spirit refuses the contract if it has no affinity.

‘I knew something good. ’

For Harun, who was enchanted, their conversation was precious information that became blood and flesh.

Suddenly, a female trainee came to where they were sitting.

Familiar with her eyes, she throws a strange glance at Harun, who doesn't even know she's the target.

“Hey, 123! No, he said he was Fake. Aren't you in trouble now? ”

“What are you talking about? ”

Feike, a sticky Nemion, greets her with a grudge instead of Harun.

“If the bracelet comes off tomorrow, or even if you end up hiding it, it's great that you're not a wizard by the time you graduate. I don't know who it is, but I'll be punished for recommending you for this. ”

As soon as Harun heard that, his heart sank.

Nevertheless, Nemion lets out a hot breeze with his nose. The usual mild Galilee was also full of castles.

“You're a star now... Sevona, you should try the heat. ”

“Oh, come on. If everything turns out to be true, how are you going to cope, Nemion? I don't want to see you ruin it, too. ”

As soon as Nemion heard the words of a female trainee named Severana, Nemion couldn't respond properly. Having asked Harun so far, but she didn't hear a satisfactory answer, she quickly darkened her face.

In fact, I began to feel strange to Harun as he listened to this. The fight between the trainees was forbidden, but there was no reason to stop the fight.

The strength of a girl named Sebona was truly overwhelming. I couldn't have come up with this without conviction.

Nemion steps back without saying a word.

Harun looks closely at Sebona.

A familiar face. He was always an impressive trainee with a stuffy mouth and strong eyes. In his memory, he was one of the fiercely trained trainees. He was always in the lead in the Guvona March and various exercises.

However, it was impossible to understand this kind of outright hostility, even though I had never said goodbye before. I couldn't think of anything to say for a moment.

Whether Harun's attitude was offensive, Sevona became even more vigorous.

“With the expectations and love of the instructors in one body, are your comrades laughing now? Or is that what I'm saying? Why aren't you answering? ”

“Oh, dear. ”

Harun laughs nonsense, but he can't say anything.

“How about that, right? I'm sure of it.”

“What we found in our network was that there were very few references listed properly, and when we scanned the wizard, there was very little Mana. ”

“Hohoho, it's obvious you're not answering Sevona's question. ”

“He chews well at what we say, but he's still stuck in front of Sevona. ”

Saying that, the coming ones were four-man jackasses.

These fellows couldn't help but ignore Harun and Nemion, so they must have emphasized Sevona who was both talented and famous.

Sevona was the daughter of the Red Moon mercenary squad. And that mercenary was one of the 10 Empire mercenaries. The lucky four-man is also a child of real life with strong breath in the guild, but she was different dimensions.

Eventually, some of the trainees who went down to Harun during the difficult sword training resurfaced after training. It was all because Harun had made such a good progress that he refused to compare.

Since the trainees are human, it is natural for them to feel divided and competitive with each other depending on where they are from.

It was natural to send expectations and support to Harun because it was a group that acknowledged the physical shortcomings of the A dormitory where the poor wizards stayed, but the other Dong dormitories were very different.

Even though he was only focused on training and labor, Harun was now getting a sense of the atmosphere between here and the mercenaries. He used to listen carefully to other people's conversations, even though he did not talk.

There were a few people who would be in trouble if they found out he wasn't a wizard. Even for their own good, I had to desperately hide my identity.

“I don't know why you're curious, but I don't think it's too obvious to answer. Why are you so curious at this point? ”

“Profit!”

“If you have time for this, work harder for the next month and beat me. Isn't that right? ”

Sebona frowns and bursts a hot nose, furious with Harun's response to a bold attitude. However, my eyes changed strangely.

“No matter how brazen you may be, I don't think you'll ever be a wizard. There can't be a wizard with a normal Mana. Moreover, it is impossible to be a wizard and possess such abilities. I don't know who you're referring to, but be careful we're watching you. The Mercenary Guild is not a deceptive organization enough to betray the identity and even the mysterious hordes who came here. ”

She leaves that behind, smiling strangely and enters the crowd waiting for her. The lucky four-man left her in the middle as if she had been handed to him and disappeared.

“Harun, don't worry too much. You're just jealous because you're superior. Well, not many wizards have your abilities. Besides, there's a rumor that the instructors took you as their senior class, so you'll have to be jealous and jealous. By the way, where are you from? Why didn't you tell me that? I wonder.”

“That's... I promised I wouldn't say it. ”

Harun couldn't help but lie. No, technically, I wasn't lying. I promised McKean I'd keep his identity a secret when I got here.

Fortunately, unlike Nemion, who gazes at Sébona heading for the dormitory without a word, he did not have any doubt that Gali was not from the Wizard.

“Did you take Mana's oath? ”

“How can I... …. ”

I don't know what Mana's oath is, but Harun seems surprised that he mentioned Nevi Temperature once.

“Oh, my God! That's right. Why on earth did you take Manat's oath to such a trivial thing? If you break your oath, all of Mana disappears. Of course you should have considered this. ”

“ ……. ”

“I see.”

Galy's words brighten Nemion's face slightly. Her gaze on Harun reminds me of her apology.

Looking into his eyes, Harun sighed a sigh of relief in his heart.

Fortunately, Galy's words prevented the worst from happening, but it couldn't be worse.

If it turns out that he is not a wizard, even though he is old but naturally bright, it may hurt Nemion as well as pure grinding.

“Well, don't worry too much about it because you can demonstrate your true magic on graduation day anyway. I am so excited to see how my face will change if I show magic in front of those who have doubts. ”

“Well, yeah, well. ”

Harun felt terrible for answering.

I thought I just needed to practice, but I couldn't escape from the category of a group that lives, herds, and shows taxes.

If it turns out that he's not the Wizard, Elser and McKean will be the ones who put him through the process immediately.

‘The only room I have left is A-Wing, so it won't work now. ’

If the problem was that only the corners where rumors had been whispering for decades were left of the room where ghosts come from, If that room wasn't empty, no matter what Elser asked me to do, I wouldn't have put Harun in the process.

“Damn it!”

Harun locks the door and logs out as soon as he enters the room after finishing his work.

We have a lot of time on our hands, so we want to explore the whole of magic through Bell.

When he returned to reality, a bell with a split head greeted him. You greet him with a smile of color on his cute face, even if he was lonely.

It was reckless. It's game time, but we haven't been back in a month.

“Belle, how are you? ”

- Yes, Captain!

I didn't have anything to do with it. The only person who can find Harun who doesn't have a good friend is his next-door neighbor. He must be obsessed with Beyond these days.

Let's go find my brother. ’

However, unlike Belle, who is dreaming of a dark gamer, it would have been a great help to get her own information. However, it was not easy for Harun to get in the way of his enthusiasm for the game. Harun considers for a moment, and goes back to the game.

“Belle, can you look up some data on magic? ”

- Yes, Captain.

“Search mainly for ways and processes that Beyond's wizards are currently practicing. ”

- Yes, but...

Somehow Bell spoke up. Her face was strange.

“Why? What's wrong? ”

- Is that... is that you, Captain? No, I smell worse than that.

As he sweeps his body up and down the Federation, Bell leans forward and grabs his nose.

“What's wrong with me? And it smells like something. I can't smell anything... * Sob *! What... hey? ”

After looking down at his body, Harun was embarrassed to see that his body was sometimes covered in black, and he was able to smell a serious odor.

I've never smelled so bad in my life. The moment I recognized the smell, my face was distorted and I grabbed my nose with my hands without knowing it.

- Let's get you cleaned up. In the meantime, I'll get some information.

“Yes, please. ”

Harun can't look at Bell's face, so he rushes through the capsule lid, which is just starting to climb up.

“Damn it!”

It's a shame in front of Belle with a self, even though she's not human. Showing up naked in front of her didn't bother her much because she thought she was young, but this was a completely different matter.

Harun's face flushed with shame had no idea that Bell could even smell it.

I can't believe you're so caught up in the blackness of your scent that you can faint. My face was hot and embarrassed, and I closed my eyes and sat in a bathtub filled with water quickly.

It wasn't every day I took a shower, but it was so hard and hard that I was distracted. So I washed my face and body roughly with water, and the result was today's great embarrassment.

For almost an hour, Min Harun stood in front of the mirror feeling fresher than ever. I finally had the courage to look in the mirror.

“W-what? Who is this?”

There was a stranger standing in the mirror. At that moment, Harun was dumbfounded. Suddenly, I forgot where I was and who I was.

He looks at the Mad Statue in the mirror with his stupid eyes.

But a little while later, familiar things were found in the mirror.

Cold eyes and only one eyelid have twinkles, and a very high nose... Harun is furious for a moment.

“It's me!”

I did.

The person in the mirror was himself. His appearance, which reminded him of the skeleton, was too different.

I still showed cheekbones, but I still gained moderately enough weight, so I could hear that I am now pretty handsome, as well as my body made of small muscles, but it was me.

I couldn't believe it.

He who was tall and skinny like a skeleton changed in two months with game time. It was a result of training day and night without any time to worry about the appearance.

“Hehe, that's pretty cool. ”

Harun liked the reflection in the mirror.

I had lived without much care for my appearance, but that's why I gave up on other people's gaze. However, he looked beautiful.

‘My changes in the game work in reality. What about power? ’

As soon as Harun left the bathroom, he found the heaviest thing in the house. It's a refrigerator. Even Human's new technology could hardly reduce the size and weight of the refrigerator, so it was something an adult man couldn't carry on his own.

Moreover, unlike when it was packed, lifting a refrigerator that was 2.5 meters high with both hands was not impossible due to the dizziness of the power.

However, Harun bent his muscular arm once and smiled. I felt confident that I could somehow do it. Among the rocks he used to hold while exercising, there were some that were just his body. I couldn't hear it at first, but later I could hear it all.

Harun squeezes the middle part of the refrigerator with both hands.

“Hiya!”

The heavy refrigerator quickly goes up with a sense of moderate weight. It is not light, but the weight delivered to my arm now is too different from before playing the game.

“Ugh… huh…… ”

Harun forgot his words for a moment. After a while, however, he laughed loudly, leaving the house.

“Hahahaha! Hahaha! ”

I saw it with my own body, but I couldn't believe it. Now, it has only been twenty days since reality, and I dared to refuse the comparison itself.

Harun lowers the refrigerator and finds another heavy one. It was Belle. It may be difficult for a capsule that only two robust workers grunted and barged in.

“Hiya.”

The arm muscles burst with low coughing. The elongated portion of the capsule was lifted up, even though I didn't put much effort into it. With a little more strength, the entire capsule is lifted off the floor and completely into the air.

Nevertheless, I still have strength.

The proof is that he did not sweat, nor did the tendons of his neck burn. Moreover, because it was bulky, there was no swarm in carrying it.

“Ahhhh!”

The joyous cheer erupts from Harun's mouth as he carefully lowers the capsule and throws his arm over the burning strap.

Whee-ee.

Harun hurriedly went into the capsule, whistling as he felt better.

- Oh, my God, who are you?

Bell looks surprised, as if he saw a stranger.

“Haha! Don't be silly. Send me over there to Andromeda and forget about me. ”

- It's turned out great, Captain.

Harun seems to be having a daze in Belle's eyes. It was the same with the women who were attracted to handsome men. After studying so much about the human world while he was away, he seemed to have watched so much drama.

"Where did the little guy learn to do that...?" ’

I thought about it but secretly felt better.

- But, Captain, the outside is being heard by some kind of force.

I didn't ask you because I didn't know. The capsule itself was a bell, but I couldn't have known. Cleverly pretending not to know him to suit his mood.

“Hahaha! This guy is so cute. ”

Harun feels strong, though Bell is just a video. I thought I would be really happy if I had a sister like this.

“Now you can call me brother instead of captain or Harun. Okay, Belle? ”

- Yeah, is that you?

Unfortunately, Bell, who looked cute with her sheep balls protruding out, opened her eyes wide.

“You know I'm an orphan, right? I want you to be my brother from now on. ”

- But the captain... is the captain...

“I don't care what the name is. Anyway, from now on, call me Hyung. ”

- I... did it!

I was a little hesitant, but the bell answered louder than ever before reminded me of a red face.

‘It's an amazing AI. I can't tell the difference. ’

I couldn't admit that she was a capsule just because of what Belle was doing. It seemed preferable to treat her as his sister, who has great abilities in the future, rather than having this confusion every time.

“And show me the information you put together. ”

- Yes, brother.

Bell's ability to turn into a younger sister was truly remarkable, unlike her appearance and cute behavior. Even though it was not long ago, we searched tens of thousands of times and organized them easily.

The information she prepared exceeds the thickness of her finger at a glance.

I'm sick of it!

Bell fluttered and asked if he had read his mind.

Do you want me to read it for you, or should I make it shorter?

“Huh? Is it possible to shrink that vast amount of information? ”

Bell may look young in your eyes, but her name is superhuman.

Was it Harun's hallucination that made him feel arrogant in Bell's voice?

She didn't know much about her abilities yet, but it was clear that she had great pride.

Harun stops speaking for a moment, and Bell opens her mouth to see if she was given the order to do so.

- You have to be level 10 to master magic in Beyond. You become a level 10, you become a person, and from then on you can connect with NPC wizards, including Elves, or learn the magic of your desired tower through a grimoire. What's special about all three circles is that academic magic is common.

“So I can walk the Wizard's path, too! ”

Harun's voice echoes as he learns magic. That way, Elser and McKinn won't be in any trouble.

- In theory, of course. But you're in the middle of your training, and you don't have a job in the Imperial City.

“Yes, damn it. ”

I forgot it. I had to go to a former city to get a job. As you go, Neckwall is kind enough to capture monsters for this world, accumulate soul points and cultivate your skills. It was a rule of intention.

- Well, you can learn magic from a grimoire, but that's also a problem. You can't go out now, and even if you ask someone to do it, it's impossible because you don't have the money to buy the grimoire.

“The grimoire? How much is it? ”

One Circle Grimoire usually costs between 10 and 50 gold.

“Fuck!”

I had no idea that grimoires were so expensive.

“What is the current exchange rate, Bell? ”

Even though I didn't have much money, it was Harun who considered the situation as urgent.

- I broke 100,000 won per gold yesterday.

“So one silver is 1,000 won. The grimoire is a million won cheap? ”

No, it's impossible to earn that much gold even if you try to buy it. You have to be at some level to earn money from hunting or getting the right job, but not now.

Probably. Given the fact that the top ranker was level 9 a month ago with game time and the announcement that it would take two or three weeks to reach the Node City for the job to be completed, there won't be many users who have successfully completed the job.

- There's still a problem with the transfer. Beyond has tried his best to be realistic, so there is little chance of item drops or quest success compared to other games.

Harun had his appetite.

But it was also true that it attracted more new users. Unlike games that could reach the master in a few months or years, the fun and the sense of achievement of a realistic game that only takes you to the next level after all the effort is strong enough to satisfy your users' frustrations.

-There are very few unlocked items, and the economic scale is small because most users' starting point is a small rural town. So even though the illusion is one hundred thousand won and one silver is one thousand won, there is not enough gold or silver to live in reality, so the trade itself is almost impossible.

“This is crazy.”

Yo lacks money to be distributed.

It doesn't matter if you include NPC societies, but because the level up is too slow, most users still don't have the ability to earn properly.

Exchange transactions are made through Neckwall's official exchange site. However, Beyond's gold coins can be redeemed for cash while not for gold coins. Considering that users' cash inflows could damage Beyond's economy.

There were no special restrictions on item trading. However, the average level was still low, so I didn't have the luxury to trade items among users.

The problem is that the amount of money in circulation is insufficient.

Unlike other games, the Dark Gamers would have already enabled the transaction of items and gold, but not Bjorn. There is no money to trade for those who are too busy raising their structural abilities that the real money cannot get into the game.

If I had the money, I would not buy something in this world and level it up as soon as possible. The higher the level, the easier it will be to acquire items for money.

- There's one more problem, brother. In Beyond, it's impossible to implement magic just by reading a grimoire. If there is a Magic EXP and you don't have enough Training EXP, it doesn't work properly. Also, you can't buy more than 3 Circles of Wizards, such as intermediate or higher skill books, from the Horse Tower. They are only set up to be obtained through hunting or questing. Of course, if you're lucky enough to have a Madosan teacher, the story changes. For your information, Wizard is the hardest job to level up in Beyond. Moreover, all users have to master swordsmanship and travel to former cities to accumulate soul points, making it even harder for wizards.

“Hmm, I see. ”

It would be even weirder for a virtual reality game with strong realism to be able to read a book or use magic immediately when you are on the move.

I liked that quite a lot. Bjorn held on to the truth that nothing can be gained without sweat and effort.

- Of course, there's magic you can learn without magic.

“Yeah? What's that? ”

Harun rises from his seat. I don't have the funds to be in my current position. However, I couldn't leave the training ground for my previous job.

- Not all jobs are known yet, but Beyond's worldview is somewhat contoured. The fantasy world. Almost all of the elements of pre-human fantasy novels that were popular are implemented in Beyond. Of course, there's also the presence of spiritual magic.

“Yes, I will. ”

Nemion, the training motivator, doesn't need to be found from afar, is the Spirit Wizard, the Spirit Master.

“Then how do I master spirit magic? ”

- It was nowhere to be found. Officially, there were no animists among the users. There's an opinion as to whether it's Hidden Grasp, but nothing has been made clear yet. If it is, you'll have to find it yourself in Beyond.

Bell's words make me more empowered. I thought about what Nemion said before logging out, but there was nothing particularly helpful.

“I don't think so. Once you've gathered information about the fashionable fantasies and fusion novels at the end of the century, just organize them and show them a little bit about spiritual magic. ”

-Okay.

The foundation of Beyond's worldview would have been provided by fantana and fusion novels that were fashionable at the end of the century.

Then there must be some clues to learn spiritual magic as well as other magic. I couldn't think of a better way to read a few of them.

Thanks to Bell, I didn't bother buying e-books or going to the library to read everything myself.

The existence of popular novels at the end of the century was largely lost during the Apocalypse War. So there were not many novels left.

Harun's first novel was "The War of Goddess and After" published in 2022.

The characteristic of the popular genre novels at the time was that they showed readable, yet powerful surrogate satisfaction to readers and the fact that it made them forget the reality that made them lose their mind and mind.

I have read novels of this pattern several times already, so I searched with Bell and read only the parts about spiritual magic. Then I looked at the contents of the other books, but the part about spiritual magic did not make a big difference.

I could not find anything more detailed than what Nemion had said. However, Harun decided to examine the details because he couldn't give up.

“According to Bell's analysis, what is affinity with spirits? ”

- It's hard to define. It's hard to describe precisely because there's so many different definitions for writers, but it's the sense or the ability to feel the spirit in every element of nature.

“It's not artificial, it's natural, right? ”

Nemion said. But I had to check.

The spirits in most fantasy novels are depicted as being inherently spiritually friendly, like the Elves.

“Phew, so there's a good chance that spirit magic has nothing to do with me, the user? ”

- Well, the odds of that being rich.

Harun feels a twist in Bell's response, but he sighs deeply and closes his eyes. Another possibility is lost.

I searched a few more books since then, but there was no particular answer. Maybe it's obvious. because fantasy existed through human imagination anyway.

Harun returns to Beyond to sleep well enough.