Chapter 24

Goal

One month .

She said that she would be able to fix the High Heavens in a month, but it didn’t work like that . The High Heavens was still a grace technique . It was one of the best spear martial arts .

No matter how much Wijihoyun was a genius, it was impossible to fix the High Heavens in only a month . Even if it was only remixing the difficulty, the process required extreme geniusness .

One month passed, but she still hasn’t fixed the High Heavens . She was hurried though .

“It’s taking a lot more than I thought . I’m going to have to stay a bit longer . ”

“Isn’t it because of me?”

“I’m doing this for me . You don’t have to stay that . Don’t say that also . ”

She looked at Sungmin’s face .

“You’re too pessimistic by yourself . ”

“People don’t change in one day . ”

It happens when you’re bullied at a guild for 10 years . She would never know that feeling . Sungmin muttered and lifted himself up . Break time was over .

His body grow a lot in one month . By using only his body strength to swing his spear, it grew his muscles . That didn’t meant that he wasn’t practicing his techniques as well .

Because of the lack of hunting, Sungmin tried to practice on himself more . Wijihoyun tried to teach Sungmin in the time she didn’t fix the High Heavens .

His spear technique’s mastery grew a lot in only a month . His basics were bad because of not learning it properly .

“You don’t need to use inner strength to use the force . It’s basically only a efficient way of using power . Using inner power with that only increases the efficiently of it . ”

“I don’t know if you say in words . ”

“Then would you like to be hit?”

She pouted and said . Sungmin closed his mouth quietly . Sh! The spear broke through the air .

“There are many types of the force . There’s different types depending on the length . And the ways switch from there as well . . . it’s gonna take way too long explaining all of it . There was a person called Jang Sambong who was the first person to get in depth about this stuff . He also died a long time ago though . ”

She muttered and lifted herself . She picked up the spear beside her .

“There are many types, but the purpose is the same . To use a lot of power out of little power . It’s basically using the entire body strength not the just muscle strength . Using the tension, the rotational energy, the opponent’s energy, everything is the basics, and inner power increases the efficiency of the strength .

Sungmin nodded . To that, she glared at him .

“Don’t act like you understood when you didn’t . I get confused . ”

“Yes . I have no idea what you’re talking about . ”

“Then you have to learn . You have to mix in the force to the na, ran, and zhe . So then you get enough power than usual . ”

Then she sighed .

“It doesn’t make sense . This world makes no sense . Using martial arts without knowing these things . ”

He has been hearing that a lot from her . Since beginning to learn properly from her, Sungmin learned various things . Not really martial arts, but the information that was needed to use martial arts .

“You don’t know anything . How could someone who doesn’t know anything use martial arts…”

“How would I know if I didn’t learn it?”

“Don’t say it then . ”

She grumbled . Sungmin’s face turned sullen as he practiced the postures that he learned . Then he suddenly thought of something and asked .

“How do you use telepathy?”

[Like this . ]

She sent a message . Sungmin sighed and stopped swinging his spear .

“If I could do it right now, I would be a genius . ”

“That’s true . You’re not a genius . ”

She said with a pathetic face .

“But you’re not dumb either . ”

“What?”

“You’re not dumb . You’re not a genius, but you’re not dumb either . Common… might be a bit better than common . ”

She muttered to herself .

“You learn better getting taught then learning it yourself . It’s probably because you probably never learned alone . ”

Sungmin’s face turned blank . Right . He had never learned like this from another person .

“Well, you could say it’s part of inner strength . ”

“What kind of stupid thing is that . How do you do that?”

“Ugh…”

She told him carefully about how to use telepathy . He tried it on that note, but it didn’t work . He didn’t have enough inner strength .

Like that, he learned various things from her . When he was using the Amethyst Cloud, she gave him advice about using inner strength as well .

Really, the main reason why she didn't’ finish the High Heavens in one month was because of using so much time to teach Sungmin . Sungmin opened his eyes after meditating .

“Why are you doing so much for me?”

Sungmin asked . When he was practicing the Amethyst Could, Wijihoyun was fixing the manual of the High Heavens in the corner of the bed . She turned around .

“Do you actually not know? It’s because…”

“Friend, don’t say that . ”

“I don’t want to see you die . ”

She changed her answer .

“You told me I was your goal . I can’t let you die to some random person . ”

“Is that being nosy?”

“Say it’s being worried . ”

She grumbled . She put down the pen and moved her neck side to side .

“ . . . And I don’t want to leave any regrets behind . I’m going to leave soon . ”

“ . . . Regrets . What regrets . ”

“You are my first friend . ”

Her eyes turned clam . When she had those eyes, he didn’t know if it wa son purpose, but she had the aura of dominating the other person .

“Let’s say it wasn’t a coincidence, but my thoughts haven’t changed . You are my first friend . So I want to care for you . For you, for me . ”

He heard it many times . That Small Pegasus in his past life was a person like this . A girl, not a boy, who had huge generosity for someone with a background of the vice head of a cult . She was like that; she tried to keep someone that she had gotten once .

“It’s a month . Twice the length that I said . . . but I’m leaving . ”

“ . . . where?”

“I don’t know . I’m going to venture around . Like my previous self . ”

She looked at Sungmin .

“You?”

“Me? I… will get the potion and go to the next city . ”

Behengeru . A city that was about 4 days away from here . He had been a mercenary there .

“I see . When should we meet . ”

She tilted her head .

“If I leave in a month, I will be wandering for a few years . Then I will be somewhere where ever I feel like . You and I have never met in 13 years . ”

“We were in different places . ”

“How about 10 years . ”

She said .

“I was going to say 13 years, but since you don’t know what happened next, I think it’s best if we meet earlier . Let’s say 10 years . You choose the place . I don’t know this place .

“Tobes . ”

He answered immediately .

“It’s one of the biggest and most modern city in Eria… we can meet there . When is the date?”

“3/14 . ”

She opened her mouth .

“It’s my birthday . I won’t forget it . You remember it . 3/14 in 10 years . You and I meet in Tobes . ”

That meeting plan has been chosen in 10 years . It gave a goal to Sungmin . He won’t die before then . He must not die . No, he couldn’t just live though .

He had to make it his goal to be closer to her, . He wouldn’t be anything close as just a first rate . ABove that, he needed to go way above that .

He had many goals in his new life .

One was to get everything that he could using his past experiences . The martial skeleton . The Genuine Heavens . The potion . That wasn’t the end . There were other things left to get .

The second was to survive .

Third was Wijihoyun . To get stronger than her… he never thought that . There was so many things that they had different .

But, that was his goal .

When two weeks passed, she finished the High Heavens . She changed the difficulty and put in the beginning of the Chase Soul .

She had finished it, but she didn’t leave just yet .

“I said I was leaving in one month, so I’ll teach you the High Heavens for two week . ”

So Sungmin was taught the High Heavens for two weeks . Then two weeks passed .

Sungmin and Wijihoyun stood across from each other behind Jack’s inn . She was leaving today . The 100,000 Erie for the inn fee . Sungmin gave her that as well . She had on the martial arts clothes, Jack’s bag, food on the journey . No weapon . She didn’t use weapons .

“I’ll give you 20 seconds . ”

She put down the bag . A fight . Wijihoyun asked for it first . He didn’t reject it .

He knew the result . There was no way that he could win at this point . The result didn’t change with him getting the first 20 seconds . No matter how many spear stabs, he wouldn’t even be able to wound her .

He knew, but he stood here .

He wanted to see the skill of Wijihoyun .