Chapter 26

The Mountain of Mush

Everything occurred as Sungmin remembered .

After half a year, the old surgeon that did martial skeleton surgery had died . He was killed a third rate martial artist that wasn’t able to get the surgery .

Usually conflicts between otherworlders didn’t go to punishments, but it was different if it involved a citizen . The lord had punished the martial artist . The punishment was death .

He knew of the surgeon’s death . That’s how he died before .

But he didn’t stop it . There was no reason to stop the death . His sense of justice was always different . If there was a relationship between him and the man, he might have tried to block the death .

But there were none . Even if he had gotten the surgery, it was just coincidence . The old man wanted to perform a successful surgery on a person . He wanted to get a martial skeleton .

To be honest, he didn’t want to be involved in it .

After he died, time passed . He stayed in the inn, and if he was lacking in money, he went out to hunt goblins, orcs, etc . He sold the spoils to Hans . That money was spent on his inn fees or savings .

Wijihoyun had left .

There was no more teachings . He had to wait 10 more years since that happened . Well, if he didn’t die before that .

It was obvious, but he had no intention of dying .

There was a tournament that occurred in Genavis . It was like a game for the citizens that had to go through summonings, and it was also a test for the otherworlders . That wasn’t all . Usually there were different prizes depending on the tournament, but usually they were helping in surviving as a otherworlder . It was like a fair payment to the people who gave the citizens enjoyment .

There were three groups . One allowed magic . The other one didn’t allow magic . And the last one was the No Class Fight .

He was that .

Winning was easy .

Since Wijihoyun left, he had spent his time practicing the Amethyst Cloud . There were no sort of goals in his past life like this, but now was different . He had to defeat Wijihoyun and had to spend this much work .

‘Not just her . ’

He looked at his gloves .

The No Class tournament was way easier than he expected and almost made him think his preparations were a waste of time . But that was to be expected .

The No Classes in the fight were just that level . They were the ones getting hunted by third rates . The strong ones in Genavis wasn’t that strong as well anyway

But how was he . He had the two grace techniques and was taught by the genius Wijihoyun . He had also gotten some inner strength from her as well .

The experience from his past life covered his lack of basics, and he was close to being first rate . It was true that he lacked the inner strength though .

‘It would be solved somewhat by the potion . ’

He had fought 5 times and won all of them . He didn’t use his full strength . He thought there wasn’t really a good reason to .

“Drink it here . ”

A man was waiting in the contestant room . He was a knight held by the lord .

“If you take it outside, there might be problems . It’s generosity from the lord so thank him . ,”

“ . . . I will . ”

“If you don’t want to drink it and sell it, tell me . I can exchange it to gold . Even if you don’t have any cultivation methods, it would still help you so don’t worry about that . ”

There was no reason to sell it . He would get a lot of money, but he didn’t need money . Portions weren’t that easy to buy anyway .

Could he trust him . . . was not a question that he had to think about . A No Class in his past life got the potion and got help from it .

‘Thinking about it, what happened to that guy . ’

The one who got the potion in his past life . Thinking about it, the person who should have gotten didn’t because of Sungmin .

‘It’s not my problem . ’

He opened the wooden box . There was a white colored potion inside . As he picked up the potion, the knight went close to the door . He wanted to provide defense .

He put the potion in his mouth . The potion melted as it touched his tongue . It wasn’t delicious . There really wasn’t any flavor .

Sungmin slowly used the Amethyst Cloud . The inner strength in his body was welcoming the strength from the potion . He would swirl the inner strenght of the potion in his body . He couldn’t take all of the power . The potion was after the stage of refinement, but not all the energy could be collected .

Usually about a half could be collected . The other energy was either excreted or split in the bloodstream . .

But the Amethyst Cloud was a great technique . When he had finished the process, he had collected almost ⅔ of the inner strength given by the potion . The other ⅓ also melted inside the blood stream . It was the same for Wijihoyun’s inner strength . The Amethyst Cloud would slowly move the inner strength towards Sungmin’s abdomen where his power stayed .

“Are you done?”

When Sungmin opened his eyes, the knight asked . Sungmin breathed lightly and lifted himself .

“Yes . Thank you . ”

His body was filled with power . It was something he had never felt before .

“Your martial arts power . It’s pretty good . How is it? I could ask the lord to make you an apprentice knight if you wanted . ”

The knight asked . To the knight, Sungmin was probably a genius in his eyes .

“Ah… thank you for the offer . . . but no thank you . I have to do other things . ”

“Ah, that’s too bad . ”

The knight was a bit sad at that, but he didn’t ask any more . To be honest, it was good offer . Anyone could be a mercenary, but not anyone could be a knight .

But he didn’t linger on it . He went outside the waiting room .

He was leaving Genavis . There was no change in plans .

“I wanted to say bye . ”

There wasn’t a place he wasn’t going to leave without saying bye . He had leaved for a year . There were a few relationships .

“I thought so . ”

First, Hans . He was a person that gave him great deals . He had sold things in fair prices, and he had also given him a interdimensional pocket .

“I heard that you would won the No Class Fight . To be fair, I thought you would have left earlier . You finished cleaning up the woods in half a year . ”

Hans laughed . Even though Han’s generosity was from mistaking Sungmin’s talent, Sungmin still felt glad to Hans .

“Probably for you, you’ll be all right anywhere you go . You have good sense . ”

Like me . Hans laughed showing his teeth . He pulled out a small bag from his pocket and tossed it to Sungmin .

“Take it . ”

“ . . . It’s a interdimensional pocket?”

Sungmin made a surprised face, but he caught the pocket .

“It’s used . It’s better than what you have . About 1 . 5 times the power . It’ll be useful for you . ”

“ . . . Why?”

“It’s a present . Take it . I’m going to be in Genavis for a while . If you want to repay me, send me something . ”

Ahns laughed . Sungmin stared at Hans and bowed .

“Thank you . ”

“What thanks . I wanted to give you it… While you’re at it . Get famous . So I can hear what you’re up to . Brag about it . That you’ve gotten help from Hans in Genavis . ”

“Yes . ”

He bowed and went to Jack’s inn .

“You’re leaving?”

Lula asked when he went inside . Sungmin froze and asked .

“How did you know?”

“Your room is clean . You folded the blankets, and cleaned the room . Why? I could have done that . ”

Lula was sitting on the table with pouty lips .

“It’s not surprising . You’ve stayed for a year . I know . Usually the otherworlders, they all leave . ”

“ . . . Yeah . I have to leave . ”

“You don’t have any plans on working at our inn?”

Lula asked .

“My dad . He really likes you . You’re young and diligent . Yeah . Your dad might give you the inn when he retires . ”

“Why to me? He has you . ”

“You idiot . ”

Lula’s arms shivered at Sungmin’s innocent answer . He knew what she was talking about, but he didn’t ask . That was right .

“Don’t die . ”

Lula pouted .

“If you’re leaving, stay alive . Don’t die . Don’t do too much . If you can’t, just come back . ”

“ . . . Yeah . Thanks . ”

“You aren’t though, are you?”

Lula went outside the table . She looked at Sungmin . The 15-16 year old girl’s eyes were calm compared to her age .

“Probably . ”

“I thought so . Don’t come back ever . You idiot . ”

Lula spat and turned around quickly . As she was going in the kitchen, she stopped once . Then she turned around again .

“But don’t die . This is for real . ”

“I don’t . ”

“Hmph!”

Lula snorted loudly . Then she went inside the kitchen .

“She’s too young . Yes . You’re younger though . ”

Hans walked out as Lula went inside the kitchen . He held a basket .

“Sometimes I feel like you look way older than your age . ”

“ . . . I can’t help it . Living makes you that way . ”

“Someone would think you lived a decade more . ”

Hans laughed . He gave the basket he was holding to Sungmin .

“A hungry journey is hard . Bread rots easily but not in the pocket . Take it with you . I put you some milk as well . I think you like it . ”

“ . . . Thank you . ”

He didn’t really like it . It was just good for his health .

“And take this . It was a cape from my younger days . . . it has magic on it . Pointy knives don’t stick easily and it has temperature maintaining magic . But it’s not that great of a magic . It doesn’t keep the temperature if it’s too cold or hot . ”

Even if it was used, a cape with magic would be expensive . He put the basket in the interdimensional pocket, and put the cape around him .

“ . . . It’s too big…”

“You’re fit when you get older . ”

Jack said with an apathetic face . He tapped Sungmin’s shoulder .

“Still though, you’re one of the best No Classes I’ve met since working at the inn . You’ll live pretty well in other places as well . ”

“Thank you . ”

“Nah . It’s the truth . If you have time, come back and show me your face . After my daughter gets married . ”

Jack laughed showing off his teeth .

“DAD!”

Lula shouted loudly in the kitchen . She was listening even though she was acting like she wasn’t . Jack jumped slightly and whispered .

“Or not . Hmm! Come back quickly and…”

“SHUT UP DAD!”

Lula’s shout turned into a scream . Sungmin smiled bitterly and nodded .

“I’ll think about it . ”

Even if he wouldn’t .

He left the inn . It was July . The year 1104 . It was a year since he arrived .

The cape was a bit big, but he liked it . He rolled up the upper half of the cape so the end of the cape wouldn’t drag on the floor, and walked towards north castle wall .

‘3 years in his past life . Now it’s one year . ’

He had graduated 2 years quicker .