“-I only removed the evil nature of the heart, leaving the poison intact. Since you said it has poison resistance, this will actually be of great help in increasing poison resistance.”
In half a day, I was exhausted as if I had competed in two consecutive triathlons.
Derek, who deserved such an evaluation, looked like he was going to collapse at any moment, but his eyes were filled with life.
“The potency is so strong that it is not harmonious, so I prepared three different elixirs containing water, earth, and wood. You should take them in order.”
“…um, thank you.”
Lee Han only expressed his sincere gratitude to him for his efforts.
I could have expressed my gratitude by giving a long speech, but that wasn’t Lee Han’s style, and it would have been burdensome for him.
Derek also smiled faintly, knowing this.
“…Okay. Then the rest later… … .”
dump.
He collapsed before he could even finish his words.
“I think this guy needs to take some medicine.”
Lee Han, who had already expected the man to fall, grabbed him and laid him down on a hammock he had made in a corner.
Then I looked at the medicines on the desk.
Whoaah.
“It’s dazzling.”
His speech is plain, but there is an unmistakable surprise in his eyes.
I just wanted to make something simple, but didn’t something beyond my imagination come out?
Anyone can see that this is a timeless elixir.
Even though it’s just a medicine, it makes me sick.
Three pills Derek told me to take.
They looked like beautiful pearls, each emitting aqua, gold, and green light, and they looked like they would melt in your mouth if you ate them.
‘Growing pottery with your hands, growing wood with pottery, and protecting your entire body. Was this guy’s major in Oriental medicine?’
A leap that seems to have achieved the harmony of yin and yang and the five elements.
It’s so extraordinary.
But even such extraordinary leaps are nothing compared to a single leap.
“This isn’t a leap, it’s a demon?”
Phew!
If we could melt a brilliant red sapphire into water, wouldn’t it be like this?
The beautifully glowing red liquid glowed like a fluorescent substance, and I secretly wondered if this was something that humans could eat.
but.
“I told you to eat this first.”
Lee Han didn’t hesitate.
Isn’t that a leap of faith that requires all your heart and soul, as an adult?
‘You have to eat it all.’
He took three elixirs straight away.
Contrary to expectations that it would dissolve like water, the elixir did not dissolve until it was swallowed.
But the moment those three leaps enter the esophagus.
Kuuung!
“!!!”
A shock stronger than ever before hit my body.
It wasn’t a concept that exploded.
It’s just that a phenomenon of comparable intensity occurred inside my body.
‘Is this taking all the energy from my body right now?’
The three elixirs were not only using each other’s energy to increase their presence, but they were also completely consuming Lee Han’s energy.
The feeling that all the vitality and energy that was restored through painful treatment by a priest is being taken away.
Some people might even misunderstand and think that I made them take these drugs on purpose to poison them.
To that extent, it feels like my lifespan is decreasing in real time.
I felt such a strong sense of rejection that I wanted to spit out the words right away, but-.
‘I think it might be okay to just leave it alone…?’
Lee Han watched his energy being consumed until it was almost over.
He has the belief that timidity will not threaten him, and above all, he does not feel that the aura of leaping is life-threatening.
On the contrary, as these energies absorb your vitality, somewhere inside your body becomes refreshed in a different sense.
It doesn’t matter if I have it, but it feels like the energy that I don’t really need has disappeared and the [capacity] in my body has increased… .
It felt like the bowl was being emptied by force.
I let the three leaps run wild for a few dozen minutes.
“… … Ugh.”
Lee Han felt dizzy and lost the will to speak.
My vision was blurry and I felt like I was going to lose consciousness right away.
Also, if there had been a mirror here, I would have been horrified.
His body, which was so skinny that the phrase “bone-deep” suited him perfectly, was on the verge of withering away.
It can’t be helped that our current situation is bleak and we don’t have mirrors.
And without even seeing the changes that had occurred in his body, Lee Han reached out and painfully picked up the bottle containing the red liquid.
be heavy.
It weighs less than 250g, but it’s incredibly difficult to lift.
Pain and suffering, even the desire for sleep and appetite, are not under my control.
Two desires surge up like crazy: wanting to eat anything, but also wanting to just lie down and sleep without having to eat anything.
An unprecedented situation where one would have felt embarrassed if lust had not been sealed.
In such a situation, Lee Han suppressed all his desires and sufferings with only ‘patience’.
Patience, he was proud that he could not be defeated by anyone in this one area, so he resisted even when the intense pain and desire tried to take over his entire body like an uncontrollable torrent.
‘Shut up, shut up…, shut up-!’
Lee Han gave orders to his entire uncontrollable body.
As if I were commanding my body to follow my will.
Gulp-.
And then Lee Han forced the red liquid into my mouth.
Ugh!
It was closer to chewing than drinking.
It’s clear that I’m drinking liquid, but it keeps wriggling in my mouth, as if I’m eating chewy pig skin or a writhing octopus.
“━━.”
However, Lee Han did not spill a single drop of liquid.
Just chew and chew again.
I ate it so hard that it never left my mouth, and I was determined.
Gulp!
I chewed and swallowed it all.
But was swallowing it the beginning of an ordeal?
Kuung-!
Kuuuung.
My whole body feels like it’s going to tingle.
If there was a dwarf smaller than your finger, and you accidentally swallowed that dwarf, and then the dwarf got angry and repeatedly hit your stomach with an incredibly large war hammer, it would feel like this.
The pain was so intense that he had such thoughts. Lee Han rolled over without even thinking about enduring the pain.
“Ugh… .”
Even the scream doesn’t come out properly.
I have no strength left, and my eyes feel like they might roll over at any moment.
It wouldn’t be strange if consciousness were to fade away at any time.
The sky is singing.
Isn’t this the pain that mothers experience during childbirth?
‘No, I’m a guy?’
Lee Han was momentarily dumbfounded, wondering if this was true.
But the fact that you have time to think means that you are not yet sick enough to die.
Perhaps the energy of the three elixirs is what prevents the ferocity of this medicine, which is as fierce as a buffalo.
‘Ha! This is a weakness?!’
I’ve heard that it has strong medicinal properties.
It is also said that three leaps were prepared for this purpose.
But isn’t it not at a level where you can just dismiss it as weakness?
Lee Han couldn’t even feel the pain of the poison, and was just dizzy in front of the weakness of the Demon King’s heart.
If the elixir he had first taken had not protected his stomach, he would have long since lost consciousness from the pain.
‘… I think it might be better to lose my mind.’
A bitter smile came out of his mouth, but Lee Han knew that losing consciousness was not a good choice.
Shouldn’t I know exactly what’s going on in my body?
So.
‘Fuck! Let’s see who wins.’
Phew.
He bit his tongue and drew blood.
The taste of iron lingered, and another pain finally brought him back to his dazed state.
And soon.
“Hoo, hoo!”
Knock, knock, knock.
Started taking steps.
Boxing steps.
He began to slowly extend and thrust his fists as if he were shadow boxing.
A body with no vitality, and with endless fatigue and a desire to sleep.
However, I cannot help but be on the verge of going crazy, unable to sleep properly due to the pain.
In that case, you should move your body even if you have to force yourself.
It would be better to focus elsewhere, if only to protect your mind.
If others saw it, they would think it was just an ignorant act, but Lee Han willingly chose to sweat to overcome the pain.
Phew-!
Repeat extending and retracting your fist.
It was incredibly slow at first.
After all, the act of moving my body itself was infinitely painful right now.
Kkukkuk!
But Lee Han was stubborn.
As if he would not give in to pain, he extended his fist and moved his body with all his might, and gradually, his slow-moving punches began to speed up.
A punch into the air.
At first, it could not have been anything more than a weak punch that wouldn’t even be able to catch a fly, but as Lee Han’s punches progressed.
Phew, phew!
As speed increases, strength flows through your fist, no, your entire body.
Didn’t you realize it the day before?
There is strength in softness.
As such, strength exists everywhere, and even a body with all its muscles deflated like a balloon can still generate strength.
In any way.
The punches, which were becoming increasingly faster, began to take on a menacing sharpness.
Although it may not have much power, it has the sharpness of an awl or a nail.
However, this is not really an enlightenment.
I was just doing what I could, struggling desperately to fight against the pain and the overwhelming force.
And that struggle.
Knock knock!
It began to absorb the medicinal properties as if it was gradually taking effect.
Originally, it was a process that had to take an entire day, but as if ignoring common sense, Lee Han forced his body to move and absorb, or rather adapt to, the weakness.
“—–.”
At some point, Lee Han started throwing punches without any focus, and his eyes were unfocused.
In a state of half-consciousness, the body moves only as the will dictates.
So he didn’t see it.
Rising more and more from the body.
Cheeeeek.
I’m talking about water vapor.
Phew.
The vapor coming out of his body was actually waste that had been accumulating in his body.
It could be a side effect of an unknown drug that a wizard forced him to swallow when he was young, or it could be a poison that accumulated while fighting in a battlefield.
The things that had been piling up without his knowledge flowed out like sweat from his body, and before he knew it, the heavy fatigue that had taken over Lee Han seemed to have all disappeared.
There it is.
Boom! Boom!
The weakness went a step further and made his once thin body swell up again.
It wasn’t just a bulge.
It was definitely hard like a rock before, but now it’s not only hard like a rock, it’s also elastic like a spring or rubber.
Lee Han’s body, which had already been trained to its limit and had only limited room for physical development, was making strides beyond encouraging growth.
It was ‘fate’.
However, this coincidence could not be simply attributed to the help of medicine.
The desperate life of a man named Lee Han was the result of intense, life-threatening training that ordinary people would never even dream of undertaking.
If it had been someone other than Lee Han who had taken the elixir, this kind of growth would not have even been dreamed of.
It would have been nothing more than taking an expensive nutritional supplement.
A leap forward in growth achieved only because of [him].
This should not be simply attributed to the help of medicine.
… However, unfortunately, at this historical moment when the results of my efforts were revealed, Lee Han, who was in a state of trance, threw a punch at the air without even knowing the changes taking place in his body. No,
Crunch, crunch!
It was just a repetition of the unconscious Baekboshin Kwon.
It’s like this all the time.
──And then, ten minutes later, Derek barely came to his senses and was shocked.
I also checked the wall that was on the verge of destruction… .
“Did you just ingest that? Didn’t you even wait for me to wake up?”
“… … .”
“Well, I’m sure you said there was a certain order to take the medications before I collapsed, don’t you remember? No, more importantly, weren’t you in pain? If you don’t follow the order, it’ll just be adding fuel to the fire…”
“… … .”
“That, that pain could have been so painful that I could have ended up in a coma… … .”
“… Hmm.”
“… … Were you in a lot of pain?”
“Ahem!”
Lee Han looked at the distant mountains.
I couldn’t see the mountain because it was underground, but that’s what I wanted to do now.
And I think so.
somehow….
‘… It hurt so much.’
This was an article that reaffirmed the lesson that if your head is ignorant, your body will suffer, and that is not without reason.
