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The time of pain is over.

And 512 new Awakenings were born.

Mupalun's hunch is as accurate as ours. Forest warriors had to endure the pain exactly the same time Mupalun endured the test of the forest.

Everyone was lying flat on the floor.

“Rest one day today and teach the forest martial arts from tomorrow morning. ”

Hyun-seok turned away, leaving behind the words.

Mupalun urgently asked.

“Why did you do that? ”

The stone stops walking and turns back. Mupalun looks directly at the stone and asks.

“Why did you make me endure the same time? ”

“Is that what you were wondering? ”

Hyun-seok laughed and said.

“That's the limit. ”

“Limit?”

“The forest is the limit of strength you can give warriors just as long as you endure it. ”

“So...... you became a great warrior because I had overcome that limit? ”

The stone shakes its head.

“Survival means nothing more. No Great Warrior can gain more power than that. Next, it is only a question of how to digest the power given to them. ”

Hyun-seok said so and turned around again. Then he added a few words.

“You'd better not expect them to be as strong as you. Better than the shadows of the forest, though. ”

At the end of the sentence, the striker walks out of the void.

Mupalun stared blankly at the distant side of the stone and repeatedly scolded what he had said in his mind several times.

Mupalun regains his senses as soon as the stone is gone. And I looked at the warriors lying in the void.

After taking a deep breath, he approaches the warriors and carries them home simultaneously.

I quickly walked home thinking I'd have to mobilize all my servants.

* * *

“What? Are we just gonna go like this? ”

Ryan looks at the stone with a dazed eye and asks. The rest of the party doesn't look that different.

I felt like I was going instead of doing something. After making Lyla king for some reason, I thought I'd have to leave, but she said I was just going, and she frowned like she forgot something.

“Then what are you going to do? Stay? ”

Ryan ponders a few questions and opens his mouth.

“Shouldn't you just... help me out a little more? You said 200 more assassins in the shadows of the forest or something. ”

Hyun-seok glances at Ryan. Ryan dodges the stone's eye awkwardly.

“So... you want to fight? ”

“No, not necessarily. Maybe a little more help is better for later... ”

Hyun-seok looks around the group, including Ryan, and turns around.

Everyone smiled bitterly. I could tell just by the look and behavior. The work here at Medina Toon is over.

The rest is up to Leila and Mupalun.

The squadron moves along the squadron, praying for their success.

The group takes a short walk, and everyone looks curious.

Somehow, the path leading the way didn't seem to lead out of the city.

Instead, the stone was entering the city.

“Where are you going? ”

Hyun-seok continued walking without an answer. In the end, the group is forced to follow.

A short walk later, the destination was outlined. The headstone was a spire in the center of the city.

With the spire still standing, the group reaches the spire without any difficulty.

“Why are you here? ”

Everyone looked at the stone with a curious look. Hyun-seok approached the spire without a word and put his palm on it.

The spire has a door. The group's eyes widen.

As the stonemason entered the spire, everyone rushed in. After a while, the door disappeared.

The group enters the spire and looks around with a curious eye.

Everyone felt like their body senses were slightly awake.

No, this was actually a place to help the senses. Mufalun didn't get the perks either.

The group looks around, surprised, and sees the stone standing in the center of the spire.

It is because a huge magical force was emitted from the body of the stone.

Hyundai is sticking to the spire wall by pulling out a web of twisted magical power just like he used to when he came here with Mupalun.

“Well, what are you doing? ”

Ryu Hye-yeon, who was watching Hyun-seok do, asked, shining her eyes.

It was naturally Ryu Hye-yeon who was benefiting the most from this position.

Her sense of magic was more sensitive than anyone else's. Thanks to that, I was quickly increasing my affinity, but today's work has been really helpful.

“I'm sure it's over. We should turn back now. ”

“Turn it back?”

Ryu Hye-yeon didn't understand Hyun-seok's words quickly, so she tilted her head.

“There's a lot of loopholes in convenience. ”

At the end of the sentence, the magic of the stone resounded and infiltrated the spire along the cobwebs.

Then the white sphere floating on top of the spire began to spray magic all around, furiously rotating.

The spell quickly envelops all of Medina Toon.

The group in the spire has the same experience as Mupalun had not long ago.

You can see the whole city from above. Through the eyes of magic.

Then I could see what Hyun-seok was up to. Everyone was greatly impressed.

There is an abnormally clumped mass of magic in their eyes that seems to have lost its cohesion and dispersed.

Just moments ago, the power of the newly awakened forest shadows was returning to the forest.

It was only recently awakened, so my strength was scattered at a really fast rate.

On the other hand, the strength of the old men, who had become the forest shadow, did not dissipate well.

By itself, the difference between the actual Awakened Warrior and the actual Awakened Warrior was eliminated.

although the magnitude of the force and the way it's expressed are very different.

Even Hyun-Seok didn't intend to do anything to them, so I finished at that point.

Whoo-hoo!

The magic that had been scattered all over the place returned together.

The eyes of the squadron party fade into the flashlight. An intense shock knocked me all over the body.

However, they endured much better than Mupalun.

Mupalun is almost devastated by the vomiting of blood, and the squadron survives only one intense shock wave.

It was also because the foundation of their power was different from that of Mupalun, but it was the biggest reason why Hyundai helped during the year.

The stone takes most of its returning magic to its body.

The party receives nothing but the crumbs. So it's less of a shock.

Anyway, that was the last time that I was done with Medina Toon.

Now the real Lyla and Mupalun are left to do their own work.

‘Maybe I'll be king okay. ’

I had the same idea in everyone's mind.

Meanwhile, the stone stone moves and creates a door on the wall. Everyone rushed out along the fence.

“I can't afford it. ”

Ryan grunts. Of course, no one responds to him.

That's how the squadron leaves Medina Toon.

* * *

Malikun, Fukumun, Harbun, Mucapatun.

The leaders of your family and the names that represent your family were gathered together.

Although their outfits and appearance were different, their expressions and attitudes were surprisingly similar.

Everyone looks dejected, their heads lowered.

“What the…… does anyone know what the hell is going on? ”

The first person to open his mouth was Fukumun.

He had the most powerful warriors of all the Menatoon families.

But he was only a common warrior. I could not compare them to the forest shadow.

Harbun, the head of the most wealthy family, received it.

“If we knew that, would we be here? What the hell is going on... …. ”

“I don't think there was ever a problem with the Awakening process……. ”

While everyone was doing so, Malikun, who was in the position of leading your family during Eun-yeon, barely calmed down and opened his mouth.

“Anyway, we need a countermeasure. ”

Malikun says that and looks up at the left.

Mucapatoon looks at Malikun and asks.

“What about the shadows of the lost forest? Is there any chance they'll regain their power? ”

Malikun shakes his head.

Actually, I didn't ask because I didn't even know Mucapatun. I just mentioned it because there was a lingering sense in it.

This time, I made a huge swarm to create a new forest shadow.

If the forest shadows were fine, they would have covered all the damage, but once they disappeared, there was no chance of that.

“First we have to hide everything. ”

Everyone glares at Malikun and looks at him. Then he nodded.

The current state of your family was not words.

The only way to overcome this was if one of them became king.

“I'm glad the rest of the forest is intact. because they could use it. Isn't that right?”

“That's right. We should make good use of them. ”

The question was how to use it.

“First of all... the most troublesome are Lyla and Mufalun. Do you agree?”

Everyone nodded.

“Perhaps Lyla will challenge the king. You all know that, right? ”

Everyone knew that, too. Your family shared a lot of information with each other.

“So we need to strengthen surveillance on both of them. I want to put all the shadows in there. What do you think? ”

“I agree."

The rest of them said so at the same time. They thought they needed it, too, so they had to put in the most powerful force they had.

“Then I'll put in all the remaining forest shadows I know. I will decide to split it in half and attach it to Lila and Mupalun. ”

Malikun says that, then shines his eyes and looks around the left again.

“You have to remember, we have to hide. Make it clear it's time to inflate your body and scare the opponent. ”

“I know. Don't worry.”

But it was true that I was anxious, even though I knew it with my words and my head. The eyes of four people who made that decision were shaking without reason.

Their family was in crisis. If no king comes out of this one, the history of the centuries-old family will be over.

Everyone stood up with a light greeting, hiding their anxiety.

Malikun's eyes gleam brightly as he watches the heads of the three families go out.

‘You must be king. We need more war. That's the only way to live. And……. ’

And their utility was over. Once they become kings, they must clean up after themselves.

‘I have to move quickly. ’

Now that you've decided to abandon them, you'll have to hold hands with other families.

Of course, you should hide the fact that your family might collapse just by touching it with your fingers.

No, that's not true. Once Malikun is elected king, nothing will happen.

Malikun repeated his thoughts and calculations on which family to bring in while keeping his eyes closed.

The End

kang-hyun Kim