Possessing Nothing

Lee looked down at the key that was on his palm.

The key to changing stones in your past life. I wanted to find out what it was, but there was no way to find out right now.

In order to feel these unknown objects, you have to go to the emotional center in the city and commission them.

‘First of all, Neville……. ’

Of course, Lee Sung-min, a member of Erebria, doesn't have to go to the city and visit the emotional center.

Lee Sung-min summoned Nevel to pledge his emotions. At that time, some people came down on the hill and approached Lee Sung-min.

Lee Sung-min put on the mask he had taken off and postponed calling Nebbel. The first thing to do is to get out of here.

The coming ones looked like well-rated mercenaries, but the peak level was a bit ridiculous.

Lee Sung-min glanced at them and left. As lucky as the dungeons they found were taken from them, what can we do? They were unlucky.

After checking that there was no one around, Lee Sung-min called for Nevel. Nebbel, who came up from the shadow of Lee Sung-min, bowed his head to Lee, as he always did.

“What's the matter? ”

“I'd like to send you a request for an item. ”

Lee raised the key in his hand. Nebel tilts her head toward the golden key.

“The key... … Where did you get this? ”

“I got it from a dungeon. ”

“Really? Can I take it first? ”

Neville asked politely. Because Lee Sung-min could not move space with Nebbel, he had to go through Nebbel when delivering things this way.

Nebel slowly reaches out and grabs the key that is in Lee's hands.

The moment Nebbel's fingertips touched the key.

Parker!

As the current fries, Nevel's hand is pushed back.

“Ugh?! ”

Nebbel lets out a bewildering sound. He shifts his hands and keys, which bounce off without touching them.

Seongmin opened her eyes and saw Nevel because she didn't think this would happen.

“…… wait a minute. ”

Nebel reaches for the key again. However, the results did not change.

Neville's hand flicks away from the key again, and Neville grips and straightens, grinning his glance.

“Perhaps...... this key belongs to Lee Sung-min. ”

“Bound…? ”

“Yes. Sometimes, very rarely. Here's the thing. No, it's enchanted, so it must be artifact. Most of these items are cursed... but it's impossible for me to take them unless they belong to you. ”

“Well……. ”

In Nevel's words, Lee Sung-min frowns and thinks. I didn't even know what the key was, but I felt uncomfortable that it was bound.

“Is there no way? ”

“Find an appraiser in a nearby city and ask for an artifact. Or we could introduce you to a very skilled appraiser. ”

“Introduction, please. ”

“I understand.”

Nevel answers and hides his face. And in less than an hour, Neville reappears.

“The closest city to here, Behinger, is an appraiser named Prod. He's not one of our members, but based on his research, he's the best appraiser closest to here. ”

Behngers are not far from here. At Lee's speed, he will arrive before the end of the night.

It's not too late, so if you hurry, you might be able to request emotions right away.

After hearing from Nevel about Prod's position, Lee Sung-min opened his eyes and headed to Behenger.

Thanks to his haste, Lee Sung-min was able to arrive in Behenger before dark.

After almost a decade, Behenger had a lot of different things compared to when he left, but it was nice to meet him who had lived in this city until he was this old.

It's not too late. Lee Sung-min headed toward Prod's emotional point, as he had heard from Nevel.

The emotional points were not far from Behenger's Square, and fortunately the door was not closed.

“Hurry up fifty…. ”

Open the door and enter. Frod was a middle-aged man with thick glasses and thin wrinkles.

He didn't finish his greeting to be amazed by the appearance of Lee Sung-min, who was wearing a big bungalow and ghost mask.

Frod soon asked, grooming his face.

“Are you a guest?”

“Yes.”

In response to Lee Sung-min's answer, Frod looked relieved. Lee Sung-min approached Prod without saying much. He places the heavy key on the table in front of Prod.

“Keys……? ”

“I got this key from a dungeon, but I don't know what it's for. ”

“Dungeon... Hmm, I see. ”

Despite what Lee Sung-min said, Frod was not embarrassed. The majority of guests who come to appraisers in the first place are not dungeons, but adventurers or mercenaries who acquire artifacts from old ruins or who request feelings for items from the dungeon.

“They say they belong to me. ”

“Bound…? ”

Frod carefully reaches for the key as he hears it.

Parker!

As soon as the key touches your hand, the current splashes again, pushing Prod's hand behind his back.

“You're blocking the contact itself. ”

“Can emotions be possible? ”

“I'll give it a try. ”

Prod said so, preparing himself for emotion. I thought it was just simple magic, but he took out a variety of tools, listed them, and in turn picked up the tools and began looking at the keys.

In the process, he opened his lips and chanted in a small voice.

“Huff.”

Prod swallows his breath as he casts his spell. He hurriedly stops the spell and takes a few steps back. Lee Sung-min, who was watching Prod, tilted his head and asked.

“What's going on? ”

“This is...... impossible. ”

Frod wipes the cold sweat off his brow, turning pale. He swallows a gulp and speaks in a trembling voice.

“If you go to another appraiser, he'll say the same thing to me. This key…… can't feel. ”

“What does that even mean? ”

“The key itself is enchanted by a very complex magic. If you try to force your emotions, you will die without avoiding the magic of the key. ”

Lee Sung-min's eyebrows twitched. He looks at the key on the table and asks again.

“Then why not just undo the magic itself? ”

“That won't be easy either. I'm also a wizard, but the magic caught in that key...... leaves a high and low level, and is a very difficult ancient magic. The magic is completely different from modern magic. If you're not an expert in ancient magic, you won't even be able to understand the magic technique. ”

“Ancient magic? ”

“It's an old magic that's gone now. I'm sorry, sir. I won't take any money for my failures, so please ask any other appraiser or wizard about this key emotion. ”

Eventually, Lee was forced to take the key back and leave the emotional points.

Lee looked down at the key on his palm with suspicious eyes.

The stone of a past life has become the key, and this key belongs to a rational person.

It is protected by the ancient magic that it is now possessed, making it impossible to even feel. There were more than one or two suspicious points.

“Ancient magic.... ”

Nebbel recalled his question to Lee Sung-min for a moment.

He did not hide his appearance to enquire about information, but answered Lee Sung-min's question with a little thought.

“Sios, the Blue Horse Master, is the most knowledgeable figure in ancient magic. ”

The Blue Horseman. I've never met him in person, but I've heard from Neville a few times. Before Lee Sung-min ate the Dragon Heart, he asked Erebrisa, a wizard who could handle the Dragon Heart. The Blue Horse Master has stated that he is keen to purchase Dragon Hearts.

“Where is he? ”

“Si 'r is in the hut with the Blue Horse Tower. Unless it's a special occasion, the horsemen don't leave the tower. ”

Audun is a long way from here. But fortunately, there was also a depression where he had to go.

It was because Haras, the city where the sands originated, was past Odun.

[You've got a strange item.]

She grunts. She tries to put the key in her subspace pocket, but the key doesn't fit in her subspace pocket, either because it's bound.

Eventually, he grumbled and had to put the key in his arms.

[But there's nothing to lose.]

‘I don't even know what they're for. ’

[If it's a key, it's here to unlock something.]

‘I know that. It's a problem because we don't know what we're opening. ’

[The door.]

He replied because he was grumpy.

[I don't know what door.]

Thinking about it doesn't mean you have to figure it out right away. First, visit the Blue Horse Ridge at Audun while you're on your way to Haras. So I decided in my mind what to do next.

‘I came all the way here.... ’

Behenger and Jennavis are not far behind. We may come back here someday, but we don't know when.

Lee turned his head and looked at Genabis.

Jennavis.

The city where the first call of the Inheritors arrives. A city where all the heretics begin to live in Eria.

I met Wijihoen in that city, and I had a variety of other meetings.

‘I thought I'd return the favor someday. ’

Lee Sung-min recalled the innkeeper Jack and street vendor Hans who had favored him in Genevis.

Jack's daughter, Rudra. If you think about it now, the favors they showed were because of the favors of the powerful dysfunctional people at the time.

Nevertheless, it is not that they did not see the goodwill they showed. If Jack hadn't let me stay at the inn at such a cheap price, if Hans hadn't sold him sub-space pockets and other equipment at such a cheap price.

Of course, he would not have died, but there would have been many inconveniences.

‘Let's say hello. ’

I didn't want to go right now.

Spend one night in an inn in Behenger, when it's early in the morning. Lee Seong-min left the inn.

Ten years ago, it took a few days to arrive from Genevis to Behenger, but it was not that far for the current Lee Sung Min.

When Lee Sung-min arrived in Genevis, he first found the square where the street vendors gathered. To find Hans. Lee Sung-min relied on his memory and went to the place where Hans had always set up a stall.

Found it.

It's been over a decade. Hans became a middle-aged man with gray hair.

Hans spreads his mat and sits quietly, laying out his stuff on it.

Lee Sung-min glanced at Hans's back and laughed. He takes off his mask and stands behind Hans.

“How's business? ”

“Huh?"

Hans raises his head to the voice behind his back.

White hair grows, but Hans' face wrinkles as well. He looks up at Lee Sung-min and blinks his eyes and tilts his head.

“…… Who are you? ”

Hans did not recognize Lee Sung-min. After more than a decade, Lee Sung-min, who was a boy at the time, became a young man.

After going through a lot, I barely saw myself as a child.

Lee Sung-min smiled and put his hand in the subspace pocket. What Lee pulled out of his sub-space pocket was the sub-space pocket he first received from Hans.

“Do you remember this? ”

“… uh……. ”

Hans' eyes narrow. It seemed unrecognizable. I had no choice. I would have sold things to a lot of people in a street vendor, and I would have come across a lot of things. Lee said while handing the sub-space pocket over to Hans.

“I was summoned here 13 years ago, and I had a lot of help from you back then. ”

“…… Ah. ”

Thirteen years ago, Hans' eyes opened wide. He opens his mouth halfway and rises to his feet.

“Are you Seong-min? ”

Hans frowns and asks.