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#051. White Sun (1)
Time passed, but nothing happened.
No blazing light burst through the hole in the ceiling, no deafening roar echoed.
But Ray could tell.
The fact that a massive mana storm the size of the entire abandoned factory is raging inside right now.
“… … .”
I heard Mana screaming.
I could hear Mana twisting and breaking her body.
For Ray, who sensed mana much more keenly than a normal wizard, it was a disaster more intense and violent than anything he had ever experienced.
How much time has passed like that?
I finally felt Mana calm down.
‘…It’s over.’
I looked around for a moment.
The sunlight was dim and the wind blew with the smell of scrap metal.
The scenery, which was no different from usual, somehow made it feel as if the events that had just taken place in the abandoned factory were a lie.
But it was reality.
Sweat and tears running down my entire body.
Torn clothes and lots of dirt and dust.
All of this was to indicate that the plan was a success.
Kkieeeeeeee───
Ray opened the door.
The first thing I noticed was that there was no mana inside the abandoned factory.
It was literally as if a storm had swept everything away.
And through the just-opened door and the hole in the ceiling, mana from outside flowed in, slowly filling the empty space.
“… … .”
Today alone, I experienced this phenomenon twice, something I had never seen before.
The man’s lost vessel.
Mana pending deletion.
‘It was said that in some cases, the mana in the air is used to amplify the power of the magic circle.’
Ray glanced up.
The light coming through the hole in the ceiling illuminated the floor just below in a circular shape like stage lighting.
Strictly speaking, it wasn’t the case that there was no mana at all inside the abandoned factory.
Right where the light shines.
Because a bright red thread of mana was floating leisurely in the air at about eye level.
Scattered beneath were the clothes the man had been wearing.
And the ring too.
However, the man was nowhere to be seen.
Ray could intuitively tell that the thread had been extracted from the man.
The thread started from the loose end and was sucked into the ring, and before long it completely disappeared.
Thud, thud.
The boy picked up the ring.
‘You said it was red blood stone.’
The red stone flashed rapidly with a blinding red light.
I felt the absorbed red mana being fused into the jewel itself.
According to what the old man said, the jewel’s function as a charging stone was now being strengthened.
Mana obtained by sacrificing a living creature cannot be purified by putting it back into a ring, and is usually used for other purposes, such as enhancing the performance of magical tools.
Woof─
The ring eventually stopped blinking and returned to normal.
My work here is done.
Now, after going back and resting, you can go to the man’s basement and investigate the clues about Murkred and the rainbow.
But before that, I felt like trying out the gem.
Since men were never meant to be weak, the performance of the jewels must have improved considerably.
‘The quality of the mana contained within must have also changed.’
Maybe it could even rival the mana of the ring.
Such thoughts stimulated my instincts.
Pushing aside his thirst for rest, the boy drew up the mana in his ring.
Woof─
The red mana contained in the jewel was sucked into the boy’s palm.
…it was beyond my expectations.
Although it still doesn’t reach the level of the ring’s mana, it can be said that the quality has improved several times compared to before.
It was a moment when the actions of the man who tried to strengthen the jewel by offering sacrifices became understandable.
Of course, as a boy, there was no reason or thought to actually do such a thing.
Woof─
The boy pulled the red mana from the jewels that filled his palm towards his wrist and arm.
It was then that a memory suddenly came to my mind.
“Okay, I was wrong! Please, don’t hit me! Aaak!”
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Memories of being kicked every day by the drunken orphanage director.
“Hey, get out of here! This, this bread is mine!”
Looting and lynching were commonplace on the streets where people wandered aimlessly.
The hatred towards the world that I felt while eating a piece of hard bread that had fallen into the sewage.
The desire for strength that I have always longed for throughout my life.
‘That’s not my memory.’
This was a man’s memory.
The emotion that permeated the entire memory was a poisonous anger, and the time he lived as a weakling on the streets reminded him of the past that Cedric had tearfully confessed.
In other words, the man shared similar memories with Cedric.
Perhaps that was why he understood Cedric’s frustration more deeply than anyone else, and was able to take advantage of it.
Ray could also feel the man’s anger slamming its head against the emotional barrier that existed in his own mind.
As if asking to be let inside.
It’s as if you want to feel this anger too.
Ray, who was lost in thought for a moment, used the mana from the ring that flowed into his body to create flames.
Hurrah!
The red and orange flames burned with a brilliant color on the boy’s palm.
“… … .”
There was no expression on the boy’s face, but there was a hazy look in his eyes as he stared at the flames.
Suddenly, that thought occurred to me.
If I maximize the ring’s mana, how big can I make this flame grow?
The boy released the emotional barrier of anger.
At the same time, the man’s anger poured into the boy’s mind as if it had been waiting for it.
“I’ll kill them all. I’ll definitely become stronger so that no one can ignore me.”
At the same time, the resentment the man felt was fully felt.
Hurrah!
The size of the flames increased by at least five times.
Although it boasted tremendous heat and vivid colors, the boy felt it was lacking.
This is not enough.
To maximize the potential of the ring’s mana.
The boy recalled the memory of that night when heavy rain was pouring down.
“Whoaaaa──.”
Blood flowing out from under the collapsed tent.
Niles with a hole in his chest.
and.
A golem with a dented side that was crawling along the ground.
Like the Elton River that day, overflowing with rainwater, a great amount of anger poured into the boy’s mind.
Hurrah!
The flames, which had grown several times larger, grew to a size large enough to engulf the entire upper body of an adult male.
If I hadn’t protected myself with mana, my skin would have started to burn from the heat right away.
“… … .”
The boy continued to stare at the flames.
The anger that was currently in my mind was solely derived from the boy’s memories.
The anger of the man who had originally been in that position had disappeared, pushed away by the boy’s anger.
‘You can grow a flame to this extent.’
With his rage close to its limit, the potential of the ring’s mana seemed to be at its limit.
The experiment is over.
It was okay to block out the anger again and return to the original state.
But the boy didn’t do that.
‘Blocking out your emotions? Why?’
It was because in my hazy mind, a conflict arose where I wanted to vent my anger.
My head and chest were hot.
My whole body felt hot.
This was not the heat of the flames, but the pain caused by the emotion of anger that he was currently harboring.
I was convinced that if I blocked out my emotions, the anger that filled my mind would disappear cleanly along with the pain, but that the method of directly releasing the anger would bring me a pleasure I had never experienced before.
And I felt like I knew it very well.
What is an effective way to release this concentrated anger and rage?
‘Just destroy it.’
Whether it’s a person or an object.
Whatever you see.
At that moment, flames began to rise all over the boy’s body.
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“I hope it’s okay…?”
The red-haired girl muttered in an anxious voice.
“It’ll be okay. If the fight had started again, I would have heard some noise from inside.”
A small boy wearing glasses answered.
Although he answered in the most soothing voice possible, the boy with glasses couldn’t hide the impatience in his eyes.
“But what if something happened inside…?”
“You said there was a magic circle set up inside, right? Ray asked you to manipulate the magic circle. I’m sure he won, so don’t worry and just wait.”
The boy with glasses took a deep breath and continued speaking.
“Ray isn’t the type to plan so sloppily.”
At those words, the anxiety on the red-haired girl’s face lessened slightly.
Veronica and Philip were hiding among piles of scrap metal, keeping an eye on an abandoned factory not far away.
The current time is 2:29:21 PM.
After Ray opened the door and came out, he went back into the abandoned factory and there was no sound.
Veronica remembered what Ray had said two days ago at the abandoned factory.
“I’m going to fight someone here.”
“I’m going to use a magic circle.”
“Your life might be in danger.”
The boy’s few dry words made the girl’s heart sink.
I had expected it to some extent, but when I heard the truth directly, I couldn’t help but feel my eyes go blank.
A pure white worry bloomed in my pounding heart.
The girl who had been thinking about returning to the bookstore went out again.
I was able to find Philip by finding the hotel kids wandering the streets and telling them Ray’s name.
“You’re Philip. You sent the kids to the factory up north. Help me. Ray might be in danger.”
Veronica tearfully told the story of the fight between the magic circle and Ray.
Philip was very surprised.
From the moment Ray asked for the welder, I knew he was up to something serious.
But I never thought that it would be a plan that would put me in danger.
“When is the fight?”
“Two days later.”
Philip canceled all his scheduled appointments on the day of the fight.
And I came here today with Ray’s men, including Cedric, and some of the hotel kids I can trust.
“Is our captain okay?”
“Yeah. You’re so strong, how could you possibly lose?”
Philip looked back.
There were a total of ten people gathered, including Veronica and herself.
I had no intention of approaching the abandoned factory carelessly.
Because it might interfere with Ray’s plans.
I also didn’t think it would be of much help to Ray, the wizard.
Still, I thought it might be of some small help in case of an emergency.
For example, it would have been possible to move the collapsed Ray to a hotel hospital room and treat him.
Philip spoke to the children who could not hide their anxiety.
“It’s okay. It’s Ray. He’ll be out soon, so just wait a little longer.”
“…okay.”
Veronica nodded beside her. However, the white sun rising over the girl’s bowl did not disappear.
And that really was the moment.
Kkieeeeeeeeee───
The door to the abandoned factory, which seemed like it would be closed forever, opened and someone appeared.