When I Returned to Farming, National-level Big Juniors Flock - Chapter 43



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43. Who are you?

“Well… this is how people live.”

Oh Hyun-seong rolled around on the hot floor.

He is looking at a novel with a table full of freshly harvested tangerines from this morning on the table.

Novels, it was a hobby I had never even set foot in before, but I found it quite interesting.

Watching the protagonist, the one and only 25th level hunter, crush the skull of the talking back US President brings a sense of vicarious satisfaction.

“I should have tried it once before I retired.”

Oh Hyun-seong smiled brightly and turned the page.

There have been more than a few times when I’ve wanted to give whining politicians a good slap in the face, if not to the point of crushing their skulls.

In reality, doing something like that would cause a lot of headaches, so I just ignored it and moved on.

Perhaps it might be possible if Han Su-yeon or Baek Ji-soo were in their current positions.

Since then, the status of hunters has risen significantly.

It would be possible, as long as it is not a high-ranking elected official.

‘Why am I having these delusions?’

He shook his head, letting out a hollow laugh.

I think I’ve found another hobby that suits me better than I thought.

But more than anything, the satisfaction I got from lying down like this was considerable.

At this time of day, the hunters would be busy braving the cold weather and heading to the gate, but the fact that some people can enjoy this leisure time by staying in a corner of their room gives them a strange sense of satisfaction.

‘How on earth did I live in the past?’

In the past, he lived a life half voluntarily and half involuntarily immersed in work.

Except for my school days, my entire life that I can remember has been spent living a faithful life as an agent and hunter, and I never even thought about having a hobby.

Although he was a bit more eccentric, the other members of the team had similar tendencies.

Since I was called here and there so often, and was so focused on training to survive in the field, I didn’t have time to enjoy other hobbies.

Choi Jeong-il was a very special case, as he took the time to enjoy fishing.

‘Things I never even thought about before… It’s not a bad idea to find hobbies like this, one by one.’

Oh Hyeon-seong, who had been lying down, closed the book.

As he turned his gaze outside the room, he saw an empty weapons case sitting on a drawer in the corner.

There was room for a sword, but it was empty.

‘Come to think of it… I need to get a weapon too.’

At the last scene, Oh Hyeon-seong defeated Bartola.

But in the process, the only sword he had kept since retirement was broken.

Hunter gear was quite expensive, so it took a lot of money to get a decent one.

If he belonged to some organization, he would be able to get the necessary equipment for him, but he was already a retired hunter.

If you are an individual hunter, the only way is to obtain it yourself.

However, if it was equipment that met Oh Hyun-seong’s minimum standards, the unit price would start at several hundred million won.

This part is a bit of a headache.

‘Well, it’s not like there’s anything to fight about right now, so it’s not urgent.’

It was an unexpected loss for him, but it was still a good performance considering the circumstances.

Compared to the scale of the gate that erupted, the damage was much less, and only one Hunter died.

Joo Ji-hye, who was active at that time, also survived without any major injuries.

However, she was in rehab for a while.

It was true that I was exhausted from pushing myself to my limits, but it was more due to being exposed to high concentrations of toxic air for a long time.

If it were normal, the person would have recovered quickly from exhaustion and gotten up again, but because the body’s recovery ability was reduced due to the turbid air, the condition lasted a long time.

I packed a lot of food for her, including strawberries.

If you don’t push yourself too hard and just rest, you’ll calm down soon.

‘But, the strange thing is, it’s me.’

Oh Hyun-seong lifted his top slightly and looked down at his body.

The wound on his side had already healed.

He too was exposed to thick smoke after a long time on site.

Originally, after being exposed to such severe turbidity, recovery is slow and the body is bound to be somewhat strained.

That was true even during the heyday when there were no aftereffects.

After being exposed to a particularly vicious toxic environment, even if there were no major injuries, a period of rest was required.

But now, things are different.

‘I honestly thought I’d be bedridden for a few weeks since I pulled out all the magic I’d sealed while being exposed to the cold. It’s embarrassing to think I even worried about that because I’m fine.’

His physical condition was perfectly normal, except for the slight creaking of his body due to the aftereffects of drawing on his magical power.

In particular, it would be safe to say that there was no effect on the table at all.

‘I wonder if my constitution has changed while I’ve been here?’

Oh Hyun-seong thought as he put a tangerine in his mouth.

I continued to consume pure spirit crops with no toxic substances, and wondered if some changes had occurred within my body.

The reason I thought this was because there was already a big change in his body.

***

“So… you’re saying the sixth ring appeared?”

Han Su-yeon spoke while sitting across from him.

Since she finally found the time a week after the previous incident, my curiosity was piling up.

“You must have seen it then. After absorbing Bartola’s soul, a new link appeared in my danjeon.”

“It’s harder to believe what you see in person.”

In the past, Oh Hyeon-seong was building a total of five rings.

Each of them accumulated vast magical power, giving the effect of having five cores.

Because other hunters had to rely on one core to store all their magical power and output it.

He had an overwhelming advantage in terms of magical power usage.

However, even at that time, Oh Hyun-seong could not increase the number of cores beyond five.

Even though you can increase the size of the rings themselves by increasing their magic power, the number has reached a limit where it can no longer be increased.

However, at a time no one expected, a new core was built without warning.

Even at this very moment, it is still in operation.

Woohoo!

Oh Hyun-seong closed his eyes for a moment and felt the magic power of his danjeon.

Two rings are active.

If you remove the four sealed cores, there will be one old core and one new core in each place.

“It’s much smaller than the existing five rings, but… it has a different magical power as if it was built by someone else.”

“That’s right. What should I say, it feels particularly pure.”

Han Su-yeon nodded, placing her hand on Oh Hyeon-seong’s arm.

As she looked inside him, she too felt the alien magic that had taken hold in her dantian.

No matter how many cores there are, if the same hunter accumulates magical power, magical power of the same nature will only be accumulated.

But his new core has properties that are so alien that it makes you wonder how that could be possible.

“Over the past week, as the core has settled in, the magical power it holds has become more refined. And there’s one more thing that’s peculiar.”

“…Wait a minute, the attributes are different?”

Han Su-yeon said with a start.

It felt like he was being assigned an attribute that he had never felt before in his new sixth ring.

She looked at Oh Hyeon-seong with a bewildered expression.

“…That’s not what I intended.”

He is the only person in the world with four attributes of affinity.

Originally, only a very small number of people had the ability to handle both attributes, which was a fraction of the decimal point.

Han Soo-yeon was a top-class supernatural hunter, but she only had one innate attribute.

The ability to handle four attributes simultaneously is an overwhelming talent that was born against ridiculous odds.

But what if it expanded beyond that and now can handle five attributes?

This is a level where major revisions need to be made to the basic textbooks that hunters learn.

“You’re being ridiculous. But, do you know what kind of attribute it is?”

“No, I haven’t fully settled in yet, so I can’t really figure it out.”

“Hmm… I have a lot of questions.”

What kind of properties does it have?

For what reason did it come into being?

They talked about this sixth core that suddenly appeared.

But there were only guesses, and no proper answers could be given.

Because it was an unprecedented and extremely unusual situation.

“Well, once this guy settles down, he’ll figure something out. Before that, why don’t you go eat something and go?”

“No, I’d like to, but… I have to leave right now. I forced myself to make time because I wanted to hear it in person.”

Han Su-yeon stood up from her seat.

Although he was sorry, he sent her off and returned to pick up the book.

***

Two weeks have passed since the last incident.

Oh Hyun-seong spent his days leisurely as usual.

The spirits are happily running around the yard at the first snow that came quite late compared to previous years.

Even Albert, who usually swims around the reservoir, was enjoying the snow falling on the ground all day today.

“Aren’t you guys going out to play?”

Squeak!

“Haha… sorry.”

Only the fire spirits are locked inside the house, looking annoyed.

Well, it was nice to have a little bit of a warm feeling spreading.

He spent his time locked in his room, reading a book and eating hot soups.

As time passed, the sixth ring, which was becoming more and more refined, was also gradually taking shape.

But as a core, it is still less established.

It seems like we’ll have to wait a little longer, but it’s a problem that time will solve anyway.

Slurp!

A month later.

He was eating hot udon noodles and holding a comic book in one hand.

After finishing the novels I was reading, I tried my hand at comics, and they were also quite interesting.

Indeed, pictures and letters had different charms.

“Ugh, my stomach is going to explode.”

After eating his fill, he lay down on the floor.

Somehow, the more I get used to this life, the lazier I feel.

The biggest problem is that the more this happens, the higher the happiness level increases.

I feel like I’ll never be able to get out of this.

But for some reason, the more he did that, the better his physical condition became.

Oh Hyun-seong was not doing any strenuous rehabilitation training to properly establish his newly formed core after the last incident.

However, my condition was improving faster than when I was training.

‘Getting stronger without doing anything… Is that okay?’

The effects of continuously consuming high-quality crops that have been influenced by the superior spirit, Albert, are accumulating and becoming apparent.

But no matter what, the gap between it and his existing common sense was so great that he wondered if it was okay to do this.

And at that moment, the sixth ring was fully established as a core within his danjeon.

Phaaaat!

Suddenly, a bright white light burst out from inside the room. Oh Hyun-seong sat up in surprise.

Then, hiding behind the door, a spirit in the form of a girl with her head sticking out was looking at him.

“What… what is it?”

It was a spirit he had never seen before, a spirit he had never seen before.

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