Chapter 372 - But I Can

Chapter 372 - But I Can

“Kang-Wooooooooooooo!”

“Whoa, there.”

Oh Kang-Woo caught Echidna as she jumped into his embrace. Echidna looked up at him while teary-eyed.

“Why, why did you disappear without a word?!” she shouted. Read latest chapters at nov(e)lbin.com Only

Kang-Woo smiled bitterly. He was most certainly at fault for this incident. If he had been in their shoes and either Kim Si-Hun, Han Seo-Ah, Echidna or anyone else acted on their own, he would have been furious. The fact that he was short on time was just an excuse; he could have concisely contacted them before heading out.

‘Was I more hot-headed than I thought?’

Kang-Woo couldn’t tell. He might have been more impacted by Uriel’s critical state than he had initially thought. In any case, he was in the wrong.

“I’m sorry,” Kang-Woo apologized while patting Echidna’s head.

Echidna was about to say something, but refrained from doing so and simply clenched Kang-Woo’s clothes without a word.

“Sniff, sniff.”

‘Sheesh, you sure are full of snot and tears.’

Blow!

“Wha...”

‘Why are you blowing your nose on my clothes?’

Blow! Blow!

‘Stop that, young lady. You’re getting snot all over my cl—’

Bloooowww!

Kang-Woo grabbed Echidna’s shoulders and lightly separated her from him. Soon after...

“Hyung-nim!”

‘What is it this time, man?’

“Why, why did you disappear without a word?!”

‘Are we gonna go through this each time per person? Keep that up and we’ll be able to fill up today’s chapter.’

“Sorry. I was so out of it that I didn’t think to contact any of you guys,” Kang-Woo replied.

“Haaa. Jesus, do you have any idea how worried I was?”

Si-Hun sighed in relief and then glared at Kang-Woo. Seeing his eyes filled with rage, Kang-Woo smirked.

‘Cute little son of a bitch.’

Si-Hun really felt like a little brother. Kang-Woo was finally able to escape after consoling every single one of his party members who had chased after him to the north. Seol-Ah slowly approached Kang-Woo after he finally managed to resolve the mess.

“Are you really okay, Kang-Woo?” she asked.

“Yeah, I told you I am.”

Seol-Ah carefully reached out to touch Kang-Woo. She smiled brightly and nodded. “Okay, I’ll trust you.”

‘But why are you touching my limbs if you trust me?’

Kang-Woo suppressed his thoughts from leaving through his mouth and turned around. He walked up to Echidna, who was sitting down on the bed with her eyes all puffy from crying so much.

“Can you help me for a bit?” he asked.

“Hm? Me?”

Echidna looked around to see if Kang-Woo had been talking to someone else, and then jumped up in surprise. She had always been the one to be helped by Kang-Woo, but the time had come for her to be able to help him. A fresh and exciting feeling ran down her spine and throughout her body.

Echidna gulped and nodded energetically. “Hm! Yeah, I can help! But with what?”

Echidna looked up at Kang-Woo with sparkling eyes.

Kang-Woo smiled bitterly and continued, “I want you to teach me stuff about dragon tongue magic.”

“Dragon tongue magic?”

“Yeah.”

“Do you want to use dragon tongue magic, Kang-Woo?”

Kang-Woo nodded. To be more precise, he was trying to understand the construct and principles of dragon tongue rather than to be able to use it.

Momentary silence fell. Echidna sat back down on the bed and rolled her feet covered by pink bunny socks. The bunny’s ears were flapping up and down.

Echidna then answered with a sad expression, “You can’t.”

“I can’t?”

That was indeed true; Kang-Woo barely used activation words for his skills. His demonic energy control was so abnormally high that it took him under 0.1 seconds to prepare skills made by merging Authorities. However...

“That 0.1 seconds makes all the difference.”

Even if more zeroes were added and it only took 0.0001 seconds, that short time difference decided the result of a battle between the truly powerful. If Kang-Woo became able to use magic just by saying the activation word, he would be allowed more time to focus on other things.

“I’ll give it a try, at the very least,” Kang-Woo remarked.

“I told you, it’s impossible since you don’t have the vocal organ.”

Echidna pulled on Kang-Woo’s clothes as if questioning why he wasn’t listening to her. Kang-Woo smiled and turned his head.

‘Now, think. Would the reason really have to do with the vocal organ?’

Kang-Woo shook his head. No matter how he thought about it, that did not seem to be the fundamental problem.

‘That may be the case purely in terms of dragon tongue magic.’

Dragon tongue was created and advanced by dragons; it was only natural that Kang-Woo would not be able to imitate them since he did not possess their vocal organs.

‘But...’

The key of dragon tongue, that fascinating power, was not such a superficial aspect.

‘Imbuing power into words.’

That was the core of dragon tongue and its foundation. Dragon tongue was simply a result that was derived from the concept of imbuing power into words.

‘If that’s the case...’

There was no reason that Kang-Woo would not be able to use it.

“Fuuu,” Kang-Woo inhaled as he recalled how Echidna had roared.

“You can be so stubborn sometimes, Kang-Woo. Dragon tongue was developed and advanced over hundreds of thousands of years. It’s not something you can just—”

[D O V A H K I I N!]

The roar that had come out from Echidna’s mouth came out from Kang-Woo’s mouth this time. The ground was leveled as a storm of demonic energy raged. However, the energy that was tearing apart the surroundings suddenly dissipated as if a fuse had been cut.

“Huh?” Echidna’s eyes widened as she looked back and forth at the leveled ground and Kang-Woo. “Wh-What? How did you do that, Kang-Woo?”

Although it had gotten cut midway, Kang-Woo had definitely used dragon tongue. Echidna rushed toward Kang-Woo and pulled on his clothes.

“Hmm.” Kang-Woo frowned as he stared at the leveled ground.

He was not interested in the fact that he had managed to use dragon tongue.

‘Why did it stop midway?’

He was more focused on why it had only been partially successful.

‘Because my vocal organ is different.’

Echidna had been right in that aspect. The formula that had been crammed in the word had not manifested correctly because it had been said through a different vocal organ.

“I got the hang of it now,” Kang-Woo said.

“Wh-What?”

Echidna looked up at Kang-Woo in confusion. How could he have gotten the hang of it after just one try? It was impossible, even if Kang-Woo possessed the vocal organ of a dragon. Even a mature dragon took a few months at least and decades at most to learn just one dragon tongue magic.

“What are you talking about, Kang-Woo?” Echidna asked with a trembling voice.

“The fundamental concept of dragon tongue magic is imbuing power into words, right? In that case, you don’t need to pronounce the words like dragons do.”

Kang-Woo pointed his hand at the peak of the mountain and uttered, “Dovahkiin.”

Rumble—!!

A natural disaster several times more destructive than what Echidna had shown laid waste to the entire mountain. Kang-Woo smiled at the destruction he had caused and shook his head.

“No. I don’t even need to cling to dragon tongue. If the skill is fundamentally to imbue power into words, I can just say whatever I want, can’t I?”

He could just imbue his will into the words he uttered and mix it with his energy. As long as those conditions were fulfilled, that in itself would become magic.

Riiing.

[The skill ‘dragon tongue magic’ is evolving into ‘Soul Speech’!]

[You have accomplished an unprecedented feat!]

[Dramatically raising your demonic energy control!]

Echidna simply stared at Kang-Woo with her mouth agape in silence. Kang-Woo laughed.

“I can’t, you say?”

‘But I can.’