Chapter 296

Chapter 296

As soon as I got home, I immediately opened the warehouse where the shinrok was stored.

It had been hours since I’d put it in. My heart was racing, not knowing what was happening inside.

‘Surely it hasn’t died in the meantime?’

The shinrok is originally a natural occurrence.

Of course, they can live for a long time as long as the environment is suitable, but the warehouse was filled with elixirs and treasures that were given to me by my father.

The aura of each ingredient was mixed, and no one knew what effect it would have on him.

With a worried heart, I slowly opened the door.......

“Huh?”

An eerily quiet warehouse greeted me.

No, how could it be so quiet?

I walked into the warehouse and looked around.

“Holy shit......!”

I realized that some of the elixirs I had planned to make into tea were missing.

Even though they were low-level elixirs that only gave me fatigue relief, a little aura recovery, or temporary side effects, it was still pretty upsetting for someone whose favorite food in the world was elixirs.

“Is this.......”

It had to be the shinrok.

His favorite foods were plants that had accumulated mana over time.

“Where the hell did this damn deer cub go?”

The problem was, the shinrok had disappeared into the warehouse.

Just as I was wondering where the hell it went.

-Bam.

“Huh?”

I hit something with my foot.

I know the location of everything in the warehouse. There shouldn’t be anything down here......

I slowly lower my head to check what’s down there.

“Hehe, I’m so full...can’t eat anymore...”

“Huh?”

......was lying face down in the warehouse, fast asleep.

* * *

“So, you’re that shinrok?”

“Yep. Uh, by the way.”

The little kid opens his mouth cautiously, looking around my room.

He had been sleeping soundly in the storage room, but after following me out of the storage room, he remained this nervous.

“But who are you then? I distinctly remember... being kidnapped by a very strange-looking human.”

...... Apparently, the appearance of the Magical Rogue was quite a shock to the kid.

It seemed like a good idea to make a good impression on him.

“I’m Eugene. I’m the one who saved you from your kidnappers.”

“Thank you, Eugene......I’m Dulchan.”

Dulchan.

“Okay, Dulchan. I have a few questions for you, first of all......how did you end up captured by humans?”

I’ve been wondering that ever since I saw the sign at the zoo that said “Shinrok is coming to visit”.

Wasn’t a shinrok originally a deer?

Deer are masters of escape. If it’s a divine beast, it’s not easy to catch, let alone a normal person.

But for such a shinrok deer to be captured by people and brought to the zoo? Isn’t it strange?

At that question, Dulchan’s expression darkened.

“......I couldn’t run because I was too sick to run.”

“Sick? You look fine to me.”

“No! I was really sick, I mean my chest hurt whenever I tried to run and......it was hard to breathe and stuff like that, but it all got better when I went next to that weird guy.”

Ah.

Could it be referring to when I scattered a lot of divine power as Magical Rogue?

That must have been what healed the wound.

A wound healed by holy power, not healing, so it was no ordinary wound.

“I’m sure there’s a lot to talk about, but do you think you can tell me what happened?”

“To you......?”

Was it because it was so early in the morning? The staff room was quieter than I expected.

“Mmm.......”

I saw Ji-hyun, who was sleeping on her desk, face down for some reason.

Dozens of papers lay on her desk.

[Memorandum]

[Report]

[Accident report]

[Resignation]

......She must be busy in her own way, I thought.

Well, she was out with her kids and this happened to her, so she must be feeling pretty awkward.

But on the flip side, she’s also the reason why this happened.

If it hadn’t been for our class, there would have been a lot of civilian casualties.

“Huh? Eugene, what are you doing in the staff room this morning?”

At that moment, the old man who was sunbathing by the window with his feet up on the desk recognized me and said.

“Ah, old man.”

I wondered what time he had gotten up and how fresh he looked despite the early hour.

“I came to ask you a favor.”

“Huh? A favor?”

The elderly man looks intrigued as he pushes his feet off the desk, realizing that this is a bit out of the ordinary.

“Yes, I wonder what Eugene, our Aura elder, could possibly have asked this old man for? Let’s hear it.”

“It’s nothing special... but could you arrange a meal for us?”

“Hmm? A meal? What, do you want something to eat?”

“It’s not like that... it’s just that there are some people I can’t meet alone. I think I should go with you.”

The old man laughed at my story.

“Well, that’s unexpected. You, feeling uncomfortable around someone. So, who exactly is this person that you’re asking me for such a favor?”

The old man’s words made me glance around.

Fortunately, no one else seemed interested in the conversation.

I cautiously approached the old man and answered in a low voice.

“Oh, I mean your close friend.”

“Huh? Who? My close friend...Could it be Sangrok?”

The old man casually calls the current president by his first name.

“What do you want to do with him?”

From the old man’s point of view, it’s understandable that he’s puzzled because all of a sudden his student is saying, “I want to meet with the president in secret.”

But this is essential to my plan.

“I need to talk to him about the DMZ. We’re going to the DMZ soon.”

“Right, but it was Congressman Jang Jin-yong who gave us access to the DMZ, so why do you want to meet with Sangrok?”

“Well, since he’s asking, there’s no reason not to tell him.

I immediately told him a little bit about my plan.

“Right now, the DMZ is an ungoverned area, and up there, it’s practically anarchy with all the dungeons, monsters, and raiders.”

In the CS setting, the world has come to this point, and the North Korean government has been effectively destroyed.

In fact, the land that used to be North Korea is now a place called Magyeong.

The damage was so devastating that they didn’t know where to start.

In the end, the government calculated that repairing it would only cause losses, so it was left alone.

The land that used to be called the DMZ was also neglected, with all kinds of monsters, flora and fauna, and dungeons.

“But why that land? I’m going there with you for training. In the first place, that land is uninhabitable because of the monsters and dungeons.”

“Isn’t it a waste?”

In essence, the abundance of dungeons means that there is a great deal of mana there.

It means that there may be undiscovered elixirs, divine beings, and other beings, such as Dulchan.

In other words, it’s a land that hasn’t been scratched yet, but is practically a guaranteed winner.

“Are you sure you......want to meet Sangrok because.......”

“Yes.”

That’s right.

I’m looking for a land that’s not being managed, that’s infested with monsters and spirits.

“I’m going to take it.”

I was going to make it mine.