“Shall we check the body first?” < Transaction (2) >
Sang-woo and Aria moved to their seats.
The place they arrived was Arya’s personal workspace.
Unlike the underground production room, the white space was like a laboratory.
‘Woohyun here is similar to a workspace, isn’t it?’
Of course, Arya’s workspace was much larger.
On one side, like a library, skill spheres and skill scrolls that had already been produced were lined up neatly.
“Hey, are these all skill balls?”
“yes. that’s right. I mainly keep prototypes that were first built.”
It seemed that they were collecting only the first items produced here as souvenirs.
After passing through that space, Aria led Sang-woo to the scanning room.
It was to scan Sang-woo’s body.
The scanning room was a capsule-shaped facility made of huge glass tubes.
“You can go in here and wait for me to signal.”
“yes.”
Sang-woo went inside the scanning device.
When you’re just standing there
He could feel the surrounding mana rushing into Sang-woo’s body.
after so long
-It’s done. come out
Arya’s voice echoed through the scanning device.
Sang-woo came out of the scanning device according to the instructions.
When I went to Arya, she was staring at the hologram monitor.
“How is it? Anything special?”
Sang-woo asked.
Arya shook her head.
“Hmm, you have higher magic resistance than I thought. This is going to be a bit tricky.”
Aria explained that due to Sang-woo’s high magic resistance, the movement of mana activated through the skill scroll could be limited in Sang-woo’s body.
“Hmm… I liked it because it had high magic resistance, but it’s not good at times like this.”
“Yes. It’s because there’s a high chance that the buff series will also bounce off. And having a high magic resistance doesn’t mean you’re completely immune to magic. Magic that uses physical force, such as summoning and dropping a rock, will take damage from such an attack. The same goes
for being pushed under pressure by an explosion .”
“okay. Then, will there be any problems with subspace skill production?”
Sang-woo asked as if he was worried.
Arya shook her head.
“no. Not so. I just need to increase the mana output of the skill to match Sang-woo’s constitution.”
“aha. thank god.”
“yes. I think I can start making it right now.”
“yes. Thank you for your effort Then can I go now?”
Sang-woo asked if he could go.
Arya shook her head.
“You can go, but it’s good if you stay. But wait, Mr. Sang-woo.”
“yes?”
“I have a favor.”
Mr. Bershael is asking for it. Sang-woo’s heart skipped a beat.
“Yes, what kind of request?”
“Can I do some research on that alter ego?”
“Your alter ego?”
Sang-woo lost his pulse.
‘Well, there’s no way he was interested in me.’
Still, Sang-woo decided to listen to Aria’s story.
“Hmm, since it’s not worn out, I think it won’t matter if you study it. But what kind of research are you going to do?”
“Hmm, first of all, I’m curious about how the alter ego and Sang-woo interact and how the alter ego can use skills. Also, if I study the alter ego, I think I can find out the principle behind the birth of the doppelganger I am researching.”
“Are you a doppelganger?”
“yes. It’s a tricky monster that copies the opponent’s appearance and even copies their abilities. Unlike other monsters, doppelgangers have very mysterious properties because their shapes are not constant and constantly change. Unlike other monsters, the corpse leaves something like a gray liquid, which is very surprising.
Could it be stem cells that are the root of all life that can change into any living thing? Compared to other monsters, it has many mysteries, so it is very good as a research value, but if you study this…”
Aria explained in a warm voice with her eyes shining brightly.
The research he was doing was very enjoyable.
Sangwoo nodded and agreed.
“That’s why the alter ego has similar properties to the doppelganger, so I want to study it.”
“yes that’s right.”
“Hey, it’s amazing that you’re doing so much research. It’s amazing.”
Perhaps because of the compliment, Aria shook her hand and smiled.
“Ah no.”
“You look the same age as me… that’s amazing.”
“Are you old? no way I’m sure there are a lot more than Sang-woo.”
“really? If you don’t mind, may I ask how old you are?”
Arya then frowned.
“It is rude. Don’t ask a lady her age.”
“Oh sorry.”
Seeing Sang-woo apologizing, Aria laughed as if it was a joke.
“Well, when I get a chance later, there’s something I’ll tell you, right? Anyway, can you lend me your alter ego?”
“great. Then I’ll leave the alter ego to you. Listen to Mr. Bershael, No. 9. Do not follow strange orders.”
It was a rather vague order, but he entrusted control of Unit 9 to Aria.
“If you order now, I will obey.”
“really? Then I’ll test it. Hmmmm, Mr. 9, please come here.”
At Arya’s command, No. 9 came and stood next to Arya.
She was amazed at the alter ego’s reaction.
“Amazing. Even though the order is not specific, this level of ability to carry out. Do you have the ability to make your own decisions?”
“To what extent? But it’s almost like a robot.”
Looking at Gluttony’s behavior these days, it seems like he’s gradually developing his own personality.
Sangwoo didn’t have to say that.
“How amazing. all right. First of all, I’m going to create a subspace input part with my alter ego. You are looking around.”
“yep.”
Aria took No. 9 and headed inside the studio.
Left behind, Sang-woo carefully looked around.
The main thing to see was the prototype skill spheres neatly arranged on the shelf.
There were names on the front of the skill spheres, but Sang-woo looked at them.
‘Hey, there are so many skills. Hey, this is a levitation skill. With just this, levitation is nothing. uh? this is gravity oh my god. I heard that this is also very good.’
Among the skills of the prototype, the abilities that famous hunters mainly use were diverse enough to have skill spheres. Sang-woo fell in love with looking at those skill balls.
‘And there’s also a telekinesis skill. let’s stay If I learn this, I’ll just use the whirlwind charm, right?’
From whirlwind, remote control of the flag was essential.
It’s because you had to know how to pull the ki from a distance.
‘It was basic to blow a whirlwind with a whirlwind slash and pull it with a whirlwind slam. If I go further, I’ll just create a wind from afar in a state where there is nothing and pull it in.’
If the psychokinesis skill was added, the control of the ki would be easier.
If that were the case, it might be expedient, but he might be able to achieve the 6th level of the Stormbringer swordsmanship.
‘I’ll have to buy a psychokinesis skill.’
Around the time I was looking around while adding the skills I wanted to my shopping list.
There was one skill ball that caught Sang-woo’s eyes.
It was a skill ball with no name tag attached to it.
‘What is this?’
Out of curiosity, Sang-woo raised his hand on the skill ball and tried the appraisal skill.
However
, [Cannot appraise due to lack of appraisal skill level.]
The message that appraisal is impossible only came to mind.
‘Is it a very good skill? I’ll ask later.’
Sang-woo left the skill ball behind and looked around.
Suddenly, I remembered one thing.
‘But what happens if I copy a skill orb and then use the copied skill orb?’
Sang-woo was able to copy the equipment as an alter ego.
What if you copied a skill orb instead of equipment when summoning an alter ego?
‘I think it will work for some reason?’
If that happened, he might be able to acquire expensive skill sets almost free.
‘Of course, it’s not that I don’t have money right now, so I can buy it, but I can’t even dream of something very expensive like subspace skills.’
Sang-woo wanted to try copying the expensive skill ball.
‘Should I ask for expensive skills when I show Dubert-san equipment copying tomorrow? Okay, let’s ask.’
He went straight into the studio looking for Arya.
“Is that Arya?”
The studio was enveloped in an astonishing sight.
Shaaaaa –
thick mana streams were gushing out from Aria’s hand holding something like a crystal ball, and the dense mana streams were visible to the naked eye as they were in a tangible state.
The mana stems did not dissipate and headed towards the clone, but the mana that permeated into the clone’s body came out of the clone’s body again and swirled in the air, drawing a huge magic circle.
Ssssss-
That metaphysical magic circle wasn’t one.
Dozens of magic circles intertwined and expanded and contracted repeatedly.
Whieing-
At the same time, in the middle of the magic circle, the space began to shimmer.
Even the space was divided.
It was an open space. “Wow…”
Sangwoo looked at him with admiration.
The shape of the subspace looked similar to the one unfolded with Park Yuna.
The other thing is whether or not there is a magic circle.
Arya shook her hand.
Then, a skill orb that was on one side of the studio floated up and entered the subspace.
After that, the magic circle began to fade, turning in reverse order.
A subspace that begins to close at the same time.
Weiyiing…
The subspace has completely disappeared.
At the same time, the mechanical devices that emitted light in all directions of the studio also stopped working.
Then, a mechanical voice echoed through the studio.
– Recording done.
Hearing that sound, Arya put down the crystal ball in her hand.
And only then did Aria find Sang-woo.
“When did Sang-woo come?”
“Oh, not too long ago. Ever since the magic circle opened subspace?”
“You were watching. I just recorded the subspace input algorithm. Please sit down, Mr.
Arya offered a seat.
There was a simple chair on one side of the workroom.
When Sang-woo sat there, Aria also sat discreetly in the seat next to him.
Sang-woo said with admiration.
“Creating skill scrolls is really amazing. The magic circle drawn by that mana looked really amazing. It’s the first time I’ve ever seen it.”
“A magic circle? Well, since there is a system these days, you won’t be able to use magic yourself.”
Arya nodded quietly.
“Well, before the cataclysm, people in the world didn’t even know there was such a thing as magic. It’s amazing. I never thought something like this would be unrealistic.”
“It’s unreal…”
Aria’s expression darkened a little.
There was silence after that.
‘Did I say something wrong?’
Looking at Aria’s face, Sang-woo realized that he had made a mistake.
“Oh, of course, magic is now a reality. There are no people who don’t know magic or skills. Business is also active.”
“Yes. That is why I am being treated this way.”
She grinned.
Seeing this, Sang-woo changed the topic of conversation.
“By the way, Ms. Aria, I have something to ask you. May I know the price range of the skill orbs?”
“A skill? why?”
Arya asked curiously.
“Actually, I can copy equipment as an alter ego, right? So, since I came all the way here, I wanted to copy an expensive skill ball… Well, that’s right. Can’t we?”
Sang-woo said honestly.
From the seller’s point of view, it meant that they would only go after tasting, but for some reason, it seemed like they would understand if they loved and were passionate about their work.
And her reaction was similar to what Sang-woo expected.
“uh? I guess so. Then, you plan to copy and use good skill spheres such as subspace skills and teleport skills.”
“yes that’s right.”
“Hmm, if that’s possible, you don’t even need to make skill scrolls, right? Just copy the subspace skill orb.” Arya responded as if it would be fun.
Sang-woo’s positive reaction raised expectations in his heart.
‘I think you’ll listen somehow?’
And the answer was ok too.
“great. Sang-woo also lent his alter ego, so I’ll help too.”
“Oh thank you.”
Sang-woo exclaimed joy inwardly.
But Arya put the brakes on it.
“instead. Since you lent your alter ego once, I’ll lend you just one skill orb. Is that okay?”
“yes?”
Sang-woo was taken aback.
His plan was to stay for a few days and copy various skill spheres if Arya accepted.
He tried to negotiate.
“Ay Bershael. Please don’t do that, lend me a few more. Instead, I’ll lend you my alter ego for a long time.”
Sang-woo tried to negotiate.
At that, Arya shook her head.
“It’s only for a moment that Sang-woo lends his alter ego. Also, if you borrow the skill, if Sang-woo has the skill, it will last forever. I am at a loss.”
“Um…”
Arya was right.
Renting an alter ego was not enough in exchange for borrowing a skill ball.
‘Is there any way?’
It was time for Sang-woo to roll his head to get more skill spheres.
Arya’s words continued.
“How about something other than your alter ego instead?”
“Which one?”
“You are doing one of my requests.”
< Transaction (2) > End
