Chapter 86 : Chapter 86
Chapter 86: Ignis Guild Field Trip (3)
"Now, then, let's try the actual experience."
The students cheered at Secretary Kim's guidance.
They couldn't hide their excitement at the prospect of personally entering the zero-gravity and high-gravity zones they had seen through the glass walls.
"Wow, it's floating! I'm floating!"
"I feel like I've become an astronaut!"
"Did aerial ability awakened ones live enjoying this feeling?"
The children who entered the low-gravity zone bounced up as if stepping on a trampoline.
Seeing them giggling and spinning in the air, the children watching from outside screamed just the same.
Conversely, the situation in the high-gravity zone was different.
"Ugh……!"
"Wow, it's hard to even lift my foot!"
Even though it was only 3g, the children's faces turned pale at a sensation they were feeling for the first time in their lives.
Normally, they exerted enough force to jump beyond just running, but the students' feet were barely lifting off the ground, feeling incredibly heavy.
The sight of them sweating profusely just to take a single step clearly showed that this was not a simple game.
"Just this much is really hard."
"Even if I'm D-Rank, to be this exhausted at just 3 times the gravity."
"The kids who went into 10g are real monsters……."
The students who entered 10g were visible beyond the specially made glass.
They were mostly B-Rank kids, and combat-type kids with physical awakening abilities.
Even they were making flustered expressions at the gravity of '10g', 10 times the norm.
Naturally, without being able to move their bodies comfortably.
When most of the kids had finished their experience like that.
"You can't forget the rice cakes, Teach."
"I'm going to eat fried food too!"
"Sundae for me! Lots of lungs!"
The scatterbrains of Year 2 Class A.
Jo Seong-hyeon and the twins entered the high-intensity gravity device marked '30g'.
"Don't worry, a bet is a bet. Instead…… make sure to say so if you think you're going to die. I'll let you live."
Yoo jin smiled looking at the children who entered the device.
Like a villain in a movie.
Swish.
Jo Seong-hyeon, Im Jong-sin, and Im Jong-il turned toward Yoo jin in an instant.
The Silly Trio, and the A-Rank chosen children.
"There's no way we'd die from just this much."
"Even if we look like this……."
"We are South Korea's prospects next to Kang Tae-wook."
The children's eyes were shining brighter than ever.
Clack!
The center of their vision containing each other was dyed in darkness.
As soon as the door closed, Secretary Kim's voice rang out.
"Then…… Gravity On."
BOOM!!!!!!!
Along with a tremendous sound.
[30g / on]
The high-gravity device began to operate.
***
For a normal person, breath gets blocked even at 3g, so at 30g, it would be common for the heart to be crushed and for them to faint.
Even if they are awakened ones who have transcended humanity.
Although there may be differences depending on the rank.
In a place with 30 times normal gravity, even those high-and-mighty awakened ones would have to use death-defying strength just to move an arm or stand up from their spot.
Even if they were A-Ranks said to be chosen by the heavens…….
[Gravity Control Training Center]
"Ugh!!!!!"
The expressions of Jo Seong-hyeon and the twins inside the gravity device crumbled.
At the same time, their legs did too.
No matter how much of an A-Rank talent they were.
Because the condition was attached that they not use a single bit of mana.
Right now, they were enduring this gravity solely with physical strength.
No, actually, they weren't enduring it.
"30 times…… is this hard?"
"I thought it would just be 30 times heavier……."
"Ugh……."
They couldn't even lift their heads properly.
Breath would not come.
As if the air had disappeared.
It felt as if countless arms shot out from underground, grabbed them by the collars, and dragged them down.
A sensation felt for the first time in their lives.
It was the first time they couldn't control their bodies as they pleased.
No, did they even have to control it in the first place?
They just moved.
Even without commanding 'raise arm', the arm goes up.
The act of stepping forward to move.
They had never even thought that such things were commanded and controlled.
Because the body was theirs, so it just moved.
But it wasn't so right now.
No matter how much will they infused, no matter how many commands they issued.
Their own bodies.
Their arms…….
'Did not feel like mine.'
.
.
[30g / off]
"Ending simulation."
Behind the low voice.
"……."
"……."
Silence flowed.
No one present at that place could open their mouths.
They knew it would be difficult, of course, but they hadn't imagined they would be unable to move to this extent.
Even if they didn't use mana.
They are A-Ranks.
A-Ranks.
A-Ranks who should be chosen by the heavens.
Even if they looked like chatterboxes and lumps of silliness.
The power of the twins and Jo Seong-hyeon was real.
Since they really were the prospects next to Kang Tae-wook….
Those guys.
Couldn't even stand up.
Even though the gravity device was turned off.
Jo Seong-hyeon and the twins could not get up from that spot.
The silence continued.
.
.
.
"Haha……."
"Hahahahaha!!!!!"
Laughter rang out from inside the device where the gravity had disappeared.
The eyes of the students and the Ignis Guild members turned toward that place.
And
Grin.
"As expected. I don't know about anything else, but."
Looking at his disciples who were smiling like fools while collapsed on the floor, the corners of Yoo jin's mouth were soaring toward the sky.
"For this talent, you guys are the best."
Those fools.
Possessed a heart that absolutely never breaks.
***
"Hehe!"
"We failed."
"Almost died. But…."
"It's totally fun!"
Jo Seong-hyeon and the twins, who came out of the gravity device, were making expressions like young children.
Without a single bit of embarrassment.
Without any frustration of losing the bet either.
They were just laughing.
Like little kids who received cotton candy as a gift.
At that sight.
Some kids shook their heads as if dumbfounded.
And some kids showed even bigger smiles, thinking 'as expected'.
Expressions of relief were drawn on the faces of the Ignis Guild Master and Vice Guild Master, whose expressions had been full of worry.
And on Secretary Kim's face too.
Like that, one event ended.
Now the moment to take responsibility for the event approached.
Step.
Yoo jin approached the laughing children.
The children who were smiling brightly recalled the bet, avoided his gaze, and showed awkward smiles.
"Haha… Teach…… this isn't easy, huh."
"We… we'll just eat the rice cakes next time."
"Since we didn't bet anything…… for failure……."
Bet.
Naturally, if there is a benefit for success.
It was basic that there should be a penalty for failure.
Well, as Im Jong-sin said, they didn't explicitly say that, but.
They also knew roughly.
Since they naturally hoped for a reward.
That there would be a penalty when they failed too.
Gulp.
The children glanced at Yoo jin from the corners of their eyes.
Expressionless face.
Well, naturally they wouldn't get scolded or anything like that, but since they didn't know what might pop out….
They became tense, yet not tense.
Like that, eye contact where 1 second felt like 1 minute passed.
Yoo jin's hand rose slowly.
The hand going up cutting through the air.
The children's gazes naturally moved following the fingertips.
The hand that soared high into the sky, just like that.
Snap!
Stopped in mid-air.
Yoo jin's hand, matched to the children's eye level.
Only the thumb was raised up.
"It was a cool challenge."
Blink blink.
Jo Seong-hyeon and the twins, who were making blank expressions looking at Yoo jin's thumbs up, soon.
Grin.
Showed a smile.
"I liked that you didn't use mana until the end too."
Above all…….
It was good to see them laughing it off even though they failed.
Well, he didn't say that part.
Whether he voiced it or not.
These kids.
Jo Seong-hyeon and the twins, always.
Because they won't give up, and will stand up smiling.
"Anyway, I think you guys are enjoying it the most in our class. The privilege of youth."
At Yoo jin's voice, the eyes of Ignis Guild Master Cho Sang-geun and Secretary Kim closed.
Heads nodding without them realizing it.
Cho Sang-geun and Secretary Kim were feeling those words Yoo jin didn't directly say with their hearts.
And
Someday.
They simultaneously thought they should refer to this for the guild members' training.
Scrub-scrub.
Scrub-scrub-scrub-scrub!
Yoo jin placed his hand on Jo Seong-hyeon's and the twins' heads in turn and petted them roughly.
Although it was called petting, the strength was almost to the degree of scrubbing off dead skin.
"Still, since you failed, no rice cakes. Instead…… you three."
Grin.
"It's chicken."
???
Jo Seong-hyeon's and the twins' eyes grew twice as large.
They didn't know what he was saying.
Isn't chicken more expensive and delicious than rice cakes?
Why is he buying something more expensive when we failed…….
Yoo jin smiled looking at the children blinking their eyes with blank expressions.
Like that, the experience at the Gravity Control Training Center was concluding.
"Then let's move to the next location now."
At Secretary Kim's voice ringing out just in time, the children began to line up imagining the next facility.
The moment Cho Sang-geun and Lee Si-wang, who were watching with satisfaction from afar, were about to turn their bodies toward the next location.
"Wait."
Yoo jin's low voice rang out.
Gazes gathering in an instant.
As if representing those gazes, Secretary Kim voiced out toward Yoo jin.
"What is the matter? We've done everything to experience here."
"No, it's nothing much. There are guys who haven't experienced it yet."
The eyes behind the glasses blinked.
"Yes? All the children who applied should have experienced it…."
"Exactly. There are exactly two guys who didn't do it."
With Yoo jin's gaze turning as soon as his lips closed, Jin-ho and Tae-wook hiding at the back of the group were seen.
"……."
"……."
Gazes fleeing into empty air avoiding Yoo jin's gaze, while hiding anxious eyes.
They were pretending not to notice for no reason, but they had already been caught in Yoo jin's vision.
"Hey. I have a rough idea why, but you should still go in. Opportunities to visit facilities like this aren't common."
"……."
"……."
Finally, the gazes that gave up running away turned to Yoo jin.
And into Jin-ho and Kang Tae-wook's vision.
Grin.
Yoo jin's face smiling like a Demon King was captured.
***
Eventually, Kang Tae-wook and Jin-ho went inside the gravity device.
With reluctant faces.
If one had to compare, should I say like puppies who don't want to go into their house.
[30g]
The high-gravity section Jo Seong-hyeon and the twins couldn't endure.
"Then I will start."
Behind Secretary Kim's low voice.
Boom!!!!!!
Along with a tremendous sound, the gravity device operated.
Along with silence.
Gulp.
Only the sound of swallowing dry saliva was heard from here and there.
.
.
.
The silence that continued between the dry swallows….
Continued on.
It was understandable.
"What is this……?"
"Is this barely……."
The tremendous gravity that the A-Ranks failed at just a moment ago.
"Is that it?"
Because the appearance of Jin-ho and Kang Tae-wook who entered that high gravity was no different from normal.
"……."
"……."
The mouths of the Class A students watching from beyond the glass were gaping open, hardened like stone.
Even Secretary Kim and Cho Sang-geun, rumored to have no expressions usually, stiffened their eyes into lines and couldn't take their eyes off Jin-ho and Tae-wook.
"No… way. They didn't use mana, right…?"
"Since the teacher said not to use it before entering earlier……."
"No, is the difference this big?"
They had come to acknowledge their strength to some extent watching the duel between the two during the athletic meet, but.
They really…… didn't know the difference would be this big.
Whoosh whoosh.
Jin-ho raising and lowering his arms.
And Kang Tae-wook jumping next to him.
At that sight, the students were clapping their hands without realizing it, with dumbfounded faces.
A small smile spread on the corners of Yoo jin's mouth, who was capturing that sight in his eyes.
"There's no way a machine like this can compare to inside the gourd."
Yoo jin, who swept over the faces of his surprised disciples while muttering to himself.
Those eyes of Yoo jin stiffened into a line.
A face different from everyone else alone.
Because a student making an expressionless face came into view.
Inside the flocking students.
A model student wearing glasses.
Only that model student was looking at Jin-ho and Tae-wook with an expression devoid of any emotion.
"……."
Yoo jin stared intently at the disciple without realizing it.
However.
"Whoa!!!!"
At the children's voices that suddenly burst out, he had no choice but to withdraw his gaze.
Swish swish!
Inside the device where gravity amounting to 30 times was applied.
Kang Tae-wook was doing a back tumbling.
Following behind him, Jin-ho also did a back tumbling.
Because of the cheers mixed with envy, Yoo jin had to postpone his interest in the model student.
Swish!
Swish!
"Compared to the gourd, this really is nothing."
"True."
Kang Tae-wook and Jin-ho conversing while laughing.
Because he knew better than anyone the painful efforts they had made during that time.
What Yoo jin had to do first right now was.
Praise.
"Now you're acting a bit like human beings."
At Yoo jin's voice, a big smile formed on Jin-ho's face.
And Kang Tae-wook's cheeks turned red.
But
Strangely.
After that.
Even though no one asked him to, Kang Tae-wook spun a few more back tumblings.