Chapter 174: Until the Heart Beats (1)
"It seemed completely ordinary at first glance.
A young boy with brown hair, who appeared to have barely reached the cusp of puberty, was smiling brightly. If he had been born in the world of Ihan’s previous life, that face alone would have made him an idol or an actor with widespread popularity.
But the two men had no time to carefully scrutinize the boy’s face.
Though his presence didn’t exude anything extraordinary like that of a Grand Mage, the two knights knew. They knew that the boy wasn’t leaking any energy because he had ‘completely mastered’ control over his aura.
And Ihan, though not by choice, had encountered only two individuals in his life who had achieved such mastery over their own energy.
One was the elderly man who played the role of a butler, and the other was a laid-back, roguish man who spent his days idly in the knights’ order.
Both of them appeared utterly ordinary at a glance, but Ihan knew better.
He knew just how monstrous those two old men were.
In martial arts terms, they had reached the level known as Banbak Guijin (Returning to Simplicity) or Nohwa Suncheong (Flame Refined to Purity).
Humans who had completely concealed their aura and lived like mystical creatures.
No, not “like” mystical creatures—they were humans who had truly become such beings.
And now, that boy was no different.