I Stole the Number One Ranker’s Soul - Chapter 85

Episode 086:

If you use too many potions in a short period of time, you will suffer from ‘Status Abnormality: Potion Poisoning’.

Poisoning causes the effectiveness of the potion to be greatly reduced.

‘Status Abnormality: Potion Addiction’: Duration: 24 hours 00 minutes. I

only drank three, but I’m already addicted to the potion.

I feel like it’s easier to get addicted to potions because the level is higher.

Does this mean that the stronger the drug, the quicker you become addicted?

“I ate three and got poisoned by the potion.”

– okay? I was wondering what would happen if I used it as a temporary increase, but it’s a shame.

“There will be a chance someday. “The temporary increase doesn’t stack like when using other potions, right?”

– Maybe not? Instead, the numbers will rise even more. Since A grade goes up by about 200, I wonder if it will go up by more than that. I’m looking forward to it.

Ability score increasing potions only increase one potion per stat.

Since it is applied per ability level, if you drink both magic power and stamina increase potions, both will be applied.

However, if you drink multiple of the same magic power increase potion, only the effect of the last potion drank or the highest level potion is applied.

Even if you eat one E-class magic power increase potion and then another F-class magic power increase potion, only the E-class magic power increase potion consumed first will be applied.

Likewise, even if you take multiple F-class magic power increasing potions, only one is effective.

Otherwise, I would have just taken several F-level potions without having to take E-level or D-level potions.

Anyway, if your A class is 200, the S class potion will increase your magic power by more than that.

I can’t imagine how terrifying the power of the Chungwangpo will be even if its magic power is only about 300.

– what are you going to do now?

I shrugged my shoulders and got up.

It was a question with an obvious answer anyway.

Now that we’ve confirmed the potion effects, there’s only one thing left to do.

The place I headed was a lakeside with lapping water.

For my future work, I need things that reflect my image.

The lakeside was instead of a mirror. Because there was no mirror in the house now.

If you need to check the face, you can use the camera function of your phone, so I didn’t buy a new one because I didn’t really need it.

– Are you putting on a transformation show now?

Seo Ji-han sat to one side with an expectant look on his face.

I greeted him in a dramatic tone to the beat.

“You’ve waited a long time. “Moah Son’s transformation show.”

– Wow, I’m so excited.

I thought Seo Ji-han’s cheering tone seemed somewhat familiar, but it was a tone I heard many times on home shopping.

Seo Ji-han, I feel empty because I haven’t been able to watch home shopping these days.

I calmed my mind and quietly closed my eyes.

And while remembering Yu Eundam’s face, he cast Chungwang’s mutation.

Now, when you open your eyes, you will look like Eundam Yoo…

– Have you used the skill yet?

It was supposed to change, but nothing happened.

What is this? How do I do this?

“I used it while thinking of Hunter Yoo Eun-dam, but it didn’t change.”

When I spoke out of embarrassment, Seo Ji-han thought of something and gave advice in a light tone.

– Then just write it without thinking about anything.

I followed his advice and just used the Chung King transformation skill.

This time, my eyes were closed again.

But I feel like something is changing in my body.

It wasn’t a pleasant feeling.

It’s a bit of a strange feeling.

Then I opened my eyes and saw Seo Ji-han looking at me with a very shocked expression.

Why do you do that? Is something wrong?

And the next moment I found out.

The shape of a giant centipede reflected in the water’s shadow.

That crazy thing is Vargis!

“Kiiik!”

I was so shocked that I screamed, but I was astonished because the sound coming out of my mouth was the sound of an insect screaming.

What is that giant centipede reflected in the water shadow?

Is that me?

OMG, I can see the disgusting part so clearly because I’m standing upright like a human!

It’s a good thing it’s not a mirror.

It looks blurry because it’s reflected in the water, so it seems like the damage is a little less…

Have I really become a centipede?

I inadvertently glanced down and screamed again.

From the red feet that move fluently, to the black carapace with a glimpse of the yellow belly.

It’s a centipede! It’s a centipede!

It looks exactly like Vargis’s baby.

“Kaiyi!”

no.

I really hate it.

It gives me goosebumps and I can’t stand it.

If it were as huge as Vargis, it would feel like a monster, but since it is vaguely human-sized, it is even more disgusting.

Moreover, I am a disgusting bug that makes you die just by looking at it.

To be honest, it was so absurd that I felt like crying, but I couldn’t cry because it was a bug.

How do centipedes cry?

Did he cry by rubbing his stomach with his hind legs?

Was this a cricket?

-Moa has to calm down.

Seo Ji-han kindly spoke to me as usual, not caring at all about this disgusting appearance.

But I wasn’t calm enough to notice that consideration.

How do you calm down in this situation? I wanted to say that, but of course a bug’s mouth couldn’t speak human language.

Ugh, I said something and the strange organ on my snout started moving wildly.

Gross! It’s gross!

– Let’s calm down and return to our original form.

“Ki kii.”

I answered that I understood, but I don’t know if it was conveyed.

Fortunately, I gradually regained my composure.

The resistance to insects that I grew while living in a semi-basement was a great help.

If it weren’t for that, I might have passed out already.

That’s right. Seo Ji-han is right. First, let’s go back to the original.

This is an effect of the skill, so if you disarm the skill, it can return to its original state.

I was so shocked by the unexpected and creepy sight that I lost my senses, but it wasn’t a big deal.

But I think it was something that made me lose my temper.

If there is someone who says no, I would like to hug them with this giant centipede body.

Using hundreds of feet. The moment one of my feet touches your skin, you’ll want to go crazy.

Calmly go back to normal.

ruler.

Calm your mind.

But how do you do it? Can I just unlock the skill?

But how do you do that?

So far, I’ve only tried shooting things with the Chungwang Cannon, but I need to have tried maintaining and deactivating the skill to know that.

If there is any skill maintenance window that appears, I would close it, but there is no such thing.

Uh, what should I do?

– what’s the matter?

“Kiik kiiii.”

I tried to explain, but no words made sense.

Seo Ji-han reacted as if he sensed my difficulty, but he didn’t seem to know what was troubling me.

In the end, after trying everything on my own, I managed to figure out how to get back to my original self.

I cast the skill again, desperately wishing to return to my original form, and slowly the shape of my body began to change.

This time, I carefully observed how my body was changing without closing my eyes.

It’s not that it changes because it’s engulfed in light, but a biological transformation has truly occurred, like a chrysalis turning into a butterfly.

The red feet that were full of yellow bellies went inside, and the smooth body gradually changed to feel like human skin, and as a skeleton was formed from the inside, it gradually changed into a human body rather than an insect.

It took some time to fully come back.

And when I finally had arms, I pulled up the clothes that had slipped off.

As I turned into an insect, the clothes I was wearing fell down.

Phew, I almost lived like a bug for the rest of my life.

I’m breaking into a cold sweat.

“Huh huh huh.”

– are you okay?

As I was taking a deep breath and trying to calm my startled heart, Seo Ji-han approached me with a worried look on his face.

I felt his touchless hand on my shoulder.

“are you okay. “I was just so surprised…”

– It was surprising. Well then, is that skill a skill that can transform into Vargis?

“I think so.”

– It’s such a shame.

Seeing how much I was looking forward to this transformation skill, Seo Ji-han seemed more disappointed than me.

Actually, I can’t even feel any regrets because I haven’t yet escaped the aftereffects of being turned into an insect.

“This skill is a seal.”

Seo Ji-han was a little embarrassed when he spoke firmly and in disgust.

– Still, it’s an S-class skill, but isn’t it a waste?

“no. Not at all. Honestly, I don’t know what merit there is to turning into a bug.”

What kind of skill is this?

Now that I think about it again, Kergis was a really good boss.

How useful is this power compared to this skill?

– Didn’t your abilities increase when you transformed?

“I don’t think it went up. I’m not sure because I haven’t opened the status window. Even if it goes up, I have no intention of using it. “It was really, really terrible.”

Even thinking about it again gives me goosebumps all over my body.

The sight I saw when I looked down without thinking about it earlier still hasn’t been erased from my mind.

Even now that the transformation has been resolved, it feels a bit scary to look down at my body, as if it has become a trauma.

“Ugh. Gross. “I don’t even want to think about it.”

– But I had high expectations for this skill.

“I did. “But I can’t go see my mom like that.”

I expected that once I perfected this skill, I would be able to go see my mom as many times as I wanted by borrowing the appearance of someone else.

So I ate the horn diligently day and night, but it was no use.

A gloomy silence fell.

Out of frustration, I sat down on the floor and took out my phone.

I thought that in just a few days I would be able to avoid surveillance and meet my family, but now I will be separated from them without any guarantee.

Thinking that I might not be able to see my family for a very long time like this, I became more curious about how things were going in Korea.

I started looking around the Internet to see if there was any article that would give me even a little bit of news about my family.

Of course, I know it’s best to have no news, but…

“Huh?”

– why?

Instead of answering, I turned my phone screen and showed it to Seo Ji-han.

His face hardened as he checked the screen.

– 〈Mother of the late Hunter Son Mo-ah holds a one-person protest for the third day. In the article , “A demand for a private meeting with Hunter Ban Seo-jin,”

there was a photo of a mother standing alone wearing a raincoat and holding a picket sign.

When I saw his haggard complexion and swollen eyes at first glance, an indescribable feeling came over me.

When I occasionally checked on the well-being of the family through Yoo Eundam, I heard that they were safe and there was no problem.

Was that still not enough?

Actually, I expected it to some extent.

I know that my mother will be very sad when she hears of my death.

But thinking and seeing are different.

My mother’s face was so disfigured that she was recognizable even in a single photo.

This is my first time seeing my mother with such a dark expression.