Bloodhound’s Regression Instinct

Chapter 15

Yan glared at the transparent barrier with a sullen look.

“I never heard of anything like this.”

Valdes never mentioned any obstacles that he had trouble with while obtaining the treasures.

“Yeah. It’s not like we can find a solution by worrying. We should first look for a way to break this thing…”

Yan reached out his hand and touched the transparent barrier.

A sturdy barrier that made him lose any thoughts of breaking it.

It was so wide that it blocked the entire inner space.

“Hmm.”

Yan sat down in front of it. Then he stroked his chin and kept staring at the transparent barrier.

“First of all, it’s definitely magic…”

How could he break through this?

Yan, with a vague thought, pushed the armadillo’s leather that he had brought with him.

But nothing happened in the transparent barrier.

“Well, it’s obviously a high-level magic, so it would be strange if it was broken by something like this.”

He looked around carefully, but he couldn’t see anything like a magic circle.

Suddenly, a piece of knowledge from his previous life popped up in Yan’s head.

“When a magician is absent, what is needed to maintain the magic is a magic circle drawn with specific materials or…”

“A medium.”

“A medium.”

The magician, Lich, had left this place a long time ago, and there were no other magic circles.

Then, there was only one answer.

There was a medium installed somewhere nearby.

“But for something like that, there’s nothing that looks like a medium.”

Yan turned his head around and looked for something suspicious, but… he couldn’t see anything.

But he didn’t feel disappointed.

“Still, it’s my specialty, so I can’t give up easily.”

Yan started to search around.

The first was the wall.

He punched it here and there. If it was hollow inside, it would make a hollow sound, but he only heard a solid thud.

The second was the floor.

But could he use the whole floor as a medium?

Just in case…

Yan closed his eyes and put his hand on the floor to sense the mana.

If it was completely separated, he wouldn’t know, but in this close state, he could sense a decent amount.

Even if he had no mana, he had felt enough of it in his previous life.

But.

“…Not the floor either.”

As expected, there was no reaction.

In the end, there was only one place left.

Yan’s head turned to that place.

At that moment, his eyes sparkled as he found something.

“I think I found it.”

The black-painted door, contrasting with the pure white interior of the laboratory.

There, mana was flowing out faintly.

* * *

The door of the laboratory that was the medium was smashed.

Fortunately, it was not too hard to break or had any measures taken.

‘Just like the warning magics… this lich is really sloppy in some ways.’

Yan crossed the laboratory where the transparent barrier had disappeared and approached the shelf.

The first thing that caught his eye was a green gem.

“This is the life vessel, right? Hehe.”

It was a beautiful sight for a vessel that contained the soul and mana of an undead lich.

Then Yan quickly came to his senses.

“Ah, I have to take care of the other things first.”

When the lich died, everything in this place would disappear.

So he had to take the necessary treasures first before breaking this.

“This is it.”

Yan took out one of the potions he had picked up earlier.

Pop!

The lid opened with a crisp sound.

Inside the glass bottle, there was a liquid shining in emerald color.

Yan sniffed it slightly.

“Wow, it smells good.”

The fragrance was captivating.

If his mental strength was a little lower, he might have been intoxicated by the sweet scent.

“There might be poison in it… but well, I don’t need to be wary. Valdes bastard drank them all without any problem.”

It wouldn’t be a medicine that would endanger his body.

Yan put the potions on the table one by one and started to open the lids.

Pop! Pong! Pop!

The colors of the liquids were varied.

From topaz color, ruby color, to transparent diamond color.

The scents were different but equally enchanting.

Refreshing, sweet, or cool.

Gulp.

Yan took the first bottle he had opened, the emerald one, and put it to his mouth.

Huaaa-

A cool scent spread from his lips.

The feeling soon spread from his throat to his whole body.

“Huh…!”

Suddenly, he felt like his body was burning, as if it was painful enough to die.

Yan clenched his teeth and endured it.

Blood vessels rose along his skin, and his eyes were bloodshot.

Then, when the heat reached its peak.

Puduk! Puduk!

Tuk, tuk.

Yan’s body began to wobble.

A creepy sound like bones breaking echoed.

He crouched and endured the pain for a long time.

About 10 minutes later.

Huaaa!

The pain disappeared as if it was a lie.

Rather, he felt refreshed.

Yan slowly got up from his seat and felt his body.

“…Amazing?”

It didn’t seem like a medicine that would give him the talent for mana he was looking for.

But it was a medicine that gave him a better effect.

Bang!

Yan hit the wall next to him hard.

The wall caved in and cracks spread widely.

“I’m not hurt at all. And I’m strong.”

The first stage of the body strengthening technique.

He completed the bone replacement, which changed his bones to strong bones.

“Wow… so I achieved the first stage in an instant? Huh, I’m amazing.”

Yan felt happy but also empty.

He had estimated the time to reach the first stage of the body strengthening technique to be about a year, but he narrowed it down in a breath.

No, to be exact, it was almost like compressing a decade.

This medicine not only made him achieve the bone replacement, but also ‘completed’ it.

He skipped the tremendous pain, the effort of shaving the bones, and the corresponding time.

‘No. I’m not empty, I gained that much time. I can run the growth path faster than I expected.’

Yan thought that maybe it wouldn’t take that long to regain his skills from his previous life.

‘Visiting this place was a heavenly fate.’

Yan’s eyes sparkled as he drank the remaining potions without missing any.

Gulp, gulp.

When he drank them all, his eyes popped open.

“Kee!”

He made a sound as if he had drunk a strong liquor.

“But this is delicious?”

The topaz-colored potion made his senses sharper.

He could hear the wind sound from far away clearly.

“I have to control this well.”

The ruby-colored potion healed the big and small wounds he had gotten since he came here.

And that was not all.

“Even the scars?”

The scars that he had gotten when he met the gun instructor were all gone.

And the last remaining diamond-colored potion.

“This is really awesome.”

As soon as he drank all the diamond-colored potion, a tremendous amount of mana poured into his body.

It was half the amount of mana that Yan had accumulated in his previous life for 30 years.

“Did they just liquefy mana? I’ve never heard of a potion that has such an effect… Hehe.”

It was an unheard-of idea to turn the mana that flows in the air into a liquid state.

Yan sat down on the floor with his butt.

“I’ll have to try this while looking at it.”

Yan took out the research journal from his pocket and flipped it over on the floor.

He didn’t need to look at the front part, which was the process of failure.

Even at this moment, the mana in his body was leaking out in real time.

He had to stop it as soon as possible.

Then, when he saw the part where he started to succeed, Yan’s eyes became serious.

He thought it was greedy to engrave a single point in his heart.

So he decided to plant a ‘seed’ this time.

“Seed?”

Yan tilted his head and turned to the next page.

The first method of planting a ‘seed’ was simple.

It was to concentrate the mana in his body near the heart and keep pouring it.

It was often the best way to think simply.

“Hmm.”

Yan started to operate the mana as it was written.

He concentrated the mana in his body near the heart.

Whooong.

A small amount of mana gathered and formed a point.

It was so small that it would just scatter and disappear if he blinked.

Yan focused all his consciousness on that point so that it wouldn’t scatter.

“So I just have to keep pouring it here?”

Kwaaa-

The mana slowly started to flow into the point.

Then, as the point grew larger, the speed of the mana movement also increased and gradually began to swirl.

Hwak.

Suddenly, he felt a dizzy sensation in his heart.

‘Oh, did I succeed?’

It meant that the mana was engraved on his body.

Then, from here, it was the most important.

The second method was not a primitive one, but a more theoretical one.

The principle of a single point was as follows.

It was to make a vessel to hold the mana, and increase the amount of it by enlightenment or other methods whenever it was full.

But, because it was limited and static, it required a lot of mana to produce explosive power compared to a circle.

It had excellent endurance and stability, but it was inferior to a circle in causing explosive phenomena.

The lich had made such a distinction between a single point and a circle.

The explosive amplification of a circle came from endless rotation.

The mana rotated and amplified endlessly, and created a new rotation whenever it reached its limit.

But, because it was dynamic, it took a long time to recover the mana consumed compared to a single point.

These were theories that were widely known to the neighborhood kids in the present age.

Mana’s heart had both advantages of these two.

It rotated the mana, but placed a static symbol, namely a ‘seed’, in the center to recover the mana and compensate for the drawbacks.

Therefore, it secured endurance and stability, and also had the amplification from the rotating mana.

…(omitted)…

He realized after reviewing the concept of mana heart again.

The first method was wrong even in the approach.

It was meaningful to rotate the mana around the seed, but the first method was a method that was no different from using the seed as a single point.

What we wanted to do was not just changing the position of a single point.

…(omitted)…

‘The characteristic of mana heart is a center and the mana that rotates endlessly around it.’

He went over the theories in the research journal one by one.

And based on the martial theories he had accumulated in his previous life, he reinterpreted and applied them to suit his current body.

As he entered a state of no-mind, a presentation by a magician who had served the emperor in the future flashed through Yan’s mind.

“In fact, this continent is nothing but a star, and it orbits around the bright sun. There are dozens of stars orbiting the sun, not just the star we live on. This is called, orbit.” The content that several planets orbit around the sun.

This was similar to what the lich said, ‘the mana rotates around the seed’.

The reason why the orbit occurs is because two forces are combined.

The magician had taken out a stone tied with a long string in front of the audience at the time.

When he spun it, the stone rotated around the magician’s hand.

He said that this was the ‘model of orbit’.

Yan recalled that model.

He wrapped his heart with mana.

This was the sun.

He placed a seed around it.

This was the planet that orbited the sun.

He connected the two with mana like a string and started to operate it.

When you tie a string to a stone and spin it like this, you feel like you are being pulled. This is called resistance. As soon as the latter phrase came to mind.

Hwak.

Yan couldn’t control his body and staggered from the force that occurred inside.

But his mouth was up.

“…I found it.”

For the first time, the mana was operating without scattering!

If I touch this spinning stone with my hand, it will hurt my hand and stop here, but if I don’t touch this stone directly, that is, if I don’t apply external force directly, it will orbit obliquely like this.

The magician added this and finished his presentation.

The resisting force of resistance and the pulling force of gravity form a harmony and create an orbit. This is the new fact and law that I have discovered.

So.

The dragon’s breath was gravity, and the key to harmonize the resistance between the planet and the sun.

“Ha, hahaha!”

Thump. Thump thump.

Wooong. Wooong.

His heart beat hard. The dragon’s breath also operated according to a regular rhythm.

It was a natural movement, too natural.

As if breathing!

Weeing.

The mana kept coming into the heart and spinning the mana heart.

It felt like a delicate clock mechanism was implanted in his chest.

But he didn’t feel bad about it.

No, rather, he felt good.

His mind, which had been exhausted until a moment ago, seemed to clear up.

‘I only have one mana heart now, but depending on the training, I can have two, three… and keep increasing!’

Like the ‘universe’ that will be discovered in the future.

He would have a new mana heart, that is, a planet, when he had enlightenment or fate.

‘Then, let’s call the first mana heart that was made ‘sun’.’

And he called everything that included the other planets ‘mana heart’.

Thump, thump!

It was a normal heartbeat, but now it felt something different.

He was satisfied for a while, and then Yan suddenly showed a regretful emotion.

“I wish I could have collected everything, but that’s a bit of a pity.”

Chuk.

Yan lost his appetite as he felt the mana.

He regretted the mana that was lost in the process of completing the seed.

But he didn’t worry.

“Well, I can still collect it. This is a huge achievement anyway.”

“Yeah, were you satisfied?”

Satisfied or not.

It was much better than the mana storage he had planned.

Even at this moment, the first mana heart, that is, the sun, was rotating and amplifying the mana.

“Then I’m glad.”

No, wait.

Yan’s eyes sank for a moment.

Who was talking?

As soon as he thought that.

“…Fuck. This is the worst situation.”

He sighed deeply in front of Yan, and a dark red energy began to gather.

And the energy began to change into a shape.

“At least you won’t regret dying.”

He thought he was fighting with the crown prince, the special commander, and the gun instructor.

It was the appearance of the ancient lich.