The Illegitimate Who Devours Weapons

Weapon-Eating Illegitimate Son

Episode 45

When I first reached 3rd star in magic.

The reason I couldn’t use the Aura skill was because I didn’t have enough magical power to change the form or nature of the Aura.

It was impossible to understand all of the ancient magical techniques by only using the magic power of the horse.

But after receiving advice from Mujin, the problem was solved.

Manbyeon was the leader of the movement using Mujin.

I was able to extract magical powers that changed with each movement, and eventually succeeded in putting together the missing puzzle pieces.

After that, I went with my aunt to create some skills.

The Aura skill, Lightning, was the beginning.

A wide-range strike type aura skill with extremely high destructive power.

Its grandeur was so amazing that even I, who witnessed it firsthand, was amazed.

After that, I created a few more auror skills, but I didn’t create many.

Auror skills are the essence of magical arts, and some even call them the pinnacle of magic.

If such a technology could be developed overnight, martial arts secrets would be of no use.

During that time, I found a clue to the Auror skill through one incident.

“Auntie, please make one promise.”

“What promise? It’s cold, so tell me quickly.”

“Don’t get excited after watching it. Just listen to what I have to say after everything is over. And… … Don’t kick the training ground floor if you don’t like it. Didn’t the manager tell you to stop breaking the stone steps a while ago?”

“okay!”

“You really shouldn’t break it. Now we have to ask.”

“The problem is that the training ground floor is crumbling! Show me loudly and quickly!

My aunt frowned at my words.

The stone slabs in this training ground were so strong that they could not be broken even by the swords that contained the warriors’ magical power.

I can’t understand how he broke it with a kick that didn’t contain a single bit of magic power.

“Then I’ll show you. You have to keep your promise.”

He took up a stance with his sword pointed forward.

“Huh? You’re going to use Mujin? What’s going on?”

“You must use Mujin to use the technique.”

My aunt’s eyes lit up when she saw the pitch-black blade I was holding in my hand.

My aunt already knew about Mujin, so she wasn’t very surprised.

Woof-.

Mujin has changed into a Western longsword form, different from the Eastern sword form.

And that appearance was that of the masterpiece sword Effenberg that I had received from my seventh brother not long ago.

“Let’s get started.”

Phew-.

The moment I generated magic, the air around me began to gather around my body.

Kyunghwa Lee noticed that the aura was mixed with the artificial wind blowing through the training ground.

‘It’s a cold wind, isn’t it?’

Strong wind, strong force.

It was an aura skill that came out while creating lightning.

If lightning was a technique that increased destructive power, then slashing wind was a technique for interpersonal combat.

A technique that increases cutting power to the limit by changing the properties of the aura.

Instead, it was a technique that had great power at close range, although it had poor stability and could not be extended to long distances.

“It’s just a cold wind. What’s different… … Ugh! Why did it suddenly get so cold!”

Kyunghwa Lee trembled for a moment.

Jeok-.

Then he was startled when he saw a piece of ice appearing at his feet.

The ice shard appeared the moment it touched the aura my nephew was emitting.

‘Attribute power…? Did that guy just give it an attribute power? And that coldness that’s hard to handle?’

how?

That’s impossible.

It was known that attribute power was something that could only be acquired by learning the magic of the appropriate direction.

“Ugh!”

I turned away from my aunt’s shocked expression and took a short breath as I swung my sword.

Kwaaaaang!

The moment Mujin swung his sword, an aura filled with sharp cold roughly swept the three meters in front.

“Oh, oh, oh!”

Kyung-hwa Lee jumped up in surprise.

“What, what did you do! The cold wind doesn’t bring cold air!”

My aunt ran up to me and grabbed me by the collar.

“Tell me! What did you do? What did you find out?!”

“Ugh! Huh, you said you weren’t excited! Okay, so let’s put this aside for a moment… … .”

I feel like my bones are ringing because he grabbed me by the collar and shook me so mercilessly.

My aunt’s eyes sparkled.

“Tell me quickly! What was it? You used your attribute power, right?”

My aunt couldn’t contain her excitement as if she had met her mortal enemy or her life-or-death rival.

“Auntie! Calm down for a moment. Don’t you remember what you promised?”

“It’s frustrating! Tell me quickly, quickly!”

Boom! Boom! Boom!

“Floor! Auntie! Floor!”

Tsk tsk-.

Finally, an eerie sound echoed across the floor.

Only then did my aunt regain her senses, startled.

“Oh, sorry. Hehe. I should use a better one for this floor. What a cheap thing… .”

My aunt kicked the cracked floor with her foot and laughed awkwardly.

simplicity and honesty-

The slight kick caused another large crack to form in the floor.

“… … .”

“… … .”

My aunt hesitated and carried her luggage behind her back.

“lol.”

And he smiled quite awkwardly.

* * *

Two weapons received from the seventh older brother.

A masterpiece sword, Effenberg.

A masterpiece, a masterpiece.

Of these, the first one I used was Effenberg.

Effenberg was a sword that had the ability to emit negative energy by itself.

As soon as I received Effenberg, I read the weapon’s memories with a black flag.

And as soon as I read the memories, I felt a sense of emptiness.

‘… … Is this the end?’

All I read in Effenberg was the sight of a blacksmith striking a sword and the seventh brother receiving it.

I asked my seventh brother.

-I wonder how you knew. That’s right. The Effenberg was made less than a month ago. It’s a sword that no one has ever swung, except for a few times I swung it for performance testing.

I got this answer.

The Effenberg was one of the rare masterpieces of weapons that was cast recently.

I was a little disappointed that I couldn’t read the special memories, but it wasn’t a bad thing.

I absorbed Effenberg straight away.

Perhaps because there were no particular memories, the amount of magical power absorbed was not large.

However, it was a clearly different amount of magical power compared to the standard or standard weapons that had been absorbed so far.

‘I thought that would be the end of it.’

It happened during training.

While I was training by changing the form of Mujin here and there to practice Manbyeon, I unconsciously formed Mujin into the form of Effenberg and used my magical power.

At that moment, the aura extending from Mujin contained a cold chill.

It is a reproduction of the abilities that Effenberg possessed.

“Could it be that that was possible because of Mujin?”

“Yes, that’s right.”

“Now, wait a minute. What on earth is Mujin? It’s supposedly a celestial weapon, but it doesn’t have the ability to change the nature of auras, right?”

“I thought so too.”

But it was a mistake.

I thought back to when I finished the horse and gained new memories of Mujin.

A man who trained while constantly changing the nature of his aura to better suit Mujin.

Maybe Mujin’s ability wasn’t just about changing form.

Unleashing the abilities of absorbed weapons was one of Mujin’s hidden powers that I didn’t know about.

‘After this, I tried copying the forms of other famous weapons, but I was unable to realize their abilities.’

I fiddled with the infinite handle in the shape of an Effenberg.

‘I can’t help but think it’s the influence of the Black Flag.’

There is still some ambiguity about this new power of Mujin.

But what was certain was that this was Mujin’s new ability, and that the Black Flag had some influence on it.

“Ugh… … .”

My aunt looked genuinely confused. Then she asked with a stern expression.

“Then what? Can I use all the abilities of the weapon I changed to Mujin?”

“No, that’s not it. There are some conditions that need to be met.”

“Then, can I use it without having to make an Effenberg shape?”

“I don’t know right now… but if I get used to it, I think it might be possible.”

For now, it is possible to do so only in the form of Effenberg.

But the man in my memory didn’t need that process.

Surely, I can do that too.

“… … In any case, it’s amazing. Cold air. It seems that the power is a bit lower than that of pure magic.”

My aunt said with a meaningful smile.

“I just had an idea. Let’s go to the lab right now.”

“Okay. That’s why I showed you.”

I put the Mujin back into the shape of a ring and wore it, smiling faintly.

* * *

At the summons of Baek Hwa-yeon, the mistress of the Sungmu family, the immediate family gathered in her room.

Excluding the children who were out on family business, there were four people gathered in Baek Hwa-yeon’s room.

Fourth, sixth, seventh, eighth.

Of course, the ninth son, Lee Cheol, was excluded.

The sixth, Lee Seol-ah, waited for a long time in front of the yard of the main building where Baek Hwa-yeon resided, and then, upon discovering Lee Jae-hak, ran over to him.

“Hey, what should we do?”

Jaehak Lee frowned.

“Tch, ‘we’? It must be just you. Don’t run away using the excuse of a mission after failing and don’t get involved with me. Didn’t you know this would happen?”

“You, you already called?”

“Yeah, it was just a light reprimand and that was it. I guess it’s a little different for you.”

As soon as Lee Seol-ah heard the news that the cadet unit had failed, she was terrified and went on an emergency mission.

And as soon as she returned, Baek Hwa-yeon called the children in the family.

“Hey, hey. Take my side. You did it together too… … .”

“… … Handle it yourself. I don’t see why I should be responsible for this, since it was your fault.”

Lee Seol-ah, who was trembling, and Lee Jae-hak, who had a cold expression, eventually entered the main building together.

As soon as Lee Seol-ah and Lee Jae-hak entered the inner quarters, they felt the bitter cold of winter.

I entered a room where the heater was clearly working properly, but the air was filled with a cold air like a winter wind.

“You came.”

Baek Hwa-yeon, who was standing in front of the fourth and eighth, walked towards Lee Seol-ah step by step.

and.

match-.

Lee Seol-ah’s neck was broken.

There was a red handprint on her cheek, and Lee Seol-ah’s eyes opened wide, not realizing what had just happened to her.

“Oh, Mother.”

“Don’t even call me mother. I never raised a loser like you.”

Baek Hwa-yeon looked down at her daughter coldly and snorted.

“Oh, Mother! This time, it was my, my mistake. But I didn’t run away, I just… … .”

“Shut up.”

thud-.

At Baek Hwa-yeon’s words, a heavy sense of oppression settled over the audience.

Lee Seol-ah knelt down, unable to bear the pressure.

“Don’t test my patience. What you did was run away. As a member of the Sungmoo clan, you should never do this. As my child, you should never tolerate this.”

Lee Seol-ah stared at the ground for a moment, lost in thought.

Lee Seol-ah raised her head urgently.

“but……!”

“Are you going to make excuses?”

Lee Seol-ah held her breath under her mother’s cold gaze.

And then he lowered his head and looked at the floor.

At first, it was unfair.

And soon that resentment turned into twisted anger.

‘It’s all… because of that bastard!’

Lee Seol-ah looked up at Baek Hwa-yeon with rebellious eyes.

“… … Can’t you take responsibility right now! That bastard! Can’t you just crush him right now!”

Baek Hwa-yeon sneered.

“You really don’t know anything. If that were possible, I wouldn’t have persecuted you like this.”

“yes……?”

Lee Seol-ah’s eyes were filled with doubt.

“It is an order from the head of the household. That bastard will be leaving for Cheonwisan Mountain for a year.”

“Oh my, it’s Cheonwisan Mountain.”

The sacred mountain of the family. And the place where they stop by to get their qualifications before leaving on their military journey.

The youngest is still just a cadet, how can he go there?

“If you had tried to recover from this failure without running away, that would have been fine, but you missed that too. You have disgraced everyone in your direct line with this one time. Not only was you defeated by an illegitimate child, but you ran away as well.”

Baek Hwa-yeon, who was looking at Lee Seol-ah, who was kneeling, with a pitiful look, turned her head to her other children.

“Wake up.”

With each word Baek Hwa-yeon uttered, the already chilly atmosphere became even colder.

“If you show me this loser’s appearance again… …then it won’t end with such a ridiculous slap on the cheek.”

After saying those words, Baek Hwa-yeon left the room.

“Sigh, sob-.”

Lee Seol-ah was unable to control her body trembling with anger, and she clenched her teeth and trembled.

Lee Jae-hak looked back and forth between the door Baek Hwa-yeon had left and Lee Seol-ah, who was trembling.

‘Your mother is also very cruel.’

This incident definitely made Lee Seol-ah feel hostile towards the youngest.

In front of his other brothers, especially the eighth one who was much younger than him, he was slapped and made to kneel.

This proud woman will be obsessed with making amends for this incident.

Baek Hwa-yeon brought out the dirty emotions inside Lee Seol-ah through this position.

‘But, really… … .’

Lee Jae-hak thought about Lee Seol-ah and Lee Cheol.

Who is more valuable?

Where should I put more effort and invest more?

It is clear that Lee Seol-ah had more and showed more.

But for some reason, Jaehak Lee’s heart continued to turn towards the youngest.

No matter how big the age gap is and how big the difference in ability is, it doesn’t seem like that desirable half-brother would be pushed around by this worthless woman.

‘It’ll be fun.’

Lee Jae-hak smiled strangely.

A year later, Lee Chul’s return was anticipated.

* * *

The day of entering Cheonwisan Mountain is two days away.

Normally, I wouldn’t have had to leave in a hurry, but I had something to do, so I left a day early.

The nanny kept talking as she packed my luggage, probably in a panic.

“From the herbal encyclopedia to the cast iron pot… … and even the medicine tools. Why on earth are you taking all these things with you?”

The things I was going to take with me were prepared in a separate box.

It was only a training camp, but the box was full of all sorts of odds and ends.

“I have a use for it. I’ll tell you later.”

I asked my nanny to get me a few things I had in mind.

‘Cheonwisan is a sacred mountain. It is the intersection of the dragon veins that extend from the continent to the southern tip and all the way to Japan in the east. Not only magic herbs but also elixirs can be grown there.’

In Jeokcheongdo, medicines were made by baking clay and the tools used were so crude that they could only make half-baked medicines.

This time there was no need for that.

He took with him all kinds of precision tools, including a smoke machine, a herbal medicine boiler, a pharmaceutical machine, and a herbal medicine cycle.

“It seems like everything is ready. Please send it to Cheonwisan on time via train tomorrow or the day after. I can receive it when I get to Cheonwisan.”

“I understand. But, Master, why are you suddenly visiting our family’s ancestral grave?”

The ancestral grave of the Sungmu family. Sungmu Mountain.

It was a small mountain located near the northern danger zone.

It was a graveyard where ancestors and successive heads of the Sungmu clan who were devoted to the clan were buried.

The reason I left a day early to go to Cheonwisan was to visit there.

“This is my first time going out, so I’d like to start by greeting the spirits of my family.”

I smiled faintly and slowly headed towards the weapons display case in the room.

I opened the door to a display case that I hadn’t opened in a very long time and took out the sword that was there.

Black night.

An ancient sword with a flat blade and unknown material.

“You haven’t taken it out for a while. What’s going on?”

“I just thought I’d take it with me when I visit my ancestors’ graves since it’s a sword related to them.”

Actually, that wasn’t the reason.

This time, I visited Sungmusan and Cheonwisan.

Both of them were prepared for this sword.

“Okay, I’ll be leaving now, Nanny.”

“Yes, Master. Training is good, but you must take care of yourself!”

After hearing the nanny’s greeting, I opened the door to the room and went out.