Chapter 216: Carrying Honey to Korea (5)

Time passed, and the moment came when the sorcery and cursed objects that piqued Jinseong's interest revealed their bottom.

He stored the sorcery in his mind as if taking photographs, and for the cursed objects, he guessed their functions from their appearance, the energy felt from them, and the reactions and effects seen when bringing living beings close to them, and he could also figure out their uses and utility.

But it wasn’t the law that reaching the end meant examining everything.

Knowledge was valuable not just by storing it, but by dismantling and combining it for use.

Jinseong endlessly explored how to use, where to apply, and how to mitigate the expected price by dismantling and moving the sorcery obtained from the storage room in various ways. And for the cursed objects as well, he pondered whether he could produce similar effects if he used sorcery he knew, and thought about whether they would be useful if dismantled and applied to other things.

He stayed there like that, cooped up in the storage room like an ascetic cultivating the Way, and indulged in sorcery and cursed objects in the world of the mind without even feeling the flow of night and day.

And how much time passed like that?

"It's all healed."

The price imposed on his body had come to an end.

The muscles that had been twitching all over returned to normal, and the cramps that used to burst out whenever he tried to sleep had now disappeared without a trace. Moreover, the facial muscles that hadn't been listening properly or had been making monstrous expressions at times also returned to normal, becoming sufficient to face people...