The Birth of the 9th Circle Wizard

“ Soon-won? Isn't today a day to bring side dishes?"

Jongwang Kim's gaze turned to Soon-won's hand.

An old bachelor at the age of forty, he was receiving side dishes from his older sister Soon-won's mother every month.

Soon-won was the one who did that errand every time.

“I didn’t come today for a side dish.

yo. This. Uncle."

Jongwang Kim noticed that Soon-won's mood had changed.

Normally, he brought side dishes with an annoying expression on his face.

He had never come here without a reason like today.

“What’s going on?”

Soon-won looked around the lab.

The bookshelf was full of the magic books he was looking for.

“Can I have a look at that magic book?”

"Eh? Why?"

Kim Jong-wang made an absurd expression

all.

Most of the magic books were original books, so they were in English or Russian.

He knew the level of his nephew better than anyone.

This is because he once tutored his nephew at the request of his older sister.

“Even if you look at it, you wouldn’t understand… .”

“I’ll just take a look.”

“Well, yes.”

My nephew, who was obsessed with online games, had no interest in studying.

He was ranked 7th in the National Scholastic Ability Test, and he

No matter how much he taught, his mind was somewhere else, so he gave up last year thinking that it was just reading the sutras.

‘Have you ever seen a movie in which a wizard is the main character?’

In movies, dramas, games, or cartoons, it is the magician who appears as the main character every time.

In war, science, medicine, and architecture, in every field, there was no part that wizards could not reach.

The wizard was the protagonist in all content.

‘At that age, everyone became a wizard.

I don’t want to.’

There is a difference between wanting to be and being able to be. Most get the report card and give up quickly.

In rural areas, it is because the magic college is the only way to go to junior high and high school without missing the first place in the whole school.

'Oh, but it's a big deal. I forgot that I boasted to the president that I was able to treat hair loss.’

Jong-Wang Kim cut off interest in Soon-won looking at books and began to devote himself to designing magic again.

Soon-won couldn't find the book he wanted.

He looked at his uncle, but he didn't even look at himself because he was so busy with work.

“Hey, Uncle?”

He spoke, but he did not answer. It is a characteristic that comes when you are deeply immersed in your work. Even when you came to give me a side dish, in such a situation, I would leave it without a word.

‘Because I was so focused, I didn’t have any luck and entered the Magic College at once.’

It wasn't just a local magic college, it was my uncle who graduated from Yonsei University's magic college.

It was the second most prestigious university in Korea as a magic university.

‘It’s a research institute, so there are no basic books.’

What Soon-won wanted was to re-create the mana circuit, so he needed a basic book. It's a magic university building, but it's a research building, so the basic book was not on the bookshelf.

‘Should I go to the bookstore?’

The problem is that without a wizard's license, you can't even look at magic books, let alone buy them.

"Uncle?"

Soon-won went behind his uncle and sat on the chair.

He tugged at the ID hanging over the draped study gown.

“I’ll borrow this for a while.”

When his uncle didn't answer, Soon-won closed the lab door and left.

Then, King Kim Jong, who had lost his concentration at the sound of the door, looked back.

"Huh? When did he go?”

His gaze quickly turned to the magic blueprint.

He was full of will to complete at least one hair loss treatment magic that the president expected within today.

♦ 幸 *Upon arriving at the bookstore, Soon-won approached the stall where the magic books were stocked.

Then the alarm went off and a female bookstore employee came running.

"student! It’s a magic book corner, so only wizards can enter!”

The female employee wearing a name tag with the name Hana Lee was actually a college student in magic at Gongju University.

She is a sophomore in the main department, and the amount of magic books is too expensive.

She didn't see a new book coming out and she was only doing her bookstore part-time in the evening.

"Prof. She came on an errand.”

"errand?"

Lee Ha-na handed over Kim Jong-wang's ID from Soon-won.

‘He’s our university professor.’

On the ID, it was written “Kim Jong-Wang, the 2nd major in Magical Engineering, Gongju University Institute of Magic.”

The anti-counterfeiting tag had a bright light shining through it, so it was an ID card that could not be forged with poor skills.

“What is your relationship with the professor? errand

You look too young to do it.”

It's rare, but don't tinker

I'm a talented person who only reads books

A man who tried to use magic and became a delinquent

There were many cases.

Most of them happen in developing countries where there is no proper magic college, but it was also rare in Korea.

“He’s our maternal uncle, and he told me to buy some books.”

“Can I talk to the professor by any chance?”

“Do not answer the phone during the study.

They came out when I started researching.”

“Um, then I’ll help you find the book you want.”

Hereafter, I decided to follow Soon-won with her in case of an accident.

Noticing that, Soon-won let out her sigh.

“I’m looking for an introduction to mana science.”

“Oh, the basics from the lab?”

"•"Yes."

Soon-won looked at Hana Lee at that moment.

He could tell that it was a student at the Magic University who could feel the aura of mana in a minute.

“Looking at you well, you must be a student at the Magic University?”

"Huh? Ah oh".."

Lee Ha Na looked at Chen Soon Won, who noticed her identity, and smiled awkwardly at her.

This is because, usually, when their identity is discovered, the next reaction is the same.

[Wow! Great! Are you a real wizard?]

[Are you really good at studying?]

[Show me the magic!]

But Soon-won exceeded her expectations

she stood

It was because his expression was always sullen.

“So where are the books?”

"Yes? Oh, come this way.”

Below my, her face turned red like a blush.

She is the door when she was preparing to ask her to keep it a secret if she makes a fuss.

Because no one in the bookstore knows that he is a magic college student.

'Unusual child.'

Lee Ha-na looked carefully at Soon-won's school uniform nameplate.

I'm trying to remember her name.

“The book is here.”

Soon-won took the thick book and flipped through it.

It was filled with various anatomical information.

Because the mana circuit runs through her arteries and veins, she has had to study more than a medical student in her anatomy knowledge.

“Can you hang the book in her uncle’s name?”

“Then take it.”

Soon-won put the book in his bag and left the bookstore.

Lee Ha-na looked at his back like that.

* ♦ ♦

Soon-won headed back to the lab to put Kim Jong-wang's ID in its original place.

He knocked and went into the lab, but there was no one else to see his uncle.

Soon-won re-attached his ID to the study uniform hanging on the chair, and suddenly looked at the magic blueprint on the desk.

“Hair loss treatment magic?”

I looked back at his memories. He was 45 years old, and he, too, started alopecia areata in his mid-30s, so he received help from hair loss treatment magic.

However, I can't remember the exact year when the hair loss treatment magic was developed, but it was in the 2010s.

‘Did it even go to a phase 1 clinical trial?’

A design that is bound to fail at first glance

it was too

Even though the basic investigation and material investigation were good, the chemical structure was wrong.

'Would you like a little touch?'

Before he used the hair loss treatment magic on his own, he knew what kind of structure it was by checking the blueprint.

He meticulously remembered the magic he used on his body.

Because he was told there was a wizard with hair in his mouth after misusing it.

“I’m sorry for the Kaeppy Pharmaceutical Magic Company, but… .”

Magic isn't about creating

It is close to discovering the existing laws of physics.

Thousands of pharmaceutical wizards change millions of formulas and experiment every day to create magic.

Soon-won already knew the answer, so he jumped over all those steps and started writing down the answer.

‘Well, no one will know what I did.’

No CCTV, no black box magic.

Still not commonly available

There was no era.

‘It’s the year brick phones just started selling.’

Soon-won looked at Pippi, who was wearing it around her waist.

This was also an item his father used and passed on to him when he bought a brick phone.

'I think it's the price of the book. Uncle.'

After writing down all the formulas, Soon-won left the lab.

And after about 5 minutes, Kim Jong-wang returned to the lab again.

“Ah, I ate only cup noodles every day and had diarrhea.

does not stop.”

After stretching his neck once, Kim Jong-wang sat down again and looked at his blueprint and frowned.

"What is this? Who touched it?”

During 15 minutes of going to the bathroom, someone must have entered his lab and modified the blueprint.

“It’s too detailed to think someone was joking.”

Did the head of the department come and go? Or the head of the lab?

I do not know who touched it, but Kim Jong-wang once

I decided to try magic.

♦ ♦ ♦

Upon returning home, Soon-won locked the door and began an introduction to mana science.

The method of making a mana circuit written there was a technology that was obsolete in 2030.

‘This technology has been discontinued due to many problems with the design of the mana circuit.’

It was the 7th generation mana circuit.

Because of this, wizards around the world caught a cold and 30% died.

It happened three years later. I don't know about other wizards, but combat wizards are a major that wizards avoid, so there is a very short manpower.

In the case of Korea, even if a hundred people disappear, the country will falter and thousands will die. And in the aftermath, there is a gap in security that will kill millions of ordinary citizens in the long run.

‘Because there is still time.’

Soon-won decided to apply the 13th generation mana circuit to himself.

This was the latest mana circuit developed in 2030.

Compared to the previous generation mana circuit, the efficiency was unmatched.

‘Ha, but it would take a really long time to make it by yourself without the help of other wizards.’

If there was a lot of money, he would try to open the circuit by pulling mana from the mana stone, but feeling and absorbing mana on his own was only possible for those who received the blessing of mana.

‘I must go to Chilgapsan during vacation.’

Nature's mana is concentrated in clean areas.

So, usually companies buy mana stones.

Use it to recharge mana and sell it to the wizard.

Soon-won, who was born in the middle class, had no money to purchase expensive mana stones.‘I need money. money.'

When I was in high school, my parents gave me 150,000 won a month, but when I was in middle school, I didn't even get pocket money.

It was a time when we lived in such a way that we received money by telling us if we needed anything.

♦ * *

“Didn’t Soon-won change a bit?”

“Not a little. I became a completely different person.”

Seon Hyun-sung and Hong Seong-soo tilted their heads as they looked at Jung Soon-won.

Hyeonseong was about 3rd in the class, and Seongsu was about 9th.

On the other hand, Soon-won was ranked 18th, only half of the 40 people.

Compared to the fact that I usually don't study at all, thanks to the academy I was forced to attend, I was at least in the middle.

“I don’t do my homework every day and I come to school

I asked you to show me.”

“You don’t even go to a PC room together, do you just study?”

When it was lunchtime, all the students ran to the dining room, but Soon-won remained seated and continued to read.

Hyeonseong and Seongsu looked at each other with absurd expressions and then approached Soon-won.

“Hey, Jung Soon-won! Aren't you eating?"

“Oh, you go first. I'm afraid to wait in line, so I'm going to go in about 30 minutes."

If you go when all the students have finished eating, you can eat without waiting in line.

have.

No one was unaware of this, but the students of Seonggi couldn't stand the time and sprinted to the lunchroom at lunchtime.

“Hey, studying is good, but studying is not the same as cramming something like that to improve your grades.”

Soon-won closed the book and looked at Hyunseong.

He later graduated from Korea University and got a job at Samsung.

And in the case of Seongsu, he graduates from Chungnam National University and becomes a 7th grade civil servant.

‘I lost contact with these guys naturally while I was five.’

After that, he crossed over to hear the news, but did not keep in touch.

"Guys. I was going to be a wizard.”

Soon-won's bombshell remarks.

Seongsu burst out laughing.

“Are you going to keep your virginity until you’re 25?”

“I am serious.”

Even with Soon-won's lack of laughter, Seongsu couldn't hide his laughter.

“Hey Arthur. that's genius

is.”

“Every year, 2,000 wizards are produced. You only need to be in the top 2,000 nationwide.”

Hyunsung responded to that.

“If you exclude the rural and fishing villages, people of national merit and other preferential admissions, there are 1,700 people.”

Seongsu added there.

“It’s a problem even if you go to magic college. Do you know that the lower ranks are forced to become mages before battle by arranging grades? My relative hyung went to magic college with difficulty, but after deciding to major in battle, he quit the wizard.

Ah."

"I know."

It was Jung Soon-won who took the bottom ranks in the magic department of the local university where he entered the 5th apprenticeship and became a combat magician.

Popular wizards were in safe, high-paying jobs, such as plastic wizards, medical wizards, traffic wizards, and logistics wizards.

Like his uncle, he could go into a research job, but a battle wizard was a good job for fighting demons and screaming to death.

“But someone has to be a battle wizard.”

In Soon-won's eyes, Hyunseong and Seongsu could see a fight that a 15-year-old boy could not feel.

A battle wizard who fights the devil with death by his side has a mental power that sometimes frightens even the demons.

“Yeah, yes. If you say so.”

“Hey, work hard.”

The two of them, whose backs grew cold, hurriedly left the classroom.

“Awesome. It seems that Soon-won has changed as a person.”

“So. Jaksim Samil is not Jung Soon-won

Hey."

When the two of them left the classroom, the flow of study was interrupted, and Soon-won took out an introduction to mana science from his bag.

He's a 7th gen mana circuit book, but he needed anatomy info so I had to keep an eye on it.

‘I can’t study so ignorantly and inefficiently. First of all, you have to use magic to improve your memory.’

He started rechecking the arteries and veins through which the 13th generation mana circuits passed.

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