The Birth of the 9th Circle Wizard

“I will go to this gate by myself.”

In front of the second stake, Soon-won said.

There is something like that because of the specificity of this gate, but there was a limit to Kim Soo-young's ability to keep pulling stakes alone.

As a human being, he needed time to eat, sleep, and empty out.

"okay. I will be waiting.”

Jihee Han didn't ask why.

Soon-won followed without asking why.

“Yes, thank you.”

When he said that he was ready, Kim Soo-young pulled the stake.

A second gate occurred.

“Is this the beginning of the frog curse?”

“Yes, it will appear all over the world simultaneously. I will take care of it as soon as possible and return, so please take care of me again.”

A curse appears even if the stake is pulled

Curse appears even if you don't.

If so, it was best to open the gate yourself and get rid of it quickly.

“Go. boss."

“I beg you.”

Soon-won rushed into his second gate alone.

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There is a small village deep in the mountains.

40 people.

These are the people who escaped because they could not afford the high taxes of the neighboring estates as slash-and-burn citizens.

Their farming method was unique, and they started farming on the mountain after burning wild grass and weeds.

The ashes of burnt grass and trees are used as fertilizer.

Although the yield was not sufficient, there was a surplus of produce without high taxes, and the accumulation of grain in the warehouse gave the villagers peace of mind.

until the incident happened.

“The village chief. It’s a big deal!”

“What’s going on?”

“Another villager died.”

This is already the 4th time.

The village chief hurriedly checked his body.

“Hey, how again… .”

This time, he was hit in the head and died.

The village chief told the young people of the village to make a grave for them and returned home.

“The village chief. Is there something you can do about it?”

said one young man.

Looking at the corpse, it looked as if he had died from an attack by someone rather than from a disease.

“We’ve been putting our heads together for several days already, but there’s no point in doing it.”

As the mayor said

No outsiders had ever entered the village, and no monsters had ever attacked them.

All that was left was that it was one of the villagers, but no one was suspicious.

“Let me go out. I am tired.”

The young man sighed and left.

Since he was a slasher who had fled his hometown, he could not ask for help, and that did not mean he could not leave the village.

Because winter was coming soon.

“Heh, you idiots.”

The village chief laughed.

His true identity is a doppelganger.

Monsters that have existed since ancient times were not well known because their numbers were so small.

They kill the opponent and copy their appearance and memories, so unless it is a really special case, their identity is never revealed.

was a high-level monster.'After waking up after 50 years, I'm not hungry. I need to get rid of all the guys in this town and move to a bigger town.’

In my mind, I wanted to kill the villagers right now and eat my fill, but because I knew how to control such an impulsive feeling, I was able to survive until now, unlike other people of my kind.

‘Eat only one person a day. You must obey this rule.’

There are two ways to make a doppelganger stronger.

The first is to eat large numbers of humans, and the second is to eat strong humans.

‘Right now, even three villagers can’t handle it.’

He was waking up from a long hibernation period, so he was doing his best to recover his stamina.

Right now, it was a dangerous situation for even a single human with a weapon to attack.

“The village chief.”

A voice calling out to him, lost in thought, came from outside the house.

“Didn’t you say you were tired? What's going on?”

“That’s because outsiders want to come to the village and stay, so I came here to ask for opinions on what to do.”

“A stranger?”

That's weird.

It is a village of slashers who hid in the mountains to avoid the high taxes of the evil lord.

The nearest village to the surrounding area was 3 days away.

‘What would you have done if you were the original village chief?’

I tried to remember.

The head of the 60-year-old man was full of various coping methods.

‘If we just send outsiders, we can’t just send them away because we can go to a nearby estate and talk about the village of slashers.’

This has happened a few times in the past as well.

Whenever he got lost while gathering herbs from a nearby village, the old village chief would drag an outsider into the village and kill him.

This is because if the location of Hwajeonmin Village is discovered, the lord will definitely bring the soldiers and arrest them.

“Shall we do it like before?”

“Okay, let me in the village.”

The thick log door that had been closed opened.

There, a man who looked dwarf at first glance walked into the village with a cane.

‘Hmm, you look stronger than I thought?’

I also thought about a plan to change into an outsider's body and move to the city.

In a small town like this, if they keep killing each other, they suspect each other and murder indiscriminately is unlucky.

This is because crabs can die without being discovered.

"nice to meet you. I am the mayor of this town. Come this way.”

The village chief showed a nice smile.

♦

The sun went down.

The village chief asked the outsider various things, but the man was reticent and did not answer anything.

‘Anyway, kill him and change his body

Otherwise, you can take away all your memories.’

It felt like he ate well and had grown well.

Usually, in such cases, the wealthy merchant's chair was most likely.

‘I must have ate food with drugs and fell asleep.’

In the village, there was a medicinal herb called Harucho (轉滿草) with a powerful sleeping effect.

I put it in food and served it to a hungry foreigner, so I thought he would have fallen asleep by now.

‘These villagers are so poor, dirty and stinky.’

I barely built a house to shelter from the rain, but I couldn't build a bathroom properly.

The smell of feces stung his nostrils all over town.

'uh?'

The smell of blood that stimulated the peripheral nerves entered the tip of his nose.

Also a lot of bleeding.

I could feel the popularity of many people in the house where foreigners were staying.

‘Maybe these children?’

The villagers of Hwajeonmin are poor.

For this reason, in winter, when food runs out, they turn into bandits.

it was common

‘You touch strangers without saying anything to me r

A stranger is an unscratched lottery ticket.

If they were able to move freely around the country, they were the best prey for doppelgangers.

“Aaaaaah!”

bang!

The door to the hut shattered, and a young man from the village was ripped apart.

He grabbed his severed arm and got up desperately.

“Second, village chief?”

The man's expression is frightened.

The mayor quickly grasped the situation.

Whoops!

“Chief?”

The young man looked down at himself with a surprised expression.

There was a small tuft piercing his heart.

dump

As the young man collapsed, the village chief walked slowly to the hut.

Looking inside the broken door, two other young men had been stabbed and fell to the ground.

Predictably, three young men from the village went in to steal money, but two died and one escaped.

“Huh, this is so… .”

Red blood was still dripping from the sword the stranger was holding.

'strong.'

The village chief quickly shook his head.

“As the mayor in charge of this village, I have no face. Because young people are blinded by money... .”

Pippy!

"uh?"

He felt a tingling sensation on the back of his hand and looked down to see blood dripping from his hand.

‘How about on that street?’

The stranger slowly approached with an expressionless face.

It was an ordinary gait, but there were no gaps in sight.

The village chief could not move even though he entered the gap between the swords.

‘What are you doing?’

A stranger who came close brought a ring to the blood that was dangling from the village chief's hand.

The ring with black jewels flashed bright red.

“Oh, is it you?”

For the first time, I could hear the voice of an outsider.

“What are you talking about, this old man… .”

“It’s a doppelganger. It’s you.”

The village chief's pupils widened.

He had lived for hundreds of years, excluding the hibernation period, but it was the first time his identity was discovered by anyone.

“What are you talking about… .”

Dangerous.

In this case, he had to completely remove his shichimi.

He had to make excuses using the memories he had stolen from the real village chief.

“The young men in the village must have come in first for money, so I’ll pretend I didn’t know that I harmed them. So, please leave the village.”

Puffy!

I was attacked in the blink of an eye.

It felt like his fingers were pressing on something, and his body didn't move.

It completely hardened down his neck.

"I know that? The raid team that came to this town once tried to find you, but one by one, they died.”

The next raid team did the same.

All the people who came here did not know what a doppelganger was written on the stone tablets in the first place.

In the end, it was the Russian team, the 4th expedition, that succeeded in capturing this gate.You could catch a doppelganger by killing all the villagers.

“What are you talking about? How long have I been in this town... .”

Strike!

The doppelganger was decapitated.

His head, which had rolled over the floor, stopped in the corner of the hut.

“I know he’s not dead.”

A fireball appeared from Soon-won's hand.

Then a slime-like liquid escaped through a tiny hole in his head and began his mortal flight.

Whoops!

Soon-won's attack, which had already been prepared, could not be avoided.

Keeeeeeek!

The infamous ancient species of doppelgangers is as easy to catch as the linguary.

It is thanks to the DNA reader made by JW Workshop.

“It’s not a difficult question once you know the answer.”

A ring appeared from the doppelganger's body.

[Status window: Emotion]

Name: Doppelganger's Ring

Grade: S grade (unique)

Abilities: Wisdom +55, Intellect + 14

Special Ability: Reading Memory (Limited to dead humans)

Description: When used on a corpse, you can peek into the memories of the dead. Depending on the caster's magic level, the amount of time the memory can be stolen varies.

“Huh?”

The report did not specify what reward was received for killing the doppelganger.

“They said that the American spies in Russia dried up after the gate attack.”

It is a useful item.

It seemed to be quite useful.

“Intellect for wisdom 55

you."

14 Bring me up

By increasing the maximum, the intellect is magic

Wisdom was the amount of magic (MP) that was given, and it played a role in lowering the consumption of magic when used.

‘Even if I catch just one of the Cheonwoohoes, I can hit it all at once.’

A portal appeared through the gate.

Soon-won hastily moved his steps.

♦ ♦ *

A problem arose from the third gate.

He noticed the existence of stakes in the United States.

Since all the stakes in the world are heading to the same dungeon, one of the wizards in the United States realizes that the source of the continuing disaster is the stake, pulls it out and opens a portal.

Because of that, at the third gate where Soon-won and Ji-hee entered together, the two faced the American raid team.

“Where are you from?”

"I'm from Korea."

“It’s amazing. I thought no other country would have noticed the existence of stakes other than the United States.”

They did not know that Soon-won and Ji-hee had already removed the two curses.

“According to the experts, the catastrophe that has been inflicted on the world will disappear only when the stakes are pulled out and the gates that appeared are resolved.”

Captain of the American raid team.

John McCree explained.

“But where is your team going, and it’s just the two of you?”

“We are two.”

"what? why? Why?"

Soon-won ignored McCree, who continued to pour questions, and looked at the slab in front of him.

[Free the master of the pyramid.]

That was the goal of this gate.

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