S-Classes That I Raised to Devour - Chapter 100

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Chapter 100. You Reap What You Sow (1)
Kang In-yong was tearing through the front door with such force that Chae Mujin set down his chocolate and went out to greet him.
The moment Kang In-yong saw Chae Mujin, he grabbed his wrist and dragged him forward.
He hadn’t expected congratulations for his return, of course, but an outright kidnapping attempt in broad daylight without a word? No matter how well they knew each other or how urgent the situation was, he couldn’t suppress the anger that rose in him.
He braced himself, pouring his full strength into resistance. Though he was being dragged backward inch by inch, it wasn’t the helpless stumbling of someone completely overpowered.
Kang In-yong’s eyes widened.
‘Even accounting for how much I’ve held back, he’s withstanding my grip strength?’
This was no longer just a matter of closing the gap in raw physical power. The qualitative difference in their mana itself had narrowed.
Chae Mujin himself felt a shock run through him.
‘If I’m like this now… could I actually go toe-to-toe with Kang In-yong?’
The mere fact that such an absurd thought rose unbidden was itself extraordinary.
Some invisible transformation had clearly taken place without his knowing. Chae Mujin quietly summoned his status window in his mind.
Titles:
One Who Beholds Light
One Who Has Witnessed Divine Power (New!)
「Title—One Who Has Witnessed Divine Power」
You have witnessed the higher energies of mana (Ether, Ein, Divine Power) and survived before their overwhelming Authority.
• You have perceived the source of mana.
The instant he finished reading the description, it hit him like a revelation. Why he felt capable of standing against this monster of an A-Rank Hunter.
It was exactly as the description said—his understanding of mana itself, how to perceive and manipulate this energy, had leaped to an entirely different dimension.
‘I can feel it all.’
How to amplify the mana within his body more powerfully, more fluidly, more efficiently—it came to him with crystalline clarity, as if he’d always known it as instinctively as breathing.
He could even discern the nature of the mana coiling around his wrist where Kang In-yong gripped him.
‘I knew mana had different qualities like personalities, but his is something peculiar.’
His mana nature was Heavy Pressure—specialized in crushing what it holds.
If his wrist were seized like this, it would normally be over. Either the wrist would snap or Kang In-yong wouldn’t let go.
‘You can’t squeeze oil. The stronger you grip, the easier it slips away.’
Chae Mujin shifted his mana nature to Soft Smoothness.
A technique he’d never attempted in his entire previous life, never learned from anyone.
But for Chae Mujin now, a single instinct—’this should be possible’—was enough.
Slip!
Like a loach escaping an iron grip, Chae Mujin’s wrist came free from Kang In-yong’s crushing hold with an almost unreal smoothness.
Both Kang In-yong and Chae Mujin himself opened their eyes wide at that impossible sensation.
But immediately after, Chae Mujin lost his footing and fell.
Crash!
Converting his mana to the Soft Smoothness property had worked, but his body couldn’t fully control this higher-order transformation he was using for the first time in his life.
Not only did Chae Mujin’s entire body become slippery as slime, but the excess mana that naturally spilled outward coated the entire marble floor of the lobby like an ice rink.
In the end, unable to manage his own nature, Chae Mujin landed hard on his backside in an undignified sprawl, while Kang In-yong teetered and staggered backward, barely avoiding a fall himself.
“That’s embarrassing.”
He hastily cancelled the property shift and brushed himself off as he stood.
This time, Kang In-yong didn’t charge recklessly like before. Instead, his eyes narrowed with caution as he studied Chae Mujin.
“…You gained some opportunity in the Deep Dive, it seems.”
“Well, yes. Though it’s not a sightseeing spot I’d recommend going out of your way for.”
I apologize for grabbing your wrist without warning. I was just impatient, that’s all.”
“Has Kang Chae-ah’s condition suddenly taken a turn for the worse?”
“Not that, but who knows when it might deteriorate again. Treat her now, would you?”
This old man who treasured his granddaughter so dearly seemed to divide the entire world into only one category: ‘Does it help my granddaughter or not?’
‘This kind of blind obsession must burden the granddaughter herself.’
In his active years, he’d been notorious for a rotten personality, but since his granddaughter fell ill with an incurable disease, he’d become a complete social recluse.
‘But the fact that he shows me even this much courtesy means I’ve become strong enough to warrant it.’
Chae Mujin found himself genuinely grateful as he thought of the silver-haired transcendent being.
Whatever that person had sacrificed for him, he couldn’t know, but thanks to them, he’d been able to leave the Land of Oblivion with the Akashic Record intact.
If the Akashic Record had been stolen, the memories within would have evaporated along with it, and he would never have obtained that overwhelming title, ‘One Who Has Witnessed Divine Power.’
‘Thank you, nameless transcendent of this other world.’
Of course, Chae Mujin’s prolonged distraction was quite deliberately intentional.
Annoyed at Kang In-yong for initiating a kidnapping without any warning, he was deliberately stalling by thinking of other things.
Sure enough, Kang In-yong’s patience didn’t last five seconds. He reached out again with that iron grip.
This time, Chae Mujin sidestepped lightly without letting himself be caught, seizing the initiative.
“Wait. There’s someone I need to bring.”
“Why would I need anyone else?”
“Because you’re acting like you’ve got mood swings.”
“You, you, I—wait, what?”
“I’ll bring her shortly. Just wait here quietly. And if you start causing trouble again, I’m taking a nap before I leave.”
“You, you, this… Ugh!”
Kang In-yong grabbed the back of his neck but didn’t dare resort to force. Partly because only this young fool could save his precious granddaughter—an absolute weakness—but also because the mana this boy had just displayed carried a fundamentally different tier of existence.
‘What in the world happened in that Deep Dive?’
Even Kang In-yong, who was indifferent to others’ lives, felt a chill down his spine. Chae Mujin’s transformation was utterly defied common sense.
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Kang In-yong’s secluded dwelling, nestled midway up Chilbo Mountain.
I held Kang Chae-ah’s thin wrist as if checking her pulse, while quietly summoning the Collection window.
[Collection Target has been updated.]
Collection Target: Kang Chae-ah
Gratitude Meter: 900→15,900
I had promised to give her a Mythic-Grade Elixir, and under that condition, I’d obtained the Saint’s Corpse Flower from Daesugyeong.
So I’d expected that this action itself, taken for her sake, would raise her Gratitude Meter, and I was right.
‘It rose more than I anticipated.’
[Collection List]
Attributes:
‣Five Elements Rampage (D)―3,000 [Collection Available]
‣Divine Descent Rampage (C)―10,000 [Collection Available]
‣Sacred Rampage (B)―30,000 [Collection Unavailable]
‣Psychokinetic Rampage (A)―100,000 [Collection Unavailable]
‣Transcendent Rampage (S)―10,000,000 [Collection Unavailable]
Skills:
‣Dragon Body Descent (S)―10,000,000 [Collection Unavailable]
I’d originally planned to collect only the lowest-tier Five Elements Rampage, but with my current Gratitude Meter, I could collect the next rank up—Divine Descent Rampage—all at once.
‘Just because I can doesn’t mean I should.’
First, I’d collect one Five Elements Rampage and see if her seizures stopped. If they didn’t, I’d need to confiscate the Divine Descent Rampage later.
But if the Five Elements Rampage alone improved her condition, then I should stop there.
Even if you possess the power to take another’s life, you can’t kill carelessly.
That’s the bare minimum principle I’ve set for myself.
Without delay, I was about to collect the Five Elements Rampage—but first, I called over the person I’d deliberately brought along.
“Yeoul.”
“Yes? Yes!”
The person I’d brought from the company was none other than Kim Yeoul.
“Place both your palms flat and press them firmly against my back. Put a bit of your weight into it.”
“L-like this?”
“A little harder. That’s it. Hold that position.”
Kang In-yong watches from behind. Does he really believe all of this is part of the treatment?
It didn’t matter if he believed it or not. This performance wasn’t meant to deceive Kang In-yong anyway—it was groundwork to trick the eyes of Kim Yeoul, who was right behind me.
“I’m starting.”
I closed my eyes pointlessly and drew up my mana. Last time I’d muttered “Collection” unconsciously out loud, but this time, with someone else here, I did it silently in my mind.
‘Collection.’
[You have collected Five Elements Rampage (D) from target Kang Chae-ah.]
When I’d collected the Mana Rampage, there had been an explosion, but this time was different.
Crackle!
Sparks scattered across the bedsheet where she lay, then it became damp as if drenched in water, and soon began crackling and freezing over.
The energies of the Five Elements spinning out of control, manifesting chaotically in all directions—a horrifying aberration.
Kang In-yong nearly jumped up in alarm at his granddaughter’s condition, but I communicated with a glance.
‘I’ve got this.’
Cold sweat beaded on my forehead. Even with my dramatically increased understanding of mana’s nature, controlling it wasn’t easy.
‘If I only have two Rampage skills and it’s this difficult to manage…’
Without the effect of the title ‘One Who Has Witnessed Divine Power,’ I would never have been able to control the Five Elements Rampage’s power.
But Kang Chae-ah had survived with six Rampage skills.
‘Even if I take two, she’ll still have four Rampages left. And high-tier ones at that. Even if she wakes, could she control that power?’
I couldn’t worry about others. I was reaching my limit with just holding on.
But that’s fine. I brought Kim Yeoul along precisely because I anticipated this.
A unique property of the Collection skill: I can transfer what I’ve collected to someone else.
‘But I’m giving it away, right?’
As if answering that question, a system window appeared.
[Please select a skill to transfer.]
List:
Soul of Sword Ghost (A), Shared Treatment (D), Penetration Enhancement (E), Death Stalker (B), Mount Tai Pressing Strike (C), Light of Healing (D), Eyes That See All Things (A), Mana Rampage (F), Five Elements Rampage (D)
‘Five Elements Rampage.’
[Please select the target to receive Five Elements Rampage (D).]
Targets:
Kim Yeoul, Kang In-yong
I’d thought physical contact would be necessary for the transfer, but it wasn’t.
‘So it just needs a certain distance, like Collection.’
[Will you transfer Five Elements Rampage (D) to target Kim Yeoul? After this, that skill cannot be collected or transferred again.]
Once transferred, a skill can never be taken back, nor transferred again.
I had no objections to that.
‘Proceed.’
[Five Elements Rampage (D) has been transferred to target Kim Yeoul.]
[You gain a fixed amount of Gratitude Meter equal to half the cost of the Collection.]
[Gratitude Meter +1,500]
The Collection skill’s mechanics were quite meticulous—a safeguard against exploits.
So would Yeoul see a system window saying ‘You have received a skill transfer’?
‘No, that won’t happen.’
If a notification had appeared, Yeoul would have screamed aloud or reacted with shock.
But the back of her shoulders remained calm. In other words, there was no system notification.
However, once such a rough skill as Five Elements Rampage seeped into her body, noticing it was only a matter of time.
‘She won’t suspect I gave it to her.’
I can extract others’ skills and transfer them. The moment this becomes known to the world, I will inevitably become either an elimination target or a puppet of some massive organization, regardless of whether my actions were right or wrong.
To hide that, I deliberately framed it as a coincidence and transferred the skill to Kim Yeoul.
“M-Manager, something’s wrong with my body. It’s burning up.”
Kim Yeoul, finally noticing the changes in her own body, recited the prepared line calmly.
“It must be a side effect of assisting with the treatment. Kang In-yong, I’ll take Chae-ah for a moment.”
I led Kim Yeoul to the back garden.
“There don’t appear to be any burns or bleeding. Don’t panic. Open your status window first. Check your attributes—is there anything new there?”
“Huh? A new attribute appeared. It says… Five Elements Rampage?”
“Lucky. Or rather, very fortunate. It seems Chae-ah’s Five Elements Rampage transferred to you.”
“My body keeps getting hotter. Am I… am I going to explode?”
“Stay calm. I’ll teach you how to control it.”
I pressed Yeoul’s shoulders and forced her to sit on the ground, then placed a hand on her crown.
“Mana is fundamentally neutral. But the Five Elements Rampage is trying to convert your mana itself into flame attribute.”
“That’s… a good thing, right?”
“Of course. You’ll save mana and mental strength on attribute conversion, so your skill’s duration and power will skyrocket. That is, if your body can handle it.”
In truth, left alone, the system’s compensation would allow her to adapt naturally within a few days.
But she’d run a high fever like poisoning and teeter on the edge of death for a full week.
‘I can’t let her suffer like that for a week.’
I coated Kim Yeoul’s body with Clear Mirror Water. Like eating yogurt before and after spicy food to ease stomach irritation, I was protecting her body from the fire mana.
This hands-on work demanded far more patience and precision than expected. It was meticulous coating work, penetrating down to individual cells.
By the time the sun set and true night fell, the precarious stabilization of Yeoul’s mana had finally been completed.
Yeoul, her tension released, complained of severe fatigue and body aches, then collapsed into her bedroom, and I, drained of energy, wanted nothing more than to collapse as well—but the timing wasn’t right to rest yet.
“Looks like it’s finally done.”
As if he’d been waiting, Kang In-yong walked out into the back garden.
“How is Chae-ah?”
“She has a slight headache, but her mind is still clear. It’s all thanks to you.”
“I’m glad to hear that. So, about my elixir—how does that stand?”
I hadn’t saved her out of kindness. It was only to obtain the Mythic-Grade Elixir.
“I finished it long ago.”
I followed him to the apothecary. There, Kang In-yong withdrew two wooden boxes from a safe within a safe within a safe.
One was a brilliantly white wooden box.
The other was a pitch-black wooden box, dark as midnight.
He’d promised the elixir would come in a set of ten. But did he really need to split them in half and divide them into separate boxes? And why such a starkly ominous color contrast?
Instead of answering, Kang In-yong thrust one wooden box into each of my hands and opened his mouth.
“As promised, my finest elixir yielded a total of ten. Since you agreed to give one to our Chae-ah, the remaining nine are nestled safely in this white box.”
“Then what’s in this black box?”
“You remember the saying—that elixir and poison differ only by a hair’s breadth?”
“…!”
“And everyone, including yourself, misunderstands. My specialty isn’t elixir crafting.”
Kang In-yong’s lined mouth curled into a grin both grotesque and arrogant—sinister beyond any villain’s cruelty, yet carrying the pride of a craftsman in its chilling smile.
“Why do you think they call me the Poison Spirit Wizard?”
“So inside this black box…”
“Explanation is tedious. Open both boxes and see with your own eyes what reward you’re walking away with.”
As he said, it would be faster and clearer to check myself.
First, I opened the white box.
The elixirs inside had black and white intertwined like a yin-yang pattern, and their appearance alone was extraordinary.
With reverent care, I took out an elixir and checked its options.
“…Wow.”
A gasp of pure, childlike wonder escaped my lips, all pretense forgotten.

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