The Tone-Deaf Healer Kills with a Song - Chapter 86

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Tone-Deaf Healer Kills with Song – Episode 086
“Yes, we do that when necessary. Since there are no situations where Lucy has difficulty intervening, like in ranking matches.”
“Somehow, I wish there were a long-range function that would let me send mana even when I’m far away from you.”
Where would the limits even be?
I suddenly released his hand and began running into the distance.
Jung Hwan-jae, wearing a bewildered expression, chased after me without hesitation.
Even though we both held the rank of first, there existed an insurmountable gap between us. Before I could even take a second step, he had already caught up.
This wasn’t a game of tag, yet he reflexively scrambled after me each time I moved.
“No, I’m trying to see how far my mana can reach! How am I supposed to test it if you keep following me like that!”
“Ah… I apologize.”
He wore an embarrassed expression and retreated backward along the same path he had come, moving away from me.
He withdrew so rapidly that for a moment I thought he was using spatial magic.
When he had become nearly a speck in the distance, I shot my mana into the empty air.
A greenish light, almost white, erupted into the void, wandering aimlessly before dispersing widely across the space.
No matter how I looked at it, my mana had simply spread throughout the interior of the Dungeon rather than being transmitted to Jung Hwan-jae.
I earnestly closed the distance between us and approached him again.
“Did you receive it?”
“Barely.”
It was nothing more than being struck by a few of the snowflakes spreading everywhere.
As I wore a disappointed expression, he quietly observed my mood.
He suggested we talk while walking and began leading me forward.
The fragrant scent of the Walking Path lifted my spirits somewhat.
“Yea can use her skills across vast distances, so she could reach anywhere she wanted. But honestly, that seems rather inefficient.”
“I think so too, when I consider it.”
Spreading mana across the entire nation every day was realistically impossible.
“Impossible” was a more accurate description than “difficult.”
“Is there no way around this?”
I furrowed my brow and interlaced my fingers. It resembled a prayer.
We couldn’t exactly connect a red thread between the two of us.
Then I felt the sensation of a jewel fitted around my finger.
“Senior, is there a way to use this?”
“Pardon?”
“This ring, I mean.”
I released my interlaced fingers and held my right hand up to Jung Hwan-jae’s face.
The ring that Kim Myung-joo had created for us.
I recalled the explanation that when one person dies, the buffs and similar effects they possessed transfer directly to the other person.
A transfer could only occur when there was a definite connection point between two people.
In other words, this ring was connecting me and Jung Hwan-jae.
“The only function that appeared immediately was something like your will at that time.”
“A will?”
“It felt similar, didn’t it? But time has passed, and it’s been quite a while since I made this, so wouldn’t other functions have unlocked as well?”
Even if it wasn’t a new function, just knowing they were connected made it seem far from impossible.
“Watch.”
I carefully placed my hand over the ring and began infusing it with mana.
Now I could feel the flow of that power coursing through my body. It flowed through my fingertips, delicately absorbing my strength.
The opal shimmered with a beautiful light, as if submerged in water.
When something gleams so brilliantly, one can’t help but feel anticipation.
“How is it?”
“Still not quite, ah—”
Mana has been infused into the Terraforming Ring (S).
New functions are being unlocked.
Mana Accumulation Mana Transmission Research
Three windows materialized before my eyes.
They were a brilliant blue, the kind hunters would expect to see in their stories.
Did my mana awaken it? I blinked, lost in that thought.
Jung Hwan-jae was staring at me with a puzzled expression, as if he couldn’t see what I was seeing.
Well, I must have looked ridiculous with my eyes, nose, and mouth all stretched wide in amazement. I laughed awkwardly.
I’d figure out the other two later.
[Mana Transmission]
The recipient of mana transmission is fixed as another individual who possesses a Terraforming Ring. If you agree, please select ‘Yes’.
[Yes]
At that moment, the ring on Jung Hwan-jae’s finger burst with five-colored light.
It was incomparably brighter than when I first infused it with mana.
The five-colored light soon shifted to green, the color that symbolized my mana.
Jung Hwan-jae’s expression transformed in a way similar to mine. Though admittedly, he looked handsome even when surprised.
“A button appeared here labeled ‘Mana Reception’.”
“Is there anything else?”
“No, there’s nothing else in particular.”
And as he selected the reception button correctly, green mana flowed into his body.
It felt entirely different from when I forcibly infused him with mana before.
It was as if I were draping him in clothing woven from mana—the way it layered across his body and slowly absorbed felt strangely intimate.
Sharing mana is, in essence, sharing one’s soul.
If that’s the case, then the way my mana gently envelops him… isn’t it like my soul embracing Jung Hwan-jae?
The moment I thought that, one side of my heart grew warm, and my heartbeat seemed to quicken for some reason.
“How does it feel? It seems like mana has been infused?”
“Certainly, it feels like it’s entering more efficiently than when you did it before. Did you perhaps use more mana than last time…?”
“Not at all. I gave you far less than I did then.”
Back then, I’d forced mana in without knowing the proper method, but now I was using the function of the ring that Kim Myung-joo had created—that was the difference.
As I blinked and smiled with anticipation, Jung Hwan-jae’s expression softened, and he smiled back.
“Thank you.”
“Simply filling up magical power won’t be enough, will it? Ah, I need to find a way to prevent it from leaking out.”
“That might sound strange, but the magical power Liri just shared doesn’t seem to be leaking away.”
His explanation went like this.
Normally, when receiving magical power from Lucy, he said he could feel it being gradually consumed right away.
But the magical power he received from me flowed gently through his body and seemed to actually ease his discomfort instead.
While he couldn’t prevent the consumption of his other magical power, the mere existence of magical power that didn’t leak away appeared to be an immense change for him.
My face brightened immediately.
“Then if I fill your entire body with my magical power, wouldn’t you be able to stop worrying about those kinds of debuffs?”
“That’s not possible.”
[Liri: That won’t work.]
Both men stepped forward simultaneously to block my suggestion.
If they were discouraging me to this extent, there had to be a problem, but since it was rare for these two beings to agree on something, I found myself hesitating without realizing it.
“I was born with an exceptionally vast magical power vessel. Liri may have more magical power than me, but if she tried to fill all of mine, she would be put in danger.”
“Ah.”
He meant tearing away my soul.
It might be possible if done over an extremely long time, but no matter how capable I was, suddenly severing that much of my power could threaten my life.
Since I appeared ready to fill his body with my magical power at any moment, everyone seemed to be trying to stop me.
“Then let’s do this consistently from time to time. Just enough that I can recover if I sleep deeply every single day.”
“That works.”
Only then did Jung Hwan-jae, who had been smiling brightly, suddenly stop in his tracks.
If I hadn’t reflexively stopped following him or hadn’t been holding his hand, I would have plummeted right off the cliff that loomed directly ahead.
Even if I fell down there, Jung Hwan-jae would naturally have come to rescue me, but standing before such a towering cliff still made me dizzy.
“Is this the mission location?”
“Yes, if you look carefully down there, you should be able to see glass panels.”
Indeed, glass panels that occasionally reflected light were scattered sparsely like stepping stones.
Normally there would be a stream, and falling would only get you wet, but here the difference was that a misstep meant plummeting below.
“I heard that the glass panels only remain stable if two people step on them simultaneously.”
“This really is like a game.”
I found myself genuinely curious about how that sibling pair managed to cross. When I laughed without thinking, his expression softened gently.
Beautiful light descended and a fragrant scent wafted through the air—perhaps because he had even shared his soul with me. His face appeared even more beautiful.
Jung Hwan-jae gently squeezed my hand.
“Then on one, two, three, we jump.”
“Okay!”
“One, two.”
-Three.
Jung Hwan-jae and I leaped high across the chasm.
It felt exactly like flying through the sky.

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