I Became the Hidden Chapter 115

Baek Yoonjun had been pondering continuously since he fell into the martial arts world.

'This world is a very frightening world.'

It wasn't that it wasn't like that in his previous life, but anyway, Baek Yoonjun was afraid of the world and humans, and because of that, he was insanely obsessed with martial arts.

And one day, he thought.

'Can't I completely separate myself from the world?'

Even Baek Yoonjun didn't know how he could reach such a thought while practicing martial arts, but he wanted it.

'A world where I'm all alone is the best, isn't it?'

A world of his own where he didn't need to meet people and there was no danger.

And.

'I can practice martial arts endlessly.'

By that time, martial arts had become an inseparable relationship for Baek Yoonjun.

'Even if I separate myself from the world, I don't know what kind of danger might arise at any time.'

With a thought process that was hard for others to understand, Baek Yoonjun endlessly practiced martial arts and devised a way to separate himself from the world.

And so, after a long period of research, Baek Yoonjun did create it.

'Although it failed.'

It seemed to have some effect, but.

'It was subtle.'

The fact that it was subtle was proof of failure.

After that, Baek Yoonjun's interest in that formation waned for a very short time, but.

'It was definitely there.'

The strange phenomenon that occurred in the building of the Martial Alliance.

Baek Yoonjun had tasted a world that had slowed down endlessly, as if it had stopped.

At that time, Baek Yoonjun had briefly forgotten due to the strange man he met then, the lock on his heart that had resulted from it, the incident with Cheon Suhye, and so on.

But.

'Lately, as things keep blowing up, my own space has become desperate.'

He had become desperate because of the things that kept blowing up, and he was able to complete the plan.

The Formation of Time and Space, with a name that seemed to have been seen somewhere.

Also known as the Sigongjin.

For now, what Baek Yoonjun had thought of as the core of this formation, to separate himself from the world for life, was.

'A failure.'

Baek Yoonjun considered the Sigongjin a failure.

'It's too hard to maintain.'

The resources that went into the Sigongjin were nothing special, to the point that he could have a waiter run an errand to buy them.

However, that alone was not enough.

To maintain the formation, Baek Yoonjun utilized all the knowledge of sorcery he had.

But even that was not enough.

Baek Yoonjun, who had been pondering, was only able to barely maintain the Sigongjin after incorporating the Heart Sword.

'The Heart Sword itself is being ground away. It was a crazy thing to try to do this with internal energy before.'

What was needed to maintain the Sigongjin was the Heart Sword itself, which could be said to be the entire body of the current Baek Yoonjun.

Thanks to that, Baek Yoonjun, who was maintaining the Sigongjin, had become completely close to an ordinary person.

Baek Yoonjun, who had become no different from the state when he had just run away into the mountains, became uncomfortable both internally and externally.

'I'm doing this to make myself comfortable, so what's the point if I'm uncomfortable?'

Because of that, it was a failure for the original purpose that Baek Yoonjun had thought of.

However.

'The time that flows in the Sigongjin can be made different from the time outside.'

A side effect was attached that could make a year outside a second here, and a year inside the Sigongjin a day outside.

Of course, it was a useless function for Baek Yoonjun's purpose.

But for now, it was a useful side function.

'Let's see. Looking at Yuhwa's condition, she can stay for about three days, making a day a year.'

The Sigongjin was not omnipotent.

For now, the biggest problems were, as mentioned before, that it was hard to maintain and that the time one could stay was limited depending on the user.

'And the training of the body or internal energy here is meaningless.'

Since the Sigongjin did not transcend time and space as its name suggested, no matter how long the perceived time here was, the body itself remained in real time, so training the body or internal energy had little effect.

'Even if you train for three years here, you only get the effect of training for three days.'

It was hard to maintain, but the training effect was minimal.

Normal training in the Sigongjin was meaningless.

But in a case like Tang Yuhwa's this time, the meaning was different.

'How much would Yuhwa's internal energy and body improve if she trained for three years?'

Since Baek Yoonjun had taught her on the side, he knew Tang Yuhwa's limits too well.

'It would be more effective to train Yungae for three months than to train Yuhwa for three years.'

Baek Yoonjun gave up on Tang Yuhwa's body and internal energy.

'So here, we train hidden weapon techniques and footwork.'

Fortunately, since Tang Yuhwa was smart, teaching the form itself while the Sigongjin was open would be a very meaningful time.

Baek Yoonjun had thought so until half a quarter of an hour ago.

"Ah."

Tang Yuhwa's legs got tangled as she was stepping on the footwork as Baek Yoonjun had told her.

If it were just that, there would have been no problem.

Tang Yuhwa, whose legs were tangled, for some reason, her body floated, turned half a circle in the air, and fell to the ground headfirst.

Crack.

Tang Yuhwa's neck, which had fallen headfirst, bent with a sound that should not have been made.

"Yuhwa!!"

Baek Yoonjun was startled and rushed to Tang Yuhwa.

Since the Heart Sword was used to maintain the Sigongjin itself, Baek Yoonjun's current body was ordinary itself.

Although the accident happened in front of his eyes, he could not stop it right away.

"You can't die! Yuhwa!"

"I... I'm not dead."

Baek Yoonjun held Tang Yuhwa, whose neck was bent rather gruesomely, and fixed it by mobilizing all his medical knowledge.

Although he had saved her for now, his startled heart showed no signs of calming down.

'No! It's not like she did something amazing, she was just stepping on a simple footwork, so why did her neck break?!'

Because of Tang Yuhwa, who seemed to be in a worse condition than usual, Baek Yoonjun had no choice but to change the training method.

'Instead of walking, training to throw hidden weapons while standing still should be fine, right?'

Thinking of the usual Tang Yuhwa, it was a training that didn't seem very dangerous.

Baek Yoonjun had thought so until half a quarter of an hour ago.

The Butterfly Dart that left Tang Yuhwa's hand flew up bizarrely.

The Butterfly Dart, which would normally have flown forward even with its bizarre movement, for some reason, drew a circle and began to fly towards Tang Yuhwa's back of the head.

"Yuhwa!!"

In a touch-and-go situation, Baek Yoonjun jumped in on time this time.

The Butterfly Dart, showing a bizarre movement, mercilessly hacked at Baek Yoonjun's body.

"Keuk..."

For the first time since he had faced the three thugs he had met before, Baek Yoonjun felt a threat to his life.

The training after that was not smooth either.

Tang Yuhwa, who was throwing ordinary hidden weapons instead of the Butterfly Dart, fell down and rolled like crazy, and even though she had clearly fallen forward, the back of her head was broken.

It was a total mess.

Baek Yoonjun touched his forehead.

'Is she doing this on purpose?'

It even went to the point of suspecting that she was doing it on purpose.

"It's strange."

Tang Yuhwa, who had rolled three times on the floor and then made contact with the floor with her face, muttered while blood was streaming from both her nostrils.

"What's strange?"

Baek Yoonjun wiped Tang Yuhwa's face with a cloth from his bosom.

The white cloth was stained bright red, and as if that wasn't enough, Baek Yoonjun was disgusted to see Tang Yuhwa even blowing her nose.

'If self-abuse wasn't her hobby, she wouldn't have kissed the floor until she was in this state.'

Just in time, an excuse-like word came out of Tang Yuhwa's mouth.

"My body is heavier than usual."

"What do you mean, heavier?"

"The feeling of the floor pulling me down seems to have become several times stronger."

"What kind of nonsen..."

Just as Baek Yoonjun was about to dismiss Tang Yuhwa's words as simple nonsense, a possibility flashed through his mind.

'Come to think of it, in my past life, didn't the room that was the motif of the Sigongjin be able to control not only time but also gravity?'

When his thoughts reached that point, Baek Yoonjun quietly checked his own condition.

'I don't feel anything special.'

Of course, his physical condition was not good, but that was the effect of using the Heart Sword to maintain the Sigongjin, and it wasn't a feeling that gravity had increased like Tang Yuhwa's.

'Does this affect the mind, not the body, making one feel that gravity is heavy?'

Baek Yoonjun came to his own conclusion.

Although a conclusion was reached, there was nothing he could do for her.

Since the fact that gravity became heavier was a side effect that even Baek Yoonjun had not thought of.

'If I get rid of this, the slow passage of time will probably disappear too.'

In the end, it seemed difficult to fix.

Baek Yoonjun wiped Tang Yuhwa's nose, which was bleeding from both nostrils again, and quietly opened his mouth.

"Even that is training."

Thinking that he had made a plausible excuse, Baek Yoonjun was quite satisfied.

But.

"Master."

"What is it?"

"Is physical training meaningful for me?"

At Tang Yuhwa's one word, he was at a loss for words.

Since he had already explained what the Sigongjin was to Tang Yuhwa, she would naturally know that physical training was meaningless.

Baek Yoonjun, whose self-esteem had become negative in an instant, timidly opened his mouth.

"Well... you can't always fight in perfect condition, can you? Think of it as training for such a situation."

"Hmm..."

Baek Yoonjun avoided Tang Yuhwa's gaze.

Since he had opened the Sigongjin with confidence, he had become even more shrunken.

"Okay."

Fortunately, Tang Yuhwa just let it slide.

"Thank you."

Baek Yoonjun expressed his gratitude and wiped the blood.

Sizzle.

It wasn't just blood coming out, but the handkerchief was melting as if poison were mixed in.

'This kid can't even have a nosebleed carelessly.'

With Baek Yoonjun's idle thought, the training resumed.

Although it was only three days, it was a time of three years inside the Sigongjin.

Moreover, since the physical condition remained in real time, they only needed to eat nine meals, so there was a lot of time to allocate to training.

And so, a year in the Sigongjin passed.

Clap, clap, clap.

Baek Yoonjun was clapping his hands like a seal.

"Finally, the frequency of falling has decreased."

Baek Yoonjun was clapping his hands in admiration, seeing Tang Yuhwa finally walking properly.

Seeing that, Tang Yuhwa's face was the same as usual, but it seemed to be filled with a lot of anger.

"Is walking properly something to be admired for?"

"Think about what has happened so far. How can you not be admired?"

Tang Yuhwa quietly fell into thought.

It seemed she was recalling the events of the past year.

"That seems to be the case."

"Right?"

"But I'm still angry."

Although there was no change in her expression, Tang Yuhwa, with a sulky look, threw the Butterfly Dart at Baek Yoonjun.

"Ugh! What are you doing?!"

Naturally, Baek Yoonjun was startled.

"It's the only chance to hit Master."

Tang Yuhwa expressionlessly threw all sorts of hidden weapons, including the Butterfly Dart.

Although the current Baek Yoonjun could not use internal energy or the Heart Sword, it wasn't as if his experiences so far had disappeared.

"Stop it!"

"Just let me hit you once."

"I refuse!"

He twisted his body this way and that, dodging the hidden weapons, and parried the ones he couldn't dodge with his sword.

Baek Yoonjun struggled to succeed in countering all the hidden weapons.

Seeing that, Tang Yuhwa's face was no different from usual, but a hint of even more sulkiness could be seen.

"I'm pissed."

"What's there to be pissed about?"

"The poison doesn't work either."

"Would you like it to work?"

"Right now."

From the side, it looked as if the disciple was desperate to kill the master, but the current act was a kind of play between master and disciple.

On top of that, since it also had a training effect, the efficiency was quite good.

"At this rate, no ordinary person will be able to dodge your hidden weapons."

"Master is also an ordinary person right now."

"As for me, since I was originally a second-rate martial artist, it's natural."

Tang Yuhwa glared at Baek Yoonjun with a sullen face.

Baek Yoonjun avoided her eyes with a needlessly scared heart.

"Ahem, now that you've adapted to some extent, let's focus on training with hidden weapons again."

Baek Yoonjun picked up the Butterfly Dart that had fallen on the floor and threw it at the target he had temporarily made.

"The movement of the Butterfly Dart itself is bizarre, but if you know the design intention to some extent, you can throw it as intended."

Baek Yoonjun's Butterfly Dart flew to tear the opponent to shreds.

It was a more heinous movement than any hidden weapon he had seen so far.

After demonstrating a few more times, Baek Yoonjun handed the Butterfly Dart to Tang Yuhwa.

"Now you try."

"Okay."

Having received the Butterfly Dart, Tang Yuhwa threw it at the target.

The Butterfly Dart, thrown by Tang Yuhwa's hand, showed a different movement from when Baek Yoonjun had thrown it.

To not harm the opponent as much as possible.

To harm them was to make the poison take root quickly.

It was a movement to quickly suppress the opponent without harming them by utilizing poison as much as possible.

Although the efficiency was incomparably lower than when Baek Yoonjun used it, Tang Yuhwa's Butterfly Dart was a butterfly itself.

"It's inefficient."

"But this is right for me."

Baek Yoonjun's and Tang Yuhwa's gazes met.

When their gazes met, although it wasn't very noticeable, the corners of Tang Yuhwa's mouth went up slightly.

"Don't you think this suits me too, Master?"

Baek Yoonjun avoided her gaze and turned his head.

"I guess so."

While doing so, he agreed with Tang Yuhwa's words.

Although Baek Yoonjun, who thought that a weapon was about the efficiency of killing power, was right, he thought that it suited Tang Yuhwa.

(End of Chapter)