Bloodhound’s Regression Instinct

Chapter 24

Light and darkness are one and two.

A mysterious sentence.

If there was some annotation, it would be fine, but there was nothing that could be explained by that one sentence.

‘Light and darkness are one and two… What does that mean?’

Yan closed his eyes.

Only darkness filled his vision.

He did that for ten seconds, one minute, ten minutes.

And when he had his eyes closed for about thirty minutes.

A vein popped up on Yan’s forehead.

‘What the hell is this?’

There must have been something since the emperor changed after he got this.

In fact, The emperor had a secret duel with the Duke of the Sea after he collected all the pieces.

He couldn’t know the result because he was the closest confidant and couldn’t watch.

‘The emperor, who is usually suspicious and extremely cautious about his safety, had a secret duel because he had not just confidence but ‘certainty’…’

“I’m going crazy not knowing what the secret is.”

Light and darkness are one and two.

What does that mean?

Of course, light is light and darkness is darkness.

They can’t be one. They can’t be two. When light shines on darkness, only light remains, and when light fades, only darkness remains.

But.

‘This can’t be dismissed as nonsense since the writer is the founder of the empire.’

He closed his eyes again to think about light and darkness as the text said.

No, he even turned off the magic lamp that was brightly lighting the room.

Pitch-black darkness.

Only silence and darkness filled the room.

Something cozy wrapped around Yan’s mind and body.

At that moment.

A change occurred.

The brain can emit the strongest light when it is the darkest.

He remembered the first skill he read.

Yan’s subconscious began to review the skill.

That wasn’t the end.

The tiger never wanders in the darkness.

The core of the tiger sword technique.

The venom always aims for the heart.

The author who used the snake’s fangs emphasized the sentence.

The most basic thing to achieve indestructibility is the mind! The mind that you can do it!

The basics of the theory of indestructibility.

. . Hundreds, thousands of skills and theories that he had piled up in his head began to be recalled.

They were all for one sentence.

Light and darkness are one and two.

They were endlessly dissected, broken down, omitted, and reassembled to interpret that one sentence.

Yan got up from his seat as if he was possessed.

And his eyes opened and he was blinded.

The moonlight that came in from the window shone on him.

And the long shadow that stretched out in front of him.

His head flashed.

Light and darkness are one and two.

‘Is this… maybe a shadow?’

A shadow is when light hits an object and a shade appears behind it.

Can this be considered darkness?

“It’s darkness, isn’t it?”

He seemed to have solved the riddle.

Yan’s eyes turned to the 『Birth of the Empire』 on the bed and the shadow behind it.

“Letters?”

It wasn’t an ordinary shadow.

Mana-made letters appeared on the shadow of the book.

One splits into two branches.

The branch means choice.

Light is the beginning and darkness is the end.

When the two become one, you will reach eternity.

Yan realized what it was as soon as he saw it.

“…A formula!”

The 72 letters engraved in his head were decomposed and reinterpreted.

‘I guess I don’t need that eternity part.’

He wondered if it was related to another formula, but there didn’t seem to be any changes in the flow.

So he memorized only the formula he needed.

Tsk tsk tsk.

The energy of the life vessel that was rooted all over his body reacted.

Whooong. Whooong.

“What is this?”

Why all of a sudden?

When he had that question, the energy of the life vessel started to move on its own.

Whiiing.

It started to be sucked into the incomplete planet.

Yan put his hand near his heart with a flustered face.

His heart was beating peacefully as before, and the sun and the new planet he had made didn’t show any signs either.

No, rather, they had changed to be much more solid and stable than before.

And after some time.

“Ho.”

Yan exclaimed as he saw the newly reborn planet.

The knights who are called superhumans above the third rank have characteristics depending on their mana or skill.

In fact, the father of the first trainee Lorena, the Duke of Beowulf, once froze a huge lake with his sword.

“This is mana specialized for the Dark Dragon Technique.”

That was what surprised Yan.

The first planet, the Sun, felt like ordinary mana.

But the mana flowing from the second planet was so secretive and dark that it could be called yin energy (Yin Qi).

It was not at the level of controlling the attribute like a third-rank knight, but… it was still amazing that the Mana had an attribute.

Yan clenched his fist.

Sssss.

With a faint sound, a black aura covered his fist.

It was an energy that suited the quiet and stealthy skill of the Dark Dragon Technique.

Yan swung his fist at a vase on the desk far away.

Crash-!

The vase shattered into pieces.

Yan smiled with satisfaction as he saw the broken pieces.

It was not because of the destructive power.

“This is perfect for sneaking and assassinating.”

The energy that Yan shot out was so secretive that it was hard to notice until the vase broke.

He didn’t even use any artifacts or skills that helped him hide.

‘If I do this well… I don’t even need to learn stealth skills, do I?’

It was impossible to handle yin energy, which could convert mana into yin, unless one reached the realm of a third-rank knight.

But now he could manifest yin energy to some extent even though he hadn’t reached that realm.

“Let’s call this planet the Moon.”

The moon that, only rises when it’s dark.

Since it was a planet that governed yin energy, there was no other name that suited it.

‘I don’t know why the first piece had a similar nature to the Dark Dragon Technique… Maybe the origin of the Dark Dragon Technique has some connection to this first piece.’

It was known that the various skills and visions used by the royal direct organs, including the special corps, had their roots in the royal family.

They put a leash on the direct organs so they wouldn’t turn their backs on the royal family.

Yan speculated that maybe the vision of the Dark Dragon Technique itself was an inferior version made by taking some of the many pieces that made up the breath of the Divine Dragon.

‘If I look at it now, it’s much more efficient and profound than the Dark Dragon Technique. And there’s no restriction.’

Yan thought of ways to experiment with this moon.

“First of all, I need to check if it applies to all the formulas of the Dark Dragon Technique, and if so, how efficiently it manifests.”

Whooong.

He pulled out yin energy from the second planet, the Moon, and spun it.

As he was about to unfold the Dark Dragon Technique in that state.

[Oh my! What a stupid blockhead…]

Suddenly, a familiar voice rang in his head.

Yan stopped his body and sharpened his senses.

But he didn’t feel anything.

He swallowed his saliva and focused more on his senses.

That way, another ten minutes passed, but there was no more voice.

“…What is this? A hallucination?”

It could have been. He hadn’t lost his concentration once since he returned.

He felt relieved for a moment and thought he might have heard nonsense…

[The Bahamut bastard will cry in hell when he sees you using the Black Dragon for just hiding your presence.

You stupid bastard.]

Yan’s face twisted.

He wasn’t mistaken. It was too nasty to be dismissed as a hallucination.

And stupid bastard?

Yan curled his lips fiercely.

He thought the voice was familiar, but it wasn’t. It was the way of speaking.

It was a very short encounter, but he remembered it vividly, so he could guess right away.

‘Did the thoughts flow in because I absorbed the life vessel?’

He would know if he talked to him.

“Hey, Mr. Lich. If you’re going to go, go nicely, why are you nagging in someone else’s head?”

[Hmph! Where do I look like I’m going to go nicely? I’d rather roll in a dung field than go to the afterlife, and if I go to hell, I’ll definitely! Kick the bastard who hit the back of my head.]

“Then do that, why are you picking a fight in someone else’s head?”

Yan snapped at him, and the lich, Momon, screamed in his head.

[You bastard! You ate my life vessel and made this happen! I would have resurrected without any problem if I had another hundred years!]

Yan felt his irritation subside as he saw Momon’s rage.

“Bury your memories in your heart, and let go of the past train.”

[You, you you you! You goblin shit!]

“By the way, what did you mean by Black Dragon?”

He was hooked by the words Momon said in his head, ‘Seeing you use the Black Dragon like that…’.

[Heh heh heh, do you think I’ll tell you?]

Momon laughed sinisterly and said.

[If you kneel down and smash your forehead on the ground and beg me, ‘O great master of magic, Momon, please give me a glimpse of your teachings’, I might consider it.]

Yan’s face twisted.

‘What the hell, this crazy skull.’

He had no intention of doing that.

No, he couldn’t do that to anyone, let alone this skull.

Above all, in the first place.

“Don’t you have something you want from me, that’s why you’re talking to me?”

[…Ha ha! Me?]

He was a little slow to react, so he seemed to have hit the mark.

Yan’s lips curled up.

He felt like he knew his personality a bit after talking to him.

There are people like that, aren’t there?

They have pride and self-esteem in their achievements, but they have a shallow understanding of others because of that, and their human relationships are very weak.

Momon was also likely to have that kind of personality.

So he would never reveal his weakness easily.

‘What he wants is…’

His mind spun.

“I need to steal your body and resurrect!”

“I’ll find you a body to resurrect.”

[…!]

He couldn’t see his face to know his exact reaction, but he felt a hint of embarrassment.

[Hah! Do you think you can do that with your pathetic skills?]

“So you have to help me.”

[Yeah, it’s not too late now… What?]

“You have to help me.”

[…]

When Yan spoke as if he was asking for his belongings back, Momon was speechless with absurdity.

After a brief silence.

[Me? Why? Are you crazy? Why should I help you, who ate everything I made with my life?]

Momon sneered at his words.

“Then don’t.”

As soon as he said that, Yan turned his head and lay down on the bed.

He meant he had nothing more to say.

An hour, two hours passed.

A voice that sounded like grinding his teeth came into Yan’s head.

[…Fine.]

Yan’s eyes opened slightly.

But he didn’t answer.

[Fine! You bastard!]

Momon shouted loudly, but Yan didn’t answer.

Momon spat out curses for a while, but when Yan didn’t react, he shrank.

[Damn… Is this connection cut off? Hmm, that’s not it…]

[Maybe I’m trapped in his body and can’t talk to anyone and disappear… Aww, that’s unlucky.]

[Kid, if you answer me now, I’ll even teach you magic myself.]

[Uh… Or maybe some of the treasures I collected… Ouch! No!]

When Yan didn’t answer even though he offered him tempting things.

[…Or, or maybe you really can’t hear me? Hey, hey!]

He even started to apologize.

[Ok, ok! I’m sorry for swearing! I must have been angry, being stuck for a thousand years and suffering this misfortune.]

[Come on, cheer up! I’ll give you what you want!]

At that moment, Yan’s mouth opened.

“Really?”

[You… You fox-like snake bastard!]

“Tsk.”

[Ah, ahem! Fine, what do you want? The great wizard’s magic lessons? Or how to use the mana heart stuck in your heart? The purpose of the Divine Dragon’s breath?]

Momon blurted out this and that in a hurry.

Yan’s lips rose.

“All of them.”

[You son of a bitch…!]

Momon spat out more insults, but Yan’s lips didn’t go down.

How could he feel bad?

The sucker was offering everything on his own.

“I have to grow well, so you can get your freedom sooner.”

Yan was confident that he could fleece the sucker.

He wouldn’t leave a bone.

By the way.

‘In my previous life, the lich and the rare disappeared together, but what about now?’

Strictly speaking, he didn’t disappear since he was still in his head.

Yan hid his inner thoughts and asked casually.

“Let’s start with your lair.”

He heard a gasping sound from Momon.

‘Bingo.’

Yan’s lips rose involuntarily at Momon’s reaction.