[TS] Became a Peach Saint – Chapter 262

“Master. You’re studying architecture, right?”

“Huh?! What, what. You said you were going outside the tower, when did you get back?”

The staff technique master is sweating bullets as he looks at me.

“Master, if you’re not busy, can you help me out?”

“What kind of trouble are you in that you’re asking me for help?”

Son Goku finishes his reply and jumps down from the tree, landing lightly. I glance at the tablet tucked under his arm—clearly, I gave it to him to study, but a game is open.

“The stuff is too heavy, I can’t lift it.”

“·····Are you in love?”

“Ah, what are you talking about?”

“I read it in a comic····. If not, how does someone who swings the Ruyi Jingu Bang like a madwoman with one hand say something like that?”

“Ah, damn it. It’s really heavy.”

“Hmm·····.”

I open a space to show Son Goku, who keeps giving me suspicious looks, and he scratches the back of his head and steps out.

─Click, click.

“Whew─”

I light a cigarette and follow Son Goku outside, who is leaning in close to Danpung.

“Master, what are you doing?”

“Huh? No, who is this? I haven’t seen them before.”

“It’s Danpung. A new friend I made.”

“Ppiit?”

“Yeah? Hi. I’m Son Goku. Nice to meet you.”

“Ppiit!”

He seems to get along well with Baekseol too, probably because he’s a monkey and connects well with animals.

“So, where’s the thing you said you couldn’t lift?”

Son Goku stretches and looks at me.

“Here.”

I open the space again, and Son Goku approaches with a suspicious look, sticking his hand in.

Thud.

“Whoa?!”

A chilling sound echoes from Son Goku’s waist.

“Can’t pull it out?”

“Ouch, my waist. No, if it’s this heavy, you should’ve told me earlier. I almost threw my back out using too much strength.”

“I told you it was heavy.”

“····You did.”

Son Goku scratches the back of his head.

“Should I pull it out?”

“Yeah, please.”

Creak.

“Ppiit?”

“Whoa!”

The two furballs playing with a ball widen their eyes. They must have never seen such a huge living being before.

Creak. Creak, creak──

Son Goku drags out what he pulled and starts moving further away. Even so, the seemingly endless corpse keeps pouring out of the space without pause.

As a result, the space starts to stretch insanely wide.

“Ugh! It’s tearing!”

Creak, creak──

After a while, the thing finally finishes coming out.

Looking at Son Goku, he seems to have already gone over 300 meters away.

Bang!

The dot-like Son Goku appears in front of me in an instant, and the sound of breaking the sound barrier follows belatedly.

“It’s disgustingly big.”

“That’s what I said.”

“Where did you catch it?”

“Last time, Zeus sent me to some weird place. There was a black dragon or an evil dragon there. I caught it back then.”

It’s going to be a long one. From end to end, you can’t see the end. You’d have to crane your neck as far as it goes just to look up.

“What are you planning to do with that?”

“Thanks to you, I now have two identical corpses. I’m going to assemble a toy.”

“Oh-ho.”

“Master, there’s one more small one in the subspace, right? Can you pull that out too?”

“Sure.”

Son Goku, who had been rummaging around in the subspace, suddenly throws out a dragon carcass.

Crash!!

“Ugh, dust. Be gentle.”

“It’s the same lizard carcass, but why is this one so light?”

“That one’s normal, and the first one you pulled out was unusually big, right?”

“Is that so?”

As I shrug my shoulders, Son Goku shrugs his too.

Neither of us has seen much, so I guess we don’t have much to compare it to.

“Finally, I get to do this.”

“That thing you had at home last time, right?”

“Yep. Thanks for helping, Master.”

I hand Son Goku a Choco Snack, and he happily takes it.

“Our fluffballs too.”

Ding! Ding!

One is a white bellflower, and the other is a sunflower seed imbued with magic.

“Nice!”

“It’s great!”

“Then, let’s get the dinner show started. Please enjoy some delicious food while watching.”

Clap clap clap.

Tap tap.

Pong pong.

The applause is all over the place.

Baekseol is enthusiastically patting two fluffballs, and Danpung is tapping the floor with her tail.

Looking back, they’ve already taken their seats.

Chik, chik.

“Whew—”

Two skeletons of the same kind.

The conditions are met, but I’m not sure if it’ll work.

Snap!

“Combine!”

Rumble rumble—!

The massive black dragon carcass and the smaller red dragon carcass start to melt, their skins oozing down to the floor.

At the same time, a massive amount of energy starts pouring out like water from an opened dam.

“Ugh…”

It feels like my insides are churning.

I’ve never had energy consumed during synthesis before, so this is an unexpected variable.

“Gulp!”

In the blink of an eye, the accumulated energy is completely drained. My vision starts to go dark.

“What the! Are you okay?”

Realizing something’s wrong, Son Goku, who was sitting behind watching, rushes over.

Unfortunately, this isn’t something Son Goku can fix.

If I open my mouth, I feel like I’ll collapse. I can only shake my head, and Son Goku stops reaching out.

“Ugh.”

It feels like my insides are damaged. Blood starts to trickle out.

I’ve held on as long as I can.

Ding!

───

[Starlight Necklace]

Grade: Hero (EPIC)

○Mana +25%

○Mana Regeneration +50%

◈Vibrant Starlight: Restores 50% Mana (Cooldown: 24 hours)

───

〈Vibrant Starlight〉

A gift from the Star Maiden through a deal…

As the item’s ability activated, a cluster of light resembling fireflies floated around my body and began to be absorbed into me.

“Whew, whew! I almost died there.”

Thanks to the rapidly surging energy, I was about to let out a sigh of relief when, once again, the energy started to drain away in chunks.

“Ugh, damn it.”

“Don’t push yourself, you’ll hurt your body!”

Clank! Clank!

“Almost… almost done.”

Clank!

The bones, which were noisily assembling, were on the verge of transforming into a complete form.

“I’ll give you some energy.”

“No… don’t.”

The energy Son Goku, who has attained the status of Buddha, wields is either mana or divine energy. And it’s overwhelmingly divine energy.

If I were to receive energy from Son Goku, who doesn’t seem to have a shred of delicacy, the balance of energy would collapse, and it’s obvious I’d be stepping onto the path to the underworld.

“Don’t… give me energy…”

“Uh, uh… Then, what should I do?”

If Son Goku gives me energy, it’s almost like poisoning. If I die after receiving energy, I’d have to write in my dying message that I was poisoned by a monkey.

Clank! Clank!

Even in the midst of this, the assembly was steadily completing.

I thought it would just be bones being assembled, but then a crimson armor-like exoskeleton began to cover the dragon’s entire body.

A characteristic that only appeared in high-level undead was manifesting in the dragon at stage one.

Clank! Clank! Clank!

Ding!

“Whew!”

Just as the energy I had replenished was about to disappear, a notification sound rang out, and finally, the reverse flow of energy stopped.

Thanks to that, a sigh of relief naturally escaped.

The synthesis time was only a few seconds. Yet, I felt an overwhelming sense of exhaustion throughout my body.

“Whew, whew…”

“You did well.”

As I was catching my breath, Son Goku approached from behind and patted my shoulder.

Tap, tap.

“Whew— you really worked hard.”

“But, what are you going to use that for?”

“I just made it.”

“Huh? Really?”

“Yeah. It’s fun, isn’t it?”

Even now, it’s big, but it was made relatively small.

Considering the size of the main ingredient, it should have been at least twice as big.

Maybe the small one used as a sub-ingredient was the problem.

Still, since I didn’t even know if it would work or not, this much is considered smooth sailing for the first step.

“There’s someone I know who’s suffering because of me. Should I use it to help them?”

“How are you going to help with that?”

“Our guys caught a lizard from that neighborhood and brought it over. They’re making a fuss about returning it. If I send it back, they’ll be happy, right?”

“…Do you really think they’ll be happy receiving that?”

“Wouldn’t they? I gave it because they asked for it, so they should be happy.”

Son Goku, who was listening to the story, tilted his head.

“Is this outside the tower?”

“Yeah.”

“Are the residents outside the tower…?”

“Mana’s strong, huh?”

“Did you see the Three Musketeers I sent to Hercules?”

Son Goku nods his head.

“Think of them as elite trainees taking their first step to get on stage. If we’re talking about the tower, they’re the ones who’ve been filtered and are going through the tutorial.”

“But you’re sending them?”

Son Goku lifts his head, glances at the dragon, then looks back at me.

His gaze has cooled down.

“Not great?”

“I don’t think they’ll like it much.”

As I keep talking with Son Goku in front of the creature, suddenly its huge head comes down towards me.

One of its claws is several times my size, so I can’t even see what’s in front of me.

“What’s up? Want me to give you a name?”

Groooooo──!

The sound of its cry sends shivers down my spine.

It’s similar to the eerie scream Crimson Knight used to let out.

“He’s polite and answers well, so let’s call him Confucius.”

I tap its snout, and it lifts its head again.

Seems like it likes the name.

“Cute guy.”

Groooooo──!

[Han Ga-eul]↑

“Danpung.”

“Pii?”

Danpung seems startled by Confucius’s transformed appearance, mouth wide open.

“If you open your mouth too wide, all the seeds in your cheeks will fall out?”

“Piiit!”

Her cheeks are puffed up. Looks like she stored all the sunflower seeds I gave her to eat while watching the dinner show in her cheek pouches.

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