Record of a Thousand Lives

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Iris smiled with her bloody lips, saying with eyes wide, “Your crying must mean you are upset.
Do you think you would feel better if you ate some hearts?”

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“Waaaah! Mama!” Sally cried loudly as she ran toward Shaneth.

Shaneth smiled as she hugged Sally to calm her down, saying, “There, there.
It’s alright.”

“Waaaah!” Sally wailed.

Kang Yoon-Soo shifted his gaze away after looking at Sally and Shaneth.
The clan members had gathered all of the Ahinkul corpses in one place; a huge amount of Ahinkuls had been hunted by the 200-strong party.

‘The first step is to do a large-scale hunt,” Kang Yoon-Soo thought as he stretched out his right hand toward the pile of corpses and said, “Mass Raise Dead.”

[You are trying to raise too many corpses at once.]

[The types of undead summoned will be uneven.]

A group of bestial-looking Ahinkuls slowly rose up, havingturned into undead. Some of them turned into skeletons, and some of them turned into zombies with dark blue eyes.
The vicious and aggressive Ahinkul Leaders rose up and turned a dark black, having gained the attribute to spread diseases around them.
Although they were undead that could not make quick decisions, they were still a much stronger force than the mercenaries they would have hired otherwise.

[612 Undead Ahinkuls have been sent to the summon dimension.]

[Summons currently stored in the dimension: 612 Undead Ahinkuls, 52 Zombie Black Bears, White.]

[Remaining space for additional summons: 34]

Jiang Ren-Wei approached Kang Yoon-Soo after he sent the undead to the summon dimension. He asked, “Now that we’ve supplemented our lacking manpower with the undead, I guess it’s time to procure the items we’ll need.
I’m guessing we have to procure a significant amount of potions.
Are you sure you can prepare that many potions alone?”

“Yeah,” Kang Yoon-Soo replied curtly.

Jiang Ren-Wei acknowledged Kang Yoon-Soo’s capabilities, and he was thus willing to overlook that much.
He continued, “Alright, we’ll head to Deferon first and complete the quest we were doing just now.
When should we set our meeting date?”

“Tomorrow noon, here,” Kang Yoon-Soo replied curtly once again.

“Alright.
I’ll see you here, then,” Jiang Ren-Wei replied.
Afterward, the Martial Blood Clan went on their way toward the capital.

Kang Yoon-Soo looked around and found Shaneth hugging Sally.
He stared at the two, seemingly deep in thought, before going to Sally and taking her hand.

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The spirit who had just bawled her eyes out sniffled and asked, “Sniff! What do you want?”

“I’ll play with you,” Kang Yoon-Soo replied.

“Wow! Really?” Sally asked, excited once again.

Henrick looked up at the sky and said while staring upward, “That’s strange… The sun didn’t rise from the west today.”

***

There was no special reason why Kang Yoon-Soo had told Sally he would play with her.
It was a given that he should, since this life was going to be the last time he could.

The streets of Deferon were bustling with activity.
The streets were littered with numerous vendors selling all sorts of odd and mysterious things; it was as if there were as many vendors as stars in the night sky.
Kang Yoon-Soo bought a lollipop made out of sweetened barley from a street vendor and gave it to Sally.

“Wow! It’s so sweet!” Sally exclaimed excitedly as she sucked on the candy. Her bright flames would have made it obvious that she was a spirit, but they were covered up by a robe.

Henrick could not hide his surprise as he looked at Kang Yoon-Soo and asked, “Hey… did you eat something wrong? Why are you acting strange all of a sudden? Did you perhaps open your eyes to fatherly love or something?”

“Why do you care?” Kang Yoon-Soo replied coldly.

Shaneth could not hide her surprise as well, saying, “I think you’ve changed quite a lot in these past few days.”

Those words were quite strange to Kang Yoon-Soo.
He tried to think of a reply, but he failed, and chose to stay silent instead.

However, Shaneth smiled and said, “It makes me happy.”

Kang Yoon-Soo had the sudden urge to look elsewhere the moment he saw Shaneth’s warm, sparkling eyes.
The one he decided to look at was Iris. He had wanted to conquer the Winterkill Ruin not only because of the legendary quest, but also because he wanted to meet the alchemist who had made Iris. He felt the need to find out more about the White Shadow that resided in Iris.

Perhaps Iris caught him looking at her, as she looked back at him intently and licked her lips before saying, “I want to eat that too.”

“…”

Kang Yoon-Soo ended up buying four sweetened barley lollipops and shared them with everyone in his party.

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They soon reached a large wooden building not long after.
The building’s signboard read ‘Sunset Glass’ and had a drawing of a glass bottle with purple liquid inside it. It was a merchant company that manufactured and dealt with all sorts of potions, as well as flammable liquids and highly explosive liquids.
They were one of the merchant companies with a long history in the capital, although there were some bad rumors about them being involved with the back-alley thugs.

Kang Yoon-Soo stopped, turned around, and said, “Listen to me, all of you.” He then explained his plans to the others.

Henrick bit his lips and asked, “Damn it, how do you plan to survive after doing something like that?” He looked troubled for a moment before taking out a bottle of colored dye from his pocket and giving it to Kang Yoon-Soo, asking, “You are confident, right?” Kang Yoon-Soo nodded and took the dye.

Shaneth looked quite worried and said, “That’s too dangerous; it won’t end with just you getting jailed if things don’t go well.”

“We’ll never be caught if you just follow my instructions,” Kang Yoon-Soo said confidently.

Sally asked with innocent, sparkling eyes, “Can I play as much as I want?”

“As much as you want,” Kang Yoon-Soo replied.

“Yaaay!” Sally exclaimed.

Shaneth, Henrick, Sally, and Iris went in through the back door. Meanwhile, Kang Yoon-Soo approached one remote corner of the alley and took out the Body Crafting Kit. ‘Black Tiger Clan… I was planning on destroying you early on, but my plans have changed.’

He used Henrick’s colored dye to draw a tattoo on the back of his hand.
His light strokes quickly formed into a tattoo of a black tiger. ‘I’ll suck your bones dry down to the marrow in this life.’

Kang Yoon-Soo looked toward a merchant company’s building as the sun began setting.
He would need at least a month to create enough potions to be used by more than 1,000 people, including the undead, even with his potion-making skills.

He did not plan to waste his time like that; neither did he have the funds to procure such a massive amount of potions.
However, if this was the last time, he needed to take the dangerous road even if it meant risking it all to climb to the top.

He went into the merchant company’s building.
The interior was crowded with alchemists, merchants, and adventurers, all trading potions. He went up to the receptionist and told himself, ‘Be brazen, just like how you tricked Jiang Ren-Wei about your level.
Just as you hid your physical weakness with mental fortitude, it’s time to deceive another to reap the rewards.’

“How may I help you?” the skinny female receptionist asked.

Kang Yoon-Soo motioned for the woman to come closer.
Right as her face drew close enough, however, he suddenly pulled her hair down.

“Kyaaah!” The woman screamed in surprise.

Kang Yoon-Soo whispered in her ear with an icy voice, “A bomb has been set up in this building.”

It was now time to pull off the scam.