What If Beak Yu-seol Was A Bit Too overpowered

Chapter 22

"Me..."

He struggled to speak, shaking his head as if trying to fight off unbearable pain. His voice came out strained. "You... hate me...?"

"No, no! Please don't think that way!"

Flame yelled out.

She knew that Hae Won-Ryang's condition was bad at times.

But she had never imagined he would succumb to dark magic corruption.

In the novel, Hae Won-Ryang was an exceptional grand mage with excellent emotional control.

Biting her lip, Flame's thoughts drifted to someone else. She didn't expect Hae Won-Ryang to end up like this, but it wasn't difficult to speculate who the culprit was.

'Professor Maizen... Even in the novel, she's the one who put Eisel in dangerous situations. According to the lore, a dark magic contractor contaminates others with dark magic by scattering seeds, but fortunately, such victims didn't appear in the novel. But... the original is just a piece of work on paper. Is it different in real life?'

Flame thought to herself.

Her existence could have been the variable that made Hae Won-Ryang turn out like this.

'I have to find a way to reverse this somehow.'

Flame thought.

She knew a purification spell that could dispel dark magic. Though Hae Won-Ryang's corruption had advanced dangerously, it was not yet irreversible.

Of course, simply casting a purification spell wouldn't suppress the corruption. If that were the case, all magic users would have learned light magic.

One needed to weaken the other person as much as possible. For that, combat was inevitable.

However, Flame knew because she saw the original novel.

That combat alone was not enough.

The protagonist of the novel, Eisel Morph.

She purified countless dark mages and touched their hearts with only conversations, gaining the nickname Saint of Repentance for a while.

'I feel a little sorry for using that method first, but I have no choice.'

Flame thought.

Restoring the corrupted to their original selves required rekindling the emotions buried beneath the darkness.

"Hae Won-Ryang, tell me what's on your mind. Why... How in the world did you end up like this?"

"There must be a reason, right? Something pressured you. Something that caused stress."

Flame asked.

Overburdened by studies.

Crushed under the weight of competition.

Burnt out from endless magic practice.

Terrified of combat.

It could be anything. Any emotion could be the fuse for dark corruption.

And once one knew the reason, there were countless ways to resolve it.

Although she didn't possess a warm aura like Eisel and couldn't offer genuine empathy, based on what she had seen so far, she believed that she could somehow make it work.

That was what she thought. But...

Whoosh...!

Hae Won-Ryang lunged toward her without hesitation.