How Did I Become a Great Prophet?!

35 – Three Choices

Cards neatly laid out on the table after being smoothly shuffled.

I praised myself that my card handling skill was improving, and I reached out my hand to Hwang Min-wook and said.

“Now, would you like to pick a card?”

“A craftsman… I see.”

Hwang Min-wook, who was knocking on the table with his fingers and thinking about it, soon pulled out a card and handed it to me.

“I’ll do it with this.”

And I picked up the card that Hwang Min-wook held out and turned it over to check.

When you turn the card over, the card that appears is the trap card ‘Crossroads of Choice’.

The picture drawn on the card is a person standing in front of a crossroads and pondering, and the effect of the card is to have the opponent select one of the cards on the field and destroy it.

“Hmm…”

Well, that’s what card effects are, and that means…

“First of all, there are three ways to increase lifespan.”

“Huh…Three? You mean there are three ways to increase lifespan?”

“What, isn’t it?”

Surprisingly, there are more than I thought. Are there 3 ways to increase lifespan? It’s not a particularly common method, though.

“Hmm, then should I draw the next card now?”

“No? You don’t have to?”

If I had to draw more, I would have told you to draw several from the beginning! There’s a reason why I told you to pick only one!

“Hmm, anyway, let me explain the first method first.”

The first way to increase lifespan.

“I don’t recommend it, but… The first way is to become a non-human species. A different species with a long lifespan.”

“Any other species…?”

“Simply put, it’s a way to become a monster, not a human. If you choose this way, your lifespan itself will increase to the point where your grandchildren can live until they give birth to grandchildren.”

Of course, it only increases the lifespan.

“Hmm…”

“However, if you choose this method, later the customer’s grandson will have his heart pierced and die. The grandson will lose his left arm and right leg in return.”

“…Huh! Can you see that?”

Hearing that, Hwang Min-wook did not hide his surprise.

Is this the bottom line? You can know this far just by looking at that toy-like card?

It is understandable that there are three methods. Isn’t that the picture drawn on that card?

But…More than that, it tells you the way, and even tells you the future you will reach if you choose that way…? Is this what a normal card shop is?

‘The rumor that he was a dragon…Wasn’t a lie.’

Of course, I’m just a superman and I’m just an outsider in this field, so I’m not in a position to say anything… But that doesn’t mean I’m not surprised. Isn’t it so strange and surprising?

“Once again, this is not a recommended method. The result is not very good. But if the customer chooses, I can tell you how to do it.”

“That’s not the way I want to do it either. Even if that’s not the only way and the ending is so terrible… I don’t think there’s any reason to choose this way.”

“Isn’t that a bit like that? Anyway, I’ll explain the second method right away.”

The second method is not as extreme as the first method.

“The second method… Is to rewind the time of the body. It’s called rejuvenation, right?”

“Is it… Rejuvenation?”

“Yes. You can rejuvenate until you are young. However, this method has some cost.”

“…A price, is it a terrible price like the first method?”

“Well, it’s not to that extent. However, if you rejuvenate, the injuries your body originally had will get slightly worse and you won’t be able to live up to your lifespan.”

“I would like to ask you to explain in more detail.”

“Simply put…Assuming that the original lifespan is 100 years old, if you use rejuvenation to roll back 50 years when you reach 100 years of age and you have only a few days left to die, you will live another 50 years. In terms of simple age, it means that you will die at roughly 150 years old, right? But if you rejuvenate, you will die without enjoying your natural life. You can die at 110 or 149.”

“The price is stranger than I thought, right? For the price of defying fate.”

“Is that so? I don’t know about that, but… If you do rejuvenate, you’ll lie in bed and die in front of your family. But it won’t be comfortable.”

Looking at it roughly, it seemed that I would die painfully from being poisoned or cursed. But until I die like that, I will live happily ever after.

“Hmm…Can I hear the last method first?”

“It doesn’t matter. The third and final method…Is my personal recommendation.”

The last thing you can do to increase your lifespan is…

“The last way is to fix your body. I think the reason why you don’t have much life left is because your lifeline was gnawed by the scars you suffered from overusing your body when you were young… That’s it.”

“…Could that be?”

“It’s up to the customer to believe it… But there is a way to do that. When the body is healthy, the lifeline will naturally become thicker and stronger. That means longer lifespan.”

Hmm… I should say that I will enjoy the life I would have had if I had been healthy… Write it down, I hate difficult words.

“Isn’t the last method worth the price?”

“Hmm, there’s nothing like that.”

That’s why I recommend it. Since you are paying for fortune-telling, isn’t it better to benefit the customer?

“Heh heh…Then I don’t think there’s any reason to hesitate about the choice. I’ll choose the last option.”

It was a matter of being given three methods and choosing oneself, but such an easy choice was not particularly strange.

If there are powerful monsters that you have painstakingly summoned, good trap cards that will save your life, and meat shields for sacrificing on the field, of course, why not choose a meat shield for sacrificing without hesitation?

Because if there are difficult choices, there are also easy ones. If something is memorable, the difficult choice will be more memorable, right?

“I see. Then there must be a tree with green leaves somewhere in the middle of Mt. Taebaek. If you sit down under that tree for a while, a big talking bear will come out. If you defeat the bear in arm wrestling, he will ask if there is anything you want. But if you say you want an elixir then you will get a bluish elixir. If you eat it, you will get what you want.”

“Hmm, how to say. Sounds like an old folktale.”

What is that…The metamorphosis of the bones that appears in martial arts magazines? It’s a bit like that.

No, is it different from that?

“And if possible, it would be more effective if you ate it where you got it.”

There’s no such thing as dramatically stronger than Akame, but… I’ll be stronger than I am now.

“…Huh, I can only admire it.”

Hwang Min-wook did not hide his admiration for my answer.

Where on earth do you see these things on that little card? I couldn’t help but be amazed.

“It was good not to ignore the rumors coming in. There was such a noble person in Korea. Heh heh heh…”

Of course, these points could be wrong.

But for some reason… Hwang Min-wook’s seasoned senses instinctively knew that nothing he said was wrong. At least in terms of the content of fortune telling, there is a sense of trust.

In the first place, there’s no way two S-rank superhumans were attached to a halfway person as subordinates.

And as long as this house doesn’t become a moving artifact anyway, isn’t it just a matter of finding it again if you’re wrong?

Hwang Min-wook smiled with satisfaction and took out one of his chests from the air and put it on the table.

“What is this?”

“It’s a point value. It’s an artifact I got from clearing an S-rank dungeon in the past. It’s called the ‘Crystal Ball’, but I couldn’t handle it because I wasn’t qualified.”

When Hwang Min-wook opened the chest, he saw a translucent bead the size of a human face with a subtle purple aura.

…Hmm, somehow it seems like something out of the ordinary? Well, he’s the guy who came out after clearing the S-rank dungeon, so it’s different no matter what?

“They say that only those who can look down upon the world while holding it in their hands can handle this monster. hehehe… This old man’s guess, but there seems to be no one other than the teacher who can be said to be the sole owner of this object. .”

“…The conditions are so disrespectful…”

…I’m the one who meets those dazzling and formidable conditions? I don’t really think so…

Still, since it was an artifact from an S-class dungeon, I took it. Even if you say you can’t use it, isn’t it an incredibly valuable item?

‘I should put it on the wall and put it on display.’

“I brought some money as another reward… But I think the amount I brought today will not be enough, so I’ll finish what you said and come back with the appropriate amount. Then…”

Hwang Min-wook, who bowed his head to me briefly, left the room.

“It seems that you have a strong grip on another big man? If you keep going like this, you won’t become a big man holding and shaking Korea in one hand, isn’t it Hanul?”

“…Hmm, it’s scary that a joke can’t be heard as a joke, senpai.”

“…Wow, that sounds horrible.”

What a big shot… I think this much is too much… This is more than enough.

Anyway, after roughly tidying up, I left the chest in one corner of the fortune-telling room, left the room, and spent time hanging out. When night fell, I fell asleep.

[Chuck! This is one of the most extraordinary feats of the next door neighbor!]

And a large weasel with a long white beard was watching the sleeping Damhanul through the window with shining eyes.