Episode 98
“It’s Buddhist practice… …“
It was a really sudden decision, but it wasn’t particularly embarrassing or anything like that.
No matter when, I always thought that I had to face the emperor.
Let’s go somewhere.
I’ve planted all the dream trees anyway, so there won’t be any problems while I’m away for a while.
‘My head hurts a bit, but.’
He recalled the memory of the time he faced the emperor before returning.
The days before the ‘Hero’ was selected.
After my family collapsed, I came out into the world after enduring the harsh training of Master Merdin.
As soon as I came out, I tore the demons apart.
A seemingly endless tribe.
As a result, before I knew it, I became quite famous as a mage who hunted demons.
And then the emperor’s call and audience.
-Oh, are you the one who ate that Walpurgis?
From the first meeting, the emperor dug into my sore spot without any consideration.
He was such a human.
If the opponent is not honest.
He never has mercy on the indecent.
He pushed hard to the point of being ruthless and enjoyed seeing the bottom of his opponent.
That way, you can clearly see what kind of person the other person is.
My head hurts, but I have no intention of avoiding it anyway.
It has changed a lot from before returning, so the meeting with the emperor will be different from then.
‘No, make it different.’
With that thought, I immediately stepped forward.
“butler.”
I immediately found the butler.
The butler was engrossed in the strength training I instructed.
“Hoo-wook! Whoops! do…Lien, why is this place all of a sudden… …“
I’m going to clear this place for a while. It won’t take long, but just in case, the butler will take care of the situation.”
“Where…Whoop… …Are you going?”
“capital.”
“Oh maybe…The
butler gasped for a long time before catching his breath. Then, when he calmed down a little, he asked me.
“Why are you going to the capital again?”
“It’s nothing special, just to have an audience with the emperor.”
“Ah, Emperor…The butler nodded as if he roughly understood …
….
“Wait, what is it?”
“Has the butler gone senile already? I’m just having an audience with the emperor.”
“No no, senility is the result of a young boy! It’s not a big deal to have an audience with the emperor!”
“are you okay. He’s a bit of a troublemaker.”
The butler shouted at my words.
“Isn’t it annoying enough? It’s annoying! Besides, what kind of emperor is a village man?!”
“Not similar. dirty temper… …”
“This mouth again!”
The butler raised his bloodshot eyes and yelled something at me.
Some annoying words came out like this, but it doesn’t matter.
I have no intention of listening to the butler.
At that moment, the butler’s eyes flashed and he spoke to me.
“just now! Didn’t you think you didn’t want to hear?”
“It’s not.”
“I guess that’s right…“
Anyway, the notice is filthy fast.
I said to the butler who was looking at me with a worried expression as if the sky was about to collapse.
“Anyway, that’s what happened, so until then, please stay here.”
“Oh no, young boy!”
The butler shouted something from behind and tried to grab me, but… ….
“Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhunesgrass through? …!”
The price of suddenly using muscles that had not been used for a long time seemed to be greater than expected.
whatever
“Don’t forget to do strength training. This is all for the butler, so do your best.”
“No…foot! Passy is to say only what you want to say and stand out… …”
I roughly ignored the murmuring and waved my hand.
He’s a butler who usually behaves unreliably like this, but that’s what he’s talking about in front of me.
Originally, he is a person of some class.
If I had to judge him as a wizard, he was a person older than my father.
‘If I leave it to you, it will take care of itself.’
Even if you say that, once I’m gone, the person who will work like a knife is the butler.
* * *
As soon as I was ready, I headed straight for the capital.
My father quickly sent a wagon to me, and the wagon came faster than the promised workers.
[I’ll go comfortably this time.]
Set said, looking around the carriage with interest.
[Coming to think of it, I think I’ve hardly ever seen you move alone.]
“Because I didn’t have to move alone.”
[Hmm….]
She tilted her head, then suddenly clapped her hands.
[ah! Come to think of it, recently, as your inner divine power has grown, I have also undergone some changes.]
“Change?”
I did think that something would change with Set.
She is now integrated with my storm. In a way, it would be nice to see it as my familiar.
“Storm Mastery?”
[I didn’t even say that. Now wait a minute.]
Saying that, Set flew across from me, closing his eyes and concentrating.
And then
Fire!
Suddenly there was a short flash of light.
“how is it?”
there was a set
Just like the first time I saw her in Asar’s Tomb.
He was also of the same size as a normal person.
“Are you just like a person?”
“…Huh, this is a bit unexpected.”
When she was brought out of the tomb, there was not enough mana to sustain her.
So, in order to reduce the energy required for the present world as much as possible, he deliberately reduced his body size.
‘Although there was a plan to bring it back.’
No way would Seth himself make that possible.
“Did you do it?”
“Well, to be precise, it seems that I was also restored in the process of putting your divine power into your body.”
After saying that, she touched my hair with satisfaction.
He seems to be quite satisfied with his body that he has regained after a long time.
“How long can you keep it?”
“Um, about 30 minutes a day for now? Depending on how many sacred things you collect in the future, it might change a little more.”
“What other features?”
“Well, first of all, I have a ‘substance’ like in the past, right?”
Set raised his hand in front of me.
Then, a small wind began to gust in her hand, which soon turned into a small storm.
“This much? Compared to his prime, he’s far behind, but it’ll be a small help.”
“It sure looks like that.”
The scale is small, but that’s because she’s inside the carriage, so she’s holding back her power.
Seeing through that possibility wasn’t too difficult.
“Come to think of it, I don’t remember hearing about you in your prime.”
“It’s prime time.”
At my words, Set laughed.
“It was literally when I was fine. Sometimes you say something like this Like the legendary ‘Age of the Gods’ or something like that.”
“Did it really happen?”
“I’m not saying we were gods. However, it is certain that it was an existence that could be said to be superior to the current human race.”
I didn’t feel like trying to refute Set’s words.
Wasn’t it me who pinned hope on those remaining traces in the first place?
‘It’s a divine being.’
I remembered something about drinking for a while.
Before returning, I can count on one hand the number of times I really faced a demon god.
If it was the closest.
‘The final battle.’
I saw a fragment of the Demon God for a moment when everything failed and I ran into the final struggle.
obviously that… ….
‘god.’
I clearly felt what happens when a being far beyond human harbors malice.
Unconditional hatred towards humanity.
grand master.
9 circles.
Such things had no meaning in the presence of him.
That’s why we struggled to collect new things.
It was because they believed that if they had the same level of power, they could annihilate demons.
“I don’t understand. How the hell did a civilization full of such beings collapse?”
I knew Set wouldn’t answer my questions. I just couldn’t understand.
If it was an advanced existence in many ways.
Couldn’t you do anything about the demon in that era?
That there was a certain factor that allowed the Demon God to save against the great Asar.
for example.
‘…Or a traitor.’
Of course, this is just speculation without any circumstantial evidence.
It is possible that it was.
Whatever.
“It means that the stronger the divine power and the more types of divine objects you possess, the stronger you become as well.”
“That’s it.”
After saying that, Set waved his hand once.
Then, at that moment, I felt that something sharp was sweeping around me… ….
‘…hmm?’
About half of the energy of the monsters around him had died.
“What did you do?”
“Hmm, I only used the storm to shoot monsters as a test. The range wasn’t too wide, but only about half. ugh… …not enough.”
Set frowned with a dying look on his face.
It’s this much even though I’ve barely regained my strength yet.
‘Certainly this is enough… …’
But then.
fish profit.
I heard the sound of something blowing and the set was rapidly shrinking.
After a while.
She was back to her original little form.
“Thirty minutes.”
[Uhm, that’s….]
Set scratched his head as if he had no face.
[Writing this and that while being excited, did the time really decrease?]
“….”
She laughed heheh and climbed back onto my shoulder.
I sat on my shoulder and smiled at the set looking at the scenery outside the window.
Certainly, the appearance just before would be the appearance of a normal set.
‘I’m used to this way.’
It can’t be helped that the one I’ve seen for a long time is more familiar.
* * *
Since I had some time left before arriving at the capital, I checked the things I had obtained so far one by one in the carriage.
‘Unfortunately, most of the things I recently obtained are divine power.’
There is no spiritual relationship with magicians. What is known is divine power.
However, the things I have recently acquired are not related to mana, but divine power.
Certainly not common.
But the interesting thing is that the divine powers are surprisingly naturally harmonized with mana.
It’s not that wizards don’t use divine magic.
But the important thing is that there is no conflict between mana and divine power in my case.
‘Shouldn’t it be said that they are reborn as a third energy instead of being harmonized?’
There is a sense that little by little something is changing.
It’s just that I can’t decide what to call the energy wriggling in my body right now.
‘The boundary between divine power and mana.’
The divine power of the World Tree.
The power of ‘abundance’ and ‘storm’.
Besides, Hekau’s ‘Stigma’.
I slowly moved mana as a test.
At the same time, along with an itchy feeling somewhere, mana starts to circulate rapidly inside the body.
And naturally.
Secretly, three types of divine power were mixed in mana, so that it was hard to feel unless you really concentrated.
World Tree Storm Abundance.
Among them, the World Tree and Abundance were already almost one.
‘Shall we break it down a bit?’
Focus on the World Tree and Abundance and slowly merge the two together.
A force that has already begun to come together.
Even if I try to artificially attach this level, there won’t be much resistance.
At that moment, the smell of grass and trees passed through my nose.
At the same time, vitality flows through the body.
Like a tree trunk, the world tree and the power of abundance began to mix.
little by little carefully
seemed to see something.
Since I closed my eyes, I should not be able to see anything.
see.
Abundance and the world tree continued to climb up to the snow.
A little more.
Tiredness set in, but I got over it.
Rather than that, it was important to hold on to the feeling that was flowing through my body.
‘nature.’
After roughly grasping the strands, I could see the essence of abundance and the World Tree.
Where the hell does that endless vitality come from?
how else to write
and.
‘It was only natural that they were mixed.’
The moment I realized that fact, I laughed without knowing it.
The essence is so similar, so why not mix?
Then the direction became clear.
The power of abundance and the world tree began to circulate throughout the body.
As if a tree trunk ran through the whole body strand by strand, at first I felt a little stiff… ….
The moment I opened my eyes,
all of them disappeared as if I had washed them, and an indescribable freshness filled my body.
and.
[…] …Crazy.]
I saw Set staring at me with a bewildered expression.
And inside the wagon… ….
“What.”
Before I knew it, it was full of grass and trees.
Grass, trees and magic.
There was something that immediately came to mind… ….
[Um, congratulations, Mikhail?]
Then Set said.
[You became a druid.]
Suddenly.
Another talent bloomed.
Great mage who transcends by regression
