Chapter 121 – 118 Maestig Village
“You just need to tell me how you felt after receiving the blessing through this child’s soul.”
=Yes.=
“Don’t be surprised as there may be cases where your body’s freedom is restricted during the blessing process.”
=Yes.=
Seeing Master talking so much, I thought it might be a dangerous effect, but Issilite still believed in Hwanin.
“It starts. Irat, will you lend me your strength?”
“…… Yes.”
The moment she thought that her master, who spoke kindly to her little one, looked good, the girl overlapped with her, and Isilite felt someone enter her body.
It’s not a bad feeling. As she felt a little queasy…… Feel comfortable giving power.
If Isilite was an Earthling, she would have thought it would feel similar to an athletic taping.
“…….”
=…….=
“Isilite.”
=Yes?=
“If you can move, move.”
Move? At Hwanin’s command, Isilite stretched in front of him.
“Is there anything wrong with your body?”
= Uh…… It seems to be very comfortable to move around. And my nose has gotten a lot better. It smells of all kinds.=
Irat was a child of a human race. Is that the effect of the humanoid’s keen sense of smell?
“What about your physical abilities?”
In response to her Hwanin’s question, Isilite tried to move to get her greatsword, but the carpet under her feet flew backwards and she slipped, causing her to fall to the point of making a squealing noise.
=…… ?!=
She was startled at the thought that she had acted indecently in front of her master, and the moment she tried to lift her body up with her arms tightened, this time her body floated up and shot the back of her head against the ceiling.
=?!?!=
Kung, watching Isilite flounder on her floor, gave Hwanin some advice.
“Her perception is not keeping up with the sudden increase in power. Move slowly.”
=Yes, yes.=
Even though I slowly raise my body, it seems like my body is about to jump out on its own. While Isilite was perplexed, Hwanin gave an order.
“Irat, would you like to walk?”
= Huh? Mo, the body does what it wants…… ?=
Issilite panics as her body moves on its own. It is the appearance of not being able to control the body.
Physical ability test.
=Whoa?!=
When she came out, Isilite jumped more than 15m with a sergeant jump and then she was startled and she floundered. Hwanin narrowed her eyes as he saw the footprints deeply imprinted on the ground.
Her leg strength, muscle strength, and endurance have nearly tripled overall.
‘Because the low-middle and low-level soul orbs were 1.4 to 1.5 times higher, and the lowest-level spirit orbs were 1.15 times higher…….’
Intermediate if tripled, maybe upper-intermediate.
“I had to stop. Irat, can you come out of that body?”
After Hwanin’s words are over, the soul of Irat comes out of Isilite’s body even though there is still time left for the decree.
= Ah…….=
Isilite, feeling the energy draining from her body, puts on a very sad expression.
‘Looks like there’s no pain.’
She is a different phenomenon from the result the day before yesterday she had as a robber soul.
The soul orb changed by Irat was grayish white. So, does the presence or absence of pain depend on the color of the soul orb? Or the aftereffects of humans being possessed by non-human beasts?
Hwanin, who was silently rejoicing, put the regret behind him and finished the test.
I would like to test the code one more time, but I have to be patient. If you exhaust your energy with successive ordinances, there may be a possibility that your soul will forcibly attain Buddhahood.
“Now it is my turn to keep my promise.”
To keep the promise, he moves to the girl’s birthplace with the girl’s soul.
As they approached the house, a tearful expression spread across the girl’s face.
Tang Tang Tang.
“Are you there?”
[Who are you?]
When a black-haired rabid man opened the door and came out, he eventually began to weep.
= Hm? Huh, aren’t you a spirit master! What to do at this late hour…… Work…….=
The man who was talking became speechless when Hwanin stepped back and the girl stood there.
= This, Ireth……. Iretney…… ?=
“Dad…….」
=Ireth!!=
Leaving behind the reunion of her father and daughter, separated by her death, with Isilite sniffling at her, her phantom, away from her home, watched her weeping.
Isilite, who was watching her Hwanin’s side, sniffed at her.
= Master. Did you deliberately arrange a place for Iret to stay with her dad for a long time? =
Except for Iret, the twelve souls were all adults or old people. The emotions felt from such souls are also regret and faint greed.
I don’t know how such a soul will change once it has a body. However, Ilette only wanted one thing.
Saying final goodbyes to her beloved daddy.
While giving birth to her, her mother died first. After that, she never remarried anyone and raised herself by her dad alone.
However, since he was born, he was weak and had to lie in bed.
And such a weak body caused seizures for the first and last time, and then I broke up without saying goodbye to my dad, who was away for a while because he was working in the field.
He had something he really wanted to say to his father, who was struggling to live alone after dying himself.
“Dad. Thank you for giving birth to me. And thank you for raising me until now.”
= Ireth…….=
“I really wanted to tell my dad about this. She was happy to be born as her father’s daughter. Dad, I love you.”
Because of this, it was a rational calculation that Iret would not do anything stupid.
Hwanin knew from experience that if he told him this, five out of ten people would look at him as if he were an inhuman monster.
Hwan-in, who had no intention of diminishing Isilite’s liking, removed 70% of the truth and told only part of it.
“I only gave a small benefit because I received help.”
And Isilite, like the rest of Earth, nodded her head, interpreting it comfortably.
‘You’re hiding it because you’re embarrassed. Then I’ll have to pretend I don’t know.’
Hwanin stared blankly at the sobbing man as he watched his daughter disperse into a faint light.
She thought that she was developing feelings little by little, but she must have been mistaken.
If feelings had arisen, she wouldn’t have made these calculations. And I wouldn’t have been able to see a man sobbing like that casually.
But Hwanin didn’t notice.
The way he thinks and moves these days is a bit impersonal, but the thoughts and movements that an ordinary person would do.
If it was Hwanin in the past, she wouldn’t have used such complicated methods in the first place.
This is a different world. There is no CCTV and no internet. After killing people in an undetected way and forcibly taking their souls, they must have conducted experiments using Isilite as a tool.
= Big…… Soul Master.=
Seeing Iret’s father approaching with red eyes, Hwanin asked after ending her thoughts.
“Did you say goodbye to your daughter enough?”
Ireth’s biological father, who had approached to say thanks, burst into tears again at Hwanin’s question, then knelt down and folded her hands as if praying.
= Thank you, thank you. Thank you very much……. Thank you for giving me time to say goodbye to Ilette…… Shut up. Thank you very much…… Keuhuhheuk.=
“I also lost my parents early, so I understand how they feel.”
= It’s a soul…… Whoa….=
To the man’s sobbing, Isilite eventually covers her eyes and turns her head away. Hwanin reached out her hand and patted the man on the shoulder.
“Be strong and live even for the sake of your daughter who has left for heaven. Then, at least in your memories, wouldn’t the existence of Iret continue?”
=Yes, yes…. I will. I will……. Thank you so much…….=
Isilite quickly caught up next to her and wiped away tears with her sleeve.
But the tears hardly stop = Kkei-ing.
“If anyone sees it, they will know that your child has left.”
= That’s okay. The owner and the parents…… Ereth’s father… Cry…… Cadet. Ok.=
With her unique ability to empathize, she believed that she assimilated into the sorrow of a man who lost his wife and daughter, but was it because of himself?
Hwanin listened to Isilite’s throaty sniffle and raised her head to see the night sky covered with the Milky Way.
‘If I return to Earth with this ability, will I be able to see my parents?’
I don’t think so. My parents were very good, and they passed away at the same time, so they must have left hand in hand.
‘…… No, since his only son was a psychopath, he might have been worried about that and couldn’t leave.’
In addition, he even disappeared after picking up a strange gold coin, so he must be wandering aimlessly.
Thinking that maybe the two of them could be mixed, Hwanin felt even more determined to return to the original world.
The next morning.
In the empty lot next to her house, Hwanin, who had been beating Isilite’s weak point without mercy, like a blowfish, lowered his black spear without saying a word.
Isilite, who couldn’t even fall down from the impact of her consecutive beatings, as soon as her attack stopped, she screamed briefly and fell to her knees, but less than a second later, she jumped up and raised her greatsword.
And she opened her eyes wide.
Hwanin put down his weapon. She still has a long way to go before the morning sparring is over?
Isilite, who checked the remaining time with the hourglass on the table across from her, looked around her belatedly at her ghostly expression.
Villagers watching with curious faces through the low wooden fence.
Kung with a very angry expression! Slamming the heavy iron greatsword to the ground, Isilite shouted in a loud voice.
=It would be disrespectful to peek at a professional’s training! Do you want to be in trouble, much less spying on the spirit master?!!=
=Hey?!=
=Oops, sorry!=
= Mom…… !=
When a loud shout of fire is issued, the residents of the village scatter in all directions like frightened stray cats.
Isilite, who was watching her with her reverse eyebrows, corrected her eyebrows with a snort and then shrank her body.
= Ouch…….=
Why does Master’s spear not get used to it no matter how many times it hits?
Isilite, who was rubbing her particularly sore side and glanced at the phantom drinking the water, was delighted to see her phantom approaching again holding her spear, and let her saddle-iron greatsword hang obliquely to the ground.
She tried to block it by standing upright, spreading it wide, or lifting it horizontally, but the posture of holding it at an angle so that the hilt of the sword was slightly upward was the most comfortable position to block attacks.
A quarter of her body is covered by an upright blade. An incoming attack aimed at the other 3/4 can be pared off with a short sack move.
‘It’s not like I can stop it just because it’s comfortable.’
In other postures, if you are attacked 100 times, you get hit 120 or 130 times until the three-cushion, but this posture only stops at 119 or 128 hits.
‘When can I attack the master?’
When that time comes, will I be able to become a full-fledged warrior? Excited with anticipation, Isilite opened his eyes and concentrated all his nerves to somehow contain the Hwanin’s attack.
…….
But it’s strange. Suddenly the scenery around me changed.
Isilite blinked at the ceiling she had never seen before, then jumped up. That’s right, were you sparring?!
“You woke up.”
=Uh, master?=
“I used an intermediate level potion as soon as possible, but how is your body?”
She then realized she was lying in the living room and noticed a dull, heavy feeling on her forehead and neck.
=Uh, my throat feels a bit heavy like the day after drinking too much. How…… Did it work?=
“Her head was thrown back as her forehead was stamped. Beggars with damage to her neck vertebrae. Drink the rest, apply, and rest until you feel better.”
Isilite, who accepted the recovery potion thrown by Hwanin, noticed what had happened belatedly and became sullen.
Right before passing out, Isilite thought that Hwanin’s attack point was a bit high and would pass over his head.
Of course not. The exact place Hwanin was aiming for was the middle of the forehead.
However, Issilite, who made a mistake with her poor fighting sense, said, ‘If you dodge this attack, you will be able to counterattack first!’ She was excited.
Seeing this as a golden opportunity that might come again, Isilite bent her upper body slightly to perfectly avoid the attack and rushed at Hwanin…… I thought it was, but the reality was completely different.
Isilite didn’t dodge all of her spear’s trajectories, nor did she have a chance to counterattack.
In addition, with the feeling that he would strike back without thinking, Hwanin slightly lowered the tip of the black spear as much as Isilite was bending down. Also bent back close.
In Hwanin’s eyes, Isilite seemed to have collapsed with her throat ripped out with a groan, and her spine felt chilly for a moment.
If Hwanin hadn’t retrieved the black spear quickly, or if Isilite had put more strength on her neck, her cervical vertebrae would have been shattered and she would have died instantly.
It was an accident caused by Isilite’s reckless courage and Hwanin’s complacency, which he wanted to do anyway.
=…….=
Looking at himself, Hwanin drank half of the general-purpose intermediate-level restorative and watched Isilite apply the other half evenly to her neck with mixed feelings, then exhaled a long, silent breath.
To be honest, I stopped thinking for a few seconds when I saw Isilite convulsing with her eyes wide open.
‘I’ll have to be more careful when sparring in the future.’
It was the first time that she was teaching anyone, so she didn’t expect this to happen.
To prevent this from happening again, she’d better be more careful herself than Isilite.
Thinking that it is easy to kill but several times more difficult to teach, Hwanin, who told Isilite to rest in her room, went outside to get some fresh air.
Wheeeee
As I climbed to the highest point among the hills blocking the south side of the village, a strong wind blew past me.
Hwanin also liked the strong wind that seemed to blow away even the thoughts of the world and the open plateau scenery that could be seen dozens of kilometers away.
Whooping~.
The emergency food that came with Hwanin also seems to like the strong wind, so he sings her hum as he flies through the sky on the wind.
‘I’ll have to spend some time here today.’
The energy consumed yesterday due to sexual misfortune has now recovered to 70%. The weather is warm, so if you spend time here, you will recover up to 80%.
As I lay down on the soft, woolly grass, the smell of grass and earth came even stronger.
When I close my eyes, I feel as if I am buried in Mother Nature.
Hwanin fell into contemplation in that state.
‘I need to recruit a soul who is kind, friendly, and has strong lingering attachments to reality…… Is this possible?’
It is possible to temporarily build a cooperation system, but no matter how much you think about it, long-term recruitment seems impossible.
‘It’s a pity to give up strengthening the physical ability that is close to 3x.’
I still can’t decide if it’s okay to descend an intermediate soul. However, if you spread the program with a good spirit, you can get a body strengthening effect close to that.
If you cast a curse with such a soul, how much weakening of the body’s ability will be applied.
In addition, safe advance reconnaissance is possible in an underground labyrinth where walls block the view, and in an open labyrinth, it is possible to fly around and monitor the surroundings, so its usefulness is indescribable.
‘But there’s no way.’
I thought of dozens of ways, but none of them were reluctant.
Because the dozens of ways Hwanin came up with were ways to harm the soul.
A method of approaching a person, raising his affinity with all sorts of sugar coating, and then unknowingly decorating it as an accidental death, killing him and turning him into a soul.
How to approach a person like Isilite who desperately wants something, make that wish come true, and then unknowingly kill it and create a dependent soul.
A method of erasing large debts so that they can be paid with the soul after death. How to coax the soul into making it blind and use it, etc…….
As much as I vaguely feel that God exists in this world, I do not want to do anything that will harm the soul.
‘It can’t be helped.’
It is not a problem that can be solved in haste. In the future, if you continue to go around towns, villages, and cities and experience sexual misfortune, you will be able to meet at least one soul that meets the conditions.
It was around the time I was thinking about it.
“…… That’s it! What if…… Noodle! …… Off!?”
“…… De ha…… Soul……… Street…… !”
The voices of several people from afar flowed into Hwanin’s ears as they were.
‘That’s strange. That voice cannot be translated.’
During his travels, Hwanin saw only one letter, but heard three languages.
A language similar to Arabic spoken by the Lukrang people. A French-like language spoken by Fleuin Elcata. The language that seems to be a mixture of Chinese and Japanese used by Baek Ryogang during the labyrinth exploration.
Could this, which he calls the phenomenon of interpretation, happen within a certain distance regardless of race?
Is that why there are multiple languages?
‘It might be so if the interpretation phenomenon is widely known.’
While thinking, the voice becomes clearer and an interpretation phenomenon occurs.
=Stop acting like a coward! What are you going to do if it’s a demon?!=
= Really, Mrs. Sister please! That green Que is the one brought by the Spirit Master?!=
=I saw it too! But that Que was wearing nice armor! Not that bird!=
= What are you going to wear all day, armed armor! Aaaaah, if you really wake up and get dirty! Brother! Dry your brother too!=
= Selfie. If that Que is the soul master’s pet bird, you’re making a big mistake now.=
= I think what you are saying is right too. Still, don’t you think that we, the vigilantes, should check for anything that might pose a threat to the village, no matter how trivial?
The man who was being dragged by the woman’s waist grumbled as he let go of his hand.
= I don’t know. It’s my sister’s responsibility if there’s a problem! Noona is in charge!=
=If it’s true to your words, I’ll beg the soul master’s forgiveness even if I’m on my knees…… Are you…….=
Hearing the conversation between a man and a woman, Hwanin stood up in the grass and met the eyes of a woman with rabbit ears walking up the slope of a hill, and two men from a horse tribe with the lower body of a horse.
The three eyes widened.
