139 – 2. Summoner of the Nine Heavens (86)
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The way to the basement was inside the library.
The door was supposed to work only if you pulled out the books in order to find out where you saw them and put magic into them according to the unique pattern that changes every day.
As I manipulated them one by one based on Tsugumi Yashiro’s memories, the bookshelves opened on both sides and an elevator with a sci-fi feel that did not match the Japanese house appeared.
I thought it was really thorough, but even if I opened it up to this point, this machine wouldn’t work unless it was someone from the Yashiro family.
I took Yashiro Tsugumi’s soul from there. When I put magic into it, it was converted into magic that didn’t belong to me very naturally and flowed out.
This is a slightly modified version of the Chimera’s method, which was previously used by filtering Ichiro Shirogane’s magical power.
Still, my magical power is specialized in creating something, imitating an existing one, establishing a new one as mine, or constructing it.
If the effect was more outstanding, it would be excellent, but not less. If you put your mind to it, you can even imitate that person. I wouldn’t do it because it’s annoying and doesn’t suit my temper.
Clap! Wow~
The door opens after recognizing Yashiro Tsugumi’s magical power.
The inside is relatively bland, and there are no buttons to operate anything. It is because the only thing necessary for operation is the unique magical power that only a person from the family, especially the head family, possesses.
The reason is that there is no need to distinguish between the floors to go down anyway. I add mana and wear it around my body to make the machine recognize me as Yashiro Tsugumi.
With just that, the elevator moved and headed down on its own. I preceded the hive by the fact that there was an underground area, but I didn’t see anything that would pose a great threat.
The people below are all young or newbies who have not yet been properly accepted as members of Yashiro.
I have business there as well, but the important thing is Yashiro’s secret ranks. If I hand it over to Lee Se-rin anyway, I’m sure he’ll know everything, so let me accept it as I please.
If Ea can add another world’s unique assassination technique, she will be perfect, and if necessary, passing it on to the girl Tsugumi Yashiro wanted to acquire isn’t bad either.
Of course, it is a story of what the child wants.
After the coup d’état had already carried out the water change, the only remaining savvy successor to Yashiro was Hanabi, who had now become Shirogane.
Since she will fully cooperate with me in the future, even if I show her secret level, it will help her increase her strength.
Furthermore, since she is a mother who has raised two children, she will fulfill her role as her teacher well. In many ways, she is a good person to use as a starting point for fostering younger generations.
I don’t know the personality side, but the ability side is sure.
I’m sure there must be bloodlines somewhere, but well, even if they insist on legitimacy, I wonder what they can do with Yashiro, who has fallen into Lee Se-rin’s hands.
Perhaps that person was also the person Lee Se-rin prepared.
“The inside is cleaner than I thought, isn’t it?”
I thought it was underground, so it felt like a gloomy cave, but as expected, it was beyond the 21st century and was close to the 22nd century, so there was a modern corridor close to the cutting edge.
For fear that it might not be an assassin’s space, it was kept tasteless and odorless.
But it didn’t take long for it to break. The more I took a step, the stronger I felt the smell of blood.
I could also see that people were gathering beyond that.
Perhaps the child Yashiro Tsugumi talked about is located there. In fact, Yashiro Tsugumi’s soul began to fluctuate.
But I ignored it and passed by. It is not yet time. Taking the kids out is the last thing. I plan to pack everything I need and go out leisurely.
“Here it is.”
At first glance, this is the most ordinary place in the space. However, saying that it looks the most ordinary here also means that the most dangerous is lurking here.
I didn’t open the door right away and moved my magic in front of it.
After one or two seconds passed, the door opened on its own when about 10 seconds had passed.
[Thank you for visiting. You are the descendant of the clan.]
There was a robot there.
Unlike the plain-looking android, Comet, the guy who clearly showed that he was a machine was wearing an unsuitable tailcoat, making it look as if the machine was clumsily imitating a human.
Is that appearance helpful for anything? At all. It was done out of simple bad taste that had nothing to do with it.
According to Yashiro Tsugumi’s memories, it was made in that form to inherit the will of the person who assisted the first Yashiro by her side, but when I saw it, it looked like nothing.
Because I had already opened my eyes to the power involved in making things, I naturally frowned at such immature things.
Why isn’t there such a thing? It feels like watching a non-major with mediocre skills flirting in front of a major.
“That’s unpleasant.”
[…Sorry.]
The machine, slightly stretched and looking disappointed, was about two steps away from me.
I snorted at that appearance. For me, who could see the soul, such a drooping figure was a deception itself. Because there is no soul inside it, let alone a plausible pseudo-spirit.
On the inside of that machine is only a complex circuit. Needless to say, it is the product of a thoroughly structured program.
Even the quality was inferior compared to the Comet. To be precise, he was even worse than the guardians at the academy.
The composition is similar, but if you look at it a bit disparate, it must have been intercepted from somewhere and made in that form from the original, which would have been the guardian of the academy.
Permission from the original author? Find out something
There is no way the original author knows about it because it is just kept in a place where ordinary people cannot even enter. I guess that’s what I thought and did.
I felt that Comet, who had read my thoughts through the [Link], Was indignant and expressed a subtle sense of competition. What? The attendant who serves me is… Are you enough? What else is he saying
So what about the other summons? Oh, is it because they’re not servants, so it doesn’t matter? I was dumbfounded. But I wasn’t thrilled. It’s just funny because it feels like a child is writing his life right in front of his eyes.
The guy who wasn’t like that usually looked different. In other words, it means that the ego has become more firm.
I realized again that the aftermath of my profession being completely open was affecting the connected summons as well.
As the Comet was originally created for humans, it’s only more colorful, but over time, other summons will be able to communicate at that level.
‘The most probable thing…Is that Karion and Shizu?’
The stats of intelligence are also stats, but the racial advantage is too high compared to other objects.
The range of growth is vast from the beginning, so even if you grow together with others in a short period of time, Kalion’s side will become stronger faster.
Since Shizu’s side is to lead and fight with those who were originally human, it is inevitably closer to human beings.
Of course, through evolution, other guys can go beyond the limits of the basic species, so it’s only expected.
The place where the secret staff was located was like a library. It is also a very old library.
Probably not only Yashiro’s secret level, but also the history handed down from time immemorial or the secret level of other families absorbed by extinction.
I ordered Hive and Hayes to collect all of them.
“…!!!”
The hive guy started collecting books in the shadows, using his alter ego as his eyes sparkled uncharacteristically.
Haze made an emoticon that let out a sigh at the appearance of such a hive, and then transferred the books to the shadow of the hive one after another from above.
Hmm, if you think about it, those levels are useful not only for Ea, but also for Hive, which can imitate human shadows.
Since a large number is an advantage, if we can add variety based on that number, the Hive’s tactics will increase even more.
‘That’s good.’
Before I say anything, I want to find out what I lack and grow. I felt proud of myself when I saw the guys moving to prove it to me.
It was rewarding to overcome the easy road in the beginning and come back a long way.
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Once I collected all the books that filled such a huge cavity, I spread my magic even more. They’re guys with a dirty back. There was no way he could have left his real secret money in a place like this.
The shadow spread with Heize’s help found an empty space even though nothing was detected.
‘Bingo.’
I moved my magic and even used the trick of the [Line] To cut the wall in that area.
[Abnormal behavior occurs…]
Kwajik!!
The machine that tried to fire the memorized air through the ejection port was chewed up and swallowed by the jaws of the huge shadow monster created by Hive and sank beneath the shadows.
Originally, that was Ea’s specialty, but it seems he learned it while watching. Hive, scary kid.
That’s why I was impressed by Ea’s move in this fight. Although unnoticed, whenever someone did something inside the building, Ea assassinated them all.
Sabotage, creating fear by creating something, or leading the situation to one’s own advantage is still lacking in skills, but beyond that, Ea is already close to completion when it comes to killing someone.
Let’s just say it was rewarding for me to slaughter goblins while craving here and there.
“Let’s see.”
In case someone wasn’t from the family of an assassin, there was a terribly gloomy-looking altar. And on top of that, there were some incredibly old things.
From woodblocks to hanji, bamboo, baked clay, and paintings, there were various things. I collected everything in that space, including the altar.
Originally, it is easier to take the whole thing rather than taking only part of it.
After turning a total of 3 more places like that, I looked around the entire space using magic to see if I missed anything.
There wasn’t much good stuff in the warehouse. Since the production of weapons was all handled by a place other than the head office, there were no plausible by-products, and if there were any, finished weapons or nutrition were the end.
The only thing that was useful was the recovery medicine.
I felt it while looking at the memories of Hisame Yashiro and Tsugumi, but these guys practice too inefficiently.
The purpose of getting used to the pain and not revealing anything about Yashiro even if they get caught is plausible, but it seems to me that it was torture under the guise of training to solve their dark desires.
That kind of repetition of simple violence without any teaching is not training.
It’s not like giving a bottle or giving medicine, it’s a big deal if the aftereffects remain after you’ve tortured yourself.
There is no way a human being who does the noble act of healing someone will participate in such an inhuman thing, and since it takes effort to hire each human being, the direction naturally leans toward medicine.
Perhaps because he was good at treaties from the beginning, the recovery medicine he made was also of fairly high quality. However, it is a defective product that has the disadvantage of slowing down the activity of cells instead of increasing resilience to the limit.
The cell activity slows down and the disadvantages are great.
The most representative thing to discuss is that the natural healing of wounds is slowed down.
Basically, cells that need to repeat death and generation rapidly die slowly, and the body recognizes that there are enough cells even though they are already unable to function, and the cell production stops.
If this is repeated, evolution will eventually proceed in such a way that this body does not need to rapidly generate cells, and cell activity will be delayed when it is really needed.
As a result, over time, the wound, which is normal to be blocked, continues to tear and become a blood clotting disorder in which blood flows incessantly.
If it continues, it will make the body easily injured and diseased, and it will cause problems with other functions.
Of course, there is a crazy power called magical power, so you can suppress that tendency to some extent, but in other words, if you don’t have magical power, you can’t last long and become an idiot.
We do not make the survivors into strong people through training, but we train only the strong to survive in order to find the sprouts that will become strong from the beginning.
Yashiro’s training feels like that.
Originally, it would not be strange even if the line was cut off and destroyed a long time ago, but the problem is that this world is not crazy, and this method works to some extent.
Above all, Yashiro’s lineage, which specializes in ‘protection’, is quite excellent, so he was able to withstand these things.
In that sense, I thought I could roughly understand why Yashiro wanted Hanabi Shirogane. She is the one who is believed to be the second coming of the first Yashiro.
She is definitely her If she is taken as a parent and the seeds of her excellent lineage are crossed, a person who is more outstanding than her predecessor Yashiro may be born. That’s what he must have thought.
Ichiro Shirogane, who is famous for actually handling fire and making weapons inside a hot kiln, and Hanabi were born with an overwhelming heterogeneous existence called Shirogane Rui, so that idea was confirmed.
Now that I know the whole story, it seemed that I could understand why Yashiro Tsugumi was blind to that child.
In the training where the incompetent cannot survive, the child survived incapacitated. The brightness of those who are helpless and lacking but still live desperately is enough to catch the eye of those in the dark.
“Tsk…”
That made it even more annoying.
Casuality always exists in all things. If there is a result, there must be a reason for that result.
An incompetent child survives a training in which an incompetent cannot survive? Sounds funny. If he’s really incompetent, he can’t possibly survive.
Surely, that child has talent. It is still unknown whether he was unaware of it or whether he knew it and hid it.
The important thing is the will of the child.
Go back the way you came in. She didn’t bother hiding her presence. Rather, she poured out an overwhelming force as if she was trampling on everything.
Arriving in front of such a bloody door, I condensed my energy for an instant. Decorate it as if a huge being had arrived right in front of you and then disappeared.
I kick the door with my foot at the moment when my concentration is lost and the look of those sitting there is disturbed.
Quaaa!!!!
My abilities are so good that I can easily break down a door of this size even if I don’t have magic power. Of course, this was possible because [Subdued]’S level rose to level 3 and the increase increased from 200 to 300.
With my current strength, wouldn’t it be enough to crush the boss of a C-rank dungeon with just brute force? If [Battle King]’S assistant enters and confines it to battle, it may become stronger than that.
The interior of the room was spacious. It was clean enough to remind us of a facility, but the lingering bloody smell ruined the image.
It was unpleasant to see men and women separated and put into a room with a clear view of the interior, as it looked like a pet shop. In a previous life, there were people who tried to breed humans in this way.
Mostly wealthy people. As if he had known that this would happen, or if he hadn’t been able to gather all the supplies and was planning to build a second earth underground, there was a huge city.
There they were gods. As the world perishes, there is no need to protect morality, and as a result, the limiter has been lifted, and people have started to be regarded as livestock rather than people.
The people of the slave class became the amusement of the people of the aristocratic class.
Some people killed people for fun, while others raped them and watched them leisurely. Some even kept them as pets.
I was brainwashed through research, but the scene at that time was still frightening. And it was so cool that it slaughtered everyone.
Both slaves and nobles, everyone made it comfortable without distinction.
There is no meaning to living in this dying world. Since there is no future as long as the existence that can be called a person has disappeared, I cleaned it up to be a little clean with a heart of atonement to the world where only destruction remains.
I have changed, but I have not changed.
So I’m thinking of giving you a choice. Spread the energy The appearance of those who were seated in the corner of the room avoiding me was not very good.
The guys who had already been educated to some extent were immediately hostile toward me, but I stayed away, faithful to my instinct to live beyond that.
While trembling in fear, I looked down at the dark-haired girl who was looking at me with a blank expression on her face as she approached the glass.
When mana interferes and disrupts the structure of molecules, the glass turns into dust and collapses with just a simple touch, as if it had been there from the beginning.
The girl, whose support had disappeared, also sat down.
Her body was shaking and there were blood scabs all over her body.
“…Prince?”
Someone’s hazy eyes make me look like someone else is comparing me. As you can see, she is a young girl of about 10 years old. It must have reminded me of a children’s book or a delusion equivalent to it.
I didn’t forgive that. Use her shadow to force her to wake her up. Her girl’s expression contorted, and her tears welled up.
Including forcibly standing up, it was recognized as my attack, and the effects of [Sadism] And [Torture] Within the [Harvester] Must have been added.
Perhaps he felt more pain than usual. I would have calmed down with this
I forced the girl’s face into her shadow. Then, take off her mask and make eye contact with her. It was to be more certain.
The soul within it was too pure to be thought to have been in such a place.
At the same time, it was too bright and disparate. It was as if he was arming himself with the impossibility of doing so.
‘It’s a skill.’
I don’t know what it is, but she confirmed that some kind of power was involved in her.
I despise her as I dig her more thoroughly. My reflection is reflected in her dark eyes. Inside the dark red pupils wide open like dragons, colorless flames contemplating the soul were swaying.
In the mirror-like repeated eye-to-eye exchange, I discovered that two souls resided inside this child.
No, should I say that there were actually two and then merged into one? I was very suspicious, but I decided to move on for now.
“Choose.”
Will you die comfortably here, or will you live and prove it in this crazy world?
The girl’s eyes trembled at my question. A conflict, a fleeting conflict, ensues and she closes her eyes.
Then she opened her eyes. Her expression, which had become more calm, was somewhat aloof, but contained a wisdom that was not befitting her age.
“My uncle told me…If I’m nice, I’m sure I’ll be able to get out. Someone will come to help you get out. Is your brother the person you said?”
“No.”
“…Then what happened to you?”
“Killed.”
Who is the girl? Did not contain the word. She just let out a sigh, empty and empty.
Is it mourning the death of Yashiro Tsugumi? Or is she grumbling at me for killing the guy she worked so hard to drug her with?
Maybe it was because of the useless death of the guy, which brought about a more dangerous situation.
…Is this too pessimistic?
How about it? Either way, it was enough to feel a sense of incongruity as the figure was slightly different from the child from before.
This strange appearance must have caught Tsugumi Yashiro’s eye.
“…Help me.”
“I do.”
The girl prayed. I agreed to that. Because that was the condition anyway.
However, it seems that the acceptance was unexpected for her girl, and her eyes widened, but her expression calmed down belatedly. Indifferently passing it over, I tapped the floor and made Hive create a human-shaped shadow, causing the girl to lose.
And then, watching the children strangely start to have hope, it creates magic.
“Eggplant.”
You don’t even need a lot of mana. None of the children sitting there can stop my attack.
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[Penetrating type].
Quad Deuk!!
In an instant, the shadows rose from the ground and trampled on life. Separate the escaped souls and hand them over to Hive. That’s it.
The children who were over dozens became a handful of marbles. That’s the end of the story.
Belatedly, the flames of Ceres rise and burn the remains of the dead body.
“… Huh?”
I wonder if that unrealistic sight has exceeded the limit even for an alien girl, she turned blue and then turned white and shivered belatedly.
Then he immediately covered her mouth. Nausea leaking out? No, because I didn’t want to upset my mood by screaming.
I should definitely thank Tsugumi. She has already died and there is only one thing left for me from now on, but let her pour a little more sincerity.
Shall we go ahead and test it? Because I can’t guarantee that there won’t be another case like mine.
“You are definitely heterogeneous. Is it because of the merging of the two souls?”
At those words, she began to be shaken more than she had seen the scene before.
And then I let go of my mind. It looks like a fuse has been forcibly blown. It seemed that the capacity of the limit was rushed at once and passed out.
I donned the mask as I stared indifferently at it as it drooped like a dried squid and was carried to the shadow of the hive.
This is the end of the cleanup.
No one survived. Still, just in case, I left a little shadow of the hive for surveillance, and I sent the rest back and completely recovered the encroaching magic power in this area.
Only then did the slight dizziness and discomfort disappear. Despite the dissonance of the body, he continued to move, and it was not unusually difficult.
Let’s hand the rest over to Lee Se-rin.
I asked Heize to tear open the space and then moved towards it.