126. why didn’t i think of that?
“Here, with the feeling of putting rotation like this?”
Following Magmaros’ explanation, he waved his arms and moved the energy of fire.
Kwaaa!
A small whirlpool of flames was created, burning the surroundings black.
Of course, the size was not large because the power was adjusted.
If he wielded it with all his might, he could guess that a fairly powerful pillar of fire would have sprung up.
Looking at the whirlpool of fire, Magmaros nodded.
“Yeah. It feels like that. That’s true, but… This, it’s progressing much faster than I thought.”
I looked back at him.
“Because I don’t have time. I’d like to learn them one by one at my leisure, but if I do that, I don’t know if I’ll be able to finish them before the giants move.”
“Well, I understand. I understand…”
“Now what’s next?”
“It’s over.”
“……?”
Magmaros laughed.
“That’s why I said. Progress has gone much faster than I thought. Now I have nothing more to teach you… I have nothing.”
I couldn’t understand what he was saying.
“But obviously, the flames you use are a bit more elegant, flexible, and have effective power. My flames aren’t like that yet.”
“It will take some time to receive the flame’s recognition. You’ve just been able to communicate. Aren’t you greedy?”
“Acknowledgment of the flame…”
It’s not that fire has any personality.
“I think I thought that fire doesn’t have any personality.”
“……”
Are you using mind reading?
I can’t believe I read this far accurately.
I was quite surprised on the inside, but I kept my expression blank and waited for his next words.
“A lot of people have seen it. So did I.”
“You said the same… What do you mean by that? Why is the fire spirit king?”
“The fire spirit king is not the ruler of fire. He is just the king of spirits who can use the power of fire.”
Ah…then fire is separated by fire, and the spirit king can only use that power?
When it started to make some sense.
Magmaros continued.
“This fire is a power that existed before the giants.
He lit a small flame in the palm of his hand.
“Listen carefully to the sound of these flames. If that’s the case…”
Magmaros’ eyes returned to me again.
“You’re like me. No, you’ll be able to reach a higher level than me.”
“…A higher realm…”
To be honest, I didn’t quite imagine it.
Could he really handle fire better than Magmaros?
No, before that…how do you hear the sound of fire?
I understood the words…but there was nothing I could understand.
Looking at me with a puzzled expression.
Magmaros gave a small smile.
“Technical things end here. Other things depend on how well you fuse them or create them anew.”
“Hmm.”
“Instead, from now on, it’s real. We’ll have to figure out what fire is. That’s… I’ll explain it to you on the way to our next destination. That’s it for today.”
After saying that, Magmaros.
I went into the house with my hands behind my back.
A quiet space.
I am left alone
I quietly lit a small flame on the palm of my hand.
Roaring!
But I only feel a slight heat.
I couldn’t hear anything.
I muttered to the flame.
“What are you saying…how am I supposed to listen?”
It was more difficult than anything I had ever learned.
* * *
The next destination was no different from what had already been decided.
He is the master of the shadow that devours fire.
embers of fire.
“Hellperion. He’s here, right?”
Magmaros stroked his chin as he looked at the map we found on Rebecca’s gang.
“It’s strange?……Is this, reliable information?”
At his doubts, Orhel was irritated.
“What! What! Ah, what are you complaining about again?”
“During the War of the Gods, the victorious gods couldn’t kill the immortal giants, so they imprisoned them in the middle world.”
“You know all about that.”
“The giants, who had more primal and fundamental power of nature than they do now, couldn’t be expelled to another world, so they were tied up in the middle world. Hellperion was also one of those monsters.”
“What do you want to say?”
Magmaros looked at Orhel.
“If it were you, where would you keep Hellperion?”
“What? Hellperion? If it’s Hellperion…because it’s a fire giant. A place with water or ice?”
“That’s correct. Hellperion is the realm of the water spirit king, Thousand Year Ice Valley. He was imprisoned there. It meant that he should take responsibility for protecting Hellperion.”
“But, Ice Valley of a Thousand Years is a place where you have to go farther north.”
“That’s right. So, as indicated on this map, it means that Hellperion has already escaped the Ice Valley.”
Orhel clicked her tongue.
“Anyway, the Spirit Kings. They don’t like working.”
However, Magmaros’ face remained serious, and there was no major change.
“Hellperion, who escaped from the Valley of Ice of a Thousand Years, is hiding here?”
At that point, I too could understand what Magmaros was trying to say.
I looked at the map and opened my mouth.
“Everywhere…… rivers and lakes. And the sea.”
Magmaros looked at me with a satisfied expression.
“As expected, you can see. That’s what I mean. The fire giant hides near the water on its own feet?
“Then, the mark on this map is…”
“A deception tactic. I guess that’s highly likely.”
At that, I quietly checked the topography of the map.
‘If this is false. Then, if it were me… where would I hide?’
at that time.
There was one place that caught my eye.
‘Well?’
I raised my head to ask Magmaros.
By the way, he also seemed to have seen the same place.
Let his eyes meet mine.
Magmaros nodded.
“It seems I’m of the same opinion as you.”
Both of our eyes turned to the map again.
To the Perai volcanic area surrounded by three volcanoes.
* * *
Everyone, including the members of the Neuer Order, was busy preparing to go to the next target, the Ferai Volcanic Zone.
“Orhel. Do you have anything to do? You seem to be just playing around?”
“What? Did you really come here to fight? Do you have anything to do?”
There was a little murder in Orhel’s eyes.
I put up with it a bit when others were around, but… I didn’t really want to put up with it now.
Seeing him like that, Magmaros cautiously opened his mouth.
“sorry.”
“……What?”
“If I apologize even now… would you accept it?”
Orhel kept her mouth shut.
However, his expression was even more ferocious than before.
“The judgment at that time. Perhaps even if I go back to that time, I will have no choice but to make the same judgment. Even so… I wanted to apologize.”
“Well. Apologizing doesn’t mean the dead will come back.”
“That’s right. The dead don’t come back. Isn’t that why you want to apologize to the living?”
“To say something unlucky.”
Orhel looked up at the distant sky.
“Perhaps if that child hadn’t died, he would have been my next Pureblood Lord. Then it would have been him, not me, sitting here. I would have been sitting in a corner somewhere, leaning a bottle of wine leisurely.”
“That one suits you better.”
“Yeah. That’s why I wanted to be like that. You killed that child and ended up like this.”
“You know now, too. That child…had other plans behind him. From that time on, he and the giants…”
“know.”
Orhel cut off Magmaros’ words.
He glared at Magmaros with fierce eyes.
“I know. I know. But you should have told me. And you should have let me finish it with my own hands. You should have.”
“……”
Magmaros is a horse that stabs at the pinnacle.
He sighed and admitted.
“You’re right. That’s right. I was careless. Back then.”
A sincere apology.
Orhel clicked his tongue at the sight of Magmaros admitting it.
“Tsk!…Did you come to talk about that old story?”
“Even though it was boring, it was something I had to say. It’s a pity that I couldn’t do it a little faster.”
“I can’t get angry when you talk like that. Ehh. It seems like my stomach is burning more.”
The two stood in silence for a while, looking down outside.
Their eyes were directed to the same place.
It was none other than Rohan.
“It looks like the water spirit king is dead. Orhel.”
“What, what? Why is he?”
“There’s no evidence to say this yet. It’s just that the giants seem to have moved.”
“Could it be that Hellperion, the giant of fire, escaped from the Ice Valley of the Thousand Years…?”
“That’s right. The water spirit king is absent. That’s the cause. That’s why the water spirits, not the water spirit king, are moving to find him.”
“……!”
Orhel looked at Magmaros with a worried face.
However, Magmaros still had his gaze fixed outside the window.
“What do you mean?”
“…That Rohan. How is it?”
“What? Why is that all of a sudden?”
“Because they have talent. The ability to accept them is different.”
“What are you talking about?”
Magmaros slowly met Orhel’s eyes.
“I’m going to leave it to him. The water spirit king, that position!”
“It didn’t just appear after all, did it?”
“No. I really didn’t think of this at first. But after meeting him, I changed my mind.”
“no!”
in that strong voice.
Magmaros tilted his head.
“why?”
“I liked it first.”
“……?”
“It’s perfect for a Vampire Lord!”
“Rod…… Rani.”
Orhel muttered annoyedly.
“Anyway, I picked it up first. Don’t look over it.”
“Isn’t Rod’s seat already full?”
“No. Because it’s not, I’m trying to take my place. I’m standing next to you until you take over my place. That’s why I’ve been enduring all the hardships and chasing after you!”
“As expected, did you have a plan?”
“It’s a plan! It’s just that my brother is doing well…”
Magmaros erased his mischievous expression and asked a serious question again.
“But… that means, could it be that someone in the road died?”
“Uh. Poison-blooded Drettnor has gone to the underworld. So there aren’t many rods left now.”
“That Drettnor guy? No, who was that guy?”
“Rohan.”
to that short answer.
Magmaros’ eyes shook like an earthquake.
Orhel said with a face that she should not be surprised at this level.
“Do you think that’s all? He took all the power of that poisonous blood.”
“Did you… take it?”
“Yes. Is that so?”
Magmaros frowned and shrugged.
“Then, you don’t have to wait for him to take over, don’t you just worship him as a Lord right now? You already have the power of a Lord, right?”
At that answer, Orhel froze for a moment.
“Uh…why didn’t I think of that?”