I Became a Blind Swordsman at the Academy chapter 96

96. darker darkness (2)

“Huh…”

Magredo, who had been following me, sighed at the horrors at the gambling house.

The casino was neatly organized.

I knew what kind of organization they were through the game. Criminal organizations like this were quite common.

With these guys, the warlocks and blood mages can safely grow their strength.

It was a vicious cycle.

The onlookers who were with me gave me break-even and sent me out of the gambling house. It was easy to control, even with the Knights Badge.

I told you not to gamble, but I don’t know if you’ll listen to me.

All the money left in the gambling hall or the money in the safe was put into the subspace pocket. Calling the knights to retrieve it would be a good way, but there was no way to contact them yet.

There’s no such thing as a good job to get that much money.

“…but have you ever run into me?”

Magredo, who was glancing at the corpses of the organization members who had been slashed with a single knife, asked.

Even Sierra had a curious look on her face.

The answer to this was fixed.

There was one big incident he had a few years ago.

“Oh, that’s once in the Empire…”

“…You mean the casino. Tsk, that’s a bad memory.”

“hahahaha, it was such a big commotion.”

I roughly tuned it to the rhythm.

‘How did you come up with the idea to commit fraud in such a huge casino…’

I couldn’t figure it out.

That’s how I got out of the gambling house with Magredo.

Looking at the moon in the sky, it seemed that it was dawn.

Coming out of the gambling house, Magredo breathes in the chilly morning air. It was the expression of someone who had dramatically escaped from prison.

‘Is it dramatic in its own way?’

Soon, Magredo’s mouth opened as he raised his head and looked up at the sky.

“Yes. You said you wanted to learn sealing. But do you need to learn?”

“I heard that there is no end to learning.”

“Sniff, you’re greedy. I don’t hate it. There’s a house nearby, so why don’t we talk a little more there?”

“great.”

I responded with a bright smile.

Well, it was flowing as I had seen in the game.

If you want to learn spirit sealing from Magredo, you have to rescue him from prison.

It was not a very difficult process.

The gambling establishment’s criminal organization wasn’t that high-level.

However, Magredo was captured because he was too weak to defeat them all.

Did you say that the spirits were stolen by high-ranking spiritists? He had a lot of tangled incidents, and he had many enemies in many ways.

I moved to his house with Magredo.

He was not amused by my blindfolded eyes, which I followed easily. He seems to have guessed himself that he must have some kind of special power since he was able to destroy the organization of a gambling house by himself.

That’s how I learned the spirit sealing technique from Magredo.

…As a result, Magredo may not have known as an elementalist, but he was a good person as a teacher.

Not long after he got out of prison, he enthusiastically taught me the art of sealing spirits while immersed in his theories as if he was not tired.

Starting with the basic theory of spirits, they went so far as to discuss why spirit sealing is valuable.

Spirit sealing.

Unlike general spirit magic, it is not greatly affected by spirit affinity.

After examining my body, Magredo praised me, saying that my affinity with the spirits was poor, and that it was a good body to learn spirit sealing.

He said that being blind would not be a big problem as long as he could sense the energy of the summoned spirit.

Unlike Spirit Spells, which use spirits as familiars, Spirit Sealing Spells seal part of the spirits into the body, allowing the spirit’s power to be used directly.

The benefits that came from it were indescribable.

Basically, the higher the affinity with the spirits, the better they could handle the spirits.

To put it simply, the higher the affinity, the better the spirits will listen.

Then, the key to spirit magicians is how to increase their affinity with spirits.

But there is no such way.

There was no way to intentionally raise affinity.

Spirit affinity was an innate ability.

‘In fact, it’s not like there’s no way at all, but…’

Anyway, that’s usually the case.

As you can see from the fact that Magredo was dealing with a bizarre elemental technique called elemental sealing, his affinity with spirits was low.

Feeling very dissatisfied with this, he found the spirit magic, the spirit sealing technique, which had been lost in the past.

A spirit technique that recites the ‘true name’ of the summoned spirit and forcibly seals the spirit’s power in the body.

Through the spirit sealing technique, regardless of affinity, the power of the spirit can be fully handled.

The spirit sealing process itself was fairly easy and simple. Maybe that’s why I was able to acquire the skill quickly.

However, it was a big problem to recite the true name.

Compared to the spirits, how can humans who are mere ephemera find out the true names of the spirits?

Magredo had no choice but to search through ancient texts related to spirits.

Maybe that’s why, there were so many old and old books in his house.

However, even Magredo, who had devoted his whole life to it, only found out the true names of a few middle-class spirits and a few low-level spirits.

However, as long as you find out the true name.

According to Magredo’s expression, you will be able to handle ‘a mighty power that does not fit your fountain’.

There was no penalty.

It was a difficult task in itself to seal a being with a foreign spirit called a spirit into a human body.

It is said that spirits, originally supposed to live in the spirit realm, consume the mana of the spirit sorcerer in order to maintain their form in the human realm, but spirit sealing does not consume mana, but the physical body, or life force, is eaten away.

It wasn’t that life was cut short.

In the first place, Magredo was an old man who should have been living a long life in such a dangerous world.

He just said that he had to live with potions because his stamina was declining. Maybe that’s why Magredo drank three bottles of cheap health potion as soon as he got home.

It was information that I knew through the game.

I had a bracelet, so it didn’t matter.

Although the question is when to return this bracelet to Reina.

Magredo, who taught me a few more things about the art of sealing, said he had virtually nothing more to teach me.

Even so, she had no intention of telling her the true name of the spirit she had discovered over the course of her life.

When he asked if he knew how to summon spirits, he replied that he did.

Of course, I don’t know about spirit summoning, but I don’t think good spirits will come out with summoning in a yard with poor affinity… There was a whistle, so there was no need to learn summoning.

That was enough.

All of this was just the process of carving skills into the status window.

I listened to the chatter of Magredo, who I hadn’t had a conversation with in a while, and it wasn’t until the moon went down that I was able to leave his house.

After escaping from Magredo’s house, I immediately climbed into the carriage.

As expected, it didn’t take much time.

***

After getting off the carriage, I was walking through a forest where people were rare.

On the other side, a fence could be seen indicating that it was the site of the academy.

[ Hmm… ]

Sierra, who followed me while floating in the air, was drooling.

“Do you have any concerns?”

He turned to her and asked.

[ …the spirit you said you would seal. Will he be able to recognize the existence of the original woman? ]

…Sierra was confused about what kind of spirit it was when I said that I would learn to seal the spirit.

To be precise, [If you have the original swordsmanship, do you need the power of the spirits? ] said.

Then, when she heard an explanation about the spirit sealing technique from Magredo, she was impressed and affirmed.

He said he liked it because he had the power to control the spirit rather than being swayed by the spirit.

“Can you communicate with Master… I don’t know. You said you could see the spirits around Magredo, right?”

He scratched his head as he answered Sierra’s question.

It was something I didn’t know exactly.

‘Is it possible to interact because they are the same spiritual body, or is it impossible because the nature of the energy is different…’

According to Magredo’s explanation, sealing the spirit does not mean that the spirit’s existence will completely disappear.

However, it was said that it changed from a human form to a beast form that could not have a different conversation.

[ okay. Is it because it is a low-level spirit? They were little guys. It didn’t feel like you recognized me. ]

Magredo’s spirit did not recognize Sierra.

If it is a spirit sealed in my body, it might be possible to interact with Sierra, which is ‘belonged’ to me.

Soon after I was walking through the woods, I stopped my steps thinking that this would be enough.

“If you have any questions, you can find out from now on.”

I chanted to Sierra and put my hand in my subspace pocket and took out the whistle.

[Uh…? Why is the whistle suddenly…? ]

Sierra questions my actions.

That this is the ‘whistle of the King of Spirits’ had been previously communicated to Sierra.

Like Hidden Peace, and the way you do it.

Sierra would often say that I was not a ‘prophet’.

…I have no affirmations or denials.

From the first time I met her, it was still going on because she was a mysterious person.

If you touch it very well, shouldn’t you think of reincarnation or return?

Anyway, maybe it was because he replied that he knew how to summon spirits to Magredo. She didn’t think I would use a whistle.

I put my mouth on the whistle.

I don’t know what kind of spirit will come out.

‘Properties related to me…?’

Honestly, I thought it would be nice if it wasn’t just the 4 elements. Doesn’t it overlap with the family of the 4 elements?

Even if the 4 elements appeared, at least Lucia’s wind attribute, which was not helpful in battle, would be good.

Immediately I blew my whistle loudly.

ㅡHook…

The whistle only made the sound of the weak wind.

But it wasn’t wrong.

It is correct to call the whistle properly.

The sound of the whistle must have resonated loudly in the spirit realm, not here.

Sierra tilts her head at this.

[…there are no enemies, and it’s not dangerous, so what are you doing all of a sudden? ]

Waiting for the spirit to appear soon, I explained to Sierra.

“There are spirits that I know by name.”

It was only then that Sierra noticed my intention.

[No way…… Didn’t I say that a higher level spirit would appear? ]

“Yes.”

Around the time I was having that conversation with Sierra, the forest started to stir.

Even though it was dawn, in an instant the surroundings were covered with fog, blocking the light.

Before long, an unformed mass of black energy begins to gather in front of my eyes.

‘Black color…?’

Something was going strangely.

Perhaps because of that, there was a chilly feeling around her.

Soon, the black energy takes shape.

It was in human form.

The spirit was appearing.

The spirit took on a perfect form in an instant.

Soon after, as soon as I saw the dark colored armor that appeared in the air, I felt it.

The fog that has slowly approached wraps around the body of the spirit.

As for the spirit, he was wearing a full body armor of gorgeous ink.

His red eyes glared at me.

Soon after, his creepy… scratching voice is heard.

“Shade of shadows, I answer the call of the king’s whistle…”

It was a moment when intuition worked.

There was no need to worry about this, it was the spirit of darkness unconditionally.

Shade stops talking and questions.

“… Now that I see you, you’re a human. For a human to call me… it’s strange.”

“…”

I couldn’t answer him anything.

As he said, the spirits of darkness are the spirits commanded by demons.

The fact that the spirit of darkness came out when I blew the whistle means that I sensed an aura similar to that of a demon.

…there was nothing to point out.

‘Like the tears of the dead, or the urethra… I never thought this would be applied like this…’

I was complacent.

The most important thing is that you don’t know the true name of the dark spirit.

Cannot use spirit sealing.

“By the way, where’s the enemy? I thought I’d be able to see blood for the first time in a while, but there’s nothing. Did you call the whistle without knowing what it was?”

Shade, who was looking around, expressed his doubts again.

Even the poem next to me tilts my head to my silence.

I blew the whistle loudly again.

ㅡHook…

“…”

Shade is speechless at my actions.

Of course, there was no effect, but the meaning of wanting to deny the reality was great.

“ha…”

It was then that he put down the whistle and let out a big sigh.

It was the kind of behavior that I had recently become accustomed to.

I sent a wave of excitement.

Soon, the wave also reached Shade.

Then, something really strange happens.

Usually, when a person touches a wave, the person’s name or information would come into my head.

But I’ve never experienced anything like this.

Shade’s real name.

The ‘true name’ as a spirit was conveyed through my head.

‘…what?’

I couldn’t figure out why right away.

but.

“Are you a fool who doesn’t even know the effect of a whistle… Humans… wasted their time.”

The time when Shade was about to return to the spirit realm.

“wait a minute.”

I hurriedly stopped Shade.

Then he turned his back and turned his head to look at me.

***

The thick fog disappeared before I knew it, and the warm sunlight was shining through the forest as dawn broke.

[ …This guy, what’s his name…? Shouldn’t there be a name? ]

Sierra looked at the hairball sitting on the rock and pondered.

“Kerreung…”

The black hair ball looks at Sierra and makes a cute cry.

He was a very attractive guy with red eyes.

“…Shady, how about Shady?”