30 – Claiming Ownership (3)
“Are these people controlled by magic?”
“Do you remember what I taught you before?
They say a certain amount of mana flows through everyone.
It’s different from life, but it’s like a force that guides that person.”
“Yes. So I am influenced by other people,
I heard it changes depending on where you live.”
The mother made everyone lie down and tied their hands, feet, and necks.
The class began with the body of the soldier I had captured.
She couldn’t miss the things her mother had said, so she picked up the magic book and diligently wrote down the words in it.
She painted the water black and dipped her pen into it.
“That’s right.
Then let’s learn this too.
When tying up a person or animal, it is sufficient to hold only the parts that can move.
Moving and covering all the soil takes too much force.
It was like that in the past, and it’s still like that now.
You are still too young and you lack a lot of mana.
You have to be able to control that well to become a full-fledged wizard…”
Then, as if he was about to say something,
As if there was something he wanted to say to me, but he couldn’t.
“First, shall we look at the pattern?”
I cut her off awkwardly.
While exhaling a long breath through the nose.
“I ended up talking about Mana.
So, I already taught you that the total amount of mana increases the more you use it.
Since she was born, she said that some people are rich in mana, right?”
“Yes.”
“But this mana, this mana that lives in life…
What if you are overtaken by someone else’s power?
What if you become contaminated with foreign energy, and other power enters the place where your mana should reside?”
“Then like this…”
“That’s right.
The purple energy belongs to the demons.
All of their mana has been overlaid.”
The new fact I learned was quite shocking.
Was the mana that was all worn out actually in a very dangerous state?
“…Then, if I use up all my mana – “
“I understand.
That’s why wizards train for a very long time.
The moment you let your guard down, you might end up becoming someone’s slave.
But this requires a lot of power.
To prevent the body’s owner’s mana from being filled…”
“You need to fill up that much mana.”
“That’s right. That’s why controlling someone is difficult.”
After hearing that and thinking about it for a while, I quickly reached a conclusion.
“Then, if you kill the controlling demon – “
“This person will die too. It’s not that simple this time.
Look here.”
He looked me in the eyes as if my thoughts were not wrong,
I tried to gently raise my hand, but then put it back into my arms.
Mom showed me the pattern engraved on the soldier’s chest.
“This person’s mana is now sealed.
They are only moving with their own mana that the demons forcibly added –
If the mana suddenly disappears here… What do you think will happen?”
“Well…Well.”
“Well, I won’t run out of breath.
But that ‘person’ ends up dying. Forever.”
A riddle-like word.
It doesn’t stop breathing, but people die.
I thought about those words for a moment and caught the thought that had just passed by.
“Then, only the body is alive.
For example, if this person’s name is Max…”
“Max will die. The human body will live and breathe.”
And sure enough.
Mom told me that the truth that wasn’t good was the correct answer.
“So, like a dead wild dog, the rule is to take its life.
There is usually no power that can drive out that much magical power,
There’s no way the demons would just let them go.”
“Then…”
Was the answer decided from the beginning?
Could it not have been possible to set them free without taking their lives?
“Don’t worry.”
The magic book slipped out of my hands before I knew it.
Mom picked it up, handed it to me, and smiled.
“I am here.”
Suddenly, long, glowing red horns extend from between the heads.
I started painting red in a forest that was filled with only black.
“What… Are you trying to do…”
“Didn’t I explain to you about the dragon’s horn?”
Much longer and thicker than anything I’ve ever seen before.
The horns were stretched out quite high.
“There is mana in our bodies, but
In the end, magic is about collecting mana spread throughout the world and creating a phenomenon.
The dragon’s horn is a very precious thing that allows you to use it by force.”
And then it turned even more red and vivid.
It was close to black, but it shined like the color of my mother’s hair.
But rather than being bright… It was something dark and scary.
“Many humans aim for this horn.
Wizards are no exception.
Of course… The teachers who taught me were a little different.”
While saying that, the mother calmly sat down and half-closed her eyes.
It stayed still until its horns completely lost their black color.
As it became more and more red, her mother’s hair color also turned red.
The eyes that had been dyed black once again turned yellow.
“Okay, this is enough, but…
It’s not me who can recover them.”
He sat me down with bright red horns,
“…Can I upload it?”
I lifted her hand slightly and placed it behind my back.
As soon as she nodded, her hand clung to me as if I had been waiting for it.
But rather than touching or doing something else –
“Ugh?!”
A lot of hot energy was coming into my body.
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To the point where my hands were shaking so strongly.
“Can you feel it? It’s your mother’s mana.
Red, vivid, hot.
I will give it to you slowly, so please accept it faithfully.”
A foreign body feeling as if it were filling my throat, to the point where it was difficult to answer.
I was clearly taking a deep breath, and my mouth was empty enough to let me out –
“Calm down. Don’t be too nervous.
You have to save people.”
As my body stumbled, unable to overcome the weight, my mother stretched out her hand and gently supported me.
And continued to pour in her energy.
“The reason you have to do this is if the Knights find out that they have recovered –
Who did it? And I’ll at least ask you briefly how you did it.
Even if you lie and say you did that, I will check what little mana is left in your body.
I don’t want mine to be discovered, right?”
Are you being considerate of me for not being able to ask?
Mom told me various stories as my forehead grew hotter.
Taking one look at her face, she noticed the burning mark on her forehead.
“And it seems that the amount I can give you is much more than what you have,
I will fill it in while you write.
Is your head very hot?”
When I barely got her nod, my mother took my hand and placed it on the soldier’s body.
After raising my palm right above the mark,
“Now, from the forehead to the chest.
Bring strength from your chest to your hands.
There is no need to memorize spells or ask for favors.
This is not something nature allowed.
So, what we were forced to do must be forced to be released, right?
He told me how to save people.
Looking at the soldier lying down right next to my face,
Before I knew it, he continued to push warmth into my arms instead of my hands.
“Huh, huh…”
I felt very heavy and as if my stomach was filled with something.
A feeling of bloating, as if you ate so much food that your stomach was so full that it almost exploded.
Following the way her mother had told her, she had to get it out somehow.
That way, you focus on your head and body in turn –
“That’s right.”
Red light began to flash and flow into the man’s body.
The purple magic seemed to be shining, but it soon cracked and started shaking wildly.
“Ugh, ugh…”
At the same time, a moan came out of the mouth of the man who was lying down,
Mom stretched out her hand and drew another of her techniques in the air.
Then he gently extended it to the people next to him.
“I guess it’s not as difficult as I thought.
I don’t know who they are, but the demons who did this don’t seem to be that great of a group.”
I don’t know how much mana my mother has collected and how much mana I am using –
The purple lines that were sparsely visible in the surrounding black soil were all covered with red.
It made me realize once again how poor a wizard I am.
I got tired of holding on,
At the same time that my mother was holding them, she was flowing mana into me,
Unlike me, who feels like I’m going to collapse at any moment –
“Are you okay? It doesn’t look like you’re going to pass out.”
Still worrying about my condition,
I was leisurely checking to see if the spells on people were broken.
“…Okay, I’ve driven out all the mana.
The sealing technique has all been broken, so I won’t be able to do anything anymore.
If you recover naturally like this, you will come to your senses.”
And finally, the sound of breaking was heard from the third person.
I gently fall from my mother’s arms –
“Ugh?!”
“Be careful!”
I couldn’t fall.
I was just held in his soft chest, and I felt the touch of a hand wrapping around my waist.
Looking at the yellow eyes that only stare at me with trembling eyes,
I came from the red dragon that embraces me…
“Are you okay, Russell?”
“Yes. I’m a little, a lot tired…”
It was not easy to widen the distance.
Is it because of my tired body?
Or perhaps it was because I got to see my ‘mother’ embracing me with her motherly affection-
“Just a little… I’ll rest just a little longer.”
I couldn’t bear to leave my mother, so I let her tired eyelids rest for a while.
I could see ahead, but black clothes were coming closer and closer through my almost closed eyes.
“Then, rest in my arms for a while.
Because it is a place that can be opened to you as much as you want…”
And then he completely enveloped me.
Wherever I touched, there was a lot of heat –
“Like the softness of a spring day that brings flower petals,
Like the simplicity of autumn that makes bright red leaves flutter.”
Mom cooled it down right away.
Despite using numerous magics in this short period of time,
As if there was still some energy left.