6. Metamorphosis 換骨奪胎 (完)
6. Metamorphosis of round bones (complete)
The operation is over.
I thought I could return right away, but at the request of the director, the quarantine period was extended for another day. Because I needed to do some checking.
“How are you feeling?”
“It’s easy, surprisingly… “
I replied by kicking the floor of the gymnasium. How could your body be this light? It was clear that he had been confined to a slug-like body all this time.
Especially in the lower abdomen, where the dantian should have been, unknown vitality was overflowing.
Originally, warriors have a life force called innate vitality, and magic power gathers around it, but the stone of the earth embedded in me seems to have the effect of filtering all kinds of energy and replacing it with vitality similar to that.
The chairman said.
“That’s one of the advantages. The mana accumulated through the Earth Stone has a purity that is no different from that of Seoncheon. To put it simply, it must have been about as clear as the mountain valley water there.”
That was true.
Immediately after the operation, I used the 1st stage magical release approval ticket. It has regained 10% of its heyday.
And after contemplating the inside of my body, I realized that only pure magic power was flowing through my bloodstream. As a person who has never been separated from combat in his life, it was clear that this was an incredible feat.
Seoncheon Jingi is a last resort that can only be pulled out when a warrior gives up on survival and chooses to get along with the enemy. As it is the power that burns life, it is different from ordinary magical power. Only words accounted for 10% of the magic power of the primeval era, but if you look at the pureness, it would not be difficult to reproduce even 20% of the inaction of the primeval era.
Where should I try it?
When I glanced at the chairman, he nodded as if he would wait. Rather, those gazes made me wonder how far I could go.
“Hmm.”
After concentrating mana from outside the body, draw a diagonal line at the scarecrow in the distance. It was the use of the fish sword.
Kigigigg… !
Suddenly, sparks flew in the air, and the scarecrow was split in half by a sharp intersection of magical powers. The crumbs flew up into the air, were burned by intangible frictional heat, and were scattered as ashes by the time they landed on the ground.
The scarecrow’s cross section was burnt black. At this level, the power passed. In the first stage liberation state, it would probably end if you use it five times in a row, but if you leave it as a trump card, there will be no danger.
I nodded my head naturally after making an estimate of how to solve the battle in the future with just one skill demonstration.
“Not bad.”
Even though it had been a long time since I had cast it, my senses were sharp. Feeling proud inside, I turned to the chairman and saw him with his arms crossed and a carefree expression on his face, breaking out in a cold sweat.
“Hey… Even in normal times, it’s not difficult to use a sword, right?”
“Yes, in order to survive, I had to keep turning my magic outside my body.”
“The only way to survive was by turning magic outside the body… It was definitely a harsh situation. That bad news must have led you there.”
I calmly nodded.
Magic power is usually manipulated and expressed within the body. This law is no exception for warriors and wizards, and when anyone first encounters magic, they learn to contemplate it from within their bodies.
However, when reaching a certain level, there is a limit to that method alone, and at this time, experts and inferiors were divided according to whether or not they could instinctively learn the tricks of manipulating extracorporeal magic.
In my case, it was something I had no choice but to learn in order to live, but in the end, each of those situations came together to bring me to where I am now. The sword was only a very basic use among them.
“But what happened?”
“No, that’s it. Are you sure you can use a heart sword as well as a sword sword?”
A heart sword.
I laughed.
“Isn’t that the realm of fantasy? Well, it’s a romance of warriors, but I’ve never heard of anyone actually reaching that level.”
“……”
“If it’s about the sword, well, I used to use it on a daily basis.”
“A fish sword, a fish sword… do it routinely… “
Chairman mumbled his mouth with a look that he had a lot to say, but soon smiled as if he had been released with a look of an old man for 10 years.
“Can’t you just be a professor?”
**
“So, how is Alem?”
“Well, I transplanted the earth stone, but it is very exciting. Except for the lifespan issue.”
“It’s not something to worry about right now, but… Is there really no way for that?”
“Ask the Spirit King, not me.”
The chairman spread on the floor with a tired face. Then Orien stopped drinking her tea and clicked her tongue.
“By the way, I don’t seem to remember.”
“What do you mean?”
“In the days when it was eaten by the mind and wandered around the demon continent, it was a murder weapon that moved while grinding the mind sword hundreds of times a second in all directions.”
“…..”
Chairman and Orien were silent for a while.
They couldn’t forget the terrible monster they saw that day. The monster that Alem had grown inside was such a terrible being. In fact, the monster only ran and shed tears without a break.
The chairman alternately recalled the description he had heard from Alem and the characteristics of the monster, and finally came up with a plausible hypothesis.
She said, “In order to live, she constantly turned her body’s magic power to the outside of her body. You know best how absurd that is.”
“Everybody knows.”
Orien raised golden magic power to her fingertips. She then flew towards the collapsed wall of the Eros Circle room. Her mana, which flew completely separate from her and her, soon lost her power and melted away in the air.
“All magic is connected to the caster by a thin thread of magic. Fireball, wind cutter, and any other simple magic will lose its original form in less than a second unless it is connected to the caster.”
It was basic common sense that no magic user could not know, regardless of short-range or long-distance series.
“However, external magic expression is a heretical technique that denies such common sense.”
Orien raised her index finger again. However, this time, her magic power was not released at all. Despite this, there was a ‘tong’ and light friction sound from the suddenly collapsed wall.
The chairman’s eyes flashed with interest.
“How did you do it?”
“How do you sleep, this is a miracle that cannot be explained in words.”
Orien said.
“It’s not a skill that only the chosen can use. It is a bizarrely deformed method that thoroughly excludes the disadvantages of the existing method and brings only the advantages. It goes without saying that it cannot be obtained through normal training.”
“It’s a state that can’t be reached through normal training… “
Chairman recalled Alem’s remarks.
A skill that I learned naturally while struggling to live.
“How many of the current professors can cast out-of-body magical manifestations?”
“Okay.”
Orien raised the corner of her mouth.
“I only glanced at it, but the placenta is far away.”
**
After recovering some of the sense I had lost in the gymnasium specially vacated for me, I went to the hospital to pack up my belongings one last time.
By the time we arrived at the hospital, the sun was setting. Looking at the red-hot vacant lot, it seemed that it would get dark sooner or later.
But suddenly, some of the passers-by saw me and came this way.
“Oops… “
I was trying to sneak my foot back, thinking that he might be intimidated by seeing that he was from Eros, but the approaching warriors weren’t in that mood at all. Looking closely, they were people with the same pattern as Makia-senpai. I think they called you from Arcane.
The fact that she carries a lot of books was also similar to Makia. They checked my face, whispered something among themselves, and then said with a kind smile.
“Cheer up.”
“It was a lot of hard work.”
“I heard a lot about you from Makia.”
Saying that, they patted me on the shoulder and passed by. Some even put snacks and candies in my pocket.
“…?”
It was the first time in my life since I came to Academia. I was dumbfounded and looked back to see that they were already moving away.
Looking in the direction, it was toward the laboratory where Makia-senpai always stops by. Arcane-affiliated laboratories tended to be clustered together, so they’re probably going to their labs too.
“What… “
I’ve never met them in my memory. Or is this what it is, has the influence for good finally begun?
I become her friend with Makia, and Makia forms a good reputation for me with her friends, and that’s how they come to me…
“…Ah, I don’t know.”
The next time I see Makia, I should ask him.
I hurried my steps to the hospital.
Fortunately, the nurses took out my luggage in advance and arranged it neatly, so all that was left was to take care of it.
As I was putting various daily necessities into the bag I had prepared in advance, I suddenly grabbed Winds’ coffee cup in my hand.
“Should I take care of this as well… “
As I was thinking about it briefly, someone tapped my back.
“Oh, Mr. Alem.”
I was a nurse.
“Uh, uh, uh, someone just asked me to deliver this to Mr. Alem… “
It was a woman who got acquainted with her while being in the hospital for several days, and she handed me something with her hands shaking. Her complexion was so pale that she looked as if she would faint at any moment.
Serious things seem clear.
I accepted it hastily.
“…This.”
On that day, the second letter with Peer’s stigma on it arrived.
An emergency faculty meeting was immediately called to prepare for terrorism, and I became the first warrior to participate as a student.