94 – Proof (2)
Magic is a miracle achieved through a transaction with Libra.
The user pays mana to the balance.
Libra grants miracles appropriate to the mana received in return.
This is like a common belief that is taken for granted in this world.
However, I was a person who was far from this common belief.
Because, I knew how to deceive the scales, and so far I have been allowed miracles without paying mana.
-The one who deceives the scales (lv.9)
This trait, which I acquired for the first time after being possessed in an unfamiliar world, was of great help to me.
Mana could be used like an infinite ocean.
I was able to easily overcome the limitations of my body whenever I wanted.
Thanks to this, I was able to learn divine swords and high-level magic from my teacher, and was able to easily cut down enemies who were like disasters.
Is that why? At some point, I took it for granted.
This is my privilege as a possessor, and it will continue to provide convenience to me in the future.
But unfortunately.
Now that I see it, the characteristics I thought were a privilege were poison to me.
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*If all the dishes are broken, you will die. (Durability: 75/100)
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I don’t know why this message is written in my status window.
But I know better than anyone else that that phrase is true and that the numbers change every time I fool the scales.
This was one of my biggest concerns until recently.
It was a natural concern. Because this was immediately related to my life.
Not long ago, there was a person who suggested a method to me. Well, to be exact, it’s a skeleton.
“You seem like a stupid junior. Tell me how many times. Pay by burning mana! Don’t act like a brat like that! “Oh, it’s frustrating!”
The skeleton is looking at me pitifully, tapping his ribs with his hand bones as if he is frustrated.
I was also frustrated.
I’ve never been one who couldn’t learn easily, even though I’ve received a lot of teachings.
Because I couldn’t even imitate the ‘mana burn’ that Malik taught me.
“No, what should I do if it doesn’t work? “Is this really possible?”
“I would have done it because it was real. You stupid junior. This is something I did with dogs and cows. Anyway, why are kids being treated so harshly these days? “How can the world work… Tsk.”
Malik clicked his tongue and spoke sarcastically at a topic that had no tongue.
“See you again.”
Malik begins to move his mana as if he still wants to teach him.
I resisted the urge to crush Malik’s skull and looked at him intently.
His pure mana moves slowly.
The mana the size of a rat’s tail gathered at the tips of her fingers boiled like boiling water.
Mana disappears.
– Grumbling.
A large flame rises above his fingertips.
Magic has appeared.
And at the tips of Malik’s fingers, there is twice as much mana collected as before.
I indulged in the entire process with my celestial eye.
“It’s so easy, right?”
“···.”
It was a question so stupid that it made me think I had curly hair even though there was no hair, but I couldn’t answer.
“No way, you still don’t understand?”
That wasn’t it. I understood exactly how the entire process that Malik showed was done.
Burns mana and turns it into steam.
Pay some of the steamed mana to Libra.
The unpaid steam increases in volume through amplification magic, and soon returns to the form of mana.
If you can repeat this process countless times as naturally as breathing without being aware of it, you will be able to use enormous amounts of mana without deceiving the balance.
“It’s not that I don’t understand…”
“But why can’t you do it?”
“Mana does not burn.”
I answered with a sigh.
I felt stuffy, as if my stomach was clogged. I clearly understand correctly, and I am doing the same thing as Malik, but my mana is not burning because it is non-combustible.
“Wow, my junior is so annoying, this senior is so frustrated that I feel like he will enjoy eternal life.”
“···I don’t think it’s bad.”
“I would have done that if I hadn’t been in a situation like a skull gourd. Ugh, it’s a bit hard to say this, but when I was your age, if I learned one thing, I learned ten more. “In our time, that was a natural thing.”
“···Isn’t that a bit unusual back then?”
I was finally offended by Malik’s sarcasm and answered by pouting my lips.
Maybe I didn’t like that?
Malik looked with a straight face and spoke in a quiet voice.
“···Let’s say it was special. No, let’s say it was something special and devastating.”
Is it because I heard some of the old stories from him?
Feeling sympathy for Malik’s sudden depression, I had no choice but to nod and offer words of comfort.
“···I will practice and learn it quickly. “Only then will we send our senior over there, over the rainbow bridge.”
These words may have been misunderstood by others, but not to Malik.
Because, Malik was a being bound by a contract that prevented him from dying even if he wanted to.
‘What is that damn contract, why is he tormenting people so much?’
Malik is not the only victim.
Master is like that, and so am I.
Master is bound by a damn contract, and I am bound by an unkind quest called ‘Old Contract’.
“I feel bad, but it’s strangely comforting. Oh, by the way, do you like the sword I gave you?”
In the meantime, Malik’s voice is heard.
He was looking at the ‘Sword of Good and Evil’ hanging on my waist and asking.
“Of course.”
-Grumbling.
I pulled the sword from its scabbard.
Then the old sword body appears, and the two embedded beads reflect the light.
“It was stronger than it looked.”
“If you fill in all the empty holes, it will become stronger.”
Malik said after looking at the five holes in the sword body.
“Then I might be able to send you to a good place.”
In that way, I too will be able to escape from being a ‘vessel’.
“Quickly learn a lot about this subject. Only then can I cross the rainbow bridge or not.”
Malik smiled and answered.
‘He’s definitely not a bad person.’
Of course, just a few days ago, he was a person who wanted to separate every bone.
Honestly, my personality was on the opposite side of the damn thing.
After experiencing and observing for several days, I realized that Malik was a good person who knew how to generously give what he had.
He was also the person who told me the information I needed and that others would never know.
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‘I will definitely send it to you.’
As I was making that promise, the door of the log cabin creaked open.
“Master…”
When I turned my gaze, I saw Rose, who was crying for some reason, trudging in with a sword in hand.
“Oh, Rose! What’s happen?”
“What you taught me is not working well. No, actually, I don’t even understand.”
When I found out why Rose was crying, I shook my head in pity for her.
Because it was very obvious how the situation would unfold.
The student who did not properly understand what was taught,
An old school teacher who likes to say, ‘In my time.’
Perhaps, unlike me, Rose, who has an angry personality, might drop Malik’s skull on the floor again today.
“When I was…”
Sure enough, a voice like the symbol of an old man is heard.
“That alone was a great thing. So, my lovely disciple. “There is no need to be discouraged.”
“Really?”
How are you?
“I was worse off when I was Rose’s age. So, why don’t you just straighten your shoulders and go out with her? “I’ll watch it again.”
“Yes!”
Malik walked out with Rose, smiling more kindly than ever.
“···.”
As I was watching this, I felt my pounding heart cooling down, and I took out an artifact from my pocket and played with it.
“Malik.”
This was the name of the man who would become my meat shield before crossing the rainbow bridge.
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Inside a cave deep in the forest of Adenia.
The fat man was chewing on something from her and muttering incessantly.
“I’m hungry! “I can’t wait to go home!”
“Anyway, I guess who isn’t gluttonous….”
The woman with platinum hair who was watching her sighed and waved her hands.
Then a black sub-space opens, and a lot of food starts pouring out of it.
“Is this enough? “It’s been a while since I’ve been out, so I’d like to have some fun.”
“No! Not enough! And it’s not fresh!”
“···.”
Envy placed her throbbing head in her right hand and waved her left hand in the air.
Then, this time, another subspace appeared, and several living girls were dragged out of it by an intangible energy.
“Is this enough?”
“Go on, little brothers! Huh!”
Gluttony, seeing that, was delighted and nodded her head vigorously.
“Huh, huh. “Please save me…”
“Hee, hehehe!”
The girls who saw the corpses of monsters and people piled up like a mountain in the cave were scared and cried, prayed, or fainted.
“Don’t worry.”
Envy said, smiling charmingly in front of the girls who had not fainted yet.
“That child now thinks of you as his real brothers. So···.”
Then she strokes the hair of a girl who manages to maintain her senses and whispers.
“It may be scary, but please take care of that child as best as you can until she comes back. “If you give it to me like that, that child will continue to think of you as his real brother.”
“Well, then can we live?”
“Okay then.”
When Envy answered with a wide smile, the girl slapped both cheeks, then walked up to the other girls and started saying something.
Then, for a moment, a glimmer of hope appears in the eyes of the girls who were engulfed in fear.
“Poor things.”
Envy was reminded of Gluttony’s old past as she watched the girls strengthening her will.
“Little brothers! I will protect you! “I’ll be good to you!”
Gluttony runs to those girls and hugs them carefully.
Envy found that sight disgusting, but at the same time, she also found it funny.
“It would be better for you not to know. “Why did he become gluttonous?”
Before he became sinful, he had eleven younger sisters.
“It reminds me a lot of the old days.”
Before Envy became a sin, he once picked up a sword to subdue Gluttony, who was becoming a sin.
“How are you doing these days?”
Envy recalled a person who was with him when he picked up the sword, turned his body around, and started to go outside.
She couldn’t wait to see it.
The man who was her former colleague and her first love.