Wizard’s Na (4)
Carraderina regained its coolness. It didn’t know where he was hiding, but its opponent’s Mana wasn’t detected. It was clear that the Reclusive Soul was sending that ssage himself, or at least soone who had sothing to do with him.
It upgraded its appraisal of the Reclusive Soul in her mind. It knew that the Truth-Seeker favored him. However, no matter how excellent he was, Carraderina had expected that his power and magic were still below her magic. The life span of a human who hasn’t crossed the wall was obvious.
Unable to locate its opponent, Carraderina spread her consciousness throughout the house.
=Are you the Reclusive Soul? I heard that you are a man who couldn’t cross the wall, but I didn’t know you would be a wizard with this much power.=
That alien couldn’t feel the opponent’s Mana at all. The magic traces that controlled the insects had to reach that place, even if the subject that triggered it was hiding in another continent. It didn’t matter how far the wizard himself was. The place where the insects were moving was right there.
Knowing that its opponent’s way of sending ssages wasn’t based on magic, Carraderina was nervous, guessing that the Reclusive Soul’s power as a wizard would far exceed itself.
The bugs danced and scattered in the air. Suddenly, they made another string.
-How did you get to know the information about the Reclusive Soul?
Being wary of the opponent’s power, Carraderina replied honestly.
=I am an ascetic. As you know, there is a way for Truth-Seekers to communicate with each other across dinsional barriers. The Truth-Seeker I serve has heard the story of you through another Truth-Seeker.=
The worm reconstructed the string at high speed.
-What is the na of the Truth-Seeker of that dinsion?
Carraderina answered the na that remained in its mory.
=It said its na was the ‘Song of Chaos’.=
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“Ah, shit, this chatty Truth-Seeker. Please, shut that mouth, please!”
With the heat rising to my head, I almost threw the artifact I was holding.
“Doesn’t the Truth-Seeker want to be a god? Is it so easy to be a god? I don’t know what that guy does with souls, but anyway, doesn’t it do any practice or training? It should have prepared or worked hard to beco a god, but why is it always making this shit by gossiping with other dinsions’ Truth-Seekers? When will it be happy about it? Stop doing silly things and get the souls out of the Earth harder. Ah, please. Shit.”
I spoke with a huff of wild breath.
“It’s already the second ti!”
The first ti, Eraser ca to that world and wandered in search of because of the information shed by Truth-Seeker of Silver Forest, the ‘Song of Chaos.’ Eraser knew my existence by trading information with the Truth-Seeker of the world he belonged to.
That ti again, it was a repetition of a similar incident. A Truth-Seeker beyond the Busan Channel who noticed my existence sent an ascetic to find .
[… It will not be a protest to Silver Forest’s Truth-Seeker, but I think you should ask it a favor. You’d better go to that dinsion soon.]
Parvache sent an anxious thought next to . The will of the alien flowed into my mind.
=Contractor, what should I answer? It is asking again if you are the Reclusive Soul.=
It was a huge Shockem sitting in front of that sent the telepathy. It was the entity I summoned that ti. It had a shape that closely resembled the thousands of bugs flying in front of Carraderina, but the size was so huge that it was hard to compare. It was similar to the hippopotamus I saw at the zoo before.
Currently, that place was my living room. There was no way to trace back to that place, as my Mana wasn’t involved in the place where Carraderina was located. Even if that alien beca crazy and scanned a range of tens of kiloters around, there was no trace left to identify .
“… Don’t answer that question. Just ask again. What is its reason for seeking the ‘Reclusive Soul’?”
Parvache, who heard , transford it into a character used in the world of Carraderina and conveyed it as a will. After the Shockem recognized the telepathy sent by Parvache, it erupted a unique pheromone that we couldn’t feel.
That entity I summoned was a male Shockem, and as you could guess from its huge body, it had lived for quite so ti and had a reason. It was currently receiving my Mana through artifacts in my hand. In return, it used the peculiar abilities of its race to recognize the existence and movent of females in distant places and controlled them by erupting pheromones.
That pheromone was one of the reasons for choosing Shockem as a ans of delivering ssages. Even if the Shockems were released hundreds of kiloters away, they could imdiately recognize the pheromones of the male sex.
It was called pheromone, not substances that slowly floated in the form of molecules in the atmosphere. However, when applying that world’s physical laws, it seed to show a kind of motion close to radio waves. The ability developed because there were too few males than the number of females, and the world inhabited was too vast.
=Okay, I will deliver it exactly like that.=
My question was conveyed. Thousands of females danced in courtship under the male’s guidance, and Carraderina, who recognized the movent in its language, answered with the will. The females, who felt it in the form of brain waves, responded to the male by emitting pheromones.
At a distance of several tens of kiloters from them, the male turned to . Carraderina’s answer was delivered to through the female Shockems and the telepathy of the male Shockem.
=I will deliver the words of the Truth-Seeker. Reclusive Soul, we would like to invite you to our dinsion.=
“…”
There was a pause due to the unexpected answer.
“… What?”
I felt a deep irritation and headache coming up together. Oh, what kind of nonsense was that?
[… Ah, really…]
Parvache also exuded a sigh of resentnt in his mind.
[I thought the death of the Dragon completely cut off your relationship with the Truth-Seeker, and I don’t know what fate this is, why there are so many Truth-Seeker who are interested in you, Min-joon?]
I spat it out bluntly.
“I don’t know. Oh, really, this dirty bastard.”
In the anti, the strong will of the male Shockem I summoned stimulated my mind without notice.
=Contractor, the Mana that is delivered to is decreasing. =
It looked like I lost my concentration in confusion. I again injected Mana into the artifact in my hand. The price of the contract to be given to Shockem was simple. It just wanted a huge Mana with high purity. It was faithful to the desire to produce more sen by using it as a nutrient.
That male Shockem was unusually long-lived and said that one in five of its people in their world had inherited its genes, either directly or indirectly. Nevertheless, the desire to spread the seeds seed endless.
“We can’t stop talking here, can we?”
I wanted to tell Carraderina to shut it off because I simply wouldn’t do that. Was it inviting to that dinsion? It was nonsense. Did it think I would believe that?
I doubt the intention, but even if my safety was guaranteed, I couldn’t afford it. For now, it was urgent to find the Dragon’s soul and explore the dinsion beyond the Shanghai Channel.
[You still have to figure out its intentions.]
Upon hearing Parvache’s answer, I nodded.
“Ask the reason for the invitation.”
Carriderina’s answer to my question via Parvache, male Shockm, and female Shockems was, as expected, out of my expectations.
=The Truth-Seeker is extrely interested in this world. =
It seed that Carraderina was convinced that the person who delivered that ssage was .
=Reclusive Soul, the Truth-Seeker I serve, intends to explore the traces of those who originally had jurisdiction over this world. It wants to know what he had been doing in this dinsion.=
It wanted to know what the Dragon who ruled the Earth had been doing?
Carraderina’s words continued through the Shockems.
=The fact that Channel is left on your chest is self-evident. It ans that you an a lot to the Truth-Seeker. My master judged you to be the most obvious clue left in this world.=
I spat out a curse quietly. After all, it ant that it wanted to get information about the Dragon through .
Yeah, the reason why the Dragon planted a Seed on my chest shouldn’t be boring. However, it was certainly not sothing I would welco that Truth-Seekers from other worlds would study .
“Why are you interested in a Truth-Seekers who is already dead?”
Carraderina seed unaware that the ascetics of the Earth were seeking the resurrection of the Dragon. How would it react if it knew about it? It was difficult to predict since the other being’s intention was unknown.
=My master has a question. It is suspected that the dinsional barrier created by the Truth-Seeker who had jurisdiction over this world, the “Black Hermit,”… was more powerful than necessary in his life.=
What?
=The original purpose of the dinsional barrier is clear. It was preventing another dinsion’s Truth-Seeker from breaking through the Channel. Since he was the one who didn’t need to take the soul from another dinsion anyway, he gave up attacking and built a barrier focused solely on defense. That’s understandable so far.=
“Didn’t need to take the soul? Why?”
The answer to that question ca back a bit late.
=Of course, because this world is a blessing to Truth-seeker. When the world is created, the soul already exists there. However, the absolute number can be large or small, depending on the dinsion. I heard that this world is a world with an extrely large number of souls. Among them are the souls, which are the native people of this world.=
I nodded as I recalled the population of the Earth. Well, seven billion was a lot. The reason why the population could increase that much was supported by environntal conditions such as science and technology. Still, it seed that it was also because many souls could be conceived in the body.
=However, the dinsional barrier created by the Black Hermit did not simply prevent the creation of Channels. It was a powerful barrier that made even the observation of this world difficult. There would have been a price to keep it. What is the reason he tried to hide within the barrier while avoiding the eyes of Gods even though he had to bear that kind of thing?=
Carraderina threw an unexpected word.
=It seems that his actions have left this world largely unaffected by God. So Gods succeeded in sending apostles, but they rarely increased. While the Black Hermit was alive, he quarantined his dinsion so thoroughly. My master is curious about what else the Truth-Seeker might have been planning to beco a God even if he uses only the souls that already exist in the world.=
You could beco a God by using only the soul that already existed?
Paying attention to the aning of those words, I asked back.
“Do you an seven billion souls of the natives are enough to beco a God? =
Once again, unexpected answers ca back.
=Seven billion? What do you an?=
“… Don’t you know? About seven billion human beings are living in this world.”
Across a few bridges, Carraderina’s words continued.
=I heard that the number of souls of natives in this world is incomparable to the number of natives who live their lives.=
I had never recognized the ring of reincarnation with my own senses. Among Yusu’s race, those called the elders said that although they could see the concentration of souls far away, they couldn’t count the number of souls.
What Carraderina said currently was that more souls couldn’t acquire human life than the souls who had. So, so of the souls had to wait for the order to be born as humans? Or were they downgraded to be born as animals? Except for sub-soulless creatures, how many tens of billions in total?
However, my prediction was so naive. I had no choice but to lose my words when Carraderina responded.
=Indeed… In this young world, the souls of over 50 trillion natives are overwhelming. No matter how prosperous civilization is, it is the number of souls that can’t be handled. Perhaps there will be no ti when the number of human beings who survive in the sa era exceeds 50 trillion until the end of the world. That’s why my master has questions. Why are there so many souls in this world? What the Black Hermit was doing with such souls in this fertile land while avoiding the eyes of Gods…=
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