chapter 9
Chapter 009. transfer (2)
Roaring… !
Deep blue flames bloomed from the fingertips.
I couldn’t take my eyes off the brilliance of the sparks I lit.
‘What happened?’
I know that when mana blooms for the first time, the only thing to do is to strengthen the physical ability a little.
It would be very difficult to get it out of the body like this, but oddly enough, it wasn’t difficult for me at all.
No, it usually takes years to awaken mana in the first place.
Even if you have a lot of money in your family like me and can use catalysts generously, it is normal for it to take at least several months.
However, he succeeded in awakening in one go. Can this simply be described as a realm of talent?
“… not.”
Other than that, there was something else strange.
‘Why is there so much mana in the heart?’
When Ian first bloomed mana, he said, ‘There is a lump the size of a fist in his heart.’
However, there was a lump in my body that was about twice the size of that.
‘what?’
It must be the same stalker who sent me to another world to create the avatar called Roan Karziel.
It seemed that he did everything possible to make the world change as little as possible by sending me.
But you made it with so much care and gave so much mana?
back and forth don’t match
Isn’t that inconsistent?
That means… .
It was a time when thoughts were biting tail after tail.
“… Roan!!!!”
“!!”
I woke up to the instructor’s loud voice in my ear.
Concentration was broken, and only then did the situation around him come into view.
“… … .”
“… … .”
The training ground was suffocatingly silent.
The cadets, who were sitting cross-legged and breathing, all stopped what they were doing and looked at us with blank expressions.
Even though he was an instructor, his expression was no different from theirs.
No, on the contrary, he looked even more surprised than the cadets.
“Roan. Is something strange?”
Maybe it was because I was in a daze for a while, but the instructor asked me with a serious expression.
“no. Just because it feels strange… .”
I stopped thinking and looked around.
It was obviously a space where there was nothing just a little while ago, but now I can feel the mana grains swimming in the air so clearly.
No, it wasn’t just something I felt.
see.
where does it flow
Where do they unite and where do they part?
I was reading this huge flow of nature as if it were disassembling it.
Cheer!
My head was hot at the tremendous amount of information.
I was a person with superior brain function compared to the general public, so if it was someone else this much, I might have fainted from this.
“Whoa… .”
I inhaled.
Even though it was an objectively dangerous situation, it was hard to resist the immediate urge.
There was no basis, but it seemed like I could do more.
As his instinct told him to, he took a deep breath and drew mana.
As the blue mana ran through the blood vessels throughout his body, an unknown sense of exhilaration arose.
It felt like taking a walk under the full moon.
‘see.’
The mana grains being sucked into the bodies of the cadets who were breathing mana.
‘Why do you do that?’
And a question arose. Because their methods were so inefficient.
‘There is a better way.’
thud! Mana heart beat loudly once.
It was an insignificantly small mana heart, but the aftermath was by no means small.
A huge wave swept through the arena.
Immediately after that, all mana except for my mana heart stopped flowing.
‘… … .’
He looked at it with satisfaction and took a deep breath.
Whoop-!
Mana Heart greedily sucked up the mana around it.
* * *
Drop, drop… .
Red blood soaks the gym floor.
It was blood from the nose of the fallen Roan.
The instructor who had been watching came to his senses belatedly and raised Roan.
“pupil! Are you okay?!”
“… uh?”
Roan looked dazed, as if he didn’t understand what had just happened.
“… Immediately after Mana Awakening, Mana Heart is unstable, so be careful when using Mana.”
“ah… .”
“… sorry. It’s the instructor’s mistake for not telling me in advance. Cadets, go straight to the infirmary. Rick!”
Seeing that he couldn’t control himself, the instructor urgently called another cadet and sent him to the infirmary.
Roan getting carried away.
It was only after the party disappeared that the silence was broken and confusion came.
“what… .”
Someone’s murmur echoed through the gymnasium. Goosebumps appeared on the talking cadet’s forearms.
“What just happened?”
It happened in an instant.
I thought Roan’s condition was strange, and all the flow of mana around him stopped for an instant.
It’s so amazing that you can’t even imagine how excellent your mana control ability is.
This alone was shocking, but the real surprise happened next.
If it’s not an illusion, Roan must be… .
“… They tried to absorb my mana.”
At that, one of the cadets, who had disapproval of Roan, who parachuted in, said as if screeching.
“Don’t talk nonsense. Isn’t mana stealing something that only masters can do?”
It is also possible when the opponent’s level has fallen far.
Of course, it would be difficult for Roan, who had awakened today, to succeed.
“… Still, the feeling of being sucked in was real.”
“that… .”
The cadet, who had been shooting, was speechless.
It hurts my pride to admit it, but it didn’t make any sense to say ‘That happened by accident!’
It is an indisputable fact that all the flow of mana around him was stopped by Roan and that he ‘attempted’ to steal it.
And this in and of itself is astounding.
“… … .”
“… … .”
In a strangely subdued atmosphere. someone muttered.
“… It’s completely different.”
Even among the cadets of the Faculty of Knights, there is no one who has not heard the rumors of Roan, who is called Carziel’s disgrace.
I wonder if there were even rumors that he was an illegitimate child or a child he had picked up.
Combined with these rumors, Roan’s poor body condition that I saw today was enough to cause disregard.
but.
“… Didn’t you just come in through family power?”
Ignoring turned to suspicion.
With a suspicion that maybe Roan is a monster comparable to Ian, who graduated last year.
* * *
“… Mmm.”
When I came out and got some fresh air, my nauseous stomach slowly began to calm down.
After coming to his senses, he said to Rick, who was walking in the direction of the infirmary.
“Go to the dormitory, not the infirmary.”
“what?”
“I’m going to rest in the dormitory.”
Rick asked if it was okay.
“There are medicines and there are priests, so it doesn’t matter.”
When it comes to my treatment, Amy will outperform the doctors in the infirmary.
And even if it wasn’t for that reason, I didn’t want to have others examine my body.
Because my condition right now is clearly something strange.
Abnormally large amount of mana and mana control that was not difficult even though it was the first time.
And even the bizarre urge I felt a moment ago.
I didn’t want to let others know about this until the question was resolved myself.
“Put it down here.”
After coming to the front of the dorm, I sent Rick back.
“young master?”
It was still only 2pm, but Amy’s eyes widened when she returned.
“I came early to rest because I was sick.”
“!”
She is surprised to hear that she is sick.
Before I could imagine anything, I explained what had happened.
“actually… .”
* * *
After a while, Amy, who had heard everything, spoke.
“You overdo it.”
I had no words to give back because I was injured the day after I transferred.
But did you know that it would turn out like this?
“Your mana heart will heal on its own if you take a day off.”
But he says he can’t do anything about the pain he feels right now.
“This isn’t medicine, so there’s nothing I can do about it. I’ll use my holy power, so I think it’s best to rest first.”
“huh.”
Using divine power does not stabilize the unstable mana heart, but it will have a slightly relaxing effect.
Whoops!
Amy’s hand, imbued with divine power, reached out.
At that time, along with a throbbing feeling in my chest, downy hairs stood out on my skin.
“hmm?”
She opened her eyes in surprise, but Amy tilted her head as if she hadn’t felt anything.
I tried to stop her with an ominous feeling, but her hand touched my skin first.
“sleep-!”
The moment Amy’s hand touches her skin.
Pachichichi!!
Sparks flew at a level that was unreasonable to mistake for static electricity.
“Kyaaak!?”
Startled, Amy fell backwards and hit her buttock.
The impact caused the medicine chest placed on the shelf to roll over and make a loud noise.
But she couldn’t afford to worry about it.
“young master!”
Seeing me collapsing and convulsing, Amy freaked out and called me out, but there was no answer.
‘what… what.’
Because I didn’t have the mind to do that.
The moment her hand touched it, my heart beat wildly and my whole body felt sharp.
Feel the pulse all over your body.
Sensations that had become so sensitive that even the touch of the clothes brushing against the skin felt like pain was violence in itself.
When the mana heart overload problem that had happened a while ago overlapped, the unbearable pain came over me.
Amy’s face, which opened her mouth, gradually blurred.
* * *
Laying the fainting Roan down, Amy wiped the sweat from her forehead.
Looking at Roan, who was asleep with a throbbing breath, she fell into thought.
‘… … .’
In my head I understood what had just happened.
obvious rejection.
His body pushed out the divine power.
Basically, divine power is a power that has a very high affinity with vitality.
Even if he hated gods to the extent that his resentment would be revealed in the form of the power of a curse, the divine power would be applied regardless.
There is only one known exception so far.
she murmured in a trembling voice.
“Mine… ?”
only one exception.
That is, only in the case of a demon with a demon in its body.
* * *
“What is Mine?”
widely.
The professor in charge of the theology class wrote that on the blackboard and then turned to the students.
what is mine
To understand this, you must first know what a monster is.
“Monsters are beings born under the influence of the Demon Realm.”
A connection with the demon realm that occurred 500 years ago.
The connection lasted just one day, but it was enough to shake the foundations of the world.
Mutant organisms were born, and some even achieved evolution as a species.
Orcs, Gnolls, and Dark Elves are representative monster races born at this time.
And demons refer to humans who have inherited the power of these monsters.
The method is simple.
You have to drink their blood.
However, in general, even if you drink the blood of a monster, you rarely awaken as a demon.
If you drink a small amount of blood, you will get sick for a while, and if you drink too much blood, you will die from contamination.
“However, the situation is different if it is the blood of an individual of the size of a dragon or a hydra.”
Dark magic runs through their blood. If a human who can withstand this thick demonic energy drinks the blood, a demon is finally born.
The Mine born in this way will have power far beyond that of ordinary people.
“Hmm… .”
As I listened to the professor’s class, I remembered the conversation I had with Amy yesterday.
‘I’m a demon?’
At this time, so many thoughts passed through my head in a short moment.
But fortunately Amy’s answer was negative.
‘I don’t think so.’
She continued as she changed the water bag placed on her forehead.
‘I’ve seen mines since I was little.’
When she left the training to become a full-time priest from an apprentice priest, she encountered a demon.
When I reflect on the memory of that time, they say that my case was quite different from that time.
‘The magi exhaled by Mine was dirty and sticky. On the other hand, Bocchan… .’
She chose her words for a long time, as if she couldn’t come up with an appropriate expression.
‘uh… Overbearing?’
It is said that it felt like trying to suppress the divine power that approached meekly… .
Anyway, it wasn’t Mine.
It’s not that there aren’t similarities, but the fundamental feeling was different.
‘If it was a Mine in the first place, the reaction would have been more dramatic.’
No matter how strong a demon is, if it is injected with divine power, it shows an extreme disgust reaction.
On the other hand, I fainted for a while, but the reaction was calm.
By the time the flashback was over, the class was over.
“Even in the church, I tried various methods to purify demons.”
However, after realizing that the only way to completely purify demons is to kill them, the class ended with the conclusion that an unconditional subjugation order was issued for demons in 886.
“Time is up. I will finish by asking questions.”
I quietly raised my hand.
“Ask a question.”
After thinking for a while, I opened my mouth.
“By any chance, is there a case where the divine power does not work even if you are not a demon?”