Spirit User Manual

The Dead Leave a Ring (4)

Wow!

A lump of magic shook over Grom's shattered body.

It was totally out of common sense.

Even if you don't have direct magical abilities, Loen has heard that some strong monsters have magical power in your body.

Grom, too, seems to be the only thing on the surface, but he was a guy with mana for abnormally fast regeneration.

However, that does not mean that it has never been directly visible to the human eye or exposed to the outside.

Tsutsutsutsutsu!

The swaying mass of magic began to move.

It was Loen, who thought it would be scattered because the body where the magic power would stay disappeared, but a completely different phenomenon occurred.

A mass of magical power that came up came close to him, and all of it was absorbed by Loen in an instant.

A strong mana energy flowed into the body.

'The mana has increased... I can clearly feel it.'

Loen clasped and opened his hand once.

There was an inevitable loss in the process of absorbing the magical power separated once into a completely different body.

But even taking that into account, the rise was very large.

It was more than consuming magical herbs in Alman Forest.

'What happened?'

Loen's thinking hardened by this strange situation and sense.

It wasn't just Loen that was surprised.

"this… What the hell... … ?”

Feria, amazed, stared at him blankly.

She had lived for hundreds of years, but she had no choice but to doubt her own eyes at the current scene.

Loen absorbed the magical power of the defeated undead monster.

It was a case that even she had never seen, and how surprised Loen even forgot to find the fire elemental spirit.

“Bar, how did you do that?”

“I'm not sure either.”

Just the magic power was sucked in by itself.

It wasn't because he was trying to do something.

“I don’t know… … ?”

Feria muttered at his absurd answer.

Originally, when a creature with magical power was killed, it was normal for the magical power of the body to scatter.

It was a process of cycle in which the magical power gained from nature during training or birth returns to nature.

However, originally, it was abnormal to see such a process with the human eye.

Even Loen wasn't enough to see it, and he even absorbed all the magical power that had to be scattered into his body.

It was a phenomenon without precedent itself.

“Have this not happened before?”

"Not at all. If there were, the amount of mana I had would not have been like this.”

Loen shook his head and replied.

He was a third-class adventurer who was all about earning a living by taking on an E-rank quest.

In the first place, this was the first time I had encountered a monster like this, and there was no way I had ever experienced this phenomenon.

“What the hell has happened… … ?”

Something beyond common sense that I found so suddenly.

The two had to look at each other blankly for a while.

* * *

Loen and Feria headed back to the capital after exiting the dungeon organized by Grom's fight.

I wished there was a large treasure chest at the end of the dungeon, but unfortunately, I couldn't get any other loot.

However, the harvest this time was more certain than anything else.

“Perhaps I guess… Even if I can't confirm it, I think it's because of affinity.”

Peria said, walking down the street and organizing her thoughts.

“It's the first time I hear that affinity has such an effect.”

“In the first place, your affinity itself is outside of the obvious standard, and it doesn't make any sense to take precedent. It is also the case that it ate the mana of the magic herb, and maybe even the magical power in it after breaking the artifacts can be absorbed.”

Feria stared at the ring of circulation on his hand.

Then Loen hid his arm back.

“But that’s a bit… It's too wasteful to be good at gambling, which is the main game.”

“Well, I didn't mean to do something right now.”

It was a ring that seemed ordinary on the surface, but it was a valuable item that barely solved the lack of Loen's mana.

If it was smashed without any results, it wasn't good for her either.

“The most curious thing I am right now is whether I can absorb that magic even if I kill a human wizard.”

“Why do you make such an unlucky sound?”

"What, did you say you were an adventurer and didn't kill anyone?"

“No, not that… … .”

Loen stretched out to her blatant question.

Monsters and heterogeneous races weren't the only threats to people in this dizzying world.

Crowds of bandits and outlaws of all kinds wandered around, and due to the nature of adventurers' tasks, there were times when people were killed during their mission.

They were obviously dying guys, and I had no regrets about that choice.

However, that did not mean that the act of murder could be taken lightly.

“I mean, it’s not that easy. It won't touch you very much from your standpoint.”

Spirits that can kill only a few humans without any remorse.

Due to the nature of the spirit that can never be extinguished until the end of its own life, it was impossible to understand her right away, as you would not even know the sense that it could kill your own people.

As expected, Feria was also a bitter reaction to him.

“Anyway, now I have doubts whether you are a human being.”

If there were any races or beings capable of doing this, she would have thought that Loen was cheating her.

However, no one had the ability to absorb the magical power of the defeated opponent.

Even the dragons in a unique position with respect to mana were impossible to do this.

“Do you have any secrets of birth?”

“No such thing. Even if it were a family history, it was all about farming and farming in the corners of the village for several generations.”

“But once I ask you… … .”

“I can't do that either. They both died more than 10 years ago.”

"Ah."

In an atmosphere of sudden fight, Feria sweated.

Even the spirits born in nature had basic concepts and common sense about their parents.

With her mouth closed, she glanced at Loen's eyes and only followed her.

'It doesn't match, so it doesn't match.'

In fact, Loen had little feelings for the uncomfortable truth that she brought out.

At the time, I had a pretty tough time, but I have witnessed and experienced countless things as I started my adventure.

In this rough world, it was a common thing that you could easily see wherever you go.

The whole village burned out overnight because of a powerful monster, and I have seen countless requests to find a family member who was kidn*pped and sold as a slave.

“Ah, I can see it over there. Let's go in and rest.”

Loen headed to the town where she could see it.

The day was going to get dark soon, and the distance to the capital was ambiguous.

Because of this, I was planning to stay overnight at this inn.

The place they entered was a village nestled under a rocky mountain, and it was a settlement of some size thanks to the rich quarry.

At least, there was no inn to stay, so it seemed that there would be no wandering.

However, as I entered the village, I discovered strange things.

“You must have had a fight in the village?”

“Rather than a fight… … .”

Loen looked around and muttered.

Walls were collapsed in several places, and there were several buildings that were half-broken so that the interior could be seen clearly.

It doesn't appear to be a poor village enough to neglect such old facilities for a long time, and most of all, most of the broken places in his eyes were only recent traces.

Loen spoke to a villager who was passing by.

“Hey, did you have any raids in the village?”

“Ah, are you an adventurer? Yes, three days ago, there was an uproar. I thought the town was really over back then. But don't worry. It is said that you have left the job to a large guild, called Morat, of the capital, so it will be okay now.”

The villagers passed by with a big smile.

The cause wasn't completely gone, and even though I was terrified, it seemed to be nothing.

'Are you talking about the Moras Guild... … .'

If it was Moras guild, Loen was a name that he had heard of, and it was a fairly famous adventurer guild in the capital.

A medium-sized guild with sufficient trust, even if it is not a first-class guild level.

'I wasn't laughing for no reason.'

If they were enough to go out, they didn't even have to come and shake.

It wasn't a quest entrusted to an individual adventurer, but a formal quest through an intermediate-level guild, so he would do it well.

Kiik!

Loen, nervous, went into the inn and got a room.

The innkeeper looked at it with some strange eyes when the two took hold of a room, but they didn't get ripped off and there was nothing unusual.

Having settled in one place, they ate together before going up.

“It’s surprising. I thought I was forced to eat because of the eyes I saw when I was on the top escort.”

“It makes me feel like traveling.”

Feria responded with a gloomy reaction, putting the fork in her mouth.

Even the spirits could eat food.

Even though I didn't feel full and useless, it wasn't that I couldn't feel the taste at all.

Of course, compared to the'taste of mana' they crave, it was no different from chewing a chunk of plain water.

'Is it pretty good here?'

They were pretty good dishes for a ryokan in such a corner town.

Even Feria, a bitter, expressed satisfaction with the expression ‘That’s it’ for this meal.

In general, it was an expression closer to dissatisfaction, but she was satisfied with her expression of human food.

'It would have been nice if it had been a little colder... … .'

One regrettable thing was that Loen, who had been drinking beer, went off the hook.

Then I glanced at Feria without knowing it.

Her ability could be a very good solution.

'No, it's not.'

But he shook his head and gave up.

I was in a situation where I wasn't even giving me water to drink, but if I asked for something like this, I would be upset again.

In this push-and-pull relationship, there was a question about who would win, but it was a first step.

“Wow, it’s sleepy… … .”

Loen muttered at the leaking yawn.

I walked continuously during the day, and I was tired of breaking through the dungeons and fighting one after another.

Even right now, I wanted to crawl into bed and lay down.

Rattle!

At that time, the door of the inn opened, and a crowd who came in loudly caught the attention of the people.

'They are adventurers of the Moras Guild.'

It was recognizable at a glance by looking at the guild pattern.

It was the guild I heard from the residents before entering the inn, and it seemed that he came to solve the village's request.

But Loen was astonished when he found a man in the middle.

“This, go in for now.”

"What? slumbers… … .”

Dig!

Loen quickly canceled the summons, and Feria's appearance disappeared.

No one saw it because the adventurers who came in hurriedly caught the eye.

'Why is that guy here?'

Loen faces an unexpected coincidence.

Yuric, who found him, stepped over.

“It's been a long time! I haven't seen one since I was in the dorm. right?"