Chapter 9 – Investigation (2)
I quickly arrived at yesterday’s location without encountering any other monsters while moving.
The bodies of the orcs that Ellie killed yesterday were already gone.
Perhaps the body was taken by another monster and placed in its stomach.
“First, let’s look at the place where we summoned you, Ellie.”
I don’t know why it wasn’t activated until then, but I think about several possibilities.
One of them is the place where it was triggered.
When I first fell into this world, I tried hard to use the skill, but it didn’t work so I gave up and never used it outside of the village.
I think I was at a point where I was completely desperate and decided I had no skills.
Ellie, along with me, looked at her seat carefully.
At first glance, it looked no different from an ordinary forest of grass.
“What do you think, Ellie? Do you think you know anything?”
“I’m not sure yet. It doesn’t seem like a particularly strange place.”
It was the same when I saw it. There was only small grass growing there, and I expected there to be a special symbol engraved on it that could be seen in the game, or a special ore that I had never seen before, but unfortunately, there was nothing to see.
“The location has nothing to do with it… Is there some magic here that I can’t feel?”
“Unfortunately, there doesn’t seem to be anything in particular.”
Another possibility, I thought, was another magical force reacting to me.
I don’t have any magic right now so I can’t feel it, but I thought that some magic that only exists here was applied and affected my skills…
Is this also a disaster?
“I don’t have magical power, so only you, Ellie, can feel it. Could you check closely just in case?”
“Yes, I understand. But let me tell you one thing: Jinu-nim does not have magic power, but that does not mean she is powerless.”
Huh? What does that mean?
“That can’t be true. When I asked to measure my magic power here at the Magic Tower, it came out that my magic power was 0.”
It is said that people in this world, even children, have very little magical power.
It is said that even if ordinary adventurers cannot use magic, their bodies are strengthened to fight monsters thanks to basic magical power.
Considering that the basic game stat is 10, even newborn children seem to have 1.
But I am a zero.
I remember the magic tower wizard who saw this was hell-bent on using me as an experiment.
I remember feeling so strong that I jumped out of the magic tower right away.
I almost died while running away to another village…
“Hmm… That may be true, but I feel it. The power that you gave me exists within Jinu-sama’s body, even if it’s very faint.”
Warrant? The power that Ellie is talking about refers to giving equipment or leveling up a character in the game, but you can do that now?
Now, this reality isn’t even a game, so there’s no way that would be possible…
If possible, do you mean to charge a fee to strengthen game characters here and now?
This is ridiculous.
“It’s a power… I have no idea about it. It would be nice if I could use it.”
Is it possibly related to yesterday’s summons?
I’ve been thinking that the summoning skill is activated with magic power, but it doesn’t work because I don’t have magic power.
So, until a few years ago, when I heard the nonsense that if you eat magic vinegar when your magic power is 0, you can use magic power, there was a time when I ate magic vinegar like crazy.
The medicine that was not suitable for my body caused terrible side effects, and I suffered for several days and thought I was going to die.
But I didn’t think it had anything to do with magical power.
I’m not from here, so it might work in a completely different way as Ellie said.
Especially since people here did not have this skill.
“Or how about using summoning here and now? You can activate it again.”
After looking around, Ellie approached me again and said.
“That could be possible. I haven’t used it since I summoned you yesterday.”
I immediately tried using the summoning skill.
At that time, a loud sound rang in my head and a message window appeared.
“There are not enough materials for summoning.”
What is this? There was no reaction until then, but this message suddenly appeared.
And the ingredients? What are the ingredients? What kind of material are you lacking?
I tried using the skill again, but all I got back was the same message.
“What is it? A message appears that wasn’t there before? It says the materials needed for summoning are lacking.”
I tried using it several times, but the same message just popped up.
“Hasn’t that message popped up before?”
“Yeah. Originally there was no reaction. If I had reacted like I am now, I would have at least investigated what the ingredients were. Why did messages suddenly start popping up?”
One predictable reason is that summoning Ellie yesterday became a trigger and the skill began to respond as it does now.
At first, it didn’t respond as if it was broken, but I think it started working properly after successfully summoning it yesterday.
“Then one thing is certain: the ingredients needed for the summoning were here yesterday. Let’s find out what it is.”
I agreed with Ellie and looked around.
But I had no idea what the ingredients were.
I thought there would be traces of something missing if the materials needed for summoning were used up, but looking back on my memories from yesterday, there doesn’t seem to be any difference.
“Even if I look around here, I don’t know much about the ingredients. If it was used for summoning, there would be traces of it disappearing.”
I looked around, but there really was no trace.
If you’re not around here… What?
“If it wasn’t above ground, wouldn’t it have been underground?”
Even if you search like this, if you can’t see it, it must be somewhere else, and the first thing you would expect is underground.
Or maybe it just happened to be used when it was in the sky.
Although it’s too coincidental that it was already underground.
“Maybe so. Let me check.”
“Yeah. I’m glad I brought a small shovel just in case.”
I went to look for a shovel in my luggage.
“No, you don’t have to.”
“Huh? What does that mean?”
You don’t need a shovel to dig the ground.
“Jinu, please stay far away. I will dig up the ground.”
I suddenly feel anxious. What on earth are you trying to do?
Before I could ask, a small light appeared on Ellie’s body, and wings of light appeared on her back.
No way.
“I will use my ultimate skill. 〈 Last Divine Judgment 〉.”
No shit. Are you using the palace to sell land?
“Don’t worry. I will control my strength.”
And Eli prepared to use the palace.
Ellie prepared to use a skill without me stopping her, but I gave up and ran to get as far away as possible.
〈Last Divine Judgment〉.
This is the most powerful skill that the Paladin class can use.
She throws her weapon, the mace, into the sky, gathers the maximum amount of divine power into the mace, and manifests herself as the Archangel Metatron, whose wings of light change into those of a real angel.
As the Paladin rose into the sky, the mace with its divine power became Metatron’s blunt weapon and turned into a huge glowing mace. It was a skill that inflicted one-hit damage by dropping it down.
I don’t know if the archangel Metatron, who was a setting in the game, is here, but it’s a skill that boasts a huge range just by looking at it in the game, and I can’t believe he’s using it here.
Of course, in the game, when using a character skill, no damage is caused to friendly characters within a certain range, but this is reality.
I left that place with all my might.
I fell just enough to see Ellie a little, and watched her use her skills.
“I will punish the evildoers of the world…”
Perhaps because her skill was activated, Ellie appeared as the archangel Metatron, and she rose to the sky.
Even though we’re so far away, I feel like Ellie’s voice is echoing in my head.
Then, Ellie threw the mace Pandemonium into the sky, and Pandemonium turned into a huge mace of light.
“The purification begins.”
She threw the pandemonium and lowered her raised arm, pointing to the ground and immediately her light mace fell down.
Quagwang!
The moment the mace hit the ground, the ground shook and there was a tremendous sound.
I feel an earthquake here that I never experienced even when I was in Korea.
I urgently covered my ears, sat down in my seat, and waited for the skill to end.
When the feeling of the ground shaking subsided, I carefully approached where Ellie was.
There was a huge hole there. It almost makes you wonder if some kind of meteorite had fallen.
It’s not exact, but I think it’s almost a 30m hole.
Eli was standing under the hole.
No, I’m worried that if we do this, all traces of what we were looking for will be gone.
I shouted to Ellie down the hole.
“Ellie are you okay?”
“Yes! Don’t worry, Jinu. I adjusted my strength appropriately.”
This is a strength adjustment… How strong is it when used at full power?
I’m proud that this is the character I raised…
“What about there? I think the traces and all are gone.”
“Luckily, that doesn’t seem to be the case. Would you like to come down?”
No, I don’t have the ability to go down a hole that’s too deep.
“Jump out of there and I will catch you safely.”
What? Jump out of here? It’s not that I don’t trust Ellie, but this is too high. Isn’t that supposed to mean bungee jumping without a rope?
“Don’t worry too much. I’ll take it without hurting you.”
It was so scary, but I trusted Ellie and jumped down.
Argh! It feels like my heart is disappearing.
Is this what it feels like to bungee jump?
Ellie ran to the spot where I fell and immediately caught me to safety.
I was hugged by Ellie in a princess hug pose.
“Wow, I really thought I was going to die.”
“As long as I’m here, no matter what happens, Jinu will never die.”
I got down into Ellie’s arms and looked around.
