Chapter 116 – My Dream Is to Become a Shikigami Master (1)
I actually received Justitia’s Dragon Heart, but when I thought about it, I had no idea what to do with it.
The name is Dragon Heart.
In fact, no matter where you try to sell it, it is said that it is an expensive item that is more difficult to find someone willing to buy it.
Compared to the low-level mana stones that cost around a million won each and need to be replaced periodically in my body checker, it was so far beyond the dust that it was worthless.
Anyway, while fiddling with the dragon heart, I asked Justitia.
“What’s the best way to use this?”
When I thought about it, I thought it would be better to use it myself rather than sell it. When I asked that, Justitia tilted her head and said.
“Yeah, I guess the best thing is to absorb it yourself…? “It’s a piece removed from the Dragon Heart, and it happened so long ago that now it’s just a huge chunk of mana…”
It was so long ago, how long ago was it?
Anyway, it’s best to absorb the Dragon Heart…
Should I just eat it?
Even so, there were quite a lot of elixirs that I had tried, such as the elixir that Lilith had given me, Ariad’s sap, and the honey that the Queen of Were Honey Bees had given me, which Liliana had been consuming diligently in the hundred-year-old water that Hoaran had cooked for me these days.
Although it wasn’t as good as the elixir she drank for the first time, she had an appetite for no reason since she had been drinking elixirs ranging from the lowest to the middle level.
Even though I ate it, I didn’t really learn martial arts or magic, and at most I only learned the beginner level of magic, so I didn’t have any place to store it and use it, but thanks to the elixir I was drinking so much, it wasn’t very effective, and my body was getting stronger. It seemed to be getting better.
Perhaps because I’ve been eating so well, my skin has been softer than a baby’s these days.
Anyway, even though it is just a fragment, it is a dragon heart.
At this level, I thought it would be good to call it an elixir that is almost equivalent to an elixir or even higher than that.
It’s a pity that it will disappear if you eat it, but I thought there would be something left to eat if I couldn’t sell it and just throw it away. Just when I was about to pour out the dragon heart in my mouth, Justitia said to me.
“But it will probably be difficult. “If it were you, maybe it would be possible, but if you fail, you’ll explode, right?”
I stopped just before dropping the dragon heart into my mouth and asked Justitia.
“…Is it going to explode? “It’s a dragon heart?”
“Ugh, not that one.”
Justitia shakes her head and says that.
Justitia looked at me intently.
Thanks to you, I was able to understand it very well.
It wasn’t Dragon Heart, but I was talking about exploding.
I didn’t know that the thing that exploded was me and not Dragon Heart.
“…Then what should I do?”
“The next best way would be to make it into an artifact… If there is no way to completely absorb it, this would actually be better.”
Oh…
An artifact made from dragon heart.
It felt like something was going on.
“But we’ll need materials that can withstand the output of the Dragon Heart… The World Tree’s tree trunk, things like dragon teeth, bones, and scales…? Even if that’s not the case, we need a lot of materials equivalent to that.”
What?
These are all materials that look really expensive.
Why does it feel like they are all not that difficult to obtain?
Right now, the dragon’s teeth are like that. If Justitia in front of you is a dragon and a world tree, there is one spirit of the world tree who knows.
They say it’s similar material, but somehow I got the feeling that there might be some of that lying around, too.
“…Hanzo, why are you suddenly looking at the girl’s tail?”
“No, just.”
I wonder how Hoaran’s tail hair is possible.
Right away, I thought it might be possible since all the dolls that are Hoa-ran’s alter egos, including Hoa-ran, were made from Hoa-ran’s tail fur.
However, she does ask Ho A-ran for some of her tail hair.
Even if that wasn’t the case, there was a place to get it so it didn’t matter.
It’s been a while since I haven’t seen Ariad, and I’ve already drank all of the sap that I thought was a lot, so I’ll ask for some eggplant when I go to get the sap.
Anyway, if you’re making an artifact, what on earth should you make…?
While I was thinking that, Justitia spoke.
“It may vary depending on the case, but there may be things you need. Just because you can find materials that can withstand the output of the Dragon Heart doesn’t mean you can make it right away… You’ll need Jin Eun… And…”
Uh…
But I thought all I had to do was find the materials, but there were quite a lot of other things I needed.
After watching Justitia talk about a lot of items with expensive-looking names, even if they weren’t things like the branches of the world tree or dragon’s teeth, I realized that making a dragon heart into an artifact was also really difficult.
It seems like important materials can be obtained right away, but it is rather the small things that become the problem.
I found the core materials needed to make equipment for the game, but I felt like I couldn’t make them because there were a lot of small things left over.
“…What happens next?”
“I don’t really recommend it, but you can use it for things that require a lot of mana.”
I can’t do it.
If there is a way to utilize what is called mana, or energy, or energy, you can use it in some way.
I was still not able to properly lift the fox bead, which was the first task Hoaran gave me.
That’s because I haven’t practiced at all since I left the Fox Forest.
Anyway, after listening to Justitia, I looked at the dragon heart she was holding in her hand.
It would be impossible to take it directly because my body might explode, but it was too luxurious for me to use as an artifact.
Even excluding the dragon’s teeth and world tree branches, the material cost alone seemed to easily exceed hundreds of millions, so there was nothing I could do with my wallet, which was always tight from paying off the debt I owed to Lilith.
Isn’t this of no use…?
Should I just sell it…?
But, when I thought about selling it, it was such a waste.
In the first place, it was given to Justitia as a souvenir of her son becoming her son, but selling it seems like a bit of a stretch.
“…If you find it difficult to use it right now, there is a way to strengthen the hoa.”
As I was drooping my shoulders and feeling disappointed, Hoa-ran spoke to me.
“…Reinforcement?”
When I asked back what Hoaran said, he looked at me and continued speaking.
“So it is. After all, Dragon Heart is also a mass of energy, so it should be possible. However, if you do this, it will be a bit of a waste of energy when you retrieve it later. “It is difficult to get back what was spent on strengthening.”
Hoa’s Ganghwara.
Since my bodyguard was an unreasonable Hoa, it didn’t seem like a bad thing.
In fact, there were more cases where I was thrown out because I didn’t take care of Hoa, but I don’t think I was ever protected by Hoa.
Anyway, Hoa itself wasn’t the problem.
It was my fault for skipping it, because as a bodyguard, Hoya possessed a lot of combat power.
It was Hoa, the one-tailed clone of Hoaran and a food spirit, but when I thought about how the one-tailed clone attacked a white-haired woman, I was somewhat attracted to the idea of making Hoa, who also had one tail, stronger.
I was worried because I heard that if you use it to strengthen Hoa, your Dragon Hearts will decrease slightly.
“…Otherwise, I’ll just get you what you need, so you can just make an artifact. “If it’s Dragon Heart, I can make something better than the body checker you’re using.”
Lilith says that to me.
I said this while looking at that release.
“It’s not free. That.”
Lilith shrugged her shoulders at my words and said.
“Of course I have to pay it back. So you’re just going to eat it up?”
That’s not true.
I haven’t yet repaid the debt I owed from Elixir and Mugo, so it would be a bit much to increase it further…
Even though it was interest-free and Lilith wasn’t particularly urging me to repay it, the idea of having the debt itself made me feel uncomfortable.
The debt that still needs to be repaid is well over 2 billion won, so are you asking me to go into debt again?
Still, if you ask Lilith, she’ll get you pretty much anything, so it seemed like making the artifact itself would be a quick process.
It’s money, you just have to pay it back later.
“Uhm…”
Should I strengthen the Hoa, use it as an artifact, or should I find a way to keep it alive and just eat it up?
I’m so worried.
In the end, after much deliberation, the method I chose was to use Dragon Heart to strengthen Hoa.
They said I could retrieve it later.
Even if it uses a bit of Dragon Heart, honestly, I don’t think I’ll notice any difference.
“Please do me a favor, Hoaran Maman.”
“Well, I’ll leave it to her real wife.”
Hoaran, who took the dragon heart from me, stretched out her chest and said that.
But when I strengthened it, I suddenly got worried.
Surely you wouldn’t say her hand slipped?
Hoa-ran may not have done that, but she had a deep-rooted distrust of Ganghwa, so she couldn’t help it.
“…Ah, it would be good to take this opportunity to hand over Hoa to you, Hanzo.”
“A sheep too?”
“I’m not really practicing witchcraft right now… But haven’t I gotten used to using energy recently? “I guess I’ll be able to handle at least one shikigami soon, so what do you think?”
Was it like that?
I didn’t really have that feeling.
But since Hoa-ran says that, it might be like that.
When I think about it, just like before, I was able to feel the energy flowing through my body better when I manifested the gift.
By the way, when I said that I didn’t practice witchcraft, I saw him glance at me slightly, so I guess Hoaran was secretly upset, even though he didn’t show it until now.
As I was feeling prickly at the sight of Hoa-ran like that, Hoa-ran, who was looking at me, smiled and said.
“I’m not specifically reprimanding you, so don’t worry. Your wife knows that you are busy. Aren’t there many times when she couldn’t afford it in the first place?”
Fortunately, she seemed to have forgiven me.
“So, what do you think?”
I’m not sure about Yang or anything, but there’s no way Hoa-ran would do anything strange, so she nodded.
“Okay, then excuse me for a moment.”
While saying that, Hoa-ran slightly stands up and pulls out my hair.
I said as I saw Hoaran pulling out a few strands of my hair.
“Is that okay?”
“This is a temporary transfer, so this is enough.”
If that’s the case then it doesn’t matter.
Well, I thought Hoa-ran would take care of it.
“Well then, look forward to it.”
Looking at Ho Aran saying that while holding my hair tightly, she nodded.
“Hmm…”
Slap, slap.
I felt like someone was slapping me in the face.
What…?
She was sleeping well, but suddenly she woke up to the feeling of me slapping her cheek, which made her feel very bad.
Although Lilith had bad sleeping habits, this was something that Lilith, who also had bad sleeping habits, did not do, so it was probably the work of Justitia who joined her this time.
I never thought there would be someone with worse sleeping habits than Lilith.
When she opened her eyes, thinking that she should claim the same bed, she saw the face of a child she had never seen before.
“…What.”
Is it a dream?
When I opened my eyes, what I saw was a blond-haired kid with a strand of black hair running across it, so I couldn’t help but think that.
I woke up and saw a kid I had never seen sitting there slapping me in the face. Anyone would think that.
However, it wasn’t a dream when I saw that my cheek was slightly sore from being hit by that kid.
“Uh huh, sleep can’t be used if you wake up like that.”
While I was wondering what the hell this was like if it wasn’t a dream, I saw Hoaran lifting up the little boy who was sitting on my chest and licking his cheek.
“Hoaran Maman? “Then that kid…”
“Hmm? Ah, it’s hoai.”
No.
Hoa?
How on earth did Hoa, who was so close to being a doll…?
“…Hoa!”
While I was thinking that, the kid who claimed that Hoa-ran was Hoa swung his tail at me.
“Puhup…?!”
Suddenly, it hit me with its tail, but it wasn’t very painful because it was so soft.
Moreover, while Hoa originally only had one tail, this little boy had five tails.
Is this the real Hoa…?
No, I said Hoa, but as I was blinking, wondering why this was happening, Hoa-ran looked at me and said.
“I guess he’s angry because he’s called a kid. “Moreover, since you said that he was full of things, isn’t he right to be angry?”
I see
“…Did I also tell you that he’s full of food?”
“You didn’t do it. But, haven’t you thought about it?”
“Uh…”
…Let alone Hoa knowing that I thought so, how on earth does Hoaran know that?
When I thought that, Hoaran said that to me.
“This is because there is still a connection between Hoa and her true wife. Now, if Hoa becomes your shikigami through the ritual, her connection with her true wife will be severed, so don’t worry.”
If so, I’m glad…
“Ah.”
I thought so for a moment and then regretted it.
“…What are you so happy about, Hanzo? “Or is there something she is keeping secret from her wife?”
Hoa-ran says that with a bright smile.
Hoaran was smiling and speaking as usual, but for some reason, I was really scared.
“She said she was scared of her real wife…?”
Ah.
