Chapter 67 – Strengthening (2)
“Hmm~~!”
Renia, who has become one with Minerva, the spirit king of the wind, is enjoying flight as she circles around us.
“What the hell is that…”
Elune looked at Renia’s appearance now and gave an expression of incomprehension.
“This is a technique that only Rhenia can do. No elementalist in my world has been able to do it like that.”
“It is a technique that increases the summoner’s own abilities by uniting with the Spirit King. By using the Spirit King’s abilities as is, the summoner becomes stronger.”
Of course, Elion is not a game that assumes aerial combat, so even if you use 〈 Spirit Integration 〉 in the game, there is no flying function like now.
However, as I have seen my characters come to this world and use skills differently from the game, it was quite predictable that they would be able to fly if they fused with the Spirit King.
Rather, Rhenia’s elemental magic, which is close to magic, will have many more applications.
Just washing your body and room with a water spirit at dawn is convenient enough.
“To become one with the Spirit King… As expected, the heroes go beyond our common sense. Summoning the Spirit King in itself is amazing, but no one will believe it if they hear that they are one with the Spirit King.”
“It would probably be as easy as breathing for Renia.”
Since that skill came out, the summoner’s battle mechanism has completely changed.
Previously, it took some time to get used to the change from controlling the position of the summoned object so that it could attack well, to directly fighting while integrating with the Spirit King.
People who liked the way they unleashed the summoned creatures and attacked them even shouted, asking what kind of summoner is a summoner who uses the 〈 Spirit Integration 〉 skill.
I sympathized with that statement, but I thought we should follow the trend of the times.
There were two changes that occurred as the game became older.
First, as people’s understanding of the game increased, the uniqueness of the jobs in question often came back as a penalty.
For example, Paladin was created as an all-rounder type job, but if you look at it accurately, it is also commonly known as an ambiguous job.
He can play as a tank, dealer, and healer, but his tanking power is weaker than that of the main tank, his damage is weaker than that of the main dealer, and his healing capacity is lower than that of the main healer.
Eventually, people realized that it was better to focus on one thing rather than a hybrid character who could vaguely do many things.
And since the summoner’s job concept is to summon and fight, this concept acted as a penalty.
As mentioned earlier, when hunting by summoning multiple summons, extreme lag occurred, which irritated party members, and many summons obscured the monster’s pattern, leading to frequent mysterious deaths.
Fortunately, a setting was added later to prevent the summoner’s summons from being shown separately, but it was still ingrained in my mind as a job that caused people to lag.
The second is dungeon clearing time.
When you first start the game, each new element feels fun.
Simply hunting monsters, doing quests, and party hunting with friends all felt fun.
However, as time passed and the purpose of the game became focused on farming to improve the game character’s specifications, people began to pay attention to the dungeon clearing time.
I wanted to avoid having to quickly clear the dungeon, move on to the next character, and then go back again, but some problem would occur and time would be delayed.
There were many people who didn’t even like the time it took for the summoner to summon…
In those two situations, it was awkward to summon only the strongest spirit king and hunt by integrating with the spirit king of each attribute according to the situation, which saved a lot of time and caused less lag, but I remember playing the game.
We were able to arrive at Arestel in an instant.
When I think about it now, it’s terrible to think that if Minercia didn’t exist, I would have had to walk this distance every time.
Because he was Elune, the elder of Arestel, he was able to enter the village right away regardless of the barrier.
Elune asked the village elves to deliver Sylvia to her house.
“Now you are going to Brighton Castle.”
We are at Elune’s house drinking her tea until Sylvia arrives.
“Yes. Although I have only been here for a short time, I am indebted to you.”
“No, if it weren’t for you, Ar’estel would be gone. We wouldn’t be able to stop Demon or Void with our strength alone.”
Elune shook her head after hearing what I said.
“The people here are so weak. At best, they are only as good as Spider or Bael.”
“I think if she had been Lenia, she would have done it on her own.”
As Yuria said, if it were Lenia’s strength, she might have done it alone.
Just by using the basic Spirit King, I think I could probably win against the countries of the world here.
“Still, it’s hard to catch Modeus without Freyja. It’s probably up to Bael to be able to fight and win on your own.”
“She can’t even do that~.”
These two fight whenever they talk.
It makes me wonder how we didn’t fight in the same space when we were in the game world.
As we talked, there was a knock on the door and it was Sylvia who came into the house.
“Um, Elune? What did you call me for?”
We told Sylvia the story of what happened in Postrim.
“Hmm… Just looking at the fight yesterday, Yurina and Lien deserved to be called heroes… Jinu is like a tool to summon that hero… And that kid is also a hero, right?”
“Equipment?”
Lenia, who heard Silvia’s words, jumped up from her seat.
“Jinu, what? A tool? You want to die, you stunted elf.”
“Uh… Huh?”
Renia glared at Silvia and created a sphere of flame around her.
The only difference is that it is made of fire. Considering that it looks similar to the sphere of the low-level water spirit I saw in the morning, I think it is a low-level fire spirit.
But that’s not important right now.
“Now, wait a minute, Renia!”
Since I couldn’t turn this place into a sea of fire, I tried to stop Renia.
The moment I spoke to Lenia, Yuria also stood up from her seat, walked up to Silvia, and hit her on the head with her fist.
“Evil!”
“Really! I don’t know how many times I have to say it for you to understand. Did you forget that it’s been a day since I told you that if you say something like that to Jinu, I’ll cut off her head?”
Silvia, who was hit on the head by Yuria with her fist, is rolling around in her seat, holding her head in her hands.
Seeing Yuria like that, Lenia sighed and eliminated all the low-level fire spirits around her.
“Ugh, how did you let the guy who spoke like that to Jinu-nim live? It wouldn’t be strange if he slit his head off right away.”
“Hi!”
Silvia, who heard Renia’s voice, immediately hid behind me, probably because she was scared.
“I tried to do that too. My lord just told me not to do it. He tolerated Yuria’s corporal punishment like that.”
Lien spoke quietly while drinking her tea.
“Just in case, please don’t gather together secretly from me later and harm Sylvia. It’s a different situation from the last adventurer party.”
Since she tried to kill me back then, I thought it wouldn’t matter if she was killed by Ellie and Yuria, but I can overlook Sylvia as just being cute.
“What are you talking about, Jinu? An adventurer’s party?”
“Ah, those guys! I’ll tell you, sister!”
Before I could speak, Yuria began to explain.
“It was a human party that was with Jinu before Ellie was summoned, but they abandoned Jinu to the monster so that they could live for themselves. And that was by shooting an arrow in the leg!”
“… What?”
After hearing Yuria’s voice, Lenia’s face contorted and she was radiating anger from her expression.
“That’s why I educated Ellie and I so that they could understand what crime they had committed. The scum who shot Jin-nee’s leg with an arrow didn’t even deserve to repent, so he was killed immediately and painfully, but the other two were given a chance to repent to Jin-nee. “Jinunim did not forgive me, but the other two died as well.”
“Then that’s a relief.”
After hearing Yuria’s words, Lenia seemed to have calmed down a little when she heard that all the party members had died.
“Anyway, little elf, be careful what you say. If you don’t, I’ll make sure you don’t die, right?”
As Lenia smiles at Silvia, she talks.
These are not words to laugh at, though.
Sylvia nods her head eagerly behind her back to me.
“Then since Sylvia is here too, shall we go to Brighton Castle?”
Now that the situation seems to have been resolved, she should go see Ellie soon.
We left Arestel and prepared to move.
Elune comes out of the village with us and watches us get ready to go.
I said, holding out my hand to Elune.
“Then, please help me research the equipment that is used to summon a Hero.”
“I would like to take good care of our world. If we become connected in the future, we can see each other again.”
Elune looked at my outstretched hand, took her hand in mine, shook it, and said,
As Elune said, we may see each other again later if we have the chance.
I walked away from Elune, and this time, everyone except Rhenia got on Minercia’s back.
“Then, let’s go~~!”
With Yuria’s words, Minercia soared into the sky, and just as she had set off from Postrim, Rhenia followed, uniting with Minerva, the Spirit King of Wind.
“You really go beyond common sense. You are all monsters, monsters.”
Lenia’s reaction is that she does not explain to Sylvia, who does not know what she is doing.
Sylvia’s reaction is also understandable.
To people here, all of my characters would seem like monsters themselves.
Since Arestel is located in the opposite direction from Turchen Castle to Brighton Castle, the distance to Brighton Castle was quite long.
Even if it moves this quickly, it will probably take about 5 days.
After traveling all day, as evening fell, we came down to a suitable spot, pitched a tent, and got ready for the night.
For dinner, I eat the meat I received from Are Estel, skewering it and cooking it over a bonfire.
“So in the end, I… Renia-san is the strongest here?”
While we were talking over dinner, Sylvia spoke up.
“Of course. I became who I am today thanks to Jinu-sama’s abundant love!”
She was Renia, proud of being the strongest.
“Is that true, Jinu?”
“Huh?”
I was momentarily taken aback by Sylvia’s words.
“I haven’t seen all eight of them, but the Ellie I saw last time, as well as the three here, are all beautiful and seem to have great abilities. But from what I’ve heard, it feels like the power is focused on Renia, right?”
I can predict what he will say.
What should I say about this?
“So why did you apply so much force to Renia? Is this something you’re curious about?”
“That’s it! I was curious about that when I heard you talking about it earlier! From what I’ve seen of Jinu so far, if he loved everyone, I would have forgiven him, but I don’t see him as someone who would favor only one person.”
I’m just pointing out something really useless.
I looked around and saw that the other three people were also looking at me with curious expressions.
In particular, Renia seems to be looking forward to what I have to say.
Here, ‘Of course, the original character was Renia!’ I can’t say that.
Not only can I not explain the Elion game, but I also can’t tell you that you were a game character to me.
I have no choice but to lie.
“Rhenia, Lien, and Yuria, you think you have become stronger with my power, right? But that power is not infinite. It was a somewhat limited resource. As you know, I first gave power to Lien, but that was the first limited power I could use. That’s why I gave all my power to Lien and then it was cut off.”
I continued the conversation while observing the reactions of those around me.
Since this is my first time talking about this, everyone is very focused.
“After that, I was able to use my powers again, and now I could use more powers, so I looked for Lien, but it was not easy to find Lien, perhaps because the powers had once been cut off. So I chose Renia to prevent the world from being invaded by demons. “While looking for Lien, I gave out powers one by one to those who could fight demons. Then, later, I found Lien and was able to give the powers back to Lien.”
Looking at everyone’s expressions, they seemed to be somewhat convinced.
“As Lien, who had first given the power, was not there, I was in a situation where I didn’t know when a strong demon would come, so I gave the power to Rhenia. Then, I learned that there were demons who were too strong on their own, so I gave the powers to Ellie, Noah, and Freya in that order. “The problem is that after giving away power, it cannot be taken back.”
“Is that so? According to what we investigated, there were people who received powers from Jinu and then disappeared… But weren’t they recovered?”
Renia said with a strange expression after hearing what I said.
I was also shocked the moment I heard that.
I’m probably referring to characters that I briefly raised and then deleted.
“That’s not what I recovered. The number of people I can control is limited, so I gave out a small amount of power to those who seemed talented, and when I judged that there was no possibility based on their condition, I completely removed the power. I can focus on you guys. So that it is.”
This is a state where lies lead to lies.
But we must continue!
“That’s why I gave the power to Renia while Rien was away, so I gave it to other children as well, but I gave it to Renia so they could use it more. Because Renia was talented, she was able to receive all of my power.”
Now it feels like I’m just spitting it out without going through my head.
Fortunately, everyone is listening to me and nodding.
In particular, Renia is so happy that she wants to die.
Why are you doing that?
“That was the reason. Considering the sunken costs in a really good area, it might be better to go all in there.”
Sylvia nodded her head and said.
I’m glad no one thought it was strange.
“Ah, then let me ask you one more thing. The name you guys received from Jinu, so… Divine name! You said there was a divine name? What is Renia’s divine name?”
Sigh!
There is a mountain beyond the mountain.
After hearing Sylvia’s words, Renia exclaimed happily.
“You can tell me that. My divine name that Jinunim gave me.”
I unconsciously hit my forehead with my hand.
“It’s Lori Bumi-chan!”
