Chapter 212 – Ancient Missing Link (11)
When the sky returned to its original color, I dispelled the magic and descended to the ground.
No, that’s a bit of a misnomer. If I said I unlocked it, it would sound like I unlocked it on my own.
To put it bluntly, it was correct to say that it was solved.
Because there was no more mana left in my mana box, no more mana I was ‘controlling’ to use for magic.
“Write it…”
Realizing that I had less than 10% of my maximum mana left, I collapsed and lay down.
The first time I used Beast Return, Pikate was a waste of stamina. My limbs were almost weak, so even talking about it would only hurt my mouth. I squeezed the strength of my heavy arm and touched my left eye.
– Knock Knock Knock. The eyes were fine. I thought I’d have to wear an eyepatch and change jobs from Master Druid to Captain Hook because my eyes were disabled.
‘I don’t understand English.’
I lay down and frowned.
Events have causality. Because cause and effect are integral, they cannot be considered in isolation. The unreal battle I was fighting a minute ago needed a cause worthy of it.
Cause.
In other words, the cost.
‘I didn’t sacrifice my eyes like Tabula did.’
When I looked back at the problem in the labyrinth, what came to mind was Tabula.
Didn’t that half-human bastard get the power to change his body by offering his eyes as a sacrifice when he was in danger of being run over by me?
─The name of this body is Tabula!! I am an Einheri who serves the madness of the great heavens, and an immortal warrior!!
—You great madness who dwells in the sky!! As your Einheri pays tribute, I pray for the protection of the lowly flesh and blood!!
If you think about the kid’s words, celestial madness is Odin’s metaphor.
The magic that changed Tabula from a half-human to a pure-blood werewolf must have been the magic of inheriting power from Odin. It felt a bit incoherent, but let’s think about it that way. Because this is not important.
Anyway, the kind of magic I had just committed—I don’t even know if it was magic—was similar to that.
First of all, it was the fact that black mana spewed out. It was the same that even though I had almost reason left, I was pissed off like a crazy bastard.
‘Still, the types are similar, but the effects are opposite.’
The magic Tabula used was limited to strengthening the body, but the buff I got was 100% the opposite of that.
If I had to use an appropriate expression, it would be ‘reinforcement of wisdom’.
Reinforcement of wisdom.
To put it simply, it was an increase in magic talent.
The power to increase mana control, analysis, and judgment!
Incredibly, that was the truth of the matter. I was able to confirm that my ego was intact during the battle. The barbaric, indescribable destruction and riots, in fact, stemmed from wisdom that transcended cognition.
‘All the skills I developed were skills I had seen or learned.’
The thing that moved the spear was remodeling 〈 Puppet 〉 and using it like telekinesis.
Attaching the broken spear was a modification of Dana’s healing magic.
It was Mana’s body strengthening that withstood the attack with her bare skin.
The superhuman strength that pierced the ground by throwing a spear is the return of the beast.
〈 Puppet 〉 that strengthens the ability to manipulate objects with the mana spurted from the fingers.
The mana of the claws was blown off by the combination of Beast Return and 〈 Cloud Summon 〉.
Combining 〈 Freezing Touch 〉 and 〈 Summon Cloud 〉, not to mention Frozen Beam.
Flying map that followed Yerna 〈 Summon Cloud 〉.
The fireworks festival that announced the finale was the rune magic Veronica used.
And the mana that supported all these techniques was activated by receiving the mana of darkness and negative that spread in the ghost city.
A magical skill that handles the mana of nature that even the black magician who visited the ruins couldn’t handle! Even though I did it of my own will, I was so confused that I couldn’t believe it.
The magic that had been piled up was also modified upon modification, so that the prototype was at a level where not a single bit was left. I don’t know how to fucking turn the cold hands and feet magic into a true seolreongpo.
In fact, it is Odin who can explain all the phenomena of the world with dozens of runes.
Just as Hunminjeongeum can record star words with 24 basic consonants and 16 compound consonants, the basic form of magic might not matter if you have a magical IQ like Odin.
I forgot how to use it as soon as the magic was released, but as I analyzed and remodeled the magic with my own head, I felt that if I taught one, I would know a hundred.
‘Even if my magic talent is good, it’s mediocre.’
Until now, I have been learning low-rep magic that even children can learn by paying money. I never thought that I would change that much with just one buff.
It was literally an abbreviation for a god of magic. It is creepy that Odin, the original owner of such abilities, lost his life with the end of the Age of Myths. What are you fighting against?
The fucking primitive ancient world is fucking scary. In those days, it seems that Tyrannosaurus would have fired radiation while flying through space.
Anyway, I don’t know why, but my body didn’t seem to have any side effects. Even post-processing was a definite buff.
‘So damn, how did that buff activate?’
That’s what I’m most curious about.
First of all, there was a 0% chance that Odin or his alter ego would hand out the buff saying he had come and picked it up.
Wasn’t it the New Year of Deutsch who drove a nail and went, saying that help was useless because I was lost in my dream? More than anything, it was my will to beat and grind Yerna.
It was the same as running rampant like a beast. At that time, I was in the state of a part-timer who lost his eyes in anger while dealing with a customer. It was something I committed because I lost my temper in anger, but it means that what I did was right.
‘Rather than that, if Odin had played proxy, he would have used proper magic.’
What does the god of magic mean by fixing the magic stored in someone else’s head as a last resort? And the biggest reason was that I was feeling déjà vu at the sense of being consumed by that anger.
──Return of the Beast.
Return of the Beast. Return of the beast All questions start from there.
I had a hunch. That I have to raise the speculation that I was thinking about in my heart to the realm of hypotheses.
‘Beast Return turns my anger into my strength.’
It was only recently that I was so sure. Odin also said that anger is the driving force for me to grow, so it could be considered a fact. The condition for leveling up in Beast Return is intense savagery.
However, before saying that, Odin also said this.
Do not fall into madness and tame your anger.
Imagine that Odin left that advice in his lifetime. Isn’t that jjintung TS Nick Fury predicted what I would end up with from then on!
Perhaps it was a question of whether it was sooner or later to run amok with such rage.
‘… If you think about it, it must have been like that ever since I got Beast Return.’
Ever since I learned Beast Return while guarding the ruins.
No, to be precise, since my Juji became Ilcheok Juji.
Since then, I have never been able to control my anger.
Let’s be honest. I didn’t feel uncomfortable with that fact. Even when Amman was upset, my self-consciousness was clear, so I thought it was just an illusion.
‘But in terms of the result, yes. I’ve never suppressed my anger to the end.’
I wasn’t trying to blame all of my actions on the Return of the Beast.
In addition, when I was pissed off even when others saw it, wasn’t it a situation where anyone could see that I was pissed off?
I definitely have the temperament of wanting to smash everything when I get angry or get angry like a crazy bastard. It wasn’t just me, everyone had a similar temperament. The hand of a person who never imagined leaving the company after beating his boss.
However, if you are a civilized person, you should also know how to be patient. And originally, I was a fucking civilized person. That was certainly the case until the thesis was stolen. Maybe.
I’ve never been able to find out what kind of person I am except through the MBTI personality test, so I’m not 100% sure.
There are usually no people who thoroughly analyze what their personality is like.
Hitting a bastard who tried to hit the price with a stone, giving true education to a bastard who sexually molested a student and stealing papers, and pulling out his hair were things that I could have done.
‘But damn, I should only have one or two heart attacks.’
There are other things I suspect besides the fact that I didn’t think rationally and put up with my anger.
Wasn’t it like that on Earth too? It is said that the Berserks who served Odin, the god of wrath, were the archetypes of berserkers who fought like idiots with their tops open.
The berserker was also the origin of the barbarian who planted an ax in the shape of a mohican on the head if the opponent behaved rudely.
An original forager who acts without holding back his anger. Fuck that’s so cool There are so many similarities between the mythology of this world and Earth, so this could be used as evidence.
If you think about it, the advice to control your anger seems to be an implicit expression that you will feel serious difficulties in controlling your anger in the future.
It was like that as Beast Return got stronger. Every time I got angry, I felt a vision of white sparks flying in my eyes, and I even gave the illusion the name Professor Slayer.
I couldn’t say anything to Tyrsi, who said that this magic would have no side effects.
There is no problem with magic. The beast return wasn’t injecting a rage virus into my throat. If that were the case, I would have already felt a sense of incongruity, and Tyrsi would have found the problem in the ceremony.
In other words, Beast Return makes it difficult to suppress the anger that ‘I felt’. In other words, it is magic that causes anger control disorder.
And by combining this hypothesis and my experience, one more hypothesis can be established.
It was also a hypothesis that resolved the question of why I was able to enter such a runaway mode. The pieces of the puzzle were there from the beginning. I just didn’t notice.
‘The true purpose of Beast Return is probably—’
Why did I see Odin in my dream and meet the heir?
The answer is.
‘──It’s a mana technique.’
It must be because the ultimate use of this magic is ‘a skill to accumulate old gods’ mana’.
Just as a rune master trains one rune for 10 years and realizes the mana of the rune, what if I had a high aptitude for beast return and accumulated mana of the old gods in an instant?
If that’s the case, that’s explained.
That’s the reason I heard that I, who couldn’t use runes, had Mana from Tabula.
Return of the Beast is a magic imitating Odin! Didn’t you notice that after hearing it from Veronica? If it was the same context as the accumulation of old gods’ mana, the front and back were correct.
And I was able to notice what kind of mana the old god was.
‘──The white sun in the inner world.’
The vision of flames that I saw whenever I was angry.
That was none other than the old mana.
Let’s say it again. Events have causality.
But isn’t it the law that only when there is a cause is there an effect? Odin’s dream, black mana runaway, and other unknown events didn’t happen because I was Odin’s successor.
The causal relationship is inverse.
Before Odin did anything, because I was able to do that——Because I was the one who met the conditions, Odin’s alter ego appeared in my dream and called me the successor!
It’s like a programmatic NPC!
‘… It deserves no sacrifice or price.’
Starting with the setting of the activation conditions is part of the spell. Because it doesn’t cost anything to activate the magic I’ve learned.
I don’t know exactly what to do to hit the successor’s decision. Still, this hypothesis seemed convincing. Isn’t that why there was a big difference between Tabula’s mutation magic and my runaway magic even though they are similar magic?
If Tabula’s magic gives +100 strength, my magic feels like +10000 intelligence.
Since that bastard told me that Gusin’s mana was inferior to me, it made sense for me to use magic like that, as I was several times stronger than then.
It’s a magic that makes you lose your sanity, so you won’t be able to use it often.
‘If I’m right, the trigger for activation is also anger.’
When Fran was hurt, I was overcome with rage. Perhaps that anger reacted with the Old God’s mana and took the form of magic.
‘… Is this also a kind of test?’
As the successor of Odin, the god of wrath, the one who controls that rage may be the real successor. If you are the successor to the main god of a mythological system, you have to do that to make sense.
‘When I think like that, something else catches my eye…’
Anyway, there are more reasons to explore Odin’s dream. Because it is the only way to find the records of the age of myth that disappeared from this world.
‘… Fuck. It’s not the time to think about that.’
I clenched my fists as if to crush them, thinking of the wounded Fran.
Fran is fine. Dana was supposed to be treating him. Even if I went, I’m sure no fuck would help. Since I dropped my seal on the spot, the other party members will do something for me.
‘… I’ll do it, damn it.’
No matter how hard he tried to think about it, it was her husband’s instinct to want to be by her injured wife’s side. Fran might be struggling with life and death, so how could she be doing anything else?
Can’t do Let’s get things done quickly.
I energized the tasteless body. While using the head, physical strength recovered a little.
Well, if my body was moving well, I would have run to Fran without thinking about anything else. Mana still hit rock bottom, but with this I can do it.
‘I have to find Yerna’s soul.’
There was a lot to hear from that bitch. There were a lot of fucking questions besides personal things like the reason for stealing the thesis. Shouldn’t we also ask what Tabula’s organization is and why they are being chased?
“Whoa…”
I took a deep breath, gained strength, and activated the rune with the intention of using up the remaining mana.
