Chapter 370 – Mythology Academy
“Ears… Are cute…!!!”
Contrary to its terrifying appearance at the beginning, the shadow transformed into a very cute wolf. Seeing that cute figure, Elaine approaches the wolf with a half-melted expression and extends her hand.
“Purr…”
As he tried to reach his head, the wolf growled in a murderous tone. At the wolf’s apparent warning not to touch her, Elaine flinches and stops putting his hand on her.
“My… Don’t you like me?”
『…』
A shadow wolf that indifferently looks at Elaine with strangely charming eyes. Seeing that expression, she eventually gives up on touching him.
“Chit…”
He grumbled and closed his mouth, probably hurt by the arrogant wolf. In the meantime, for some reason, the wolf starts to clean every corner of his body with his tongue.
“Ears… Are cute!!!”
Elaine puts her pout on that cute figure and stares blankly at the wolf.
“What is he?”
“…”
She doesn’t respond to the question of her holy day and only watches wolves in a daze. Seong-il sighs lightly at the sight and approaches the wolf.
『…』
A wolf looking at himself like that. Seong-il puts his hand on the guy’s hair and touches it without thinking about the guy’s atmosphere, which is the opposite of the gaze he sent to Elaine.
“Wow!!!”
As she pet the wolf cub like a puppy, Elaine looks very envious.
“Uh… That’s cute.”
『Kyaaang.』
At Seong-il’s words, the wolf barked lightly, then took out his tongue and started licking his hand.
‘…Is it cold?’
Unexpectedly cold wolf tongue. Through that feeling, Seong-il realizes once again that he is not an ordinary animal.
“I envy you…”
When Elaine plays with the wolf for a long time on her holy day, she puts on an envious expression.
“Uh… Do you want to touch it?”
“Can I do that!?”
‘I don’t know.’
When Elaine was so envious, she uttered the words without realizing it. But when she hears her question, she realizes that Seong-il doesn’t know what to say.
“Hmm…”
Seong-il naturally looks after wolves. Interestingly, the wolf looked at him nonchalantly, and for some reason, he instinctively knew that expression was a sign of positivity.
“…Try to touch it.”
“Really?!”
“Yeah. It’s fine.”
At the words of such a holy day, Elaine calmly puts her hand on the wolf’s head.
『Greung…』
She still had an annoyed expression on her face, but unlike a moment ago, she didn’t spew out a lifelike wolf look. She was very happy with that attitude and was touching the wolf nonstop.
『Kyaa!!』
After being caressed like that for a while, the wolf starts glaring at Seong-il with an expression of annoyance. Seong-il could feel that he couldn’t stand it any longer.
‘Hmm… It seems like emotions are connected?’
Feeling the situation going like that, Seong-il warns Elaine.
“I want you to stop now. He can’t take it anymore.”
“Uh…?”
Elaine looks at Seongil’s restraint with a puzzled expression. That’s also true, since the wolf didn’t really express his opinion, she makes an expression like ‘how do you know that?’
『Kyaa!!』
“!!”
However, when Elaine’s hand stopped, the wolf roared lightly and ran towards Seong-il as if he had waited. Even though Seong-il flinches and moves his body backwards, he doesn’t blink an eye and starts jumping into Seong-il’s shadow as if diving.
“Oh…”
A wolf that disappeared into the shadows as if it had jumped into a river. Seong-il and even Elaine admired her appearance.
“What the hell is this…?”
“Looks like a shadow spirit?”
“Like…”
Apparently, since the power of the lineage left by the creator god is related to the ‘shadow’, a summoned beast suitable for it has appeared.
When Seong-il stares blankly at his shadow, Elaine looks at him with a very envious expression.
“Haa… I wish I could use my vision to command my own summons like you…”
“I’ll be able to do it soon.”
“…Is that so?”
“Sure. Believe in training with me. It will take you one step further.”
“Hmm…”
“Don’t you feel a little better today than before?”
“Uh…”
Elaine calmly uses magic in response to Seongil’s words. She certainly realizes that her magical powers are being operated a little stronger than when she was training normally.
“…Certainly, the output has gone up a notch higher than before, and it feels like the mana control has become cleaner, doesn’t it?”
“Yeah. As long as it’s training deeply, you can trust it.”
Strictly speaking, it was only that she breathed more of her own inner strength into her, and the medicinal ingredients of her special oil temporarily improved her body, but it was only a matter of knowing her situation. Elaine, absent, expresses her affirmation with a gentle nod of her head.
“Take this for now.”
“…This?”
“The massage oil and potion I used earlier.”
“Why…?”
Elaine puts on a puzzled expression when Seong-il hands her the potion out of the blue. To her, her holy day begins by reciting a scenario she had thought of beforehand.
“As I said before, this potion is a very rare and expensive vision potion.
“…What if it doesn’t fit?”
“Didn’t I tell you? Next time, prepare the oil yourself.”
“…”
In order to prove that she is not playing tricks on her, she entrusts her potion to Elaine. When Elaine isn’t particularly in denial, he pulls a dozen cans of her potion from her bosom to deliver the final blow.
“…That?”
“Same product. It’s annoying to carry around every time, so I’ll leave it here for now.”
“If it doesn’t fit…”
“Then take it back then and that’s it.”
“Um…” Write
“If you take it with you, and your body determines that this drug is right for you, then I have to bring it back. Then I have to work twice, but that’s annoying, so I’ll just leave it all there.”
“…Okay.”
As her Seong-il entrusts the disposition of the potion to herself, Elaine begins to lose her guard little by little at his actions.
‘…Looking at the potion entrusted to me, it certainly doesn’t seem like something suspicious, right?’
‘If I had just handed over a bottle of sample, I would still have doubts because I could tamper with the next potion I brought, but if I entrust all the potions I will be using for the time being, there will be no doubt, right?’
‘In addition, if I collect samples one bottle at a time and analyze the ingredients, there will be no more problems.’
Elaine, who had been training steadily with Seongil for the past month, had almost eliminated her doubts about him, but as she entered a new stage of training as it was a matter of her own chastity, Elaine acted thoroughly again.
However, when her surname naturally explains all the suspicious things through her actions, she eventually begins to put her doubts about him aside.
‘Certainly, after the start of training, the magic regurgitation phenomenon that always made me suffer has almost disappeared…’
As she seems to have been excessively suspicious of Seong-il, Elaine begins to feel a little sorry for him. So she suggests a proposal to him to alleviate her guilt.
“That…”
“…?”
“The summoned beast I met this time.”
“Yes why?”
“Would you like me to help you find something in the library?”
‘Did you like the results of today’s training?’
When Elaine suddenly makes a favorable offer to herself, Seong-il feels puzzled. In order to avoid unnecessary affair, the two of them had refrained from meeting as much as possible except during training time.
‘Well… Nothing bad.’
Due to her excessive talent, she has a lot of accidents and her reputation is low, but she is essentially a magical genius. For this reason, Seong-il decides to gratefully accept Elaine’s favor.
“Okay. It’s me. Thank you. When are you going?”
“Let’s go right away!!”
So, the two move from the villa side by side to the library.
***
“Hmm… Is it because it’s a spirit of the negative dimension? There are too few data?”
“That’s right. At least the data is inaccurate.”
“Why is that?”
Since he summoned the spirit through the vision of that world in the world of Mythology, it was clear that he must have summoned the spirit of this world, but Seong-il had a hard time finding data on the spirit he summoned this time.
‘Could it be… Is it the spirit of the detective world? The existence of other game worlds under my influence…?’
The time when Seong-il was worried. Elaine brings her a cup of tea from somewhere and offers him a seat in her break room chair.
“It’s probably because it’s a sound dimension spirit.”
“Huh? Why?”
“…Why? It’s common sense.”
“Uh… Um… I’m a Mutu-type psychic, so I honestly don’t know about that one.”
“Ah, maybe.”
Seong-il nodded her head in agreement as if she felt that my excuse was plausible.
“The Spirits of the Dark Dimension are basically not kind to the living.”
“…What do you mean?”
“It’s literally. Unless it’s a really special case, there are only a handful of cases in history where the spirits of the negative dimension are used with limbs.”
“Ah…”
“By the way, unless you have a special talent in lineage, usually only necromancers or followers of foreign gods use sound elemental spirits… As you know, they are our main enemies.”
“Hmm…”
“That’s why there is no choice but to have less data. So I think it’s appropriate to narrow the scope to the data of spirits that look similar to yours.”
“Hmm…”
Seong-il, curious about the identity of the spirit he signed a contract with, recalls him in his mind. Then, out of nowhere, the spirit of the previous battle emerges from the shadow and settles on the desk he is sitting on.
“…This time in the human form from before?”
A shadow spirit the size of a very small child. The guy with a black body and an impressive bare face slightly lifts his bare face and looks at Seong-il.
“Uh…?”
“Why?”
“Here… This… Looking at the human form, I think it’s a bit like this spirit?”
“Okay?”
Elaine picks out one of dozens of materials and hands it to Seong-il. Her Holy Day frowns upon seeing the name of the spirit listed within her materials she handed over.
“…Herald of ruin?”
The name of a spirit that is reluctant to hear. In fact, the description of the spirits in the data wasn’t particularly good either.
“When the world perishes. It’s a spirit that appears little by little when the law of that dimension collapses…?”
An explanation of a spirit that is unusual at first glance. When a world is about to collapse, the first thing to do is tear the interface of the weakened dimension and invade the dimension. The messenger of destruction written in the data was described as a very powerful spirit.
“…But, for a bloody name, it doesn’t sound particularly evil, does it?”
“Is that so? The reason why they visit another world in the first place is that they naturally appear in that dimension, attracted by the energy reversal phenomenon that flows out as the world perishes.
“Hmm…”
“It’s not particularly hostile to living beings…”
“Then why did you have such a bloody name?”
“For a moment…”
Elaine begins to rummage through other sources in response to Seongil’s question. She rummages through her documents for a while and finds one.
“Ah! Here it is!!”
“Hmm…?”
“Looking at it… He must have the most agile senses among the powerful sound dimension spirits. That’s why he found the place where the energy reversal phenomenon takes place. I think it’s a nickname.”
“Ah… It’s literally the ‘first’ to appear in a world that’s going to ruin, so that’s why it got such a heinous name?”
“Half it is.”
“…Half?”
Seong-il frowned at Elaine’s words, which seemed to have more content. To him, Elaine shows another data again.
“Another nickname seems to be ‘the claw that rips through the world.'”
“…What else is that?”
“Literally. As much as it has the power to tear apart the interface of a weakened dimension. It seems that its combat power is also formidable? It’s not particularly hostile to living creatures, but apart from that, it seems to mercilessly tear enemies to pieces if it offends them. “
“Hmm…”
“Even if you look at the data here, it seems that you are almost immortal? Even if you almost destroy your body, if there are even a few pieces of the main body left, it’s on the level of being revived in an instant…”
“Oh…”
An explanation of a spirit that is unusual even if you only hear it roughly. Seongil looked at the shadow spirit in front of him and asked.
“…Did you come because you thought this place would be ruined?”
Dory dory.
The spirit shook its head at the question of such a sacred day.
“Then why did you come?”
Swoop.
Instead of answering, the spirit raises a small hand like a fern and points to the holy day.
“Um… Are you just here for my ritual? Is there any other reason?”
Nod.
Fortunately, it doesn’t seem to have touched the game’s negative triggers. As soon as it seems that he did not come here for some sinister reason, Seong-il sighs in relief.
