Chapter 867 – Dana
Arulil is very moved when she hears from the Earth Mother that Seongil has also been promoted while helping her absorb the essence. To her, the Earth Mother sends her sleeping holy day to her Aru Ril.
Seongil’s skin shines beautifully like white jade. His perfectly trained muscles make him look like a statue.
But strangely, even though the other two women woke up, Seong-il did not wake up, and Seong-il’s followers, including Aruril, looked worried.
『Don’t worry too much. The master is currently strengthening his soul to match his stronger body. It will happen sooner or later. Take good care of him.』
The Earth Mother meticulously explains the current situation on the holy day to reassure her worried followers. The followers who heard those words bowed with a sigh of relief.
“Ugh…”
How much time has passed? Seong-il wakes up from bed feeling refreshed. He looks around and is puzzled when he realizes that he woke up not in the bedroom where he usually sleeps, but in a kind of luxurious hospital bed.
“Uh… Now that I think about it…”
With his mind now clearer, Seong-il lightly reminisces about the past. The days when I indulged in two women in a frenzy. While recalling the past like that, Seong-il remembers that he eventually lost his mind in the Final Fantasy world.
‘Did the kids carry me to the hospital bed after I fainted?’
After reasoning about the current situation, Seong-il lightly raises his internal energy and checks his physical condition.
“Your body…?”
Surprisingly, the state of his body seemed to be more perfect than before. Seong-il now realizes that his body has grown to a level where it is embarrassing to even dare to call him human.
‘You have reached the peak of the Heaven, Earth, Yin-Yang connection magic…!!’
The more Seongil uses his internal energy, the more Seongil feels that his body is different from that of a normal human being. While the average human body is composed of a harmony of yin and yang forces, he realizes that he is completely composed of only yang forces.
“… Sweet delay!!”
Seong-il is thrilled when he realizes that he has reached Sunyangjiche, the legendary state of cultivation. In fact, he was in a situation where he was no different from a demi-god or a legendary god. However, even though he has reached the highest level that a human can reach, he feels both joy and a strange sense of regret.
“Is this my limit? From now on, I will have to rely on external methods such as magic or artifacts to improve my skills.”
Despite becoming an absolute powerhouse, Seong-il feels a strange sense of futility coming over him and collapses on his bed. At that time when he was lost in sentimentality and thinking about something. A woman’s voice, beautiful but cold and mechanical in tone, strikes his mind.
『Master’s growth is not over yet.』
“… Who?”
Through arduous training and practical combat, Seong-il now naturally projects his emotions to those around him even when he is breathing. Therefore, Seong-il is clearly aware that there is no one around him, but Seong-il is really surprised when someone suddenly calls him telepathically.
『I am not talking to the master from the outside.』
“… No way?”
Seong-il naturally remembers a power he gained through a deal with Meow. Then, as if she had read his thoughts, the woman whispers into Seong-il’s head in an emotionless voice.
“You’re right. My name is Dana. It is the hive consciousness of the nanomachines that exist within the master’s body.』
“Hoo…”
Seong-il is intrigued when she realizes that Meow’s blessing has awakened while she was in a deep sleep. However, rather than inquiring about the nanomachine’s awakening, he first tries to ask questions related to her growth limitations.
“What do you mean my growth isn’t over yet?”
『It is literally. The master’s body and Dan Tian have finished growing, but new transcendental organs have been created instead. You can train it.』
“… Transcendent organ?”
“Yes. Instead of checking your body by increasing your internal energy, would you like to respond and project your power onto the master’s dantian?』
“…?”
Seong-il did not understand why Dana was giving such advice, but he obeyed and projected her response strongly into the area of her solar plexus.
“!!!”
Then, I felt something there, the size of a thumbnail. Seongil was able to feel a strange energy there that he had never felt before. When Seong-il seemed to understand it according to her guidance, Dayna continued to explain it in her grave voice.
『The strange energy that the master has now grasped is a power called spiritual power.』
Dana explains that the power that Seong-il felt is the source of transcendental power used by immortals and demigods. She explains that this power is almost impossible to train through general training, and that it is a power that can be acquired through advanced enlightenment, understanding of the law, or the power of faith.
“Okay… I understand that. But, how did you find out about this spiritual power?”
『While my master was in a deep sleep, I was analyzing a book that my master had obtained from the master of the Yin-Yang Pavilion six months ago in order to help him.』
“… Half a year?”
She thought it would have been a few days at most, but Seong-il is shocked when Dana says that she has been stretched out for over half a year. Whether the owner is embarrassed or not, Dana calmly explains in detail the timeline of when Seong-il fainted.
『To be exact, the time my master was unconscious was actually a month. However, the period of training with the Earth Mother and the World Tree is half a year.』
“Crazy…”
Although she was aware of the fact that she had been in a relationship with her women for a long time in various fantasy worlds, she could not have imagined that the period would last more than half a year, so her day came as a huge shock.
『For your information, I awakened a month ago. It was born during the period when the master, who had completed training, was training his soul to adapt to a flawless body.』
She tells us that after her birth, she did her best to interpret her books in her spare time, in order to be of help to him while his holy days were in refinement of his mind.
“I see… But how did you analyze that book? Can you use physical force? Or, with powers like telekinesis or empathy…?”
『I can use physical force, albeit to a limited extent.』
When asked about her holy day, she obediently tells us how she read her book.
Fighting…!!
A very small noise can be heard from Seongil’s skin. Not long after that, several drops of a beautiful liquid, like mercury, began to flow out from Seongil’s skin and float in the air.
‘… Little girl?’
The appearance of a cute machine that can only be described as such. It was as big as her thumb and transformed into a little girl wearing a dress and began to float in the air and open a book.
『After projecting parts of my body to the outside, I turned the pages and analyzed the contents.』
“Oh… I guess you can freely project part of the nanomachine colony to the outside?”
『It is not something that can be projected freely. Without the master’s permission, the range in which my powder can operate is only a 10 m radius. To do anything more, you need energy.』
Dana explains that in order to supply energy for external activities, one must absorb Seongil’s inner energy and use it as a power source. Aside from that, she explains that it would be a huge waste to use her own colony as a consumable since the nanomachines are so precious.
『If the master had not fainted and there had not been an analysis that this place was absolutely safe, I would never have projected my powder to the outside. I am too precious a being to risk projecting my powder outside like that.』
“Yes. Honestly, I admit it. The Deus Ex Machina system is really the best.”
『Thank you.』
Although her voice was cold, Seong-il could tell through her reaction that Dana was slightly excited by her own praise. Perhaps that’s why she continues to explain to him about her own abilities, even though her husband didn’t ask for it.
『If the master gives permission, I can remotely control high-performance electronic products based on the master’s telekinesis and sensitivity. Even hacking is possible.』
“Hoo…”
『In addition, I can also assist the master with miscellaneous calculation assistance, information retrieval and analysis. You can even process and visualize that information well. I’m better at documenting things.』
Dayna strongly appeals that she is a perfect secretary-type AI that exists solely to serve Seong-il. She even tells him that she can read Seong-il’s emotions and handle various tasks for him so that he can function comfortably.
