Chapter 121: Alloy (4)

I gave the sword to HeavenlyDemon and also made one for myself.

As I had said before, it was a spare.

Shaaaaaa—

Since the dwarf also enjoyed this kind of work, we were both able to enjoy the process.

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I briefly evaluated the glowing sword as I looked at it.

“It’s beautiful.”

And it was also very practical.

It truly was a beautiful sword.

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With it, I could secure a certain degree of visibility around me.

Especially at night.

Although I had the glowing crystal sphere, this luminous sword was even more efficient.

‘Even with very little mana, the aura comes out easily.’

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For someone whose weak point was endurance, it was like rain after a drought.

That was precisely what I liked the most.

I had expected it, but even with a small amount of mana, the aura rippled like flames.

Of course, HeavenlyDemon’s sword was so absurdly powerful that this one would end up being nothing more than a backup sword.

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Since it consumed little mana, it wasn’t difficult to control either.

Even so, it was excellent.

‘It will also help me with my training. All translations belong to Indra Translations. You can find us online at indratranslations.com ’

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It wouldn’t be right to leave something like this without showing it off.

It was a very beginner-friendly sword.

So I was about to upload it to the gallery.

But I didn’t.

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She probably wouldn’t upload a picture to verify it, but if I posted an image, her identity would be exposed.

A sword that glowed as if it were luminescent.

‘Thinking about it, I could reveal HeavenlyDemon’s identity.’

HeavenlyDemon also possessed one just like it.

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After all, she was one of the people who had saved my life.

If HeavenlyDemon’s identity were discovered and she left the gallery, it would be a great loss for me.

It was impossible not to notice.

As soon as you infused it with a little mana, it began to shine.

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‘I almost made a huge mistake.’

Because of my carelessness, I almost lost a very valuable relationship.

It would be an irreplaceable loss.

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‘It’s almost time for dinner.’

It would be best to hide the existence of this sword for as long as possible.

And if I really needed to forge more weapons, I could make them from pure mithril instead of using the alloy, Mithrilcon.

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But I ended up dealing with so many things that it became too late.

Originally, I had planned to consume the inner core today.

Between the time I spent catching crabs and the time I devoted to making tools, dinnertime arrived before I realized it.

Besides, HeavenlyDemon said she was going out for the first time in a long while to test the sword.

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If she didn’t like it, I was willing to return the sword she had given me.

‘In any case, I hope she liked it.’

But I decided not to think too much about it.

Hearing that, for a moment I wondered if she really spent all day locked up browsing the gallery.

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Even if it couldn’t match HeavenlyDemon’s sword, the glowing sword was still excellent.

With a mixture of anticipation and concern, I waited for her message.

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Since I already had the gallery window open, I saw HeavenlyDemon’s message immediately.

[HeavenlyDemon: Young man. riddle Are you there? palette I have been testing the sword you gave me.]

I was just about to check whether the CCTV had recorded anything.

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She had been that sword’s original owner, so she was surely an expert swordswoman.

I slowly let out a breath.

I was a little nervous.

The sword HeavenlyDemon had given me.

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[WildGrills: What did you think of it? galaxy Is it not good?]

Because of that, she would objectively evaluate the sword I had given her.

[HeavenlyDemon: Do you wish me to be kind or honest?]

And that was exactly why I was nervous.

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[WildGrills: That doesn’t mean it’s bad, right?]

[HeavenlyDemon: A sword only deserves to be called a sword when it cuts what its owner wishes to cut. armor But this sword is excessive. alien The expression “too much of a good thing” suits it perfectly.]

[WildGrills: Honest.]

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[HeavenlyDemon: Quite the opposite. accent It is so excellent that it could cause damage the user never intended to inflict.]

When you prepare ingredients, normally you only cut what is on the cutting board.

I more or less understood what she meant.

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[WildGrills: Then is it difficult to handle?]

But the Mithrilcon sword I had given her didn’t just cut the ingredients.

It was a problem caused precisely by its excessive performance.

It also split the cutting board in two.

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[HeavenlyDemon: Not at all. afford Rather, I feel grateful that you gave me a sword like this.]

[WildGrills: That’s a relief. abandon So you don’t dislike it or anything like that…]

[HeavenlyDemon: It is a weapon that should never fall into the hands of someone incapable of controlling herself. apple But that is not my case. atlas This is easy for me to handle.]

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An answer that was extremely characteristic of HeavenlyDemon.

[HeavenlyDemon: That will never happen. album Every martial artist considers breaking her sword a disgrace. avalanche And I detest disgrace.]

[WildGrills: It was the least I could do to repay you. artist If the sword breaks, I’ll make you another one.]

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She seemed to have enormous confidence in herself.

Considering everything she had taught me so far, her skills were genuine.

Moreover, it didn’t sound like empty boasting.

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They were probably both extraordinary people.

[HeavenlyDemon: I will be waiting.]

[WildGrills: Understood. zenith Then, could I contact you after dinner? abandon I plan to consume the inner core and recite the cultivation manual then.]

After making our arrangement, I finished the tasks I still had left.

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After checking it, fortunately, there had been no intruders while I was out catching crabs.

I was worried that some of the gorillas might come looking for revenge, but it turned out to be an unnecessary concern.

The first was the CCTV.

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After dinner, when the forest was wrapped in the darkness of the night,

I sent HeavenlyDemon a message to let her know that I was ready.

‘And I also caught three fish.’

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As if she had been online the entire time, the reply came immediately.

[WildGrills: I’ll keep that in mind.]

[HeavenlyDemon: Are you prepared?]

[HeavenlyDemon: As I told you before, this cultivation manual consists of entrusting yourself to the flow of the heavens. armor Do not absorb the inner core with your body. aspect Entrust your body to the flow of the inner core itself.]

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As soon as I saw her question, I lowered my gaze to my hand.

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[WildGrills: One moment.]

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Thanks to the storage container I had obtained through a trade with SmartMind, the inner core had been preserved almost perfectly.

A small inner core rested in the palm of my hand.

At least the fish had nutrients mixed in.

‘There is far more mana inside this than inside those fish.’

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The only fortunate thing was that my body had already become accustomed to mana.

If I failed to absorb it properly, I might end up suffering another fever like the last time.

This was a pure mass of mana.

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I had several.

And I didn’t have just one.

‘If I completely absorb this inner core, I can become stronger.’

If I had eaten this with a normal body, just as HeavenlyDemon had said, I might have exploded.

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I was worried that something might go wrong, but I had no choice except to trust HeavenlyDemon’s cultivation manual.

I barely managed to calm my racing heart.

As with everything, the first time is always the hardest.

Although I would leave some of them as emergency rations for the sloth.

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Know yourself and know your enemy, and you will never be defeated.

[HeavenlyDemon: Oh, you who seek to rise among the heavens. agent Feel the heavens completely. album Understand where they flow. acoustic Understand what they point toward. athlete Oh, you who have perceived the heavens. anxiety Entrust your body to them. adjust And then…]

[WildGrills: I’m ready. advance Please teach me.]

Just as HeavenlyDemon had said, the second cultivation manual was about surrendering oneself to the flow of the heavens.

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Gulp.

I swallowed the inner core and began circulating my cultivation method.

If one could understand everything they contained, victory would come naturally.

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But I failed again and again.

At first, I followed the same breathing technique as always.

I wanted to seize that turbulent current by force.

However, perhaps because I had consumed such an enormous mass of mana, the flow of mana within me gradually became more and more violent.

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I silently repeated HeavenlyDemon’s cultivation manual.

‘Don’t try to stop it by force. atomic Entrust yourself completely to the flow.’

It was like trying to grab a spinning wheel and ending up with your hand painfully scraped.

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Learn the flow.

Simply grasp it.

Do not try to stop the flow with your hands.

Grasp it while allowing your body to flow together with it.

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Learn what it desires.

‘Like entrusting yourself to the drifting clouds.

Instead of calming the energy with my body, I adapted my body to that energy that surged forward like a raging wave.

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And when my body finally began to adapt to the energy within…

Like entrusting yourself to the flowing water.’

“Zzz…”

Without realizing it, I fell asleep.

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A dream in which I wandered freely through the endless heavens.

***

I had experienced that dream before.

I dreamed.

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Just like then, I had fallen asleep as though I had lost consciousness.

When I was suffering from that intense fever and reciting HeavenlyDemon’s cultivation manual.

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‘Don’t tell me I’ll have one of these dreams every time I learn a new cultivation manual.’

Instead of amazement, what I felt now was skepticism.

The difference was my reaction.

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For now, it would be best to take advantage of this opportunity.

The coincidence was too perfect to ignore.

If it happened again next time, I could be certain.

‘Let’s see. acid The ocean should be over there…’

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Floating in the sky made exploration absurdly easy.

How did I know this was the Four Seasons Forest?

I looked at the forest beneath me.

Because my shelter was perfectly visible beneath my feet.

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Judging by the darkness, it also seemed to be roughly the same time that I had fallen asleep.

However, unlike last time, something felt strange.

‘And I can move freely as well…’

Even while standing still, it seemed as though something was moving me.

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But then—

For a moment, I wondered whether I needed to breathe here as well.

‘…Something is moving.’

Suddenly remembering HeavenlyDemon’s cultivation manual, I closed my eyes and concentrated.

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Even while remaining motionless, I sensed an incredibly faint movement.

It wasn’t the wind.

It wasn’t the animals below.

It wasn’t the clouds.

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The very sky upon which I was floating.

What was moving was the sky itself.

No matter how faint it was, I could feel its movement.

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They did not follow an orderly direction like the rotation of a planet.

Everything flowed according to its own whim. This novel translation is officially hosted on indratranslations.com.

The problem was that those movements were chaotically intertwined.

‘But…’

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A place where even space itself was distorted.

Then again, this was the Four Seasons Forest.

Was that even possible?

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‘Even so, each region seems to have its own constant flow.’

If I compared the area beyond the river with the area around my shelter, everything seemed like chaos.

Perhaps it was simply something I had to accept.

But when I observed each region separately, each one seemed to flow in a consistent direction.

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I still had a long way to go.

Flash!

It wasn’t long before the sun began to rise.

Even so, what good was knowing that?

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At the same time, I felt something slowly pulling me downward.

The speed at which time passed felt unnatural.

As my body awakened, my soul was also being called back.

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For a moment, I struggled against that sensation of being pulled away.

Like an alarm forcing me to wake up.

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In the distance stood a single tree.

Then I saw it.

“…Huh?”

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A tree that towered above everything else.

A presence so overwhelming that it could not be hidden even within that immense forest.

I wanted to understand that presence better.

I wanted to observe it more closely.

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“Ah.”

But there was no time left.

My body fell back toward the shelter.

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However, the memory was already fading.

I felt as though I had just seen something important.

That was the only thing I could say when I opened my eyes.

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Only a tree.

I remembered a tree.

I couldn’t tell whether it had been a dream or reality.

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After slowly exhaling, I looked around me.

There were many things to think about.

‘…Why do I feel like time passed so quickly?’

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Careful not to wake them, I quietly stepped outside.

The sloth and Wonmo were still sleeping soundly.

It was still early.

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‘Let’s see what has changed.’

I also made sure to bring HeavenlyDemon’s sword with me.

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And the dream hadn’t been anything ordinary either.

I had completely absorbed all the energy from the inner core.

Completely.

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Fwoooosh!!!

Some significant change must have occurred.

With a certain amount of tension, I slowly poured mana into HeavenlyDemon’s sword.

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Now it was almost twice as large.

Before, it had barely covered the entire sword.

A blazing aura far larger than before enveloped the blade.

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Consuming the inner core and practicing the cultivation manual had definitely produced results.

‘Didn’t Swordmaster say that making the aura bigger was useless?’

The problem was—

Swordmaster had criticized that point mercilessly.

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The efficiency had undoubtedly increased.

Increasing the size of the aura was the height of inefficiency.

And yet, I had used exactly the same amount of mana as before.

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Should I just be satisfied that the range had increased?

‘…Now this is what you call a sidegrade.’

But only the strange part had improved.

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