Talent-Swallowing Magician - Chapter 9

Episode 9

Awakening Talent

Mephistopheles.

He was the greatest demon king in ancient times, but he was sealed away for a long time, so no one remembers him anymore.

His judgment was quite distorted.

“I’m sure you told me not to call King Bon that way, right?”

“Then let’s call him Peles.”

『Didn’t I tell you! The name of this king is a great demon who has pressed an age-old and sacred meaning into each word…!』

“Hahaam.”

『You damn bastard!』

Mephistopheles.

Elric called him ‘Mephisto’ for short, and his eyes seemed as if sparks would burst out at any moment.

Wasn’t he the one who subjugated all demons throughout his life and plunged the world into danger and disaster?

He also went to war with the last remaining Dragon King.

However, being treated like this by a mere human being made me feel angry.

I felt like I wanted to throw a lightning bolt at Elric right away.

I just couldn’t do that.

Because he no longer has the body left to do that.

『Why did I get caught by this guy…!』

When Mephisto first came to his senses.

He thought he was going crazy at the fact that not only had the arrangement he had been waiting for for over a thousand years collapsed, but he had ended up dedicating all his magic power to Elric.

In addition, the main body was torn apart, and all that was left was a piece of demonic energy.

He barely maintained his past memories and identity and could no longer be called the Demon King.

If you look at it, it’s an alter ego whose status has been lowered for a long time.

That would be correct.

“Isn’t self-immolation too much? “It’s just a floating spirit that doesn’t even know the subject.”

『This…!』

“Ah, I think I’ve given that too high a rating, so let’s just call him a mischievous ghost.”

『…!』

Mephisto ran wild, swearing, but Elric simply covered his ears and ignored him.

But unlike that attitude.

In fact, Elric was quite surprised on the inside.

‘Mephisto… I remembered it too late. I never would have guessed that he was one of the Gaboks ruled by an ancient demon god.’

An ancient era that now remains only as a myth or legend. At a time when the gods still ruled the world directly, the demon god who symbolized darkness had four household members.

The oral tradition about them, each named ‘Original Sin’, ‘Apocalypse’, ‘Insanity’, and ‘Orgy’, has hardly been put into practice.

However, Elric was later able to recall the part in an old book he happened to read at home that mentioned that another name for ‘original sin’ was ‘Mephistopheles’.

At the time, I thought it was just a rumor…

‘I never thought I would really see that existence. ‘You mean it wasn’t just a legend?’

As Elric, I was just shocked.

‘Then what on earth is this?’

Curiosity about the Magical Swordsmanship inevitably grew as well.

On the outside, it’s just an old necklace that still seems to have no special features.

I couldn’t even guess how it contained such strong power or what other powers were hidden there.

『Why… out of so many vessels, why is it called Mervinger…!』

Then Elric came to his senses from the words Mephisto was muttering to himself.

“Mephisto.”

『Why!』

“Do you know our family?”

“joy! Why does King Bon have to answer your question?』

Mephisto snorted as if he was already completely sarcastic.

‘You must know.’

Elric was able to figure out what that meant right away.

‘Does this make sense? ‘My family is that old?’

Elric knew well that the Mervinger family had been waging war against the demons for a very long time.

But I never thought it would last long enough for Mephisto to know.

In particular, given the strong resentment contained in his words, it seems that there was a great deal of salvation.

‘Now that I think about it…’

I also remembered the voice I heard in my sleep.

A voice thought to have been left behind by one of our ancestors.

-I hope that our descendants in the distant future can fully inherit our legacy.

-We are originally….

-We will swallow the first demon according to the arrangement made right here.

The ancestors spoke as if it was Mephisto or, more accurately, someone among the Demon Lord or Demons who would ‘naturally’ extend his magical power to his descendants.

This probably means that the family’s history of conflict with the demons is so deep that it is difficult for Elric himself to guess.

And maybe.

Isn’t the Magic Sword a magic tool that combines all of the family’s history?

‘Demons… no, magical tools that eat demon lords.’

Elric touched the magic sword with his fingertips.

‘If I meet other demons, will I be able to eat them just like I do now?’

Our ancestors clearly mentioned ‘the first’.

Doesn’t that mean that there will be a second and third time in the future?

That moment when my thoughts went crazy.

Elric’s eyes shined brightly.

* * *

‘But before I find out the exact use of the magic sword, I have to train my body first.’

Elric looked down at his hands, which were shaking slightly.

Even though I was just spraying magical energy, I was feeling dizzy.

It meant that the body was not yet fully accustomed to the manifestation of magic.

But it was unavoidable.

I was suddenly given a decent body, but I had never used magic properly before.

Training was needed.

‘let’s go.’

After thinking about it, Elric simply packed his luggage.

And as Sean had told me in advance, I escaped the hospital using a secret passage hidden behind the stove.

It was said that it was originally a place created for the royal family who had to prepare for sudden threats of assassination.

Thanks to this, Sean’s Gasol didn’t notice at all.

“after…!”

As soon as Elric smelled the fresh air outside, he took a deep breath.

This made the feeling of stuffiness seem to go away.

『What do you mean by Hu? You’re wandering around in caves like a rat! How can you show such a humiliating appearance with the power of this king…!』

Mephisto seemed to not like Elric like that and was scolding him as much as he could.

Elric, who had already made some judgments about him, responded very lightly.

“You uncle.”

『How dare you make such a foolish move to the king…!』

“It’s noisy, so shut up.”

『…!』

Mephisto went on a rampage again.

Elric just responded with indifference because paying attention to that would only drive him crazy.

‘It would be nice here.’

As Elric climbed the slope, he was able to find a clearing far away from the mountain path.

A place where people don’t travel often and there are no traces left other than those of animals passing by.

It seemed like it would be a good place to focus on training without outside interference.

Elric sat cross-legged and quietly closed his eyes.

And focused on all my senses.

Hwaaa!

Is it because it has already been achieved once?

Elric was able to get completely soaked in the water in no time.

The information detected by the five senses passed by one after another like a picture.

-ear.

I could hear the sound of the wind blowing down the mountain path from far away.

I thought I could hear the sound of a squirrel running through the grass with an acorn in its hand.

-sense of touch.

I felt the soft touch of the wind at my fingertips.

-smell.

The scent of flowers carried in the wind was particularly strong.

There was a refreshing scent of daisy daisy, mixed with the strong scent of camellia flowers that someone must have grown somewhere.

I felt like my head became much clearer.

No, it was getting really clear.

-taste.

The sweetness of fruit mixed with the wind lingered in my mouth.

I was hungry, but I got hungry quickly.

I was thirsty, but it disappeared quickly.

-Time.

As the sensory information I had felt so far gradually accumulated, a new space was formed in my head.

In that space, everything within a 100-meter radius centered on Elric was revealed in detail.

Things that would not have been caught with the naked eye if it were originally.

A ladybug flapping its wings on a blade of grass, a pine cone falling from a tree, an earthworm showing its face on the ground to bask in the sunlight…

all of these were seen from an omniscient perspective.

Expansion of senses and enhancement of cognition are essential conditions for operating a technique.

In that respect, it was safe to say that there were very few people who could follow Elric in these two areas unless they were at the level of a mage or higher.

but.

‘What I want to see here is the conclusion.’

Elric was able to dig deeper into the cognitive realm and discover the hidden textures behind the world.

A world where thick and thin lines are intricately intertwined like a spider web.

But what he was looking for was something else.

‘found.’

The one he chose was fire, one of the four major elements.

I put my fingertip there.

That moment.

Tsutsutsu –

Some of the magical power leaked out from the dragon heart and rushed to the fingertips, mixing up the results.

and.

“【Burn up】.”

With a single word from Elric, the flames soared very loudly.

Grumble!

1 meter?

No, maybe 2 meters?

The firepower was so harsh that even the caster, Elric, widened his eyes in surprise.

Apparently, what he had injected was only the amount of the 1st circle magic ‘Flower of Fire’, which is usually classified as a beginner’s spell.

‘Even if I can’t do this, I don’t think it’ll be as good as ‘Pillar of Fire’…?’

A 1-circle dose produces the power of a 3-circle beginner.

In addition, Elric succeeded in implementing magic simply by thinking of the image of ‘creating fire’ without any special magic solution.

In common sense, it was nonsense.

‘If you follow the original magic system… you have to capture the mana stream, extract the mana from it, combine it with the circle, process it into magic, and solve it with a formula to complete the spell.’

However, Elric omitted the entire basic process called the ‘customization process’.

As if it were all unnecessary.

‘The purity of the magical power contained in the Dragon Heart was so clear and the density was so high that I gave it a try… but I never thought it would work out like this.’

Elric’s mind spun quickly.

‘It is now possible to deploy magic quickly with a much smaller amount of magical power. Not to mention the perfection…!’

As a result, Elric had his own strengths that others did not have.

‘I never thought what I learned at the dragon’s nest would be so helpful.’

Elric was trembling with joy.

The dragon magic seen in the dragon’s nest. Through it, the newly reassembled magical knowledge was shining brightly.

and.

『I never thought I would see something like that again even after a thousand years…! Ugh!』

When Mephisto looked at Elric, the images of his old enemies seemed to come to mind, and in the exact opposite sense, he trembled.

However, at the same time, I was quite surprised.

‘A mere human can reproduce Yonggeon magic? No matter how much you call it Mervinger, what nonsense…!’

Wizard who swallowed talent