Became The Son Of The Final Boss [EN]: Chapter 110

110.

I focused on the Breath of Wind.

I felt my skill level was high enough.

The important thing was to advance from Expert to Master in Advanced Spirit magic.

‘It’s my character level.’

Skill level, character level, and mastery are all organically related, but character level had the greatest impact on mastery.

And the skill most closely related to character level was the Breath of Wind, a mana breathing technique.

Currently, my Breath of Wind level was 30.

It had increased a lot in the meantime.

‘Let’s focus for now.’

I decided to dedicate today solely to training the Breath of Wind.

Whooooosh-!

I observed the mana flowing through my body according to the Breath of Wind and felt the mana steadily accumulating in my mana core.

The size of my mana core was already much larger than a basketball.

It was hard to believe that such a space existed inside a person’s body, but the mana core was real.

“Hoo-woo-woo!”

How much time had passed?

Training the Breath of Wind was not easy.

Filling and emptying the mana core, then filling it again, was more challenging than I thought.

It could be considered simple repetition, but I felt things differently than before in the process.

I realized new things, such as how mana moved according to the Breath of Wind and how many repetitions of the Breath of Wind it took to fill the mana core.

‘There are blocked blood vessels.’

Mana traveled throughout my body according to the Breath of Wind, but some places were completely blocked.

These were the paths flowing near the heart and towards the crown of my head.

‘If I unblock just one of these, I’ll reach Master.’

I am a Spirit User.

Spirit Users are beings who contract with spirits and exert power by supplying mana to them.

The power that a spirit exerts varies depending on how much mana can be supplied to the spirit and how quickly it can be supplied.

Currently, because the paths near the heart and crown of the head are blocked, mana is supplied to the spirit by going a longer way around.

If I could open those two paths, I could supply more mana to the spirit faster.

Because those two paths are the widest among the paths through which mana flows in the body.

There was no way for mana to be supplied directly from the mana core to the spirit.

Mana flowed along a set path and was supplied to the spirit.

‘The wider and more numerous the paths I can use, the larger the mana core will become.’

I focused on the Breath of Wind once again.

To unblock the blocked paths.

‘I’ll start by unblocking the area near the heart.’

The path at the crown of my head was much wider, but the wall there was too solid.

The area near the heart felt like the wall was weaker, so I felt it was a worthwhile gamble.

Gradually, the mana from the mana core began to flow along the blood vessels following the Breath of Wind.

I drew more mana from the mana core.

To break the wall, it was necessary to collide a large amount of mana against it in an instant.

I didn’t rush.

Slowly and naturally, I rotated more and more mana from the mana core.

Before I knew it, the mana flowing through the blood vessels began to surge like waves. As the amount of mana circulating through the body increased and the speed increased, the burden on the body naturally increased.

“Ugh!”

I barely swallowed a groan.

My whole body ached.

‘I need to widen all the paths through which mana flows, not just break through the wall.’

After realizing another fact, I caught my breath.

I temporarily stopped the flow of mana near my heart.

Mana had a circulating nature. When it suddenly stopped, it naturally resisted.

I felt like I was suffocating, but I worked hard to break the wall in one go.

-Kwakwakwa!

Mana continued to pour in.

The moment I felt that I could no longer control it, I released the power blocking the mana.

At the same time, mana surged towards the wall near my heart.

-Bang! Kwaaaang! Bang!

It felt like lightning was striking inside my body. I thought I would die of a heart attack if I wasn’t careful.

‘Ugh! Heart, I can’t die here.’

I bit my lip until it bled.

-Bang! Bang-! Kwaaaang-!

The explosions heard inside my body made my ears ring.

It was a strange feeling. Hearing sounds from inside my body was an unfamiliar experience.

I couldn’t just be amazed because the pain felt every time mana hit the wall was immense.

Normally, mana would not hit a blocked wall strongly but would circulate around the path.

But it was different now.

Because such a large amount of mana was hitting the wall in an instant, it tried to break the wall instead of going around.

How many times had it hit?

The wall began to crumble little by little.

I quickly led the mana beyond the wall.

The area near my heart warmed, and the wall that had barely been blocking the mana completely collapsed.

Kwaaaaaaaa-!

Mana felt like a living creature.

As if enjoying traveling on a new path, mana flowed in circles around my heart.

‘So this is what the path was like.’

I barely regained my senses and maintained the Breath of Wind.

Whooooosh-!

When the mana that had opened a new path returned to the mana core, another change occurred.

The outer wall of the mana core shattered.

I had experienced this before.

It was the process of the mana core growing.

It was painful then, but it wasn’t painful at all now.

As the mana core was naturally regenerated, it became at least twice as large as before.

I filled the mana core with mana and immediately checked the system window.

My character level had only increased by 1, but my title had changed.

-Advanced Spirit User Master.

I smiled faintly.

The time had come to fit the last remaining piece.

“I need to go to the waterfront.”

It was time to meet Ellaime, the Advanced Water Spirit.

* * *

Death Falls came to mind.

If I summoned Ellaime at that huge waterfall, I could see a pretty cool sight.

“Well, I’m not contracting with a spirit just to see a good sight.”

The higher the level of the spirit, the more mana is needed when summoning it for the first time.

To reduce the amount of mana needed, people often looked for something in nature that matched the spirit’s attribute.

If the affinity was low, a medium was even more necessary.

Water spirits required less mana when summoned in a river with clean water, and wind spirits required less mana when summoned in a place where a gentle breeze often blew.

If there was a medium, it could be summoned even if the affinity was low.

I had high affinity and enough mana, but I still wanted to summon Ellaime by the water.

The barracks were too small, and it would attract people’s attention.

I shook off the soldiers who had followed me for protection and left the headquarters.

Marquis Mike’s territory was very large. If you went to the opposite side of the outer wall, that is, to the east, there was also a mountain range leading to the center.

I rode Zephyr after a long time.

Sylphen chased fiercely beside me. Ignis, for some reason, was in a good mood and was already flying around in the sky as he pleased. Was Claim trying to hide his huge size? He quickly chased me like a mole underground.

Summoning and keeping three spirits by my side at the same time was a bit more of a mana burden than summoning only Sylphen and Ignis. The difference between two and three was definitely felt.

When I arrived at the entrance to the mountain, I got off Zephyr.

“Stay nearby. I’ll be right back.”

Zephyr seemed to understand my words, whined, and soon began to walk somewhere.

‘A spiritual being, a spiritual being.’

Zephyr always understood my words well.

I started climbing the mountain lightly.

“A valley would be better than a river.”

There might be monsters living in the mountains, but unless they were monsters from the Forest of Darkness, they were not a big threat to me.

It took quite a while to climb halfway up the mountain.

‘Is this the first time I’ve come outside alone since coming to the Calpheon Empire?’

I put the contract with Ellaime aside and focused on climbing the mountain.

The air was clean everywhere in the Calpheon Empire, but the mountains still felt like they had fresher air than other places.

The sounds of birds chirping here and there, the sound of grass swaying in the wind… the sounds of nature that I hadn’t felt while living in modern society completely enveloped me.

‘Is it because I’m a Spirit User? I feel like I can feel it better.’

I sat down in the shade of a tree for a while.

I closed my eyes and enjoyed the forest air for a while.

How much time had passed?

Soon I got up.

I mustn’t forget the original purpose of climbing the mountain.

The sound of water coming from nearby seemed to be coming from a valley.

When I slowly went to the place where the sound of water was coming from, I saw a valley as expected.

It was quite a large valley. The current was very fast, and the width of the valley was also wide.

Looking at the water, I recited the Primeval Oath and called out the name.

“Ellaime!”

Whooooosh-!

The strong current stopped abruptly.

The current swirled, and a hole was punched through it.

And Ellaime slowly emerged from the hole.

Unlike other Advanced Spirits of different attributes, Ellaime was the most similar to a human in appearance.

Sylphen was a wolf, Ignis was a phoenix, and Claim was the most similar to a human, but he was so huge that he was more like a golem than a giant.

On the other hand, Ellaime was human, but it was difficult to tell whether it was a woman or a man.

‘Well, that’s not important. It was written that spirits don’t have genders like humans in the first place.’

I opened my mouth towards Ellaime.

“Thank you for responding to the summons.”

Somehow, Ellaime exuded an aura that was hard to approach.

“There were many rumors even in the Spirit Realm. The Master of the Oath will surely contract with Ellaime as well, but who will respond to the summons.”

Ignis chimed in.

“Anyone can just come out, why are you making such a fuss about what the Master of the Oath says?”

Ellaime smiled softly and said.

“Ignis, who says that, probably rushed to the gate of the dimension like lightning as soon as the Master of the Oath spoke the Primeval Oath, right?”

Ignis turned away and soared into the sky like an arrow.

Ellaime flew over and kissed the back of my hand, saying.

“The contract has been established.”

I asked Ellaime slyly.

“Is it possible to change your appearance?”

For some reason, it was difficult to speak informally to Ellaime.

“Of course, it’s possible. Summoning spirits is a good training method… um! Is this enough?”

Ellaime soon changed his appearance to look like an Undine [a water spirit in folklore].

Ellaime, who had turned into a small fairy, sat gently on my shoulder.

“Why don’t you practice Spirit magic more?”

Ignis, who didn’t know when he came down, said from the side.

I narrowed my eyes.

“Spirit magic?”

“Your skills are a bit limited. Learn more attribute skills for each, learn skills that combine two attribute spirits, and also skills that all four attribute spirits use together.”

Ignis’s words were certainly valid, but I couldn’t unlock the skills right away.

‘I was going to collect more and unlock the skills. Or a quest.’

Because there were only 2,000 bonus stats.

Suddenly, a fact that I had forgotten came to my mind.

‘Mother’s Book of Spirit Magic!’

Mother’s Book of Spirit Magic contained methods for controlling spirits.

In other words, she had also listed skills.

‘I need to send a message to Ken. Tell him to bring my mother’s Book of Spirit Magic when he comes.’

The moment I made up my mind, Ellaime opened his mouth.

“There are skills that the Master can use at his current level. One is a skill that I and Sylphen use together, and the other is a skill that can only be used by water spirits.”

I widened my eyes.

“Me?”

“I’ll teach you step by step.”

I tilted my head, looking at Ellaime.

“But is it possible for a spirit… to teach Spirit magic?”

Ignis couldn’t stand it and scolded me.

“I’m telling you because it’s possible. Are you dumber than I thought? Is your affinity the only thing that’s high?”

“I’m smart.”

I lightly ignored Ignis and said to Ellaime.

“Let’s learn right away.”

“Then I’ll teach you the easy water spirit skill first.”

Contracting with an Advanced Spirit had so many advantages.