How To Suck Honey With Extras [EN]: Chapter 198

Extra’s Way of Living – Episode 198 (198/344)

Episode 220: Ashilla Krevelt (3)

The conditions for unlocking the magic tome have been met.

So, the right thing to do in this world is to get right to it.

‘There’s no reason to hesitate.’

I also know the enemies’ goal.

Just by me taking the magic tome, most of their goal will be lost.

In other words, it becomes advantageous to fight.

Just in case, I told the other guys a few things to keep in mind and went down to the room where the magic tome was placed.

[What is it, Aileon? What are you up to again?]

As expected, Ashilla followed me again without me even asking.

“I’m thinking of breaking the seal on the magic tome soon.”

I honestly stated my purpose.

I intend to take the magic tome from here now.

This magic tome will now be mine. Hehehe.

[I told you it was impossible last time, right? Even if you bring a wizard of my caliber…]

“Yes. That’s right. It’s impossible.”

I remember.

It’s impossible.

“If not, break it forcibly with unconventional methods, like that secret organization.”

But that will also fail.

“Certainly, as you say, Ashilla, I won’t be able to obtain this with any ordinary means.”

If there was no way, I might have given up on this or looked for another opportunity.

But.

YES! Of course!

Isn’t this why I waited with bated breath for the points to accumulate!

[…What are you doing now?]

Only then did she notice something strange and glare at me.

[I’ve been wondering since before, what are you looking at?]

She must have realized that I wasn’t just talking nonsense.

[You… don’t tell me…]

It doesn’t matter.

I firmly pressed ‘YES’ that floated in the air.

“Break.”

As the words I muttered echoed.

Fzzzt!

Sparks flew, and the sealing magic circles engraved around began to break.

Perhaps because of that influence, Ashilla’s body flickered once! Similarly, it blurred as if reacting violently.

“It’s done.”

I smiled as I checked the messages.

And the scene before my eyes turned pure white.

…Huh? I didn’t think about this?

Thinking that, my consciousness was also swept away by the pure white light.

It seems like something else will happen.

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<...Please wait.>

Only those messages appeared, and after a few seconds, my vision returned.

“……What is this again.”

I didn’t have the naive expectation that nothing would happen.

Right! Something will happen!

That’s what makes Aileon’s life so varied!

But this is a situation far beyond my expectations.

I blankly looked around.

“……Everything’s sparkling.”

Everything, including the walls and the floor, is sparkling with a feeling like well-polished marble.

To be honest, I could lick it. …I wouldn’t actually lick it, though.

At first, I suspected that I had flown to an unfamiliar place.

But there was no sense of crossing space.

“Perhaps this place is……”

I looked again at the place I had been looking at just before.

There’s nothing there.

But somehow, the feeling is similar.

“The feeling is similar to the room where the magic tome was sealed…?”

Not wanting to just stand still, I moved to another place.

Coming out of the passage, I finally became convinced of what this place was and closed my mouth.

“……Could this be the tower?”

The big picture hasn’t changed.

It’s definitely the relic tower I was in.

But everything looks brand new.

There are no cracks in the walls, and everything is sparkling as if it’s being maintained.

“That’s right, Aileon. It’s as you think. What you’re seeing now is the scenery from when I was still alive and breathing properly.”

Someone said.

Turning around, she is there.

Ashilla Krevelt, the owner of this relic tower.

“Originally, the name of this place is the Tower of the Workshop of Change. Well, this name won’t be passed down to this era anyway. Maybe my name won’t be passed down either. I can tell from your reaction.”

“……!”

“Oh my? Why do you have such surprised eyes? You’ve been talking so much until now? …With me.”

The girl smiling at me, the identity of that voice is, as expected, herself.

But the difference is that she is not a ghost.

She has a proper body.

Her feet are touching the ground.

“I’ll correct one misunderstanding. I’m not alive. Nor have I been resurrected.”

She sighed sadly and slowly shook her head.

“First, I’ll explain it. That way, we can proceed to the next step. This place is an expanded area of consciousness created by the resonance of your mind and the magic power of the magic tome.”

“Expanded area?”

“To put it bluntly, it’s inside your head.”

I reflexively touched the area around my temples.

“The human mind has a capacity that even they themselves are unaware of. By using the mana generated when the magic tome was released, I synchronized it with your mind and used the remaining capacity.”

“But the scenery of this tower is……”

“I manipulated the image appropriately. I used the images remaining in my knowledge to overlay it. If it’s hard to understand, you can think of it as a dream world that I manipulated as I pleased.”

It’s too vivid for that.

I tried kicking the wall casually, and it hurts. My foot does.

“It’s too vivid for a dream, isn’t it?”

“Mana contains a lot of information that humans can’t normally recognize. Using me, the consciousness, as a base and synchronizing specific information with an individual’s mind is surprisingly simple.”

“I’ve gained considerable mental resistance, haven’t I? How did you interfere with me so easily?”

I took the elixir and gained almost perfect resistance, but it was still penetrated?

As I was amazed, Ashilla crossed her arms and snorted as if it was nothing.

“Who do you think I am? Even if there’s only a tiny gap in your mind, I can intervene as much as I want. I was called quite the genius in my lifetime! Well! Only I can do it, though!”

Geniuses are scary.

“……Well, let’s say that’s the case. So why are you making me have this dream? You seem to have something to say.”

I need to get the magic tome quickly.

“Don’t be impatient. It’s a necessary procedure.”

“What do you mean?”

“More than that, I want to ask you something first. How did you break the seal?”

“……”

“Originally, no one should have broken it. Nor could they have… except for one exception.”

Exception?

“Don’t you think you might be that exception?”

“Maybe. But maybe not. Honestly, I can’t tell. I’ve been watching you since I first saw you because I was bothered, but I still don’t know. It’s too different from what I heard in my lifetime.”

Meaningful words.

More than that, the reason she kept following me inside the tower wasn’t because she was bored.

“And don’t be too disappointed. In a way, this might be helping you.”

“……What do you mean by that?”

“Let me tell you, if I hadn’t interfered in your mind like this, you would have been eaten right away.”

……Huh? Eaten?

“The magic imbued in that magic tome is a bit special. If someone without a proper foundation touches it, they’ll be eaten. Or they’ll go berserk. You might have turned into a monster.”

……It’s not that I can’t guess.

The monster that appeared in Volume 11.

What if that was the berserk state she was talking about?

Ashilla Krevelt’s corpse was suspected to be the boss that appeared in Volume 11. What if that corpse went berserk and rampaged?

“Then right now……”

“I just interfered and blocked it in the middle. But it’s still uncertain. …Unless I adjust it in the middle.”

However, she didn’t say a word about helping me get the magic tome.

But she’s not saying she won’t help either.

It means she hasn’t made a decision.

“I’ll make a decision now.”

“How? Are you going to have an interview or something?”

“An interview…… Hmm~ that’s not bad either. I used to test the guys who flocked to me to become my disciples like that.”

As if she had a good idea, she clapped her hands lightly and reached out.

A cane with a fancy decoration popped out in her hand.

“Then an interview. Well, shall we do it?”

“What are the passing criteria?”

“Nothing much. Prove your skills here~.”

It’s nice that it’s so simple.

She’s definitely the worst type of interviewer.

It’s not a pressure interview, it’s a violent interview.

“I’d like to solve it with conversation. I’m used to self-introductions, even though I look like this.”

“Conversation? Ahahahahaha! Don’t be ridiculous?”

As she laughed, an absurd amount of mana gathered on the cane.

“This is the world inside your mind. Rather than just wagging your tongue, the area where you run, dodge, get hit, and express yourself with all your might feels more genuine.”

She tilted her head slightly, and the gathered mana changed, creating a fireball.

A large amount of flames poured towards me.

I jumped with all my might to avoid it.

It was shot with the intention of missing anyway.

“Above all, even if I’m convinced by sophistry, it’s meaningless if your will is weak and you’re eaten by the magic tome. So prove it yourself.”

“……You’re making it hard to say let’s fight. More than that, you said it’s a dream. Can I even fight?”

“It’s possible. However, when you use your power or get hit, your mana will actually be eaten that much. Oh, even if your arm or leg flies off, it doesn’t actually fly off, so don’t worry. You won’t die even if you fail.”

……That doesn’t reassure me much.

I wonder if that woman knows the word shock death.

Anyway, it seemed like she was serious about proving it with skill.

I can’t underestimate it just because it’s a world inside my mind.

She has the initiative now.

For me, the watershed of whether I can take the magic tome or not depends on this.

“Aileon, you might be a good person. I confirmed that by observing your actions. But even if you’re good, it’s meaningless if your will is weak. …Because there’s nothing after that.”

“The aftermath?”

“Well, that’s enough small talk! Anyway, convince me. Then I’ll give you the magic tome or whatever!”

“……Since you want proof, I’ll show you until you’re sick of it.”

Let’s think of it as a trial.

Like fighting a boss in a dungeon, like betting to get something.

If you’re going to test me, the right thing to do in this world is to follow it.

“Then I won’t refuse and show you full power Aileon! Salamander!”

I thought I’d answer the first attack splendidly, so I called Salamander, but.

“Here! You’re first!”

…….

…….

…….

“……Huh?”

Nothing happens.

Instead, the light bullets she shot pour down on me like rain.

“Uwaaaat?!”

I hurriedly used space control.

This time it activated without any problems.

With the same feeling as usual, the scenery in front of me changes and my body position changes.

The light bullets she fired poured down like a bombardment where I was.

‘What? My abilities work fine? Why didn’t spiritism work just now?’

I tried using magic.

The simplest 1st circle magic, Fire Bolt.

A fist-sized fireball flies forward.

Of course, Ashilla easily scatters and disappears it just by pointing her cane.

‘But magic also activates without any problems.’

Magic also works. The abilities I have also work.

But only spiritism doesn’t activate.

Seeing me like that, Ashilla scratched her cheek as if she realized the reason and was embarrassed.

“Ah…… I’ll correct one thing. It’ll be hard to use spiritism here.”

“That’s cheating! You said everything works! That’s a scam! Exaggerated packaging!”

“I can’t help it! This is your mental world. And spirits are beings with a separate ego from you. Of course, there’s no way a being with a different personality can easily enter someone else’s mental world.”

In short, spirits are treated as third parties.

“Tch.”

“Now that it’s come to this, I’ll say it again.”

She grinned as if she was joking.

“Show me your will with only your abilities and magic, okay? Hmm~ is this okay?”

“Will it be?”