Weapon-Eating Bastard [EN]: Chapter 124

Weapon-Eating Heir 124

Heoju cannot learn human magic.

From the start, her body is different from ordinary people, and her magic capacity and the nature of her magic system are also different from humans.

Therefore, what she needs to learn is not human magic, but the magic of the spirits.

“Is that… possible?”

Heoju looked at me with an incomprehensible expression as soon as she heard my words.

“It is possible.”

I said firmly.

It was the path Heoju took in her previous life.

After decades of effort, Heoju developed a magic system suitable for her based on how the spirits handle magic.

And I can drastically shorten those decades.

“But it’s impossible to figure it out from scratch. So, I need the help of a spirit to show an example.”

-Humans cannot handle nature like us. That’s like a tree making the sound of a grasshopper…

Leshi continued, shaking the moss growing on her body.

It was a spirit-like analogy that was hard to understand.

But I could roughly understand.

“It’s not impossible. The spirit just needs to show us. We’ll do the creating.”

Leshi slammed her hand on the ground and brought her face close to mine.

-We don’t use power like you humans. Like a wolf howls, a deer stands on its own, a bug spreads its wings… it’s just determined that way.

If humans handle magic through techniques, spirits can naturally handle magic from the moment they take shape.

A spirit is the will of nature, nature itself.

From the beginning, they themselves are beings in which the magic of nature has taken shape, so handling magic would be like breathing or blinking to them.

-Are you saying you can do it like us…

“I probably can’t.”

Heoju and the spirit’s eyes twitched at my words.

I pointed to Heoju and said.

“But Heoju will be able to do it.”

“……Yes?”

Heoju opened her eyes wide and made a dumb sound.

“Me?”

“Half of Heoju is a spirit. I told you. Heoju’s bloodline is not a curse, but just a special trait.”

She was born that way.

The same goes for Heoju.

“So Heoju can do it. I will teach you the way. Then Heoju, you just have to walk that path.”

“How are you going to teach me the way? Who can read the magic of the spirits?”

A light like the sunset flickered at the end of my eyes.

“My Mystic Eyes can do it. Heoju’s condition and the way the spirit handles power. I will combine the two to create a new magic system.”

* * *

Creating a new magic system.

I had already done it with my aunt, but what I did was just filling in the missing parts of what my aunt had already laid the foundation for.

But now, I was developing a completely different way of using power from the beginning.

But.

‘I can do it.’

I have both the talent to handle magic and the knowledge to support that talent.

I awakened my perception through goblin wrestling, and I became skilled in using my Mystic Eyes through training with Valerie.

I am also highly skilled in magic through years of research with my aunt.

I also know that this is not impossible because it was the path that Black Ogre Heoju pioneered in her previous life.

With such thorough preparation, there is no reason why it should be impossible.

-Forest…

Leshi naturally created magic as if breathing.

The dying grass flowers regained their vitality in her breath, and the cedar tree that was only as tall as me became a towering tree.

I watched all of that with my Mystic Eyes.

The flow of power I had never seen before.

I didn’t just sense it, but analyzed it.

“Can I really do it?”

Heoju had a slightly bewildered expression.

It’s natural.

I can know because I saw it in the future.

Even if I wasn’t there, Heoju would have been able to do it alone.

“Of course.”

Heoju looked at her palm for a moment.

A palm that feels so white that it is transparent.

If the spirit transformation progresses, this hand will really turn transparent so that no one can see it.

“I’ll trust you. Young Master Lee Cheol. Please teach me what to do.”

Heoju’s eyes had changed.

I sat Heoju on the floor and sat behind her.

“As I said before, the first thing Heoju needs to do is breathe.”

I put my hand on Heoju’s back.

Just like my aunt guided my magic in the past, this time I started guiding Heoju’s magic.

“Currently, Heoju is absorbing and releasing magic indiscriminately. You shouldn’t do that. You should only hold as much magic as you can handle in your body, and you should only be able to release magic when you want to. Think of breathing as that switch.”

Inhale to absorb magic.

Exhale to release magic.

That was the first step.

“Hoo, hoo……”

Heoju took a breath.

Awkward breathing like a person breathing for the first time.

“You have to feel the magic moving. You’re not just breathing in and out.”

I analyzed the movement of magic when the spirits used their power with my Mystic Eyes, and applied it to Heoju’s body in that direction.

Magic goes in and out with breathing.

But it’s different from ordinary magic.

There was no process of flowing magic along a certain path of the magic circuit, or storing magic in the magic source and then releasing it.

Heoju had to become a part of nature.

Heoju’s whole body had to become magic itself, just a passage through which the magic of nature passes.

“Ah.”

Uuuuuung!

At some point, Heoju let out a soft exclamation.

She began to feel the magic entering and leaving her body through breathing.

‘But I can’t end it with this.’

Even if I imitate the way the spirits handle magic, it will only accelerate the spirit transformation.

So, from here on, I have to go the human way.

“Now that you can handle magic, it’s the next step.”

I continued calmly.

“Think of separating the part of you that is a spirit. Instead of just letting the spirit’s power flowing through your body flow, make it move only according to your will.”

Just like I train the supernatural power, the strong body, and the sixth sense flowing through the blood of the Soongmoo Lee family.

Heoju also had to train her part as a spirit.

“Ah……”

Heoju became more and more focused.

She felt a small energy dwelling in her body.

It was like a small ball of cotton that emits light.

Those small balls of cotton were spread all over her body.

A very cozy and warm feeling of power.

Concentrate your consciousness to get closer and touch it.

And.

Pajik!

“Kyaak!”

Heoju was startled and opened her eyes wide.

Heoju, with a dazed expression, turned her head to me.

“N, now……”

“You did a good job. I didn’t expect you to recognize the power of the spirit from the first day.”

“Is that the power of the spirit?”

Heoju had a blank expression.

Such a warm power was dwelling in her body.

“Yes, that’s right.”

“Wow……”

Heoju opened her eyes wide and became aware of the power circulating in her body.

Before she was aware of it, it just felt like a part of herself, but now it felt like something completely different.

I carefully examined such Heoju.

‘Is it because of her extraordinary head? Or is it because she is originally talented in magic?’

It was an amazing learning speed.

No matter what, I couldn’t imagine that she would get a sense of it from the first day.

“Ah.”

Heoju, who was blankly like that, realized that darkness had come to the forest.

Leshi, who had been with her all the time, was gone somewhere.

She could estimate the time just by looking at the position of the stars.

Already around 9 o’clock.

She came to the forest after eating lunch, so she had been sitting on the bare floor for 8 hours.

“Oh, I’m sorry.”

“What are you talking about?”

“I didn’t think time would pass like this. I think I took too much of your time.”

“It’s okay. That’s how magic training is.”

I stood up first and reached out to Heoju.

Heoju gracefully bowed and took my hand and stood up.

‘……?’

Beolteok!

The moment Heoju stood up straight from her seat, she was unknowingly surprised.

‘I’m standing up without staggering.’

Even though Lee Cheol helped her up, she could move her body very easily and comfortably.

It’s like… her limbs are moving according to her will.

Is this how ordinary people feel when they move their bodies?

Heoju was even feeling a strange emotion at the sensation she had never felt in her life.

“It’s just the beginning.”

Heoju looked up at me at my words.

“You can do it. You can get better.”

“Thank you.”

Heoju slowly took a step.

I smiled as I watched such Heoju.

* * *

A week has passed since Heoju started learning magic.

The moment Natalia saw Heoju, she unknowingly stopped what she was doing and opened her mouth.

“Hoo, hoo……”

Heoju was walking.

Even with her own strength.

She staggered sometimes, but she was sweating and walking around the cabin, pressing down on each step.

‘Heoju’s body……’

She was also a top-notch warrior and a person who learned magic.

That’s why she could read Heoju’s energy.

The huge magic power that was raging in Heoju’s body was flowing stably.

‘How on earth?’

Natalia looked at the boy walking next to Heoju with surprised eyes.

In just one week, that short amount of time, Heoju’s body had completely changed.

Heoju’s energy, which was closer to the energy of a spirit than a person, was being controlled according to Heoju’s movements.

‘That boy did it?’

When she realized that, even a trace of distrust in him disappeared.

And that change was not only appearing in Heoju.

‘It’s not just Heoju. That boy has also grown. Noticeably.’

Natalia carefully observed the boy.

The flow of magic had changed noticeably.

‘No, it’s not just changed……’

It became subtle and calm.

The fragrance of magic that flowed out subtly had definitely decreased.

It seems like he is controlling every single strand of very subtle magic.

To put it bluntly, he has become like a spirit.

Just like spirits look like a part of nature even if they have great power, the energy of magic that the boy originally had was not felt awkwardly, but flowed naturally.

Has he completely digested the energy he had?

Or has the gap in enlightenment that was blocked been 뚫린 [뚫린 means ‘pierced’ or ‘opened’, suggesting a breakthrough in understanding or skill]?

Either way, the boy has grown greatly.

And Natalia knew that level of magic.

‘……Is it stage 6? Really?’

Natalia’s eyes shook greatly.

* * *

As always, I analyzed Leshi’s use of magic with my Mystic Eyes, reproduced it in Heoju’s body, and analyzed it.

It is said that a person who is ready to seek guidance gains enlightenment from anything.

A series of tasks that I thought I did for the sake of the transaction or for Heoju were also bringing some enlightenment to me.

‘Magic.’

I didn’t do any special training.