āHer Royal Highness Sister Wang⦠what is thisā¦?
āSuccess, orā¦?
Charne is still wrapped in thunder with bees and sounds. He looks anxiously at this one as he looks down at his own hand. Next to me Tomas is observing Charne with a serious look.
āYeah, I think itās a successā¦. I knew physical strengthening would be a prerequisite.ā
āWhat do you mean?
āBefore that explanation, Charne first. We have to do something about that thunder.ā
āYes!⦠well, what should I do?
āWouldnāt it disappear if I unlocked my physical enhancement?
I guess Charne is trying to unlock the physical enhancement as Iām told. However, there is no sign that thunder will disappear even if an eyebrow leans between Charneās eyebrows.
ā⦠well, what shall we do, Sister Wang? I canāt lift my physical strength⦠and, uh, some magicā¦ā
āMagic? Whatās wrong with magic?
āItās kind of like Iāve been using magic for a long time, and Iām getting a little tiredā¦ā
Iām starting to see more and more fatigue in Charneās face. Could it be that youāre wearing out more and more of Charneās magic in your current state?
Charne doesnāt seem to know how to disarm her, and sheās staring at me like she knows what to do.
In my case, physical strengthening would have stopped if I had stopped supplying my magic. Thatās what I thought, and I tried to get him to disarm the physical enhancement, but Charne canāt seem to disarm the physical enhancement himself. Besides, it keeps consuming magic.
ā⦠Charne, can you use magic besides physical strengthening in that state? If you aim for the magic loss, it might stop.ā
āWell, thatās⦠Somethingās wrong with the feeling of magic, and like always, itās hard to controlā¦ā
āOkay. Sharne, take this.ā
Magic canāt be activated properly eitherā¦. This may be a bit unsavory,
I pulled the celestial out of my sheath and let Charne hold it. Charne was suddenly handed a celestial to round her eyes.
āOh, that!? Sister Wang, why do you have a celestial!?ā
āBecause if I were Mana Blade, I might break it. Charne, try to create a magic blade with magic as it is in the celestial. Imagine spitting it all out.ā
āYes, sirā
Celestial held in Sharneās hand creates a magic blade to respond to Sharneās will. A yellow-green magic blade occurred, not the empty blade I was used to seeing. The colour of his body is like the demonic stone of Fenrill.
And I would like to pay even more attention to the fact that the body is just as thunderous as Charne. Make a prediction that Charneās magic will be reflected in the magic blade as it is.
āWhat do you say? You think you can keep it down?
āYes. I made it easier when I tried to transfer it all to Celestialā¦ā
Fenrirās aura, which Charne had wrapped around, disappeared to the point where the lightning-wrapped blade of Celestial increased its presence. Is it true that Charne has also gotten easier, or is she feeling a little weak?
Now, the next problem is the magic blade of thunder that has formed.
āCharne, try releasing the magic blade towards the sky. That should fit in.ā
āTowards the skyā¦ā¦ like this, is it?
Charne turned to the sky as I was told, letting the magic blade go free.
The next moment, the thunder shook my eardrum. Charneās unleashed magic blade ascended to heaven as if thunder were returning to the sky, paying off the clouds.
It seems that the shock recoil that emitted so much noise that it shook its tympanic membrane has come to Charne. Sheās got her ass cake on her like she was bounced and let go of the celestial.
āCharne, itās okay!?ā
āHuh⦠itās okay, I just hurt my wrist a littleā¦ā
āWrist? You canāt move it, just rest first. Has magic gone back to normal?
āAh, yes. I donāt feel weird anymore.ā
Hearing Sharneās response, I accidentally leaked a breath of relief.
Iām really glad nothing happened. At the same time, if this left Charne with major injuries and sequelae, such an imagination ran something cold on my spine.
ā⦠Iām sorry I let you get hurt, Charne. You made me feel scared, didnāt you? I was in such a hurry.ā
āSister Wang is not apologizing! Look, because Iām fine!
When I apologize, Charne laughs and tells her not to worry while sheās awkward. I feel like Iām saved by that Charne smile.
I told Sharne, thank you, as I stroked Sharneās head.
āI came back wondering what it was, was it a demon stone activation experimentā
āSorry to surprise you, Navre, Gakkun.ā
āNo, no. Iām glad nothing happened.ā
Navre and Gakkun rushed in when they heard the sound of thunder as they were making allowance for Charneās injury since then. Charne took care of herself, fixed her wrist, and kept it to herself so she wouldnāt move.
The place for discussion has moved to the salon, where Priscilla, who was going to deliver the report to Uncle Drags, is brewing tea.
And in front of us is a box with Fenrillās demon stone sealed again. Thatās the outfit weāre all talking about as we surround ourselves.
āDear Anis, can you explain? How did you manage to activate the Demon Stone? The tip said physical enhancementā¦ā
āItās still early to conclude that physical enhancement is not included in magic in the new definition, but you explained it to the Navres before, right?ā Physical strengthening is working with spirits living in the soul to improve their physical abilities. ā
āOh, thatās it, isnāt it? Talk about the different quality and way enhancements are done for each attributeā
Pong, and Gakun gavels in as he puts his fist over his palm. I keep talking, nodding at Gakun.
āYes. Magic is zero out of the soul, and its magic is influenced by the Spirit that dwells in the soul. Thatās good, isnāt it?
āYes. So, what does it have to do with physical strengthening and demon stones?
āI want you to remember, Demon Stone is a subspecies of Spirit Stone that has been transformed in the first place, spiritual stone but has been transformed into something else. But even the Demon Stone is based on the Spirit, and the same Spirit as the Spirit from which it came will be gathered, right?
ā⦠So the only reason the Demon Stone didnāt start before was because it was a magic that didnāt resonate?
āI think thatās the thing. Physical strengthening, by its very nature, activates the Spirit that dwells in you. I think demonic stones that prey on spirits are activated by feeding on something more limited: the magic of spirits, rather than simple magic.ā
Magic is influenced by inner spirits. But if you donāt bother to do something that evokes the Spirit, I think the magic of the natural state is very thin to say even the color of the Spirit.
Thatās why the Demon Stone isnāt simply feeding on magic, itās a hypothesis that it feeds on the magic of the Spirit. Thatās why it takes the magic of an activated Spirit to activate the Demon Stone.
ā⦠I understand the hypothesis of how the demon stone was activated. Is that why such a membrane of thunder like Fenrill floated in Charne? Is that the power of the Demon Stone?
āYeah, but I also feel like Iām not. Perhaps by aligning the conditions so far, we can finally stand at the same starting point as the Demon Stone Holder.
āStarting point?
āUh⦠should I say itās a natural state for a demon stone holder? Physical strengthening is activated by activating the Spirit within you. The Demon Stone starts using its activated magic as food. But itās justā activated. āI think itās just a vegan state for Fenrill, who had this demonic stone, that Charne wrapped his thunder around.ā
āIn fact, itās hard to grasp anything because I havenāt seen itā¦ā¦ Tomas. What the hell was Charne like?
Ask Tomas with a surprised look on Navreās face at my explanation.
āItās like wrapping a Fenrill aura around your whole bodyā¦ā¦ thatās what you looked like. That aura is charged, and if you try to touch it, itās like playingā¦ā
āThatās just like Master Anis, isnāt it?
āTo? Me?
āWhen Ennis is using physical enhancement, he has a similar aura. Shaped like a dragon.ā
Raising his index fingers on both hands, Gakun touches the corner with it against his forehead. Oh, maybe if you say soā¦? I felt the aura wrapped around me somehow, but I didnāt know what it looked like from around me because I didnāt see it in the mirror.
āI think it fits my hypothesis after all. The fact that Charneās physical enhancement causes the same phenomenon as my engraving marks if he uses demonic stones is similar to that.ā
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āIsnāt that amazing!
ā⦠I donāt know if I can say enoughā
I drink tea in my hand to moisten my dry throat. Then Priscilla, who was seated after preparing the tea, leaned her neck wonderfully.
āAny concerns?
āHmm⦠Charne. You said the magic was getting weird when you were haunting the power of Fenrillās demon stones, right?
āAh, yes. I canāt really use magicā¦ā
āReally?
āYes. At first, I aimed to cut the magic, but my usual senses made the magic unusableā¦ā
Charne is also leaning her neck strangely. I put my tea down and then turned my gaze to Priscilla.
āPriscilla, Iām sorry, but bring me something to write on paperā
āYes.ā
Priscilla answers my instructions quickly. Leave it for a moment and then draw the diagram that is sagging to your head on the paper that Priscilla brought to you.
First, I draw Charneās face, which I wrote like a deformation, and a deformation, which also looks like a fenril. Lift it high to make it look like everyone else.
āI canāt say for sure with this yet, but Iām going to keep a diagram of the relationship between Charneās magic and the Demon Stone. First of all, Iāll give you 10% of Charneās magic.ā
āYes.ā
āTo strengthen your body, you need 10% more magic to activate the Spirit. Now we have 90% of Charneās remaining magic.ā
āYouāre downā
āAnd I will use the magic of physical strengthening to activate the Demon Stone. But you canāt stop strengthening your body, so youāll consume another 10% moreā
Write ten circles so that they appear ten percent in the diagram and erase them with an X mark on them. And just for the number of turns off, add a circle next to Fenrill.
āNow Charneās residual magic is 80%. But now Fenrirās demon stone has been activated. The effect becomes more powerful in response to the magic of physical strengthening. However, to maintain this physical enhancement, Charne is taken with even more magic. Shall we take this view as 20%?ā
āTwenty percent moreā¦ā
āWithin ten percent and twenty percent of the magic required for normal physical strengthening to be activated and sustained. Another 10% for startup using Demon Stone and another 10% for maintenance. Simple consumption calculations will double it.ā
āIs there a downside to a powerful minute? Well, then itās no different than using magic, is it?
I shake my head from left to right in what can be described as Gakunās optimistic opinion. Even I wouldnāt have trouble explaining it if it were such a simple story.
āPlus, I have a problem. The magic that has changed with this demonic stone is the magic of Charne, but not the magic of Charne himself.ā
ā⦠you mean the magic that has been transformed by demon stones. Even if itās only under Charneās control, itās not Charneās own magic.ā
āYes, thatās why we can only consume magic in ways other than using demonic stones. Take Charneās magic as A and Fenrillās magic stone as B. Even if the magic of A can be changed to the magic of B, the magic of B cannot be restored as the magic of A. In other words, the magic that Charne used to activate physical enhancement has no use other than to use it as Fenrillās magic.ā
ā⦠is that such a serious problem, it?
Gakun says strangely as he arms. On the other hand, it is Navre who has a sinister face.
ā⦠this is definitely troublesomeā
āIs that it?
āGark focuses on physical strengthening, because magic is an accompaniment. But for a knight who also uses magic as much as I do, the magic he converted with this demonic stone is troublesome. Although physical enhancement consumes magic to activate it, the magic it maintains can be turned to another magic if it is disarmed?
āWhoa. Well, yeahā¦. Oh well! Youāre wasting your magic because you canāt do that!
āI have a further problem. Moreover, this magic remains in the body. There are two kinds of magic powers in the body while maintaining physical strengthening with the effect of Demon Stone. I mean, because of the overlap of magic, the ability to work on spirits is dull. If the premise is that the Demon Stone takes in the magic of the Spirit⦠right? Her Highness Sister Wang.ā
āYeah. Thatās what I think is a serious problem, too.ā
āIs that what that strange feeling of magic was aboutā¦ā
Charne can no longer use magic successfully because the Demon Stone takes the magic to maintain Fenrillās physical strength at will. And the magic becomes Fenrillās magic, not Charneās.
Changed magic is not the magic of Charne, so the operation itself can be done. But I canāt bring back any more magic thatās spoiled. The magic that should resonate with the Spirit in the outside world and change the shape of the Spirit becomes unusable.
(⦠now that I think about it, is that what Raini said?)
Raini also said he didnāt like magic at first. At the time, it would be because he kept the demon stone in his body, albeit un-awakened. It was hard to resonate with the Spirit because the presence of demonic stones was generating noise.
Ever since I woke up as a vampire, I had found a way to control it in person. You want me to listen to what you say, not resonate? In other words, instead of changing the Spirit by resonating with it, it brings out the desired phenomenon by dominating the Spirit.
So, in fact, the range of magic that Raini can use is wide. If you can build a muscle path successfully, you can freely make all sorts of magic. Itās just all the trivial magic that helps me with my daily routine because itās an itchy Raini there.
Later, Raini also has the disadvantage of being attacked by a bloodsucking impulse if he loses too much magic. Raini uses magic with the realization that she can use convenient tricks, so I havenāt seen many opportunities to use flashy magic.
ā⦠well, that one. Anyway, Iām glad you found out how to activate the Demon Stone, huh?
ā⦠oh, somehow you know what Master Anis is trying to sayā
āThatās an odd encounter, Tomas. I think if I were Tomas, my perceptions would match.ā
āWell, why donāt we align our voices?
We gaze at each other with a subtle face. And we nodded one at each other and then said it forcefully.