The Outer God Needs Warmth – Chapter 134

    The Outer God Needs Warmth – Chapter 134

    From Victoria’s perspective, my appearance is filled with Soo-oh’s image.

    But it’s not just a complete resemblance to Soo-oh. Mysteriously, Choseol’s appearance is also mixed in.

    Well, what Soo-oh left behind was a phrase named Soo-oh Heart Technique Choseol. It’s not strange that Choseol’s appearance is mixed in there.

    But I don’t understand why on earth Soo-oh left something like this. In the first place, I didn’t even know such a technique existed.

    Victoria approaches me. Victoria is a little taller than me.

    “5 feet? No, about 3 inches shorter. You’ve become really small, haven’t you?”

    “I guess so. So this is what a human is like.”

    Strictly speaking, the body itself is indeed a monster’s body. The vessel remains the same. But since this has never been alive, it feels just like a lump of clay.

    “You said you didn’t want to go home. What will you do if we part ways here?”

    What to do?

    “Just live on, I suppose.”

    Since I can mimic a human, blending in among people is no big deal. At least from what I see in Victoria’s memories, there have never been harvesters here.

    Therefore, in the third world, the possibility of being killed because of having purple hair is low.

    Increasing the harvesters, creating a closed cult, and trying to contact people in high positions as much as possible.

    This time, there’s the problem that I have to create something completely new, not an already existing religion.

    I’ll manage somehow.

    I looked around.

    The ground has sunk as if a sinkhole had opened. Since it’s a place made by digging underground tunnels, it’s natural that when it collapses, a pit forms like an ant lion’s trap.

    The fortunate thing is that unlike typical sinkholes, there isn’t a vertical wall, but it’s sloped towards the center, so we can climb up.

    Leaving Victoria, who seemed to be pondering something, I moved to climb up first.

    If I can grab that rock ahead.

    If I can grab it.

    Hmm.

    It was a height Choseol could easily grab and climb, but with my current height, I can’t reach it even if I jump. Since I have Soo-oh’s memories, I tried using something called footwork techniques thinking I might be able to use martial arts the same way, but I can’t generate as much propulsion as Soo-oh did.

    As expected, you need a force pushing you. This.

    In the first world, it was magic. In the second world, it was qi.

    It seems I fundamentally can’t use such power. I can’t use it even with Soo-oh’s body.

    That aside.

    While I was looking around more to find a way to climb up by grabbing onto something, suddenly water rose up my legs and a huge water droplet formed on my lower body.

    What’s this?

    Thinking she had finally decided to kill me, I turned around.

    That wasn’t it.

    Victoria was looking at me with an expression of looking at a very pitiful creature.

    “It’s unsettling to leave you like this, let’s go together.”

    “Are you kidnapping me?”

    “How can you say such an ugly thing? I’m worried you might die as soon as I leave you alone. Don’t you have some kind of amazing power?”

    Victoria walked towards me, waved her hand in the air a few times, and a staircase made of water appeared.

    Victoria carefully put her foot on it, and after confirming it had sufficient strength, she grabbed my arm.

    “What do you mean by amazing power?”

    “The power I’m using now. Didn’t you give it to me?”

    Trickle.

    A small stream of water moves in the air.

    She’s freely controlling water. When she was in danger of dying by water, she gained the ability to control water.

    I shook my head left and right.

    “No. That’s your own ability. People who contract with me sometimes gain abilities when they desperately wish for it.”

    I guess that “desperately” situation is when they can’t overcome the situation in front of them with their own power alone.

    People who were in relatively safe environments didn’t gain superpowers when they became harvesters, and those who were close to death no matter where they looked gained superpowers.

    “This?”

    Water droplets gather to form a question mark.

    She’s handling it well from the start.

    It might be far from reality since it’s based on information from cartoon-like works in faded memories, but I think it might be drawing out something like the potential that person could have.

    That’s why they can use it well as if they’ve always had it as soon as they get it.

    Wide and Tis.

    They both handled their abilities well as soon as they got them. Of course, their methods of using abilities became more sophisticated as they fought.

    Still, looking at Wide who handles fire or Victoria who handles water, it seems they immediately know how to use the ability and the method of using it as soon as they gain the superpower.

    But I don’t know where on earth this is drawn from. According to the Primordial Heavenly Lord’s information, what I take is taiji.

    It’s interpreted as chaos that can do anything and become anything.

    It doesn’t mean the combination of yin and yang as I initially thought. The Primordial Heavenly Lord called the infinite possibilities that existed before that taiji.

    If that’s possibility, if that’s warmth, their warmth should decrease when they gain special superpowers.

    But there’s nothing like that.

    Rather, it blooms brighter along with the light. Although it shines dark purple because I’m inside the light.

    “So that’s why you left me without hesitation. I thought if you were something like a god, you’d demand something in return for giving me power.”

    Ah~

    Right. It’s in the Great Kraken’s and the Primordial Heavenly Lord’s memories too.

    Immortals, or gods. Among such beings, many make contracts like me, and often give something and receive something in return.

    “I’m not a god. Therefore, I don’t do such things. All I did when I was down there was ask if someone who had fallen into despair wanted to make a contract, and make the contract if they did.”

    But that’s not salvation.

    Because it’s structured in a way that I inevitably gain warmth no matter what.

    It means buying at the lowest point and any situation is a high point. Of course, there have been times when harvesting at the brightest time compared to the warmest time yielded more warmth than at the lowest point.

    But such cases are few.

    Most give a lot of warmth when they live long. So I’ll maintain the freedom policy.

    “Isn’t that what you call a god?”

    Victoria asks me as she holds my arm and climbs the water-made stairs to ascend from the sunken area.

    “No. If it were a god, wouldn’t there be no need for a contract in the first place?”

    That’s how I picture a god. Perfect. An absolute being who can do anything. I think anything less is just mediocre impostors or those who don’t know their place.

    But I don’t intend to openly deny it.

    If someone says they’re a god, or if someone nearby says they’re a god, I’ll just accept it and move on.

    If they interfere with me obtaining warmth, I’ll hold an unreasonable grudge though!

    “Why is it a question?”

    “Because I don’t know anything. I’m being taken away by a human child, but my current feeling is to stay still because the hand is quite warm.”

    Victoria looks at me with the gaze of looking at a child.

    Do I look that much like a child? This time, it’s really just a simple impression. There’s no need to deliberately appear like a child.

    In the Future Hope Cult, I had to hold my breath to gain Yasle’s trust, so I deliberately acted that way, but it’s okay to part ways with Victoria here.

    Also, Soo-oh’s last words before chanting the spell still remain.

    As we talked like this, we arrived at a low hill. There are traces of collapse between the hills.

    The place where I was summoned was a base made by digging out this area, so when it collapses, the whole thing sinks.

    “Wow, all of this really collapsed.”

    Victoria looks around in amazement. Following Victoria’s gaze, we go in reverse order of the places she moved earlier. The last place we arrive at is where she was kidnapped.

    She remembers all the paths she came through.

    Thinking about something, she blinks and stares into space, then suddenly looks down at me and opens her mouth.

    “You, then you don’t have anywhere to go anyway, right? Come with me.”

    Since it’s true that I don’t have a specific place to go, I nodded.

    “Sure.”

    “Your agreement is strangely quick. What, were you waiting for this?”

    “I’m fine going anywhere.”

    “You really shouldn’t follow strange people outside if they try to lure you with candy.”

    “Then of course I should follow them.”

    Such evil people gather warmth quickly when made into harvesters.

    It gathers quickly, and a lot, and the end comes quickly too.

    Good people made into harvesters were like health food, and evil people were like fast food.

    Of course, in a world where evil people thrive, evil people might live longer and thus have a higher chance of giving me more warmth. But so far, harvesters who only pursued their own gain and wielded power recklessly often died prematurely.

    Thinking like that, I answered, and Victoria looked at me with an incredible expression.

    “You. Don’t leave my side until we get to my home.”

    And she said seriously.

    Finding it funny that she sees me completely as a child, I said this:

    “Obsession is bad.”

    “It’s not obsession, it’s protection. No, when you were a 25-foot monster, I was wondering what to do with such a monster, but now you’re completely a child…”

    Victoria clutches her head as if she has a headache. Objectively speaking, that’s true. Victoria, who is still a student. In her eyes, there’s me who looks even younger than her.

    Moreover, behavior without caution.

    It’s understandable that she’s troubled.

    Victoria looked around, then grabbed my hand tightly and started walking.

    “Even though you called me a monster, aren’t you holding on too tightly?”

    Feeling strangely like I’ve become Soo-oh’s perspective, I jokingly pointed out what Victoria had muttered earlier.

    “I think so too. But you’re just too much like a child. Come to think of it, how old are you?”

    Age, huh.

    If I only count human memories, how old was I?

    “Two digits on the verge of three digits?”

    “You were a complete grandma.”

    While exclaiming like that, Victoria keeps walking without letting go of my hand. The place Victoria is heading to is the port where she was kidnapped.

    It seems she’s planning to take me home with her.

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