episode_0024

“Kyareuk-”

A goblin whose throat is cut by a sword falls down while clutching his neck.

The corpses of goblins were strewn around the fallen goblin, and even at an estimate, the number was over 30.

“That’s fascinating. Unlike monsters, they are intelligent.”

The monsters of the gate have instinctive and blind aggression towards humans.

However, these monsters called goblins were full of emotions, had iron weapons, and were roughly clad in leather.

Crucially, although they were simple words such as attack, strength, flight, and monster, it was clear that they had their own civilization, as they had their own language.

“Is that so amazing? To be honest, these goblins are of a low standard even among monsters…”

Luisi extinguished the fire snake that was burning the goblin and spoke.

“Because this is the first intelligent race other than humanity.”

I just told Luisi, who will be assisting me from now on, that I am not from this world.

To supply water or food on Earth, you have to travel back and forth, but it was a bit hard to notice.

Fortunately, in this world, there is an alternate world called the Demon World where demon lords live, and Luisi was somehow convinced.

“Are we now halfway to Brion territory?”

“No, I walked for one day, so I have to go for two more days.”

Assuming that you bring drinking water, food, and equipment, an able-bodied adult male can walk 30km per day.

However, we had to walk through forests and mountains, not roads, and including the time spent sleeping, resting, and finding our way, we could barely walk 15km.

The length between Brion and the Basquel territory was approximately 45km, which was about the length of traveling one and a half of Seoul from north to south.

“There’s still a lot left. Then let’s take a break. I have to learn magic first.”

We left the goblin’s heap and found a place to rest for a while.

A cave that looks cozy and suitable for two people to rest.

One resident bear was chased away with a moderate beating.

After that, I sat down and started meditating.

Luisi’s memory is already with me, so the learning process is unnecessary.

Instead, it brought back memories of magic.

Magic power is the power contained in the soul, and magic is the act of moving magic power with the mind.

I don’t know about the soul, but the mind was my specialty.

I practiced moving magical power with my mind.

At first, I had no idea about magic power, but with the sense of using the magic eye and borrowing from Luisi’s experience, I was able to manipulate magic power in just an hour.

I looked at the magical power writhing in my hand with my magical eyes and threw it towards the wall.

Hwaak

Magical power that cannot even scratch the wall but rather spreads when it collides with it.

“Hmm… The physical force itself is weak.”

But I wasn’t disappointed.

The current stage is basic and difficult to even call magic.

It was a step that even children followed.

I moved on to the next step: ordering.

“An arrow being shot, a solid sphere.”

The important thing here, as before, is to manipulate the magic power and add it to the throat and tongue.

With magic added to my throat and tongue, I recited the ancient language, and the magic took shape and shot towards the wall.

thud

This time, there were scratches on the wall.

I tilted my head and chanted the spell again.

thud

“Hmm. Is this spell mastery?”

After repeating the spell, the power improved very slightly.

This time, I experimented with my skill by repeating the spell dozens of times.

Thump thump thump thump….

It wasn’t until the wall was slowly breaking apart that I was able to figure out what the spell was.

“I see. A spell is an act of imbuing magical power with my clear will. So, every time I repeat a spell, my magic power and will become accustomed to it and become accustomed to it, so I have more will in the spell.”

It was a principle that became more familiar and easier the more you experienced it and repeated it.

This time, I fully concentrated my mind and recreated the feeling I had when reciting the spell.

I inject my will directly into the magic power within me and form magic.

Swish-thud

Although its power was reduced by half, it succeeded in creating a magic bullet without a spell.

In the language here, it was chanting without chanting, or learning an incantation.

“Then what is an order? What is this and will my will and magic react?”

I even learned the magic shield spell, which is another basic spell.

Still, I had no idea about the spell, so this time I tried dismantling the spell itself.

Even though I studied each word of the spell and interpreted it using Babel, there was no gain.

“Is it because the sample is still small? Or is it because my level is low?”

So this time, I mixed up the spells or replaced them with different words and discovered something surprising.

Magic that goes awry when a spell mixed with a shield and a sphere collide.

Thanks to this, I was able to sense how the spell imbued magical power with will.

Through the magic that surrounds the language, it is sent to a place with magic, a place presumed to be the soul, and the soul converts the language into will and injects it into the magic.

“From the beginning, it was not the mind… but the soul that responded to language? Magic, soul, language. Is this a similar principle to the concept of speech and spirit? It’s fun.”

This time, I tried to cast a spell by making a spell in Korean.

When I saw that the effect was lower than that of the existing old imperial spell, I was lost in thought again.

“The will that is injected into magical power also varies depending on the language. People in this world must have fully known that the power of magic varies depending on the language. The old imperial language is clearly a language optimized for spells. They say I speak a different language… hmm? If it’s a language, how about Babel?”

Babel allows different languages to communicate.

So, can I convey the message to my soul?

Is it possible to create a language or meaning optimized for the soul?

I adjusted the barbell.

This control was possible as the barbell grew closer to Class A.

The target is my magical power.

It was impossible to directly specify an abstract concept like the soul. However, magical power is a power contained in the soul.

My plan was to use magical power like a lightning rod to communicate with spirits.

I even used thought acceleration and brought my mind to its peak state.

In that state, I let out one word.

“Arrow”

Hahaha

$#@ &☆¤

The word ‘arrow’ was changed by Babel into a word that was different from the human vocal range, and even had doubts about its correct sound.

Ssssuk- Shashashashashak-

I felt a horrible sensation of something digging into me, along with the sensation of something converted by a barbell crawling all over me.

“Kaaagh?! Kak! Wow!”

When you shudder from unbearable discomfort and stimulation that is alien to your five senses.

It began to penetrate my magic and connect with my soul.

Just as I had felt the essence of the mind before, this time I perceived the essence of the soul.

It was the source and existence.

The essence of the soul, Ether.

When it met the ether, I instantly became an arrow and flew away, breaking something surrounding my origin.

Chaang!

When I came to, I was standing in front of a cave wall, and there was a huge hole in the wall.

“Unification of divine swords…!”

There was a similar story in the memories of Gong Hyeok-do, a second-class warrior of the martial arts.

A state where the sword and I become one.

Shingeomhapilshingeomhapildivinestrengthharmony一.

This should be called the unity of divine knowledge, but it was definitely the same state.

I was excited about the new use of the barbell, but collapsed from the feeling of exhaustion that overtook my body.

dump

“Pfft…”

“Solomon!”

There was not a single ounce of magical energy in his body, let alone strength.

It was difficult for me to move even a single finger, so I was able to do so only after being attended to by Luisi for three hours.

“Are you okay now?”

“Okay, I just lost strength, don’t worry.”

I put Luisi’s worries to rest and thought back on what had just happened.

When the language converted to Babel met the soul, something similar to the union of the sword and spirit occurred.

The soul is the source of existence.

The source of my being that met the language of Babel was transformed into an arrow, and my body and mind were shot like an arrow.

‘But this is different from the magic spell I want.’

I traced the shape of my soul, recalling the memory of perceiving the ether just before the new match.

Strangely enough, it felt like the soul was not located somewhere in the body, but rather within me, deeper than my mind.

The more I recognized the soul, the more I felt like something was trying to come out of the soul but got stuck.

‘what? What is this feeling?’

First, I tried to release the feeling that something was stuck while trying to come out.

[arrow]

It was as if my soul had said so, and the magical power solidified into the shape of an arrow and shot in response.

Fit is great.

The arrow passed through the wall in an instant and stopped at an invisible depth.

“Ha?”

That’s how I found a spell optimized for the soul.

“This is interesting.”

The power of the magic arrow was very vicious.

It may not be possible to kill me at my peak, but in the case of a first-class warrior, it would be enough to kill me in one go, assuming it hits.

“One-word spells are at the beginner level of magic, but they have this kind of power. It’s worth training more magic.”

A new spell formula called Babel Code for short, a spell where the soul experiences the language of Babel and chants it directly from the soul.

It was far superior in every way to the spells of the old imperial language optimized for magic in the existing human vocal range, but it was not without its drawbacks.

It is impossible to create new spells without experiencing the language of Babel.

I thought about making more spells other than the arrow spell I could do now, but when I remembered that my strength was completely exhausted and I collapsed, I gave up for a moment.

‘It’s not just that I don’t have strength in my body, but my soul also feels like it’s burdened. It can be dangerous if you make it carelessly.’

After some time had passed and my body and soul had recovered or I had gained more strength, I decided to create a new Babel Code.