novelraw Chapter 509
Chapter 509
It wasn’t something like a beam.
Something shaped like a centipede slowly came out of Su-ho’s chest, like something crawling out of a cave.
It was Girad.
Girad came out of Su-ho’s chest like a snake, then slowly began to coil around Su-ho’s body.
Thump!
His heart began to pound hard.
Girad’s ✧ NоvеIight ✧ (Original source) soul and Su-ho’s soul had begun to resonate with each other.
At that moment, Girad, who had been slowly examining Su-ho, suddenly began to rapidly dive back into Su-ho’s body.
Shaeaaah!!
Girad’s long body, which had been hanging out in the open, all went back into Su-ho’s body.
At the same time, the pounding grew even faster.
It felt strange.
It was like Girad’s tentacles were reaching out into every corner of his body.
And the more time passed, the more it felt like his nervous system was being oddly taken over by the bastard.
‘After I sliced you up, no, even if you’re a skill now, you’re daring to try to eat me?’
That wasn’t happening.
I don’t want to hand over control of my body even if the opponent is a dragon or a Demon King, so a worm like a parasite, of all things?
Su-ho, who had left the bastard alone up until now, manifested his will for the first time and began to suppress it.
Shiiiih!
Then the bastard began to resist.
Yeah.
Suppressing it really was the answer.
As he thought that and began pressing down on it even harder, that was when it happened.
[ The Command stat activates. ]
Hwiaaaah!
With the system notification, Su-ho’s body began to shine once more.
The light wasn’t white.
It was black.
It flared up like black flames, then coiled around his entire body like a wave, and began to relentlessly attack Girad, which was gnawing away inside Su-ho.
[ Girad resists the Command stat. ]
[ Girad resists the Command stat. ]
[ Girad resists the Command stat. ]
[ Girad resists the Command stat. ]
......
A violent fight.
Just looking at the vibrations happening inside his body and the system notifications, you could tell how intense it was.
But in the end, the one that won the fight was the Command stat.
[ Girad is completely subdued. ]
[ Girad vows coexistence and loyalty instead of parasitism. ]
Hwaaak!
As the black flames withdrew, white light was revealed.
The agony inside his body also vanished.
It was because Girad had been completely subdued.
“Hoo.”
A short breath that spilled out.
Much better.
But putting aside that Girad pledged coexistence and loyalty to me—so what’s your function, then?
Right around when that thought came to him, he began to feel something long sprouting from behind his back.
At that bizarre sensation, Su-ho immediately imagined a mirror and summoned it, and he could see what had grown from his back.
“A hand?”
A hand.
More precisely, a long arm and the hand attached at the end of it.
Starting around the area near his shoulder blade, it soon stretched out to around above his left shoulder, taking a shape anyone would call a hand.
Of course, it hadn’t literally punched through his back.
Looking through the mirror, a faint shape like a fairy’s wing was attached around his shoulder blade, and the arm that had sprouted was also semi-transparent, giving off a strangely mysterious atmosphere.
[ Girad, influenced by you, has successfully sprouted the first hand. ]
Hwaaa!
With the system notification, the hand shone once more.
A semi-transparent shape like a fairy’s wing.
At that mysterious sight, he reached out and tried touching it, and surprisingly, he could feel a fairly solid texture.
That was when it happened.
[ Desert King’s Memory activates. ]
Shuuuk!
As Girad’s hand appeared, Desert King’s Memory suddenly activated.
Then, in Su-ho’s mind, he could see Girad from the first Big Gate he had once brought down once again, and he began to share a portion of the memories of the bastard called the Desert King.
‘This is.......’
The memory the Desert King shared.
It was none other than the moment Girad’s hand first appeared for the Desert King.
Girad was a skill, but a kind of summon.
But if you strictly distinguished it, it was a parasitic-type skill, so it drove itself deep inside the Desert King’s body like a curse, and Girad sensed the Desert King’s thoughts and will and, with full sincerity, moved the hand it had sprouted to help the Desert King.
‘So it didn’t eat the Desert King from the start.’
Like an SF movie’s robot auxiliary arm, or like an asura with many hands, you could say.
Soon, the playback of the shared memory cut off, and additional system notifications rose up before Su-ho’s eyes.
[ You can control Girad’s hand by reacting it to your will, or you can issue commands to Girad and control the hand. ]
[ Girad is influenced by your will and emotions. ]
[ Girad is influenced by your stats. ]
Su-ho slowly read through the notifications.
And after watching the notifications, he could understand why Desert King’s Memory had suddenly activated.
‘Those just now were a manual telling me how to use Girad.’
Thanks to that, he got the feel of how to use this bastard.
Su-ho immediately projected his will and began moving Girad’s hand.
Bwoong! Bwoong!
The arm swung widely.
It feels difficult, but also kind of easy.
‘It’s like trying to control a tail you’ve never had before.’
Still, the fortunate thing was that using Girad’s hand didn’t actually require technical skill at all.
Girad’s hand moved literally based on Su-ho’s imagination, so if he paid just a little attention, he felt certain he could do more precise and delicate work as much as he wanted.
Then, suddenly, that thought came to him.
‘Oh, wait a second?’
If this really is a third hand, then that works too, doesn’t it?
Seeing is believing.
Su-ho immediately used a skill.
[ Blood Armory activates. ]
What he used was Blood Armory.
After gripping the blood sword he always summons in his right hand, Su-ho created a huge kite shield.
Then he put it into Girad’s hand, and sure enough, Girad, influenced by Su-ho’s stats, lightly lifted the huge kite shield, and with that, Su-ho became able to theoretically pull off perfect defense with no blind spots.
Is that why?
Even while holding a shield behind him himself, Su-ho found the situation so absurd that laughter came out without him realizing it.
“Seriously, you live long enough, you end up getting every kind of ability imaginable.”
By the way, it said Girad’s first hand, right?
Then later, like the Desert King I saw, can I get even more hands?
‘Is this really Thousand-Armed Avalokitesvara or what?’
But it doesn’t seem bad.
Wings, a tail, a third arm—depending on how you look at it, the appearance could be ugly, but either way, it would be a big help in combat.
That was when it happened.
[ ■■ looks at your third arm and smiles in satisfaction. ]
[ ■■ says that if you can afford it, it’s best to increase your arms up to four. ]
A Transcendent’s notification.
Who the hell is ■■?
There are so many two-box ones that I don’t even know who’s who.
But Su-ho somehow felt like that notification was from the same Transcendent, and if so, he thought it was probably Shiva.
Because among the Transcendents Su-ho had secured, the only one who would like having many arms would be Shiva, from Indian mythology, who’s used to multiple arms.
‘Anyway, this bastard is really something else too.’
After controlling Girad a few more times, and only after confirming he could reverse-summon Girad and hide it, Su-ho could finally wrap up the matter of absorbing Girad’s rune.
‘So the only thing left is Fairy Blood.’
He planned to undergo Heracles’s Fate of a Hero after Fairy Blood was finished.
Su-ho immediately checked the information for Fairy Blood.
[ Fairy Blood ]
Rank: S+
# A bloodline said to be passed down only to the Queen Family, who were called the first and greatest fairies.
# Lv.1 - Fairy Blood: Fairy Power (S)
# Lv.2 - [ ??? ] : Locked state.
└ Unlock Conditions
① Reach level 300.
② Recognition of ???.
# Lv.3......
The final bloodline ability, Fairy Blood.
The unlock conditions for Fairy Blood’s second authority were reaching level 300 and recognition of ???.
‘As expected.’
This time too, it looked like it would be three question marks.
Su-ho immediately touched the bold text and proceeded with the quest.
[ Moving. ]
His vision changed.
*
The blacked-out vision returned and regained its color.
Soon, what appeared before his eyes was lush green vegetation and the fresh scent of grass.
“Oh?”
The energy feels good.
They said that in the past, people did something called forest bathing to feel something called phytoncide—maybe this is what it feels like if you do forest bathing.
Su-ho slowly moved his steps and began examining his surroundings.
Then, before he had even walked a few steps, he could sense something strange.
“Why is it...... so big here?”
It wasn’t his imagination.
Trees, rocks, grass...... even the pebbles passing by—everything was big.
The trees were as huge as the kind of giant trees you’d only see in Africa, and every blade of grass was wide and enormous like the roof of a dome stadium.
And the pebbles?
Things that should clearly have been ordinary pebble-sized looked like house-sized boulders.
That was when it happened.
“Find it!”
“It’s felt around here somewhere!”
“Find the filthy contamination factor!”
Someone’s shout.
Like an angry crowd, they were urgently searching for someone while spewing furious voices.
“It’s around here, I’m sure of it!”
“The World Tree branch is reacting!”
“You filthy plague fairy bastard, where do you think you are, daring to come here?”
A plague fairy?
At those words, Su-ho looked around.
If it’s a plague fairy, those are the fairies I killed in Madagascar, right?
But those bastards were here too?
And what do I do, anyway?
This time too, the system had thrown me into unfamiliar land without providing me any clue or information.
Like it was with the other bloodline quests, it looked like this time too, I’d have to find the direction on my own and push the situation forward.
But unfamiliar people were raging as they searched for someone, so I didn’t feel like daring to step forward.
That was when it happened.
“Found it!”
It was when Su-ho had stopped in place and agonized for a long time over what to do.
The grass beside where Su-ho was standing suddenly parted, and someone who looked like one of the angry crowd stared at Su-ho and shouted that he’d found him.
He had bloodshot eyes and was even holding a spear, and the moment he found Su-ho, he approached with the spearhead thrust forward and spoke.
“You filthy plague factor! Where do you think you are, daring to come back again?”
“......Me?”
“Then who else is here besides you!”
“Why am I a plague factor......?”
“Then are you saying the World Tree is lying!”
“The World Tree?”
At the word World Tree, the man pointed to the small branch stuck on top of his helmet.
It looked like a camouflage branch stuck into soldiers’ ballistic helmets, except unlike a camouflage branch, that branch was stuck quite beautifully right in the center of the man’s helmet.
And it was oddly tilted toward Su-ho, and the man called that the World Tree.
Su-ho asked back in disbelief.
“No, that’s the World Tree? That tiny thing?”
“So now you’re committing blasphemy too! Just like a filthy plague factor would, daring! Everyone, it’s here! Hurry up and get over here!”
Su-ho was asking because he genuinely didn’t know, but the man didn’t care and shoved the spearhead in while calling for his comrades.
Before long, bushes all over opened, and people who looked similar to the man appeared holding spears.
At that moment, things that hadn’t been visible before finally began to slowly rise up into view.
- Fairy Kingdom Defense Soldier Lv.???
- Fairy Kingdom Defense Soldier Lv.???
- Fairy Kingdom Defense Soldier Lv.???
- Fairy Kingdom Defense Soldier Lv.???
......
Those were their name cards.
Their identity was none other than defense soldiers of the Fairy Kingdom.