Hermit Wizard
Chapter 97

Superior or Inferior (2)

Kylgeniapros. Its true name as a god was ‘the Edacious World.’

It was one of the most ancient gods among its fellow deities, and it had some distinctive features from other gods.

One of them was that existence itself constituted a dimension. In other words, Kylgeniapros was both a ‘god’ and a ‘world.’

At that time, the spell I had was the magic that brought some of Kylgeniapros’ existence to that world. It was said to be the only spell it gave to mortals.

[How much longer can Kylgeniapros wait?]

‘About 20 minutes from now?’

The presence of God filling the space was getting bigger and bigger. The red light that covered the sky was also becoming darker with an ominous color as time passed.

[It’s tight.]

I muttered inside as I looked at the dorm.

‘If we don’t have enough time… we still got insurance. I have to throw the appetizer again and make it wait a little longer for the main dish.’

[… Hmm.]

‘That being said, I have given more than 100 humans bodies, but the impact is not as great as I thought.’

Did it mean that a handful of my internal organs satisfied God more than 100 ordinary human bodies?

No, I didn’t think so. Apprentices would have a different meaning since they were offered after God’s advent.

I was the direct trigger that caused God’s advent. As a result, in exchange for a part of my body, I called out a piece of God’s body into that world momentarily.

Objectively, the offering might seem insignificant and out of balance compared to the enormous result of advent. However, from the standpoint of the person whose organs were torn of, it was impossible to be happy that it was stopped at a low price.

Back to the point, the fragments of God were summoned to that dimension for the first time, and it was, as expected, extremely pleased. If left as it was, it would’ve randomly encroached that world to the limit allowed by causality, but I didn’t want that to happen, so I prepared that barrier.

As a result, the two-kilometer radius of that dimension called Earth was currently overlapping with a dimension called Kylgeniapros. Yet, they only overlapped.

Of course, the dimension also had a value. Earth was a crappy dimension that couldn’t even be compared to an ant’s poop when it came to the Kylgeniapro’s deity. What was the result?

Yes, that space was currently obscured by God and disconnected from the original dimension. Neither messages nor teleports went outside. As time passed, the sequence after encroachment would begin, but for the time being, that was it.

[Well? The one is coming here right now. That is an unexpected ability.]

‘Ah… you’re right.’

I wasn’t just calling out the pieces of God but also using the power of its body. The realm of cognition allowed by God was transmitted to Parvache through my senses. The scenes I saw at that moment were shared at almost the same level.

God didn’t mind accepting some of my little prayers before starting a full meal. It would be no big deal for him to lend a sense of perception or put a divine nature in my voice.

Of course, it would be comfortable to ask it to hold onto them while I was praying. However, there was only one form of Kylgeniapros’s direct influence on the physical world. It should begin after I had evacuated from that barrier.

The opponent was approaching that way, carrying a Kaifu along with him. Parvache spoke, recognizing the intangible existence through the sense of God.

[The reason it isn’t visible is not invisibility magic. That body can cross the boundary between material and non-material. In the material state, it’s transparent and hard, but it’s basically a human physique. In the non-material state, it’s similar to a spiritual body.]

The whole body was transparent like air except for the Kylgeniapros pattern on the face. God intuitively grasped the reality, and information was naturally engraved in my brain.

If it was a living thing that went back and forth between matter and non-material, we recently experienced it. I answered silently.

‘Does the Heart Fish have a similar principle to that?’

Parvache hesitated and replied.

[Speaking of the characteristics that are common to both… it would be possible to guess backward whether there is any link between the two, and what is the fundamental principle of this ability…]

His intentions continued to be delivered.

[Min-joon, please remember the information of that being through God’s recognition now. If we do research based on this after today, we may be able to step beyond the principle of composition of Heart Fish… to a new concept that we have not been able to approach until now.]

I nodded quietly.

Parvache’s words weren’t just limited to that invisibility. The world that borrowed the eyes of God was wonderful from start to end.

The subject of recognition had been drastically reduced now. However, a moment ago, when I put all the space inside the barrier into the range of my senses, it was the world I saw then. Many objects were briefly understood through a high-level framework that I never encountered before.

I had to remember everything I saw at that moment. I thought that the use of that experience would change my perspective on how to recognize magic. It might be possible to raise the level a few more steps than it was now.

‘It’s coming up to the roof.’

The one approaching at that moment was moving in a physically perfect blind spot. He might not know he was being observed that way.

The guy approached right in front of the rooftop’s entrance and put Kaifu’s body down on the for. Still, there was no advantage in having a transparent physique if he moved while holding it. He would catch the attention of the large frog that floated in the air soon.

I could feel the invisible body dematerializing beyond the door. He seemed to be aiming for a surprise attack.

Despite erasing his existence from the physical world and turning into a spirit body, he couldn’t escape from the gaze of Kylgeniapros. That didn’t mean that colors or shapes that weren’t visible suddenly appeared. It only clearly recognized that something existed there.

He walked through the aisle wall connecting the stairs and the rooftop like a ghost. I made a fuss as if I didn’t notice it on purpose. Seol and Mrs. Pearl hunted and pushed the wizard while I showed my back as if I was focusing on the sight.

I asked into my chest.

‘Hey, you can eat that, right?’

What was stuck on the edge of my clothes and around my chest wriggled in response to my thoughts. Not long after, it moved above my left chest.

‘Looking at it, it’s almost like a spiritual body. I saw it for a while with God’s sense, and I think you can eat enough of that… Do you agree? If you agree, wriggle once and if you don’t agree, wriggle twice.’

Wriggle.

The creature moved once.

At first, I put it in my inner pocket, and only parts of the tentacles touched my bare skin. However, as time passed, it snuggled into the inside. It especially liked to stick to the skin above my heart. It seemed to want to feel the heartbeat up close.

‘If you can eat it, you can touch it. Hey, eat just as much as I tell you, don’t eat the rest; just tie it up. I’ll give you a signal, and you’ll get it right away?’

Wriggle.

It moved its body once again.

The creature gradually approached behind my back. Looking at the landscape beyond my back, I sent telepathy to Parvache.

‘Because of dematerialization, the mark of Kylgeniapros has disappeared.’

When it had the property of a transparent material, a bizarre pattern remained on its face. As soon as it was dematerialized, it disappeared. It was correct to say that the influence was stopped.

[Really, this God… it has no interest other than matter. It doesn’t need a spirit body.]

‘My voice won’t work in a non-material state.’

Slowly, a small creature started moving inside my thick coat. Its body came out of my chest and moved toward the sleeves. It then wrapped around the wrists inside my clothes, preparing a bundle of tentacles.

The invisible body quietly walked out of its spirituality and stretched out one hand that couldn’t be interfered by concrete objects approached from behind my back. It penetrated my chest cleanly, and came out in front of my chest. Of course, there was no sensation, let alone pain. It was like the soul; there was no physical contact.

It was obvious what that guy was doing, so I prepared quietly.

And, the invisible body suddenly converted only its left hand that pierced my body into a physical entity.

If it were what he initially aimed for, the arm that suddenly appeared would crush my thoracic tissue and quickly killed me.

Its materialized body was probably as hard as metal. It was natural to use that tactic. As planned, his arm would appear intact, and my heart, which occupied the space, would have been shattered and crushed.

But…

‘You’re in the wrong place, you bastard.’

-Wheeeiiiing!

The magical force field prepared in advance reacted within my body. The moment the two substances collided in the same space, a fight over which one owned it began, and the game was settled in an instant.

The steel-like forearm that had to be substantiated through my heart failed to materialize due to my magic interference. Afterward, it was pushed out. The spiritual body’s screams weren’t heard in my ears. It couldn’t interfere with the physical world, after all.

However, the transparent body’s forearm, which had already regained the material’s properties, was clearly felt. Like a centipede that was torn apart, its body was broken in two with my body in the middle. My magical force field pushed the middle part of the forearm that tried to materialize in my body. It was crushed at both sides, and its arms were seemingly broken in two as if the other half disappeared.

The invisible blood was fluttering. The sensation of hot invisible liquid splashing like a fountain in front and back of my body was very unfamiliar.

The invisible body staggered, forgetting to dematerialize the amputated arm again. The materialized part must’ve felt pain, huh? That was good news.

Then, would the non-material part feel pain, too?

Let’s experiment.

‘Now!’

Bronze tentacles popped out of my sleeves at my signal!

-Wheeeeck!

The creature, which captured even the Heart Fish, also wrapped around its invisible body at once. The tentacles overpowered him. The invisible guy soon became a mummy-like figure wrapped in a bronze bandage.

The long eyes sticking out of my sleeve looked at me like a bent ring. It expressed quite a few emotions with its gestures and eyes. I met the eyes of the small creature, and there was only one thing it wants now.

‘Eat only his arms and legs.’

The tentacle creature was excited and made countless tiny tentacles like capillaries to penetrate the spirit body. Before long, his limbs began to be eaten by the tentacles, and the meal ended in no time. The piece of the arm that was materialized were separated and dropped like leftover food.

Also, what remained on the floor was a body whose limbs were cut off like a plaster statue found as a relic. The tentacle creature left only the fine stem that restrained his body and separated it from its body. Like chains digging through organs and muscles, the stem cells left in the spirit body completely suppressed his movement.

And as time passed, interestingly, the whole spirit body that lost its limbs became materialized. The restraints of the separated delicate tentacles remained as they were. It seemed that it was originally a living being based on matter and its ability to transform into non-material. There had to be a time limit to maintaining it.

Even after materializing his transparent body, he only breathed and couldn’t even moan. It was because the tentacles pierced his tongue and vocal cords like a fine needle.

Currently, we were done overpowering one executive like that.

“That’s also in the final step.”

I looked toward Seol and Mrs. Pearl. The wizard was shot down by their attack and came down to the roof again. Due to the strict checks of those two, he was running away without attempting to fly again.

His movement had slowed down visibly. I guess we only needed to push one decisive attack.

‘Put your tentacles in.’

Following my instructions, dozens of thick tentacles outside came back into my sleeves. Anyway, that guy saved me a lot of trouble. Although the magic that attacked spirit bodies existed, it would’ve been a huge burden to use it.

Come to think of it, should I give it a name or something? Thinking that way, I bounced toward the wizard.

“You… you…!”

The wizard’s face turned blue when he saw me approaching. He might’ve already noticed what the lump of tentacles left behind me meant.

“Noel!”

With the name he spat out in his head, I triggered the magic.

“The String of Quécadios!”

A white ray of light came out of my clothes. It looked like a thin light of laser beams, which were soon divided into several branches as if it were loosening long hair and cut the air into a sharp and thin flash.