Hermit Wizard

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“I'm ready. ”

In the workshop on the ground floor without windows, the sound of my spitting voice comes back cold.

In front, there are twenty-nine bodies lying side by side. The body that flew overhead from Young Young Young Young Young Young Young Province Beach a while ago was incinerated, and this is how much remains. In the meantime, there has been no further corrosion or damage due to the use of conservation magic.

Throws a glance at Parvash.

“Here we go."

The robot nods and I close my eyes.

Massive horsepower is applied to the chest and extends between the dimensional contact points that follow across the channel. Density of horsepower completely different from when you open the channel in random dimensions.

Immediately before fully opening the seed channel, unfinished gaps that can lead to any dimension absorb magical forces. At the same time, the dimensional map stored in the unconscious is awakening. Compressed information shot up like an arrow from the bottom of the mind controls the direction of horsepower.

And power began to pioneer the path.

In chaos with overlapping dimensions, the channel leads to the exact destination. The vanguard of power who found the purpose dimension sensed my contractor and opened the door in front of him.

“ · · · · · ·! ”

I memorize spells. The promised language passed through my soul, conveying my will to the consciousness of the opponent beyond the channel.

Finally, it felt like the other party to the contract ‘agreed’ to my call and stepped into the channel open in front of him.

Ooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

At the same time as the contractor enters the door of the world across, a long forefoot, covered in black fur, emerges in the channel of my chest.

It's a bit longer than my waist height, and the perimeter is about a bamboo leg, so I check the height a few times, and I put my head out of the channel. Then the rest of the feet that spanned that dimension slowly stepped into the dimension that I was in.

This animal, who dragged his entire body out of the channel, said after finishing the summoning, looking at me deactivating the channel.

· · · Aah, already?

I nod.

The other person looked like a wolf with a very long snout.

However, the upper and lower lips have sharp beaks that are hard to find in mammals, and two ears, like palm leaf flies, appear to be insect shells.

And the legs were very thin and long compared to the size of the body. Standing on the ground with four legs, my eyes are about the same height as mine.

The name of this species is Yodmo, and I am the most recent successful summoner to the contract.

“Then, under the contract,

I point to a body lying flat on the floor.

“Eat their memories. All you have to do is give me a memory of the group that was right before I died. ”

Yodmo's eyes look at me.

I try not to expose myself to embarrassment, and I insist on why I react like that.

Why is that?

According to the knowledge I have gained from Parvash, the Yodmora are always afflicted with falsehood. Even when I first summoned him to enter into a contract and had a spiritual conversation, I could feel the urge of a terrible covetousness that was deeply rooted in his spirit.

But today, the atmosphere feels different.

In Yodmo's eyes, even a little nuisance now stands. What's the reason?

However, I feel like whatever the contract was, Yodmo accepted my request.

· · · · ·

He walks with a long, elongated leg, slowing and roaring sound, and stands in front of the nearest body. Slightly lower your legs and extend your neck, bringing a long snout in front of the corpse's head. And I smelled knng knng.

“Do you mind? I've preserved it, but it's been a while since I've been dead.”

Let's try it.

Yodmo opens the tip of his mouth slightly and gives out a long, light pink tongue like a real snake.

Then he moves his tongue along a vertical line against the seal of the body lying on the tip of the thin tongue.

The line of the tongue, which began with the seal, passed through the body's nose, glans, and forehead, turning around the body's scalp one step to the top of the back of the head that touched the floor.

After leaving a clear line on the body's head with the body fluids gathered at the end of the tongue, Yodmo put the tongue back in his mouth and waited a few seconds. And · · ·

Shh!

The head of the body, which was left standing on the floor with the sound of the hard thing breaking out, is split left and right. The cross section of the split skull is as smooth as a knife. The place where Yodmo's tongue licked and passed and left the body fluids created this sophisticated crack.

Between the left and right skulls, the body's brain was revealed. It is not in good condition at all.

However, Yodmo carelessly stuffed the beak of the pointed tip into a crack.

Churu-rub, espionage.

When I hear him suck his brain, my face twitches without knowing it. Yodmo moves so slowly, never in such a hurry. He opened his twenty-nine head and ate all the brains in it.

After that, Yodmo comes to me.

“Do you think it's gonna take a while to sort it out? ”

It's over.

Yodmo snorts and spits out an opaque bead. It hovered over his mouth in the air without falling to the ground.

Of the 29 memories, only information about the group that belonged at the time of death was grouped together. They're mostly duplicates of a few groups, but they all felt the same way where they truly belonged. But the problem is · · · · · ·

Yodmo hits a bead at the end of his nose and talks.

Some memories have been corrupted over time since they died, but it looks like something magical has finally happened. Because of that effect, some parts are volatilized at the same time as death. I don't have any memories left.

“I guessed that. ”

This is why I should have destroyed the order while I was alive.

It was best to break the spell before they died, then press the fake god to make them confess with his power.

If the fake god hadn't followed my threat, he would have signed a contract with Yodmo to pull out all his memories alive.

Unlike a fake god, Yodmo can draw memories from dead opponents. However, it seems to be less effective when it comes to living organisms that are thinking.

However, this bead will allow us to find out more than the fake God has found out. Yodmos are a true specialist when it comes to memory.

“So, the first quest ends with this. Return to Original Dimension

Hold on a second.

“Hmm?”

Do you have any more business?

Yodmo glanced at me for a moment with unwilling eyes, mocking the well mouth and spitting another opaque marble again. This time, it is much larger.

All the other memories except the one I classified earlier. It contained both the memory of surface consciousness and the memory of unconscious. This is also 29 birds.

“What, you don't need it? ”

Yodmo nods quietly.

“· · · It doesn't matter if it's me. The original terms of the contract were every time you called, you just took away the memories I wanted and the rest of them were the ones you ate. ”

I was.

Yodmo replies differently.

This is a little weird, no matter how you look at it.

The Yodmora are the top creatures that consume energy by crystallizing memory. In order for them to be satisfied, they have to eat the enormous memory of a creature that has lived for so many years, and this species has no power to deal with its own ornamental species.

So, they primarily hunt down lower beings who are weaker than themselves and eat away their memories, and after having eaten those memories for such a short period of time, they always say that they don't get separated. So most Yodmos are always hungry, and suffer from a near madness.

This Yodmo I contracted with was no different. Until the moment I first made the contract.

· · · In fact, even though you didn't ask for a few days' time, I tried to get my first referral the day I signed the contract.

Yeah, well, what I signed with Yodmo was a few days ago. I asked for a few days before I made my first request after signing the contract. It took time to put the conservation magic on and restore the space-time and departed bodies to their normal state.

Usually, I don't think I've eaten the memory of a human being like you for years.

“ · · · · · ·. ”

The day I first summoned him, Yodmo asked me for two kinds of money.

One is the price for the act itself of contracting with itself, the parent being. On the other hand, the price I have to dedicate every time I call out and make a request.

For the first time in the world, what Yodmo demanded in return for the contract was my memory as a small patient, as Parvasse had expected. This seemed like a kind of procedure close to consciousness.

And the discussion of what memory to give in return was already with Parvash.

I didn't want to classify the memories to be handed over by topic. For example, if you say, "Take only useless memories," the criteria are unclear, and if Yodmo classifies them on his own and hands over memories that should not be lost, he is worried about affecting magic.

So we decided to cut it by setting a period during which the memories were scaled.

Losing memory after meeting Parvash is a great risk. There is no need to say more about the memory after learning magic.

So I decided to give Yodmo all the memories from birth to the age of seven just before I met Parvash. The scope of this memory includes both the memory that I can consciously access, and the memory that sank into the swamp of subconscious forgetfulness.

Yodmo's memory was too short (at first he demanded more than 20 years of memory!), but I barely signed a contract, persuading myself that so far this is the memory of a third of my life.

As a result, I have no memory in my head until I am 7 years old.

Before summoning Yodmo, I kept a record. Of all the memories up to the age of seven, everything I could remember up to the time before summoning Yodmo was documented. Maybe you'll have a hard time remembering.

After signing the contract and losing my memory, I first opened my laptop and checked the file.

And · · ·, I encountered a record of unfamiliar childhood. It's definitely a document that I wrote, but I don't really feel what I'm thinking about writing this document. Everything in the past that we describe in this document feels like something else.

How sophisticated the power of Yodmo is, I have no memory of the act I wrote this file, but I have no memory of the memories I would have had in my head during typing. I didn't just erase the memory accumulated until I was 7 years old, but I erased all the memories that came to mind after I was 7 years old.

Yodmo looks at me with his eyes like Obsidian.

If you look at the object, you can see what kind of memory it is. You've only had 20 years of memory. Combine conscious and unconscious memories.

It's similar to what the fake god told me.

What I ate in your memory was definitely only six years. So I quickly waited for my first request. In anticipation of how many humans we've prepared. I had a contract with me, so if I had any sense, I was hoping I wouldn't be prepared for this three hundred.

“ · · · · · · ”

But things have changed over time.

“What does that mean? ”

Yodmo pushed his decision with his nostrils.

Anyway, I'll give you all the memories of 29 humans. I won't eat this.

“Yodmo refuses to eat? ”

Yeah, I didn't think I'd say that. It's the first feeling I've felt since I was born.

Yodmo looked at me and said,

I'm going to die.

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Yodmoga, the belly?

Me and Parvash were looking at him because he was ridiculous. Seeing us like that, Yodmo speaks.

I definitely cut off your memory until I was 7 years old and crystallized it and swallowed it. It usually takes a few tens of minutes to digest. I checked its size with my own eyes.

Hit a bead of my fist-worthy memory floating around my mouth and say,

The size that crystallized your memory was far less than this bead. It was very small and insignificant.

It produces a subtle feeling of satisfaction and dissatisfaction that is half-mixed, and it produces a rumbling sound.

But something strange happened while the decision was being digested in my stomach. There is still a phenomenon like 'Horrible Disease of Adeligos’.

Jodmo gave an example of a divine sacrament that gathers and holds the sounds of all dimensions. The Horny Soldier said that because of the size of God's greed, from time to time, everything inside was overflowing, creating rivers and streams through which the sound flows in Abertag.

As the little crystal is digested, the memories of the unknown continue to be released, filling my stomach. Your childhood memories have already been digested and finished. It's like a black mist I can't interpret. It looks like it was squeezed to a smaller size than dust in the deep bottom of your 7-year-old memory, and I'm trying to get it back to its original size by digesting it. But even if this is digestion, it doesn't end.

Then Yodmo points to me and says,

I knew he was an unusual human being. Opening doors on multiple dimensions, calling in beings like me, signing contracts, side effects, right? This enormous volume of uninterpretable memory will not be the fourth. It's a phenomenon that I've seen in the upper wizards a long time ago, not in memory, but at the bottom of the mind. Anyway, I'm so full of it.

I couldn't understand Yodmo very well.

Due to the large capacity, I thought I might have taken some of the unconscious dimensional maps as memories, but I don't think so. I just confirmed it when I summoned him, but there was no sign of damage to the map.

Most importantly, the map was implanted into me after I met Parvash. I have no reason to mix dimensional maps with memories before I was 7 years old.

Yodmo looks at me and talks.

By contracting so often with so many great creatures, their compressed memories must have flowed into their unconsciousness. Isn't that your real memory?

Hmm?

· · · This is also a bit strange. I started summoning after I met Parvash, how did the memories of the higher beings get mixed up in the memories of my seven years old?

Yodmo signals me to reopen the channel without making a fuss about my face.

I would like to ask you more, but until the performance of the quest and the payment of the price (in this case I gave up to receive the price myself), you will have to follow the opponent's intentions according to the content of the contract. And Yodmo was hoping to go back right now.

I opened the channel of my chest, and Yodmo looked back at me as if he had thought of something trying to get into it.

Thanks to you, I can feel the feeling of being full. Even if it's a memory shared with the higher beings, if you digest it for a few more days, you might want to make a case.

Whether the contract was interpreted as unfair or because Yodmo was reluctant to take penalties, Yodmo stopped going back. Then he cuts off a part of his ear without touching it. In a palm leaf-shaped ear made of a material such as the inner wing of a worm, one of the many reeds is cut and slowly flows to me. I held it in my hand.

Ask the spirit who is giving you advice about what to use.

After saying that, Yodmo returned to his original dimension.

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