Hermit Wizard

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“You know, no matter how you think about it, don't you? In fact, isn't the channel some kind of genital thing? ”

My words I didn't spit out. My voice, which I did not make, came from afar.

Nothing was compact and visible everywhere. I just heard voices. I just noticed. It's a dream. It's been a long time.

I'm a god in my dreams and I'm talking.

“Think about it. Let's say that the soul is a gene, and the body of the dead is a cell. Immortal life is a machine and a tool for maturing and evolving souls. The difference between cells and cells is that they were not replicating the contents but aimed at growth · · ·. Let's broaden our horizons to think of the world as a single creature. The genes that one world has, the soul, are not absorbed through channels into the other world. ”

I was sending a voice somewhere far away. A lump of meaning sucked into the black vortex was being passed on to the other person across an unpredictable space. It was clear that the destination was a distant and different world.

The opponent said.

“I think I did the same thing last time. ”

“No, listen more. Then the channel becomes a genital organ for the exchange of genes. Just like creatures mix genes through reproduction, they exchange souls around the world. Ah, this is not an exchange, but a unilateral flow. Is the absorption of the soul through the channel a reproductive act and a feeding act? ”

“· · · I don't really like the expression. ”

I was laughing and talking.

“What the Savior has eaten does not determine which god he will be. Why do most Saviors absorb souls from other worlds through channels, after all, as a source of great providence to hold various souls in their bodies? I think it's consistent with the reproductive behavior of organisms trying to acquire a variety of genes. So should our job in creating channels be to create genital mutilation? Or is the artificial fertilizer more accurate? ”

She said in a refined manner.

“Do you want to describe what you're doing for your child that way? ”

I might get angry again. I stopped talking there. The affection she shows for her child grows darker and darker over time. I'm not that level yet, and honestly, I don't understand.

A very brief conversation did not follow. It wasn't about the distance. The inexhaustible distance between us did not interfere with the dialogue.

She kept her silence like that, then opened her mouth again.

“I've made up my mind. ”

I felt palpitations and anxiety at the same time.

“Yeah, good job. That's when we can't take it anymore, right? ”

She was positive.

And what followed, it was unbelievable.

“I will cross the wall without eating. ”

“· · · What?! ”

I was amazed by the sauce. Speak out like screaming.

“That's ridiculous! You're not serious, are you? ”

I said in my dreams with desperation, worry and concern.

“Who the hell planted that idea in your head! Who's so mean to you? ”

Then she replied. A resolute voice, as I had already decided, but without concealing my affection and warmth.

“No one was controlling me. It's your own decision. ”

“No! I know a few people who talk nonsense. You're afraid to try, so you're a coward who pushes people closer to the wall! Please, don't. Again, I'm the opposite. ”

“I'm sorry. It's no use if you object. I've already made my decision. ”

His voice was calm and gentle, but he was empowered.

She always did. A glorious soul that hasn't worn out in a long time. The sun was hot, Orot was shining, and it was warm. Her child was as beautiful with poor eyes as she was. Bright and brilliant, resonant and resembling each other.

“No matter how much! ”

I couldn't understand it, so I cried out like I was vomiting.

“Crossing a wall without a body! No savior has succeeded in that way so far! No one has ever been a god like that! ”

She replied in a mixed voice, a little sadness.

“You don't think I might be the first, do you? ”

Ah, hopelessness seemed to rise to the bottom of my neck.

“Please stop. I want to bless you for being a god. If you make the wrong choice at the crossroads, and you get shattered or regressed or disappear without leaving a trace, I won't be able to stand it. ”

“It's irreversible. I'm sure it's the only way. ”

When I heard that, I felt dark before my eyes. I know her well.

“You'll understand me one day. ”

I shake my head and say,

“My child still can't even communicate with me properly. ”

“When that moment comes at the crossroads. You'll understand my choices. ”

Her fuzzy laughter is conveyed through Aberdag.

When she was desperately trying to make her whole again,

Hrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!

My whole body was covered with terrible pain.

Arghhhhhhhhhhhh!

The darkness shatters and breaks. It seems like existence is burning and collapsing.

Only then did I get out of my dream. She was no longer by my side. My body, which did not know its substance, returned to man.

And the sensation I regained was never welcome.

“Hidden!”

I open my eyes. The blind cut me off again and tore me apart. This is the reality. I barely spoke.

“I fainted for a moment! ”

“Hidden! Hidden! ”

An intense flash knocked in front of my eyes. I can't see the floor. I can only hear the urgent cries calling me.

Hrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!

Something sweeps through the body violently. I thought in terrible pain. Yeah, to escape the chaos, we're triggering an emergency transmission. Bounced out of dimension.

So this is it!

“· · No, this is huge! ”

The floor cried.

“Please, hold on a little longer! The pioneers will be here soon! ”

Hrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!

The memory comes back blurry again.

The world of the Old Testament, which fell into a dimensional leap, was literally hell.

As soon as you cross the space, a white flame storm with intense force strikes you. It began to burn my body without any reason. There was a mixture of physical destructive power, magical energy, and unidentified power.

At least not immediately, because the shield of light in the syringe remained briefly intact after metastasis. I developed countless defensive artifacts simultaneously. Beyond the dimension and out of the influence of the Magic Freeze, I desperately opened a few more magical shields, but I couldn't stop them perfectly.

“Argh!”

The blood seems to be boiling. The magic shield that protects me becomes weaker. This suffering was unadaptable. It seems to wield within the body and become more amplified over time.

“Dark...! ”

Thank goodness. The pioneer, Maru, is not harmed by this environment. His voice is distant.

· · · Ah, but what about Parvasse? What happened to Parvash?

Ata on the floor was screaming in her ear.

I heard a faint psychic wave from a distance.

Obviously, the signal came from around here.

Oh, look!

They seemed to have found us.

Found it! I'll put the comms in. HQ, HQ. Rescue found. Rescue found. 49th Rescue Node. Initiate emergency response. What about infants and children between the ages of 2 and 3? What the hell is that?

Uh, isn't that a non-pioneer next door? My body is so badly contaminated that I can't tell what kind of race it is. Hey, turn on the soul detector.

Yes! I understand. · · · Huh? What's going on? Senior, I think this is broken. Why does it look like this?

What is it? · · · · ·?

An extremely frustrating psychic conversation.

Yeah, well, you lived anyway.

I let go of the spirit strap I was holding close to me.

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In the dark, I heard a chattering sound.

“Hmm? Strange. I should have recovered by now. ”

I think. Another dream? Or reality?

Did I live?

The voice continues.

“You're not awake. Is your brain riper than I thought? ”

A voice of a unique texture that no race has ever heard before. The sound of glass and sand colliding softly. Even though it was the first language I encountered, it was naturally translated and meaning flowed into my head.

The answer to that embarrassingly muttered voice was heard in my head.

No, the connection is good. I've regained consciousness now.

This voice was much more familiar and sounded as close as it was speaking within my skull. I thought it was Telepathy who designated me the only recipient. However, the owner of a voice such as glass and sand seemed to have heard the answer.

“Yeah? Hey. Wake up. Open your eyes. ”

It was probably like handing it to me. I felt an extreme sense of disguise as I listened to him.

· · ·, What is this?

“Hey, you don't look so good. Did you regain consciousness? Didn't you plug it in before the brain healed properly? ”

A confused voice, whether telepathic or phonetic, answered in a loud tone.

I found the consciousness. The brain has recovered properly. And don't talk to me. Jeremy.

A man called Jeremy laughs.

“Tough. Arimist doesn't care what I say. ”

I'm not an Arimist. She's her, and I'm me. Are you going to make a racist statement that it will be similar, because it's an artificial soul?

Jeremy shrugs.

“No, not like that. ”

Artificial souls are not servants to pioneers. You and I are not close enough to let go.

“I thought we were so close? ”

Right now, I'm talking to 16,339 pioneers at the same time. There are only 19 pioneers among whom I proposed or allowed to speak first.

“I can't even enter the Nineteen Tentacles of those sixteen thousand pioneers? ”

Which means you didn't have that much work to do with pioneer dolls. You said you weren't interested in exploration or anything? I don't think there was anything else I could have done to overlap with you.

“Yes, I'm a therapist. Mainly I don't talk much to Arimis Eien. A great soul that doesn't catch my tone at all. ”

To put it one way or another, the reason IrimisAen doesn't care about the pioneers is not because he respects you, but because he's not interested in you.

“Chet. I have nothing to say. ”

I listened to the conversation and opened my eyes close. The light flashes in my eyes and I see the surroundings.

The senses remain. The feeling of disguise. Terribly awkward, disguised.

The reason was soon known. Very explicitly, there were so many differences.

There was no blurred vision when I just woke up. The world is so clear. I wonder if I've seen things so clearly. This was not the case when I opened the magic circuit of the eye for the first time.

I saw a huge object in front of my eyes. That's probably it, Jeremy. Slowly shaking tentacles. It has a slightly different shape from the floor. I didn't see it all because of the darkness, but it seems a little smaller than the song of chaos. Eyes stuck in the middle stare at me.

I can't think of any other race given the conversation I've been having and the look on my face.

“· · · Pioneer. ”

Well, it's a success. Rescued? What about Maru and Parvash?

Open your mouth in front of the Pioneer's eyes. I tried to make a voice.

Immediately before making such a voice, I felt and was appalled by the numerous choices given to me. It was not a simple process to spit before even thinking about what to say as usual. I knew a lot of ways to communicate by ringing the air at this moment. It was possible to articulate up to a frequency that would not normally be heard. I just, intuitively knew. I could create ultrasonic vibrations and produce sound pressure close to the shock wave.

But that strange sound didn't come out of my mouth. It's like when you lift an egg, your fingers are too weak to let go, they're too strong to break. I sounded in search of the frequencies and negative pressures that the most moderate human voice could have.

“· · · What is this? ”

Zerrett replied.

“This is my room. ”

A room?

I looked around. What I felt now was more than just that everything seemed distinct.

A vast space beyond measure. There was a faint blue light on the floor and ceiling, which consisted of an unidentified dark blue material. This light was not unfamiliar. · · · Yes. It was similar to that seen at the place where he lived, the Savior of the Silk Rim.

But when he stared at the light, he saw what was not seen. Numerous patterns hidden in the waves of light that flow quietly. Different powers than magic. It gently wrapped the huge tentacles in front of the eyes, exchanging information relentlessly with each other.

I asked the question in the right spirit. Yes, Maru and Parvash!

“What happened to the young pioneer who was with me and the spirit possessed by the little totem? ”

Geret shakes the tentacles for a moment.

“I don't understand what you're saying. Tellasmoguan, would you mind controlling the sensitivity? ”

Jeremy, he told me not to talk to you.

The voice, called the Tellasmoguan, grumbled and seemed to have taken action. A calm wave appeared in the scattered light surrounding Zereth.

“Thank you, Tel. ”

Don't call it short.

“Well, then, human. You want to talk about it again? ”

I repeated the same story, and now he moves two tentacles in the middle of his body to see if there is any difficulty in understanding.

It was a movement different from the habit of the floor, which was influenced by my gesture. But as soon as I saw it, I felt like someone was touching my temples by analogy with a physical phenomenon. It was a mental knock, not a physical sensation. And very gently, quietly, the meaning came into my head.

A gesture that intersects Tentacle 11 and Tentacle 14. Meaning: Problem solving. Easy. Peace of mind and encouragement.

· · · What is it? Why would I know this naturally?

“The young fugitive has now been summoned to the Old Testament Management Committee. ”

You're a beggar?

I woke up nervous for a moment. And only then did I realize that I had been sitting down until now.

And it wasn't the only thing I knew.

“My body? ”

Too fast. Was I able to move this fast? No magic effect?

I raised my arm. And I realized what I had missed so far.

“The skin is purple? ”

“Oh, would you like to start with that? ”

What I was looking at was not a skin close to the familiar apricot. Dark purple. Raise your left hand over your right forearm. · · · Oh, my God, it's soft enough to faint. But I didn't feel fragile. I could tell intuitively. This means that I am ranked as the highest intensity class of substances I have ever encountered.

“Simply put, your mind is now remotely connected to that doll. ”

A doll.

I recall an artificial creature that looked like a human being walking out of Philadelphia, but that made a difference in many ways. The creature's skin was also as dark purple as this.

Are you sure?

I cried out in haste.

“You must have possessed my soul with this doll!? ”

Geret shakes a few tentacles. In his head again, a friendly knock followed: tentacles 9 up, tentacles 2 down, tentacles 16 waving like waves. Meaning: This is ridiculous. How good it would have been if it had been possible. I wanted it, but it didn't happen. Implications for non-heavy failures.

Jeremy smiled and said,

“I tried that at first. Your body is a mess now, so it's gonna take a long time to heal. If we keep losing consciousness in the meantime, it's too bad! I couldn't let you waste your life like that. So once I tried to get my soul to the right artificial creature, ”

I stopped talking there for a while and shouted in a loud voice.

“You failed! Oh, my God. I've never seen such a soul before. What the hell were you doing in that world? Separation's over. Soul extractor's crushed! The pioneer who made it is very excited now. 270 years of failure? There's nothing to be bored about for a while. Thanks to you, there will be a few more upgraded items. ”

I was dumbfounded to listen to him.

You failed to pull my soul out?

“So now this state! ”

“I couldn't make the ice, so I had to use a doll with no soul metastasis. Supporting such a function is only the kind of doll that pioneers control themselves. Pioneer Soul Temple is forbidden. ”

“So this body is · · ·. ”

“Yes, the body is a coveted doll. I borrowed it in a hurry. ”

He added a few words. My soul is now well attached to my original body, and only my brain has been restored first and then remotely connected to this doll. The rest of the body is still so damaged that normal survival is impossible.

“· · · Ah, I remember. ”

I remember when I first fell into this dimension. Bounced from the Old Man of the Silver Rim, when it was sent to this dimension as an emergency. I was pressing my whole body!

“Terrible pain! ”

I trembled as I swollen. I borrowed a doll, but the reaction was immediate and vivid as if it were my original body.

Jeremy said with a mix of unfortunate emotions.

“The external environment of our dimension is not something that humans can endure. It's a miracle you're alive. ”

“What about my body? ”

“Can you see? It's not good for your mental health. ”

I nod and immediately the space next to me flows like water.

A giant cylindrical tube that appeared in a place where there was nothing. I opened my mouth when I saw what was in it.

My voice trembles.

“No way, what is this? ”

“That's right.”

“My body? ”

“Yes.”

“How the hell did this happen? ”

“Too badly contaminated. Survival is amazing. ”

What was contained in the transparent tube was simply a mass of coconut milk.

I can barely find a trace of my arm or leg. The body swells up and looks like an aspirate drowning. All over the skin turned grey, the blood bled out, and the flesh bubbles melted. The nose sinks and clumps with the mouth. A trace of the eyeball flowing out of both eyes crosses over his cheeks like a tear.

· · · I murmured.

“Can you really fix this? ”

Geret replied pleasantly.

“Of course you can! But like I said, it takes a while. ”

Following his words, the voice of the Tellasmogayne echoed calmly.

The brain waves in the rescued human patient have become very unstable. It's not good for recovery. We need action to stabilize our emotions.

“What do humans like? ”

All mammal-based species are similar.

“Oh, is that so? ”

Jeremy looks into the light as if he is looking for information and says to me:

“Hey, man. You'll have plenty of time. You want to flirt with another doll? ”

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