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Mariella and her child were in a dim place, even though they should have stood on the ground. It's kind of similar in the water, but my breath isn't bitter.
When I look up, my master is standing on the ground. Looks like this place is on the ground.
The child is holding Mariela's hand tightly and smiling every time she says it's okay. Mariela finally realized if this child was a spirit. It's such a strange place, I'm not even afraid of it. I'm sure it's because I see a gentle light deep down at my feet.
Mariella thought it resembled a river of stars floating in the night sky. But there's a lot of light all the time, and it also looks like a big river. Fluffy and a few muscles of light rise from it, they disappear, and from time to time grains of sagging light flow into the river of light from above. You're very pretty, Mariella thought.
The child takes him down to the river of light. Even though it looked like glowing water from above, it also seemed like glowing fine particles when I stopped nearby.
It's already in the river of light, but it has no boundaries, like when it comes into the water. It's just that your feet are terribly bright and warm, and the more you go up there, the weaker the light becomes. As I continue to go deeper and deeper as the child draws my hand, there is already plenty of light around me, both up and down, and even the boundary between me and the light is blurred. Still, the child is holding my hand tightly, so I can properly tell that I, the child and the light are separate things. I can tell that the light is very "big."
"Mariella, this is the center of the vein. Tell him your real name in the ground. Then the terrain also tells us its true name. I can connect you to the vein."
She looks a little worried and says. But I guess this is what the master said about "connecting the vein to the line". Mariella names her real name to the light.
"Me, Mariela. You are. Is that it?
Was that a voice? At that moment, Mariela connected to the earth's pulse.
How warm. Mariela felt like everything was filled.
I've always been alone. Mariella is not particularly talented, amazing talented, or blessed with skills. We had a lot of alchemy skills and more kids had other useful skills in addition to alchemy skills.
Well-equipped children, talented and skilled children, and labour-prone boys were found early and left behind the orphanage. Mariela was not always chosen. I knew in my childhood that I was a priceless child. That's why I became a good girl.
I helped a lot. I took good care of the kid downstairs.
"Good boy." "That'll help." "Thank you."
That's what the orphanage teachers told me. But there was no one to welcome Mariela.
When I was lonely, when I was lonely, I felt that way with Mariella all the time from the moment I found myself in the mood. As soon as it connected to the ground vein, it disappeared to melt.
No, no, this loneliness, loneliness, has been something I've felt since the moment I was born alone in this world for a long time. That healed. I instinctively assumed that it had returned. The ground pulse (here) is the source of life. This is the place where I was born and returned from (here). He said he was finally back in one.
That's warm, it's going to melt and mix in a loose slight sleep.
"Mariela - - -"
I can hear you all the time. Someone is calling me.
"Mariela - - -"
This is a shame.
"I like this girl," the master chose Mariela, who was not chosen by anyone. I didn't have a choice. Even though there were many other kids with alchemy skills, the master chose Mariela over anyone else. He hugged me all the time.
The Earth's pulse (here) is the source of life, the place of return, the place where you can be freed, healed, filled and returned to one from the bites of flesh that separate you from the world.
But I'm still 'Mariella'. I do feel the skills of alchemy rooted in Mariella's soul. "Mariella" can tell that her alchemy skills are connected to her master.
"Are you going?
The child asks. He held my hand all the time. The plumage in his hand has always taught me that Mariella has not yet returned to the earth's pulse.
"Yeah. Shige's calling, so I have to go home. I can't do anything by myself. Without me, the room would be amazing.
Mariella laughs. It's very cozy here, but there's no place for Mariella to go home.
"Bye," the kid says.
"Let's play again," Mariella replied, laughing happily.
"See you later," I said.
I have to go home. Strangely enough, Mariella went up. As we approach the ground, we can see something pouring in. I feel like I'm being pulled up by something. Mariella was in her body when she realized that her master's alchemy experience was pouring into Mariella's alchemy skills.
That child, who has been holding my hand for so long, is nowhere to be found, and instead my master is holding Mariella's hand.
It was as if it had melted and crowded the world, saying that I was so vague and so badly filled, that I was completely detached as soon as I returned to my flesh body. I went back to one.
But I remember that place. I can see it connected deep down in my heart. Alchemy skills connect me to the ground. I can now understand that I am a part of the world.
"Buha - how deep are you diving? I'm in a hurry to get out of here! Experience with alchemy, roots are the only thing that sticks together.
The master looked angry, reassured, and said one last word:
"Welcome back, Mariella"
"I'm home."
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"In my time, this is what the line contract with the terrain looked like.
Alchemists dive into the earth's veins by abandoning their flesh and becoming spiritual bodies with the guidance of the Spirit. So the line is formed by exchanging the ground vein and the real name. They say that the act of connecting with the ground vein without the body of meat poses a great danger. It's comfortable. The earth pulse is a great stream of life that lives on this earth. The joy of returning to part of it is the unbearable urge to take away the solitude that accompanies you from birth as an individual.
You can't shake it off and go back to the flesh by yourself, unless you're someone with such strong feelings in this world. So the teacher will be present. The master shows his disciples the way home at the expense of some of his own alchemy experience. He said he had a place to go back to in this world.
They say contracts are made to children because they are more hopeful and less likely to be caught in the ground vein.
The disciples, taken by the Spirit to dive into the earth vein, return to this world with the guidance of their master. The process also resembles a rebirth. That's why the alchemist's brother's bond is deep.
The experience of the master's alchemy used in this ritual moves to the disciple, and with the experience inherited from the master, the disciple is able to create the Shizuku of life from the ground vein. It is said that the Library will be shared with the connection made during the transfer of EXP between the mentors.
"This is what the line contract with the ground vein looks like, they say that the bond of the alchemist's brother is thicker than blood, but as long as the line can be done, there is a Library, and then I can handle it on my own, so I lived with my master for about 5 years without knowing if he took care of me or if he took care of me, but all of a sudden he's gone somewhere, so my asshole master is gone"
Mariela will curse her master at first. Anyway, across the street from Mariella, she's got tears all over her big eyes, and Miss Caroline is staring at Mariella.
"Mr. Mariella."
Dear Cal, who hugs Bubble and Mariella.
"I'm impressed. Wow. I'm here, I'm here. Mariella is not alone."
Yeah, warm. Soft at last.
That's the same with Mariella's arms and belly. Puffy.
Mariella thought it would be very warm here, seeing Dear Cal and Sieg, who for some reason is subtly spreading her hands open and twitching.
The outside of the building was completely cold and the rain had turned into snow.