Countess Youngae’s Money-Sweeping Makeup Shop - Chapter 69

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69

 

“Do you remember that most wisdom spirits can grant imagined effects when combining things?”

 

“Yes!”

 

“Attacks work on a similar principle. If you grab natural objects around you and imagine an ability, the two natural objects combine to create power.”

 

“Oh! Then can any kind of power be created?”

 

“That would be nice, but unfortunately there are formulas. You have to follow those formulas for power to be created.”

 

“Formulas…”

 

“There are formulas about what natural objects to use and what abilities to imagine. We’re researching new formulas too, but there are only six so far.”

 

“If you don’t follow the formulas, no power is created?”

 

“That’s right.”

 

I looked down at my hands.

 

Are the formulas very difficult?

 

I’ve never used an attack ability before.

 

“You’ve never used one before, right?”

 

“Ah, no…”

 

“It’s because you have a human body so your power is weak. When we spray water, you’d probably only be able to shake off dew?”

 

That’s way too weak!

 

Then wouldn’t it be better to just use mana if I can use abilities?

 

It might be better to just go back quickly.

 

I felt my shoulders drooping.

 

Just then, I heard Roo’s laughter.

 

“Hehe, that’s just how it would be now. But if you develop your abilities, you’d be able to use stronger power, wouldn’t you? And-”

 

When I lifted my head, I met Roo’s mischievous smile.

 

Then blue light rippled from Roo’s hand and pop, a blue flower-shaped cloud was created.

 

“With a teacher here, would you improve quickly by going back and doing it alone?”

 

That’s true.

 

It’s better to learn from an expert than self-study.

 

If I get stronger, the probability of returning safely increases too.

 

It’s not much, about 10 days seems worth investing.

 

That’s only about 3 days in the real world anyway.

 

I closed my eyes and touched my chin in thought, then nodded.

 

“Can you teach me right away?”

 

***

 

Roo handed me a book, saying I needed to understand and memorize the formulas first.

 

I read the book all night until I was about to collapse from exhaustion.

 

The book contained formulas along with methods for executing abilities.

 

Understanding the sentences wasn’t difficult, but executing the abilities was hard.

 

The blue light I’d seen before showed no sign of appearing at all.

 

The next day, I woke up and finished reading the book while eating.

 

I finished reading it at lunch that day.

 

“I’ve read and memorized it all!”

 

I flung open the door to the cabin where Roo and Sillia lived.

 

At the same time, Roo’s gaze turned toward me.

 

Her eyes widened in surprise, but I smiled brightly as if asking what the problem was.

 

In South Korea, if you can’t quickly memorize such simple formulas, it’s hard to survive!

 

With a confident heart, I entered the cabin and closed the door.

 

With a thud sound, only then did Roo’s voice come.

 

“Flower and stone?”

 

“Sharp pollen that makes breathing difficult when inhaled.”

 

“Stone and water?”

 

“Something that explodes the moment the force touches the opponent.”

 

“Water and wood?”

 

“Something that binds the opponent in place.”

 

These three were all that could attack immediately without delay.

 

Roo nodded expressionlessly, then gracefully came down from where she was sitting on the white pillar.

 

Soon she smiled and walked toward the corridor.

 

When I stayed still, she briefly turned around and tilted her head as if telling me to follow.

 

Did I pass?

 

I brightened my expression and immediately followed Roo.

 

Walking down the corridor with Roo, I glanced at her and cleared my throat.

 

“Um, Roo.”

 

“Hm? What is it?”

 

“I have something I’m curious about.”

 

“What kind of thing?”

 

“You said wisdom spirit power is about combining things to create something new.”

 

“Right?”

 

“But that blue butterfly I saw before changed into a blue bird – how did you do that?”

 

“Ah, that.”

 

Smiling, Roo grabbed and lifted my wrist.

 

Wondering what this was about, I looked toward my hand and saw blue light rippling at my fingertips.

 

Then the light gathered and the blue butterfly I’d seen before was sitting on my fingertip.

 

“Oh.”

 

“This isn’t a living creature. It’s my power. An imaginary being – something like that. Would it be easier to understand if I called it an illusion?”

 

“It’s not completely created?”

 

“That’s right.”

 

“I can’t make one?”

 

“Probably not? It requires quite a lot of power. I have to make it visible not just to me but to others too.”

 

“But showing it like this is just showing off…?”

 

“Haha, no. My physical vessel is small so power overflows. Power flows out on its own and floats around in forms that look like living creatures.”

 

“Being a spirit is a complicated existence.”

 

“I suppose so?”

 

Roo answered playfully and lightly nudged my body with her shoulder.

 

While having such conversations, we arrived at the white-walled and floored room.

 

That room had no furniture except for large terrace doors.

 

If even those doors weren’t there, I’d definitely go crazy after just 5 minutes.

 

Entering that room, Roo turned around and held out both hands to me.

 

Does she want me to hold hands?

 

After hesitating, I placed both my hands on top of hers.

 

“Relax and try closing your eyes.”

 

Following her voice, I closed my eyes and erased the tension filling my body with deep breaths.

 

Knowing that my shoulders had dropped and I’d become comfortable, Roo’s voice continued.

 

“Now forget all other senses and feel the power gathering in your hands. I’m going to gather power into your hands, so remember that sensation well.”

 

“Yes.”

 

As soon as Roo finished speaking, I felt something flowing from my heart to my back, from my back to my shoulders, from my shoulders down my arms to my hands.

 

It felt exactly like wind pushing blood inside my body.

 

Ugh, this feels weird.

 

Still, to clear away stray thoughts, I slowly repeated deep breaths and felt the tingling at my fingertips.

 

Inhale, exhale. Inhale- exhale.

 

“How is it? The feeling right now?”

 

“It feels like blood is rushing somewhere, so I feel a bit dizzy but also refreshed, yet uncomfortable at the same time.”

 

“It’s probably because there’s a place in your body where mana gathers. All humans have it. Keep concentrating and think of it as breaking through that discomfort.”

 

“Yes.”

 

Break through, break through.

 

It would feel incredibly refreshing if it broke through cleanly, so let’s break it through.

 

I concentrated as much as possible on the sensation of passing through a needle’s eye and imagined a wide-open highway.

 

A refreshing, spacious area that I could whoosh right through—.

 

“Huh!”

 

Suddenly, something came rushing toward my fingertips like a flood.

 

Since I wasn’t bracing myself, I fell forward.

 

Fortunately, Roo caught me so I didn’t get hurt, but my heart was pounding and my head was throbbing.

 

I tasted something bitter in my mouth.

 

Cough, cough.

 

When I covered my mouth with one hand and coughed lightly, there was blue liquid on my hand.

 

“Wh-what is this?”

 

“Hmm? This shouldn’t be coming out.”

 

What? What kind of doctor’s “huh?” statement is that?

 

Why shouldn’t this be coming out?

 

Am I dying?

 

This pathetically?

 

My pupils shook.

 

In my anxiety, I grabbed Roo’s arm.

 

“Why, why shouldn’t it?”

 

“It’s not serious. It just means you can’t handle the power yet. It seems you really have very little usable power.”

 

“I’m not dying, right?”

 

“No. It’s blue blood, not red blood. You weren’t harmed as a human, but as a spirit.”

 

“But can’t I still die from being harmed as a spirit?”

 

“You could die if you only had spirit blood, but you also have human blood.”

 

“Why does that matter?”

 

“When you’re severely harmed as a spirit, your spirit power just dies temporarily. Same goes for the reverse. But if both are severely damaged, then you’d die, right?”

 

Seeing Roo speak so casually about it made my body feel chilly somehow.

 

Essentially, the fact that I was pushing myself this hard to create power meant the situation was dangerous, and if a situation came where I couldn’t use spirit power either, death would be certain…

 

I gulped.

 

After thinking for a moment, Roo went out to the terrace.

 

“Phil, could you come here for a moment?”

 

Phil? Ah, that gentle person?

 

Why is he suddenly calling for that person?

 

When I sneakily followed Roo and looked at the scenery toward the terrace, I could see the entire village at a glance, as if this place was in mid-air.

 

There definitely weren’t any buildings this tall before, right?

 

What exactly is the structure of this place?

 

Can the spirit called ‘Phil’ even hear from here in the first place?

 

As I waited with these questions, I heard the sound of something cutting through the air.

 

Whoosh, thud.

 

Suddenly Phil appeared from below the terrace and lightly planted his feet on the ground.

 

Seriously, the Spirit World is incomprehensible.

 

Phil, still looking tired, stared at me intently then approached and placed his hand above my head.

 

Then his gray eyes flashed white.

 

I closed my eyes at the dazzling white light shining above my head.

 

After staying like that for a moment, the bitter taste remaining in my mouth disappeared and the strange pain that had been pressing down vanished instantly.

 

“How do you feel?”

 

“My body feels comfortable.”

 

“That’s because Phil is a spirit of life. He can heal and restore almost any illness or injury.”

 

“Wow, I’m envious.”

 

“You’re my child for now, you know? Anyway, you’re somewhat better now, right? We’ll work on building your power gradually, so let me teach you how to use your abilities first.”

 

“What?”

 

“What’s wrong?”

 

Mother Sillia, isn’t this too much like Sparta?

 

It’s nice, but give me some rest time too—!

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