The Baby Raising A Devil - Chapter 152
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Chapter 152
There are two truths I learned during my beggar days.
First, ‘When you’re starving to death, the person who gives you food looks like a god.’
With an expression that would put a Saint to shame, I distributed peanuts and almonds, along with all the dried fruits and vegetables from the supply wagon, to the Nymphs.
“Adventurer, our comrade.”
“We share friendship.”
“Adventurer!”
“Adventurer!”
The Nymphs with full bellies were extremely friendly. Even more so than they had been toward their master whom they had cried out to see.
In a way, it was only natural.
The revelation the Nymphs wanted to fulfill was: “When God’s servant is freed from eternal suffering, the souls sleeping Within Divine Tears shall greet the light.”
In other words, not sleeping and coming out into the world was their wish.
According to the Young Nymph, when they were asleep, it felt like being alone in a vast darkness. That’s probably why they cherished their fellow beings they met upon awakening so much.
I was the being who would free God’s servant from eternal suffering. And I had given them food too. How gracious was that?
The Nymphs with full bellies went and gathered a bunch of blunt stones from the Mountain.
Then they refined them into Suwon, but not all Nymphs were capable of refinement.
Only the Young Nymphs and Female Nymphs could refine everything from the Mountain into Suwon.
I nodded inwardly as I watched the Nymphs refine.
‘They weren’t locked in the Cave to protect the young and females.’
The Nymphs with special powers were considered superior. Like how Nobles receive escorts.
I looked at the blue chalcedony piling up and moaned “Uuuuh” in ecstasy, then turned to look at the Nymphs.
‘My little fortune-bringers.’
“There, there, eat plenty. You’ve worked hard.”
While I was patting a Young Nymph’s back, Henri narrowed his eyes and examined the Suwon.
“What?”
“…Why can’t we still use Magic Tools?”
“That’s because the Nymphs haven’t ‘permitted’ it.”
When Isaac answered, Henri shook his head lightly.
“Isn’t it strange?”
“What exactly?”
“Not personal Mana, but being unable to use Magic Tools. Magic Tools don’t disappear just because you block the outlet like human Power. They simply contain Mana that has already been released and stored in the Magic Tool. So how can a specific person permit the use of Magic Tools?”
Now that I heard it, that was true. I pondered while fondling the blue chalcedony.
Isaac said.
“Well, if they permitted the use of specific Magic Tools…”
I shook my head with furrowed brows.
“I had eight Long-Distance Teleportation Circles alone. How would they know which one I’d use to permit specific Magic Tools?”
Only then did Isaac understand, as he quickly turned his head to look at the Nymphs who were still absorbed in their peanuts.
“Right, that’s not possible. How on earth did you do it?”
The activation of magic tools basically goes through this process.
Activate the calculation formula inside the medium with an activation incantation or action.
The calculation formula combines with the mana inside the medium.
Activation.
Since no mana is involved in this process, the only way to prevent specific individuals from using magic tools is to physically prevent them from performing the activation incantation or action.
I quickly ran to the Old Nymph who was chewing almonds and shook her shoulders.
“How do you grant permission for magic tool activation? Huh?”
“Ma, magic tools are corrupted divine artifacts. They cannot be used in Divine Territory.”
“Can they only not be used here?”
“Everything imbued with divine power destroys corrupted divine artifacts. We Nymphs pray to God to grant permission for the activation of corrupted divine artifacts.”
Frustrated by the Nymph who only spoke like a fairy tale, I pounded my chest. Then Purpur, who had been lying down with an extremely annoyed expression, spoke.
[Your premise is wrong from the start. You humans are fools too bound by common sense. Even when that common sense is wrong.]
“Wrong common sense?”
[You humans use mana when activating magic tools.]
“That’s ridiculous!”
When I shouted angrily, Henri and Isaac, who couldn’t understand our conversation, looked puzzled.
[What’s ridiculous is you humans thinking you can’t emit mana unless it’s Divine Power or magic power.]
“You’re saying mana isn’t emitted and then divided into Divine Power and magic power?”
[Hmph, still being manipulated by the schemes of those wicked apostles. The ancient humans would beat the ground if they saw this. Humans can emit mana. Only special humans can transform mana into special mana, that is, Divine Power and magic power!]
“Then the Nymphs…”
As I muttered in a daze, Purpur snorted and answered.
[The activation incantations and activation actions you use when activating magic tools are all actions that emit mana. You just don’t realize it because it’s as natural as breathing. The Nymphs blocked the emission of mana!]
I stiffened and stared at Purpur. Many things were getting tangled in my head.
“Kid.”
“Leblaine?”
I was chosen as a sacrifice to seal the Evil God because I had Divine Power of similar quality to Mina’s.
Originally, I was offered as a sacrifice instead of Mina, who was supposed to be devoured by the Evil God in the sealing ritual.
If what Purpur said was true, then people’s mana could be gathered and transformed into Mina’s Divine Power, so there would have been no reason to choose me as a sacrifice.
‘Then why did I have to die in my first life?’
Recalling the pain of being offered as a sacrifice, I bit my lips tightly.
As I remembered my first life’s self, bleeding profusely from every opening in my body, begging to be killed, pleading to have my throat cut quickly, I fell into deep contemplation.
‘…Wait a moment.’
“Lady Mina is truly remarkable. Such rapid increase in Divine Power. It has never happened before, and will never happen again.”
“She is an amazing person. That’s why she’s the Child of Fate!”
How was Mina able to increase her Divine Power so quickly?
Something that has never happened before and will never happen again means, in other words, it’s ‘impossible.’
I knew this well, having desperately strived from a very young age to increase my Divine Power.
Such rapid and powerful increase was absolutely impossible.
So I thought it was ‘Adrian’s power.’
Adrian possessed tremendous Divine Power and had the very special ability to give his Divine Power to others. So I vaguely thought he might have been supporting Mina from behind.
“Um, excuse me!”
“Yes, Leblaine. What is it?”
“Mi, Mina, I have a request, um, could you perhaps teach me the method to increase Divine Power too? Oh, no, of course you must be busy, but if it’s okay, maybe I could help you too….”
“Ah…. I’m sorry. I’m really sorry. I promised That Person. I agreed not to tell the Training method to anyone.”
“I see….”
“Don’t be too disappointed. Leblaine, you’re already doing well enough. I know. I know how much you’re trying for the people of This Place.”
“Th, thank you….”
“You’re a sister I’m very proud of.”
Training method.
That Person.
I gritted my teeth in frustration.
Even the Shrine didn’t know that all humans could emit Mana.
If the Shrine had known this, the current Pope wouldn’t have lost authority by being overpowered by Adrian’s Divine Power in the Holy War.
‘Purpur told them. To the person who came looking for Suwon!’
The Puzzle pieces that had been scattered in my mind finally assembled themselves.
Nodelli House, which had the Hero’s Records, found Suwon and summoned Purpur through the Records.
‘Nodelli already knew Purpur’s name.’
Otherwise, there was no way Mina, who knew nothing about demons, could have known his name. Surely after she appeared, Nodelli or Marche taught her the name.
But since there were no adventurers at the time, the Nymph was still asleep, so Nodelli and Marche created a fake Suwon through the Records.
‘Being able to specify the location of Suwon as the Mine must have been with the help of the Records too.’
I gripped my Skirt Hem tightly.
“If you wake up, will everything on this Mountain block the emission of Mana like the Nymphs do?”
[That’s right. Even more powerfully than the Nymphs. I am a tremendous being!]
Purpur answered proudly.
I let out a bitter laugh.
“Leblaine?”
“What on earth did you talk about to make you turn so pale!”
Isaac pressed both hands against my cold cheeks and asked worriedly.
‘As expected, Marche and Nodelli knew that mana could be used to create divine power.’
Then why did they offer a pitiful young girl who had no one to rely on to the temple?
Why did I have to die?
‘Die? No, I was murdered.’
“Ah, Father, Father please save me! Mina, aah, Your Holiness. Please!”
I remembered myself from my first life, pleading while shedding tears of blood.
“In my first life, Duke Marche killed me.”
When I said this while looking back at Henri and Isaac in a daze, they froze.
“What did you say?”
“Kid, what the hell are you talking about.”
“All humans emit mana. Mina could transform mana into divine power. There was no reason for me to become a sacrifice and die!”
As I spoke while trembling with anger, Henri grabbed my shoulders.
“Calm down.”
“Back then I was just a powerless and pitiful person, yet Duke Marche, Mina…”
“Leblaine!”
Henri called my name in a rarely agitated tone.
I looked at him while swallowing the grief that washed over me. Henri gripped my hand tightly with his warm hands and said.
“Think rationally. There’s something we don’t know.”
“…”
“That’s something only you who experienced all of that can know. What’s important here is the reason. If there was no reason for you to be a sacrifice, then why did they have to kill you?”
I covered my mouth with my trembling hands.
The reason I had to die.
The reason they murdered me.
As I searched through my mind, I suddenly grabbed Henri’s arm.
“There is. One reason.”
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