I Became a Soul Eater

I felt a great sense of exhilaration. At the same time, some of Fortega’s emotions and memories came over. Most of Fortega’s feelings were resentment towards the Mage Tower and the world. And although I couldn’t explain it clearly, it seemed that Portega’s understanding of magic had partially passed on to me.

Because the theories and formulas for magic in Fortega’s memory would not have been understandable if it were me in the past, but now it’s easy to understand.

“Tsk! useless”

The Magic Tower Master rummaged through Fortega’s luggage and body, and when nothing came out, he clicked his tongue and disappeared just like when he reappeared.

Seeing Fortega’s corpse left unattended as the magic tower disappeared, I vowed to take revenge. I don’t think I’ll be able to take any great revenge, but I wanted to make it at least a little pricey.

returned to the magic tower. But my work hasn’t changed much. Still learning the knowledge of the Mage Tower wizards and stealing research continued. But while the work was similar, the results were vastly different. The increased understanding of magic thanks to Fortega was the answer to the part that had been memorized and not understood before.

I now understand almost everything and can even tell the difference between false knowledge and right knowledge.

After returning to the Mage Tower, the field I was most interested in was the study of wide-area magic, in which as many as five elders, including the owner of the Mage Tower, were participating.

The study of this magic that lowers the temperature to the extreme in a large area of more than 5 kilometers in radius has been studied for quite a long time. And lately there has been some progress.

No matter how much a tower master-level archmage is, it’s a grand magic that can’t handle the mana that goes into it alone, so in the end, a design was created to make a magic circle and five high-ranking wizards inject mana into it to activate it. In the past, I tried to adjust it so that it could be cast alone even if the scale was reduced a little, but this was changed after concluding that it could not produce satisfactory power unless it was a great wizard.

Before, I couldn’t understand it at all even if I heard and saw it, so if I had just watched it in passing, I could understand it now. And I also understood how and where to draw on the magic circle being created to make it work.

Drawing a magic circle is a very arduous task. Of course, the magic circle that activates simple magic is not difficult. However, it gets exponentially more complicated as you go up the levels.

Now, all the elders are sticking together, and the magic circle they draw is calculated as one circle magic circle.

On a night when the elders had finished their work and disappeared, there was rarely anyone in the studio. It was a room with extreme security where high-level magic was spread out in layers, but it didn’t make any sense to me.

The ability that I developed while absorbing Fortega’s soul is very weak, but I can use magic. Although it is a very weak power that cannot be used even once in Circle 1 magic, it can draw about 1 stroke of a magic circle. But that one stroke will make a huge difference.

Raise the magical pen, adjust the magical power, and draw a stroke in the prepared area. It was simple. Of course, I used the power that raised my soul for it, but it won’t be easily discovered unless I examine it very carefully. Of course, it doesn’t matter if it gets discovered. What to do with me who is already a soul?

I continued my life in the Magic Tower again as if nothing had happened. Occasionally I went to the studio to make sure the traps I had dug were intact.

In the meantime, vacation ended and I returned to the academy. However, instead of taking a night walk, he went to the Mage Tower more and more.

And when the second year was almost over, the owner of the tower and the elders finally disappeared with the plate engraved with the magic circle for the operation experiment.

News came that a great explosion had occurred in the uninhabited kingdom’s southern forests. And the tower owner and the elders did not return.

[Revenge was done. Fortega]

I climbed to the top of the magic tower and sang a long requiem for Fortega.

My life is back to normal. He absorbed knowledge by going back and forth between the academy, the market, the royal palace, and the Mage Tower. Better understanding than before helped a lot.

When I was in my third year at the academy, the crown prince inherited the throne. It wasn’t that the king was sick or anything. Originally, there was not much motivation to run state affairs, and it was the result of recognizing the talent of the crown prince.

In fact, the crown prince’s behind-the-scenes work worked a lot, and many people knew about it, but no one pointed it out. The Crown Prince wasn’t such a good person, as the color of his soul suggested.

Before the succession to the throne, several key figures in the opposition had already been purged or reduced in power due to the duke of the crown prince.

However, even as a crown prince, I was very fond of Isabelle, and it could be said that my credit was great. Even now, from time to time, Isabelle was giving us useful information.

And not long after, Isabelle was officially installed in Vienna. Although she didn’t become queen, that was enough for her to succeed, and she herself was satisfied with the position.

[Congratulations.]

When I went to visit Isabel, who had been installed empty, and congratulated me, Isabel greeted me with a wide smile.

“It’s all thanks to the soul.”

Still Isabelle was just calling me a soul. He was already dead, and he had no intention of giving away his name.

[The rain hasn’t been decided yet, right?]

“His Majesty said he would decide slowly. It seems that there is no suitable marriage.”

Choosing a royal mate is not an easy task. The king had already gone through a period of marriage, but the fact that he had not yet officially married meant that the current situation of the kingdom was not good because the servants were incompetent or whatever they did.

[Are there any foreign princesses worthy of it?]

“It looks like that.”

If he had chosen the daughter of a great domestic aristocrat, he would have already married him. But now domestic power is no longer needed.

[Rather, it’s a better opportunity for you. Hurry up and have a son]

Isabelle’s face turned red.

“Is that going to happen to me?”

But I already knew It wasn’t difficult to sneak into a person’s stomach and look inside.

[No, you already have a child, I’m not sure if it’s a son or a daughter yet]

“Is that true?”

Isabelle was so happy that she jumped to her feet.

[I have to take care of myself now]

“ah! Yes.”

Seeing Isabel happy made me feel better too, so we continued to talk about this and that. They told us about the events that happen in the Mage Tower and the market, or the rare events that happen in the academy.

Willingly or not, Isabelle, who lives only in the palace, liked these stories very much.

“Here’s the soul”

[huh?]

“Can you name this child?”

[Isn’t that the king’s permission first?]

“Perhaps His Majesty will not object.”

I thought for a moment. It’s a child’s name, so I didn’t even decide my son’s name when he was alive. My father built it, so I wish he had put a little bit of thought into it, but I remember being very disappointed because he built it right on the spot.

[Then, the next time you come, think of the child’s name and come back. Anyway, if the king makes it himself, it will be useless.]

“thank you. soul”

About a week later, he returned to the palace. In fact, during that time, I put a lot of thought into naming my child.

Not just a child, but a child who will become a prince or princess of a country. Moreover, I thought that I had really succeeded in naming a child who could become a powerful next king if he was a prince. The name I came up with with so much effort

[If it’s a son, if it’s an ether daughter, they named it Elizabeth.]

Isabelle was genuinely delighted. Surprisingly, it is said that the king gave permission without any objection. They seemed to think of me as a guardian spirit that protects the kingdom.

I tried hundreds of names, but in the end the names that came out were my life and the name of the wife I loved.

A few months later, the s*x of the child was confirmed and it was a boy. It felt strange to think that my name would remain in the history of the kingdom when I died in vain.

After another few months, Isabelle gave birth to a healthy prince. In the royal palace, the bell announcing the birth of the prince rang, and a festival was held in the royal capital.

Time passed and the king finally got married officially. The opponent was the third princess of a kingdom a little far away. However, the princess was only 13 years old. Isabel took care of the queen, who was intimidated by her marriage to a distant foreign country at a young age, as if she were her own sister. The queen also treated Isabel like her own sister, and it seemed that there would be no problems between the two.

In the meantime, I became a 6th grader at the academy before I knew it. It’s a graduation class. Will I be able to become a Buddha after graduating from the academy? My knowledge was no longer that of a mere academy graduate.

Swordsmanship is something you do with your body, so you can’t help it because you can’t try it yourself, but you can only remember the theory and movements perfectly.

Moreover, it was not the knowledge of the academy level, but the theory was more than that because he also stole the swordsmanship and aurasimbeop of the famous swordsmanship or royal knights in the royal capital.

In the case of magic, it was no different from the sum of the knowledge of the Mage Tower. On top of that, the Fortega’s understanding was added, so in terms of knowledge alone, it was already at a level that surpassed that of quite a few high-ranking wizards. The unfortunate thing was that the mana he had was small and it was impossible to use that mana.

The knowledge of the academy was also being acquired close to perfection in all fields. If I had lived with this ability and entered the academy, I would have easily occupied the top spot.

These days, I had a lot of time to go to the palace. To my amazement, Prince Ether, who inherited my name, could hear me speaking, just like Isabelle.

[Hello Ether]

“Yeongho Nime!”

Ether likes me very much. Ordinary babies would be frightened when an invisible object spoke to them, but it was unknown whether it was because of Isabel’s education or because they were originally from the lineage of psychics. Anyway, the child who likes me is cute, so I often come to the palace.

[Did you eat?]

“What do you mean?”

The lady-in-waiting in charge of the ether was not surprised anymore, perhaps because she knew that the prince was not talking to herself.

It’s not a high-level conversation, but the beauty of these conversations is that they pass the time very well. These days I forget about the passage of time. It may be a side effect of wandering as a soul for 5 years.

While I was playing with Ether, Isabelle and the Queen came to visit. The two always stick together like sisters.

[Isabel, are things all right these days?]

I know it’s nothing special, but I’m asking out of politeness.

“Thanks to the soul, everything is comfortable.”

Actually it is. Inside and outside the royal palace, those who could harm Isabelle and Ether were being tracked down and followed. The number of nobles who were purged because of my accusations cannot be counted on ten fingers.

In addition, he caught countless spies and people from the underworld who were secretly working in the royal palace or capital. It was literally serving as the guardian spirit of the kingdom.

I don’t see the King very often, but according to Isabel, he is very grateful. what is natural otherwise not human

I had already told Isabelle that maybe in a year I might ascend to heaven. Isabelle had a very strange expression on her face. I couldn’t decide whether to celebrate my ascension or mourn my departure.

Anyway, if my grudge is resolved after I graduate from the academy and I ascend to heaven, I want to do everything I can before that. Because she is the only person in the world who can communicate with me and is the mother of a child who inherited my name.

“By the way, soul, do you know that?”

[What?]

“There are three legends about this royal palace.”