I blacked out.
I don’t know what happened to me after that. All I felt was the intense pain of something overwhelming my body from everywhere. The last thing I remember was Dylan shouting at me with random things I don’t want to hear.
“WHY DO YOU EVEN LIKE SMALL BREASTS!!?”
AHH!
It’s not that I like them so much, it’s just pure coincidence that the girl I like has small chest!!!
I abruptly stand up from where I am lying, holding my head with my hands while breathing roughly.
Wait… Am I standing up? Hands?
“It seems that we succeeded in the operation.”
“Dylan?!”
“Hey , there boy. What a sight you are. You look like a hero now or should I say, an Artificial Hero.”
“Artificial Hero…”
“Take a look at yourself.”
I view myself in one of the large mirrors in the corner of the room.
…
My body…considerable become buffer…
The missing right arm is now replaced by this metallic, jet-black mechanical arm. It has a faint glow of blue that radiates strong energy. It is not far from a normal arm and hand, the only difference is that it has hinges and crevice in some areas.
My legs are now of the same design as the arm. It looks like slim fitted greaves that worn up to above knees. The feet, the ankles, the calves, the shins and even the knees are all there that they take up a form of normal human limbs.
I tried to close and open my palm, after that, I tap both of my feet to the ground.
It is incredibly light like they are my real limbs. They react to the command my brain gives.
But there’s one thing wrong about them. They can’t feel anything, I can feel them there, but they can’t receive any stimulus. But that’s not important anymore.
“Dylan…what happened?”
“Your body… was greatly altered by the spirits…”
“…”
“What I mean is, there’s a drastic change in your overall spec. You can say that they granted you so much power…”
“Wait… I don’t understand… can you tell me the details?”
“Well… I can’t believe it myself actually…”
“…”
“I told you about spirits may accept or reject you. Well, I’ll be damned!”
“Eh?!”
“Spirit rushes inside your body as soon as I gather them! It seems they like you so much that your body and soul got overloaded with their powers.”
“You said my body was altered right?!”
“Yes. In fact, I may just call you…half human… half spirit already.”
“Hey! Is there such thing?!”
“There’s no room for doubt. I know even you can feel it. Your body has been modified through theirs and your will. They wanted you to fight and to save people.”
Indeed, my body is brimming with foreign energies that little by little, becoming my own. It is such a gentle power.
“The spirits that modified you was none other than sacred spirits which are akin to transcendental people.”
“Sacred…”
“Yes…but don’t be mistaken. You are only a half spirit. You are nowhere near transcendental nor do you have the power to oppose them.”
“I see…can I try this power right now?”
“For research purpose, you may.”
With his permission, I take step back away from Dylan and close my eyes.
What kind of power do this spirits granted me?
…
…
…
I feel something.
Weapons… my mind is filled with weapons in many forms. They are telling me that… I can weave any weapons in existence…
The first thing that I weave is…
…
A faint light was emitted from my hand. After the glow disappears, a sword with the motif of white and metallic gray came out with engraving that represents somewhat a cross…
“Boy…that’s…”
“A sword…”
“A sword with…strong holy property…”
“…”
“Are you sure you aren’t really that strong before?”
“I am… I am fairly certain.”
“Try swinging that thing…:
Well… what could go bad?
I bring the sword up and swing it with casually with no force added.
FWISH
CRASH
The wall, which is far from us, got sliced and collapsed exposing the whole pile of scrapped metal in a warehouse…
“Boy! Stop!!!”
“I-I-I know!!!”
It was an accident!
“Anyway boy, I don’t want to see you swinging anything…”
“…”
“So, how do you feel?”
“What do you want to hear about? How I feel in my new limbs or how I felt when you spew those words earlier?”
“You’re not scaring me. boy. But okay… how do you feel about your new limbs?”
“They feel incredible…really light and seems…strong…”
“I see…”
“Dylan…I need to—“
“I know. You already do. We are not going to waste time here. Let’s go.”
Dylan, without hearing my next words, takes the initiative and we go back to his house and he prepared some things for me. For example…pants…
After that, we returned to the facility. I don’t want to go without saying goodbye to my drunk mates. They are what I am now after all… wait…is not what happened to me bad?
Anyway…
They sent me off with drunkard face and smile in their faces saying that we may meet again. I do feel like we are going to meet again sometimes in the future.
But for now, no tears, just toast for brotherhood.
Incidentally, I was also called brother nord many times already even though my native face is too far away from theirs.
And so, after a final toast with them and a bottoms-up, Dylan and I left the facility.
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“This place is…”
“The very edge of this continent. What else?”
He takes me into the forest crossed the mountain. After that, we climb a steep cliff and arrive at this place.
I look down…
There’s nothing but clouds…
“Hmm. I can’t drop you off at the same place I have taken you. If my calculation is correct, we are now atop the demon continent.”
“What?!”
“Boy, that spirit tech, the abnormality that your body undergoes, they are all explosively powerful. You can survive this fall without a scratch!”
“How can you be so sure?!”
“That spirit tech that I develop is the strongest kind of metal back in our worlds and the only metal left in our race. It does not have any name anymore. But with spirits clustering your whole body and my genius mind, your limbs doesn’t need any maintenance and they can fix their selves too.”
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“That’s so convenient but that’s not the point here! You are going to make me jump?! From this height?!”
It looks bottomless!
“Can’t you send me down with how you sent me up like before?”
“Ga hahaha! It takes time to recharge that you know. So it is still not working at the moment!”
“Haaa…”
Sighing in defeat, I look at the face of the old man again.
“I see… then…Dylan…this is--!”
“No…Boy, we shall meet again… and we do, it’s on the batt--!”
“No!”
“?”
“When we meet again, I shall have you taste the most delicious alcohol out there to taste!”
“Gahahaha! That sounds fun! Make sure it goes well with cheese!”
“Hahaha… even if I hated cheese, I will try my best…”
“…”
“…”
I look down again at the seemingly bottomless sky. I put my feet on the edge. I stare back at the old man… I wanted to say more to him… I wanted to show my gratitude… I want to…
“Dylan…”
“No tears! Just Toast!!!”
“Ah?!”
Before I know it, Dylan….
PUSH ME!!!
“AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!”
“So long brother! Be the most vicious hunter out there!!!”
“I WILL NEVER FORGET THIS!!! DYLAN!!! I WILL MAKE SURE YOU BECOME SPEECHLESS WITH THE ALCOHOL I AM GOING TO BRING!!!”
“SURE YOU DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!”
And with that… I fall from the sky…
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SHIT! SHIT! SHIT!
How do I stop mid air?!
I can’t do that!
I am already past the clouds and I saw what’s in front of me…
I can see the beautiful dark sky of the demon continent with weird land color. I can see many cities and towns from afar. I also saw the neighboring continents and the vast sea.
Where in part of this world I am going to fall?!
I tried to glide, tried to feel the air, tried to beg the spirits to let me fly but none came!
What the hell am I going to believe to? Myself?!
…
This limbs…if what Dylan said is true…although, vague. I should put my trust to it.
…
I can already see the land I am going to fall to. A dry land surrounded by mountains and covered with trees. In the area, there are magical beasts.
I prepared myself to land.
I extended both of my legs to the ground.
…
A few more seconds…
…
Now!
BOOM!
Dust rises from the ground and the land that I fell made a large crater.
If I was able to think like this, then I am mostly fine because there are no signs of injury or anything.
But seriously, how high did I fall?!
BURURRGGULAAGRRGGHHH!
A magical beast charges at me with its claw.
I wasn’t able to notice it because of my confusion so it has taken the initiative for a surprise attack!
I hold out my right arm to where his claw will land.
BAKIN!
Without doing anything, the claw that clashes with my arm… shattered…
“OH! It’s definitely strong!”
I punch the monster with my left fist.
BAM!
I was sent flying with a giant hole in its stomach.
Even my left arm is strong…
Did my whole body… become strong?!
A strong sensation of joy overcomes me and I didn’t notice that the magical beasts that attacked me, got wiped in no time.
“Ahahaha!”
I am grinning like an idiot now!~
But I know myself I need to do something fast!
There many things I want to discover with my new found power. I need to travel back to the dragon continent. But I don’t where the hell I am so travelling into some city would be my best bet to find directions.
…
I prepare my legs for a leap so I can travel fast.
As I spring up from my position…
!!!
“WHOA!!”
CRASH!
I messed up.
I crashed into some trees.
I am still not accustomed to my new body so I definitely didn’t expect that!
I fix myself again and this time, I will try to control my power in jumping…
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.
I was now travelling by leaping easily. I know that I have already covered so much distance as I was able to get out of the forest immediately.
I leap here and there while adding some back flips and some circus tricks.
Is this how it feels to be strong?!
I swear that I will use it for goodness. Dylan’s name is at stake here. I don’t want to give him a bad reputation.
With this, I can get there in no time.
Wait for me, everyone.
…
While I was leaping…
!!!
CLANG!
I felt a really dangerous presence up ahead and I was unable to stop at the moment’s notice.
I felt like he draws something like a weapon so I unconsciously draw mine and swings it in front of me.
Our weapon clashes, creating sparks and a little amount of dust in the air.
…
I stopped on my track and look at the one I clashed with.
If this is an enemy like one of the Sins, I may be in a big trouble…
I can already feel that this guy is an Arcana magician just from his presence…
…
The dust cleared up and I was able to see his face…
Oh…
Oh, my…
…
With black hair and lethargic eyes, the tall guy who seemingly wanted to sleep all day, now with a new and stronger presence than before, with the weight of death around him, is there.
“Susanoo-san?!”
“Oh…it’s you…I was…finding a little girl… and I found someone else… bad luck I guess…”
And now starts our own little adventure.
And later on, a vampire girl will accompany us, but that story will have to wait.
Thus, closes that curtain on how I live my life on the Floating Continent.
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I kinda get that Ichirou isn't well like. Maybe because he is a generic champion of justice kind of a character. But the thing is, he is going to be an essential character for Asagao in the future chapters.
Anyway, Dylan will be giving away free meads for everyone!