I’m back below the surface.
The dreadful silence of having nothing to do.
But this time, there’s no need to sit back and only wait for an opportunity. There’s plenty of memory to be sorted out until then.
First, I acquired two methods of summoning.
Yasle’s method. Daegon’s method.
Yasle’s method involves constructing an altar and killing large amounts of offerings to summon a god into a vessel.
The advantage is that the caster doesn’t need any special abilities. To match a cost called "gyeok," you just need to kill a lot. It means that if you’ve put in enough memories, you won’t fail due to lack of qualifications.
The downside is that you need to choose a proper vessel. You need an eye for selecting and a vessel that exists in that era.
The method for selecting the vessel is included in the memories of Yasle, so choosing isn’t the problem. The issue is that Yasle had to wait for over ten years for the vessel to be born and grow, making it a very tedious process.
If you compromise on the vessel, it’ll fail.
No, according to Yasle’s memory, as long as you have an offering of the right level, you can summon a god. But the problem is, a simple high-level offering isn’t enough to contain me.
That’s why the summoning failed.
Finding a proper vessel is a matter of pure luck, and that’s the difficulty.
The second method is Daegon’s method.
The advantage is that you don’t have to worry about the vessel.
At first, I thought I could use the children of Harvesters, but looking into Daegon’s memory, that’s not the case. It takes at least ten years, typically around 20 years to grow them, but if properly raised, a vessel capable of accepting a god can be forcibly created.
Another trait of Daegon’s method is that you can gain the special abilities possessed by the individual who is used as the offering.
Furthermore, the person chanting the spell doesn’t need to be concerned about the vessel. If done alone, they should at least be a top subordinate of Daegon’s, but just as when I was summoned through Woljedang, it’s possible to divide the chanting between multiple people.
The downside is that it requires an enormous amount of time, money, and manpower. To create the vessel, you must lock the child in a special room from birth, continually feed them special medicine, and constantly modify their body.
Moreover, the person chanting the spell has a high chance of dying under the burden, so it’s advised to have at least five times the number of people ready. There’s also the issue of how to insert the spell into the chanter.
One person isn’t enough.
I compared the pros and cons.
Overall, Daegon’s method is more complete.
It’s a bit much to compare it with someone who’s completely conquered both a human and an entire world.
Furthermore, according to Daegon, the disadvantages aren’t really disadvantages. If you can get what you need, it’s just a matter of getting it.
The mentality of solving things with money when possible.
But for the Harvesters, who are stuck in a dead-end with nothing but despair, it’s far too difficult.
Those who’ve fallen to the bottom are at a point where their personalities are torn apart, making it almost impossible to operate in a stable way like Tisha.
In the end, the easier option is Yasle’s method.
No. To be precise, there are three methods.
Directly using the descendants of Harvesters as the offering. This doesn’t involve the entire body ascending, just some part of it being connected to the above.
The problem is that if the Harvester isn’t in direct contact with their descendant, I can’t perceive the connection, which is a small issue.
Ugh.
It’s hard to rise from the bottom. Really.
But I gained a lot from the second world.
First, the Ilhwa Cheonmasin Gong.
Any Harvester can use it.
The Heavenly Demon compressed the Cheonmasin Gong to its limit and contained it in a single stroke. In fact, Sama Baek perfectly used the Cheonmasin Gong just with a single stroke.
So...
Huh?
Why is this staying in my memory? At that time, the Heavenly Demon had already become a Harvester, so the memory shouldn’t remain. The memories I saw from his perspective are the ones that remain.
So, what he understood, I can’t understand. The technique of Ilhwa Cheonmasin Gong shouldn’t stay in memory...
It’s shorter than Eunjae’s Cheonmasin Gong, but it’s good!
I’m lucky!
Next is the Soosim Gong Choseol.
I’m not sure about this one.
I gave it to Sama Baek along with the Ilhwa Cheonmasin Gong, but there’s no sign that it was used. After using the sword once, there hasn’t been any snow falling.
I don’t know why this also remains in my memory.
It seems like I don’t have a function to forget, so maybe I’ll need it at some point.
Next, I organize my abilities.
Or you could call them functions.
First, I can push myself into those who come into contact with me.
If this is too strong, the place where the Harvester resides will physically explode.
The light falling toward me.
It seems like the physical address doesn’t change. Let me explain it more simply.
In the faded memory, there’s a scenario where a person enters a dream.
And in the dream, they can enter a deeper dream, and if they go too deep, the ground will appear.
The person’s body stays in that place, but their mind descends into a deeper place.
Similarly, the person’s body stays in that place, but the light descends into a deeper place.
To where I am.
The world is like a glass jar, and when it breaks, it seems like everything falls to where I am. But in reality, only the light falls, not the physical body.
But when the first world broke, all the living things fell to me...
I still don’t know for sure. Even Daegon and the Primitive Immortal didn’t know that the light falls.
Then, the second ability.
If I chant a contract and the other agrees, I can create a Harvester.
Once they agree, if I push myself into their light, the contract is complete. Then, the Harvester can obtain the warmth of the one they killed, either directly or indirectly.
This is the key component for gathering warmth.
If I kill someone while alive, I gain their warmth.
For a few people, it might happen once in a while. But what if it accumulates over time? And what if the numbers increase?
Every moment, a tremendous amount will come to me.
But you can’t push too much into one world. As the numbers increased, the world broke apart, and all the living things from the first world fell to me.
It wasn’t warmth, but heat, though that too lasted only a brief moment.
In the end, it was just fleeting pleasure.
It’s better to gather steadily than to take everything at once.
Let me rewind the story.
The mechanism for gathering warmth seems related to the act of killing.
The Harvester is the ruler of the group, and when they order the group to fight, the warmth of those killed by the group comes to me.
Tisha wasn’t a good Harvester in this sense. But in terms of the total amount of warmth, Daegon aside, she has the most.
So, I’ll only select those in high positions for contracts.
And by chanting the contract, I can contract with them regardless of where they are, using it to make the next generation Harvester.
I’ll build such a system.
Then humans will trample on the weak as they wish, and warmth will steadily come to me.
Hehe.
I’m looking forward to the next world.
Now, the third ability.
Those who attacked me to kill me become connected to me.
I originally discovered this in the first world, but in the second world, I figured out how to apply it.
I’ll think about that later, for now, let’s organize the fundamentals.
If it hits, I can steal their warmth.
But it’s close to a counterattack technique, so if the opponent doesn’t attack, I can’t steal their warmth.
Also, one more thing.
If the opponent has no intention of killing me, even if they attack, there’s no connection. That’s what happened with the first attack by the Primitive Immortal. I wondered if gravitational attacks wouldn’t work, but the second attack was fine.
If they attack with the intention of killing me, whatever the attack, it connects, and I can steal their warmth.
Then their light shrinks to black, and their body twists, like someone who’s been mutated by a monster in an SF story.
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They feel the cold like me, lose their sanity, and attack the light in front of them purely with instinct.
Because the light has warmth, and they want to gain it.
But they will never obtain warmth.
Since they’re connected to me, all the warmth goes to me.
However, this mutation is completely random, and the one who mocked me and took their own life was very clever. At least, their intelligence increased compared to the form of a wild cat before twisting.
So I didn’t want to use this on living opponents.
But I discovered another way.
This is used with the fourth ability.
Reality manipulation.
It really feels like a huge cheat, and it is a cheat.
But there are also major limitations.
If you create something that doesn’t exist in that world, the world can’t hold up and breaks.
If you create something too far removed from reality, the world can’t hold up and breaks.
For example, changing torn clothes into clean clothes or turning stone into gold doesn’t damage the world because those things exist in the world.
But if you try to fill an empty jar with water, the world will break.
If I’m too heavy, when I push myself in, the world breaks.
It’s a skill that’s quite usable, but if used too much, it seems like the world will break.
It’s not that weird to manipulate reality.
But this ability takes on unique power when combined with the third ability.
Monsters. Or aberrations.
Especially when their bodies weren’t made first, but the rumors about them spread first, and then the monsters were made according to those rumors.
If they attack me and I steal their warmth, they become the same kind of haphazard, mutated chunks of meat. But if I forcefully push myself into the blackened light and twist reality, turning them into tools...
The light becomes dust and flies away, and a tool with the function derived from the rumor is created.
That’s how the glowing, blue lights were made.
If you do the same with a person, they’ll probably just become a thing. But if there’s something to replace that rumor, I can turn it into a tool that holds it.
Since Choseol holds me, I thought it would be possible with a person, and indeed, it turned out as expected.
In the next world, I’ll be able to use this well.
In game terms, it’s like acquiring a crafting function for tools.
And the fifth.
Or the third derivative.
When the opponent who attacked me and connected with me has light that is large and massive enough.
I can forcibly push myself in and move.
Every action I take causes the light and the body to vanish, but...
That’s how Daegon disappeared.
When his warmth was stolen, the light shrank to black, and his body mutated. At that time, through the connection created by my touch, I pushed myself in and made him move according to my will.
Furthermore, through that connection, both the blackened light and the body disappeared together.
Perhaps.
If I practice a lot, I might be able to do the same with small creatures. That way, I won’t be played with like last time.
After confirming my abilities, I look through the countless memories I gained from the second world.
Especially Daegon and the Primitive Immortal.
They have technologies I never even imagined!
As I flip through the memories, I look up at the calm sea, where no waves rise. Occasionally, light falls to the bottom, making a contract, and I inject power and knowledge into it.
Until someday, when someone pulls me up.