Only My Magic Levels Up - Chapter 238



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Episode 238 Star Tree (6)

“huh?”

“Did I hear something wrong?” asked Silpa.

“Water? What water?”

“That’s what I’d like to ask… … .”

“Are you shedding tears because you’re so touched?”

Of course, Silpa, who was facing Galen, knew best that it was not true. In the first place, it was not a scene that would be seen wrongly just because tears were shed.

“Oh, I can see it too!”

At that moment, Lilia shouted. Silpa put aside Galenval’s questions for a moment and looked back at Lilia.

Lilia, who kept touching the star tree but turned her head towards Silpa, had one eye slightly out of focus. It seemed like she was looking somewhere else.

“It’s all white, there’s no floor, no ceiling, no walls… It’s a really strange space.”

“Do you see any water?”

“no!”

“Yeah, that’s normal.”

Galen, you are abnormal.

Galen seemed to know without even having to listen what Silpa’s gaze meant as she looked back.

But you can’t say you can’t see something that’s obvious.

The sea… no, it wasn’t even a wave, so it must have been a really big lake? As Lilia said, I don’t know how a lake could be made without a floor, ceiling, or walls, but either way, there seemed to be a lot of water.

Just in case, I took a quick look at Shamita and Padin.

“A warehouse that has never been used should naturally be empty.”

“It’s the first time I’ve heard of someone being filled with water. Is it because they’re a water wizard?”

Only Galen was treated as a strange person. Even if he wanted to insist that it was the difference between fairies and humans, he couldn’t do that because Lilia seemed to be fine.

“If you don’t know, you should just move on. What can you do? Since both of you have passed the first hurdle, you can let go.”

Galen and Lilia took a step back from the star tree. The pure white landscape that had taken up half of their field of vision disappeared.

I felt a little dizzy. While Galen was closing and opening his eyes several times, Lilia, who had recovered first, made a suggestion.

“How about asking?”

“Oh, is that so?”

Why didn’t I think of that? Galen beamed.

“Huh? You ask? Who?”

“To the star tree!”

“that is…….”

“What are you talking about?” Silpa was about to say reflexively, but she closed her mouth.

Come to think of it, wasn’t the human who claimed to be able to talk to the star tree Galen?

Galen was already giving instructions in his head. The primal spirits, who had regained some energy, gathered around the star tree stump.

“… … ?”

However, Galen’s slightly excited expression quickly calmed down after a short conversation with the star tree.

“He doesn’t know either?”

“yes?”

“I know I put it in, but how do you know…?”

“I just found out about the warehouse, but how do I put it in?”

“That’s why.”

If I had an inventory, I would have already put things like bags in it. Why would I carry around a water truck full of water?

There was no need to put it in in the first place, the spirit will take care of the water…

“… … .”

Suddenly a possibility crossed Galen’s mind.

As Galen sat silently lost in thought, Lilia looked at him with a slightly worried look. Silpa said casually.

“It doesn’t really matter if you don’t know, right? There haven’t been any problems so far, so you probably didn’t notice even if you put it in.”

“Uh… I guess so?”

“You can open it yourself later and check. So, think about getting the key quickly. It will be quick for you guys.”

“Yes! Didn’t you say earlier that we passed the first gate?”

“That’s right. If you succeed in the tug-of-war with the Star Tree over magic power, you can temporarily look into the warehouse. It was easy for you because you were jewels, but even a little gold wouldn’t do. You lack the strength.”

“The suction power was strong.”

“They say getting started is half the battle. If you succeed at that, the rest is just a matter of time. If you keep practicing, your skill level will continue to increase.”

Until you get the hang of it so that you can look into the warehouse by completing the tug-of-war as soon as you infuse it with magic.

Once you become completely familiar with the warehouse, at some point you will be able to sense its presence even without touching the star tree.

When you become a jewel or almost jewel-level expert who can play tug-of-war with a star tree, you will naturally realize how to use it the moment you recognize the warehouse. That was the nature of the warehouse.

“According to what Shilpa said, the star tree only provides some kind of opportunity. Since it’s called the star tree warehouse, I thought it was something like a warehouse that the star tree gives.”

“As you said, there is no direct relationship. It is just called the Star Tree Warehouse because it is a warehouse that you realize while playing tug-of-war with the Star Tree. Therefore, the key that the Star Tree gives you is not necessarily a necessary item.”

It seemed that the key was both a token of recognition of one’s skills by the Star Tree and an object of convenience.

Even if you figured out how to use the warehouse, the method itself was difficult and required intense concentration. Of course, it would be difficult if half of your field of vision turned white all of a sudden.

The key is nothing more than a piece of wood that fell off the main body, but it leaves behind something like a trace, so if you just lightly inject some magic into it, the feeling of tug-of-war is instantly recreated.

Especially in the midst of an urgent battle, if you want to immediately use the stored magical power, the existence of a key that allows easy access to the warehouse is almost essential.

“But in the end, what does tug-of-war have to do with it? You can test your magical power even if you don’t have a star tree… … .”

“We don’t know the principle either.”

“oh.”

“Of course there are some hypotheses. But there’s no way to prove it anyway. If the star tree told me the answer with its own mouth, I wouldn’t know… … .”

Silpa, who had been speaking without much thought, trailed off. Her gaze turned to Galen. Following her, Lilia, Shamita, and Padin also looked at Galen.

Galen, who had been quiet since a while ago, nodded quietly and opened his mouth.

“It’s because of the specialness of the star tree, Lilia. The star tree has a storehouse, too.”

“yes?”

“Just as Shilpa has her own storehouse, and Shamita and Padin have their own, and Lilia and I each have our own storehouses, the star tree has its own storehouse, too. Even though it’s a plant.”

“What, what?”

“The Star Tree doesn’t consume all the magical power we feed it while sitting down, but stores most of it and uses it whenever it needs it. The place where it stores it is called the warehouse.”

“That… the star tree said that?”

“Yes. In the process of struggling with the Star Tree trying to put magic power into its own warehouse, we unconsciously come to recognize the Star Tree’s warehouse, and furthermore, we come to consciously recognize our own warehouse… That seems to be the principle.”

To elaborate a little, the key isn’t actually a gift from the star tree.

If you’re just going to keep playing tug-of-war without giving me any magic, then stop bothering me. Eat this and get out. Something like that?

Galen decided to keep that secret for the sake of the mental health of the sky fairies. You don’t have to know about this.

“You’re amazing, brother!”

Anyway, Lilia was impressed. She trusted Galen unconditionally and didn’t doubt the explanation at all.

“It’s not like it’s completely out of the blue, it was one of the hypotheses… … .”

Shilpa muttered in a bewildered voice. Shamitana Padin also seemed to be in a similar mood, though their expressions were not particularly visible.

How could they remain calm when the secret of the star tree that even they did not know was revealed by a human who saw the star tree for the first time today?

“Well, I understand if you don’t believe me. The principle isn’t really that important.”

Despite the half-believing and half-doubting reactions of the sky fairies, Galen shrugged his shoulders calmly. He was sincere. It was an answer to satisfy Lilia’s curiosity, and it didn’t matter whether the sky fairies believed it or not.

“I don’t need to know the cause, but I can just enjoy the results. How much practice is necessary, Shilpa?”

“Huh? Oh, yeah. It varies from person to person, so I can’t say for sure. But since you guys are jewels, if you work hard, it won’t take more than ten days, right?”

“You two can come and practice whenever you want. I’ll tell those who are standing in line to come in my name.”

Padin interrupted Shilpa’s words.

It was certainly a great privilege for non-fairy humans to be able to approach the star tree without any special permission or accompaniment.

At the same time, it wasn’t a great privilege for the two of them. What would be the point of guarding the Star Tree from the people who revived it?

“I would be grateful for your kindness.”

Galen greeted him gracefully.

“I think the explanation we had to hear is almost over… Is it okay for us to rest now?”

“Of course. It must have been exhausting, but we held on to it for too long.”

Padin nodded as if it was obvious.

“I’m going to go to work now.”

“Galen, if you’re going to rest, why don’t you come and have a cup of tea with me—”

“You are such an oblivious guy.”

“Huh? Why?”

“Let them rest. Galen, Lilia. I’ll see you at dinner.”

Shamita subdued Silpa and dragged her away. Padin also left, leaving only Galen and Lilia behind.

“It would have been okay if Shilpa had stayed. She seemed like she wanted to talk more.”

Lilia said innocently, not noticing Shamita’s consideration to spend some cozy time. Galen snickered.

“We’ll be staying here for at least a few days, so there will be plenty of opportunities to talk. I’d also be more comfortable if the fairies left the place for me.”

“Hyung, do you want to be alone with me too, brother?!”

“It’s always been like that.”

Galen chuckled and gently stroked Lilia’s head. Lilia blushed slightly.

“Well, that aside.”

Galen, who had been flirting for a moment, soon returned to a serious expression.

“I don’t need to reveal all my abilities to the fairies. They might unintentionally hurt my pride or something.”

“Oh, is there something you didn’t mention?”

“After thinking about it carefully, I have some idea where the water in the warehouse came from.”

Galen leaned his staff against the tree for a moment and placed his right hand on the star tree again.

The balance was much easier than before, when the tug-of-war had lasted quite a while. Half of Galen’s vision was soon filled with the scenery of the warehouse.

In that state, he raised his left hand and swung it lightly.

The water spirit that had been wrapped around me like a bracelet broke off and rolled away.

“One of the most over-the-top lines I’ve ever heard is, “How can you do this much water magic in a place where there’s no water?”

“Brother, you use the spirit as a water storage, right?”

“That’s right. I thought that was normal. But when I look at other spirits, it’s not like that.”

“yes?”

“These guys are dealing with nature, not creating nature.”

The primordial spirit of the earth, Gleba, eats and stores the soil, or the primordial spirit of the storm, Procella, creates new air.

That was impossible. It was moving the air that was handling the existing soil.

If that’s the case for the primordial spirit, how would it be any different for the water spirit, which has high energy but lacks the ability to move?

But it was different.

Before evolving into life magic, water elementals could store water by gulping it down, starting from the 1st level of elemental creation.

“At first, I thought it would just store it properly in my body… but as my level increased, the capacity also increased endlessly, right? No matter how much I stored, the weight did not change.”

“Oh, then maybe… … .”

“Perhaps I have been using the Star Tree Warehouse without even knowing it. I guess I have been using it via the water spirit.”

Galen injected life force into him.

Swish!

The spirit, which was smaller than a fist, grew rapidly by consuming magical power. It felt like it was buried by the overly large star tree right next to it, but it quickly grew into a giant, surpassing Galen’s height.

It’s not like it just inflates like a balloon without any substance. The water giant is made of pure water. That’s why it was used as a mass attack.

Until now, it was thought that the body was growing in size by automatically releasing the water it had stored in it, but maybe―

“… And, it seems right.”

Galen muttered as he watched the warehouse.

Compared to the enormous amount of water that makes up a vast lake, the amount of water that makes up a giant is a drop in the bucket.

Just as in a game where you have 999 potions in your inventory, even a single potion is immediately displayed, Galen could immediately sense that the amount of water he was storing had decreased.

“As expected, my brother is a genius, right?”

Lilia pouted.

“You’ve been using the warehouse since Baek Eun-sun, which is almost inaccessible unless you have jewels!”

“I didn’t write it knowingly. It was only for water bottles.”

“Isn’t it more amazing that you wrote it without knowing?”

“Is that so?”

“That’s right!”

Anyway, thanks to that, I’m less worried. There was nothing wrong.

After confirming that the water in the warehouse was increasing again while shrinking the giant’s size, Galen took his hands off the star tree.

“Anyway, now I can just practice in the warehouse… All that’s left is this guy.”

Galen took up his staff again. Lilia asked.

“Can’t I ask Byulnamu how to use this too?”

“I already asked you. When you were quiet earlier.”

“What did you say?”

“He told me to do it like he did when he gave me magic… … .”

Galen, whose words were trailing off, checked his magical power.

Of the eight attributes of magical power that were breathed into the Star Tree, the one that consumed the most was, of course, the Wall Power Star.

The water manipulation was a top-tier jewel, and the other six were helped by the primal spirits. The price for scraping together even the power of the stars was that they were almost dried up.

While talking to the fairies, I recovered a bit, but it was literally just a bit. It was useless for battle.

“… I guess it doesn’t matter since I’m not going to use it in battle.”

Galen grabbed that bit of magic again.

Without converting it into lightning, he held onto only the magic power itself, and took a handful of the same amount of magic power from the Sky Liberation. Even though it was only silver, it was naturally more than enough compared to the exhausted Wall Force.

Next, he increased the magical powers of fire, earth, nothingness, pitch black, storm, life, and water manipulation in that order.

Even for Galen, who mixed various magics, using 9 attributes at the same time was too much, but this was okay because it was only moving ‘magic’ and not ‘magic’. The magic itself was also small in amount.

The nine attributes of magical power flowed through the staff, reaching the head of the staff where the nine tree trunks were intertwined like a whirlwind.

That was the moment.

Saaaa …

The nine magical powers mixed together and a five-colored light appeared.

It did not flow across the surface as brilliantly as when it was wrapped around a star tree, but it rippled softly and gently.

“oh?!”

Lilia’s eyes widened.

“Except for Lilia’s power… Integration? Fusion? Should I call it magic power?”

Galen scratched his chin with his left hand.

“It looks pretty, but I don’t know what to do with it.”

“Like a magic that makes new buds sprout like a star tree?”

“There’s no way I would know that kind of magic.”

“Then why don’t you try using any magic you know?”

“Will it work if all the magic is mixed together… …?”

It worked surprisingly well.

As I shook the cane from side to side, sparks flickered like fireworks, and soon the wind dissipated the heat, and soon there was a faint electrical discharge.

Even though it was a mixed magic, it seemed that there was no problem with compatibility with any magic.

‘Stay still?’

Galen, who had been swinging his staff like an electric flyswatter, stopped.

Clearly, the magic power of the Wall Power Fortress was only a little bit left. It would be gone in no time if I used just a little bit. For convenience, let’s say it was 1.

But then I mixed the magic powers of the other eight attributes in the same ratio. Then it becomes a hodgepodge… It doesn’t sound good, so let’s call it fusion. The total amount of fusion magic power becomes 9.

But what if this fusion magic is compatible with all magic? Could you use all 9 in Wall Power Ilseong?

‘Is this how common it is?’

Galen’s eyes widened as he realized the fraudulent nature of the starwood staff.

The downside of having so much magic learned, although it may be a bit presumptuous to call it a downside, is that there is bound to be magic power that is just idle.

In an aerial battle, there is no need to use the magic of the earth, and on a rainy day, it is difficult to use the magic of fire.

Magic that is sealed and not suitable for the combat environment is bound to come out.

But what if you have a star tree staff?

It was a good thing that some of the unused magical power could be taken away and used to supplement the magical power that was being used.

It may not be a good situation, but if a situation arises where you focus on only one magic, you can calculate that the magical power increases by 9 times.

Tingle!

Galen, who had been blankly staring at the discharge phenomenon on the head of the staff, suddenly came to his senses with a slight headache.

Because it was a familiar feeling, he reflexively opened the status window and looked at it.

Something has changed.

[Liberation of Sky Lv.44]

[1% progress to next level]

The level of Sky Liberation has increased.

“… … ?”

Since it is a self-study section, I will exaggerate a bit and say that you can level up just by breathing, but that doesn’t mean you can just breathe. You have to practice using magic.

But the magic you’re using right now is lightning. Isn’t the wand head flashing with lightning?

I didn’t even think about using Sky Liberation. Other than the amount I added when I made the fusion magic―

“… … .”

Oh my, this fusion magic.

Is experience also fusion?