Vol 1 Chapter 14 (1/2)

After shopping and finis.h.i.+ng lunch, Kail and his party went to an inn.

Rather than an inn, it was more like a hotel, it was a respected one where even n.o.bles from other countries stayed at.

“However, we really did some flashy shopping. Won’t we stand out because of that?”

Seran said, while looking at today’s loot with everyone gathered in the same room.

He’s probably trying to say, won’t we stand out and have some bad rumors floating around, since we went shopping with the tremendous amount of ten million Gador?

“That’s a place that is frequented by n.o.bles, they won’t easily leak information about their customers.”

For customer dependent shops like that, a customer’s trust is their life line. It’s out of the question to talk about what a customer has bought there.

“Well, though it may take some time, it’ll definitely leak from somewhere, but we have some time before that happens. We’ll be leaving here tomorrow morning, so one day won’t be a problem at all.”

I also add in, that as long as we stay here, it won’t be a problem with the security.

“I see….. Wait what!? We’ve just arrived at the capital but why are we only staying for one night?”

“Yeah, since the only business we had here was shopping. The next destination is…..”

“Then I can’t stay here doing nothing like this! I’ll be going out for a while!”

Seran said that, and ran out.

“Then I’ll also go take a look around, for a little while. It’s my first time in a capital, so I want to have a little fun.”

Lize also stands up and tries to leave, when Urza suddenly says she’ll accompany her.

“I’ll go together with you. Since I’ve been here before, I can show you around.”

“Thanks, I’ll count on you Urza.”

“Those two have strangely enough become friends…..”

Kail made a complex face, while seeing Urza and Lize leaving together.

“Then, myself will go buy food, or shopping….. Well then, let’s go.”

Kail stops Sildonia who was about to leave.

“Hey wait a minute. You and me both have things we want to ask, also, I want some advice on a lot of things.”

Since on our journey there wasn’t a single time when we’ve been alone together.

“Ah….. No, no, it’s not like I forgot about it or anything, and it’s not as if I got caught up with the flow, yeah.”

Sildonia sat again, facing Kail, but there was still some regret about outside, which Kail didn’t notice.

“The first thing I wanted to check was…… Is it really possible to go back in time?”

This is the thing that has been bothering me the most.

Right now, I’m trying to prevent that future from happening, but if the things I do now are immutable, then that means they don’t have any meaning at all.

“Change, is a weird way to word it. As a premise, the future is always undecided, so it can freely change.”

“It hasn’t been decided you say….. That’s something that has really happened you know?”

“That’s where you’re mistaken. What really happened, is that at the same time that you leapt through time, you came to another world. In this world nothing has happened, so nothing has been decided yet.”

The original of myself had a hypothesis over this in the past, Sildonia explained.

“There isn’t only one flow of time, it’s just like a tree with many branches, your soul has jumped from branch to branch in order to reach this one. It may be a play on words, but simply put, you didn’t go back in time. You have come to this world, which doesn’t have any records of what’s going to happen from now on.”

As proof, Sildonia pointed to the “G.o.d Dragon Heart” Kail was holding.

“That “G.o.d Dragon Heart” is probably the catalyst that brought your soul to this world. Originally there was only supposed to be one of them, but now there are two of them. Also, it was something that is originally in this world, probably in the demon territory…….. The moment that there are two of the same items, it has already become a contradiction, you can already think of this as another world, different from your own world.”

“I kind of understand, yet I kind of don’t understand….. Then is there the possibility that something different may occur in this world than what I know from the previous one?”

“No, only the branches are different…….Your existence itself is already a difference, except for myself, and the others, the history should be precisely the same as the one you know. All events are things that shall happen at a certain time, except for you coming to this world, there isn’t any difference between the events. For that reason….. that ‘Great Advance’ you know of shall probably happen too…..”

“I see…..”

Thinking it’s another world, I was hoping for such a weak answer, but it isn’t that easy.

“……However, that just means we’ll be able to prepare for it right?”

“Right now, you’re talking with myself. Just this has already changed your experiences, this means you’ll be able to do what you want to do.”

“Hearing just that is enough.”

My actions, what I’m trying to do certainly isn’t meaningless, I’m happy just knowing that.

“In reality, myself thinks what you’re trying to do, trying to stop that ‘great advance’ by having the human race prepare for it, and create a reputation for that to happen…… Is a great idea. However, there are many difficulties.”

“What, I have a lot of trump cards, also the legendary『Magic king』 is with me, it isn’t that difficult, right?”

To Kail’s words, Sildonia showed a fearless grin.

“Well then, next is the reason why your magic power has increased, for this, myself also has a hypothesis.”

“Yeah, I would also like to hear that.”

Kail becomes interested. Since it’s about what’s happening to my own body and I don’t understand what’s going on.

“In order to explain this, I’ll have to explain just what magic power is, but if I use the premise that magic power is something which is a part of the soul, so it’s inseparable, do you understand?”

“Yeah.”

“Well then…. Do you know a fusion magic, which is a taboo even among taboos, called [Fusion], exists?”

“No, I’ve never heard of it.”

Even Kail, who has some knowledge about magic, has never heard about it.

“Hmm, seems like it’s been skillfully buried with history. Since the original of myself has sealed it away because it was really dangerous.”

“…..What kind of magic is it?”

“Simply put, it’s a fusion between souls, it’s an evil way to significantly increase your magic power, by absorbing someone’s soul.”

Even Zars actively studied on a way to increase magic power, in their training they thought of a lot of ways to increase magic power, however in the end the strength of one’s magic power is mostly already decided from birth.

That’s where they thought of a way to strengthen the soul itself, which is how fusion magic came to exist.

However the soul is one’s life and that person itself, thus the same person can’t have the soul of someone else, which would mean he’d have to become someone different.

“Another example, would be like having chocolate melted in beer. That would be like donning a layer around itself. Then, voilà you’ll have a human with the memories and personality of someone else. A normal person’s mind wouldn’t be able to withstand it and would probably go mad.”

TLnote : This was what the raws literally said…. Yeah great explanation….. -Tensaiz

“That really doesn’t have any meaning does it.”

Even if it’s for the purpose of becoming stronger, it’d be inconvenient to become a cripple.

“Also, the reason for this unexpected situation that has happened to you, would be because of your innocent soul, which has been taken advantage of.”

“Masaka……”

“Yeah, it’s a new born baby.”

“That’s the worst.”

Kail covers his face with one hand.

In order to strengthen your magic power you’ll have to absorb the soul of a baby, it’s truly a forbidden magic.

“Be that as it may, for example, a newborn human baby. Fusion, if you absorb one, it’ll affect the soul, also a sane human wouldn’t even try to do something this evil. Afterwards, a certain hypothesis was made. If it’s exactly the same soul, such a problem wouldn’t occur…… But something like having exactly the same soul doesn’t exist.”

Then if it doesn’t exist you just have to make it, in Zars a research for artificial souls was being carried out.

“Making a soul….. Thinking back about it, it was truly a research where you didn’t even fear G.o.d.”

What arrogance, it was Sildonia, that was smiling wryly, but in Zars at that time, there was a majority that believed they would one day surpa.s.s G.o.d.

“Well, anyhow, the research about creating the exact same soul as your own ended in a failure, since this magic was too dangerous, it was sealed…… Well then, Like I said just now, the things that came into this world, were your soul and the “G.o.d Dragon Heart”. Also somewhere in this world there is another “G.o.d Dragon Heart”. Then, what do you think happened to the soul of the one called Kail Leonard in this world?”

“What happened to it, you say…….. Could it be?!”

“That’s right, It’s there.”

Sildonia was pointing at Kail’s chest.