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The Mist Vol 3 Chapter 29
🕑 Added 2024-09-17 10:38:12 +0000 UTCVol 3 Chapter 29
As soon as the circle was completed following his fingertips, a green formula world began to spread horizontally and vertically in all directions, starting from where Kapros was standing. When the formula world finally filled even the distant forest boundary faintly, he pushed his right arm into the circle.
At that moment, there was a sound like wind, and he felt a warm sensation as if a heater's breeze had suddenly blown over his body. His bangs gently floated up, brushing against his forehead. Savoring these long-forgotten sensations with pleasure, Kapros slowly opened his mouth.
"I desire that you break free from your existence and reveal your breath in this moment to move for me."
The range was about 1 meter in front of him, and the desired action was to pick up a stone.
"Aerial Servant."
It was when he finished the final incantation.
Suddenly, the visible world split into two.
"..."
For a moment, Kapros thought he had been divided into two people. He was clearly standing here looking ahead, but from another perspective, he could also see a view of himself standing about 1 meter away.
There was nothing in front of him!
Startled, Kapros took a step back and felt an intense dizziness. Simultaneously, in one of the two views, he only felt the sensation of stepping back, while in the other, he saw himself, pale-faced, staggering back a step from about 1 meter away, as if watching on TV.
It wasn't a phenomenon where his vision was split in half, with his right eye seeing one thing and his left eye seeing another. This extraordinary sensation of simultaneously perceiving yet somehow different views greatly confused Kapros.
Thud!
"Ugh!"
Unable to withstand the dizziness, he finally fell on his backside. Reflexively squeezing his eyes shut, Kapros panted for a moment before taking a quick breath.
'Ah...'
With his eyes closed, he naturally shouldn't have been able to see anything in front of him, but this time he could see himself fallen over 1 meter ahead on the inside of his closed eyes. However, perhaps because he was only perceiving this single view now, it wasn't as dizzying. To be precise, rather than 'seeing,' it was more like his brain was recognizing something similar to seeing... a strange and peculiar sensation.
Having realized that when his eyes were closed, only the 'second view' that hadn't originally existed was visible, Kapros slowly raised his upper body to sit up. Surprisingly, he could see what he was doing with ridiculous clarity even with his eyes closed. Yet, this was only the view, and all other senses made him feel that he was properly sitting here, which was confusing.
'Damn... what's what... I wish it would just go back to normal for now...'
Whoosh.
The moment he thought that, suddenly the second view disappeared from inside his closed eyes.
"...Huh?"
When he opened his eyes again, his vision had returned to normal.
'Then... then...'
At that moment, Kapros had a sudden realization.
"...Is this what they meant by understanding the 6th circle magic once you try it?"
As he stood up, dumbfounded, and pondered deeply, his confidence in this conclusion grew.
The magic he had attempted was Aerial Servant. It was magic that controlled air. When he first imagined it, his goal was for the magic to be cast about 1 meter in front of him, and the position of that 'second view' had consistently been fixed about 1 meter in front of him, looking back at him.
'...Just in case, let's try it one more time.'
Recalling that still unbelievable sensation, Kapros drew the circle again and specified the range. This time, the range was... right behind him.
"-Aerial Servant!"
As soon as he finished the incantation, his head spun violently.
"...Gasp."
And after a moment, the 'second view' that began to be recognized showed the back of his head very explicitly.
Surprised, he turned around, and at that moment, Kapros realized another fact: when he moved, only the first view, that is, the view he originally perceived with his own eyes, changed, while the second view remained fixed in that same place and direction.
'Ugh!'
...In other words, he ended up looking at his own face up close.
After a while of testing various things, Kapros became certain that this 'second view' was the identity of Aerial Servant. To be precise, it wasn't that Aerial Servant itself was this view, but rather it felt like he was sharing the view of Aerial Servant...
At first, due to motion sickness and dizziness, he moved alone and rolled around ungracefully, but as he repeated the practice, he became more accustomed to it and began to realize its formidable power.
Standing still, Kapros used only Aerial Servant to scan behind him, then opened his mouth.
"Lift up two stones."
As soon as he whispered softly, Aerial Servant descended to the ground according to his imaging and soon lifted two stones enveloped in wind. From a bit of a distance, it would look like just two stones floating in mid-air, but in Kapros's perception, his first view was looking forward, while the second view was seeing two stones floating from behind.
"Circle around me once in that state."
Along with the words, as he imagined it circling around him, he soon felt the sensation of a gentle wind wrapping around his body once. At the same time, the second view circled around him once.
'This is interesting...'
As he became more accustomed to it, to the point where he wondered if this was what having a computer brain felt like, his mind felt like it was clearing up like a mirror. The surprisingly precise recognition of Aerial Servant's 'view' felt like an unknown world to Kapros.
'I see... Now I understand what they meant.'
He felt he could now understand the meaning of Yoon Seok-ho's words, which had been like a riddle.
Once he understood by actually using the magic, he could then imagine how to move this magic by directly moving it.
Although he had only tried Aerial Servant so far, he could tangibly feel the words of Ilumine and Yoon Seok-ho saying that the 6th circle would be different from before. It seemed it would take more time to organize exactly what the differences were, but even with this one spell, he could experience a completely different sensation from before. It felt similar to the exhilaration he had felt when he first learned magic, drawing circles, specifying ranges, and attempting imaging.
