I Became a Soul Eater

[What is that?]

It wasn’t mana. I don’t have a body, so I can’t feel mana sensitively, but with light magic like that, I had to feel mana. But mana did not feel at all.

After a while, the light faded and the king slowly opened his mouth.

“This… is God’s shield.”

“Is that divine power?”

One of the knights asked the king with a puzzled face.

“Yes.”

Only priests can use divine power. It is common sense in this world. There are artifacts that allow you to use magic without being a wizard. However, there is no artifact that allows you to use divine power without being a priest. Being called a sacred object also allows priests to use greater divine power, but it does not allow ordinary people to use divine power.

In a word, the miracle that this shield showed just now was shattering the world’s common sense.

“In the records of the royal family for a very long time, there are very few records of the two instruments used by the founding king. A sword made of dragon scales and a shield made of divine metal.”

[Then is that a centalium?]

“The spirit says it is a centalium.”

“you’re right. But I do know that it contains a small amount of centalium, almost the size of a fingernail.”

Ceintallium is, simply put, the metal of the gods. It is not a naturally occurring mineral, but a legendary metal that is said to be bestowed by the gods.

It is said that the Saintalium known to the world was used when casting the Great Cross of the Cathedral of the Holy Kingdom. Of course, that is also a legend, and in reality, how can you use that huge cross?

Another known saintalium is also a pendant of a necklace that saints of the Holy Kingdom inherit from generation to generation, but there is no way to confirm this either. The saint is originally a being who uses powerful divine power, but there is no way to confirm whether it has become more powerful because of the necklace. Of course, I don’t know if it was confirmed inside the castle, but nothing is known outside.

In any case, that was impossible without the Saintalium. Distorting the common sense and concepts of the world is impossible without the power of God.

[I thought it was an old sword and shield, but it’s like a national treasure]

At my self-talk, Isabelle smiled broadly.

“I am always grateful to the spirit.”

“Thank you, soul!”

Ether also helped out by the side.

[Yes, if you guys like it, that’s fine]

The treasure hunt adventure that started without much thought ended with great results. Rumors spread that the royal family, guided by the guardian spirit, found the treasure of the founding king. Isn’t it like a story that comes out of a hero’s epic?

In the capital of the kingdom, when only a few people gathered, they would talk about it and praise the king’s family and guardian spirits. Of course, this was also due to the king’s behind-the-scenes work. Isn’t there a better material to establish the authority of the royal family?

Either way, I returned to the leisurely academy life and enjoyed the oblivion of time. And finally, the academy’s graduation ceremony came.

Unusually, all members of the King’s family attended the academy’s graduation ceremony. Of course it’s because of me. It was because I could ascend to heaven at the same time as the graduation ceremony. In particular, the King said that as an honorary student, he would also confer a diploma on me.

After all the graduation ceremonies were over, it was finally my turn to present the diplomas to the graduates.

“I don’t know about you at the academy, but the guardian spirit that protects the royal family has stayed at the academy for the past six years, watching over you and taking care of you. Therefore, as an honorary student, I am conferring a special diploma to Suhoryeong.”

It feels a bit pseudo-like to confer a diploma to the soul, but it is an event that the king himself takes part in. Moreover, no one dared to say anything different about the work of the current king, whose royal authority was stronger than ever.

I enjoyed the feeling of the graduation ceremony in front of the king like a real graduate. Now, even if I die, I have no regrets… No, I’m already dead, but can I attain Buddhahood?

[thanks.]

Upon hearing my greeting, Isabelle and Ether smiled. Isabelle had been wiping away her tears with a handkerchief. I didn’t have a body, but somehow I felt something inside my body lighten. Oh, is this holy fire?

I waited a bit, but nothing happened. what? Why is nothing happening? Surely you felt strange? Wasn’t this Or was it that I wasn’t a vengeful spirit in the first place?

I couldn’t tell. In the meantime, I also visited psychics who were said to be quite useful in the royal capital. None of them heard my voice. No, they were all scammers in the first place.

There was a time when I went to the temple because I had questions after being hit by the divine power that works in the shield of God. In fact, until then, since it was a soul, wouldn’t it be damaged or destroyed if exposed to divine power? I absolutely avoided priests and temples.

However, there was nothing wrong with the holy power emitted by the priests. It was to the point where I felt like an idiot for avoiding it all this time. Rather, I learned the sense of feeling divine power, just like feeling magical power.

But now what? For the past 6 years, I have been living with the goal of graduating from the academy, but after it disappeared, I felt a sense of emptiness.

First of all, I felt ashamed for not being able to attain Buddhahood, so I avoided the seat. He wandered like a floating spirit to the mage tower or market he had visited frequently. After a few days, he returned to the palace.

Isabelle and Ether were rather overjoyed. However, after thinking about it for a few days, I soon became sullen when I told him about the goal I had set again.

[I wonder if it was my regret to learn a lot of knowledge instead of graduating from the academy, so I decided to go on a trip]

“Can we ask His Majesty to invite eminent scholars?”

[No, I want to travel to every corner of the world myself]

“It is enviable.”

[That’s right, I’m safe as long as I don’t meet a black magician]

“You’re not leaving very much, are you?”

[I’m going to look around the inside of the kingdom, I’ll come back at least once every few years unless something happens]

“Then I’m relieved.”

Izazel seemed to agree. I can’t help it even if I don’t understand anything. How can you catch me, the soul

“Soul don’t go”

Ether cried and ejaculated, but this time she couldn’t do Ether’s favor.

[You should listen to Ether’s mother, take good care of your younger siblings, and become a great prince? Then I’ll come back more often]

In the meantime, the queen gave birth to a princess, and Ether had a younger sister. Of course the princess didn’t hear me, but she was a very cute child. In my lifetime, I loved sons, but wished I had a daughter. But is that going to be too bad? No, but I can’t have a daughter anymore, can I?

Anyway, that’s how I left the capital where I stayed for 6 years. In order not to get lost like the last time I came to the capital, I memorized the entire detailed map that only high-ranking officials can see in the military.

The first destination was the great forest in the southeastern part of the kingdom. It is a place where there are many monsters and a fight between humans and death takes place. It is said that elves live deep in the great forest.

On the way, he stopped at intermediate cities and large villages to see how people lived and to spy on local aristocrats. The evil ones will find out the weakness and later return to the capital and tell the king.

The appearance of living in the province was similar to or slightly worse than the viscount estate where I lived. The life of commoners was similar everywhere.

I don’t know how the nobles of other countries are, but at least the nobles of this kingdom are cruel and stingy towards the common people. This was a question I had since I was an administrative officer during my lifetime.

It’s something that doesn’t require much effort. It’s not even tax cuts. It’s just that although there are plenty of ways for them to live a little better, most nobles don’t do them.

This is something that is also taught in the academies, and some reforming scholars have already pointed this out decades ago. This is the reason why nobles do not change.

‘If you give me one, they ask for another.’

Of course, it is understandable from an aristocratic point of view, but it is also a reason why it is difficult to accept from the point of view of the common people who occupy most of the world.

Anyway, the world has been going like that for thousands of years. And today and tomorrow it will go back like that.

It took less than two months to arrive at the destination. It was the entrance to the Great Forest, which had only been heard in words. It was like encountering a sea of green.

Even though it was an entrance, trees like giants that seemed to reach tens of meters were densely filling the entire field of view.

Long before arriving here, the closer I got to the Great Forest, the more demons I saw. However, this place right in front of the entrance was rather small.

It was because Regis Line, a fortress city built by hunters and mercenaries who catch demons and merchants who buy their by-products, was located here.

The characteristics of the Regis Line were that it had a high wall of over 30 meters, and dozens of ballistas were installed on the wall. It was a fortress built solely for the purpose of dealing with demons.

And inside the fort, there were people who were rougher than the stark and rough fort. Thousands of monster hunters, mercenaries, and merchants gather here for only one reason.

Money, witches become money. That simple reason brings people together even in the Great Forest, where people risk their lives every time they take a step.

I stayed at Regisline for a while and started gathering information about the place. And a few days later, when he heard the news that a fairly large expedition was leaving, he went into the Great Forest with them.

The total size of the expedition was 300 people. It was said that the scale was unusually large even in the Regis line. There were as many as 20 high-ranking knights and one low-ranking knight, and three wizards were also included in the expedition. This is the same as the power of a small count family. The purpose of the expedition is the blood of Gentas. Zentas is a medium-level beast and is extremely rare in areas other than the Great Forest.

It is a bird-type monster that moves very agile compared to its size through the thick trees of the Great Forest. It looks like a bird, but it cannot fly. Even so, its strong beak and claws can tear apart a knight in armor very easily. Basically, three low-ranking knights are monsters that can only be defeated by clinging to them.

The blood of Gentas is known to be very good for skin diseases. It is also said to be good for beauty, but I did not look deeply into it because I was not interested in whether the nobleman who commissioned this expedition would use it for treatment or beauty.

Anyway, with this amount of people, I thought the beginning of the great forest would not be difficult.

“Stop the left wing!”

“Hold the line!”

That idea was broken quite simply. The goblins who appeared shortly after coming in from the entrance attacked the flanks of the expedition in a very systematic way.

Of course, it wasn’t the green goblin you normally think of. A black goblin that lives only in the Great Forest. The monster encyclopedia I read described the black goblin like this.

‘Three times faster than the Green Goblin, twice as strong, and five times as clever.’

At the time of reading, I thought it was such a vague explanation, but when I saw it in front of my eyes, I thought it was a very accurate description.

A goblin that is three times faster and twice as fast is a goblin. But being five times smarter is a different story. Since it was a large group of 300 people, the procession stretched a little, and the flanks were struck with amazing timing. And the black goblins did not face off against humans. After the raid, they quickly retreated like a disciplined army.

As the flanks were attacked, reinforcements rushed from the vanguard and rear row. And the goblins took advantage of that gap and attacked both the vanguard and rear row at the same time.