Chapter 15
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Translator: penny
Chapter: 15
Chapter Title: To Fulfill Your Wish
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‘You said you hate damp places.’
｢That windy bitch keeps needling me. Time to show her what I’ve got.｣
It’s not a windy bitch—it’s the Wind Spirit.
The surrounding scenery shuddered, and the ground began to heave.
It was similar to the phenomenon when the squarecraft giants emerged from the Blue Gate.
Oh Yeonseo looked around with a startled expression.
Big and small rocks floated up into the air all at once.
They flew toward the middle of the lake, taking positions one by one.
It felt like they were aligning to invisible coordinates.
Pillars rose at regular intervals, and smaller stones gathered to form railings.
Before long, a stone bridge connected the lakeside where we stood to the cliff door.
Oh Yeonseo stared blankly at the bridge forming before turning her head toward me.
“You’ve surprised me several times today.”
Her expression made it clear she was convinced I’d made it.
“Even low-rank summoners struggle to call familiars. Mid-rank ones can summon them easily, but commanding spirits is still tough. Even advanced summoners face the same issue. You have to get on the spirits’ good side and cater to their whims. At the pinnacle like me, it gets easier… but even I can’t build a bridge over a lake like that. The subordinates I command can only manage walls at best.”
Why the long preamble? What’s she getting at?
She approached the bridge and ran her slender fingers along the railing.
“It’s perfectly smooth, no rough edges, intricately carved. And you laid it across the entire lake in just minutes. Not even an advanced spirit could do this.”
“As expected of an exceptional summoner. She sees my prowess at a glance.”
“……”
“If it can do what advanced spirits can’t, then it must be a Great Spirit, right?”
She approached me with eyes full of envy.
She came so close I could sense the faint tremor in her breath.
“A bridge made from the earth’s byproducts—it has to be Gnome. The reclusive Great Spirit of Earth, who’s never shown itself to humans, only lending golems to summoners.”
Her envious gaze turned to one of madness.
“How did you get a Great Spirit to do this? Even pinnacle summoners who call golems can’t manage it. How high is your affinity that a spirit—no, a Great Spirit—built you a bridge?”
I only asked because it offered to help, but apparently this was a huge deal?
“Well… it said it’d help if we contracted, so…”
“Con—contract?!”
Oh Yeonseo collapsed to the ground right there.
Her mad eyes now held awe at the first contractor of a Great Spirit.
The Great Spirit of Fire, Salamandra.
The Great Spirit of Water, Undine.
The Great Spirit of Earth, Gnome.
The Great Spirit of Wind, Sylph.
They’re the first things you learn about gate ecosystems in school.
They’re apex predators and ecosystem disruptors at the top of the food chain.
“Salamandra has never lent me its power. Sylph is the closest to me, and Gnome helps sometimes. Undine is a bit… finicky.”
“The tree spirit from earlier wasn’t a Great Spirit.”
“It’s a high spirit tied to the earth. Easier to summon in forests.”
She also summoned Ariel, lower-ranked than Sylph, for wind.
Even pinnacle summoners rarely move Great Spirits directly; they mostly use high spirits as subordinates.
“Ifrit of fire, Ciqueel of water, Kobold of earth, Ariel of wind—even just these advanced spirits are enough to clear gates.”
Oh Yeonseo was an all-rounder who could summon all four elements.
Her Yin Energy consumption was low too, making her one of the top five one-woman armies in any guild.
“I always thought I’d eventually summon Great Spirits at will, but seeing someone who already does… it’s deflating. Makes me wonder what all my levels and ranks were for.”
From envy to madness, then awe, and finally despair.
Her efforts felt invalidated, leaving her conflicted.
Even at her level as a top-tier hunter, she was powerless before Great Spirits.
There was an insurmountable wall between humans and Great Spirits.
‘I told the hunter I’m a good guy, right?’
[Yes. Master’s Yin Energy is great for sensitivity…]
‘I know it gets them excited.’
[I figured that’s what you meant. Need anything else?]
‘Doesn’t it boost skills too? Nayeong one-shotted monsters with an arrow from her butt.’
Before absorbing my Yin Energy, she couldn’t catch Blue Gate monsters.
[Sexual satisfaction from Master’s Yin Energy boosts metabolism. In reality, it just improves stamina, but in gates, it enhances hunters’ stats and skills. You’re a walking level-up machine.]
My special Yin Energy boosts hunters’ stats and skills.
In a good way, of course.
[But why?]
‘There’s a summoner despairing because of me. She wants to summon Great Spirits, so I’m wondering if I can help.’
My contract wasn’t from effort.
It was a fluke from my Yin Energy.
I was curious if I could share it with someone who truly needed it.
[It’s yours if contracted. Why think of others? You didn’t steal it.]
‘If it’s not a loss for me, I want to help. Could make me the benefactor of a pinnacle summoner.’
If I get Han Chaewon and Oh Yeonseo hooked on me, my life changes.
That’s why I got this Yin Energy—to milk it for all it’s worth.
[Ask the Great Spirit directly. I only handle Yin Energy.]
I spoke to Gnome.
“You’re asking if I’d respond to that child’s call too?”
‘Yes. She’s a hunter who summons high spirits but craves Great Spirit power. She’s strived for it, but I contracted first, and now she’s disappointed.’
“Then you should’ve given me satisfying Yin Energy. What use is human effort to a sublime being like me?”
It made sense from the Great Spirit’s view, but for my future, I needed to show Oh Yeonseo some mercy now.
How could I pass up becoming the benefactor of an S-Rank hunter?
‘They say my Yin Energy tastes way better after going in and out of a woman’s body. I’ll do it often, so give her a chance too.’
“Hmm, tempting… but Great Spirits don’t contract with two at once.”
As I dangled my Yin Energy, it started wavering.
‘No need for a contract. Just help when you’re with me. That way, she’ll cling to me.’
“Incomprehensible. The result’s the same—me showing up. Does it matter who calls?”
‘Humans want to do everything themselves, no matter what.’
My words must’ve stuck with her, as Oh Yeonseo fidgeted over there.
“Let’s cross. We need to take down the boss.”
“Okay…”
She stayed silent the whole way across the bridge.
Torn between her hunter duties and frustration with her abilities, probably.
“Chaewon told you, right? What happens when you take my Yin Energy.”
She’d been surprised by the arousal and how her activity time stretched.
Even with supplements, she could barely last 15 minutes before, but she’d gone over 40 fresh as ever.
Cha Yona had mentioned it in passing, but it was true.
“And there’s more besides that.”
Nayeong’s bow improved enough to catch Blue Gate monsters.
Han Chaewon must’ve seen changes too.
“She said her sword felt different when cutting monsters. Something called Blood Sword…”
Its speed and lethality improved dramatically.
As a swordswoman, her swordsmanship skills got boosted.
“You’d see the same, Yeonseo.”
“What?”
She finally looked at me after I cast the bait.
“Chaewon’s skills got stronger. That’s my Yin Energy’s effect. You’ll get it too if you get aroused. Your summoning skills, specifically. You want to call Great Spirits, right?”
She caught on, her eyes widening.
“Th-then…”
“I’ll fill you up with Yin Energy before the boss fight. Let’s see how it changes things.”
We reached the cliff and opened the door to a pitch-black corridor greeting us.
Splash, splash—the water on the floor had risen to our ankles.
It deepened the further in we went.
“That’s her turf alright. What’s so great about a damp hole like this?”
‘Her who?’
“Undine. I told you we’d fight a spirit? Now’s the time.”
The Great Spirit of Water, Undine, is the boss?
“She’s too proud to show up herself. But she’ll pop out once she knows I’m here.”
“What about me?”
“Stay out. I’ll handle the waterlogged bitch.”
“What’re you gonna do, you who go limp in water?”
“This.”
The walls on both sides burst, unleashing a massive torrent of earth and stones.
As it surged into the corridor, it submerged in water, but the sheer volume slowly turned it into dry land.
“Wait, should I sandblast it away? Nah, tell the kid to use some wind.”
‘Pushing the earth inward?’
“Yeah. I could do it, but you said she wants to do it herself.”
A solid plan.
Time to show what my Yin Energy could do.
“Is this the Great Spirit’s power too?”
She spoke while watching the earth and stones bursting from the walls to fill the floor’s water.
“Yeah.”
“Amazing. Pouring out earth’s byproducts like this—it’s definitely a Great Spirit.”
“Jealous? Give me your hand.”
“Why my hand?”
“To fulfill your wish, Yeonseo.”