The Fairy's Talent is Incredible
The Fairy's Talent is Incredible
The contract with Hams was finished.
I wrote one more piece of parchment placed on the table and took one for myself and one for Hams.
"Well then, try to coax them well."
"I will."
I left Hams behind and rose from my seat.
I left the village chief's house.
I went straight back home.
When I looked back, an umbrella hid behind the corner of the house.
'I told you to wait.'
I had strictly told her to stay quietly at home.
I didn't muffle my footsteps and walked up with a ttubuk-ttubuk sound.
As my presence drew near, the umbrella beyond the corner flinched.
"I saw everything. Come out."
The umbrella tilted slowly, and a small, flushed face poked its head out.
Round eyes looking around cautiously. Shoulders hunched up, afraid of being scolded for doing something wrong. She waited nervously for what I would say.
"Let's go."
"Ah... ugh..."
Anna moved her lips and grabbed the hand I held out.
Arrived home.
"Anna, from now on, I'm going to teach you."
"...Yes?"
Anna didn't understand what I meant.
I pointed at the spirit.
"I'll teach you how to use this guy. Once you master this method, the way the villagers look at you will change."
"Really...?"
"It's not like people avoid you because they hate you."
Anyway, before teaching her about Spirit Summoning,
"From now on, you're my family. Take care of me."
"Ta, take care of me."
Then, first, I washed this dirty kid.
I taught Anna a simple way to use spirits.
I asked the spirit to fill the water bucket.
The spirit obeyed Anna and quickly filled the bucket with water.
"The water temperature is fine."
I took my hand out of the water.
"Take off your clothes and get in."
Anna just blinked. She had an expression that didn't understand at all.
Does she not even know the concept of washing?
When it rained, she probably just got soaked in rainwater, but that doesn't count as washing. Her clothes were also tattered, so I needed to get her new ones.
Where were the usable clothes?
I took off Anna's clothes, put her in the tub, and scrubbed off the dirt with soap.
Every time I scrubbed, a massive amount of dirt came off her body.
She had been rolling around on the dirt floor, after all.
After washing her, I put my clothes on her for now.
"Now you look a bit decent."
"Ah..."
Anna also let out a small exclamation.
The spirit was happy because Anna was happy, and water gathered toward the spirit, causing a rain cloud to form inside the house.
"Anna, make it stop."
"Yes?"
Anna was quick to understand.
Is it because she's a gifted child?
She whispered to the spirit, and the spirit stopped making the rain cloud and stuck to Anna's side.
'Easier than I thought.'
I've never met a talent like Anna's, but I've met countless talented Spirit Summoners.
Anna is at least as good as them, if not better.
"Bring your head here."
I dried Anna's long hair with a towel.
Anna made a pleasant sound.
I put the towel down.
The fluffy, dry silver hair brushed against my fingertips and swayed.
The spirit had removed the moisture.
Is this why she could survive for years despite being wet every day?
"Does it feel good?"
"Yes."
The Water Spirit circled around Anna's head.
The spirit liked it too.
When Anna reached out to the spirit and petted it, the spirit sprayed water.
But when I glared at it as if to tell it not to, the spirit didn't spray water.
'Her talent is truly incredible.'
Spirits aren't beings that listen just because you can talk to them.
I scratched my chin and stared at the spirit floating in the air.
There are five clearly defined stages of talent in Spirit Summoning.
First, can you see the spirit?
Passed, obviously.
I can see spirits too.
Most people don't pass this stage, and some doubt the existence of spirits because of that.
Second, can you talk to the spirit?
If you reach this stage, you have the minimum requirements for a shaman or priest.
It was a realm where you could ask the spirit for things, albeit conditionally.
My talent falls into this category.
I can see and talk to spirits, but I cannot hear them.
Third, can you hear the spirit?
From here on, it was a talent treated as an excellent Spirit Summoner.
"Me too. Hehe."
"...."
Anna passed easily.
Fourth, can you ask the spirit?
It comes with the premise of unconditional.
Anna has already asked the spirit several times, and the spirit has granted them.
No need to verify.
When you reach this stage, the state personally sends people to take you away.
A gifted child favored by a being that can manipulate the weather could potentially overthrow a nation.
Anna was passing the fourth stage as naturally as breathing.
'As far as I know, there was only one human in the fourth stage.'
The Spirit Summoner who controls the weather by the King's side.
That person is stuck at the fourth stage.
The problem was what came after.
"Hmph."
Even just watching casually, the way Anna treats the spirit is the opposite of any Spirit Summoner I know.
If she asks, it does everything,
And if she tells it not to, it doesn't.
Spirits are terribly fickle.
There's no way human logic or reason would work on these lumps of nature.
I told Hams that, but they were guys who didn't consider humans special.
They are just the will of nature that grants the requests of humans they like. Whether humans go extinct or not, spirits don't care.
I pulled up a chair and sat down, resting my chin on my hand.
Anna played with the spirit on her own even when left alone.
'Fifth, controlling the spirit.'
That realm, which I heard from an Elf, was the talent to control spirits.
The difference from the fourth was clear.
You can 'forbid' the spirit.
The fourth stage, where they grant requests because they like you, doesn't listen to requests to stop. So, summoners just use euphemisms to achieve the same effect as a prohibition.
Don't do it.
They can't spit out that one phrase to the spirit.
"Don't do it."
The spirit stops trying to spray water bubbles.
It looks like an ordinary scene, but if you understand spirits, that was an incredible feat.
If the stuck-up old men of the court and the Magic Tower saw this, they would foam at the mouth and collapse.
"Is this also a stroke of luck?"
A gifted child sent by the heavens has fallen into my hands.
Sorry to Hams, but I have to take her.
"Anna."
"Yes?"
Anna tilted her head.
"Take care of me."
"...? Yes."
Anna just blinked with a dry, emotionless face.
Training started at the entrance of the forest.
The texture of the damp soil came up through the soles of my shoes.
The forest, where the morning dew hadn't yet dried, was full of moisture, so just walking a little made my whole body wet.
There couldn't be a better environment for practicing with the Water Spirit.
10 years of rolling around as a hunter.
The way of survival I realized by bumping into things with my body was simple.
Prove your usefulness.
Just bump into it first.
Then you become useful.
"Anna. Ask the spirit to gather water."
"Ung. Uung."
Voices aren't needed for spirits, but Anna talked to the spirit with ung-ung sounds.
Water gathered, and a water mass formed in the air.
"Then, try hitting that tree."
"Uung."
Anna moved her lips.
The water mass was thrown at the tree.
"Hmm... harder."
Chwaak!
"Stronger."
Chwak!!
"...."
The water mass burst, tearing through the tree bark.
"...Good. Try throwing it a bit harder."
"Ung."
Anna made a water mass and pointed at the tree with her index finger.
The spirit shot the water mass.
Kwajik!!!
The tree trunk made a tearing sound and snapped, and a splash of water rose in the grass behind it.
"........."
"...."
Anna looked up at me.
In her dry, emotionless face, which seemed to have all emotions dead, her eyes sparkled.
"Well done."
I brushed the broken tree stump with my fingertips.
A tree is harder to break than you think.
Even if you throw a bomb, you can only break a tree the size of an arm; breaking a tree as thick as four or five people is a different story.
The power of the water mass thrown by the spirit could tear apart even a person wearing armor.
'If it's like this, there's nothing to teach.'
The attack power goes without saying.
This alone works in actual combat.
Monsters have a strong tendency to rush in, trusting their durability, and I could clearly foresee a future where they underestimate the water mass and get wiped out.
"At this rate, there's no need for me to step in."
I crossed my arms and said to Anna.
"Anna. Try blocking that guy by throwing the same thing."
A beast walked out, trampling the bushes.
The unique stench of a beast mixed with the smell of grass.
"Grrr."
A monster appeared.
A beast-type monster with the size of a giant boar, covered in moss like skin.
It discovered a human, opened its eyes wide, and scratched the ground with its front paws as if facing an enemy.
With red eyes flashing, it kicked the ground and rushed in.
Sharp fangs charged toward me.
"Ung!"
The water mass passed me and burst on the Boar Monster's forehead.
Chwak!!!
Its forehead skull collapsed, and the Boar Monster slammed its head into the ground.
I took my hand off the sword hilt and turned to Anna.
I placed my hand on her head.
"That's amazing."
Is this the power of talent?
I took out my dagger and finished off the Boar Monster.
"...."
Anna was watching it clearly, but she didn't even blink.
She must have seen scenes of dismembering beasts often in the village, so for her young age, there was no sign of surprise at all.
'There's really nothing to teach.'
Should I teach her hunting skills?
"Ask the spirit to lift this instead."
"Ne-ung."
The spirit gathered water and floated the Boar Monster in the air.
'....If it weren't for me, this territory would have been wiped out, right?'
Anna's talent was beyond imagination.