“Yu Kaeeuul. Come out!”
Yeorum knocked on the door of Kaeul’s room.
“Yeorum. That’s enough…!”
“Let go! Enough what? Yu Kaeul. Come out right now!”
She was about to break open the door at this rate. Left with no choice, Bom used telekinesis as thin yet tough strings reached out and grabbed Yeorum back by her arms and legs.
“What is this!”
“Stop being violent to a child with a crushed heart. Please. Before I really get mad.”
“It’s because you’re always being this lax that she’s being childish and whinging all the time. You need to tease a crying child to make them stop crying. Don’t you know that?”
“Stop saying nonsense. Yeorum. Please.”
The moment the telekinesis turned slightly weaker, Yeorum immediately kicked the door open. Ignoring Bom who shouted, “Yu Yeorum!” she walked into Kaeul’s room.
“Oi! Goldie!”
But after entering the room, she realised that Kaeul wasn’t inside.
“Oh fuck. We’re doomed.”
“What’s wrong? Where’s Kaeul?”
Yeorum turned pale.
“Yu Kaeul, this crazy bitch. She left home…!”
“What?”
*
The misunderstanding was soon undone. Clone 2 who no longer had any reason to protect the interdimensional fissure came to Unit 301 wearing a black face mask. It was a mask widely used by the Association’s secret ops squad so Bom wasn’t too wary of him.
“It is an honour. Nice to meet you.”
“What. Who are you?”
Clone 2 introduced himself as a subordinate of Yu Jitae and gave them arm bracelets, so that they could have a look at how things were currently faring. This was an artifact created by Yu Jitae called [Authority Adaptor], the same one as the one that was on Kaeul’s wrist.
It allowed Yu Jitae, who still couldn’t act like an ‘authority’ within the world of Providence, to use abilities like an authority to the wearers of the bracelet. After putting the bracelets on, the image of Kaeul in the other world ‘Anum’ appeared in their minds. To be exact, Yu Jitae was essentially sharing his vision with the kids.
“Please do watch together.”
Despite being usually uninterested in what was happening to others, Gyeoul also calmly sat down and watched the things unfold. After realising what was happening, their expressions rapidly changed.
They could understand why Kaeul left home as well as why she was suddenly fighting monsters in another world.
Kaeul flew and jumped through the space before meeting the baby chicken.
“…Oh … Chirpy.”
Gyeoul recognised it. Kaeul hugged the chicken and the chicken likewise rubbed its forehead. In that chaotic battlefield filled with shock waves, explosions and screams, the baby chicken was fortunately unscathed.
All the baby chicken spirit beasts including Chirpy were using their beaks to carry a net of spirit beast eggs into a different place. They were carrying it into a mechanical device that resembled an airplane.
Seeing that, Bom frowned.
“They seem to be trying to float that outside in case the World Tree falls.”
“That appears to be the case. Each of those eggs are of the different beastmen species, and they seem to be trying to preserve all their races by doing so.”
They were moving with the assumption that they had already lost.
“My goodness…”
Bom clenched her lips.
It was a world she knew nothing about. She didn’t have real connections to it and it was also her first time hearing the name of that dimension. However, seeing a world fall to the attack of a plunderer was obviously nothing pleasing to look at.
The dead spirit beasts fell and dropped on the ground with some of them being yellow baby chickens that looked exactly like Chirpy. The battle turned increasingly more intense, as things turned radically feverish.
“Can you go into your room and stay inside, Gyeoul?”
***
“We must stop this. Right now.”
Bom said to Clone 2 who was wearing the black mask. Clone 2, who had received a portion of Yu Jitae’s memories, was unfamiliar with such a firm attitude.
“What is wrong?”
“You should know it since you were sent here by ahjussi, but this situation is too harsh for Kaeul. Ahjussi needs to step in and solve it for her.”
“That’s…”
“People are dying next to her in real time and she is put into a situation where she needs to kill others. Kaeul won’t be able to handle it. Why did he put such a soft-hearted girl in that place? I don’t understand.”
But it was Yeorum who rebutted instead.
“I don’t think so.”
“What?”
“She doesn’t crumble that easily.”
“Yeorum. Do you think everyone in the world is as strong-willed as you? Kaeul is fragile. She is already in a weak state of mind right now so putting her out into the battlefield is a really bad decision.”
In response, Yeorum glared back at her.
“You know. Isn’t it you, unni, that’s looking at Yu Kaeul like a damn retard?”
“What?”
“She received a professional military education, you know that.”
“Of course I do. How much better would it be if Kaeul were to use that military education or whatever after she’s back to her normal state?”
“And when exactly would that idiot get back into her normal state then?”
“At least not right now.”
“What do you mean. There’s a war happening already. Do wars wait for people to get prepared?”
“That’s only for real wars is it not?”
Bom didn’t seem convinced but Yeorum drove her argument further in.
“That is a real war! Think about it. She didn’t just receive military education. It was at the world’s best facility for three years. She’s been getting good marks and hasn’t repeated a single subject, has 80 dungeon raiding experiences and got a 3 digit rank from the start. Which retard in the world can ever achieve such a thing?
“It’s been that way from the start. That bitch. She could’ve done anything as long as she wanted to!”
In the perspective of the authority, Kaeul helped the baby chicken move eggs. She appeared to be trying to persuade the baby chicken to run away and appeared to be in a fluster as she hurriedly tried to carry the eggs.
Kaeul heading to that place despite her unhealthy mind was solely for the safety of the baby chicken, Chirpy.
However, the baby chicken refused to run away. No matter how much Kaeul told him to, he could not just leave his homeland behind and escape. That was why Kaeul was helping the baby chicken in a fluster.
Things were going in a very disadvantageous direction. At last, the soldiers that were protecting the World Tree could not stop the King Bees. Even the commanders of the military like the mythical creatures, unicorn and the winged tiger, were being pushed back.
That was when things happened the way Yeorum had predicted.
It at last resulted in a serious matter.
Sheeeek—–
A stray sting flew their way.
There’s no way… they thought but the sting headed for the baby chicken and Kaeul tried to block it with her hand in shock but it was too late.
Pak—
The chicken fell.
Kaeul screamed out loud as Bom and Yeorum lamented at the same time.
“Ah…” “Fuck.”
A thorn the size of a human arm was nailed into the baby chicken’s body.
In that instant,
Kaeul’s body stopped. It froze like a statue.
Before long, however, Kaeul regained her senses and calmly laid the baby chicken down on the ground before taking the first-aid kit out of her dimensional storage. She extracted the thorn and carried out the first aid. She looked extremely bizarre and mysteriously calm. To the point that it made them wonder whether she was the same Kaeul as the one that had been trembling moments ago.
“What. What’s wrong with her?”
“…”
After finishing the first-aid, Kaeul rose from the ground, and turned her gaze to face the world.
The pupils within her golden eyes were split vertically. Kaeul began to fume with killing intent.
Yeorum felt goosebumps riding up her arm.
Kaeul was angry.
“Yeah… You have to wake up. Yu Kaeul.”
But Bom instead had a worried look on her face.
“No. This is dangerous.”
When Yeorum glared at her, she quickly added more words.
“If a weak-minded person acts on an impulse, it might harm everyone.”
However, her concern was soon dissolved. Kaeul calmly raised the baby chicken and carried it into the airplane where the other spirit beasts were rapidly going in and out of.
Her movements were calm and despite oozing with killing intent, she was not agitated.
Kaeul was silently and chillingly furious.
***
The situation immediately changed.
Kaeul flew into the battlefield. Using [Teleport (S)], she travelled through space and rose higher up.
“——–!”
She shouted. It was more of a scream that sounded as if her throat was cracked. The high-pitched sound echoed all across the world.
[Dragon Fear]
It was the warning shot of a gold dragon.
Hearing the large shout that threatened to explode their eardrums, the battlefield turned oddly silent for a little as the beastmen military and the King Bees simultaneously gazed at Kaeul.
Vuuuung.
Soon, the King Bees began flying towards Kaeul after receiving the command from their Queen. That was when mana gathered in her hands and rotated like a tornado.
[Magic Arrow (B)]
Tuung–
Who in the world would ever consider this an arrow?
It resembled a cannonball if anything.
After leaving her hands, the arrows flew several kilometres, destroyed everything that existed in its path and created a whole on a distant mountaintop.
That overwhelming output surprised even Bom and Yeorum, let alone the beastmen military and the mythical creatures.
Immediately, the King Bees came flooding in.
Raising their stings, they approached in an attempt to kill Kaeul.
Soaring further into the sky, Kaeul shot magic arrows endlessly and crushed everything that dared to approach her. The thick outer shells and the flesh of the bees scattered down like drops of rain.
That was when the ‘Queen’ changed its attitude.
Chiririririk!!
It commanded everyone to focus their attacks on her. The King Bees immediately knew who their strongest enemy was.
Kwang!
One of their stings was blocked by Kaeul’s barrier spell and shattered. Once more and more bees were added to the fray, Kaeul also had to urgently turn her body to dodge several of them. However, she couldn’t dodge all of them and one of them created a hole on her shirt after scraping past her shoulder.
The core focus of the battlefield soon turned into one dragon and despite the chaotic war, the tides visibly turned as the beastmen chased after their enemies who had suddenly retreated in an attempt to kill Kaeul. The King Bees flew towards Kaeul at the cost of losing their wings even, as if they had lost their rationality.
In that volatile situation,
Kaeul yelled.
[Soldiers, heed my words]
[I will shoot down the heart of the Queen Bee]
[And thou shalt protect me]
Dragon Voice.
A dragon’s mana-infused voice had the power of forcing every creation. That one spirit beast who suddenly appeared in this world was able to light a fire in the hearts of every other spirit beast.
They had been constantly on the receiving end throughout the fight, but it was now different. The commanders of the troops – the mythical creatures shouted out loud.
“Protect the golden human!”
“Run in, all of you!”
King Bees and beastmen soldiers moved in perfect order as Kaeul raised her gaze and stared at the distant enemy boss. The reddish black eyes of the bee were looking back at her. It considered her a human and used its status to suppress her.
The difference in status did in fact put a limit to her movement and Kaeul could feel her body moving slower.
[Dispel Polymorph]
So when Kaeul broke the taboo of Amusement and removed every chain that was concealing her status,
“Huuk!”
“Wait, that is…!”
When the large golden body reaching 17 metres in height revealed itself, its overwhelming ‘status’ trembled the atmosphere and stunned everyone.
A mythical creature, classified as an ancient species. The strongest spirit beast across every dimension.
“A d, dragon—–!”
It wasn’t just the beastmen and the spirit beasts. Even the King Bees were affected and their bodies slowed down during their flight.
“Protect the dragon!”
The beastmen soldiers blocked the King Bees, who did not stop their march towards Kaeul despite their loss. In an instant, Kaeul flung her wings and rapidly flew towards the Queen Bee.
Large Centurions attempted to stop her. They threw their bodies to protect their queen.
However, Kaeul had already squeezed her dragon heart to pull out every bit of mana. Her talents that could outshine any other hatchling – that overpowering output of mana turned into a ray of golden light at her throat.
[Dragon Breath]
Paaaanng–
Like an atomic bomb, it erupted the atmosphere.
The coercive force momentarily painted the world in shadow. The large ray of light flew off into the sky, drawing a clean cylinder in its path.
The dragon breath destroyed two Centurions and crushed them, and with its remaining power it successfully scorched the wings of the Queen Bee. The queen dropped towards the world tree and crashed through several branches but barely managed to find its balance in mid-air.
It was thanks to the Centurions taking most of the damage.
Chiriririririrak!!
As if in a seizure, the queen shouted. Soon, its butt expanded before exploding with a thud.
[Poisonous Cloud]
A liquid of poison splattered above the ground. They soon turned into green gas that slowly descended towards the earth beneath.
On the ground were hundreds of beastmen that couldn’t escape in time.
Watching that, the gold dragon clenched her teeth. Due to using too much mana in the dragon breath, there was a slight pause before she could move her body again.
Her body would soon move again without a problem but the cloud of poison would reach the ground first at this rate.
“Damn it! No!”
“Shoot wind! Do not let that gas fall!”
The mythical creatures shouted as the beastmen used their wind spells to try to lift the gas up. However, it was nowhere near enough. The boss’s aura was not weak enough to waver from a weak breeze.
“Uuuk!”
“Kuhuk…!”
“Ahk! D, do not breathe!”
Growl! Chirp!
The beastmen that breathed in the gas near the ground began to writhe in pain. Some of them vomited blood and drooled while others shivered and convulsed.
Meanwhile, the King Bees moved to attack other beastmen. It was to hide the fact that their queen had been weakened.
Watching all that,
Kaeul thought to herself.
Despite thinking rationally, she still had no idea how she was supposed to act right now. That was when the mysterious voice that she heard before floated in her head again like a revelation.
<The Authority, [Keeper of the Clock (SSS+)] wishes to add more power to you!>
This…
In that instant, Kaeul remodified her body using polymorph, because a human body was able to use mana more efficiently now that there was less mana inside her body.
<The Authority, [Keeper of the Clock (SSS+)] is sending mana to you.>
Mana soon seeped in through the wrist. It was a truly ridiculous amount of mana.
Kaeul had no idea what this authority was. She could only guess that it was an existence related to ahjussi since ahjussi was the one that had given it to her.
<The Authority, [Keeper of the Clock (SSS+)] wants you to heal them.>
Kaeul looked at the hundreds of beastmen and spirit beasts that had been infected by the poison. A large number of organisms were crawling on the ground in agony.
She, however, wasn’t certain because she could not heal properly. Everything that had gone wrong when she was trying to heal rapidly resurfaced in her head. The biggest of them was the chimera that had exploded but it also included a memory of how Yu Jitae had been mad when she was trying to lay a knife on her wrist.
<The Authority, [Keeper of the Clock (SSS+)] believes that you will be able to do it.>
<The Authority, [Keeper of the Clock (SSS+)] wants you to trust in yourself.>
Trust in myself…?
*
“What is she trying to do?”
Yeorum shotued.
“No. You can’t do that. Fuck! Is she trying to kill everyone with her hands?”
This time, it was instead Bom who was calm. She opened her mouth when Yeorum turned towards her in doubt.
“Kaeul, she learned healing magic from me, you know.”
“And?”
“…She tried, really really hard.”
“What?”
“She practised really hard even when there was no-one watching. Even though she failed countless times, she did it for months without an end.”
There was only one reason why she had constantly failed.
It was because of her crazy output.
*
Kaeul suddenly had this thought.
Maybe, it’s because her overflowing output had been focused on one target that they had exploded due to being unable to endure it.
If that was the case, if she could assign that whole group, that was close to a thousand, as her target… If she could split her output into hundreds of strands…
Feeling the mana jolting her heart, Kaeul clenched her teeth.
She had never properly healed someone before. Things had instead exploded to death after being healed by her and she could not trust her own stupid judgment.
However, even then, she repeated it hundreds and thousands of times. So that she could heal the injured and the sick, Kaeul tried endlessly by herself in tears.
If all that effort wasn’t in vain.
Then everyone there must be healed.
Kaeul decided to trust herself for the first time.
[Mass Cure (A)]