Chapter 42.1: Space Leap (1)

We exited the forest and rejoined Baros, who was waiting for us.

While our carriage was moving, I practiced how to make various shapes by floating blood on my hands, or how to divide them.

I wasn't used to the controls yet, so I was thinking of steadily accumulating proficiency in this way.

There was time and nothing left to do while traveling in a carriage, so it's better to be more familiar with my new ability.

I had no intention of hiding the existence of blood magic from Asher or the others.

Because they would find out, anyway. There would come a time when I would have to use it openly, so there was no reason to hide it.

As it was the first time she saw me using blood magic, I felt her constantly glancing at me.

"Do you have anything to say?"

As I spoke, she looked carefully and asked.

"Sir Ron… are you a vampire?"

I answered with a laugh.

"Do I look like a vampire?"

"···No, you look like a human."

"Yeah, I'm human."

But how could you control blood?

I could feel Asher staring at me with that kind of question in her gaze, but I had no intention of answering that question.

There was no need to tell her I had absorbed the blood magic from the blood crystal.

After practicing blood magic for quite some time, I stopped.

Now the next destination…

The original plan was to leave the Elrod Forest and go directly to the next mystery.

That's how the plan turned out when I found a vampire in the middle. As a result, I successfully obtained blood magic and everything went well.

The next destination was the First Lord's territory, as planned.

The mystery to be obtained there was a mystery that was close to a defense-type ability.

Space leap.

As the name suggested, it was a mystery that could teleport.

Space-related abilities were very rare in this world.

In normal games, if you are a wizard, you could use magic to teleport, but in the world of RaSa, this was not the case.

There were very few magicians who could use space-based magic, and there were also many restrictions.

This one must be difficult to find…

Already, it felt like a tightness was accumulating in my chest.

Finding the mystery had never been easy, but this time it was especially so.

Gaitan Lake, in the First Lord's territory.

The mystery of space leap was hidden somewhere in that great lake.

In short, there were a lot of things to prepare for because I had to do underwater exploration.

Anyway, after getting that, there is only one mystery left.

The last mystery I plan to get after getting space leap was not something I was planning to use.

But it was also a mystery I must get above all else.

It was something that I should prevent that person from getting.

However, since its location was in one of the magical places that existed on this continent, it was inevitable for me to find other mysteries and raise my specs first…

Maybe it's already too late.

In fact, I didn't know exactly when that person discovered the mystery, so maybe it was already too late.

No, it was likely. If you look at these and other things, that person might have been looking for it years ago and prepared to get it by now.

Still, nothing is certain yet, so I'll have to look to make sure.

For now, though, I should focus on finding the mystery of the space leap.

The present, five years ago from the background of the game's play.

More time had passed, so there were less than five years left until the main story began.

Had it been almost half a year since I started wandering around Calderic?

I looked out the window, thinking that the journey was slowly ending.

***

Asher glanced at the Seventh Lord, who was staring out the window.

At first, she thought all she had to do was do her duty as an escort without worrying about this or that.

However, it had already been almost half a year since they started wandering around Calderic, and the many unexpected appearances he showed during that time made her curious about the Seventh Lord.

Sometimes he was so ordinary that she didn't even think he was a Lord, and at other times he seemed like a good man who couldn't stand injustice.

At other times, he looked like a cold-blooded person without blood or tears, and at other times he looked like a transcendent who had no interest in everything in the world.

Not only the disposition, but also the ability.

Like the ability to kill an opponent with just words, or that invisible shield.

The ability to manipulate blood that he had just shown was also something she had never seen before.

Considering the conversations he had with the vampires, he had a deep connection with their ancestor hundreds of years ago, but it was unknown whether his blood magic ability had anything to do with it.

A person who is hard to fathom.

However, there was one thing she could be sure of, that he wasn't close to a villain.

He did not turn a blind eye to the dying; he rescued the captives, and he solved a major problem for a tribe's peace.

Although his actions might have some intention in them, she still wanted to believe that it didn't originate from a bad place.

"Are you focusing on your escort duty?"

"Yes?"

"It seems like you keep looking at my face."

"···Sorry."

Asher blamed herself for being preoccupied by useless things, and just focused on her escort duty again.