Nyx Nova

Chapter Nine

I was taking a stroll around the village when I noticed his return, I leapt towards his location instantly. Shion, Shuna, and Benimaru were already there, feasting on a treat that Rimuru had brought from Ingracia.

'Oh, just the man I was looking for!' he greeted me.

'What's wrong?' I asked but the place was gradually getting filled with people finding out that Rimuru had returned home. Thus we had the desert together at Rimuru's home as we caught up with one another.

'How are things?' Rimuru questioned.

'Everything is going well, Yuurazania's delegates have arrived as scheduled. The highway construction crew had arrived at Brumund and had settled into their lodgings there. Brumund currently imports the most number of the high potion as of this moment and a merchant of them has a shop at Ingracia, he will be heading there to stock up on our potion in his branch in the country,' I explained before I took a mouthful of that creampuff.

'My lord, why don't you talk a little about what you've been up to recently?' Shuna said. 'For example, how you're now a teacher in that human nation?'

'What?!!' I exclaimed as the creampuff burst out of my mouth.

'Well, you see...' Rimuru began the tale of his adventures.

The Otherworlder children had little to no time to stay alive since their magicules were raging within them and unable to settle because of their young age. This was the result of one of the unspeakable acts the humans in this world had done. Monsters were generally stronger than humans and since that, we were viewed as a threat, the countries resulted depending on the Otherworlder's ability to protect them because of the great powers that this world bestow upon them when they arrived here. But the World Traveller's appearance was always something random and they had to come up with something that could summon an Otherworlder instead.

The summoning process was worse, they even dared to sacrifice thousands of their people to summon one Otherworlder and if the summons were disappointing, the summoned people would be discarded and sacrificed many more to summon another. Made perfect sense that this procedure got outlawed in recent times.

'Geez, and those children can only wait for that energy to tear their bodies apart,' said Rigurdo as he was wiping away his tears.

'Although I can sympathize, is there anything you can do for these children?' Benimaru wondered.

'Uhmm, you could try to have a great spirit bless them? They can help regulate the rampant magicule energy as they grow old. That was how they usually do it in the old days,' I suggested. 'I think it works similarly to how we monsters gained our blessings through evolution.'

'I was thinking of the same thing. Shizue Izawa, the owner of my human form suffered from the same condition but she was able to stabilize her magicule and lived for a long time,' Rimuru said.

'Jichan's suggestion is the correct way to do this, but the problem in this was how to convince the spirits to occupy those children's bodies,' Treyni suddenly said. Her presence was not even detected by all of them but I and she had been eating my portion of creampuff since she arrived here.

'Great spirit as opposed to the lower spirit is the only one capable of controlling such a massive amount of mana but their numbers are few,' Treyni resumed as she summoned out her contracted spirit who immediately got attached to me.

'Nyx-sama,' Sylphid murmured as she revolved around me.

'Long time no see, are you well?' I greeted.

'Yes,' She murmured cryptically as she continued to revolve around me.