Only Wisdom Awakened - Chapter 151

Chapter 151: First star
“Again?!”

‘Please, not now!

I have to follow the others, if I get inside that strange place once again I will not only fall unconscious for a couple of hours but also end up wasting all my mana.’

Hans put his hands above his chest as if he could somehow stop the absorption of his mana.

But he couldn’t.

His mana was quickly getting absorbed by the black power and after only a minute, he was already only left with ninety percent of the mana he had managed to regain.

The absorption rate was even crazier than the first time,

So much so that Hans was about to go and tell Caleb he needed to rest.

But as he approached Caleb, his mana suddenly stabilized, and the power around his heart stopped absorbing it.

Once consumed that much mana, a change had occurred to that darkness.

A shiny dot, similar to a bright star in the starry sky, had appeared in the middle of the black power veiling his earth.

‘What the hell’s going on!?’

Asked Hans.

‘That’s what I would like to know too’

Replied someone.

‘What?! Who are you? Get out of my mind’

Hans’s first thought was that someone with mind-reading or communication skills had managed to interfere with his mind, but as the voice continued to speak, he realized what it truly was.

‘What do you mean your mind?! Why are we in the middle of a snowstorm?

Argh! I can’t control my body! Why am I moving without even wanting to?!

Release me! I said release me! Whoever you are, don’t you dare continue controlling my body!

Hey! Do you hear me?! I am Caelan Frostbane, the apostle of the winter goddess, and I order you to stop!’

Hearing this, Hans stopped moving.

‘Ahh… finally’

‘You… are you really Caelan?’

‘Uh? What do you mean? Of course I am.

Wait… are you that brat that came to disturb me even after I died?!’

‘Ehm… I guess you could say that

‘What have you called me for this time?!

Can’t you just let me rest in peace?’

‘I didn’t mean to, I just wondered about what the giant tortoises would do after I closed the gate where I killed you and part of my mana was absorbed in my heart before you appeared.’

‘What do you mean? You woke me up from my eternal rest just because of some tortoises?!’

‘It wasn’t me who did it, it just happened’

‘Whatever, just send me back’

‘How?’

‘I don’t know, you said I appeared after you had a doubt about those tortoises right?’

‘Mh’

‘Then just stop having doubts’

‘What kind of fricking reasoning is that?!’

‘I don’t know! Just let me get some rest so that my soul will meet my sister, and I will live happily forever’

‘I have to solve my doubt about those tortoises you say? Then why don’t you help me out?’

‘I’m not helping you out! I was obliged to do so in that strange place.

but now that I can choose…

why would I even help someone who killed me?’

‘Technically you should thank me for having purified your should…

If I remember correctly you were a filthy skeleton when I found you, weren’t you?’

‘I became a skeleton for solemn and righteous reasons, you’ve seen it haven’t you?’

‘ “The objective does not excuse the means”, ever heard of that saying in your world?’

The voice remained silent.

‘No huh?’

Said Hans.

‘….

….

….

Ahh.….

Fine, just tell me what you want to know and then send me back.’

“Hehe… it’s really easy to get something out of you”

Mumbled Hans.

Seeing him speak to himself, Caleb approached Hans and asked him:

“Is everything alright?”

“Yes, don’t worry”

“How much mana have you managed to recover during the last day of rest?”

“Not much, I only have about twenty-five percent”

“Alright, let’s hope we won’t have any need of your spells on our way back”

After saying what he had to say, Caleb returned to leading everyone forward, while Hans remained last, making sure no one got out of their traveling positions.

‘Hey! What did he say?’

‘Uh? What do you mean? Did you not hear his words because of the blizzard?’

‘No, it wasn’t the blizzard, both of you were speaking another language’

‘What? You mean you could not even hear me’

‘Yes, it seems like I can only understand your thoughts, not your language’

‘Is that how it works?’

Asked Hans.

‘I don’t know, it is not an everyday thing for me to be kidnapped while dead and brought into another world with different languages’

‘I guess so’

‘So? Ask me what you want to know hurry, otherwise I won’t tell you even if it means being locked inside this body for eternity.

I have already survived hundreds of years without any problems, do you really think I can’t wait for a normal human like you to die?

I’ll be back to death in less than two hundred years.’

‘Two hundred years? Do humans in your world live that long?’

‘Not everyone, but you would’

‘What does that mean?’

‘It does not matter right now, does it?

Tell me what you want so I can get it done and return to my eternal peace.’

‘Would it cost you that much to answer me?

…..

Whatever, fine, what I want to know is what will happen to the snowstorms now that the gate has been closed, and also what are the giant tortoises and what will they do once the blizzards are gone’

Hans wanted to know many other things about Caelan, but having witnessed his story he knew how much he had suffered, and felt sorry for him.

It was everyone’s right to rest after their deaths, even more so If that someone had to endure loneliness and torment for hundreds of years.

‘You said the snowstorms started and expanded as soon as the gate was created right?

That means these blizzards are probably the same ones that once circled the mountain peak.

Since the gate absorbed my mana, and I absorbed the sacred mana of the temple, these were probably an aftermath of bringing the sacred mana of winter into this world.

They will probably dissipate in a couple of weeks’

‘Nice to know’

‘As for the tortoises…. Honestly, I’ve never heard about them, could you tell me a bit more’

‘Sure.

The first thing to tell when talking about those it’s that they’re enormous, and I mean really really enormous.

They are about a hundred meters tall I’ve heard, other than that, we only know that they are hundreds or more, they move in a circle around the gate, and that’s all they do.’

‘Strange’

‘Yeah, they are strange’

‘No, that’s not what I mean, I think it’s strange that there are so many of them.

If they are as big as you said then how do they feed themselves, and why do they move so much if they can’t gain any energy?’

‘I thought about it, and I think they feed off the mana around here since there is nothing else’

Observed Hans.

‘Yes, but in our world, there were no such monsters, and how did they even cross over unnoticed with those size of theirs? Are you sure they aren’t monsters that belong to your world?’

‘Yes, I’m sure, we don’t even have monsters in our world’

‘What?! That’s damn lucky, isn’t it? But how do you eat then?’

‘That’s the strangest question I’ve ever been asked, what are we supposed to do? Eat the beasts?’

‘Yeah?’

‘Forget it, we are getting sidetracked again, just think about it and see if something pops up’

‘Alright alright’

They both thought about how the hell those huge monsters managed to pas through the gate.

‘Maybe they can transform and become small’

Said Hans.

‘Yeah, and what would they be then? Little tortoises who eat…. Who eat… snow…

No way…

there is no way right?!’

‘What, has something come to mind’

‘I think I might know what they are’

‘Really?! Tell me, you’ll probably be sent back as soon as you do’

‘It’s not so easy boy, your world might have a huge problem’

‘What?’

‘You see, those tortoises may be ‘pankus’

They did indeed belong to my world’

‘And? Are they trouble or something? How did you deal with them

‘We didn’t’

‘Weren’t they from your world?’

‘Yes but, in my world they were, how to say…

Smaller, a whole lot smaller.

That’s because Pankus are creatures we used to keep as pets.’

‘Those things… pets?’

‘Hear me out, they weren’t like this back there’

‘How were they? Little tortoises with cute faces and useful abilities?’

‘….

Yes….’

‘What?…’

‘They were little tortoises that inhabited the village down the mountain, every single one of the villagers had one of them because they were cute and because their shell had the special ability to absorb snow, they were used to clean everything with snow on it, like clothes or whatever.

As soon as you entered a house you would leave your coat on the Panku so that all the snow would get absorbed, and when you had to leave it wasn’t wet…’

‘So what you are telling me is that a cute animal used as a coat hanger became a hundred-meter tall beast capable of killing seventh-ranked mages…

Have I got that right?’