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 The girl light spirit was more knowledgeable than the baby light spirit.

Spirits are classified into infancy, maturity, and completeness.

Baby spirits are in infancy, they grow bigger and enter maturity, and once they become humanoid like me, they are considered complete.

[So, are you the Spirit King?]

"How foolish. A lowly creature like you wouldn’t understand. The Spirit King is much stronger than someone like me."

"Ah! Please don’t throw the net! I’m sorry, I won’t mess around anymore!"

When Ha Eung Eung withdrew her sword energy, the girl light spirit, relieved, continued speaking.

"The Spirit King is the representative of a species. They must have an overwhelming origin that everyone acknowledges.

For example, I am a light spirit that shines into the deepest shade of the great jungle.

The Spirit King must have an even more remarkable origin than that."

That made sense to me.

[So, where is the Spirit King?]

"Which Spirit King are you talking about?"

[There are different kinds?]

"There are. The silly water spirits and our light spirits have Spirit Kings who have fallen into hibernation and can no longer communicate with anyone."

"You can choose the Spirit King of the attribute you desire to meet."

It was an intriguing story.

[Mark 2, what kind of spirit would you like to become?]

"I hope to become a spirit like Master and Grandma. Mark 2 wants to be a strong spirit."

[Then, it must be a spirit related to clouds.]

The Cloud Dragon, Azishahab.

Her other title was Gold Dragon.

Just as Ha Eung Eung had horns of both light and clouds, Azishahab’s attributes were divided into two: light and clouds.

If I couldn’t meet the light Spirit King, the only option left was the Cloud Spirit King.

Cloud Spirit King?

"Ah, yes, there is one."

Fortunately, there was a Cloud Spirit King.

"They were recently born."

"?"

"There’s a cloud with an extraordinary origin that just recently appeared on the continent."

"......"

"The Cloud Spirit King born from an atomic bomb cloud, hahaha.""Hahaha.""If it’s an atomic cloud, it would be the strongest in the cloud realm, right?"

Ha Eung Eung, having an idea of what was coming, subtly looked away and rolled her eyes.

"Correct. That cloud is... Master’s."

"Huh? You know about the Cloud Spirit King?"

[Mark 2 is a child. Children tend to speak irrelevant things.]

"Hehe. Of course. Lowly creatures like you wouldn’t be able to understand the origin of the Spirit King."

The girl light spirit instinctively took a jab at Mark 2, then stopped herself, realizing it wasn’t a wise move, and looked at Ha Eung Eung nervously.

Ha Eung Eung shook her head while extending her net, and the girl light spirit pouted.

 The path to the sky.

As Ha Eung Eung flew on the clouds, Mark 2 climbed onto the girl light spirit’s body and exclaimed “Ooooh” repeatedly in amazement.

How pure and beautiful the world must look through a child’s clear eyes.

"Feeling proud. The spirits that used to make me blind and torment me with dirt now look as small as ants. It feels good to look down on them."

"......"

"I understand now why Master always floats on clouds in high places. The feeling of superiority, seeing everything on the ground as insignificant, is ~Nоvеl𝕚ght~ so enjoyable."

"Mark 2 is a kid...""Like mother, like daughter...""She got hit and grew up twisted 😭😭""Someone bring Da Hye unni to heal Mark 2!!""Her mind is already a spirit, though?""Becoming a spirit isn’t hard at all."

No matter how kind and gentle a child’s nature might be, growing up in an unfavorable environment can change their temperament.

Wasn’t that the case for Ha Eung Eung too?

Ha Eung Eung decided to speed up toward her destination, postponing the spirit taming and flight training.

"I have one question. What do you want to do by meeting a Spirit King, a lowly creature like you?"

There are habits that people can never shake off, like a ticking pattern.

For the girl light spirit, that ticking was her lowly creature status, and Ha Eung Eung, realizing this, unconsciously relaxed the strength in her fist that she had gripped.

[I will ask the Spirit King to make my daughter a spirit.]

"What? A lowly creature?"

"Hehe. Heheh. Heheheh!"

"Fool. You don’t even know what it means to become a spirit... Ugh!"

In the end, she was hit.

"Master, the mount is shaking. Please refrain from violence in the air."

[Sorry.]

[So, what does becoming a spirit mean to you, and why were you so excited about it?]

The girl light spirit grumbled as she answered.

"Lowly creatures, when they die, they always blame others.

If they drown, they’ll say the sea spirits took them.

If they leave a child in the forest to be eaten by beasts, they’ll say the forest spirits took them.

That’s usually what it means to become a spirit."

It was a chilling story to hear lightly.

Mark 2 looked at Ha Eung Eung with trembling eyes.

"Master? Did you mean to turn me into a spirit in that sense?"

[Of course not. I didn’t even know such an old saying existed.]

True, the origin of spirits, born from natural phenomena, was completely different from a human born from a mother’s womb.

A human who wants to become a spirit wouldn’t be able to do so easily.

The expression "to become a spirit" was more of a euphemism for being killed without anyone knowing.

Why would a lowly creature want to become a spirit?

I understand the desire to admire a higher species, but spirits are more boring than they look.

The scenery you see is always the same.

There are no dangerous enemies, no excitement.

Just watch lowly creatures eat and be eaten in the human world.

Spirits live in a hell where they lazily pick up scraps from the food that flows into the Spirit Realm, yawn, and sleep whenever they want, repeating this for hundreds of years.

"Isn’t that the paradise of the earth?""Excuse me, do you know the dictionary meaning of 'hell'?""Anyway, to spirits, it's hell, hahaha.""Why do you guys get to have all the good stuff?! I want to be a spirit too!!!""Hey, go stand in front of a valley. The water’s deep, so if you get pushed in, you can become a spirit.""The ones who were supposed to form spirit contracts are now dying to become spirits, hahaha.""I’m currently working on the White Blade sword enhancement quest. If anyone wants to become a spirit, come find me.""Why are all these people offering to make others spirits? Hahaha.""Spirit masters are serial killers... noted.""No wonder I didn’t see any spirit masters in the forest, they must’ve been in prison.""Haha, so confusing.""Is this real?"

The values change depending on the paper.

For immortal spirits, boredom is poison.

It’s the most terrifying thing in the world.

Hunger. Poverty. Decline. Disdain.

Things that lowly creatures like humans worry about—they don’t even consider them.

They’ve never experienced it, nor will they.

In a way, they were right.

It wasn’t that strange to consider creatures struggling with worldly burdens as lowly beings.

"Master. I really want to become a spirit."

[Are you envious of immortality?]

"I long for the free and abundant life of spirits, where I can look down on humans as lowly creatures."

Though the motivation was impure, Mark 2 still hoped to become a spirit.

[Is there no other way besides not dying?]

"I don’t know. The Spirit King might know.

But the Spirit King is probably even more dangerous than someone like me."

"Hehe. Of course, they’d have a worse personality than me."

If you’re curious about how dangerous the Spirit King is, look over there.

In the far distance, at the end of the horizon, a massive tornado connected the earth and sky.

"It’s the Spirit King of wind. It’s said to have been angry about the saltiness of the sea and has been sucking in the sea spirits for hundreds of years, throwing them into the sky. Hehe, the sea is salty by nature."

Ha Eung Eung thought.

It seems a Spirit King doesn’t have to be intelligent.

Well, when you think about it, human kings aren’t particularly smart either.

They just have good bloodlines or are good at politics.

[Is the Cloud Spirit King as foolish as that?]

"I don’t know. The newly born Spirit King might do anything. We don’t approach them unless they’re fearless idiots."

"Such common sense, and yet you, a lowly creature, don’t know it. Hehe."

It wasn’t something the girl light spirit, who had ridden on the back of another, should be saying.

Finally, they arrived at the Cloud Spirit King’s abode.

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Ha Eung Eung felt an inexplicable sense of familiarity when she stepped inside.

‘This is... Azishahab’s Cloud Palace.’

The palace, which had been completely destroyed in Gladiator Raising’s middle realm during a mission to capture the Silent Swordsman, had been recreated in the Spirit Realm.

"Do you know this place? A lowly creature like you?" Hehe.

It seems that if the origin of the Spirit’s birth is tied to a certain place in the middle realm, the same place will appear here. Maybe we can gain something?

While she arrogantly boasted, the girl light spirit, trying to slyly escape, was grabbed by Mark 2 around the waist.

"Mount. If you run, you’ll lose the way to return."

"Hmph, how dare you hang onto me, lowly creature!"

Despite being carried on her back all this time, the girl light spirit’s anger came too late.

Dragged by Mark 2’s surprisingly strong grip, she was pulled up to the cloud palace where cloud stairs rose to let them ascend.

‘The Spirit King must be waiting for us.’

It was finally time to witness the Spirit King, after seeing the baby light spirit and the completed mesugaki light spirit.