A Spirit is a creature that lays on the boundary between Physical and Ethereal.
They can perform magical miracles, control natural disasters, and provide powerful power to their Spirit User. Also, Spirits have their own intelligence.
They have a great pride that doesn’t let them easily give in to any Spirit User.
They will dance with joy if their Spirit User are happy, and shed tears of sorrow when their User are sad. This is because they share the same feelings with their Spirit User.
However, not all emotions are felt.
Spirit aren’t afraid of anything.
They believe that fear is only felt in front of death, and Spirits do not die, they live forever, so they usually felt no fear.
Even the Duke Rainberg, the best Spirit User, still struggled with his own Spirits’ whims.
Since they were fearless beings, he could only appease them. Always had to listen, understand, and respect.
Therefore, Duke Rainberg paid the most attention to the talent of his youngest son among his children. Cantavia’s talent right now may be hidden, however, he believes that it will bloom in the future.
‘If the power of Cantavia is awakened…’
Unlike himself, who is in a friendship-like relationship with Spirits, he believes that his youngest son will be able to establish a relationship of Master and servant to the Spirits. If so, they may even borrow the power of the Spirit Lord or better yet, subdue them.
‘If only he had confidence, he’d be a Spirit User who could surpass me. Too bad.’
Duke Rainberg sat down in a chair and closed his eyes. He recalled his former self.
On the day of finally becoming the lord of Quilz Castle, dozens of eyes looked at him with hatred. The flame of resentment has not been extinguished so far. A few years ago, he spotted suspicious movements coming from Duke Solgar and Duke Luchakuan.
They were getting ready.
When Rainberg’s family grows old and weak, they will finally get a chance to burn the flame of anger that has been passed on for generations.
This was Duke Rainberg’s reason for passing down the title to his youngest son.
The emperor gave him the title of duke, who was born a commoner, and other dukes accepted his case in order to keep in check the one who is called a War Hero and supported by the people.
Duke Rainberg has long known that if he loses his strength in old age, their Ducal Family will surely collapse. So he tried not to have children. He’s too old to be a father. Above all, he did not want his child to live in an era of war and violence. However, an unexpected blessing came belatedly. He was happy, but he was also scared.
The Birth Grand festival was held under the pretext of celebrating the birth of his children in order to distinguish between enemies and allies.
The festival was held in grand style to promote the strong power of the War Hero. Showing off his strength, he informed his enemies that he was still young and strong.
Duke Rainberg knew that if one day rumors of him being old spread in Quilz Castle, a bloody war would begin.
On the day of childbirth, at first he was anxious because he was worried about his child’s future, but as soon as complications appeared in his wife, he was overwhelmed and forgot it all.
He tried to protect his loved ones with all his might. He saved his children and his wife by pouring out his power. That’s how the quadruplets were born in the Rainberg family.
Initially, the Duke grew worried about the future of his children.
However, on the day the quadruplets were called the Blessed Children of the Moon during at Artemis Ritual, Libera Quilz Rainberg had a new hope.
The talents of the Quadruplets.
He couldn’t believe that his children were like monsters. His four children were born with top-quality talent, and all four of them possess the blood of the Rainberg family.
When he heard that his first child had knocked down trained knights using his twig-like soft arms at the age of 10, he let out a laugh of joy.
When it was revealed that his Tomboy-like daughter was a naturally genius wizard, he let out another laugh of joy.
His shy daughter became the most beloved child in the empire, and his youngest son, whom he was most worried about, had a better talent of being a Spirit User than him.
Now, the Duke was no longer worried.
The day the flames of hatred will set fire to the Quilz Castle, the quadruplets will destroy all the pillars of the empire.
Even the civil war of the Empire would be insignificant to them. And obviously, he’d be standing at the center.
‘I’ll probably need to take Cantavia to the Moon’s Holy place soon. Maybe he’ll meet a Spirit who can be compatible with him.’
For the time being, he will continue his ambitious plan to make Cantavia Quilz Rainberg a household name worthy to be the heir.
* * *
As soon as Ranista came back from the city of Bemonia, he called me to the training camp. Knowing that his ‘Physical Teaching’ had a tremendous effect, even though it would hurt, this time he decided firmly and went out to the training center.
‘Hang in there for a day self, and you’ll get a lot of power.’
“Now that your body has reached the basics, I’ll teach you martial arts.”
He started with the same crap and ended with a beating, but something was different this time.
He omitted the dog-like lecturer voice and taught me how to hold a weapon earnestly.
Ranista brought two long sticks, and he taught me how to move my fingers and hold them. Even if I don’t get ‘Physical Teaching’ like last time, this is a great help to me.
I don’t know if I can, but I could be like that group of Murim people who used to cut down concrete buildings with just a slash.
“Wave the stick twice and stick it to the side.”
It wasn’t hard to copy.
“The left foot is on the floor, and the hand holding the stick should look down.”
I followed what Ranista showed me.
It was easy.
“Push and hit with all your might.”
Whoosh!
As I was copying the third move, I stood stupidly and looked at the Ranista.
How can I smash the stone floor of the training ground like a pudding crushed with a spoon in the next move?
Like this.
I followed it just in case, but the stick I stabbed was only knocking on the stone floor like an old man holding a cane.
Ranista, who saw it, raised his eyebrows, walked towards me, and shouted at me again.
“How come the technique I taught you is like an old man holding a cane?”
That’s what I’m saying.
After that, he taught me several moves. When my brother smashed the training ground, I could only tap the ground lightly.
Eventually, my brother, who broke the stick, looked at me pitifully and said,
“Teaching certainly helps. One can develop patience and gain composure. However, I guess I am not good at teaching”
He’s approaching me.
It’s the same as last time.
But… the objective has been achieved.
I was beaten like a dog by him. I definitely look forward to seeing myself stronger the next day.
“It hurts.”
Like last time, I lay down on my bed in my room, not in the medical building, to see if I would be like a tomato spewing rotten essence.
However, even after a day, my whole body was still throbbing, and it didn’t change like a rotten tomato.
F*ck! This was just a one-sided beating!
I could only grumble and bear the pain.
Squeak!
“Girlie?”
The door opened.
When I barely turned my throbbing neck and checked the open door, I recognized who opened the door immediately, and my heart sank.
Why did that person come to my room?
In an instant, the situation turned into a thriller, and I even forgot the pain I was feeling.
“Sister Wooshas.”
The third child of the Reinberg family.
Wooshas Quilz Reinberg.
Serving as a healer in the Northern Border at the age of 14, she is nicknamed ‘Saint.’
I heard that the Church was looking through her mysterious power of healing that couldn’t be found anywhere on the continent.
“When did you get here?”
However, in my previous life, she was a wicked woman who had destroyed the world.
“My brother is back after many years, I should come and see him.”
She came into my room nonchalantly and sat down in a chair next to my bed.
I was put in an awkward position by my sister’s friendly gesture.
I ignored them for four years. What happened to that vicious girl all of a sudden?
“Well, are you all right? Your swelling from beating so much.”
“Oh, yeah. I’m fine. You don’t have to worry about it at all.”
My sister looked around at me and gave me a reluctant smile.
“You’ll have a hard time for a few days.”
“I’m okay.”
“I’ll treat you if you don’t mind. The pain will go away soon.”
“Why?”
“My younger brother is feeling that, as your older sister, I shouldn’t neglect you, right?”
Of course, I’m not worried about her doing some tricks while healing me.
For her, these actions were all plays.
Maybe she was thinking, ‘As an older sister, what should I do if my younger brother is sick?’
The answer is merely to act.
Then I should join the play too.
I was afraid of what she would look like if she became a character that went against her sister’s play, which played with her very best.
“Thank you.”
Upon permission, Wooshas pulled up the blanket.
Then I got on the bed and took off my coat. Her hand touched my wound.
A warm light penetrates, and the wound is slowly healing. At her touch, my wounds slowly disappeared.
I looked at the hand pointing down the navel and said urgently.
“That’s enough, sister.” However, Wooshas did not stop.
“Stop it!” I stopped playing along with her and shouted.
“I don’t know what it’s like in your world, but I can’t accept this in this world, Tavia.”
My sister smirked at my desperate cry and stopped under my navel.
Whoo!
A white light burst out of my sister’s hand.
The light slowly penetrated me.
Below the belly button, is it the place called Dantian that Ranista told me about?
The penetrated light started from the abdomen and felt like it circulated throughout my whole body.
In an instant, the throbbing pain stopped, and the bruised wound disappeared like it never happened.
I glanced at my sister’s shining face.
F*ck, she is far scarier than Ranista!
I am most afraid of Wooshas among my other twins.
Ranista beating me up was better than standing in front of her.
With the ability that I have, in my past life, and the way I am right now, looking at her is all scary and disgusting.
Wooshas was already deemed the most beautiful woman in the Empire.
In addition, she possesses an angelic face as the daughter of the Duke.
She even inherited our mother’s nickname, “The Unbreakable Flower of Empire.”
But it’s not what it is at all.
People are being duped.
I can see what she really is in person.
My second sister, being a fox monster with nine tails, was better.
The image of Wooshas that I see is a body of half-rotten and exposed white bones.
It’s like a hellish zombie who just jumped out of his grave.
Even being so close to her is making me disgusted.
It was a time when I was struggling to bear the disgust that my sister, who was shining, asked implicitly.
“Why did you avoid us four years ago?”
“It’s not that I avoided you, but just…”
“I understand. You’re from Earth.”
I felt like throwing up.
