Got a Gallery in the Wild

I stroked my chin as I looked at the aura, now much larger than before.

According to Swordmaster’s explanation, this kind of development created enormous inefficiency.

A blazing, flame-like aura and a refined, razor-sharp aura.

Just by comparing the two at a glance, it was easy to tell which one was more efficient.

However, there was an immensely high wall between them, making it difficult to reach that level.

She said that if someone managed to attain it, even an entire country would try to recruit them, so talent played a huge role.

‘Not even a month has passed yet. I can’t rely on talent alone.’

Even if my body was gradually adapting to the Four Seasons Forest, talent was a different matter.

The techniques the dwarf taught me, namely smithing, were simple. I just had to follow the instructions.

But the internal cultivation method and aura were completely different.

They all depended on “instinct.”

That was why, even if my mana continued to increase steadily, it would be useless if I couldn’t grasp the proper feeling.

‘I should ask Swordmaster first.’

The realm known as Aura Blade or Sword Aura.

Would I have to keep fighting with something this inefficient until I reached that level?

If there was no other option, then there was nothing I could do, but problems might arise, so I wanted to hear an expert’s opinion.

‘HeavenlyDemon will probably give me some advice as well. And while I’m at it, I’ll ask her whether it’s normal to fall asleep as soon as you hear the cultivation manual.’

I wouldn’t ask them separately.

I would post it in the gallery.

That way, everyone could share their opinions more easily.

I might even receive advice from other people.

Title)

Even Bigger Aura

WildGrills: (Picture of the aura, much larger than before)

Yesterday, I consumed an inner core, and as soon as I recited the cultivation manual HeavenlyDemon taught me, I fell asleep.

Then I had a strange dream, and when I woke up, the amount of aura had increased.

Is this normal?

I thought I would obtain Aura Blade, but the aura just got a lot bigger. ;;

└HeavenlyDemon: You fell asleep as soon as you recited the cultivation manual? How curious.

└WildGrills: Isn’t that normal?

└HeavenlyDemon: Normally, when one attains enlightenment, the mind becomes clearer. But seeing someone fall asleep is a first for me.

└WildGrills: Then I guess it will also be difficult to explain the dream I had.

└HeavenlyDemon: What kind of dream was it?

└WildGrills: Just a dream where I was flying through the sky. The same thing happened when I had that fever.

└HeavenlyDemon: A dream where you were flying through the sky? Are you sure it was really a dream?

└WildGrills: What do you mean by that?

└HeavenlyDemon: It may not have been a dream. Perhaps your soul left your body.

└Are you talking about an out-of-body experience?

└It seems so. Isn’t that something only immortals would experience?

└Is Grills going to become an immortal?

└He’s going to ascend to the heavens. Leaving only his body behind lmao.

└Grills, why did you come only as a soul…?

└WildGrills: You damn idiots. ;;

If that were really the case, it was a little creepy.

After all, it was possible that my soul had completely left my body.

But nothing had been confirmed yet.

Just as I was thinking that—

└NecromancyIsLove: The way to leave the body is simple. I can teach you.

└And how do you do it?

└By the way, who is this? This is the first time I’ve seen this registered user.

└There’s one with a really bizarre concept. He says he’s the Immortal King and that he’s sealed inside Kadir’s refrigerator.

└What kind of nonsense is that? lol

└On top of that, AllFather said Kadir really exists lol. They must be friends.

└Then, sir. Is there a method?

└NecromancyIsLove: Wait. I’ll explain it soon.

└NecromancyIsLove: What a pity. I can’t write the spell through the gallery. If I still had a body, I would personally write it down on paper.

└What a weird concept lol

└He talks as if he’s really sealed away lmao

└Then ask a friend to do it.

└NecromancyIsLove: He says he’ll lower the refrigerator’s temperature even more. What a disrespectful individual.

└lolllllllll

└lollllllll

└lolllll

NecromancyIsLove had appeared out of nowhere.

He claimed that he could leave his body.

His credibility was fairly low, but everyone seemed to accept that such a thing was possible.

In that case, I also had to consider that perhaps it had not been a dream, but an out-of-body experience.

└WildGrills: But that doesn’t sound like a good thing either, does it?

└NecromancyIsLove: If the soul remains close to the body, there is no problem. But if they become separated forever, the soul will wander on one side while the body remains motionless on the other. Furthermore, since only the soul has left, the body does not die. It is as if it were still alive.

More or less like ending up brain-dead or in a vegetative state.

I understood it immediately.

It would definitely be better if it had just been a dream.

If my soul disappeared, I would have some very serious problems.

└Swordmaster: No, but what the hell is wrong with that aura? Why is it so big? I’m sure I explained that it was extremely inefficient. ;;

└WildGrills: I know that too, but it grew on its own. The amount of mana is exactly the same.

└Swordmaster: Are you saying that it uses the same amount of mana and still grew that much?

└WildGrills: Yes.

└Swordmaster: And the mana consumption is also the same?

└WildGrills: Yes.

└Swordmaster: It seems the efficiency improved in a very strange direction. ;;

└What a sidegrade.

└It really does look like a sidegrade lol. Everything stayed the same and only the size of the aura grew lol.

└Has anything like this ever been seen before? I’d say no.

I was curious as well.

I wanted to know if there had ever been someone with a case similar to mine.

Even Swordmaster seemed unable to hide her confusion.

Fortunately, history was full of strange events.

It didn’t take long before an anonymous user remembered a similar case.

└There actually was one. About three hundred years ago, maybe? I think a Sword Saint from that era was similar to Grills.

└Ah, I remember now. What was his nickname? It was something absurdly shocking.

└The Absurdly Strong Sword Saint?

└Exactly. That was really his name lol.

└No. Wait. Why the hell would a Sword Saint have a nickname like that? lol

└He was a swordsman who never reached Aura Blade and whose aura kept growing absurdly, just like Grills lol.

└He couldn’t cut through space, but his destructive power was insane lol.

└Didn’t his ultimate technique consist of forcibly compressing all of his aura and unleashing it in a single thrust?

└Yes. With just that, he managed to destroy a fortress.

└WildGrills: So you’re telling me I’m going to become ridiculously strong?

└No. That guy at least had fundamentals at the level of a Swordmaster.

└His fundamentals alone crushed all the other Swordmasters. That’s why he was recorded in history as a Sword Saint.

└WildGrills: Then what am I?

└Just an idiot.

└WildGrills: Son of a bitch. ;;

└Swordmaster: I know that man as well. First, check what effect that aura actually has. It might just be for show without any real use.

I followed Swordmaster’s advice.

I needed to verify whether that aura writhing like flames actually had any effect.

Aura was not merely an intangible energy, but a manifestation with physical form.

And its effects also varied depending on the weapon being used.

Sharp weapons, such as swords, increased their cutting ability, while blunt weapons became even sturdier.

Upon reaching the realm of Aura Blade, one gained even greater effects, but that was something for later.

For now, what mattered was finding out whether that fiery aura, which had already surpassed the level of a simple mist, had any real effect.

‘This tree will do.’

I stood in front of several trees growing together.

In any case, I had to make an enormous amount of charcoal, so this could count as logging.

I gripped the sword wrapped in blazing aura with both hands and slowly raised it.

I didn’t need the shield.

‘And I’d better start recording.’

Since I planned to upload it to the gallery, I didn’t forget to record it.

Once I had taken the proper stance, I unleashed a powerful diagonal slash.

Swish!

Perhaps because it was a combination of HeavenlyDemon’s sword and aura, the movement was incredibly smooth.

But what mattered was the result.

I waited silently.

Craaaash!

A moment later, the result appeared before my eyes.

The tall trees began to collapse exactly along the line of my slash.

Thanks to the properties of the sword, even the cut surfaces were flawless.

‘The aura works the same way too.’

The areas reached by the aura had also been cut.

Even the trees standing behind them toppled one after another.

That aura was not merely for show.

It possessed real cutting power.

I didn’t know whether to be happy or worried, so I felt a little uneasy.

Well, I should upload it to the gallery first.

Title) Video of cutting trees with aura

WildGrills

(Video of a sword wrapped in aura and trees collapsing after being cut)

It looks like the aura isn’t just for show. It simply works according to its size. ;;

└HeavenlyDemon: What a clean cut. Since we’re on the subject, why don’t you abandon the shield? Considering that there are even gorillas that use Shifted Phantom Position, I don’t think it’s a bad idea.

└WildGrills: The shield has saved my life too many times. Besides, that gorilla is absurdly strong. I can still handle the others.

└Swordmaster: Now that we know the aura isn’t just for show, what are we supposed to do?

└WildGrills: Why are you asking me? You’re the one who’s supposed to teach me, Swordmaster.

└Swordmaster: How am I supposed to teach you something I don’t know?!

└If she really doesn’t know, it’s hard to teach anything hahaha.

└If she starts messing with it without knowing, she might just make everything worse~

└StarlightPrincess: How should I put it? Grills’ strength is like a magic spell.

└WildGrills: And what does that mean?

└StarlightPrincess: Normally, birds fly by using their wings, right? But in your case, it would be like they flew by spinning their heads around nonstop. They still fly, so nobody complains.

└WildGrills: That sounds pretty bad.

└StarlightPrincess: But if the result is good, isn’t it fine even if the process is strange?

└WildGrills: I guess so… ah, damn it hahaha. I don’t know either hahaha.

└Relax and just keep increasing your aura. I think that’s the best option.

└Aura Blade is a matter of talent anyway. Ignore it and become absurdly strong.

└That might actually be the best option hahaha.

└Swordmaster: By the way, you said you gained enlightenment after hearing the cultivation manual HeavenlyDemon taught you, right?

└WildGrills: Yes.

└Swordmaster: What if that person taught you something weird?

└WildGrills: That sounds like a pretty dangerous statement.

└WildGrills: Master?

└WildGrills: What’s wrong? Where did you go?

└HeavenlyDemon: I have delivered a heavenly punishment. I can tolerate many things, but I will not allow anyone to slander a divine technique passed down through generations.

└Yeah, Swordmaster was asking for it this time hahaha.

└Damn, she just said that a cultivation method taught by a moderator was wrong hahaha.

└How many days of suspension did she get?

└HeavenlyDemon: Since we were at it, I expelled her for six hours so that she could show filial piety to her parents.

Well, if that was the reason, there was nothing to be done.

I closed the gallery.

All kinds of theories had come up, but one thing was certain.

The manual HeavenlyDemon taught me definitely had an effect.

The problem was that it had produced results in a different direction.

To give an example.

It was like taking medicine for baldness and having only your beard grow.

Meanwhile, the hair that wasn’t supposed to fall out stayed exactly the same.

‘That would be pretty sad too.’

If something like that happened to you, you’d probably want to tear your head off.

While thinking such nonsense, I looked at the sword.

‘But I can’t reduce the amount of mana either.’

A certain amount of mana was necessary to generate aura.

To put it simply, it was like fuel.

Fuel burns when it comes into contact with fire.

But if it never reaches the ignition point, it is nothing more than an ordinary liquid.

‘In my case, the ignition point is still the same, but the amount of fuel has increased tremendously, and I still don’t understand why.’

Then a question arose.

‘How much more will a Mithrilcon sword burn?’

I checked the time.

There was still a little while before breakfast.

So I gripped the Mithrilcon sword and poured mana into it.

Shaaaaaa—

The Mithrilcon sword began to shine like a green galaxy.

It was beautiful no matter how many times I looked at it.

I watched the glowing sword for a moment and then manifested my aura.

I thought it would grow by one and a half times at most.

But—

Fwoooosh!!!

“Whoa.”

The aura rose with such intensity that I had to tilt my head back to see it completely.

No matter how good the sword was, this was excessive.

‘Now I understand why HeavenlyDemon said that.’

If even I could do something like this, then true experts would be on an entirely different level.

Moreover, the mana consumption was still low.

If I wasn’t careful, I might even injure myself.

I silently dismissed the aura.

I should probably wait until I’m able to condense it.

‘What if I just use it to harass enemies from a distance?’

It sounded pretty stupid, but it also seemed effective.

I could only let out a bitter laugh.

***

Meanwhile, at about the same time.

Ash, the Swordmaster who had been suspended by HeavenlyDemon.

“And what are you doing helping your mother?”

“…I just thought I should show some filial piety.”

“If you have nothing better to do, then bring me a good husband. That would be true filial piety.”

“Yes…”

Thanks to HeavenlyDemon’s benevolence (?), she was fulfilling her filial duties for the first time in a long while.