Spirit of weapons.
In the game, they were defined as the consciousness inside the weapons.
However, as the saying goes, can we really define a lifeform in simple words like that?
No. That is not the case.
Every consciousness has its own way of being developed.
For instance, when did you start making your own decisions in your life?
When you were a baby?
When were you three years old? Four?
There was one research paper I read about when I was preparing a presentation for my project in college.
It was research conducted by simply showing a questionnaire on a site.
The participants would answer the questions that would be presented to them.
And there was one question that got my attention there.
'When did you feel you were finally in control of your life?'
There were a lot of answers ranging from 14-18, although there were lower ones as well.
Weird right? How can you live your life without taking control of it?
Now, the point I am saying is even as a human; it takes a lot of years of living to finally form a consciousness, a living being that can make its own decisions.
Therefore, the spirits of weapons we are calling are not such simple things either. At least, this is what I think….
"MAAAAAAASTER!"
Now that there was a girl in front of me who was flying towards me with her arms wide open, a lot of thoughts like that passed through my mind.
/THUD/
Falling to the ground with the impact, I hugged the little girl that was clinging to me.
"Master… Master…. Master…"
Repeating the same word over and over again, that little girl buried her face in my chest.
/SNIFF/ SNIFF/
Sniffing my body.
'What is this situation?'
Feeling a bit weird that suddenly a girl popped out of nowhere, I was perplexed.
'There was no mention of something like that happening in the game.'
"Master….. Master….. Master….."
'Is it because of the skill Polymorph? Hmm.. That might be the case.'
Letting the girl do whatever she wanted, I lost myself in my thoughts.
"Master?"
However, I woke up from my stupor as there was a pair of bright red eyes that was in front of me.
A girl with bright red eyes.
With long black hair that was separated into two.
A girl that resembled a person that I had seen before.
A girl that resembled me….
"Sigh…. Nihil, it is you, right?"
'All Seeing Eye.'
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Name – Nihil
Age – Unknown
Class – ???? Spirit
Mage Rank – None
Knight Rank – None
Attributes – Void
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I asked while looking at those bright red eyes.
"Yes. It is Nihil, Master!"
With an enthusiastic voice, the girl, now Nihil, answered.
"Do you know how this happened?"
"Nihil doesn't understand?"
"I mean, how come you are appearing like that."
"Hmm? Nihil just did it."
"You just did?"
"Yes. Nihil wanted to feel master like the big sister Aliya."
"Big sister?"
"Yes! Big sister Aliya! When you are not around, she sometimes touches Nihil and cleans her."
"She does?"
"Yes!"
"I see."
/BLINK/ /BLINK/ /SHINE/
'Sigh… What a pain.'
Seeing the girl that was blinking her eyes rapidly while her irises were somehow shining, I thought while bringing my hand towards her head.
"Eheheehe!"
With a silly smile on her face, the girl let me touch her pitch-black hair while purring…..
'Are you a cat?'
Thinking that, I asked:
"Nihil, what are you?"
"What do you mean, Master? Nihil doesn't understand?"
"I mean what I said. Do you know what you are?"
"I-I…. Nihil doesn't know."
"I see…. Nothing, huh? Then, do you know when you are born?"
I asked while pondering.
'I always wanted to know how spirits are born. The game didn't give any details about that, but now that we are in the real world, there should be something.
"It was dark at the beginning. Pitch-black darkness…. There was nothing else in that world. At that time, Nihil didn't even have a name."
"…."
"But later, Master came and gave Nihil her name."
"I see…."
'I don't see at all. What do you mean by pitch black darkness?'
Although I was fuming a bit inside, I didn't persist on the matter.
'Well, it is not like asking that question to a little child will matter either. I guess those details won't get to the surface that easily.'
"Yaaawn…."
While I was thinking about that, a yawn came right before me.
"What is wrong?"
"Nihil is sleepy and tired. Nihil wants to sleep."
"Then, Nihil. Can you turn yourself to the sword again?"
"Turning herself to the sword. Yes! Nihil can do that!"
"Okay, then turn back to the sword. You can sleep like that if you want.
"UN!"
Saying that, suddenly, the girl started shining with a dark blue-silverish light different from before and then disappeared, leaving a familiar sword in her place.
In the first place, there was once a notification that came from the system.
'System, do you know something about this?'
<Half affirmative host.>
'Half affirmative?'
<Yes. The system has no information about the past or class of the sword spirit Nihil. But, the system knows how Nihil awakened.>
'Explain.'
<The reason for the host's awakening to postpone was related to the sword spirit Nihil.>
'So, she was the one that was absorbing the mana that was reconstructing my core.'
<Yes. Because the sword spirit Nihil has the attribute void and absorption, she absorbed the host's mana while she was getting stronger as well. That is the reason why she had the characteristics of hosts as her physical body.>
'I see. Then, why didn't you inform me?'
<System just discovered this as you have awakened. Before system didn't have access to your core since it was sealed.>
'So, you are saying Nihil had access to something you didn't?'
<Yes. That is right.>
'I see.'
Just by looking at those facts alone, it seems Nihil's identity is nothing but simple.
'If that is the case, then I really am looking forward to seeing the secret about her identity.'
Thinking that, I stood up.
'But, now, let's focus on the last reward in front of me, shall we?'
Thinking that, I approached the blood-red crystal and took it into my hands….
