Chapter 26
Please take note: somehow in the first episode, I thought the last name of the imperial family was the same as the empire’s name, that’s why I went with Axelferion cause I stuck to the naming in the promo manhwa. Well, now I know better. So sorry about that. I’ve made the changes in the relevant places!
Uhm. So, I’ve been imagining meeting Mom and Dad a lot.
Even in my previous life, I had never had a proper family, so I longed for a life with my parents.
Thus, I often imagined the touching reunion scene when I meet my parents. With a runny nose, I would shed tears and call, ‘Mom! Dad!’ and we would hug.
However, a very minor problem arose.
‘First of all, I have to figure out which one is the mother?!’
I was perplexed, but after remembering that this place was in a spicy BL novel, I quickly accepted it.
‘Let’s act naturally. If I am surprised, it will hurt Mom and Dad.’
After making a resolute decision, I was embraced by the man who was as neat as a lily.
“Mom… I wanted to meet you.”
“……?”
However, the reaction of the neat man was a little strange.
“Ah, I guess it’s not like this!”
I must have been prejudiced because of his appearance. Bad Annette, snobbish Annette!
Again, with an open mind, I embraced the wild, muscular, wolf-like man.
This time!
“…Mom!!!”
Then the muscular wolf mother flashed his golden eyes and raised his eyebrows.
“Why am I your mother…?”
He looked at me with a questioning expression for a moment and then said with a smile on his face.
“You must have misunderstood. It’s not that we’re really the parents who ‘gave birth’ to you, it’s just the ‘expression’.”
“It meant being like a parent who will always protect you.”
“Ah!”
I blushed.
‘It’s completely over!’
‘I’m not overly biased, Teachers.’
I really thought one of them was pregnant with me.
“How cute.”
Seeing my reaction, the two handsome men chuckled. Embarrassed, my face became as hot as a roasted sweet potato.
“…Excuse me. So, are you two like, my guardian gods?”
“Guardian, your partner, you can call me by any name. The important thing is that from now on you can use our powers, Annette.”
‘I can use the powers of these two men?’
Around the time when I was in doubt, the handsome lily-like man said:
“You are the child who has awakened the power of ‘source’.”
…The power of source?
“It means you’re the ‘first sorcerer’ that exists in this world, the child who wields the soul of Exórdium.”
The first sorcerer!
In this worldview, the existence of a sorcerer was very rare.
As it was rare, there were no proper records about sorcerers, so I noted down information about it. Hence, people regarded sorcerers as secret, sacred, and terrifying.
Sorcerors did not ‘awaken’ their abilities like wizards or psychics.
They uniquely inherited their abilities only by ‘succeeding’ the soul.
There were only a limited number of sorcerers that could be created. That was why they were rare.
‘Not a single Tree in the history of the Forest has become a sorcerer.’
Gulp–
I swallowed dry saliva.
‘By the way, did I summon a sorcerer’s soul? And it’s the first sorcerer’s soul…?’
‘What the hell have you done, future baker?’
My eyes trembled softly.
While I was staring blankly with that expression, the handsome man that was like a red wolf proudly crossed his arms and said,
“You seem confused, Annette. Shall we sit over there and talk?”
“Yes?”
There was nothing there.
Then, the lily-like handsome man gestured gently.
And something amazing happened.
As if paint had suddenly spilled, the landscape quickly changed as the whole area was dyed with brilliant colors.
A large table and luxurious chairs (of course, mine was a children’s chair) appeared in the fine-weathered garden, and delicious desserts and breads were piled up on the table.
Suddenly, the handsome lily man smiled as he poured milk tea into my cup.
I sat down in a daze.
“…Thank you.”
“You’re welcome.”
The milk tea smelled sweet.
“Dear, have you ever read the myth of the founding of Axelferion???”
“I only know the first sentence. I heard that the latter part is almost lost?”
I answered after a sip of milk tea. Well, it was sweet.
“You’re smart too. Shall we say the first sentence at the same time?”
The neat and handsome man and I said at the same time.
“In the beginning there was fire and light!”
“In the beginning there was fire and light.”
He smiled softly like a lily.
“That’s correct.”
He started telling me some pretty interesting stories.
The first sorcerer who existed on this earth, his name is ‘Exordium’.
He was half-human and half-god, and it was said that he came down when this land was newly created with the powers he inherited from the gods.
The first sorcerer was omnipotent, but he decided not to use his powers to dominate, but to use them solely to care for humans.
After helping in the development of civilization for such a long time, which led to the founding of El Dorado and the birth of a new dynasty, the sorcerer soon fell into a new worry.
That worry was:
‘Humans aren’t strong enough to survive in this world.’
— It was.
The sorcerer foresaw that war would soon begin on this land and that a different race would invade.
In the end, humans would either become their slaves or perish.
So, the sorcerer sacrificed his life to cast a powerful spell on the ground for the last time.
“It was a magic that brought human’s ‘potential’ to the maximum.”
As the handsome lily-like man finished his step by step explanation, the red wolf-like man added,
“Thanks to that magic, ordinary humans began to awaken abilities. That’s how wizards, superpowers, tamers, etcetera, were born.”
“They can actually use the power of the magic they received from Exordium.”
“……”
So, uhm.
To sum up, it was a world where there were no wizards or superpowers in the first place, right?
‘Like the modern society I lived in in my previous life.’
‘However, with the power of a sorcerer, abilities that transcend human limits have been created.’
This…
So, it meant that the spirit of the sorcerer I awakened became the root of all talented people.
It was only then that I understood what they said to me, that I was a child who had awakened the power of the source.
First of all, they meant that I had summoned the spirit of a sorcerer who was equal to an omnipotent god, right?
‘…It’s incredible.’
‘Heuk, I’ve been sad all this time.’
Suddenly, I remembered the past when Sasha summoned a chick and I looked at her with envy.
‘I can’t believe I summoned the sorcerer’s soul!’
It was as if I used to live as a beggar on the street, but suddenly a rich grandfather appeared and gave me 10 buildings as a gift, saying, “Actually, I am your grandfather.”
‘Fufu. It’s really cool.’
I wiped my nose and smiled as the handsome wolf-like man continued to explain.
“The sorcerer split his soul in two when he died after his life-threatening spell.”
The handsome lily added a few words.
“‘Fire’ and ‘light’.”
“……!”
I responded,
“That was something from the founding story?”
There must have been a reason why it was recorded as ‘fire and light’ rather than ‘light’.
Because of this single space, scholars seemed to have been divided for over a thousand years.(TL/N: I might be wrong, but this is how I understand it – ‘불빛’ means ‘light’, but if you add a space between them and thus separating the characters, ‘불 빛’, it becomes ‘fire light’. So I guess the division between the scholars was regarding if it should be recorded as ‘fire and light’ or ‘fire light’.)
‘Would it be okay for me to make a great academic discovery in one second at the age of 12?’
No matter how good a model student I was, it seemed like overkill. Well, wouldn’t the scholars feel intellectual deprivation?
“That’s right. Hence, ‘Sordi’ with the power of light and ‘Um’ with the power of fire were born. Now let me introduce myself, my name is Sordi.”
The handsome lily, no, Sordi pointed to himself. Then his finger turned to the side.
“This is Um.”
So, when these two were combined, it’s the soul of Exordium!
I quickly caught up and asked.
“Then, was it Sordi’s power that was demonstrated when I met the monster earlier?”
I didn’t remember it well, but I remembered a white light shining brilliantly.
“You’re smart too, sweetheart.”
“Thank you for protecting me, Sordi!”
As I greeted them warmly, Sordi briefly looked moved.
“My baby girl has a really pretty heart too, hm.”
“She’s a cute and unique glutinous rice.”
Sordi and Um were ‘pulling’ my cheeks from both sides and fiddling with it to their heart’s content.
Ummm, I didn’t know what to do and thought while blinking my eyes.
‘…You two seem like a couple who love the little ones!’
It wasn’t unreasonable that I mistook them for Mom and Dad.
I quickly changed the topic to keep my cheeks from stretching out.
“Ish a lwot of enwergy (my cheeks were released only after my pronunciation was badly affected). It’s great that I can use that kind of power!”
“Recognizing the depth of our abilities is the first of the ‘successor’ qualities. I’m happy. Very happy.”
A very satisfied smile appeared on Um’s face.
“But the essence of your ability isn’t just fire and light. There are other skills that are really powerful.”
More powerful than fire and light?
“…What is it?”
Looking down at Annette’s curious expression, Um’s golden eyes shone.
“It’s ‘recovery’ and ‘buff’.”
“Recovery and buff?!”
I heard him, but I didn’t quite understand it. Um smiled proudly and explained.
“You are the ‘source’ of all Awakened. So, you can amplify their abilities or even take them away.”
“……!”
Amplifying or stealing abilities!(TL & PR/N: Gakuen Alice anyone?!?!?!)
I swallowed a little bit of saliva because just by hearing it, it seemed to be very important to the Awakened.
“That is the essence of the power of Exordium.”
With that power, successive ‘heirs’ that showed up could knead the world.
Annette’s future would be no different. But this little 12-year-old kid didn’t seem to realize it yet. Sordi quietly asked a question to the contemplating Annette.
“If all of the magic power of the Magic Tower’s Lord is ‘collected’ tomorrow, what will the future look like?”
“…Perhaps the domination structure of the Tower will change. The owner will be replaced.”
‘Not only that.’
I thought. The Magic Tower was an institution that stood in a strange balance in the power struggle between the imperial family and the Great Temple.
In this case, if the tower lord was replaced, of course, the power system of the empire would be changed in an instant.
Um smiled cruelly.
“You seem to have caught up. That change will change the fate of many people. Furthermore, ‘the fate of the world’.”
“……”
“If you use the ‘buff’, you might be able to give power to those with low powers and rule the world.”
“……Ah.”
Of course, I was a smart kid, so I understood quickly.
“I guess you realize it now.”
Um raised his dark eyebrows upward and grabbed my small chin.
He whispered sweetly like a devil.
“You can put this world in the palm of your hand and sleep, baby.”
“……”
“Some people fear your power as if it is death itself, and others salivate and want it like a greedy dog for a chunk of enhanced meat.”
With deepened eyes, I answered,
“…That’s a lot of power.”
Seeing Annette fully aware of her strength, Um touched his chin with satisfaction.
‘Her eyes are burning with ambition. I’m satisfied! Very satisfied!’
Um felt his heart heating up and he brushed his rough hair that was like a red mane.
‘I am very excited about the future this little child will dream of. Ahaha.’
How would this child use her powers? Would she become a powerful kingmaker? Or, would she make the wonderful choice to become the ruler of the world on her own.
Um said while holding a small glass of milk tea with his thick hand.
“Baby, what are you planning to become in the future?”
Badump, badump, badump.
His excited heart in his muscular chest beat with ambition.
However, he suppressed his expectations and took a sip of milk tea and looked at Annette.
Annette opened her mouth, her eyes twinkling like the sunlight of early spring.
“I will be a very good and wonderful…!”
Um’s heart beat faster.
Badump, badump, badump.
‘Yeah, good and wonderful?’
The kid finally clenched her fists! She did so and shouted,
“I’m going to be a baker!”
Puhh, milk tea sprayed like a fountain on poor Sordi’s face.
Ame: It’s a triple update! This novel is so cute and fluffy, it heals my heart after all the angst and drama in my other projects~
Uhm. So, I’ve been imagining meeting Mom and Dad a lot.
Even in my previous life, I had never had a proper family, so I longed for a life with my parents.
Thus, I often imagined the touching reunion scene when I meet my parents. With a runny nose, I would shed tears and call, ‘Mom! Dad!’ and we would hug.
However, a very minor problem arose.
‘First of all, I have to figure out which one is the mother?!’
I was perplexed, but after remembering that this place was in a spicy BL novel, I quickly accepted it.
‘Let’s act naturally. If I am surprised, it will hurt Mom and Dad.’
After making a resolute decision, I was embraced by the man who was as neat as a lily.
“Mom… I wanted to meet you.”
“……?”
However, the reaction of the neat man was a little strange.
“Ah, I guess it’s not like this!”
I must have been prejudiced because of his appearance. Bad Annette, snobbish Annette!
Again, with an open mind, I embraced the wild, muscular, wolf-like man.
This time!
“…Mom!!!”
Then the muscular wolf mother flashed his golden eyes and raised his eyebrows.
“Why am I your mother…?”
He looked at me with a questioning expression for a moment and then said with a smile on his face.
“You must have misunderstood. It’s not that we’re really the parents who ‘gave birth’ to you, it’s just the ‘expression’.”
“It meant being like a parent who will always protect you.”
“Ah!”
I blushed.
‘It’s completely over!’
‘I’m not overly biased, Teachers.’
I really thought one of them was pregnant with me.
“How cute.”
Seeing my reaction, the two handsome men chuckled. Embarrassed, my face became as hot as a roasted sweet potato.
“…Excuse me. So, are you two like, my guardian gods?”
“Guardian, your partner, you can call me by any name. The important thing is that from now on you can use our powers, Annette.”
‘I can use the powers of these two men?’
Around the time when I was in doubt, the handsome lily-like man said:
“You are the child who has awakened the power of ‘source’.”
…The power of source?
“It means you’re the ‘first sorcerer’ that exists in this world, the child who wields the soul of Exórdium.”
The first sorcerer!
In this worldview, the existence of a sorcerer was very rare.
As it was rare, there were no proper records about sorcerers, so I noted down information about it. Hence, people regarded sorcerers as secret, sacred, and terrifying.
Sorcerors did not ‘awaken’ their abilities like wizards or psychics.
They uniquely inherited their abilities only by ‘succeeding’ the soul.
There were only a limited number of sorcerers that could be created. That was why they were rare.
‘Not a single Tree in the history of the Forest has become a sorcerer.’
Gulp–
I swallowed dry saliva.
‘By the way, did I summon a sorcerer’s soul? And it’s the first sorcerer’s soul…?’
‘What the hell have you done, future baker?’
My eyes trembled softly.
While I was staring blankly with that expression, the handsome man that was like a red wolf proudly crossed his arms and said,
“You seem confused, Annette. Shall we sit over there and talk?”
“Yes?”
There was nothing there.
Then, the lily-like handsome man gestured gently.
And something amazing happened.
As if paint had suddenly spilled, the landscape quickly changed as the whole area was dyed with brilliant colors.
A large table and luxurious chairs (of course, mine was a children’s chair) appeared in the fine-weathered garden, and delicious desserts and breads were piled up on the table.
Suddenly, the handsome lily man smiled as he poured milk tea into my cup.
I sat down in a daze.
“…Thank you.”
“You’re welcome.”
The milk tea smelled sweet.
“Dear, have you ever read the myth of the founding of Axelferion???”
“I only know the first sentence. I heard that the latter part is almost lost?”
I answered after a sip of milk tea. Well, it was sweet.
“You’re smart too. Shall we say the first sentence at the same time?”
The neat and handsome man and I said at the same time.
“In the beginning there was fire and light!”
“In the beginning there was fire and light.”
He smiled softly like a lily.
“That’s correct.”
He started telling me some pretty interesting stories.
The first sorcerer who existed on this earth, his name is ‘Exordium’.
He was half-human and half-god, and it was said that he came down when this land was newly created with the powers he inherited from the gods.
The first sorcerer was omnipotent, but he decided not to use his powers to dominate, but to use them solely to care for humans.
After helping in the development of civilization for such a long time, which led to the founding of El Dorado and the birth of a new dynasty, the sorcerer soon fell into a new worry.
That worry was:
‘Humans aren’t strong enough to survive in this world.’
— It was.
The sorcerer foresaw that war would soon begin on this land and that a different race would invade.
In the end, humans would either become their slaves or perish.
So, the sorcerer sacrificed his life to cast a powerful spell on the ground for the last time.
“It was a magic that brought human’s ‘potential’ to the maximum.”
As the handsome lily-like man finished his step by step explanation, the red wolf-like man added,
“Thanks to that magic, ordinary humans began to awaken abilities. That’s how wizards, superpowers, tamers, etcetera, were born.”
“They can actually use the power of the magic they received from Exordium.”
“……”
So, uhm.
To sum up, it was a world where there were no wizards or superpowers in the first place, right?
‘Like the modern society I lived in in my previous life.’
‘However, with the power of a sorcerer, abilities that transcend human limits have been created.’
This…
So, it meant that the spirit of the sorcerer I awakened became the root of all talented people.
It was only then that I understood what they said to me, that I was a child who had awakened the power of the source.
First of all, they meant that I had summoned the spirit of a sorcerer who was equal to an omnipotent god, right?
‘…It’s incredible.’
‘Heuk, I’ve been sad all this time.’
Suddenly, I remembered the past when Sasha summoned a chick and I looked at her with envy.
‘I can’t believe I summoned the sorcerer’s soul!’
It was as if I used to live as a beggar on the street, but suddenly a rich grandfather appeared and gave me 10 buildings as a gift, saying, “Actually, I am your grandfather.”
‘Fufu. It’s really cool.’
I wiped my nose and smiled as the handsome wolf-like man continued to explain.
“The sorcerer split his soul in two when he died after his life-threatening spell.”
The handsome lily added a few words.
“‘Fire’ and ‘light’.”
“……!”
I responded,
“That was something from the founding story?”
There must have been a reason why it was recorded as ‘fire and light’ rather than ‘light’.
Because of this single space, scholars seemed to have been divided for over a thousand years.(TL/N: I might be wrong, but this is how I understand it – ‘불빛’ means ‘light’, but if you add a space between them and thus separating the characters, ‘불 빛’, it becomes ‘fire light’. So I guess the division between the scholars was regarding if it should be recorded as ‘fire and light’ or ‘fire light’.)
‘Would it be okay for me to make a great academic discovery in one second at the age of 12?’
No matter how good a model student I was, it seemed like overkill. Well, wouldn’t the scholars feel intellectual deprivation?
“That’s right. Hence, ‘Sordi’ with the power of light and ‘Um’ with the power of fire were born. Now let me introduce myself, my name is Sordi.”
The handsome lily, no, Sordi pointed to himself. Then his finger turned to the side.
“This is Um.”
So, when these two were combined, it’s the soul of Exordium!
I quickly caught up and asked.
“Then, was it Sordi’s power that was demonstrated when I met the monster earlier?”
I didn’t remember it well, but I remembered a white light shining brilliantly.
“You’re smart too, sweetheart.”
“Thank you for protecting me, Sordi!”
As I greeted them warmly, Sordi briefly looked moved.
“My baby girl has a really pretty heart too, hm.”
“She’s a cute and unique glutinous rice.”
Sordi and Um were ‘pulling’ my cheeks from both sides and fiddling with it to their heart’s content.
Ummm, I didn’t know what to do and thought while blinking my eyes.
‘…You two seem like a couple who love the little ones!’
It wasn’t unreasonable that I mistook them for Mom and Dad.
I quickly changed the topic to keep my cheeks from stretching out.
“Ish a lwot of enwergy (my cheeks were released only after my pronunciation was badly affected). It’s great that I can use that kind of power!”
“Recognizing the depth of our abilities is the first of the ‘successor’ qualities. I’m happy. Very happy.”
A very satisfied smile appeared on Um’s face.
“But the essence of your ability isn’t just fire and light. There are other skills that are really powerful.”
More powerful than fire and light?
“…What is it?”
Looking down at Annette’s curious expression, Um’s golden eyes shone.
“It’s ‘recovery’ and ‘buff’.”
“Recovery and buff?!”
I heard him, but I didn’t quite understand it. Um smiled proudly and explained.
“You are the ‘source’ of all Awakened. So, you can amplify their abilities or even take them away.”
“……!”
Amplifying or stealing abilities!(TL & PR/N: Gakuen Alice anyone?!?!?!)
I swallowed a little bit of saliva because just by hearing it, it seemed to be very important to the Awakened.
“That is the essence of the power of Exordium.”
With that power, successive ‘heirs’ that showed up could knead the world.
Annette’s future would be no different. But this little 12-year-old kid didn’t seem to realize it yet. Sordi quietly asked a question to the contemplating Annette.
“If all of the magic power of the Magic Tower’s Lord is ‘collected’ tomorrow, what will the future look like?”
“…Perhaps the domination structure of the Tower will change. The owner will be replaced.”
‘Not only that.’
I thought. The Magic Tower was an institution that stood in a strange balance in the power struggle between the imperial family and the Great Temple.
In this case, if the tower lord was replaced, of course, the power system of the empire would be changed in an instant.
Um smiled cruelly.
“You seem to have caught up. That change will change the fate of many people. Furthermore, ‘the fate of the world’.”
“……”
“If you use the ‘buff’, you might be able to give power to those with low powers and rule the world.”
“……Ah.”
Of course, I was a smart kid, so I understood quickly.
“I guess you realize it now.”
Um raised his dark eyebrows upward and grabbed my small chin.
He whispered sweetly like a devil.
“You can put this world in the palm of your hand and sleep, baby.”
“……”
“Some people fear your power as if it is death itself, and others salivate and want it like a greedy dog for a chunk of enhanced meat.”
With deepened eyes, I answered,
“…That’s a lot of power.”
Seeing Annette fully aware of her strength, Um touched his chin with satisfaction.
‘Her eyes are burning with ambition. I’m satisfied! Very satisfied!’
Um felt his heart heating up and he brushed his rough hair that was like a red mane.
‘I am very excited about the future this little child will dream of. Ahaha.’
How would this child use her powers? Would she become a powerful kingmaker? Or, would she make the wonderful choice to become the ruler of the world on her own.
Um said while holding a small glass of milk tea with his thick hand.
“Baby, what are you planning to become in the future?”
Badump, badump, badump.
His excited heart in his muscular chest beat with ambition.
However, he suppressed his expectations and took a sip of milk tea and looked at Annette.
Annette opened her mouth, her eyes twinkling like the sunlight of early spring.
“I will be a very good and wonderful…!”
Um’s heart beat faster.
Badump, badump, badump.
‘Yeah, good and wonderful?’
The kid finally clenched her fists! She did so and shouted,
“I’m going to be a baker!”
Puhh, milk tea sprayed like a fountain on poor Sordi’s face.
Ame: It’s a triple update! This novel is so cute and fluffy, it heals my heart after all the angst and drama in my other projects~
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