Chapter 257
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Woong!
The Chintamani Marble was considerably large, as it reflected the size of its previous owner. When Merlin touched the Gold Dragon’s Chintamani Marble, which was several meters in diameter, the Chintamani Marble quickly reduced in size until the marble snuggly fit in Merlin’s hand. However, what was unusual was the reactions of Quiet Heaven and Ellie when they laid their eyes on the marble.
“A Chintamani Marble…”
“Ah, so it really does drop and appear in this world… ugh…”
Neither Quiet Heaven nor Ellie could take their eyes off the Chintamani Marble. It was as if they were bewitched by something.
When Merlin moved the Chintamani Marble slightly to his right, the two pets’ eyes followed.
“What? Do you guys need this?”
“O-of course we need it! Although the one you’re holding is most likely just a replica… but even if it’s just a replica, a Chintamani Marble is an aggregate entity of transcendent power. Half-bloods like us, who possess Noblesse blood, can quickly raise our rank by consuming such a power source.”
“Then eat it.”
“…!!”
“What?!”
Hearing Merlin’s words, Quiet Heaven, as well as Ellie, were startled. They could only stare back dumbfoundedly at Merlin.
With a trembling expression, Quiet Heaven asked Merlin a question.
“D-didn’t you say that you required an essential item? Isn’t the Chintamani Marble what you were looking for?”
“That’s right, but if you eat it and become more powerful, that’s not bad, either. It’ll just take me a little more time to achieve what I want, but I already know that achieving my goal is something that’ll happen eventually.”
Although Quiet Heaven was Merlin’s dutiful pet, Quiet Heaven was actually lacking in many ways to be labeled as one of Merlin’s useful [options].
Quiet Heaven’s specialties weren’t in combat, but also, Merlin had already become way too strong way too fast.
Since Merlin was an entirely different being from an average user, it was not easy for Quiet Heaven to keep up with Merlin’s constantly developing abilities and skills. In truth, Quiet Heaven was one of the top pets in the game, but unlike Arthur’s pet Toothless, Quiet Heaven didn’t possess the same combat power as a top-notched summoning beast, so it wasn’t much help to Merlin in times of battle.
“That’s… I really appreciate it, but I can’t eat it.”
“Is it forbidden?”
“Yeah. You players and us pets have different positions.”
Although the Chintamani Marble was a replica, the Chintamani Marble was still a considerable asset that even the Noblesse couldn’t easily dish out.
Even though mixed-race beings like Quiet Heaven and Ellie also belonged to the Noblesse, it was impossible for the Noblesse to give half-bloods like them many resources without a guarantee of a commensurate return. In addition, if pets could consume such items within DIO, wouldn’t it be commonplace for pets to deceive or plead with their user owners to absorb their dropped marbles and magic stones?
However, Miho, who remained quiet and still up to that point, made a confused expression.
“Wait a second. I don’t know or understand much about the organization called Noblesse, but does it make sense that they’d give resources like the Chintamani Marble to users but not to their own flesh and blood race?”
“It is not given; it is entrusted. All users’ bodies are tied to DIO anyway.”
“Aha.”
Miho immediately understood and nodded her head. In other words, the Chintamani Marble wasn’t given to users, per se. In other words, as long as the users were under the control of DIO’s system, the operators could retrieve the Chintamani Marble, as well as anything else that was given to users within DIO, at any time.
“Then, I guess we’ll have to stick to my original plan.”
When Merlin casually spoke and lifted the Chintamani Marble, Quiet Heaven spoke up.
“What plan? Even if what you have in your hand is a replica, you, as a human user, cannot simply absorb the enormous spiritual power within the Chintamani Marble. You may be able to forge it into a usable item…”
Crack!!
“What?!”
“Kyak?!?!”
When Merlin struck the Chintamani Marble and caused cracks to form on it, the two pets, who watched everything unfold, screamed out in surprise.
Sungmuk, who was not quite as surprised as the two pets, asked a question aloud.
“What are you trying to do? It’s the first time I’ve actually seen a Chintamani Marble, but shouldn’t you maintain it in as pristine a state as possible if you’re planning to absorb its powers?”
“Well, the problem is that absorbing spiritual power of this magnitude is not normal or simple.”
As an analogy, absorbing the Chintamani Marble’s power was like shoving 10 tons of food all at once into a 10-year-old child. Unless the child was the second coming of a divine, overpowered, and superpowered glutton, the child would most likely suffocate to death before digesting all the food.
“But your ability to control isn’t at a low level, right? You should be fully [capable] of absorbing the powers within the marble. As long as you have time…” Sungmuk continued.
However, Merlin shook his head at that moment.
“That’s the crux of the issue. I’m fully capable, but time is the issue. It will take me about six years to completely absorb spiritual power of this magnitude.”
Of course, Merlin couldn’t utilize the training room and its expansion of time, as the training room only accelerated one’s mind to elongate time. 6 years in DIO meant that it would take Merlin an entire year in Earth time to properly absorb the power within the Chintamani Marble.
Considering that time passed 12 times faster in DIO than on Earth, calculation-wise, half a year should have been enough time for Merlin to absorb all the power within the marble; however, the [rule] that only 12 hours out of every 24 hours a day could be used to access DIO elongated that estimated time frame. Earth’s login access restriction was a problem that even Merlin couldn’t easily solve.
Whoosh!
While they were talking, golden steam spewed out from the Chintamani Marble with terrifying momentum.
Quiet Heaven and Ellie watched the scene restlessly, but to their surprise, instead of scattering in all directions, the golden steam formed a round shape, like a balloon that was being filled with air.
This phenomenon occurred because Merlin was controlling the golden steam of spiritual power, the Gold Dragon’s qi.
“But this…”
“… it’s so much.”
“That’s amazingly large.”
The party members couldn’t help but nervously laugh at the massive bundle of spiritual power, which grew so enormous that the surrounding was filled with gold light in an instant.
Previously, in Merlin’s No Living World, when he was creating his planetary Earth by releasing energy outside his body, the energy bundle was only about the size of a soccer ball. The enormous size of the Chintamani Marble’s energy bundle proved that the spiritual energy held within was astronomically enormous.
Ting!
At that moment, a magic circle began to cover the area around the spiritual qi.
Merlin’s preparations were sufficient; he had already completed all his spells beforehand. Moreover, he had reviewed his preparations many times over, even before he had gone into battle.
[Grr…]
And as the magic circle covered the Chintamani Marble’s qi, the growl of a beast resonated within it.
It was a new magic lifeform created by Merlin, Chaos.
Quiet Heaven, who had already seen Merlin invent and apply reinforcement on items many times before, opened its mouth to speak.
“That’s… an evolved ‘Salk’.”
“Correct!”
Merlin was an excellent creator of novel inventions and processes, not only amongst users but also amongst the Noblesse, especially the great mages, who kept a keen eye on Merlin’s creations. Merlin was the inventor of [Reinforced Weapons], so it was possible for Merlin to remodel or retrofit a reinforced weapon, the likes of which most other mages couldn’t even fathom, let alone create.
However, Quiet Heaven, who was quietly observing the technique Merlin was using, soon made an expression as if he couldn’t understand Merlin’s approach.
“But Merlin, is it possible to construct something without Beast Metal?”
In truth, the metal that went into creating reinforced weapons was more important than the magic spells applied to the weapons.
We are bit.ly/3iBfjkV, find us on google.
So, strictly speaking, what Merlin invented was not reinforced weapons, but Beast Metal itself.
Beast Metal contained a spiritual creature that ate away energy.
Regardless of attributes or characteristics, by eating and digesting any form of energy, the Beast Metal overlapped and reinforced the magic spell or spells placed upon a reinforced weapon.
This was why even Merlin couldn’t make reinforced weapons without Beast Metal. Without Beast Metal, there was no foundation to firmly plant or engrain his magic spells.
“Chaos and Salk have similar but very different systems. In addition, since there is so much spiritual power to control, this creation might naturally acquire an ego on its own without the need for Beast Metal. It’s the same principle for reinforced weapons.”
Merlin knew that if a reinforced weapon, which was reinforced 12 times or more, was given a strong thought or will and was cherished for a long time, there was a very high chance that the Salk nested inside that reinforced weapon would awaken a true self, or an ego.
In other words, a reinforced weapon would become a growth-type weapon, a weapon that all warriors dreamt of, but it required a very special environment and a long period of development for an ego to arise, so this objective wasn’t something that Merlin was aiming for in his current endeavor, as Merlin was in a rush.
[Kyak!]
However, at that moment, Chaos swallowed the power within the golden sphere and belted out a scream.
Since Chaos only had the intelligence level of a dog or cat, it was difficult to communicate with it, but Chaos’ scream of utter pain was obvious to anyone who heard it.
“What the hell…? The spiritual energy is more than 3.7 times more than my estimated maximum?”
Merlin’s expression grew serious as he closed his eyes and scanned through the stream of information conveyed by his magic circle.
In fact, long before he decided to fight the Gold Dragon, Merlin knew that the Gold Dragon was a fake transcendent being. Actually, Merlin realized this fact the first time he laid eyes on the Gold Dragon.
This was because his insight ability was excellent, but in this case, his insight was more poisonous than beneficial.
There should have been no way that the Gold Dragon’s Chintamani Marble, something that originated from a false transcendent figure, possessed a spiritual power level equivalent to an actual dragon heart.
However, from the Noblesse’s perspective, it didn’t matter if the Chintamani Marble was used to create a Gold Dragon or a magic weapon; as long as they ran DIO, whatever was inside the system was presumably under their control.
Though the Noblesse probably never considered it, it didn’t matter to them if the Chintamani Marble’s enormous spiritual powers were consumed by a user.
As long as the spiritual power was contained within DIO’s system, the contents were perfectly protected, regardless of whatever form the power or energy took or where it was located. In essence, DIO was a huge safe and warehouse for the Noblesse.
Thus, unbeknownst to Merlin, the Gold Dragon’s Chintamani Marble was the real deal. It was a marble that the White Divine Celestial Dragon, Thousand Scents, one of the Grand Masters of the Eight Holy Lands, obtained after defeating her arch nemesis, the Golden Divine Dragon.
Though the value of the Golden Divine Dragon’s Chintamani Marble was considerable, which caused many beings to search for it, Thousand Scents didn’t have much use for it, so she kept it safe within the confines of DIO.
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Woong!
The Chintamani Marble was considerably large, as it reflected the size of its previous owner. When Merlin touched the Gold Dragon’s Chintamani Marble, which was several meters in diameter, the Chintamani Marble quickly reduced in size until the marble snuggly fit in Merlin’s hand. However, what was unusual was the reactions of Quiet Heaven and Ellie when they laid their eyes on the marble.
“A Chintamani Marble…”
“Ah, so it really does drop and appear in this world… ugh…”
Neither Quiet Heaven nor Ellie could take their eyes off the Chintamani Marble. It was as if they were bewitched by something.
When Merlin moved the Chintamani Marble slightly to his right, the two pets’ eyes followed.
“What? Do you guys need this?”
“O-of course we need it! Although the one you’re holding is most likely just a replica… but even if it’s just a replica, a Chintamani Marble is an aggregate entity of transcendent power. Half-bloods like us, who possess Noblesse blood, can quickly raise our rank by consuming such a power source.”
“Then eat it.”
“…!!”
“What?!”
Hearing Merlin’s words, Quiet Heaven, as well as Ellie, were startled. They could only stare back dumbfoundedly at Merlin.
With a trembling expression, Quiet Heaven asked Merlin a question.
“D-didn’t you say that you required an essential item? Isn’t the Chintamani Marble what you were looking for?”
“That’s right, but if you eat it and become more powerful, that’s not bad, either. It’ll just take me a little more time to achieve what I want, but I already know that achieving my goal is something that’ll happen eventually.”
Although Quiet Heaven was Merlin’s dutiful pet, Quiet Heaven was actually lacking in many ways to be labeled as one of Merlin’s useful [options].
Quiet Heaven’s specialties weren’t in combat, but also, Merlin had already become way too strong way too fast.
Since Merlin was an entirely different being from an average user, it was not easy for Quiet Heaven to keep up with Merlin’s constantly developing abilities and skills. In truth, Quiet Heaven was one of the top pets in the game, but unlike Arthur’s pet Toothless, Quiet Heaven didn’t possess the same combat power as a top-notched summoning beast, so it wasn’t much help to Merlin in times of battle.
“That’s… I really appreciate it, but I can’t eat it.”
“Is it forbidden?”
“Yeah. You players and us pets have different positions.”
Although the Chintamani Marble was a replica, the Chintamani Marble was still a considerable asset that even the Noblesse couldn’t easily dish out.
Even though mixed-race beings like Quiet Heaven and Ellie also belonged to the Noblesse, it was impossible for the Noblesse to give half-bloods like them many resources without a guarantee of a commensurate return. In addition, if pets could consume such items within DIO, wouldn’t it be commonplace for pets to deceive or plead with their user owners to absorb their dropped marbles and magic stones?
However, Miho, who remained quiet and still up to that point, made a confused expression.
“Wait a second. I don’t know or understand much about the organization called Noblesse, but does it make sense that they’d give resources like the Chintamani Marble to users but not to their own flesh and blood race?”
“It is not given; it is entrusted. All users’ bodies are tied to DIO anyway.”
“Aha.”
Miho immediately understood and nodded her head. In other words, the Chintamani Marble wasn’t given to users, per se. In other words, as long as the users were under the control of DIO’s system, the operators could retrieve the Chintamani Marble, as well as anything else that was given to users within DIO, at any time.
“Then, I guess we’ll have to stick to my original plan.”
When Merlin casually spoke and lifted the Chintamani Marble, Quiet Heaven spoke up.
“What plan? Even if what you have in your hand is a replica, you, as a human user, cannot simply absorb the enormous spiritual power within the Chintamani Marble. You may be able to forge it into a usable item…”
Crack!!
“What?!”
“Kyak?!?!”
When Merlin struck the Chintamani Marble and caused cracks to form on it, the two pets, who watched everything unfold, screamed out in surprise.
Sungmuk, who was not quite as surprised as the two pets, asked a question aloud.
“What are you trying to do? It’s the first time I’ve actually seen a Chintamani Marble, but shouldn’t you maintain it in as pristine a state as possible if you’re planning to absorb its powers?”
“Well, the problem is that absorbing spiritual power of this magnitude is not normal or simple.”
As an analogy, absorbing the Chintamani Marble’s power was like shoving 10 tons of food all at once into a 10-year-old child. Unless the child was the second coming of a divine, overpowered, and superpowered glutton, the child would most likely suffocate to death before digesting all the food.
“But your ability to control isn’t at a low level, right? You should be fully [capable] of absorbing the powers within the marble. As long as you have time…” Sungmuk continued.
However, Merlin shook his head at that moment.
“That’s the crux of the issue. I’m fully capable, but time is the issue. It will take me about six years to completely absorb spiritual power of this magnitude.”
Of course, Merlin couldn’t utilize the training room and its expansion of time, as the training room only accelerated one’s mind to elongate time. 6 years in DIO meant that it would take Merlin an entire year in Earth time to properly absorb the power within the Chintamani Marble.
Considering that time passed 12 times faster in DIO than on Earth, calculation-wise, half a year should have been enough time for Merlin to absorb all the power within the marble; however, the [rule] that only 12 hours out of every 24 hours a day could be used to access DIO elongated that estimated time frame. Earth’s login access restriction was a problem that even Merlin couldn’t easily solve.
Whoosh!
While they were talking, golden steam spewed out from the Chintamani Marble with terrifying momentum.
Quiet Heaven and Ellie watched the scene restlessly, but to their surprise, instead of scattering in all directions, the golden steam formed a round shape, like a balloon that was being filled with air.
This phenomenon occurred because Merlin was controlling the golden steam of spiritual power, the Gold Dragon’s qi.
“But this…”
“… it’s so much.”
“That’s amazingly large.”
The party members couldn’t help but nervously laugh at the massive bundle of spiritual power, which grew so enormous that the surrounding was filled with gold light in an instant.
Previously, in Merlin’s No Living World, when he was creating his planetary Earth by releasing energy outside his body, the energy bundle was only about the size of a soccer ball. The enormous size of the Chintamani Marble’s energy bundle proved that the spiritual energy held within was astronomically enormous.
Ting!
At that moment, a magic circle began to cover the area around the spiritual qi.
Merlin’s preparations were sufficient; he had already completed all his spells beforehand. Moreover, he had reviewed his preparations many times over, even before he had gone into battle.
[Grr…]
And as the magic circle covered the Chintamani Marble’s qi, the growl of a beast resonated within it.
It was a new magic lifeform created by Merlin, Chaos.
Quiet Heaven, who had already seen Merlin invent and apply reinforcement on items many times before, opened its mouth to speak.
“That’s… an evolved ‘Salk’.”
“Correct!”
Merlin was an excellent creator of novel inventions and processes, not only amongst users but also amongst the Noblesse, especially the great mages, who kept a keen eye on Merlin’s creations. Merlin was the inventor of [Reinforced Weapons], so it was possible for Merlin to remodel or retrofit a reinforced weapon, the likes of which most other mages couldn’t even fathom, let alone create.
However, Quiet Heaven, who was quietly observing the technique Merlin was using, soon made an expression as if he couldn’t understand Merlin’s approach.
“But Merlin, is it possible to construct something without Beast Metal?”
In truth, the metal that went into creating reinforced weapons was more important than the magic spells applied to the weapons.
We are bit.ly/3iBfjkV, find us on google.
So, strictly speaking, what Merlin invented was not reinforced weapons, but Beast Metal itself.
Beast Metal contained a spiritual creature that ate away energy.
Regardless of attributes or characteristics, by eating and digesting any form of energy, the Beast Metal overlapped and reinforced the magic spell or spells placed upon a reinforced weapon.
This was why even Merlin couldn’t make reinforced weapons without Beast Metal. Without Beast Metal, there was no foundation to firmly plant or engrain his magic spells.
“Chaos and Salk have similar but very different systems. In addition, since there is so much spiritual power to control, this creation might naturally acquire an ego on its own without the need for Beast Metal. It’s the same principle for reinforced weapons.”
Merlin knew that if a reinforced weapon, which was reinforced 12 times or more, was given a strong thought or will and was cherished for a long time, there was a very high chance that the Salk nested inside that reinforced weapon would awaken a true self, or an ego.
In other words, a reinforced weapon would become a growth-type weapon, a weapon that all warriors dreamt of, but it required a very special environment and a long period of development for an ego to arise, so this objective wasn’t something that Merlin was aiming for in his current endeavor, as Merlin was in a rush.
[Kyak!]
However, at that moment, Chaos swallowed the power within the golden sphere and belted out a scream.
Since Chaos only had the intelligence level of a dog or cat, it was difficult to communicate with it, but Chaos’ scream of utter pain was obvious to anyone who heard it.
“What the hell…? The spiritual energy is more than 3.7 times more than my estimated maximum?”
Merlin’s expression grew serious as he closed his eyes and scanned through the stream of information conveyed by his magic circle.
In fact, long before he decided to fight the Gold Dragon, Merlin knew that the Gold Dragon was a fake transcendent being. Actually, Merlin realized this fact the first time he laid eyes on the Gold Dragon.
This was because his insight ability was excellent, but in this case, his insight was more poisonous than beneficial.
There should have been no way that the Gold Dragon’s Chintamani Marble, something that originated from a false transcendent figure, possessed a spiritual power level equivalent to an actual dragon heart.
However, from the Noblesse’s perspective, it didn’t matter if the Chintamani Marble was used to create a Gold Dragon or a magic weapon; as long as they ran DIO, whatever was inside the system was presumably under their control.
Though the Noblesse probably never considered it, it didn’t matter to them if the Chintamani Marble’s enormous spiritual powers were consumed by a user.
As long as the spiritual power was contained within DIO’s system, the contents were perfectly protected, regardless of whatever form the power or energy took or where it was located. In essence, DIO was a huge safe and warehouse for the Noblesse.
Thus, unbeknownst to Merlin, the Gold Dragon’s Chintamani Marble was the real deal. It was a marble that the White Divine Celestial Dragon, Thousand Scents, one of the Grand Masters of the Eight Holy Lands, obtained after defeating her arch nemesis, the Golden Divine Dragon.
Though the value of the Golden Divine Dragon’s Chintamani Marble was considerable, which caused many beings to search for it, Thousand Scents didn’t have much use for it, so she kept it safe within the confines of DIO.
Woong!The Chintamani Marble was considerably large, as it reflected the size of its previous owner. When Merlin touched the Gold Dragon's Chintamani Marble, which was several meters in diameter, the Chintamani Marble quickly reduced in size until the marble snuggly fit in Merlin's hand. However, what was unusual was the reactions of Quiet Heaven and Ellie when they laid their eyes on the marble.A Chintamani MarbleAh, so it really does drop and appear in this world ughNeither Quiet Heaven nor Ellie could take their eyes off the Chintamani Marble. It was as if they were bewitched by something.When Merlin moved the Chintamani Marble slightly to his right, the two pets' eyes followed.What? Do you guys need this?O-of course we need it! Although the one you're holding is most likely just a replica but even if it's just a replica, a Chintamani Marble is an aggregate entity of transcendent power. Half-bloods like us, who possess Noblesse blood, can quickly raise our rank by consuming such a power source.Then eat it.!!What?!Hearing Merlin's words, Quiet Heaven, as well as Ellie, were startled. They could only stare back dumbfoundedly at Merlin.With a trembling expression, Quiet Heaven asked Merlin a question.D-didn't you say that you required an essential item? Isn't the Chintamani Marble what you were looking for?That's right, but if you eat it and become more powerful, that's not bad, either. It'll just take me a little more time to achieve what I want, but I already know that achieving my goal is something that'll happen eventually.Although Quiet Heaven was Merlin's dutiful pet, Quiet Heaven was actually lacking in many ways to be labeled as one of Merlin's useful options.Quiet Heaven's specialties weren't in combat, but also, Merlin had already become way too strong way too fast.Since Merlin was an entirely different being from an average user, it was not easy for Quiet Heaven to keep up with Merlin's constantly developing abilities and skills. In truth, Quiet Heaven was one of the top pets in the game, but unlike Arthur's pet Toothless, Quiet Heaven didn't possess the same combat power as a top-notched summoning beast, so it wasn't much help to Merlin in times of battle.That's I really appreciate it, but I can't eat it.Is it forbidden?Yeah. You players and us pets have different positions.Although the Chintamani Marble was a replica, the Chintamani Marble was still a considerable asset that even the Noblesse couldn't easily dish out.Even though mixed-race beings like Quiet Heaven and Ellie also belonged to the Noblesse, it was impossible for the Noblesse to give half-bloods like them many resources without a guarantee of a commensurate return. In addition, if pets could consume such items within DIO, wouldn't it be commonplace for pets to deceive or plead with their user owners to absorb their dropped marbles and magic stones?However, Miho, who remained quiet and still up to that point, made a confused expression.Wait a second. I don't know or understand much about the organization called Noblesse, but does it make sense that they'd give resources like the Chintamani Marble to users but not to their own flesh and blood race?It is not given; it is entrusted. All users' bodies are tied to DIO anyway.Aha.Miho immediately understood and nodded her head. In other words, the Chintamani Marble wasn't given to users, per se. In other words, as long as the users were under the control of DIO's system, the operators could retrieve the Chintamani Marble, as well as anything else that was given to users within DIO, at any time.Then, I guess we'll have to stick to my original plan.When Merlin casually spoke and lifted the Chintamani Marble, Quiet Heaven spoke up.What plan? Even if what you have in your hand is a replica, you, as a human user, cannot simply absorb the enormous spiritual power within the Chintamani Marble. You may be able to forge it into a usable itemCrack!!What?!Kyak?!?!When Merlin struck the Chintamani Marble and caused cracks to form on it, the two pets, who watched everything unfold, screamed out in surprise.Sungmuk, who was not quite as surprised as the two pets, asked a question aloud.What are you trying to do? It's the first time I've actually seen a Chintamani Marble, but shouldn't you maintain it in as pristine a state as possible if you're planning to absorb its powers?Well, the problem is that absorbing spiritual power of this magnitude is not normal or simple.As an analogy, absorbing the Chintamani Marble's power was like shoving 10 tons of food all at once into a 10-year-old child. Unless the child was the second coming of a divine, overpowered, and superpowered glutton, the child would most likely suffocate to death before digesting all the food.But your ability to control isn't at a low level, right? You should be fully capable of absorbing the powers within the marble. As long as you have time Sungmuk continued.However, Merlin shook his head at that moment.That's the crux of the issue. I'm fully capable, but time is the issue. It will take me about six years to completely absorb spiritual power of this magnitude.Of course, Merlin couldn't utilize the training room and its expansion of time, as the training room only accelerated one's mind to elongate time. 6 years in DIO meant that it would take Merlin an entire year in Earth time to properly absorb the power within the Chintamani Marble.Considering that time passed 12 times faster in DIO than on Earth, calculation-wise, half a year should have been enough time for Merlin to absorb all the power within the marble; however, the rule that only 12 hours out of every 24 hours a day could be used to access DIO elongated that estimated time frame. Earth's login access restriction was a problem that even Merlin couldn't easily solve.Whoosh!While they were talking, golden steam spewed out from the Chintamani Marble with terrifying momentum.Quiet Heaven and Ellie watched the scene restlessly, but to their surprise, instead of scattering in all directions, the golden steam formed a round shape, like a balloon that was being filled with air.This phenomenon occurred because Merlin was controlling the golden steam of spiritual power, the Gold Dragon's qi.But this it's so much.That's amazingly large.The party members couldn't help but nervously laugh at the massive bundle of spiritual power, which grew so enormous that the surrounding was filled with gold light in an instant.Previously, in Merlin's No Living World, when he was creating his planetary Earth by releasing energy outside his body, the energy bundle was only about the size of a soccer ball. The enormous size of the Chintamani Marble's energy bundle proved that the spiritual energy held within was astronomically enormous.Ting!At that moment, a magic circle began to cover the area around the spiritual qi.Merlin's preparations were sufficient; he had already completed all his spells beforehand. Moreover, he had reviewed his preparations many times over, even before he had gone into battle.GrrAnd as the magic circle covered the Chintamani Marble's qi, the growl of a beast resonated within it.It was a new magic lifeform created by Merlin, Chaos.Quiet Heaven, who had already seen Merlin invent and apply reinforcement on items many times before, opened its mouth to speak.That's an evolved Salk'.Correct!Merlin was an excellent creator of novel inventions and processes, not only amongst users but also amongst the Noblesse, especially the great mages, who kept a keen eye on Merlin's creations. Merlin was the inventor of Reinforced Weapons, so it was possible for Merlin to remodel or retrofit a reinforced weapon, the likes of which most other mages couldn't even fathom, let alone create.However, Quiet Heaven, who was quietly observing the technique Merlin was using, soon made an expression as if he couldn't understand Merlin's approach.But Merlin, is it possible to construct something without Beast Metal?In truth, the metal that went into creating reinforced weapons was more important than the magic spells applied to the weapons.We are bit.ly/3iBfjkV, find us on google.So, strictly speaking, what Merlin invented was not reinforced weapons, but Beast Metal itself.Beast Metal contained a spiritual creature that ate away energy.Regardless of attributes or characteristics, by eating and digesting any form of energy, the Beast Metal overlapped and reinforced the magic spell or spells placed upon a reinforced weapon.This was why even Merlin couldn't make reinforced weapons without Beast Metal. Without Beast Metal, there was no foundation to firmly plant or engrain his magic spells.Chaos and Salk have similar but very different systems. In addition, since there is so much spiritual power to control, this creation might naturally acquire an ego on its own without the need for Beast Metal. It's the same principle for reinforced weapons.Merlin knew that if a reinforced weapon, which was reinforced 12 times or more, was given a strong thought or will and was cherished for a long time, there was a very high chance that the Salk nested inside that reinforced weapon would awaken a true self, or an ego.In other words, a reinforced weapon would become a growth-type weapon, a weapon that all warriors dreamt of, but it required a very special environment and a long period of development for an ego to arise, so this objective wasn't something that Merlin was aiming for in his current endeavor, as Merlin was in a rush.Kyak!However, at that moment, Chaos swallowed the power within the golden sphere and belted out a scream.Since Chaos only had the intelligence level of a dog or cat, it was difficult to communicate with it, but Chaos' scream of utter pain was obvious to anyone who heard it.What the hell? The spiritual energy is more than 3.7 times more than my estimated maximum?Merlin's expression grew serious as he closed his eyes and scanned through the stream of information conveyed by his magic circle.In fact, long before he decided to fight the Gold Dragon, Merlin knew that the Gold Dragon was a fake transcendent being. Actually, Merlin realized this fact the first time he laid eyes on the Gold Dragon.This was because his insight ability was excellent, but in this case, his insight was more poisonous than beneficial.There should have been no way that the Gold Dragon's Chintamani Marble, something that originated from a false transcendent figure, possessed a spiritual power level equivalent to an actual dragon heart.However, from the Noblesse's perspective, it didn't matter if the Chintamani Marble was used to create a Gold Dragon or a magic weapon; as long as they ran DIO, whatever was inside the system was presumably under their control.Though the Noblesse probably never considered it, it didn't matter to them if the Chintamani Marble's enormous spiritual powers were consumed by a user.As long as the spiritual power was contained within DIO's system, the contents were perfectly protected, regardless of whatever form the power or energy took or where it was located. In essence, DIO was a huge safe and warehouse for the Noblesse.Thus, unbeknownst to Merlin, the Gold Dragon's Chintamani Marble was the real deal. It was a marble that the White Divine Celestial Dragon, Thousand Scents, one of the Grand Masters of the Eight Holy Lands, obtained after defeating her arch nemesis, the Golden Divine Dragon.Though the value of the Golden Divine Dragon's Chintamani Marble was considerable, which caused many beings to search for it, Thousand Scents didn't have much use for it, so she kept it safe within the confines of DIO.
