Volume 14 Chapter 4, Fire Fairy

Kousuke had taken Collete and Kouhi with him to the 46th floor.

The reason was to check on the <Fire Fairy Stone> that had been set up.

Thanks to the installation of the <Fire Fairy Stone>, they knew that the Luans would be able to use <Fire Magic> and <Fire Attribute>, but they wanted to check the explanation about summoning a Fire Fairy.

They had come to the 46th floor several times to see if there were any changes, but until now there had been no changes.

The reason he brought Collete with him was so that he could talk to the Luans, who also possessed <Fairy Language>.

For the time being, Kousuke decided to check on the Luans first, instead of going to the <Fire Fairy Stone>.

There were more Seiwa and Seiran than there had been in the past.

However, the total number of Luans did not seem to have changed.

At least Kousuke was aware that more of the birds haven’t been summoned, but they don’t know if they are increasing naturally.

The moment the birds were summoned, they were supposed to be given a name, so if there were any unnamed Luans, then it would be assumed to be a direct result of natural reproduction, but they couldn’t find any unnamed members.

The number of Luans that had evolved into Seiwa and Seiran had increased, but none of them had surpassed the upper limit of their skill levels.

It seems that unlike Nana and Wanri, the Luans have not been able to evolve further properly.

On the contrary, it could be said that Nana and Wanri were abnormal.

However, considering what happened to the wolves of the 90th floor, the plan to make them evolve could probably work if they were thrown into an upper level floor, but Kousuke couldn’t bring himself to gamble with their current level.

For the time being, the evolution of the remaining Luans was confirmed to unlikely go any further.

Even the fastest growing, Ranka, was not growing much in terms of skills.

He might be a species that doesn’t evolve anymore, so he decided to leave the rest to chance.

While stroking Ranka, they went to the place where the <Fire Fairy Stone> was placed.

There was no difference from the last time they visited the site.

The Luans were still frolicking around, but nothing else was going on.

“…hmmm”

Kousuke groaned, tilting his head to the side, but doing so didn’t give him an answer.

“I can definitely feel the power of the spirits, though.”

Next to Kousuke, Collete was also tilting her head.

If there was this much power in it, something more could have happened, but it didn’t seem to be any different from before.

The stone was just there, quietly in place.

Kousuke, with the Luans around him surrounding it, somehow made the <Fire Fairy Stone> look like an egg.

As for the shape, it doesn’t look anything like an ordinary egg, though.

“…It does look like an egg.”

“Egg…!? That’s right. Eggs!!”

For some reason, Collete responded to Kousuke’s muttering.

“Eh? What did you find out?”

“I think I understand… Isn’t this Fairy Stone more like something that hatches rather than something that contains the power of the spirits?”

“Is, is… that so?”

Once again, Kousuke tried to sense the power of the spirit he felt from the <Fire Fairy Stone>.

And as he had suspected, he felt as if something was trapped inside a shell.

“Hmmm… even if you ask me, are you sure about this?”

“Yes, I think? From the looks of it, I’d say that if there’s any chance at all, the shell could have been broken…”

If they do not know what the trigger was, they would end up doing the same thing as before.

In addition, the trigger in this case and the condition in the status description are the same thing.

“…A trigger, huh…”

After muttering, Kousuke casually reached out his hand to the <Fire Fairy Stone>.

The moment Kousuke’s hand touched the <Fire Fairy Stone>, there was a hard cracking sound.

“…Haah!? No, no, no, wait, wait. It’s that simple?”

For some reason, Collete looked at Kousuke with a frown.

She looked at him like he had done it again.

As the two of them watched, the <Fire Fairy Stone> cracked and eventually broke.

Two fairy-like figures were left behind.

They were desperately trying to talk to Kousuke, but unfortunately, Kousuke couldn’t hear what the two fairies were saying.

He thought that if they were fairies, like Esena, they could speak, but they are a bit different.

When he looked at Collete, she seemed to have sensed his intentions and started talking to them.

As expected, using <Fairy Language>, they seemed to be able to communicate, and something that looked like a conversation between the three of them (?) began.

Kousuke was just watching it idly on the side.

The conversation continued for a while, but when it was over, Collete finally looked at Kousuke.

“It seems that Koushuke’s touch was the condition, after all?”

“Eh~? Why so?”

“Was it the touch, or the power that flowed into the stone when you touched it that triggered it?”

“…Wha? But why?”

As for Kousuke, he just touched the stone in a very normal way, so he suddenly thought about the time when he touched it, thinking that he did not channel any particular power.

“…No, wait, what?”

Thanks to his recent devotion to making divine tools, he had developed a habit of exerting divine power the moment he touched an object.

He might have unconsciously exerted his divine power when he touched the <Fire Fairy Stone> that was, until someone pointed it out to him.

“I don’t know… It seems to be a Kousuke thing to say. And not just any divine power would be able to trigger it.”

“Nn? What do you mean?”

“Maybe it has something to do with Koushuke being a living god. I’m not sure exactly what it has to do with this situation, though.”

It was said that Kousuke’s divine energy as a living god triggered the creation of the fairies.

“I see… So you’re saying it has something to do with me being a living god?”

This was a ridiculous condition under normal circumstances.

“I don’t know? I’m not really sure myself. It was hard to understand what they were trying to express to me”

“Hmmm… Well, I guess I’ll have to think about what really happened.”

He decided that since he was currently a living god and had fulfilled the conditions, there was no point in thinking about it at the moment.

“Also, this Fire Fairy has a favor to ask you, okay?”

“Favor? What is it?”

“They wanted to thank the Luans for protecting them when they were still inside the Fairy Stone.”

Indeed, the Luans were the ones who were hunting the surrounding monsters.

In that sense, they could also be seen as if they were protecting them.

Meanwhile, Kousuke had just discovered that monsters attacked the Fairy Stone.

“If that’s the case, I don’t mind at all… what is the favor they want to ask”

“Dunno? I could only understand up to that point”

“…Well, all right. You can tell them it’s okay.”

When Collete told Kousuke’s answer to the two fire fairies, they happily jumped towards the Seiwa and Seiran, who were standing beside them.

There was no time to stop them, it happened too quickly.

One of the fairies went towards Ranka and disappeared the moment they made contact.

“Eh!? What did they do just now?”

Kousuke voiced his surprise, but the fairies, who were supposed to have answered, were already gone.

All that was left was Ranka, the Seiran that the other fairy had touched, and Ranze.

Kousuke hurriedly checked Ranka’s status.

Name: Ranka

Race: Phoenix

Unique Skills: Physical Assault LV5, Flight LV7, Beak Attack LV7, Evasion LV6, Perception LV7, Fairy Language, Language Comprehension (Kin) LV4, Fire Magic LV5, Immortal Flame LV1

Blessing Skills: Telekinesis LV5 Fire Attribute LV2

Title: Kousuke’s Kin, Holy Beast of Fire

Ranze had almost the same skills as Ranka, but her Race was now <Phoenix>.

He’s sure that more information about what happened here can be understood in future discoveries.