Book 8: Chapter 10: Celestial Spirit King

Father, were home.

Oh, Mai and Mei, its good to see you both  return.

This was the Spirit Sanctuary located in the center of the Spirit Realm.

I am the Celestial Spirit King, the master of the Spirit Sanctuary and the king of all the spirits.

My adorable daughters have finally come home.

Shouldnt they tell me beforehand if they plan to return?

Lets celebrate Mai and Meis return with a banquet.

Oops, my wife will scold me again if I decide to do that arbitrarily.

Then, its fine if I didnt do something too ostentatious I would just gather all the spirits in the Spirit Realm to welcome them.

Thats why I wanted them to contact me beforehand.

Hm?

What?

Dont do that, you say?

Thats precisely the reason why you dont contact me and just go directly here?

R-really, then sorry about that.

I mustnt do that from here on?

G-got it.

I wont do that next time, too.

B-but, cant I really go out to welcome you?

If I want to, not only the ones here at the Spirit Realm, I can also summon all the spirits in the Human Realm, and we can give you a lavishly magnificent welcome

N-no!

Sorry. Thats just a joke.

I will never do that!

Thats why dear Mai.

Please dont call my wife through telepathy!

Recently, I noticed that my daughters were treating me coldly.

In the past, whenever I summoned and gathered a large number of spirits, they would praise me, saying things like Daddy, youre so awesome!.

By the way, my wife scolded me to death whenever I did that. She would say What the heck are you thinking, gathering all those poor busy spirits just for nonsense!!

I just wanted to show off how cool I was in front of my daughters!  Isnt it fine if I just used a bit of my authority as king!!!

When I reasoned out to my wife, she would give me an earful about what is the duty of a king for several days.

My wife is also a spirit, so she doesnt get tired.

In the first place, my wife was a spirit born from the deity that governed knowledge in this world, so possessed an astounding amount of knowledge.

My wifes fervent speech could continue on for several days without a single second of rest because of that.

I couldnt go against my wife, but I was also a VIP.

The deities ruled over this world, with Creator God-sama standing at their pinnacle. However, there was a rule that forbid deities from directly intervening in the affairs of the people.

Thats where my spirits come in. Their role was to convert [Mana], the source of this worlds energy, into different energy types.

[Mana] was the driving force that moved this world.

The most familiar form of [Mana] for the residents of this world would be magical energy, which they also referred to as mana.*

We spirits converted [Mana] into magical energy. In short, in this world, spirits were definitely present in places where people used magic.

It wasnt just among the people.

The spirits that convert mana into magical energy existed in the magical stones inside the body of the Bakemonos, as well as the so-called dragon vein, which was a ginormous river of [Mana] that flowed beneath the earth.

The spirits in the dragon vein filled this world with magical energy.

By the way, the spirits that do the conversion from [Mana] to magical energy didnt have their consciousness. 

Moreover, it was also our, the spirits, role to convert magical energys attributes that the people used whenever they applied attributes such as fire, water, wind, earth, lightning, darkness and light.

The spirits who did attribute conversion included those spirits that didnt have any consciousness, as well as high level spirits such as Mai, Mei and I, who had our own will.

Spirits like us who had our consciousness rarely formed contracts with people, and we usually applied magical countermeasures so that they couldnt control or use us. 

This world was run by spirits.

And here I was.

The KING of ALL those spirits.

I could stop the dragon vein and destroy the world if I so wished to.

In conclusion, I was  an amazing person no matter what anyone said.

I could do anything I wanted to.

And my daughters relied on me.

Father, do you know anything about Bunshin Magic?

thats what they said.

Of course I knew it.

I was  the Celestial Spirit King, after all.

The one who held all the magic that existed in this world in the palm of my hand.

I knew all about it, but I was bothered about the reason why my daughters were interested in it.

Bunshin Magic was a spell that created an alter ego, and the magical power of the main body would be divided into the created clone. For example, if a person with 10,000 mana (magical energy) points created one bunshin or clone, the magical energy of the casters body and the clone would be 5,000 each. 

However, this magic typically consumed 5,000 mana points to activate, so the casters magical energy would be depleted all at once. The moment the spell was activated, that person would also die because the magical energy ran out. 

If the person was lucky enough to convert his life energy into magical energy right on time, by a stroke of luck, he would be able to escape death, but he would still suffer from severe lack of magical energy.

In the first place, there were only a limited number of people in this world who possessed more than 10,000 points of mana.

That was  the reason why people who could use such magic rarely appeared.

And that was  precisely the reason why I was bothered about the reason for my daughters interest in this spell.

Ah!

C-come to think of it

I knew a person who could possibly no, who could definitely use Bunshin Magic.

That person was no other than my beloved daughters Mai and Mei contractor, and the Bakemono who could forcefully summoned me, the Celestial Spirit King.

Its just a wild guess, butare you guys planning to make Halt use this Bunshin Magic?

Just imagining that Bakemono increasing in number was already giving me a major headache.The spirits were currently discomfited because that guy kept on scattering an inexplicable amount of magical energy.

Well, the nine-tailed fox beside him absorbed most of the magical energy that he kept on spreading, so were somehow getting by that was the current situation.

We want Halt-sama to use Bunshin Magic, but is it a no?

Seriously?

My daughters planned to let that Bakemono master Bunshin Magic, apparently.

Reason can you tell me the reason why you want Halt to use Bunshin Magic?

If the reason was reasonable, then I thought perhaps it would be fine if I taught them about Bunshin Magic.

It was extremely rare for my daughters to ask me for help.

I wanted to support them, even for just a little bit.

Ahm, thats

My daughters blushed.

W-whats that bashful expression!?

They had never shown me such an expression before!

We want to increase the days we can sleep with Halt-sama.

Huh?

T/N: Poor doting Daddy Celestial Spirit King, such a henpecked husband XD And lol, Mai and Mei have the guts to tell their dad that they want to sleep with a guy more frequently! XD

Anyways, what a difficult chapter! Ive been translating magical power as mana to separate it from magical power per se (like, mana points instead of magical power points, following the suggestion of my previous editor) and all of a sudden author-sama decided to use the word mana to refer to something else huhuhuhu Really, after all this time? So, because Im a laid back(lazy, ehem) person lol, I just decided to use [Mana] to refer to the spiritual life force/ energy, and mana points/ magical energy for the one that Halt and the rest of them use to conjure magic IN THIS CHAPTER. LOL. In the succeeding chaps, unless they appear together, I would continue referring to magical energy as mana. If they appeared together, then it would be [Mana] and magical energy. XD 

Oh, and I changed Monster to Bakemono to refer to Halt not sure if I mentioned it already? Or maybe in a patreon chap? Anyway, we need a term exclusive for Halt whenever the deities and spirit kings call him Monster, so Im using the authors original term. Monster doesnt work, since he could easily kill them in a blink of an eye.

E/N: Man all these terms like mana and energy points and magic points are messing with mah brain.

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