Forsaken Priest of the Hero's Party-Chapter 36: Kyles Disappearance

Just like how a coin always has two sides, everything in the world comes with pros and cons.

The One Night’s Shelter is unstable, and cannot last more than a single night before disappearing. But this instability can be helpful at times.

Like when you have to rest in enemy territory.

“Ah...!”

Roka, who was walking with a sullen expression suddenly cried out. Her despair was so grand that it seemed the sky would collapse.

“Master’s scent... it’s gone.”

Suddenly, Kyle’s scent disappeared. It didn’t fade, it just vanished. The wolf girl had a good nose and was sensitive to changes in smell. Of course, the princess, who was not a wolf, sighed and looked at Roka.

“Sigh...Look brat, I know you don’t like me.”

The Princess started as she continued to walk.

She didn’t bring Roka here to beat her up; she really wanted to teach her, but things wouldn’t go well at all if it started like this from the beginning.

“If you don’t like me, just say that you’re annoyed out loud, and I’ll even listen to your whining. But this? We walked a couple of steps away from the Saint and you’re already making a fuss?”

Despite Ardein’s words, Roka didn’t react.

She just lifted her lightless eyes and stared at the princess with an empty gaze that deeply disturbed Ardein.

“Master is gone.”

“Hah? Brat he isn’t gone, he’s just there...Huh?!”

Princess Ardein, who reflexively looked back, shouted in surprise. The cabin, which was clearly behind them until just now, had disappeared without a trace. The two looked at each other for a moment, then turned and ran back at the same time.

“Damn it, what the hell is going on...”

“We have to go. Someone might have kidnapped Master.”

“That’s impossible! I would have noticed someone sneaking past me!”

As they walked a little further, the cabin suddenly appeared with a pop, and Kyle’s scent began to waft along with the aroma of cooking.

The two stood there blankly, dumbfounded. As they entered the kitchen, Kyle, who was holding a ladle, asked as if puzzled.

“Oh? Back already? The food will take a while to be ready.”

“Y-You...were here the whole time right...?”

“Master...!”

Before the princess could hear the answer, the sobbing wolf ran to him.

Kyle, who was watching Roka crying and clinging to him, looked at the princess with perplexed eyes.

Recognizing that gaze, the Princess blurted out some words in reflex.

“No...Just...No. Whatever you’re thinking...That’s not it.”

“Did you scold Roka? This cute child? Why would you make her cry like this...”

“I didn’t do anything!”

If Ardein had done something, then she wouldn’t feel this wronged. She may have been many things, but even she wouldn’t bully a child just to save face. Had she known this would happen, then she would have bullied her properly then!

However, it seemed that the brat wasn’t crying just to spite her. The girl, who was rubbing her face while shedding tears, finally stopped crying and hugged Kyle tightly.

“I thought... you disappeared, Master.”

“Me? No. It’s not time for the Lord to take me yet.”

Understanding what happened, Kyle stroked Roka’s head while explaining things to reassure her.

It was an additional effect of the One Night’s Shelter. Should a person move just a little away from the cabin, the presence of the cabin is erased. As if it doesn’t exist in this world.

However, it doesn’t really disappear. If you go back, you can see the cabin and the hot spring, and you start to feel them with your five senses. But when you get far away, you can’t find it even if you use your sixth sense, not just your five senses.

Unless you remember that there was originally a cabin here.

“Hahaha...I don’t why it happens, but it just does...It wasn’t something I intended.”

When Kyle created this Ability or Minor Miracle, this side effect manifested.

He only knew empirically that there was this effect. It happened because he hadn’t yet deeply understood his own power.

Seeing something may seem like a simple thing, but it’s a more complicated process than you think.

There is a light source, there is light, and only when that light collides with an object, is reflected, and enters the eyes, can you finally say that you have seen it. However, the One Night’s Shelter is inherently unstable, so the farther it gets from the center of power, the more it loses the possibility of existing in reality and collapses back to nothingness.

That means, the information about the cabin stored in the light that bounced off the cabin, becomes non-existent the moment it leaves a certain distance.

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When that light reaches a person’s eyes, all they see is the natural scenery without the cabin or hot spring. It could be considered a mysterious phenomenon beyond an illusion.

It’s the same with smell. First, the molecules inside the shelter have to float in the air and touch the nasal mucosa to say that you smelled it.

Of course, those molecules also collapse into nothingness when they are a certain distance away from the center of the cabin.

So no matter how great your senses are, you can’t find the cabin.

Unless you have the ability to thoroughly track what has already been decomposed into possibilities and disappeared, and find out what shape it once had, but where in the world would such a being exist?

“Well, but this helped my previous group a lot, you know? No matter how thoroughly the demons searched, they couldn’t find it unless they came directly.”

Even if they used detection magic, unleashed tracking dogs, or had keen-eyed demons rummaging through mountains and fields,

Unless by some coincidence they approached near the cabin, there was absolutely no possibility of perceiving the Shelter.

Finally realizing that they had misunderstood, the princess and Roka walked out again without a word. The two didn’t say a word until they reached a fairly large open space, because they were both embarrassed.

“Auntie.”

“Don’t call me that. I’m not old enough to be called that.”

“Auntie who has lived twice as long as me. Didn’t you say you would teach me?”

With a sigh, the Princess nodded her head.

Although they had only briefly clashed at the inn, she thought this child’s talent was extraordinary. The Princess could deduce that this child also made use of the Saint’s Miracle.

Still, even taking that into account, Roka was a once-in-a-generation prodigy.

A gem worth polishing.

“Using magic requires finesse...If you only keep pumping more and more mana without skill, you will be worse than a third-rate mage. Unless you’re Grimudo,  it’s impossible to overcome all crises with only strength and no technique.

The Only beings that can just brute force everything in this world are Dragons or the Ancient Demon King, we have to learn and master our mana to properly draw out its power.”

Both are beings that only appear in legends, one is in seclusion and one has left this star.

Well, anyone could say that these beings could resolve anything by their sheer strength.  But did they really rely only on strength? While Ardein wasn’t sure about how Grimudo dealt with things, the Dragons weren’t muscle-brained idiots.

Even for beings of that level, technique is really important.

“If you keep going on as you are now, you’d only be prey for the rest of your life. If you wish to become the Predator, you should know how to go further. As of now, you are weak, brat.”

“I know.”

Roka didn’t deny the Princess’s words.

She wouldn’t run away from the truth.

Instead, she faced the Princess with her tail held high.

“Then teach me. I want to become stronger.”

“Heh.”

“I want to become strong enough to stop even the God that Master serves, should it try to take him away from me.”

The Princess was at a loss for words at Roka’s ambition.

She always thought that her own ambition was really great and that she was a person with a lot of greed. She considered herself a person with big dreams, but there was a wolf that was incomparable to herself.

It was like hearing someone shout - ‘I Shall Seal the Heavens!’.

She was so dumbfounded that she couldn’t even speak. They say ignorance is courage, and this young one is already thinking about fighting a god from the start. But that god is not an ordinary god.

The Princess was certain that the God the Saint serves is an Ancient God.

From the moment she saw the Sapling of Lineage, the princess was absolutely convinced.

Who else but an ancient god could bestow such a miracle!

And now, this child is saying that she wants to become strong enough to fight and win against the universe itself. It’s likely that even after saying it herself, she doesn’t know how profound the meaning is.

“Yeh, no. That dream is a big no for me.”

Forget about ancient gods, it’s absurd to talk about fighting and winning against one of the three major gods.

If the Princess had the power and skills to challenge a God, would she have to suffer leprosy?

“So let’s set a more realistic goal. At least to the point where you can protect yourself.”

“And Master too.”

“Yes, to the point where you can protect the Saint too.”

The princess let out a deep sigh.

“Then let’s start by learning how to use your mana.”

Really, what would have happened if she hadn’t come?

The Saint would have been devoured by the wolf without even knowing it.