The Shaman Wants Transcendence

61 – Offerings, Flames, Rituals

The flame resembled the flames burning on the altar, and had an unrealistically distinct color. The only difference is that unlike the sacred fire that burns only in red, blue and white lights were mixed.

It looked like a painting of fireworks in three colors.

“-!”

Rise screamed as Narumi burst into flames.

She was so surprised that she sat down on the floor, covering her mouth with her hands, and staring at Jinseong’s face with her eyes wide open, devastated.

Jinseong seemed to be so surprised that he said to RiSe, who was trembling, as if to reassure her.

“Take care. This fire burns only immaterial things.”

A flame that burns only immaterial things.

A flame that burns at the boundary between material and non-material.

A flame that burns material or non-material things according to will.

A flame that has properties similar to the holy fire on an altar, but originates from a human being.

“This is Samadhi evolution.”

It was a flame that could be lit only when one reached the state of Samadhi.

At the end of a long practice, when one reaches the depths of the mind or the heights of the mind, one reaches the state of samadhi.

There you can realize the essence of incorporeal things such as ideas and unconsciousness, and see the true nature of things with substance such as things.

One of the essences is always in the form of a flame, and it is also a flame that has settled in my unconscious, and the ideas and concepts that make up oneself have risen in the form of a flame.

If you witness it, you will be able to kindle a spark that can affect both the material and the non-material, the visible and the invisible, and this is called samadhi evolution.

It was a widely spread skill because it was a state that could be reached through mental training, but at the same time, it was also a skill that could never be used if the spirit was lacking, no matter how strong it was.

So, it is often seen that people who have reached a certain level, such as warriors, shamans, seekers, ascetics, alchemists, and priests use it, but conversely, there are many cases where people such as wizards, scientists, and summoners cannot use Samadhi evolution.

‘Samadhi, evolution?’

However, there are levels of samadhi, and there are levels of evolution in samadhi.

The Sammae evolution used by Jinseong was on a different level from what we sometimes see.

A normal samadhi evolution was at best a match fire, at most a bonfire level, but what Jinseong ignited was so big that it could swallow a person.

In addition, it had a distinct color that was incomparable to other samadhi evolutions, and it was burning while distorting the surroundings as if it was going to burn the boundary between material and non-material.

The flame that was burning like that burned roaringly using Narumi as firewood, and it burned red, blue, and white light alternately. It then turned to a vivid blue color, like ultramarine made from Lapis Lazuli, and began to smell acrid.

“—!”

Smells like burning protein.

It smelled like burning human hair.

There was also a strong stinky smell, as well as a strong earthy smell.

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It was a smell that could not be described as good even in empty words.

“Right!”

When the smell came out, Jinseong was delighted and brought the body to float in the air.

Then, Narumi, who had passed out, began to groan as if in pain.He groaned and grabbed his neck with both hands. Then, after gagging a few times, he began to exhale what looked like translucent white smoke from his mouth.

“-!”

The white smoke escaped from Narumi’s body and tried to fly towards the body near her, but Jinseong wrapped himself in samadhi evolution as if to stop it, preventing the smoke from entering. Then, with an invisible hand, he grabbed the fuzzy smoke as if grabbing it, gathered it in one place, made it into a sphere, and held it out to Rise.

“Come on, eat.”

Do you want to eat? This?

Rise looked at Jinseong with an expression that he hoped it was a joke, but unfortunately, his face was determined.

Jinseong brought an orb half the size of Rise’s head, which was made of the white smoke that Narumi had just vomited out of her, and brought it close to her as if telling her to eat it.

‘Smell!’

What’s even worse is that the sphere smells.

Fortunately, it didn’t stink, but the smell of burning hair and stink was strong. No, the smoke was the smell itself.

RiSe opened her mouth to eat somehow because it was Jin-seong’s order, but she vomited at the terrible smell that penetrated his nose.

“—–?!”

Jinseong put the smoke straight into RiSe’s mouth.

As the smoke entered Rise’s body, the smell that had been giving off a moment ago disappeared like a lie, and the white smoke no longer had any taste or smell. The smoke entered her body and spread to every corner of Rise’s body, and after a while it came out again through her mouth and circled around her body.

Jinseong saw the figure and placed a fox statue in her arms.

Then her smoke moved back and forth between her fox statue and her lycee around her head and her buttocks, taking her place and forming her shape.

Yet.

“You’ve succeeded.”

The smoke gleamed and embodied colors, creating a shape like a hologram.

‘Tail?’

The shapes created by the smoke were fox ears and a fox tail.

Fox ears stood up on Rise’s head, and a three-pronged fox tail waggled on her hip.

Lysé touched the tail, wondering if it was her own body, and felt it in her hand, softer than any other fabric. Besides, if her tail itself had a sense, I could feel the feeling of stroking it with my hand. It was a bit ticklish, similar to the feeling of stroking her hair.

“Now that it has served its role as a sacrifice, it is no longer needed.”

When Rise developed her ears and tail, Jinseong took her samadhi evolution and threw her Narumi to the floor as it was.

Rise looked at Narumi in shock as she was thrown to the floor, then she felt strange.

‘I can’t feel the divine power.’

I couldn’t feel the slightest hint of divine power.

Rise looked at Narumi with her doubts, and Jinseong opened her mouth as if he had read her thoughts.

“You’re right. This is no longer a shrine maiden, and she has lost all of her divine powers.”

‘Isn’t she a shaman?’

“Instead, all of the qualifications and divine powers you had went to you, so you are now the Mukurikokurin no Inugami shrine maiden and Inari’s shrine maiden, and at the same time you are not both.”

Jinseong answered Rise’s question.Answered

‘Mukurikokurin no Inugami and Inari. A shaman who serves both, and a shaman who does not serve both.’

For some reason, Risse seemed to understand the meaning of those words.

She uses the divine power derived from the Mukurikokuri no Inugami, but it is not the Mukurikokuri no Inugami that gives it, but the slime created by Jinseong.

She is able to use the divine power derived from Inari, but it will be the slime that gives it, not Inari.

So, she is the shaman of the two and not the shaman of the two.

It wasn’t that she worshiped her slime, but that she believed in the sphere of light she created by embodying what she saw into clairvoyance, which was truly bizarre. The god given by Jinseong becomes the god she worships, but does not give her divine power, and it is not Jinseong’s creatures or gods that give her divine power.

What can I say if this is not strange.

If I had to say it, RiSe could be described as a non-existent shaman and a heretical shaman who worships idols.

It can also be said that she is a truly bizarre shrine maiden who eats other gods and increases her strength.

“I expected it to work well because dogs and foxes have similar natures, but the results came out better than I thought. Very good, good.”

It could be said that it really suits Jinseong, whose existence itself is heterogeneous.

Jinseong sat down and walked towards Rise, who was looking up at him, and touched her hair.

Her hair, full of her divine power, was as soft as silk, and her ears pricked up between them were soft and fluffy to the touch. Besides, her ears were soft and bouncy, and they twitched a little as if I could feel them every time I touched them.

And the fur of the fox tails waving upwards is truly the finest texture itself.

In addition, it contained Inari’s divine power as it was, so it seemed to be the best material for incantation.

‘Material and non-material.’

In addition, the ears and tail made of divine power can be touched or plucked. In other words, it was a material in the form of ‘interference possible’, but at the same time it seemed to be able to change into an immaterial form according to the will.

If desired, it could be transformed into an immaterial form and made invisible.

‘However, given that Inari’s divine power is contained in his ears and tail, it seems that there will be restrictions on using his divine power if he transforms into a non-material form.’

As an analogy, Mukurikokurin no Inugami’s existing divine power can be said to be an internal hard drive, and Inari’s divine power can be said to be an external hard drive.

Jinseong closed her eyes and looked at Rise, who was entrusting her body to her own hands.

“Excellent.”

* * *

The night’s festivities are over.

“A fire broke out at the shrine last night, and Priest Yoshiaki Kishimoto and Miko Narumi Kishimoto were injured. Fortunately, it wasn’t a serious injury, but it was a situation where they needed to be stabilized, so I was forced to take over as acting manager and take charge of the festival.”

There was a spark, there was a consciousness.

“For the two of you who couldn’t attend due to an unexpected accident, let’s end this festival successfully!”

Sacrifices were also offered, and it ended successfully.

Everything was perfect