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Translator: Kazumi
Editor: Silavin
A fairy was born from the <Fire Fairy Stone>, and because of something that fairy did, the pair of Seiran and Seiwa evolved into a Phoenix.
… As for Kousuke, he simply touched the <Fire Fairy Stone>, then fairies came out of it, merged with the birds and then evolved them into Phoenixes, so he thought to himself, “How the heck happened?”.
By the way, Collete who was with him muttered, “Phoenix is a legendary creature, but…” Kousuke’s heart was happy, hearing Collete muttering to herself because he knew that he was not the only one confused by the situation.
Fortunately, the Phoenix pair, Ranka and Ranze, seemed to have retained their previous characteristics and were firmly attached to Kousuke.
Or rather, they were more affectionate than before.
Ranka’s body length was bigger than before, but he was rubbing his face against Kousuke’s, and they were having more skinship than before.
Kousuke was happy to be missed, so there was no need to stop them, and Collete’s gaze aimed at them had a warm feeling to it, but Kousuke decided to ignore it.
There was no point in escaping reality forever, so he decided to consider the Fairy Stone series.
The <Fire Fairy Stone> on the 46th floor was broken when the two fairies were born.
To be safe, they collected the pieces of the shattered stone.
Collete said that even broken pieces still contain the power of spirits, so they could be used to make tools.
Since they couldn’t, or rather did not want to, collect all the shards, they decided to pick up only the ones of a certain size.
They decided to wait and see what would happen to the small pieces that remained.
Rather, the Phoenix pair was already poking around the ground, and it looked like they were retrieving the remaining pieces they didn’t need.
Kousuke had not been able to confirm whether they swallowed it or not, but he decided to let them do as they pleased.
Kousuke and his group returned to the management floor, carrying only the pieces that were deemed large enough.
He took the recovered pieces of Fairy Stone to his research room and immediately gave them to Isnani.
Kousuke hoped that if he gave it to her, Isnani would work harder on her research.
Of course, Kousuke himself was going to use it as research material.
For now, Kousuke put off his research and headed for the room with the control panel.
It was to check on how the <Fire Fairy Stone> on the 46th floor, that have now been shattered, was being displayed.
As it turned out, the <Fire Fairy Stone> on the 46th floor that was displayed had disappeared.
In its place, a new <Fire Fairy Stone> could be installed.
He was tempted that if he placed another Fire Fairy Stone one on the 46th floor, he could create another Phoenix by placing another, but the Fairy Stone series was expensive, so it couldn’t be placed as easily as a Summoning Formation.
The <Wind Fairy Stone> had already been installed on the 80th floor, but the other <Water Fairy Stone> and <Earth Fairy Stone> had not even been installed yet.
He decided to install those two first, and then install the Fire Fairy Stones again on the 46th floor.
Unfortunately, he didn’t have enough divine power to install the <Water Fairy Stone> and <Earth Fairy Stone> at the same time, so he decided to install the <Earth Fairy Stone> on the 80th floor.
He set up the <Earth Fairy Stone> in the wolves’ base.
The wolves’ stronghold on the 80th floor was of a certain size, so there were some space where he could place it, so he decided to deploy in that place.
For the time being, he should be done with the <Earth Fairy Stone>.
Next, he decided to go check out the <Wind Fairy Stone> that had been placed on the 80th floor.
As soon as Kousuke and the others arrived on the 80th layer, they were greeted enthusiastically by Kou and the others.
The Flying Dragons were huge, so they didn’t jump on them or rub their beaks against them like the other summons, but soon after Kousuke came through the transfer gate, they all gathered there.
The number of dragons had increased, and there were now fifteen, so it was quite impressive to see so many dragons in one place.
Looking at these flying dragons, Kousuke felt that the higher the intelligence of the summoned beasts, the higher their loyalty would be.
In Nana and Wanri’s case, their intelligence increased as they evolved.
The most prominent one was Wanri, but that might just be because she could speak.
Surrounded by flying dragons, he headed for the place where the <Wind Fairy Stone> was installed.
<As with the Fire Fairy Stone, he could feel the power of the spirits, but he didn’t feel any significant change.
However, just like the <Fire Fairy Stone>, there was a possibility that the conditions had already been met.
This time, he decided to use his divine power after being properly aware of it.
At first, he carefully touched the <Wind Fairy Stone> so as not to let the divine power flow.
Naturally, the <Wind Fairy Stone> did not change in any way.
He then consciously sent his own divine power to flow into the <Wind Fairy Stone>.
Then, just as with the Fire Fairy Stone, the Wind Fairy Stone made a cracking noise and immediately shattered.
A fairy appeared afterwards.
“…Collete, I leave it to you”
“Yeah. Okay.”
He brought Collete along this time as well, and left the interpretation to her.
In the meantime, Kousuke thought about the time he had sent in his divine power.
When he sent his divine power to the <Wind Fairy Stone>, it felt more like he was pouring his divine power into it rather than being sucked in.
He felt as if he was filling the empty space with his power.
The moment the space filled up, he felt that the <Wind Fairy Stone> had shattered.
This was based on Kousuke’s senses, so it might have been different from the actual situation.
In any case, it was the first time that he had done it properly and consciously, so he didn’t have enough experience yet.
As he was thinking about this, Collete and the Wind Fairy seemed to have finished their conversation, and Collete looked at Kousuke and stated.
“In case you’re wondering, I’m done listening to them. But it’s not nearly the same story as with the Fire Fairies.”
“Eh? Really?”
“That’s right. The only other thing I could hear was that they were influenced by the dragons, I think?”
“What’s that supposed to mean?”
Not sure about what they meant by the <Wind Fairy Stone> being influenced by flying dragons, Kousuke tilted his head.
But Collete, who was talking to him, also had a look of confusion on her face.
“Apparently, the Wind Fairy herself doesn’t understand either. Because even though she somehow understood what I am trying to convey to her, they don’t know how to properly express what they want.”
In the first place, they don’t speak or converse with each other like humans and demi-humans.
In addition to their special form of conversation, they were trying to communicate their intent without even knowing what they were saying, which makes it even more difficult to understand.
“Hmmm. Okay, well, I guess it can’t be helped.”
Kousuke gave up trying to understand their conversation.
“Is it really okay?”
“No matter if the result is good or not, we’re never going to get an accurate answer, even if we ask something we don’t know. If that’s the case, then it’s better not to ask in the first place.”
Kousuke decided that as far as the Fairy Stone was concerned, it was something that could be re-installed, so it would be better to investigate it a couple of times.
“I’m not sure if that is really alright, though?”
“…I guess, we can only test it out…?”
Kousuke wasn’t absolutely sure what to do, either.
Collete’s eyes suddenly turned grim from his statement.
“If we don’t know anything, all we can do is find out through trial and error, but if we ask and interpret a wrong answer from the start, we won’t get the right result.”
Under Collete’s gaze, Kousuke hurriedly rephrased.
Anyway, there were still many things about Fairy Stones that Kousuke did not understand, so he was thinking he’ll just have to go through a lot of trial and error.
In the first place, they did not even know what would happen if he sent in Divine Power right after they set it up, so he would still need to do a lot of research in the future.
