Exploring the Dimension After Reincarnation: Academic

Either is Left Behind

“Ehem, back to the main topic earlier. So, my purpose in coming here was to ask for your help. You still have the “Connect” skill, right? I need that ability of yours to connect your body with my spirit. With the spirit body joining your body, they should be able to gather Centher Energy and be able to use their elementary abilities,” explained Szesc.

“Hmm, I don't think this is a bad-bad offer either.” Shoggoth lowered his head while thinking about Sezsc's offer.

This could not be decided by him in just a short period of time. Connecting his body with spirit, means he will go with the spirit of Szesc wherever it goes. He-Shoggoth-who incidentally is a no life and spends a lot of time in the cave, of course he will not be too familiar with the development of the outside world.

‘Ah, this would be something very troublesome if he refused. Of course I have some alternative plans until he refuses and I cannot use the spirit of the previous world. One of the alternative plans, is that I will play normally as the humans of this world have done. It will take a lot of time to strengthen the new penther that I get, but how else if he refuses.’

‘Shoggoth is one of the few left in the world. He doesn't have too much contact with humans considering his past relationships with them that are bad enough, making me want to make him my partner. Other than one of the Either left behind, he was also so strong that he became one of the individuals that escaped my brainwashing.’

‘Either itself is a creature from another planet in this world, which is more or less the same as me. Penther and either can both use the energy center, but the difference in control between the two is very clear because from the beginning each is a nation that brings the energy center to this world.’

‘Centher energy certainly has been prepared for either use. Therefore, the penther who was originally only an animal in this world was not good at using it. Plus, the humanoid either form provides several advantages in several aspects compared to only the penthr which is an animal.’

Shoggoth blinked before he raised his face at Szesc and said, “Is there any advantage I have? Here, I am the one being called for help. It should be only natural if I ask for a reward, right? Although I am a creature who has spent a lot of my time in this cave, it does not mean that I have no interest in goods from the outside world.”

“If you say material, I have absolutely no objects whatsoever that I can offer you. Did you forget? I am a wanderer from another world in this world - just like you - and have not been in touch with this world for a long time. I do still have things from this world that I carry with me, but they are not valuable and not worth offering,” Szesc said.

“Oh, so yes.” Shoggoth's body began to decompose into a black liquid slowly. “Then, forget about asking for my help, I have absolutely no interest in providing assistance without any results. Rather than doing something like that, I would rather live a slow life inside this cave lau.”

‘So she is not sincere in helping, heh?’ Szesc turned his pupils away with his dry smile. ‘Although I more or less do not have something interesting from this world, but I still have some things to offer him. I can't say this is something good, because however good and ugly is a subjective opinion.’

“I don't have anything from this world that I can give you, but you better listen to what I'm going to say,” Szesc said in a curious voice.

“When you use your Connect skill, then you will really connect with your host body, ‘kan? It is true, under normal conditions you will only be the type of support that strengthens the host. But if the host is in a state of exhaustion and > 80% utilize the center energy that comes from you, then you can take the awareness of this host, right? You can use this to have another body.”

“I must praise you because you can know one of my skills that can take host consciousness when he is in a certain condition, but it is still not tempting enough for me. If it was just a body shape, I could have changed my body at will because basically my form was a pitch-black liquid with a pliable texture. Do you have anything else to offer?” Shoggoth glared sharply at Szesc.

“Of course there are. According to the rules of this world, both the penther and the other have a way of creating the same magical phenomenon, namely with a skill. Currently you have 5 skills, namely Connect, Shapeshifting, Clones, Devour, and Liquid. Want to practice like anything, you will only get skills with directional skills-cannot make variations.”

For example, if you have a skill like a fire arrow, you still have a fire arrow. He could not make a variation into a fire sword even though the target was equally fire control. Between the fire arrows and the fire swords, both of them would be categorized as two different skills, whereas it could be shortened to one, namely fire manipulation.

“Even if you say it like that, my Devour skill allows me to have the skill of a creature that I have devoured. Variations of skills like this, are not very important to me,” said Shoggoth.

“Do not be arrogant. Using a skill that has been directed like this, then you will not know the basics and only know to use it. In your opinion, it takes how many skills you need to gather just to figure out how a magical element is controlled according to the basics. This will take up a lot of your time, not to mention you who have to devour a lot of penthers,” warning Szesc.

“Hmm, true also.” Shoggoth immediately agreed on this. “Then, what's in it if I help you?”

“Spirit from my world has the ability to control the elements they have. With just one element, such as fire, you will be able to create a variety of fire attacks, limited to where your imagination will run. It will be very different than just using some skill that has been directed,” explained Szesc.

“Very interesting. If I can combine several elements at once, maybe I can create something very powerful. This is very different from the skill that does not allow to do the overhaul or merging skills.” Shoggoth then nodded, then said, “Alright, I agreed to help you while in this world. How many spirits do I need to relate to? I can split myself into hundreds depending on my body volume.”

“Good.” Szesc stuffed his hand into the robe and took out the summoning crystal (Pet House).