Reincarnated With A Glitched System: Why Is My MP Not Running Out? Chapter 22 A Visitor Inside My Soul Scape

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With that, I spent the rest of the day reading with Aquarina. She had a hard ti learning, but she got through so words without much problem. At so point, she got sleepy and ended up sleeping on my shoulder…

Such a cute little girl, I'll make sure to protect her and beco her good friend. I'm sure she'll beco a talented young magician soti in the future.

In fact, even right now, she's exuding a powerful aura of mana within her. Although I can't properly discern it, her mana aura is blue and white. If I infer her attribute through the colors, then it's possible that she has affinity for Water and Life.

There's also the fact that she' incredibly acute to energy fluctuations, even more than any of us, or our parents who are such strong Heroes. She was able to sense the malice within Beelzebub even from down here. Not only that, but she's even capable of seeing through the intentions of people.

It's a very strong ability… from one perspective, it's as if no one can deceive her. In other words, people can't lie or trick her. She'll always know what they truly intend to do. Of course, that doesn't an she can read minds or sothing, but she can definitely emotions and intentions.

Speaking of which, her parents told that if she got close to so fast, then that ant she had seen through my intentions and found out that I was a good person... I don't particularly think of myself as a good person, but I guess I don't have bad intentions at the very least.

As I was continuing to read the book, I slowly moved her over my bed and left her there. At so point I got sleepy and moved to her side… and just slept. While sleeping, I didn't appear in the black landscape with the System in there. Instead, I found myself in a place blazing with fire everywhere. A volcanic landscape.

I looked around and I noticed that my skin was burning. It hurt. I tried to move around, but I was barefoot. So, my feet were also burning. It hurt… a lot.

Suddenly, as I tried to hurry and run away from this place in desperation, I sensed sothing big. A presence behind . It glared at with its two bloodshot eyes. I slowly glared at it… only to notice that…

A gigantic, red-scaled dragon was glaring at .

Is this the guy my parents killed? But how?

"Grrr… how frustrating… how hateful! How co I cannot rest in peace?!" he roared.

"…"

"You trapped my soul, accursed witch! Free at once! I fought bravely and died like a warrior! I want to die in peace! You've imprisoned here… free at once or I shall burn your soul!" he roared.

How co he's here? I don't rember seeing him in the system before.

Is it because of the necklace made with his magic crystal? Or is it because I ate him?

Or is it a combination of all of that, plus the EXP I got from him that made this possible?

I've read from so book back then that magic crystals possessed a part of the soul of the monsters they belonged to, becoming one of the main reasons why they're so strong, containing their very essence.

With that being said, I wish I could free him, but I don't really know how to do that.

On top of that, the system still hasn't appeared. Though, I don't think she can co here… wherever this place may be.

Guess I'm all by myself against this thing…

At this mont, its intimidating presence was so strong, I couldn't help but fall to my knees.

Soon, the flas began to consu my body. At this point, I question myself as to how I'm resisting this pain. I definitely have no clue how, that's for sure.

Is it because I blew myself up in my previous life? At the very least, it was more powerful than what I'm feeling right now.

"Answer ! Why are you ignoring ?" he asked. He had a masculine voice, so I assud the dragon was a guy.

"I don't know how you appeared here, nor do I have a way to free you," I replied.

"Tch…! The Dragon King will co for your soul one of these days and free his son Ignatius!" he roared in response.

"Say whatever you want, I guess. It's not like you can do much other than cause pain," I responded.

"What?! How co such a little ant is so resistant to the searing flas of my soul?!"

"I don't know. They just lack a little bit of… sothing."

"H-How dare you!"

He roared angrily as he opened his gigantic jaws before grilling alive.

Oh man… it got pretty hot all of a sudden.

Unngh…

When he finished scorching alive, he looked at again.

At this mont, I was a charred corpse on volcanic land. I bet this would have been a traumatic experience for most. On other hand, the only thing I could think about was…

"Pretty good fire. Have you thought about becoming my familiar instead?"

"W-What… you survived my flas?!"

"We're not in our physical forms here. Instead, we're in our astral projections. I won't receive true damage no matter how much you torture , only pain…" I told him. After that, my body suddenly erged from my charred corpse anew.

"A-Ahh…"

I slowly walked towards him. At this mont, I saw a hint of fear in his eyes.

"Get away from , you accursed witch! GROOOARR!"

And soon, he began to throw fire at again.

No matter how much I tried to calm him down, he was furious, so I ended up ignoring him and sohow found a way to escape this strange astral landscape after a few hours of digging around the place.

After that, I ended up in my usual soul landscape with the system on it.

The dragon seed encapsulated inside a fiery red bubble atop the black space.

"Sylph, are you okay?! I tried to get you out of there so many tis, but I was powerless against that dragon's will…" the System muttered.

"Oh, so I guess you tried to co for … yeah, I'm fine. He just tried burning for a few hours, nothing much," I responded.

"N-Nothing much? Normal people would have gone insane from the pain at that point…"

"Well, I'm definitely not a normal person. I live with the pain. In my previous life, I had to live with a giant wound on my skull with a missing eye. You know how deep and agonizing the pain was? Especially when it got infected? Oftentis I had high fever to the point I thought I was nearing my death… after going through all of that, being burned alive only seems like a trifling matter…"

"…I see."

"And uh… I also blew myself into bits if that helps," I added, chuckling.

"I-I don't think that's a laughing matter!"

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