Brand New Life Online: Rise Of The Goddess Of Harvest

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“What I did was manipulate the Elemental Essence of my Magic Circle and my Physique and combine them with other energies, using Spirits as anchors to synthesize constructs with great power,” Elayne explained. “Through this, I also instinctively infused copies of spells from all of you and from mine, giving these spells to the things I held. Those dragon claws and the golems were also imbued with my spells and techniques, making them significantly stronger.”

“Uuuh, that sounds complicated…” Elena said, barely grasping what her mother was trying to convey.

“Wait, how do you even infuse a copy of a spell into an already magically created temporary physical object?” Rita asked, also completely lost.

“To do that, you would need an incredible amount of Mana and Spirit Energy, nyeh. Not everyone can do such an insane thing,” Kajithe said. “Perhaps it might be unique to you due to your vast reserves of energy!”

“Ah…” Elayne was a little embarrassed that she thought everyone could just do what she could.

“Yeah, Miss Elayne, we aren’t all super-powered gods like you, haha,” Anna giggled.

“…I am not a super-powered god,” Elayne sighed. “Just… a human. I’ve always been a human.”

“I mean, sure, but that power you show is definitely akin to gods or something, Elayne. Don’t kid yourself,” Jenny giggled.

“Yeah, how you summoned those clouds that were a barrier and then fused them with your hands, and you did all that stuff… pretty crazy,” Rita nodded.

“Uh…” Elayne seemed slightly sad, for some reason.

“They can’t keep up with me anymore?”

That realization hit her harder than she had imagined.

While she could keep growing endlessly and developing further, others were growing more stagnant, unable to keep up with her talent.

It was the complete opposite of how she had lived most of her life.

All her siblings had always been much more talented than her, and although she had a great relationship with everyone, she always felt slightly left out.

Her parents loved her as much as everyone else, but seeing how her siblings did amazing things, and she just couldn’t do the same, it made her feel left out.

At school, she had made quite a few friends at the beginning, but they slowly stopped talking to her as their academic abilities surpassed hers.

Gradually, these friends went away to other schools or academies thanks to their great talent, and she was left alone in the run-of-the-mill high school where she was bullied for being a dork.

If it hadn’t been for Rita suddenly appearing in her life and the man who would become her husband becoming her dear friend, Elayne might have gone down a much darker path in her life.

But this feeling always remained within her, that she wasn’t really talented, that she was below average, or even stupid and really dumb.

She always called herself stupid and tried to be as humble and gentle as possible with others. This led to people bullying her a lot because she didn’t respect herself.

Even at work, coworkers would take advantage of her personality to leave her with more work while they left earlier. Jenny and Mark were the only exceptions.

“Talent, huh? Is this how it feels? To move forward while others can’t?”

Despite finally having talent for something, Elayne felt annoyed by it. She liked progressing together with others instead of gaining so much power.

Even though this power was a necessity and somewhat made her happy, filling her heart with the confidence to finally stand up for herself more, it also felt somewhat hollow, almost unearned.

She couldn’t easily process all this praise. Elayne was quite a humble woman.

Perhaps too humble.

But now she was forced to accept her talents and begin to understand that she couldn’t act humble anymore or think she wasn’t all that special.

After all, it would be like saying that others who weren’t at her level were even below what she claimed.

“Sorry, I guess I was a little wrong… even then, I’ll try to help you understand some of the basics,” Elayne explained. “If you can grasp rune inscription, perhaps we can find some workarounds.”

“I mean, sure, why not?” Rita nodded.

“Sounds like fun!” Lily said. “We could learn a thing or two. Maybe not everything, but anything helps.”

“Yeah, and maybe you could imbue these runes into our bodies or maybe weapons or armor anyway,” Mark said. “Ah, sorry, does that sound a little shameless?”

“Nah, I planned on doing that much,” Elayne said. “But the vessel for these runes, or I’ll call them enchantments, has to be tough enough. This is why I use temporary magical constructions for this, but we can try.”

The family walked back to the castle after Khione invited them inside, and they had a comfortable dinner with lots of delicious food and warm drinks before being given rooms inside the castle.

Despite being made of ice, the castle was more like glass and remained quite warm inside, contrary to what some thought.

The beds were comfortable and cozy too, and Elayne and her family were able to sleep without any issues.

The next morning, Elayne lazily woke up beside Mark, also realizing little Gabriel was between them again.

Even though he was guarding her Domain right now, the little angel boy seemed adamant about sleeping with them.

He called her big sister, but she was more like his adoptive mother at this point.

The door opened as she woke up, and Chloe stepped inside, trying to wake them up, noticing Elayne was already awake.

“Ah, Lady Elayne, it’s good to see you’re an early bird,” Chloe said. “Her Majesty told me to wake you up early today, as there were many things we had to manage, including the many corpses of the barbarian tribe and the cyclops corpse in your possession, alongside discussing your rewards.”

“Of course, I wasn’t planning on keeping all of it. Sorry if it looked that way,” Elayne apologized.

“Not at all. Her Majesty is simply a little panicked that half the city is destroyed. She was planning to ask you for some of the resources, and in exchange, she would give you various benefits,” Chloe explained.

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