Chapter 23 - Raust’s Rage (1/2)

—Raust—

「Thank you for coming to help!」

Hearing Narsena’s gratitude, I, who just fell in to interrupt the fight, felt relieved

I noticed the crisis that befell Narsena because there was a commotion around the guild’s receptionist counter.

The guild staff who rarely act was arguing with many adventurers, and the noise could be heard until the inner part of the guild.

At first, I was only checking the situation out of curiosity.

… But, when I realized the party that was arguing with the guild staff was the people who were hostile against me, the members of Wolf of Calamity, I suddenly got a bad premonition.

Immediately, I left the guild to look after Narsena by expanding the searching capabilities possessed by magic power.

However, for me who didn’t have that much magic power unlike Master, I could only expand the search radius to 100 meters at most.

With how I couldn’t find Narsena in that radius, the uneasiness I felt since a while ago gradually increased.

「I’m glad… really glad…」

That was why, seeing Narsena without any major injury, I repeated those words over and over again.

At that time, I was obviously losing my composure.

Without completely understanding it myself, my mind moved by Narsena’s safety.

No, maybe I should say it was being shaken by the event that happened to Narsena instead?

Driven by that impulse, I reached out to hug Narsena.

「Shit!」

…However, my action was interrupted by the cursing word spat out by Morzeral as he tried to stand.

Unable to hide his emotion, a sign of irritation could be seen on his face.

He was one who believed he was blessed to have a party compared to a useless existence like me.

It seemed he couldn’t hide his emotion knowing my physical strength.

…… But, even in such state, Morzeral who judged he should get through this with whatever it took, started moving.

His target was Narsena.

「———!」

…… Seeing that, I understood that Morzeral, immediately judged he wouldn’t be able to match my strength, tried to take Narsena as a hostage instead.

Normally, that wasn’t a bad decision.

Aiming for weak opponent first was a basic tactic.

「… Morzeral,」

But this time, his decision backfired.

The feeling of relief from knowing Narsena was safe in my heart instantly disappeared.

Replacing that, was the sense of rage against Morzeral.

Controlled by that anger, I ran out, fist clenched.

「Only you,」

Just hitting him using something like my attack wouldn’t do any damage to Morzeral.

At my level, no matter how much I trained my body, it wouldn’t compare to someone with skill.

However, I have the technique I somehow created several years ago.

It was a makeshift technique compared to the magic power and ki usage of Ronaldo-san, another world-class warrior that trained me.

The usage was simple.

Just activate both magic power and ki to strengthen your body at the same time.

With only the strengthening effect from either one of them, I could only able to reach barely usable level of ability, but with both, I could get enough physical strength comparable to someone with skill.

…… However, in the end, it was just a makeshift.

No basis or knowledge behind it, just created based on my experience and intuition, calling this technique might be presumptuous.

After all, the limitation and the cost for this were too much for this to be called technique.

Activating both magic power and ki to increase your physical strength would put a heavy burden on your body.