Chapter 9 (1/2)

After escorting Nanami’s group to the town, I was finally free. The opportunity to do whatever I wanted had finally arrived.

“d.a.m.n, I forgot to teach Seki how to level up in this world.”

“You called?”

k.u.miko had found and approached me. Behind her was the calm girl with large b.o.o.bs, Saeki Ena and short bob cut, Tachibana Mio. It seemed that girls from Cla.s.s A were sticking together. The amazing thing was that they were already wearing the hard leather armour I had bought.

Step right up, ladies. Since I have money in my pocket right now, I’ll give it to you guys so you can buy weapons. Oi, k.u.miko, go away. I already got you that long spear. Shoo, go away.

“I said Seki, not your name.”

“Seki-kun’s still sleeping at the hotel.”

Was he sick again? Seki has a weak body and gets sick very easily. I had other curiosities such as “when do you need to check out by?” or “what happens if we don’t leave the hotel?” so I went back to the hotel.

When I entered the suite room, Seki was on the bed with a tired face. He didn’t look sick, but he was sleeping peacefully.

I touched Seki’s forehead and it seemed his temperature was normal as well. After looking around carefully, there were scrolls containing information about the usage of magic and potions containing yellow and blue liquid was spread out everywhere.

“So that’s it. Wake up, Seki.”

Mana recovery rate increased when you were asleep. Seki probably noticed that and used mana until it depleted and then went to sleep, after which he repeated the process. It was me who told Seki to practice making potions, but it seems he was concerned with efficiency to discover this method by himself.

“Ah…… s.h.i.+njo-kun, you’re ok.”

“Yea, wake up. Your training method’s not wrong, but it’s too extreme.”

If power-playing as a party, there was no need for a character to be balanced. Each person needed to master their own role and cla.s.s up to Master rank. For Seki, who was a priest, that meant practicing his mage rank.

However what we’re playing right now was a death game without any revival. To increase the chance of survival, I needed to teach him how to train in other areas as well.

“I can now make beginner potions without failing.”

“Good job, but you need to train your body as well.”

I put my hands under Seki’s s.h.i.+rt, who was lying in bed, and touched his chest. Seki let out a strange scream that sounded like “Hyyyiiiiii” and backed away.

Seki had really white and soft skin. His skin was so soft, it was more like a girl’s. While it felt good to touch, it meant he was no good in combat.

“I can tell just by touching that you barely have any muscle.”

“S, sorry… I just thought that me making potions would help you more, s.h.i.+njou-kun.”

“No, you’ve thought about helping me best you can. I’m happy that you went to such great length for me, but I only need couple agility potions.”

I used basic magic successfully a couple of times, but none of my magic-related skills levelled up. Subsequently, having even the most basic stat boost potions, which I couldn’t make, was going to be helpful.

“Agility potions? I’ll make some right away.”

I gave Seki my empty flasks and received flasks filled with purple liquid in return. Seki was training really hardcore considering he never failed once while making those four potions.

“I’ll teach you how to train your physical stuffs. You can train while waiting for mana to regen.”

Expend all the mana, then train while waiting for mana to regenerate. It was the most efficient way of training. Considering the effectiveness of sleeping, it was best not to sleep until your stamina was drained as well.

I took Seki, k.u.miko, and her group, who suddenly decided to follow along on their own, deep inside the workplace in the smithy. There were furnaces and anvils. Hammering noises came from somewhere despite n.o.body being there.

The place being a smithy was not useful in itself. What was important was that some part of the building was made with hardened steel for some reason.

“The way to rank up warrior proficiency is basically to use a weapon. You also gain experience faster if do more damage. And this, is the strongest enemy you’ll find in this town.”

I tapped at the wall made of steel. To demonstrate, I swung the Screamer Shark at the wall. With a metallic clanging sound, my hands could feel the impact and my arms felt the strain of using something so heavy.

“So that’s why s.h.i.+njo-kun bought that heavy and useless weapon…”

“The warrior proficiency is generally categorized into “pierce”, “slash”, “blunt” and “Dodge/Defend”. It’s not something you can check at the temple, but different type of attack gives you different exp points. The “blunt” type attacks with heavy weapons give you the most HP, and since a priest’s weapon is mace, it goes well with you.”

“Alright, I’ll try.”

I handed Screamer Shark off to Seki and watched him swing that ma.s.sive weapon with his frail arms. His stance was weird, but everyone would be like that in the beginning. He only needed to train a bit more.

To survive, increasing HP was necessary. In the current status, where a single strike from a strong monster would be instant death, it was dangerous to explore about. I zoned out for a bit, then noticed that k.u.miko had taken out throwing knives from her backpack and was throwing them against the wall.

“Say, Wataru-kun, you increase acrobat proficiency like this, right?”

“Yea, keep doing that and throwing skill will go up.”

As expected of a model student. She already understood how Geno-Real worked from what I had said. Damaging the opponent gave exp point to acrobat rank as well. k.u.miko wasn’t strong to start with, so she probably wanted to focus on training agility.

“If you have enough mana, if you do doping using strength or agility potion, you’ll get stronger even faster.”

“Doping… that makes it sound like I’m not supposed to do it.”

Seki made a bitter expression. I guess it wasn’t the best word to use.

“There’s no side effects, and it’s more efficient to train by using the highest level magic you could use. Make sure you make wisdom potions regularly.”

A lot of priest’s magic revolved around making potions. One ironic thing about Geno-Real was that you relied more on potions the higher your level was.