Chapter 15 (1/2)

Magic and Skill

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“Hmmm? This is… Sensei, can I ask you something?” (Soma)

There were times when questions raised by Soma.

“Haa? What is it? Do you have something that you don’t understand? Or did you understand something again?” (Camilla)

However, the reason why Camilla indifferently replied Soma’s question was because she couldn’t answer most of his questions.

What Soma was reading was a technical report that researchers and others usually read as mentioned earlier.

Camilla went to higher education, but she didn’t progress more from that stage.

If she was asked, there was no way for her to answer his question.

And above all, she also had problem in that field.

Soma was reading a written result of a magical research.

One year ago, Soma, who hadn’t had much knowledge in magic, read such things, and it wasn’t because that he was trying hard.

She didn’t deny that Soma was working hard. In the first place, the knowledge about magic almost couldn’t be learned before the higher education.

Because of that, magic had been totally dependent on talent, and one could use magic if they had it.

There was no need for theory or knowledge.

Unless it was necessary, the people who did research on it was limited, and for that reason, the existing materials regarding magic were mostly research materials.

As a result, the reason why Soma was reading it was because he had to read it in order to gain knowledge about magic.

There were various technical terms and specialized fields since it was a reading materials for researchers, and it was necessary to know the terms.

Soma was able to read the materials because he already studied the terms. In short, it was enough to say that Soma was working hard.

However, it was impossible to learn everything of higher education in a year and his study was still going on.

Since his interest in magic was high, half of the time was like this and the other half was studying time.

Now, let’s return to the main subject.

“Hmmm, it is about what is written here. Is it true that magic basically doesn’t fail and it also can’t fail?” (Soma)

“Well, I can’t confirm because I can’t use magic, but that’s what it says. By the way, that is not limited to magic.” (Camilla)

“Hooh? You mean?” (Soma)

“Yeah, I think that this might be difficult for you to understand, but… when a person who has the skill will activate it, the skill won’t fail unless they don’t have higher rank skill than their opponent.” (Camilla)

To put it simply, as long as one had Special Rank swordsmans.h.i.+p skill, the blow would surely reach the opponent.

There was no exception in this matter.

For example, a slas.h.i.+ng attack will cut through s.p.a.ce and sliced the opponent even when the opponent escaped by moving through s.p.a.ces.

Considering that it was a Special Rank skill, it wasn’t strange that the skill was possible to be used.

“…Hmm, since the rank was higher than the avoidance and inhibition rank, it is certainly not that strange when considering the situation.” (Soma)

“No, it is quite a mystery. That is the work for researcher to investigate it. For us, it’s just good enough to think about it.” (Camilla)

“…By the way, since a skill can’t fail, is it possible for skill to fail by own will?” (Soma)

“Of course, there is no exception, remember?” (Camilla)

For this reason, people must had similar rank of skill when doing matches.

In a different case, a person with higher rank skill would surely be on the defending side, and not on the offending side.

It wasn’t a match if defending was impossible.

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In other words, what Camilla did against Soma was considerably irrational, but… it didn’t count since the other party was lack of common sense.

“Hmm…” (Soma)

“What’s wrong?” (Camilla)

“Although, a skill is said impossible to fail, I just saw a failed case recently…” (Soma)

“Ooh…you did mentioned that earlier.” (Camilla)

Camilla knew that Soma continued with his daily routine, but she never accompanied him except once.

Occasionally, she heard the story during idle chat.

She had heard about Soma was seeing a girl named Aina in the Demon Forest, and she probably know what Soma did.

Soma also didn’t talk about everything, but it was possible to guess to a certain extent by the outline of his questions.

She also know that Soma was probably out of common sense existence.

“…The person himself seems to be unaware of something. He understood that skill is not everything, and yet he didn’t realize about this.” (Camilla)

“Hmm? Did you say something?” (Soma)

“I’m just talking to myself, don’t worry about it. More importantly, I was lying when I talked about why a skill fail when it shouldn’t fail. There is no exception, but those who have special rank skill are different.” (Camilla)

“A Special Rank is an exception… so there is an exception, right?” (Soma)

“It is hard to explain this matter, but… if in laymen term, those with special rank skill are those who wield power outside of common sense. That is not an exception, because they are not normal in the first place.” (Camilla)