Chapter 23 (1/2)

or the time being, let’s kill/defeat them one at a time.

As long as I don’t begin attacking them first, they won’t voluntarily aggro me for no reason.

If I am able to kill them in one blow, then it will be possible to defeat them without even letting them counter attack.

I chanted/casted Scout Scope on the Nippers.

Nipper

Level 12

Magical Value: 820/820

Its magical value is higher than mine, what a cheeky/audacious thing.

By the way, Zombies have around 560 Magical Value and are below me.

For the time being, should we try and attack it?

A Nipper approaches, I casted Black Crash on it.

A black whirlwind propels out of my hand and rips the nipper’s body asunder, it was completely annihilated.

In one blow?

Black Crash is a second grade magical spell, so it uses up a lot of magical energy.

If possible I would like to use a magical spell that is of a lower grade to preserve some energy.

(Maybe I will try Black Shot?)

——-Black Shot is one of the elementary forms of Sky elemental magic.

It’s the improved version of Black Ball, the special characteristic of Black Shot is that it holds more power.

Of course the amount of magic consumption is also increased as a result.

I took my aim at the other Nippers, and fired of Black Shot.

Magical energy converges and forms the shape of a bullet, I fire the spell and it sinks into the Nipper and blows it away, however, it’s fighting spirit is still quite strong and the Nipper comes towards me in order to counter attack.

Nevertheless, the Nipper can’t even get close enough to attack me, before I fire a second Black Shot and crush it.

Using two Black Shot’s takes less magical consumption than casting a single Black Crash, However, as expected it is more efficient to defeat the Nipper in a single blow.

Ahh that’s right, I just have to use Magic Amplification and it will be sufficiently good.

If I amplify the effects of Black Shot by twice the power, it should be able to kill the Nipper in one blow.

I casted/invoked Magic Amplification, and searched for more Nippers.

I walked for a little, and used Black Shot on the first Nipper I found.

It satisfactorily destroys the Nipper in one shot.

After the Nipper disappears, there was a bright flash of light.

When I ran up towards it in a hurry, there was a blue jewel.

It was Poseidon’s Tears.

「For it to appear this quickly, I guess it must be a good omen」

Poseidon’s Tears was put in the bag, and the hunting was restarted.

They said that the Nippers were going to come out in large quant.i.ties, should I prepare a large area of effect magical spell?

Most likely the large area of effect spell cannot be used in this location.

In that case I should go with a middle area of effect spell?

I invoked Magical Amplification, and searched for more Nippers to hunt.

There it is.

「Black Storm!」

A small tornado tears up the Nipper………………However it didn’t die in one hit and it charged straight at me.

I fall back slightly, whilst I casted Scout Scope.

Nipper

Level 12

Magical Value: 400/820 (TL: This is basically a monsters health points)

So there’s around half left……

I could invoke Time Square and cast four consecutive Black Storms to defeat them in one blow (TL: I’m not sure about his math’s, shouldn’t this be two times? if one Black Storm took half hp lol~), However using Time square would deplete almost all of my magical reserves.

Therefore I will leave this a last resort.

I casted Black Shot on the Nipper that came out to chase me and defeated it.

Because I used too much magical energy I decided to meditate a little.

My spirit is concentrated and I could hear the various sounds of rustling as the Nippers were crawling in the sea.

カサカサ……ざざぁん……。(Kasa = Rustle, Rustle and Zazan= SFX for calm waves of water)

カサカサカサ……ざざぁ……。 (Even more Kasa Kasa and Zaza)

カサカサカサカサ……ざざ……。

When I looked around, suddenly there was a huge influx of Nippers roaming about.

To think that moments ago I had to walk around in search for them. Now I don’t have to walk anymore.

10……No, there’s probably more than 20 of them right here.

Is this what Lydia was talking about when she referred to an “outbreak”?

「This is……Amazing……」

Woops! This won’t do.

I must hunt them, Hunt!

I hunted them one by one by casting the amplified Black Shot.

Black Shot

Black Shot

Ohh, Poseidon’s Tears Get!

The Magical consumption of Black shot is really efficient, so I didn’t need to stop to meditate and I could continue this fast tempo of hunting.

I was deeply engrossed as I continued to hunt them down, but it would seem that instead of decreasing, the numbers were continuing to increase.

As far as my eyes could reach, the view was covered with Nippers.

If I could just use large scale/area of effect magic, I could round them up in one go………

No, it’s better to knock them out in one go otherwise, they may all come rus.h.i.+ng at me. Nippers don’t aggressively attack those that don’t provoke them, it should be safe.

Hmm should I give it a go?

After using Time Square I simultaneous invoke Magic Amplification.

I used a little bit of time to recover all my magic by meditating, and then I started to cast Black Storm.

With Black Storm that is strengthened to four times the strength, the Nippers were totally ripped asunder and cut and crushed, whilst their carapaces were completely splintered/shattered.

All the nippers in my field of view blew up, and a huge amount of the Poseidon’s Tears began to drop down.

All of my magical energy dissipates in a dash.

I predicted that after using these spells, my magical Energy has depleted to not more than two digits perhaps.

Whilst meditating, I picked up the various Poi Tears and placed them in the pouch. (TL: I’m just going to shorten Poseidon’s Tears to Poi Tears, too long to type…)

My steps were a little unsteady as I continued to pick up the Poi Tears.

Suddenly I noticed that I stepped on something black.

Is this my shadow?

Immediately after that, there was a sound of a high pitched wind going off.