Vol 1 Chapter 4 (1/2)
Episode 04: Body Remodeling
「Off I go. Wait for me in expectation.」
I say my goodbyes to the people who came to see me off.
Around 20 people had come to send off Lucie and me.
Winter is coming in three months. If proper food is not procured, the already small stockpile of the Elf Village will dry up. The Fate of the Village hangs on the Supply Base Raid.
「If you do not return, I will say that you murdered the soldiers and ran away. By doing so, the support supplies would be received as usual. As for the three elves that the soldiers wanted, there will be an appropriate selection.
In the first place, do you really need to go with two people? You are probably going to die in vain anyways. Wouldn’t you rather spend the rest of your remaining life in this village? It would be preferable for the village itself to arrest the criminal.」
Village Chief Nije speaks while observing us.
We were not looked upon with kindness and hope. The reason is because I who murdered five soldiers is feared. Please stop me, should my power have been going to my head as feared.
「I do not intend to die, it is perfect with two people. Were you not watching when I instantly killed five people all by myself while wearing a collar?」
「But, aren’t there THREE HUNDRED people in the Supply Base?」
「That is not the purpose of this battle. I will escape as soon as the food is taken」
「a.s.suming you actually sneak in, how will you intend to carry everything？ How would one person carry the quant.i.ty we need by himself？」
「There is a very convenient magic for that. If I use it, I can take as much as one would like with one person. Just yesterday, I actually used it, the corpses of those guys are being carried by me. During the Raid on the Base, I intend to discard them. Time can be stalled for this way.」
These words are not a lie. However, it is not usable for the present me.
The me from a past could called by my unique magic, There is only one guy who could use such a convenient magic.
「Is it really possible to do that？」
The Village Chief is skeptical.
Although, I wonder if I should do a demonstration here, the unique magic is bad on energy efficiency, so there is a bit of a restriction. I can not waste it.
「It is true. Thus, after sneaking in, because I can just steal the food one after another with that magic, it will not be dangerous. 」
「……When did you get such a magic」
「Amazing！ Syril who looked as he were always unmotivated, was actually doing special intensive training in magic that was secret to everyone.」
My chest started to hurt in response to receiving the look of respect from Lucie and the hanging face of Nije.
「Oh Well」
「But, it looks like the problem is where the food is stored in the base. At that base, if there are a lot of soldiers, it may be hard to find in such a wide place.」
Lucie seems to have a slightly uneasy face.
「It is okay, everything will be alright. Because I was able to to get it out of the Human Captain with a small force of the hand, all of the necessary information has been a.s.sembled properly.」
With just both of his eyes crushed, I tortured the Captain who was kept alive expressively to elicit information from. Because there were many opportunities to this kind of torture and opportunities to receive it, I was relatively well experienced.
Of course, it is not experience of my own. It is experience that has been received from the voice.
Since that fellow embezzled taxes and sold illegally, I thought that the information would be spit out easily, he was strangely obstinate, my trouble increased from his efforts to survive through lies and deception making his words doubtful. When one is not accustomed to torture, and the nature isn’t rooted out, they would have been taken in by the false information.
Swordsmans.h.i.+p is first cla.s.s, Physical Ability reinforcement technique is of high skill as well, will power is also high, quick wits are in order too, a very capable person.
Therefore it was necessary to drive it in until it became crippled and broken, it was a pity to end up have to kill without reusing.
「To that extent……Syril, what exactly changed you there？」
「Syril has not changed. In the old days he was very diligent, only the old Syril that could do anything came back.」
To the the words of the two people, I returned a vague smile without saying anything.
Both of them are correct, and both of them are wrong.
And then, we left the village of elves.
While being rocked in a horse-drawn carriage, I was working on strengthening the body’s ability.
My body, the processing power of the brain is also poor, above all low physical ability.
Even though there are good eyes, it has become a useless treasure.
Now magic and close quarters combat both have significant restrictions, even in the best situation not even 30% percent of all one’s energy can be outputted.
The internal magic power 《Odo》 is pa.s.sed through the body. It enhances the electrical signals in the body, controlling it, spreading it throughout the body. Muscles in the whole body responds to the electrical signals that I made, the body bounces from convulsions.
An unbearable pain occurs, muscles continue to tear. And then the magic is stopped.
While blowing out a rough breath, the start of a new technique equation, by promoting the self recovery ability, the usual time of 24～48 hours for muscle restoration is done instantly.
In addition, a large amount of dried meat in the soldiers’ carriage are coveted and consumed for the replenishment of protein.
「Hey Syril, what did you do a while ago？ Your whole body suddenly went [bikun bikun], after that a feeling of comfort appeared on your face, and then a serving of meat was eaten repeatedly, honestly it’s sickening.」
Lucie, the one who became the coachman and is handling the horse, came to visit me who was in the carrier with a suspicious look.
「Intentionally, by implementing the destruction and reconstruction of muscle, through using the generation of forced super recovery, muscular strength can be reinforced in a short period of time.」
「I’m sorry, I don’t understand it at all.」
「I am only doing muscular training using magic. When you move your body a lot, the next day, would your body not likely become sore every time it moves Lucie？」
「Is it not just merely muscle pain？」
「So, muscle pain. That pain, it is caused when the muscle is torn. And so when recovering from moderately damaged muscle over time, the muscle that broke becomes stronger than before it was restored.」
The key part of what was said is moderation.
If too much load is applied, and if the muscle is damaged more than necessary, it will have an opposite effect.
In addition, it would be bad to take on a load when not fully recovered.
Therefore, even though it is difficult to restructure the body with intensive short term period training, if in the case of the method using my magic, muscle is built by an efficiency of several hundred times the normal, and it even chooses which muscle to strengthen, so as to not have wasted muscle in a location that would disrupt movement if it grows too big.
「bikun bikun, shaking your body and becoming stronger, so unfair.」 [TLN: In case you haven’t noticed, I am leaving the onomatopoeia alone. Occasionally I might put them in brackets, but usually I will leave it since it gets in the way of my notes and if the author ever uses them. That is why I use these ‘「」’ from the original text now instead of the parenthesis I was using in the beginning. I edited it out already, so you wont notice.]
「You are right. However, since it was equivalently painstaking to master this magic, the labor breaks even.」
To control the electrical signals inside of the body, very delicate magic manipulation is required.
I came up with this method, study of around 30 years was necessary before it could be used practically. Normal human muscles tend to be quicker with training.
「But, if it is just that you can’t build up any stamina.」
「If stamina is part of the cardiopulmonary function, that can also be trained in 24 hours It should be like this」
I spread it to the mana of the surrounding wind, the effective range of the magic is always moving to expand around Lucie.
「What is this, it is hard to breathe.」
Lucie’s face distorts with a painful expression.
After confirming it, I undid the ranged magic.
「I have purposely done that with a reason. Do you not have to run to train your stamina? After all that, the Oxygen…..the air creates a situation where it is not enough, and the reason is that it will train the ability to incorporate air. Therefore, by creating an environment where taking in air is strenuous the heart and lungs will be strengthened.」
The so-called High alt.i.tude training….the training is performed at an alt.i.tude of 2000～3000 meters where the oxygen is thin. It is useful for strengthening stamina.
「Sorcery raises the capability of other things as well, I am constantly invoking magic that would increase dynamic vision」
「Wow, was the Syril from the past only pretend to be lazy and really was training？ That is why, you who always seemed sluggish was actually working hard.」
「……That is right.」
I do not dare to deny the misunderstandings of Lucie, which has made her evaluation of me go higher.
「However, Syril is very good with magic. Since it is possible to fight just using that, is it even necessary to train the body so much?」
「It is. It is the physical strength and ability that says the last word. After all, the one who can run to the end survives on the battlefield. Magic is just a tool. It can be kept alive only after there is a body able to use it well」
「That is possible however, Syril has never been on a battlefield.」
Lucie thinks of what I said to be a joke, and mutters in a tone making fun of me.
I made a reply with a bitter smile.
The Battlefield, I have experienced it hundreds of times.
「Syril, I have a request.」
「What is it？」
「Teach magic to me.」
「That is not possible. The configuration is too complex, fine tuning is necessary for the control, it is too dangerous for an amateur to dabble with.」
A normal magician, only trace a prearranged spell formula, even then control will be fairly difficult. Therefore, they can use it with a certain degree of training.
However, these spell formulas are very delicate. Even I, a Magician with Ultra First Cla.s.s Talent, took decades to master it for the first time with all of the effort focusing on it.
「So, then I won’t be able to use magic on myself？」
「I will be fine, but why」
「Because I want to be strong too. I want to fight with Syril.」
Earnest feelings were put behind Lucie’s voice, it is not just a whim, the words transmitted carried resolution.
「Are you okay with that？ The fighting can be left to the men, and the women will be safe by guarding the home. Because I wanted a charge to watch the horse during the attack on the supply base, Lucie is not going to fight.」
「I hate being just the woman who has to wait. If I wait at the home and Syril dies, I would regret it for the rest of my life. I want to fight in order to survive with two people.」