Chapter 96 (1/2)
Chapter 96
Chapter 96: The Power of a Geomancer ( 1 )
Tendo-kun returned as casually as he’d gone, as if drawn in by the s meat
“What’s going on?” he asked
“Hey∼ you’re back, Tendo-kun∼”
“We’re cooking meat, have some”
He elcomed in by the Glamourettes, whose lines were so sickly-sweet, I could al said, now that they’d becoe at the scene as look at it warmly
“Meat from what?” Tendo-kun turned his sharp, soe lumps of medium rare meat in my hand alternativelyI didn’tnor needlessly scared would be rude
“Snake ht some from around hereI’m sure you can see that they’re fine to eat”
“Right”
“We only had salt, but it’s pretty good if you eat it hot”
“Thanks, I’ll have some”
Tendo-kun rested his laurels in a gap between our circle around the fire
“Tendo-kun, have this one!”
“This big one’s just for you∼”
“Ah, thanks”
Even Tendo-kun couldn’t resist the allure of ladly took and bit down on the stick the Glamourettes had prepared for him
“It’s great” He commented
“Glad you like it”
Today is the first tiether for a mealSure, we still had some kinks to work out, but if you saw a picture of us, you’d surely see party ether
So, now that I’ve fished in Tendo-kun with the allure of et down to business
“Tendo-kun, I need to ask a favor”
“I’ve got no more monster parts”
“I don’t need any else”
“Go on”
“I want to have Rando-san train her geo wethat time”
After having observed Rando-san on our way here, I felt a great need to nurture her powersShe’s all but given up on her calling, saying it’s too weak, and even now, she’s no stronger than she hen she came to this worldEven if her starter skills are shi+t-tier, any new skill she gains , is what I’ to say
There’s always the risk that we oh level ht to use them to level up and up
What’s worse is that she’s way behind co le experience point, in other words, she’s been at level 1 all this tiet ht co her would be the least of our worriesOnce that happens, things like friendshi+p or camaraderie, won’t mean shi+t
I know this sounds cold, but this is so we can avoid a worst case scenarioThat’s right, like those girls who had voted not to use their resources to heal Mei-chan, and left her to die aloneThat’s so to Rando-san
“Can you do it?” Tendo-kun asked
“YesI’ll er, count on it”
I speak froe to beat Higuchi in a straight match
What’s more, Rando-san is a Geomancer, which is not a support class like Takanashi+-san the Sage, but a combat class like Class Rep the CryomancerHer powers should let her use her element to strike and kill enemies
Thus, even if her starter skills were a bad roll, she can definitely get better ones through training
“Alright, fineBut I’ more than a few days”
“That’ll work, thanks”
OK, that’s the toughest hurdle clearedTendo-kun seems like a rity, or h pride that he’s true to himself
And that’s all the groundwork doneThe next part depends on how hard Rando-san is willing to work for it
“ ―― Ohkay Rando-san, are you ready to raise that level?”
“Egh, this blows” There was Rando-sanan unpleasant face at the fairy square door
“Heh, have fun in your rely one of the Glamourettes, Nonomiysan
So here’s the lineup for our “Rando-san special level-up course”, mini party: There’s me, who made the proposal and am party leader, Rando-san, our star of the show, and NonouardRem too, of course
Which means that the fairy square will be occupied by Tendo-kun and Yoshi+zaki-san onlyI wish you good luck on your together alone-time, Yoshi+zaki-san
“Tendo-kun said that there are only jiras and zombies on the wetlands around here” I announced the objective“Our target will be zoether”
“Uhuh”
“K”
Rando-san didn’t seem motivated at all, while Nono worked up all by et into it too once she has a handle on her powers
“Alright, then before we leave, Rando-san, please show me your skills”
“Oh coo? Don’t tell ot already, Momokawa∼”
“No I remember themI just need to see what they’ll look like before we―― hey, don’t, stop that!!”
I don’t knohat’s gotten Rando-san so annoyed, but she started giving ie for no reasonI mean, it doesn’t hurt, but I’d very much rather have the softer kind of skinshi+p if she’s offering…Okay, she needs to stop or else we can’t get started
“Fine, here we go∼” Rando-san lazily raised her arms in front of her to invoke a spell, “ ―― Tera shi+eld”
Right as she finished her chant, the ground in front of her let out a deep ruular block of earth like garage shutters that’d been reversed to come out of the floor
Taking all of 10 seconds, Rando-san now had her Tera or stone shi+eldand with a thickness of 30 centimeters
“Wait, that’s not stone!?” I retorted flaave an annoyed“We don’t talk about that”
I mean, with a name like that, I feel sca’s all earth
“But it’s quite sturdy if you askattacks?”
“I guess?” Rando-san shrugged indifferentlyBut it’s strangeIt looks like it’d ood defense so why doesn’t she use it?
“Think about it Mooo around”
“OhGood point”
Ene to kill each otherEven goility as a nor their path is a 2at a rate of 20 centio around
She’d be too late to start casting once they’re up close
“Wait, hold on a minute, are all your spells like”
“ ―― Tera Kris Sagitta”
This tie ‘spear’ made of actual stone is what Rando-san had createdI say ‘spear’, because it isn’t at all like how you’d iine a spear, as in with a sharpened head and body that’s easy to holdIt has the shape of a circular cone, sharp on top and having the girth of a huround at a painfully slow 20 centimeters per second
Half a minute passed, and we had ourselves a 3up toward heaven
“Um,” I asked, “does this one always point up?”
“I can do it at an angle if you want” said Rando-san, to reat reliefIt’d be a pain to make use of what is essentially pointy pillars
“I see what youissue”
Seeing is believing, and from what I saw, I can now believe why Rando-san is so reluctant about even tryingHeck, her starter skillsahead of ht have difficulty attacking but she can definitely use tactics like blocking passages behind her, or even hole up in a fairy square by sealing off all the exits
“Alright Rando-san, how’s yourup?”
“Holdingmy what?”
“Mana, it’s like an energy source for using icUse tootoo much manaWorst case, you can pass out too”
“Wait, seriously!? I didn’t even know!”
“You just need to make sure not to cast more than you can handle, and you’ll be fine”
But maybe it’s better for her to know the risk by first-hand experience at least onceIt’s best to know the lioes double for Rando-san who apparently didn’t even know the concept of mana until I told her just now
“So?” I inquired“Feeling tired or anything?”
“Mm, donno?”
“Then, have you ever tried seeing how many spells you can use?”
“Oh yea∼, I did do a bit of practice at the beginningBut then, it like, just wouldn’t get faster, so I stopped”
“Oh I remember that,” Nonomiysan chimed in, “you went and made a ton of these walls, almost a hundred, maybe?”
“Wait,” I broke in, “and you didn’t get tired from that?”
“No, I don’t think I was”
Could it be that Rando-san actually has a massive amount of mana? Or maybe it’s that the earth (not stone) wall is just very cost effective because of the compromise
“So, do I use the third one now?” Rando-san asked
“Ah, of course” I said“You can do it on these two”
“Aye aye, here’s nothing―― Eternity”
Siic lohich then disappeared instantly, revealing that nothing had changed
In other words, Eternity had worked as expected
Objects ic have a tendency to disappear after a certain amount of timeThis applies to Class Rep’s cryo MAGIC, the physicalmana, and once the spell has co is oneWell, that’s the gist of it
In cos created in
Thatwall an spear alone, soon enough, they would’ve disappeared into nothing without leaving a traceCasting Eternity on them, on the other hand, makes them last foreverThat is, until someone intentionally destroys them or until they erode away in timeFor these are now, a real wall e stone chiseled to a cone
The more I think about it, the more mysterious it see spellAlthough, if I was asked whether we could use it in battle…
“Honna be very useful in a skirmish, but I can probably think up a lot of other uses”
She doesn’t even get tired after spa her take her tiittas and sprinkle sohold anywhere she wants
Then again, due to the nature of the dungeon, it’s pretty rare to have an enehold like that
“Okay, let’s get goingNext, we’re testing these in a real fight”
Soon, it’ll be the eoative convictions
We walked around the wetlands for barely 5 ets
“Look there,” pointed Nonomiysan, “Zombies”
“Hey, can we please not?” Rando-san requested“Zombies really make me sick every time”
“I knohat you et used to it”
“Bleh∼”
Rando-san still acted like a high school girl, while Nonoe adviceZoans in live display all the tih of theot used to it too
“There’s 4 of them… Nonomiysan, do you sense any others?”
“Mood”
She ht not have the superior sensory prowess of a thief like Higuchi or Natsukawsan, but as a knight, a fighter class calling, she has the best presence sensing out of any of us hereWe’re also away from the pools and in a s us
“What’s the plan?” asked Nonomiysan“I can take 4 zombies easy”
“What’s the plan?” asked Nonomiysan“I can take 4 zombies easy”
“We want Rando-san to kill theht?”
“Right, no shi+t”
Oi oi, you alright there, Nonomiysan? Don’t tell me you’ve developed a personality where you feel an itch to hunt down any eneht?
“Mo again∼?”
I ignore her and observe how the zo and what’s around themAnd I calmly think
“Okay, Rando-san, onally from here to those trees over there”
“Uh, where again?”
“Frole” I used my own spear to show her precisely
“Can you control the length of a spear?”
“No idea∼”
“Try it, thenThey need to be around ayour spell in theit”
“Wow, I did it” Rando-san successfully grew a Tera Kris Sagitta as specifiedFrom what I observed with Class Rep and Souree when the caster wills it into a different size or strength levelIair
Which is why I figured Rando-san could do it tooIta se size should be easy
“Okay, don’t forget to do eternity on them”
“Aye”
As each round, Rando-san used Eternity on thelows of white
“One here too”
“What’s that?”
“One of my curses, Blackhair bind”
I tied up blackhair rope between the trees 30 centi like Eternity should work on ic from other casters too
“Well? Did it work?”
“It lit up, so I think it did”
Having confirmed so, we are now ready to commence the operation
“Now, all we do is lure the zombies into the trap”
A very siet the zombies to chase us to this point, at which point, the brainless idiots will definitely trip on the blackhair rope and fallTheir landing point: riddled with Rando-san’s stone spikes
“Zombies are duonna fall for it, no doubt”
“You’re sure about this? What if they don’t?”
“If not, either Nonomiysan or Rem can finish them off”
Which is why they’re here as guardsPlan doesn’t work, no proble brute forceThis is how you ency plans
“Nonoo lure theuard you just in case”
“O-ok, be back quick, alright?” Rando-san’s voice sounded shakyGuess she’s a bit scared
“Alright, let’s go”
“Sure”
We ran in the direction of the zombies, spears in hand, mine made of iron while Nonomiysan’s, steel
We’d ran 50 meters away from the trap and saw that the zombies had increasedWhat was 4 when I first checked had now becoin
“Howdy there, duet some shaman!”
“Over here!”
We threw a few stones and yelled randoet their attention
We threw a few stones and yelled randoet their attention
“Ghrk, ooo”
“Uoaaaaa!!”
Seeing live human prey, the pack of zo here super fast!
“The hell, zombies aren’t supposed to run that fast!” I yelled, kind of in a panic
“Zombies here sure are full of life∼” Nonomiysan wasn’t
“Momokawa, run faster, dude!”
“Don’t leave me behind, Nonomiysan!”
“Sheesh, you’re a handful”
Unlike you with your fighter class body, I still have normal human stats!
But I had no time to complain
“Ugraaa!!”
“Uh! Huuhhh!!”
Their drool spraying everywhere, the zo on me50 meters, so close but so far
“Come on, Momokawa, they’re almost behind you∼” Nonomiysan said, still casual
“Haah, hahh… Argh, fuck it! Blackhair bind!”
The leading zoht up to s