Chapter 77 (1/2)

Volume 1

Chapter 78

Ch 78 — My Blessings (Small) Turn Out To Be Really Useful After All

Right then, next up is the verification of the changes to my own magic powers . There are various things I want to try and they’ll take a bit of time . In that case . . .

“Hey Fer, I want to try out my magic powers and it may take a while . While I’m doing this can you go find a Black Serpent and hunt it for me?”

“Oh, is that about you wanting a Black Serpent skin? You said something about it earlier . ”

“Yeah, that’s it . Lambert-san talked me into agreeing to wholesale him a Black Serpent skin . Can you catch one for me?”

“Yeah, no problem . I’m not doing anything else anyway . I’ll be right back . ” Fer hesitated . “Yes, I’ve put up a Barrier for you . I know how you worry about such things . ” Condescension doesn’t suit you, Fer .

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“Oh Fer-sama, thank you thank you thank you . ” Fer ignored my sarcastic riposte, dashing off quickly into the distance . He could really move when he wanted to . Right, to work .

“Lessee, let’s try fire magic first . ” There was a danger of fires if I shot off Fireballs randomly in the forest so I first tried changing the size of a Fireball held on my palm . I started with a regular Fireball .

“Wow!” The Fireball I made was double the size of the ones I could create before .

“Is this the power of the goddess’ blessing?” OK, dial it back a bit . . . I tried to deliberately make a Fireball of the usual size, using a lot less magical power . . . Oh, I made it . That looks good . So if I cut back on the magical power I feed into the Fireball it gets smaller . More power, it gets bigger . I kept pumping magical power into it and eventually I ended up with a Fireball about a metre in diameter .

“It takes a lot of effort to keep it this size . ” I muttered .

“Wow, Aruji is amazing-” Sui commented .

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“Sui, this is a Fireball and it’s really hot so you shouldn’t get too close to it . ”

“I understand-”

While Sui was telling me I was amazing I saw the Fireball growing and shrinking . I had to concentrate to maintain its size .

“Next up, another Fireball at the same time . . . ” I created two smaller Fireballs, one on each hand . That worked too . I spent about 15 minutes trying assorted combinations then I paused, puzzled by the way I felt .

“Huh? I’m not at all tired?” I would feel tired by now normally . I’d want to sit down after expending so much magical energy but it’s no problem now .

“Is this reduction of magical power consumption from the blessing? The Goddess mentioned something like that . . . I’m OK afterwards even though my fire magic is a lot stronger too . ”