Episode 46.13 (1/2)
They got down to floor 85 and began preparing for lunch there.
Lecan took out firewood, Eda lighted them up.
”<Ignition>.”
”There is no preliminary casting. It comes out so quick. And yet it's so precise and accurate.”
”Eh? Ah, I wasn't taught how to do preliminary casting when I studied magic under my teach. So I'm clueless on any magic's preliminary casting.”
”I see. All members of Magic Research Institute are capable of Cast Omission. I am unable to.”
”Eh, is that true.”
”I was supposed to be taught that in earnest once I get formally accepted as Obaba-sama's pupil. But I had been prohibited from learning most magic after I got accepted into Magic Knights. I believed that was for the best. Magic Knights are shields that protect the mages, and swords that defeat the White Magic Wolves. But one day, a mage said this to me. 'What a waste of such a large pool of mana'. But it's not like I didn't want to study more magic. I am unable to.”
Eda couldn't reply to that.
After a moment of silence, Jiza spoke.
”And that's why Lecan-chan is frustrating you.”
”...Yes.”
”Frustrating?”
”That she is, Eda-chan. An adventurer who never trained in magic despite having guide-class pool of mana.”
”Eh? Eh? But Lecan trained really really hard on magic, you know. Or rather, I've seen him training magic here and there but never with a sword.”
”That's just how it looked to Ui, Eda-chan. Lecan-chan is dressed like a bona fide swordsman with nary a wand on him, isn't he?”
”Well, I guess he is.”
”And yet, the <Flame Spears> Lecan-chan cast with Cast Omission boast incredible power and speed. He could even make those spears meander after shooting, a feat only Guides capable of. And that <Move> he showed to fetch that magic stone was truly something else. Even I have never seen anything like that before. Ui completely lost her confident after seeing that.”
Silence ruled once again.
Arios was the one breaking that.
”Ui-san.”
”Eh, what can I help you with, Arios-dono.”
”Do you still wish to learn magic if you are given the chance too?”
Ui looked downcast. But after a while, she spoke with a resolute tone.
”I wish to.”
Lecan pondered Jiza's style of combat while listening to this conversation in the background.
Starting from floor 81, Warp Room's Magic Wolves boast offensive power and speed incomparable to any wolf that comes before it. Mages with their reaction speed would be easy preys to them. Hence she uses up her mana to activate her magic before entering the room and unleashes the most powerful attack the instance she's inside. Considering all that, her tactic is actually quite sensible.
”Obaba.”
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”Hoi?”
”What's your move when you're up against Pure White Magic Wolf?”
From floor 81, Pure White Magic Wolves that are immune to magic could spawn. Not even Jiza and her powerful magic can defeat those.
”I'll whip out my specially made <Magic Quivers>. I developed those things for one such moment after all.”