Chapter 5 (2/2)
(Hmm, understood. I will be waiting.)
(I will end this, okay?)
(Yeah, see you.)
How to end it... Probably stopping the supply of magical energy will do.
This is another useful spell! So it consumes my MP. I'm about to have a magic training, so better take a look at it.
“By my command, I look at myself. Status: Status.”
○ Status
HP: 100/100
MP: 124640/140500
Eh......ehhh??
My MP increased. How? Why!? It was just a day. Is this an effect of 'Ultra magic power'...? I'm beat... The me of this world is truly a miracle... Well, the fact that I was transferred into this fantasy world is itself a miracle.
I can't do anything but to accept that fact.
Consumed is also little than yesterday, is that because I cut off the pa.s.sive skills? If that's so, then the consumption of those skill was really a lot. No wonder I took lots of times to wake up.
“Alice, I brought Elise here. What were you doing?”
“Welcome back, mother. Thinking that we will do magic training from now, so I checked my status.”
“Is that so? That's good dedication you're having there.”
“Ya~ho onee-chan. Today is mother (h.e.l.lish) training, let's do our best!”
“Did you added something before “training”?... Yes, let's do our best, Elise.”
Somehow... I started to feel uneasy...
“Our time is limited, so let's start now. I will have you able to cast enchant spell within today. If you can do that, you will be able to stand by yourself.
It is a high rank magic, remember the magic power consumption depends of invoking time. There is no need saying, but we are practice in chanting today. For now, you have to figure out how to invoke it.”
““I got it.””
Was magic supposed to be something you able to learn in one day...? I don't think it is that easy...? Well, this is my mother. I should let her act as she want, at least when there are only us.
“You can not invoke a spell just by chanting. Imagination is important.
Status spell also varies to people, depends on their imagination. In fact I have heard many ways of displaying, like on paper, or on water's surface. In my case, it felt like information just flew directly into my head though... Because of that, on my first time using it, the amount of information made me fainted...
Well, me aside, you must have remember something of the time you used Status. The image you used formed your own method to invoke the spell. It affects your spell greatly. Got it?”
“Yes.”
“....zzz”
“No dinner for you tonight...(forehead flick)”
“Awww!? I wasn't sleeping! Wasn't sleeping at all! Mother, please don't cut off my dinner~!”
“Hah... Elise, this is important to you in the future, you know? So listen carefully.”
“Ye~s.”
Elise seems to be bad at learning. She is alike to Airi after all... Ah.. Airi, I want to see you...
“Onee-chan, what happened to you?”
“Eh? No, it's nothing! Mother, please continue.”
“... Okay then...
And so, an image is important. An image alone can invoke the spell, that is non-chanting. Like I explained before, non-chanting spells are also called imagination spells. To reach that level, normally a lot of time is needed... but if it's Alice, I think you can do that pretty soon.”
“No...I'm not... like that at ...all?”
“Why are you making a question? Onee-chan, you are really suspicious.”
“I'm not suspicious~! Just that, I have many divine blessing that I don't understand at all, so I thought it was because of that...”
“Ah... about that, I think you don't have to care about it much. While they look cool, but it's not like you can talk to G.o.d anyway. Can I go on now?”
“I'm sorry, please continue.”
“You don't have to sorry. From the start it was me who leaded to that topic.
But anyway, the explanation is pretty much just that. Within today you don't have to do it by non-chanting, just come up with an image to invoke the spell. Granting spell (enchant) has short chant, even not-so-bright Elise can remember.”
“Mother, that's mean!... But it's not like I can deny that...”
“No, you should deny at that point...”
This younger sister of mine... hah...
“The chant is like this.
By my command, bring me the strengthening. Enchant: Strength.
That's it, now try to do that.”
Okay... let's give it a try...
(I'm sorry, onee-chan, can I have a moment?)
(...Hm? What happened?)
But before I could, Elise used telepathy to me.
(Actually, I started training wind spells by myself recently. I do have my own amount of magic power... but that's not much. So, if possible, I want to active 'Magic power sharing'. I want to use a bit of your magic power. After this I also want to do some wind spells training too.)
(I see... That's great, doing training by your own. But you should know the basic properly, or else mother will be mad at you later, you know? And, as the condition, can you teach me wind spells later?)
(Of course! Thank you, onee-chan! I love you! But I hate learning the basic!)
(Ha... what a spoiled little sister... You are welcome. I will be ending this, okay?)
(Hmm! Let's do our best!)
That was really admirable from her, to train the magic that she is not good at by herself. But well, neglecting the basics is so spoiled though.
“What happened? Try it out quickly.”
“Hm, yeah. I'm sorry, I was thinking a little bit.”
“About the image? That is different depends on each person. I can't give you any advice.
There is no way but to get it on your own... For me, I just imagine about wearing a cloak of power around my body and I'm able to invoke the spell... How about try it out for now?”
“Hmm, I got it.”
Being cloaked... I wonder which image works for me...
Strengthening... like that in Dor*emon and Saint S*iya...? Well, let's try it once, for now...
““By my command, bring me the strengthening. Enchant: Strength.””
Oh, that wasn't by purpose. Chanting at the same moment as Elise made me a bit happy.
Now, for the important part...
““Eh?...””
“Failed, it seems.”
The spell didn't invoked. I did feel my magic power decreased though. Why is that?
“Even failed magic consumes magic power. That's why in a battle, making a mistake is giving a chance to your opponent. Adding with the magic power loss, you will be facing two bad situations at once, remember that.”
““Ye~s””
So it comes to imagination after all... Which image would be suitable for me, I wonder...
Strengthen... strengthen... power? Power, huh... Thinking about power, somehow I think about fire. But wouldn't that trigger some fire spells...? This time I'm chanting out loud, so that won't be a problem, but still... Is there anything else?
Oh, come to think about it, 'power' doesn't have to relate to anything. From the start we are using the 'enchanting' spell. So, every cells, every organs, every flesh and blood, magic power flow in them... that kind of image... And then imagine converting those magic power into 'Strength'... That's it! Let's try this out!
“Failure is expected though. If you can do it that easily, then...”
“I did it!”
“Eh...ehhh?”
“My... I kinda did it!”
“What?! Just now, you didn't chant, did you?! Non-chanting! Suddenly you can do it non-chanting?! You couldn't do it just earlier, isn't that true?! No matter how to look at it, this is completely not normal!!”
“Mo...mother! Calm down, calm down, please? Can't you see that onee-chan's eyes are becoming teary... ”
“Hah?! What have I done! I'm sorry, Alice. I was too excited... So stop crying! Thinking that I made you cry makes me feel terribly sinful... I won't be able to forgive myself!”
… I am niot crying. That was because I just yawned... And mother wasn't that scary...
(TL note: not a typo.)
“Whew... I decided not to be surprised by anything you do anymore, Alice. If I surprise every times, my life span left will soon be reduced to 0.”
“Mother, don't you think that you are being mean?!”
“Not counting the first time about Status spell, after failing only one time, suddenly succeeded without chanting, and you say I'm mean? You broke too much common senses. Be more self aware about that.”
“O...okay. Anyway, Elise, you don't seem to be surprised?”
“Hm, yeah. Mother was so disturbed that I felt calm looking at her.”
“Your sentence itself made me feel complicated... Well, the result turned out well, so that's good. What's left is...Elise...Let me~ plenty~ viciously~ help you! (grinning)”
“Eh...ehhh~! O...onee-chan, he...help meeeee~~~!”
As my poor little sister becoming the victim, I turned my head away.
By the way, from the moment succeeded using enchant spell, it took Elise 8 hours more to use it. At that time, I investigated the magic power consumption and effectiveness, and completely mastered that spell.
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