Volume 14 Chapter 18:  (Patreon)

Volume 14 Chapter 18: 

Sweat poured down on his body as he stared at the two dummies that were before him. Seriously, this is going to be difficult. It was the same practice that he used in the beginning. Yet, there wasn't much that had changed. 

The amount of mana that was needed to be used to affect the thing was astronomical. 

The dummy continued to be bent down into the ground. But when this happened, that was when his brain was slowly blacked out. 

Mana exhaustion. 

He had been practicing for 30 minutes, and that alone was enough for his body to peter out. Keith took a deep breath and took out some fruits and potions. Scarfing it done, the blurriness he had before slowly disappeared as he returned to work. 

That was his way of doing this; to exhaust his body to the point of blacking out and then recover using fruits and other potions. Increase his mana capacity. The notion was quite absurd since Keith was one of the people with the highest mana capacity. However, it was not when he thought about the amount needed for gravity. While Keith continued to do so, 

“Keith, are you alright?”

“Hello, Professor Aidiun. I'm alright, why?”

"..." Are you seriously alright? The man glanced to the size to see a bunch of bottles and peels on the ground. It was clear this was not the first time he had done all of this. 

"Ahh, I'm trying to force my capacity to increase." 

That caused the elf to frown, "That's dangerous." Forcing your vessel to increase in size was a dangerous game. However, Keith shook his head, "I'm going to take the risk." Sometimes, there was a need to take a risk, "And I'm taking some time to calm myself before I do it as well."  He wasn't a full as well as he was doing this at small increments. 

"..." 

“I’ve been working hard as much as I can against them. I could increase the gravity by three times if I do this." Three times. That was his end goal. 

Aidiun nodded, “That’s an incredible hard work you’re going on with.” Deep red Calluses covered Keith’s entire palm. That was how hard he had been working hard. 

The elf added, “How about you try to think of a way to use it as well?”

"Hmm?"

“Think about how to use your gravity. You’ve been trying to focus on the person himself. But what about the entire area? That way, there’s no need to control that hard. But you just need to be careful of the situation.” 

“That could work as well!” Keith clapped his hands together. Most of the time, he thought about just adjusting the gravity of the person, not adjusting the gravity of himself. 

Actually, he never realized it. 

Fighting the Goliath T-rex and the variant, when he used gravity, it was more so on the body rather than the area. Even when he did, it was a strained thought. The realization was only hitting him now. 

"Let's do this." Keith had to try it now. But that was when he felt a hand on his shoulder. 

“Eh?”

“I need to bring you back. I had orders from above.” Aidiun smiled as he held his shoulders. When he returned home, he understood as well.

“Ahh, I’m so sorry, Eri!” Keith patted the Fox girl’s head, but that only caused her to pout and look away, 

“…Liar.” That one word was enough to cause Keith to freeze on the spot. 1000 hits of damage. It was clear that she was waiting for him to come home all day long. Lei and Mir were used as cushions to snuggle by the door. 

He couldn’t help but hug her even tighter, “I’m so sorry! How about I take you out the whole day tomorrow?”

“…Promise?”

“Mmhmm! We can go run around the city all you want!”  

“Okay!” Eri was quickly bought out as Keith tossed her up in the air. But that only caused Cadmus to sigh, “You’re way too soft.”

"Shush!" Keith glared at the dragon, which caused him to look away. But Long Yueying added, "But weren't you the one who stayed by Eri's side the whole day, Dear?" 

"Yueying!" 

"But you were." Cadmus may have made jokes, but he also cared for Eri. 

“I don’t see the three; where are they?” Carolyn, Scarlet, and Alfia were not here having their meal. Actually, most of the people were not present here. 

Jack explained, “Oh, all of them went to a dungeon. Herrick, Melor, Leona, and Gabriel are in one group while the others are the same.”

“Those are an interesting pairing.” The four were easy to guess: Gabriel had gone with them in case an emergency occurred. He would be there as backline while Leona acted as another support. 

The princess Trio was the one that intruiged him the most. He never thought those three would go together. 

“…Will they be fine alone?” That was something that he was pretty curious about.

“They should be? They have quite the high power potential.” Super assault mages. Despite the three being long-range mages, they still have the capability to make some dangerous combinations. 

Keith shook his head, “I meant, what if they would go against one another and blow up the floor by mistake.” Firepower was not the issue with them; if it was, someone else would have gone with them. The issue at hand was the craziness they all had together. You have;

A cat, dog, and bird together. 

That was not a good combination by any standard. “...” Cadmus and the others paused when they heard that. But that made Diana wave her hand, “There’s really no need to worry about something like that. They’re old enough not to fight in the dungeon.”