Volume 14 Chapter 19: (Patreon)

Chapter 19: 

Despite those words, 

“Come on! That was my kill!” “I was the one who took it out.” 

Carolyn and Scarlet were glaring at one another. Alfia sighed as she sat on the side, unfazed by how they were acting. Clearly, this was not the first time they had argued. Despite their words, what surrounded them would've stunned everyone. 

Piles of monsters were littered on the ground. 

War zone.

Bodies were all over the place. Fire and slash marks etched the entire area as they glared at one another. 

Alfia sighed, “Come on, you two. Stop acting like childish kids and get to fighting.” The entire reason why the group was here was to improve their magic abilities. It was the strangest combination of Keith's standards.

Her words only caused the annoyance to be directed at her, “Don’t you dare try to act like a prim and proper princess!” “Yeah! Half of this was your fault!” 

“Hmm?!” Her ears slowly perked up as they stared at one another. Another argument ensues in this dungeon. This time, with an addition of the third person.  

Despite this, the three girls had followed protocol and set up a camp for them all. However, near the fire, what was before them was quite charred meat. Edible, but you could see the deep char on it. 

“...” The human and elf princess stared at the meat. The demon princess smiled, “It’s not as good as Keith, but it’s edible, and I can assure you that it’s quite delicious as well.”

“...You sure?” Those deep black charred sections were saying something entirely differently.

"I don't want to hear it from you guys!" She was a horrible cook, but the same could be said about the two! All three were about the same level when it came to cooking. They were not adept with it at all! 

Carolyn couldn’t help but mutter, “We’ve been here for a few days, but I don’t feel any stronger.” They had come here, yet she didn’t feel anything different from what they were doing now. 

“The monsters are pretty weak when you think about it.” The group was 1 C-rank and 2 D-ranks. They were able to go to a B-rank dungeon with their abilities. Yet, they didn't feel anything right. They were able to steamroll everything like there was nothing. 

That was when Carolyn muttered, “I think we need to think differently on how we approach this fight.” They needed to change how they go going forward with this. 

"Hmm?" 

“This is something Keith always told me about.” With a finger raised and coughing slightly, “Rather than focusing on the big goal itself, subdivide it into multiple smaller goals."

“Subdivide.” 

“Keith always said to subdivide the goals to accomplish a bigger goal in total.” Carolyn stroked that nonexistent beard. The two princesses took a deep breath as they thought about it, “Hmm, if we’re going to be focused on this, then that would be that I need to focus on something.” Each one of them had gotten something different from the other.”

“I want to increase my chanting speed.” 

“For me, it is to increase my power.”

“And I need to focus on the swords.”

“...” Each one had a different goal they wanted to do. 

“Then we’ll break from one another until we accomplish our goals before we go out and deal with the boss.” The floor was big enough for them to go out and do their own thing before coming. 

The three princesses nodded as they walked out of their way.

The elf princess took a deep breath and started to focus on her magic as she remembered what Keith told her about it. It’s a pathway; make sure to do it. 

While she was lost in thought about all of this, that was when she was creating it all before him. 

While that happened, Carolyn was sitting on the ground as she slowly got up from there. There were three starlight swords that were before her. Three. He had been practicing for qutie some time now and the ones that he was able to form with all of this were these three. It was completely different from the seven that she was able to do before. However, there was a difference: 

The difference between the two is the control she had. She was able to direct and fire the swords at the enemy, but that was about it. With the three swords that were before her, she could directly control and manipulate the swords in any direction. In a one-on-one fight, the 1 option may seem nice. But in team battles, the second one was easier. One fatal flaw was enough to cause the entire team to suffer.

This was the case with the others, as she had used this magic to take out some of them, but that only caused more trouble than what she had bargained for. While she continued to swirl the four swords around her, she pumped her fist. It’s time for me to learn how to use that intermediate magic. Carolyn took a deep breath as she calmed herself down. I’ve learned how to use the elementary magic. I should be able to do something like this with no problem at all.  

…