Magic Warrior Chapter 43 (Patreon)

Verification - Skills

The day after we returned from Guardia, I took the day off, and since I didn't need any help in the morning, I just laid around at home for the first time in a long time.

My father had gone to the village headman's house after yesterday's incident, and Claire and Rilfana were good enough to do the sewing.

So I was adding things I learned in town to my Japanese notepad and reading a book I had bought.

In the afternoon, Claire went to church to study.

Rilfana seemed to have something she wanted to do with the things she bought in town, and was talking with her mother.

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"Rilfana is very good at sewing. It's devastating when I have Mina help me and I can't watch her."

"Thank you."

After Rilfana finished helping her mother, she was going to try to make some protective gear with the materials she had bought in town.

Rilfana breaks down her maid's outfit and sews it together as if incorporating the thick leather and metal plates she bought from the clothing store and the Adventurer's Guild.

Her deftness made me think for a moment that she wasn't just a noblewoman, but there was no way that was true. I think she said she had a dream of becoming an adventurer, so she must have studied in connection with that.

But that doesn't matter, is Rilfana going to fight in a maid's uniform...?

From what I've seen of the adventurers in town, though, it seems like any clothes would be fine in this world, as long as they are defensible.

"If it's just reinforcement, I think we can do it in a couple of days."

In the evening, Rilfana muttered as she turned her neck and shoulders, which seemed to have been going on since mid-afternoon and had become sore.

I had bought some soy sauce in town, so I served one dish with soy sauce for dinner to teach Mom. It's fried potatoes and bacon with soy sauce and butter.

--I had to remind her of the deliciousness of soy sauce.

"I didn't know they sold such delicious condiments in town nowadays."

"I found it in a store that sold products from the Holy Kingdom, Mother."

"I bought a lot of it, so you can use it for a while."

I put down about ten large bottles, and she looked at me like I had bought too much.

"Don't worry, we have plenty of other uses for them."

"The food that Mina-sama and Mother-in-law make is delicious. I'm not much of a cook..."

Whenever Rilfana inadvertently called her "Madam", Mom kept telling her to call her "Mother", and as a result, Rilfana had completely started calling her "Mother-in-law" as well.

When I think about it, I feel embarrassed because I feel as if Rilfana came to be my wife....

By the way, my father left the village in the afternoon, saying he had to hurry to the Adventurers' Guild.

I can't make a new bed for Rilfana without him.

That night, Claire said, "Me and Rilfana-chan are sleeping together today!" She said.

I wonder if Claire wanted a sister too, because she is stubborn or selfish when it comes to Rilfana.

Technically, Rilfana is older than Claire, but she is not only shorter than Rilfana, but she is more like a sister to Rilfana, who is not so assertive, perhaps because of her nature rather than because she is a slave.

Either way, it's fine to leave them alone as long as they get along with each other.

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--The next day.

Rilfana is remodeling her maid's uniform today.

I came to the secret base in the north forest to investigate the characteristics of the skill alone.

I wore only an iron sword and breastplate just in case, but I didn't encounter any monsters. A boy who had come to the river near my house to fetch water found me and almost warned me for carrying a sword, but when I showed him my guild card, the sign of an adventurer, his eyes sparkled. So easy.

I am not quite sure how it works in terms of the system, since there was no magic classified as living magic in SeveChro. On the contrary, normal attack magic can be systematically verified to some extent.

However, since we cannot check the numerical values of physical strength, magic power, and skill level, we cannot verify everything.

What I wanted to test this time was whether the magic skill level would increase as in the game. I also want to find out if it is possible to raise the level of magic skills by shooting in the air.

When SeveChro started its service, it was possible to raise the skill level by shooting in the air. However, since it was so easy to raise the skill level, it was quickly modified to include conditions such as hitting an enemy of the corresponding skill level or higher, or only recovering a character whose health is low.

For example, if an attack spell is skill level 1, it can be used on any enemy to raise its level, but if it is skill level 2, it can only be used on an enemy of level 21 or higher. These values are adjusted in detail in each update to make the game easier to play.

The number of attempts to raise a skill level from 1 to 2 is 100, which is the same for all skills and has not changed with each update. So, the idea is to shoot 100 times at something that visually shows that the skill level has increased.

There is one magic whose change is easy to see and which I have not used even once.

As the name suggests, it is a magic to build a wall with soil.

It is a magic to prevent enemies from entering, but it is one of the least useful magic in the game, and of course, a wall blocks the vision of your friends and restricts their movement. It is only a hindrance unless you have a party that can work together without saying anything.

It seems to have been used in large-scale battle raids, where the walls were placed to hold back the party when they retreated, or in large-scale battle raids that were planned in advance, but as I have rarely participated in large-scale battle raids, I do not know much about it.

The "Soil Wall" is a magic that only sets up a 20-cm wall of soil at skill level 1. It can only be used if the ground is soil. The height of the wall increases as the skill level increases, so I think this magic is easy to understand for verification.

Since it is a magic that specifies the ground, it is classified as a magic whose skill level can be increased by shooting in the air in SeveChro, so it would be good for the first verification.

Also, the "Gatch Argo", which I used only once against Bloody Wolf, is also easy to understand because the number of needles increases at each certain level. This is a good way to see if you can raise your skill level even if you shoot in the air.

The number of needles increases when the skill level reaches 4, so the number of times you need to use it is 1400 times, which is a little, or rather a lot of trouble...

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Boko. Boko boko. Boko boko.

A wall of earth grows from the ground.

A mud wall grows out from the ground. Thud.

The effect time of the magic expires and the mud wall collapses.

Toward a place a little far from the secret base, we continue to build the mud wall without chanting. It's harder work than I imagined, this!

Magic can be easily shot without chanting.

Chanting is easier to concentrate on when learning magic, but once you learn to use it consistently, there is no need to chant.

Chanting is not so much for the magic as it is for your friends, to let them know what you are going to use. This is the same reason for offensive skills.

Not only Soil Wall, but SeveChro had a number of magic skills that were difficult to use or were said to be completely useless, such as the Volte that I used to head into town.

Some people have suggested that SeveChro is a milestone in the development of a table talk role-playing game (TRPG), which is a game that uses conversation and dice. Certainly, there seemed to be a lot of magic that would appear in a TRPG.

For example, Vento Voce that reads chat conversations in distant areas, and Tunnel, a magic that makes holes in clay walls.

Now that they are real, I think these are also powerful magic.

I have been thinking about these things for almost an hour now, and I am about to reach the 100th time.

Perhaps because I am a magic warrior, I seem to have an abundance of magical power, and I still have plenty of time to spare.

Bokoko!

Well, I must have miscounted the number of times because I was thinking about this and that, but it seems that my skill level has increased.

Clearly, I have built a mud wall higher than before. I think it's no more than 50cm...maybe? This would be easily surmounted, and I might need a skill level of at least 5 to make it practical.

Now, before I lose heart over this work, let's experiment with Gatch Argo.

If this increases the number of icicle icicles, then a simple aerial shot would be enough to raise the skill level.

I will continue to hit the icicles toward the nearby trees mindlessly for 700 times. Unlike Soil Wall, I can shoot the ice magic in rapid succession, so the count itself is quick, but it's almost sunset today, so I go home at the halfway point.

...When I first shot at the sky, I thought it was just fine, and it fell right near me. I thought I was going to die.

I'd like to get this done by tomorrow when I'm sure Rilfana is focused on her own work. I'm sure she'll look at me funny if I do this...