9 Episode 8 Magic and The Eye

It seems that my fighting style is not that of a wizard. Is there some other benefit of the cheat-like transfer to another world besides the status? I'm not sure which is it, but I don't know. I'm not sure which, but it doesn't matter if I don't know. I don't see any disadvantages, so I'll take it with a grain of salt. If anything, you'll stand out.

You don't have to concentrate on the weapon, so you can use more magic as a swordsman. The number of moves is important, and the barrage is power. One day I want to be able to create a barrage. I can't do sword fighting right now, but from the way I've handled shields, I think my martial arts abilities will take care of that.

Ah, I guess that's what you get for having a talent for magic and a talent for martial arts, isn't it?

I've never heard of anyone who has both. You'll be able to find a lot more information on the web at .......

I'm not hiding anything!　I'm not sure what to do.　I'm not sure what to do.　I'm not hiding anything!　Here it is!

I don't want to keep talking about this. I'm afraid I'll make some weird comment. To divert the topic, I take out a bunch of zunana plants from the item box. In the lower right corner of the picture of the zunana grass is the number "697". You can't take them out all at once, so you take them out three at a time and put them on the counter. Ms. Sally looked at me suspiciously, but when she saw the bunch of herbs, she seemed to give up.

That's 697 herbs. I won't poke fun at you. I won't poke fun at you. I'm going to throw away common sense when I talk to Mr. Kaede. I'm not even 20 years old and I'm still like this... I wonder what kind of out-of-order I'll be by the time I'm 30...

And then he brings me the box where he examined the herbs last time. I wondered how they counted them the last time I was here. Is there a magic herb counting machine (counter) in the counter? Just a counter.

"Yes. It's all zunana grass. That's 20910 tells. By the way, you said you killed a green wolf, but killing green wolves is also a regular request. They're cheap, though, at 10 Tel per animal. If you show me your guild card, I'll pay for it, but what do you want? Also, if you have any corpses, I'll buy them as well. The materials will be processed at the counter over there, though.

Sally pointed at the counter. In Japanese yen, that's about 210,000 yen! I could get rich on herbs alone.

I wonder if the shortage of zunnanakusa is serious enough that they would buy it at the same price even if we sold such a large amount.

Maybe there is no shortage, but the more you have, the better.

"Oh, please.

I say, handing in my guild card.

"That's six of them. I thought there were five?

Sally looks at me with a frown. A blonde-haired, blue-eyed beauty is a picture even when she's staring at you. .......

I'm sure you'll be happy to hear that. I see.

"I see. Then put the body on the counter over there. Put the body on the counter over there.

I put seven green dog corpses, including the charred ones, on the counter. There are three charred ones and four decent ones.

"...... Another one added?

I love the peepers. I don't have a fetish for peepers, but I do like a good peepers.

I killed it before it registered with the guild.

"I see. I can't sell this charred one. If you remove the skin and roast it, you can eat it, but it's not for sale. The others are fresh from the item box, so I'll buy them for 200 Tel per fish. If you don't want them, we can dispose of them for you.

If you burn it with fire magic, it can be used as emergency food, and there's still plenty of room in the item box. I'll keep it.

She's a girl, but she's saying scary things like peeling off her skin. Well, in this world, there is nothing cruel about such things.

"Then I'll take the charred one home with me.

"All right. That's a total of 21770 Tel. That's a lot of money, and you can leave it with the guild, but ...... you don't need it if you have an item box with that much capacity.

A smiling Sally handed me 2 gold coins, 1 silver coin, and 77 copper coins. I didn't count them, but when I put them all together in my inventory, the number went from 68 to 145, so I guess I'm right. I'm a little disappointed that they stopped using the "eyes.

Thank you very much. See you later.

Thank you very much. We look forward to seeing you again.

I thanked him again and left the guild. I didn't feel a chill when I went to the guild. Was it a coincidence?

As I walked along the road to the bakery, I wondered.

I wondered if I had neglected combat too much, even though all I had done was gather herbs.

Sure, I have a shield, and I'm planning to get a sword, or rather, I'm going to buy a normal one if the tempered sword isn't ready tomorrow.

But my current main weapon is magic. However, I'm only using the magic that I made at random, almost on the spur of the moment.

My MP is over 2000 after yesterday's level-up, and the natural recovery rate is over 2 per minute. Isn't it a waste to use only spells that consume less than 1 MP when you have that much magic power?

It's certainly convenient to be able to shoot without worrying about MP, but I'd still like to have spells that are strong enough to consume MP.

If I could use teleportation, I could escape from danger, but I feel that I can't use it. Even if I could use it, I'm afraid of failure.

I don't want to be stuck in a stone.

So, first I have to find out what kind of spells I can use. It's already dark today, so I'll do it tomorrow, but let's try some experiments in a shallow part of the forest.

As I was thinking this, I came to a restaurant.

Come on in!

He was in his usual high spirits. Perhaps it was because it was late, but there were only two other customers in the restaurant.

A big man with a big sword on his back, and a man with a big metal shield and a spear on his back--they looked like knights, but their armor was leather. They seem to be chatting, but I can't hear what they are saying from here. I don't have the taste to eavesdrop.

Hmm? Appraising people on the street without permission? That's just for statistical information, I don't remember anything about each person.

One green wolf set meal.

"Hey, there!

In a normal restaurant, this line would be something like "kashikomarimashita". I don't know how they prepare it, but it's always better to have good food served quickly.

There are only the Orc set meal, the Gargon set meal, and the Green Wolf set meal on the menu, but this small menu may be the reason for the speed.

I finished the Green Wolf set meal quickly as usual, and left the restaurant. It's only been two days since I started coming here, but it's become a routine for me.

I go back to my room. I'm really tired today. I'm tired of being tired, so I'm going to bed.

Come to think of it, I've never heard the noon bell or the 6pm bell in this town. Maybe it's because I'm out of town at that time, and the restaurants are open.

I wake up at the sound of the bell again today. Now that I've earned some money, I'm going to buy some equipment today. I've paid for three days of lodging so that I don't spend all my money on equipment and find myself without money for lodging. This way, if you run out of money, you can always go back to gather herbs.

Even if you don't plan to fight right now, you need to be ready to fight when you need to.

Go to the restaurant and eat the Green Wolf Set Meal, then pick up the bread and put it in your item box.

I was told to come to the blacksmith today, but he might not be open this early in the morning. Looking at the street, it looks like the stores are getting ready to open.

So, I decided to develop magic. For now, I want as many attack spells as possible, especially spells with high firepower, spells that can deal with multiple players at once, and spells that can be used for searching for enemies. I don't really have an idea of what kind of spells I want to use for spying, but I'm guessing wind magic or something like that.

Thinking about what kind of magic to use, you head deeper into the forest, and stop when you've walked about five minutes into the forest. The grasslands on the other side of town offer too good a vantage point for people to see me, and if I go too deep into the forest, I'll end up like I did yesterday. I have to go to the blacksmith today, so I don't intend to stay too late.

For now, I'll start with water magic. This is because there is a possibility of fire spells spreading when I study fire magic, and I want to prepare spells for extinguishing fire.

Water magic doesn't seem to have a very high attack power, but I guess it can be used if you suffocate it.

I'll leave the status up and study it while considering the MP consumption.

I don't think that less MP consumption is necessarily better. It is said that the power of a spell increases as its MP consumption increases, which means that a spell with low MP consumption may look powerful, but it is only as powerful as it is.

The reason why a fireball, which consumes about the same amount of MP as a stone spear, can almost kill a green wolf in a single hit is probably because the direct damage from the burn when the fireball hits is the damage from the magic attack, and the fire that follows is a physical phenomenon.

When the stone spear hits the green dog and shatters, the rock spear just shatters, it doesn't disappear.

At any rate, I'll try spraying water as I did when I extinguished the green dog. It's like the hose on the Earth's fire truck, but it consumes about 1 MP every 3 seconds.

The fuel consumption is ...... delicate. It's fine for me, but it won't last more than two minutes for an average wizard.

In the meantime, I try to increase the power and imagine that the hose gets bigger. The diameter has doubled.

The MP consumption has also increased by a factor of four. You try to make it bigger and bigger, but the MP consumption does not exceed 10 per second, and the water power diminishes when you try to make it bigger. Is there a limit to the amount of magic power, but not to the instantaneous output?

The water magic experiment was over, but I still had almost 90% of my MP left. Even a wizard would run out of MP if he fired the last one for a few seconds, but with my magic power I can manage for a little over three minutes.

From what I've heard, there's no particular disadvantage to running out of MP, except that you can't use magic. Otherwise, ordinary people with only 10 MP would have a hard time.

Well, now that I can extinguish fires and the ground is flooded, it looks like the fire won't spread, so I'm going to develop a fire spell with maximum power ...... and stop being afraid.

I'd like to find out how to use a high-powered spell, though. Imagine making a fireball, and then put more magic into it.

The image of putting magic power into the fireball was easy to grasp, probably because of my magical background. After consuming about 3 MP, I stopped adding magic power. There was no change in his appearance, but he was using four times as much magic power as usual.

I try to make it land on the ground far away. The radius of the explosion seems to be wider than usual fireballs. I tried to make a normal fireball land on the same spot, but it is still the same. It's about 1.6 times larger than usual. In case of emergency, you can uproot it by pouring all your magic into it and releasing it. If you don't stay away, you'll be caught in the middle.

I try to move the fireball at will to see if I can use it as a light, but it consumes MP quickly as it gets farther away.

Normally, rock spears and fireballs are generated at a distance of about 30cm from the body (they're not hot, but I don't feel like sticking my hand in them), but the further away they are, the more magic power they consume.

This is not very useful. I can't really use it as a regular spell.

It can be used for one-shot spells and surprise attacks, but if it cannot consume more than 10 MP per second, it will be a slow surprise attack. I'm not sure how to use it.

......?