CH 10

[The Method to Control the Power of Magic is Swordsman Style]

Together with Noelia, I came to the forest on the outskirts where we were practicing magic yesterday.

In front of me were a number of large holes that I made yesterday, and smoke was still smoldering at the bottom.

If you use magic on this scale, it will be called large-scale magic.

To prevent it from happening again, I need to be able to control the power myself.

I was dying to try the correction method I heard from Noelia on the way here.

“Frick-sama, as I said along the way, it seems effective to think of a comparison to correct your distorted perception of size.”

“Even so, I have lived with sword. Noelia’s suggestion to think of the cane’s length doesn’t fit me well.”

Noelia taught me that when activating magic, imagine it based on the length of the cane to determine it’s size.

By the way, it seems that the (Fire Arrow) used by mages is usually at the size of one wand.

If I immediately think of the length, it will not be activated with an outrageous power, but with a predetermined power.

I looked at the wand that Noelia handed meーthat she used as a spareー, and burned the length into my eyes.

“Even if you say so…it was written in the instruction book. And wand is essential for mage because it lowers the consumption of magic power. Yesterday was because Frick-sama’s use of bizarre magic that I forgot to use it, but normally I use a wand to activate magic, that’s the common method y’know.”

“Is that so? But it was still activated without using one though.”

“That was activated because Frick-sama had an extraordinary amount magic power. I can also activate it without a wand up to intermediate level, but it is impossible for me to release an advanced level large scale magic. Use the wand and imagine the size based on its length.”

Even a mage at Noelia’s caliber can’t use advanced level magic without a wand, huh.

Although I wasn’t aware of it, now that I think about what I did again, it seems that I possessed monster class magic power.

“Fumu, let’s try it once? 『Become a hot burning arrow and penetrate my enemy, (Fire Arrow)』”

When I point the wand toward the target tree, magic activates.

As big as a wand, as big as wand.

It should be this long…

To control the power of the magic that I activates, I imagined a (Fire Arrow) with the length of the wand I saw earlier.

Whooosh!

Wrong again…!?

However, I feel that it was smaller than yesterday.

Noelia, who is looking next to me, is prone on the ground and avoids the wind to withstand the shockwave of the impact.

“Sorry, but it was smaller than yesterday一一”

“Yes, but一一”

The fired (Fire Arrow) hit the target tree and the resulting wind blew through violently.

“The power is still huge…”

“Isn’t it. …so you can’t use the wand to fix the formed length…”

“Aa, if the wand is the blade of a sword instead, because the length of the blade is influencing the distance to the opponent, even I can perfectly imagine it, but…”

Noria pulled my hand, who was worried about the wand I hold.

“What did you say just now?”

“Eh? I said, if this wand is the length of blade, even me as a swordsman can imagine the length perfectly. For a swordsman, the blade is an extension of their own arm, so they remembers exactly the length of the sword they use.”

“So if it’s a sword, you can imagine the length of it’s blade perfectly?”

“Aa, otherwise the blade of the sword will not reach the enemy. That’s obvious, right.”

“It was a blind spot. Speaking of which, Frick-sama is a swordsman. It is easier to adjust the power by using that as a reference object. If you use the length of the blade as a reference for size, you might be able to correct the power.”

Noelia pointed to the cheap sword I was using and suggested that I try to activate the magic referencing to it.

In that case, it is easy to imagine the standard of size.

Should I try it there?

“Okay, let’s do it.”

I pulled out the sword on my waist and started chanting the incantation.

“『Become a hot burning arrow and penetrate my enemy, (Fire Arrow)』”

Certainly the size of the one fired by Noelia should be about one and a half blades.

If that’s the case, I can immediately imagine it.

I was able to instantly imagine the size when converted to a blade.

Then, I turned the sword in my hand toward the target tree.

whosh!

The (Fire Arrow) fired from the tip of the swordーwith a shape and size that was exactly the same as the one Noelia had firedー penetrated and burned the target tree.

“I-, I did it! Noelia, I did it! This is (Fire Arrow), right?”

“Yes, it’s a finely controlled fire arrow. As expected, it seems like Frick-sama should be referencing on the length of the blade.”

Noelia also had a satisfied expression on her face and pleasingly looked at the burning tree.

I was also relieved to be able to activate normal magic safely.