Chapter 208

The sense of exhilaration brought by the new type of equipment far exceeded my expectations.

In a way, it may be similar to the reward of the game you enjoyed in your previous life. It’s close to the feeling of upgrading to a weapon that can demonstrate certain performance in relation to my ability.

The difference is that this is not a game, but a real battle, so the pleasure of having good equipment to protect my lifeline is several times greater.

In the meantime, I left the capital and headed for the cult’s stronghold while maintaining a high spirits. In the meantime, I spent most of my time trying to skillfully use the ‘dagger’ that Mr. Valkun had made for me. If there’s one thing that’s a little disappointing, it’s that it seems hard to use as practice before dealing with the cultists.

Part of it was due to environmental factors rather than technical factors.

“It’s so strange that I can’t meet thieves like cockroaches at a time like this.”

It’s already been 3 days since I left the capital. We were enjoying an unusually stable travel route.

In fact, it was a very natural result, since if 10 armed people rode horses and rode around, anyone would avoid it. Merdella and Seneran, who are obviously wizards, and Yekatrina, who rides a big and strong horse with a warhammer the size of her own on her back, exudes a presence that makes quite a few people voluntarily avoid it.

Even Asili, an elf, would treat them as an unpredictable threat unless they were third-class thieves who only wore their hair as a hat hanger, so if they were attacked here, they would have to applaud the raiders for their spirit.

“If the purpose was to meet the bandits, we should have reduced the number of people by more than half.”

I didn’t stop using my magic even while looking at Seneran with disapproval as he tackled Seneran after hearing what was just a meaningless self-talk.

“What is that weapon called?”

“A Twisted Nether Needle.”

“...Is that a real name?”

“I’m joking. It’s just that Mr. Valkun made it according to my order, so I call it a needle normally.”

“...It feels so strange to just call something bigger than a knitting needle a needle.”

Seneran was the only one staring at the needle spinning freely in the air without touching it. It is thanks to her talking about the contract, informing people in the form of a secret class for magicians, and taking measures to prevent anyone from approaching it.

It wasn’t entirely wrong. Because the secret was a secret. Thanks to that, I had a lot of time to handle the needle with magical power without paying attention for three days. Since there are many people, I don’t have to worry about night shifts, and since everyone knows how to take care of themselves, I was able to improve my needle handling skills in an infinitely perfect party play.

“But why are you whistling?”

“Because people who don’t know how to look at it will misunderstand it as a projectile magic tool that can be controlled with a whistle.”

“Oh... From the outside, everything seems to be solved by force, but you’re the one who uses your brain very much?”

It was Seneran who had a lot of fun watching him openly react with surprise and be surprised, but he decided to endure it because of one word that followed.

“If that’s the case, would you like to make a simple magic and use it?”

“Yes? What do you make? Magic?”

“They’re dressed in unified outfits like white robes... They’re wearing something unknown or unknown. They look suspicious at first glance, don’t they?”

“It’s suspicious. They’re cultists.”

Even without strengthening my eyesight, the images of the same ten riders caught my eye uniquely on the empty field, as if they had been copied and pasted. The distance seemed quite long, but if we ran that way, it was certain that we would run into each other in less than 5 minutes.

“Then where should we try?”

“Are you finally showing the magic you’ve been secretly practicing?”

I blew a light whistle as Rellie, who had shown great interest in me and Seneran’s secret class, began to concentrate with her eyes shining.

In line with that, the needle on my waist protrudes from the leather case specially made by Mr. Valkun and is fixed horizontally by my ear, drawing admiration from the people around me.

“oh...?”

It would be embarrassing to even call the magic created with Seneran’s help actually magic. An extremely simple magic consisting of aiming, spinning, ejection and retrieval. However, thanks to the focus on simple functions without complex functions, performance and safety are certain.

The aim falls exactly where my eyes are focused, the rotation is a bit frighteningly tight when accelerating to maximum, and the ejection and retrieval is as fast as a bolt fired from a crossbow.

If you simply look at the speed, it can be said that it exerts enough power as a crossbow, but as I have already given magic to the sword through all these processes, the needle is in a situation where the disposable chainsaw is going back and forth, so it is impossible to predict the power. does not exist.

“Since there is some distance, it would be better to start by raising the output.”

I nodded in agreement with Seneran’s suggestive advice from the side, and focused my intensified vision on the leader’s chest. In fact, aiming is the most difficult. Because I had to concentrate and hold my pupils, who were constantly going wild in all directions, in one place. It is said that if you get used to it and go through improvement, you can designate a target according to your intention rather than your gaze, but unfortunately it was an area that you can’t do now.

“Wheek!”

After that, it was ejected without a second thought. They were wearing armor under their clothes, so I just thought that I would surely die from getting stuck at least halfway.

– Empty!

“...!!”

Because of such a complacent judgment, I couldn’t help but put on a dumbfounded expression when I saw the cultist bounce off the floor as if he had been hit by a sledgehammer.

“uh...?”

Even if there is a distance, the enhanced eyesight will surely catch the big hole in the cultist’s chest. Unexpectedly, I rolled my wide-eyed eyes and looked at Seneran, and my eyes met with her, who was reacting exactly like mine.

“No, they said to raise the output, sir.”

What if you are surprised? As the words were about to come out of my throat, Seneran was the first to express his opinion.

“I don’t know... What, that... Why is it so powerful...”

Tsk tsk. It’s the limit of the theory mage.