CH 12.1

Chapter 12 part 1 – Awakening

Magician — It’s a profession amongst the other classes in Another World excelling at Area-of-Effect (AOE) killing.

…… That being said, there are only a few skills that one can acquire at low levels. In the beginning, there are only skills that target a single unit. The [Fire Arrow] skill that I learned a while ago can only target a small area (approximately 2 meters, and 5 meters if I raise the skill). It is hard to say that this class has AOE skills with this Fire Arrow.

That is until I pick up a certain skill.

‘Saki (小鬼)’ — Goblins that reach the height of my chest. I fire a Mana Ball at them when they notice me.

The goblins that were hanging around in the back advanced to my position. I began casting my skill into the effective area that I measure roughly.

This skill’s chant (cast) takes 7 seconds before it appears, and is surprisingly a bottleneck. (TL: Furigana, 詠唱, キャスト > chant, cast).

While it may feel like it’s a short time, I can’t help but think there’s a large disconnect when it concerns life and death when the enemies are at such a close distance. I keep getting distracted to see if I can activate it early when I see the enemies approaching me with speed.

While I’m impatient with the thoughts of ‘is it still not ready!’, the skill finally activated when the goblins gathered at the place where I judged they would gather to.

A ball of light originated and appeared from my staff and went towards the goblins, and unleashed in an explosion of light in the region, swallowing up the place.

Blue flames covered the space over 15 meters wide, and I thought it was so stunning that I gulped before I realized my actions.

There was no sign of any movements from the goblins which were completely enveloped by it.

This ability was the magician’s strongest AOE attack [Mana Explosion].

From the explosive flames, one might mistake it for Fire Magic, but it explodes from Mana and is different from ordinary flames, and effectively a magic with no attributes.

This is the most destructive skill of a first tier class as a magician I can have, unless I get a higher tier class with more powerful skills.

Even so, this is beyond my imagination.

The skill level is still level 1, and I can assuredly say that the power will rise with each level with my deduction.    (TL tsukkomi: What’s that you want to say, Shirou? People die when they are killed? Oh Rin, you want to join in too? The Archer class really is made up of archers?)

And in spite of the flashy explosion, I felt it was quite mysterious no wind came from the explosion, perhaps this was still showing off that it’s just a game.

This skill with such power has some flaws so that it couldn’t disrupt the game balance.

The conclusion is that it cannot be used repeatedly. There is a problem with MP consumption and re-casting time.

Since this magic consumes about one-third of my Current Max MP, I can only use it three times, even if I have Natural Recovery for MP.

Every time I leveled up I have practically poured my points into the Intelligence stat, my MP ought to be pretty high, but taking a third of my MP is a huge consumption.

Also, there’s a cooldown of 45 seconds to cast it again, and I can’t use it during then.

If I raise it to the maximum level of 5, the skill can be shortened to 30 seconds, but there is no method that exists to get past that limit (the current wiki confirmed there is no reduction in cooldown even when there’s an enchanted boost.)

As mentioned before, MP can only be recovered by natural recovery or using Mana Potion. However, there’s no current way to use Mana Potions freely. (TL: Because they are too expensive or something.)

Incidentally, I used to wonder how the potion series are used; if it’s put directly onto the affected part or consumed.

The answer is both of them could work.

When it came to MP, I tilted my head and wondered how Mana Potions were used, but applying it onto the skin will work. Compare to the Mana in the atmosphere, the Mana Potion is much thicker and putting it on the skin allows one to absorb the mana and recover like that.

By the way, when consumed, the Mana Potion tasted like a sports drink, a citrus flavor that’s sweet and sour.

I wonder what Ether tastes like.

If it’s like vegetable juice, it’s going to be close to torture.

Nevertheless, there are times where it’s not possible to drink the potion as it takes a long time in the middle of a battle.

In this case, there’s a method of [Emergency usage].

This is a function that directly allows immediate usage to the item, without taking it out from the Item Window.

The MMORPGs up until now has the same function by pressing a shortcut button when using specific items without opening the Item Windows.

When the [Emergency Usage] is used, HP and MP can recover without taking out the items.

However, the [Emergency Usage] is limited by having a 60 seconds cooldown to use the items again, and at the same time, there’s an additional risk because the items cannot be taken out during that time.

It’s a function that I think I need to pay careful attention to.

Aside from that, I’m guzzling down the Mana Potion to recover my MP.

As expected, the real pleasure of using a magician is to clean up enemies by magic in a single sweep, and I’m feeling good from the overflowing exhilaration.

Using [Mana Explosion] for the first time made me go weak in the knees from experiencing the excess power. However, though I have not gotten used to it yet, I feel a little proud of becoming a qualified magician on my own.

There were four days left to the Closed Beta.

I feel a little sad to have all the data erased after the test, but I can’t help it since it’s within my expectations.

Let me start over with a new character once the Open Beta begins.

Maybe it’s nice to raise something else other than a magician.

There are production or healer classes too.

But I do want to challenge reckless things at least once since I raised this character after spending this much effort.

Perhaps I should try defeating a big Boss?

The Beta Test lasts until Monday morning, and I can spend a long time during the weekends.

Well, considering the traveling distance, I should aim for a nearby boss, hmmm.

I feel the tension rising in me.

Yup, I’ll spend all my savings right away to purchase the potions!