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Chapter 5 : The First Magic
🕑 Added 2022-03-06 07:23:23 +0000 UTCTL:SummerPeanut
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The next day Zeke bought an elementary wind grimoire and an elementary fire grimoire.
Apparently, holy grimoires were not sold in shops because there was no demand for them.
Also, grimoires are very expensive and even if they were sold, the holy grimoires were apparently unaffordable.
Even the two elementary ones cost 10 gold coins each.
A normal baronet would never be able to afford this but fortunately the Bryant family 'still' had the money.
However, it is said that the purchase of the two grimoires caused the family's finances to tighten considerably.
Incidentally, one gold coin costs about 100,000 Japanese yen.
Two books are worth two million.
They moved to the garden and each started practicing magic.
I know they expect a lot from me so I'm trying my best to learn wind magic too.
Ike also knows the value of the grimoire and is working hard to learn fire magic.
Incidentally, I heard that Ike also became able to even circulate magic yesterday.
The problem with both of us is that we can't read that many characters.
So Maria is there for me and Zeke for Ike, teaching us the contents of the book.
The most important thing is to transmit the magic power from the dantian to the tips of the hands and chant ‘Wind’ when the magic power builds up.
I think I'm getting the hang of it, little by little.
This is because my MP was not decreasing at the start but my MP is decreasing by one every time I chant wind now.
And that happened after dozens of attempts.
“Wind.”
Then magic is released from my right hand, creating a line of wind.
The wind immediately subsided but the magic was definitely activated.
The MP consumption was 5.
When the three of them saw it, they were pleased.
I could feel a strong will from Ike that he would do it too.
And a few days later, Ike was also able to use fire after suffering from magic depletion many times.
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A year later, I was two and Ike was five.
Of course, I never stopped practicing magic all the time.
Zeke and Maria were stunned when I was able to use magic while running.
It's amazing to be able to run at my age, but apparently, it was supposed to be impossible to release magic while doing something else.
Also, I started wielding a stick in the garden to strengthen my swordsmanship.
I'm still a lot weaker than Ike but I'm also thinking of learning swordsmanship in earnest.
This is what my two-year-old status looks like.
Name: Mars Bryant
Title: -
Status: Human race, commoner
Condition: Good
Age: 2 years old
Level: 0
HP: 2/2
MP: 640/640
Strength: 2
Agility: 2
Magic: 5
Dexterity: 3
Endurance: 2
Luck: 30
Unique ability: Innate talent (LvMax)
Unique Ability: Clairvoyance (Lv 5)
Unique Ability: Lightning magic (Lv0/S)
Special ability: Swordsmanship (Lv0/B)
Special ability: Wind magic (Lv 4/A)
Special ability: Holy magic (Lv0/B)
I have been practicing wind magic all my time, so only wind magic has increased in level.
I can now use the intermediate magic Windcutter, but it is not the kind of magic that I could use in town so I only used wind. But with an MP consumption of 5, it is hard to deplete my magic power.
Incidentally, it is said that you can join a magicians order if you can use intermediate magic. It's the magician version of the knights order.
Ike is growing up nicely too.
Name: Ike Bryant
Title: -
Status: Human race, commoner
Condition: Good
Age: 5 years old
Level: 0
HP: 5/5
MP: 40/40
Strength: 3
Agility: 4
Magic: 1
Dexterity: 2
Endurance: 2
Luck: 10
Special Ability: Swordsmanship (Lv1/C)
Special ability: Spearmanship (Lv0/B)
Special ability: Fire magic (Lv1/C)
Ike learned fire magic and then focused on swordsmanship.
Zeke and Maria had been diving in the labyrinth, leaving me to Ike's care. This is because Ike had become a reliable five years old.
The reason for this was that recently the number of magic beasts have been increasing so that Count Carmel, who controls this land, had apparently asked Zeke and Maria to defeat the magic beasts in the labyrinth personally.
Count Carmel himself owned the knights and the magician order, but the knights fight mainly on horseback and are not suited for diving into the labyrinth.
Also, the magicians order only has small number of magicians to begin with and thus such a valuable force cannot be sent to the labyrinth.
The status of Zeke and Maria looks like this.
Name: Zeke Bryant
Title: -
Status: Human race, head of the Bryant baronet
Condition: Good
Age: 25 years old
Level: 21
HP: 48/48
MP: 70/70
Strength: 10
Agility: 15
Magic: 30
Dexterity: 14
Endurance: 16
Luck: 10
Special ability: Knifemanship (Lv 2/D)
Special ability: Earth magic (Lv 5/C)
Name: Maria Bryant
Title: -
Status: Human race, first wife of the Bryant baronet
Condition: Good
Age: 24 years old
Level: 19
HP: 40/40
MP: 62/62
Strength: 9
Agility: 14
Magic: 29
Dexterity: 16
Endurance: 12
Luck: 10
Special ability: Knifemanship (Lv 2/D)
Special ability: Water magic (Lv 5/C)
I guess they are both typical sorcerers so their muscle power is low.
But still, to think their MP is this low.
I want to see how they fight in the labyrinth.
I heard that today, too, Zeke and Maria two are going to dive into the labyrinth and thin out the magic beasts from now on.
Though, they're not going to the deeper floors because of us.1
When they went to the labyrinth, Ike and I were practicing swordsmanship in the garden as usual.
Well, it wouldn't look like practice for a two-year-old me wielding a stick but I was doing secret practices.
That I was secretly practicing to put wind around my body to improve my physical abilities.
I'd been doing it ever since I started practicing swordsmanship but I still can't do it even now.
However, I'm not going to give up just because I can't do it.
I'm going to keep doing it for at least 10 years.
Then, as usual, after practicing swordsmanship for three hours, I eat lunch, and after that, I continue to use wind magic until I reach 0 MP and go to bed.
And after sleeping for three hours, you can find me practicing swordsmanship outside again.
Meanwhile, Ike practices swordsmanship and fire magic in the morning and spearmanship in the afternoon.
Zeke and Maria bought wooden swords and spears for me and Ike.
When Ike uses the wooden sword in the morning, I use the stick, and when Ike uses the wooden spear in the afternoon, I get to use the wooden sword.
Ike is a martial artist so it's better for Ike to use something solid, and above all, even if it's just a wooden sword, I'm still too young to handle a wooden sword as a two-year-old boy.
In summary, one of the reasons of wanting to be able to clad myself with wind is to freely wield the wooden sword.
And around 17:00, Zeke and Maria came back looking very excited.
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TL’s note:
- They are worried about their children and can only go to the first few floors of the labyrinth so that they can return at the end of the day. Or at least that’s the nuance for now.
