Magic Warrior Chapter 55 (Patreon)

Cleaning Up

Claire came up to me and sat down to lean against me.

"I'm tired."

To explain the use of magic in order, the first step is to accumulate magical power, which is then transformed into the form of magic to be used, and then the magic is activated.

He says that making the magic ready to be shot is synonymous with keeping the magical power accumulated, which is tiring because it takes a lot of concentration.

If the magic to be released is fixed, it is also possible to keep the magic on hold before activating the changed state. This is said to be slightly easier to maintain, perhaps because the form is fixed, but when changing the magic to be released, you have to start over from the point of accumulating magic power.

I think it means that I have moved up from a basic to an advanced position in SeveChro.

I'm not sure if my magic is quite right, though, because I'm a bit paranoid about my own imagination.

"Good work. I'm going to call Alphos and the others.

Reda-san, looking happy because he had succeeded in defeating the Spider Queen, disappeared behind a tree.

The battle with the Spider Queen had shown me the importance of Claire's magic. For now, it would be better to have her learn other attack magic as soon as possible.

I also want to do something about my firepower problem.

I might be able to do something about it now that I know that in the real world of Virtuari, I can go beyond the system limitations of the game.

I am now somewhat tired, so I stand up and go to bed.

I got up, somewhat tired, and decided to burn a clump of spider silk, which, I thought, was an egg.

The terrain is a bit open and the footing is stone. It would not be a problem to use fire magic.

He said he was tired, but Claire's magic power itself was still spare, so I thought about having her blow it up with Explosion Explosion, but then I thought that it would be better to practice Fireball anyway.

"Fireball!"

Claire, who is proficient in intermediate Explosion, quickly learned it and began to cheerfully burn chunks of string.

Even though she has been doing a lot of magic today, she still seems to have plenty of time to spare.

Claire's magic power must be very high.

It seems she's been raising her magical power lately by strengthening her life magic skills, but even considering that, it's an unusual amount of increase.

Is it because of the influence of meeting the goddess of light, Tellnet-sama, at the church in town?

If Fireball can shoot now, I should help too, so we both burn more and more.

Rilfana, under the influence of her "Saints and Demons" specialty, must also chant Ice Needle, and when the icicles that are stuck in them melt from the heat, they become waterlogged. I stopped because it might make it harder for the remaining threads around it to burn.

Trickster isn't good for this kind of detailed work that requires only one attribute.

Rilfana seemed to be looking for a way to retrieve the quarelle arrow she had used, but as expected, it was crushed by the explosion. He seemed to have given up on retrieving it and started dismantling the Demon Spider that he had first defeated.

"Here you go!"

Reda-san returned with Alphos-san and the others.

"Sorry, it took a while to dismantle them because there were so many."

"I stopped counting at 100."

They seemed to have been dismantling them all the time while we were fighting. There were piles and piles of poison spider poison spiders.

And if there were more than 100, it means that Alphos-San and the others fought a lot more of them than we did.

I think we only defeated about 50 at most," Reda said.

"This is the Demon Spider Demon and Queen that Reda was talking about."

Gina-san is examining the body of the fallen spider." Mirell-san, who was watching with us, muttered quietly, "How did it get this way?

"You really beat it..."

Dad, too, was stunned.

"I wasn't quite Queen yet, and Reda-san was there."

"I was just playing with one of them, but I didn't do much."

Reda-san pointed to the Demon Spider carcass he was holding back.

I got the impression that Alphos-San and the others were a bit depressed, feeling as if they had somehow been outmatched.

In fact, if we were to have a serious fight with the Alphos-Sans, I think we would lose in a heartbeat. The only advantage we have is our hazy knowledge of SeveChro, and we have no knowledge as adventurers or experience in actual combat against other people.

If we were to compete in the hunt for monsters with preparation and research, we might have a good shot, though.

You are still young. If you don't set your own limits, you'll still have a long way to go. I'm still young, and so am I!

Reda-san was patting Alphos-san on the hip.

"Yeah, let's keep at it."

"Yes, we will."

"Nn."

The eyes of the always kind Alphos-san and the others seemed to be secretly burning.

I had heard that they were busy since they became Rank A, but there would be fewer rivals of the same rank, so maybe they didn't hit the wall so much.

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Collecting materials and disposing of the remaining carcasses.

On the way, some giant spider Huge Spiders that seemed to have been out scouting came back, but they were easily defeated by Alphos-san and his team.

The guild master, Reda-san, was participating in the defeat this time, so there was no need for him to check the troublesome proof of defeat.

All the monsters had already been dismantled. As long as they could be processed, the shells of Queen would probably make a pretty good armor.

It's been a long time, and lunch is most likely long overdue.

"Big Sister, I'm hungry..."

The tension of the battle seemed to have broken, and my stomach was beginning to assert itself.

"It's not that far from the village, we'll have dinner when we get back."

"Uh-huh."

Reda-san said, and we all headed back to the village.

"Oh, you're back early!"

"Thanks to Mina-chan and the others, it went a lot easier than I thought it would. Lunch isn't ready yet, so I'll eat here."

"Well, I'll go make some tea."

Just then, my mother was wiping down the tables and chairs outside.

Reda-san told us to go ahead and eat because he had a report to make, and ran toward the inn.

We decided to have a late lunch and opened my mother's lunch box.

It seemed that she had made one for Alphos-san and the others as well, and the basket that my father had taken out of his magic bag was filled with the usual fillings for cobbler buns.

I took one at random and a bit into it, thinking that I might make it next time since I hadn't seen an egg sandwich.

The bread was covered with crispy vegetables, almost like tomatoes and carrera lettuce, and a habitually sour sauce that seemed to be citrus.

Claire, who sat beside me, seemed to be famished and took it without checking its contents.

Rilfana was chewing on the grilled bread.

Reda-san soon returned and joined us for lunch, and it was like a light victory party.

There was a high possibility that the spider was still around, so we didn't have any alcohol, as we were going to make another inspection tomorrow.

As we were finishing our bread and drinking tea, Rilfana came in with a dagger.

"Mina-sama, we are in trouble."

"You've chipped it."

Claire took the dagger from the side and pulled it out of its scabbard to check it, and found that a part of the blade had been severely chipped.

If I use the dagger as it is and catch it on the chipped spot, the blade is likely to break.

"I guess I'll have to buy another one in town."

"Can't you re-hammered it?"

"If you want to re-forge the sword, you need to return it to the iron, so it would be more expensive to ask a craftsman to do it. Unlike swords that are made in a mold, swords are made one by a craftsman.

"I see. I hope I can buy another one with this reward."

Since Rilfana is an attacker, the wear and tear on the weapon will inevitably be severe. I might as well buy some spares.

"It's not exactly a first-class weapon struck by a master craftsman, is it? Well, you can still afford to buy another one."

"Well, I can buy a hundred ordinary weapons."

"I see you have spider material as a reward for defeating the Queen. I envy you."

Mirell-san and Gina-san agreed with Reda-san's words.

Since we killed the Demon Spider and Queen, it seems like they are not going to give us the reward for them?

It's too much trouble, and since we took care of all the dismantling, I think it's fine to split it equally.

"I don't know how much the reward will be, but it will be a percentage of the number of people, right?"

"We were just doing the dismantling, so it's bad for the stones."

"That kind of thing is troublesome, so you said the rule is a headcount split."

I thought that's what you said during the previous exploration of the ruins.

I'm not sure if it's fair for us to be the only ones to take all the equipment and supplies that they prepared for us, so let's use that as a pretext.

Alphos-San and the others looked at each other as if they were in trouble.

"In any case, even if we were given the spider material, we have no use for it except as an eyeball, and since we don't have any contacts to ask them to process it, we have no choice but to sell it. If that is the case, I think it would be better if Alphos-san and the others, who often go to dangerous places for Rank A requests, could use them."

"That's right. Also, you won't be able to use up all the eyeballs, Mina-sama."

Claire nodded as she ate the baked goods she had brought from home. You won't be able to eat dinner, okay?

"...I understand. I'll let Mina-chan and the others take care of me this time. I've got a few things I want to do."

"Not that it's a substitute, but I'll give you the magic bag I gave you yesterday and all the rest of its contents."

A backpack-type magic bag. It has a small capacity.

I think I should give the magic bag to Claire and give the pouch that Claire is currently using to Rilfana, who is in the vanguard of the group.

"After we get back to the guild in town, we'll do the assessments and stuff. We've eliminated the most dangerous Queen, but we'll check the forest to see if it's safe for the next three days or so.

There might still be Demon Spiders or something.

Rilfana will have to make do with her dagger.

My father said that it would be too hard on his stamina and decided to take tomorrow off.

We split up into a group of four, Alphos-san and Reda-san, and a group of three, us.

The next day, we checked the forest without any major problems, although there were some spiders that seemed to be remnants.

Rilfana uses a long dagger. By the way, they were eating grilled bread for lunch again. Isn't she ever tired of it?

In the evening, after coming home, she seemed to be processing her eyeballs for medicine. I heard they are fine for a few days, but unlike shells and such, they would rot.

On the second day, a group of knights was dispatched by the Lord, and we went to check out the forest in the north.

My father rejoined Alphos-san's group. The knights could not identify who was who because of their helmets.

On the third day, it seemed that most of the forest bears in the north forest could no longer be seen, and it was confirmed that they had started to return to the south forest.

We concluded that it was probably safe now, so the survey would end today.

That night, the ban on alcohol was lifted, and the whole village got together for a festive party.

Apparently, the fact that a group of knights had been dispatched, and it was a big event was conveyed to the village chief, and from there it spread throughout the village.

The village head wanted the knights to join in the festivities, but they were reluctant to leave because they had a report to make.

The villagers had forced him to give them a large amount of freshly picked vegetables as a souvenir, so they would eat them in town when they returned home.

I hope the single knight will do his best to cook them...