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Chapter 106 – Each Person’s Training Life Part 1 (Makyo and the Others)
“It’s hot!”
We’re on a raft in the middle of the ocean at noon. The sun beats down on our skin, burning it.
I’ve been with Sylvia all day, digging up relics from the ocean floor.
Sylvia can stay underwater for a long time after drinking the blood of the shark monster. However, since humans don’t have gills, she sometimes drowns.
“Puhah! Hah, hah!”
When she got back on the raft, she was struggling to breathe and looked like she was in pain.
“Are you okay?”
“I-I’m fine. Th-There were only pots and plates on the nearby sunken ships.”
“That’s proof they were trading. Maybe the ruins to the south are the remains of a lighthouse, after all.”
On the south coast of the east coast, many rocks were lying around, and similar rocks were also submerged in the sea. The original shape of the building has been lost due to collapse and erosion by the waves, but there are still traces of the rocks piled on top of each other, so there is no doubt that it is an ancient ruin.
The fact that there were a large number of trade goods left inside the sunken ship allowed us to predict that there was a port nearby.
“T-t-there are too few weapons. Is it possible that this is because there are only a few monsters?”
The monsters in the seas around the demonic land are belligerent, and they attack the rafts, including sharks with saw-like noses and sharks with hammer-like heads. It hurts, so I throw them far away, but they don’t seem to go away.
“Maybe they didn’t need weapons. Maybe the ancient ships had technology that kept the monsters away.”
“T-t-that would be convenient, but if they were trading, then pirates would have appeared as well.”
“That’s true. Maybe they fought without weapons?”
“W-w-with their bare hands? Not everyone is a magician.”
“No, I thought maybe they used monsters.”
“Ah~.”
P.J.’s notebook also said that there were sirens. They are quite beautiful, but they seem to drag their prey into the sea and prey on them with their sharp fangs.
“As a guy, I kind of want to be attacked by one, but I haven’t seen one yet.”
“I-i-it’s better if we don’t meet any pesky monsters. We need to develop weapons that can be used underwater… maybe a harpoon would be good… we need magic circles…”
While Sylvia mumbled to herself, I pulled the raft onto the beach.
Lipa is running along the beach. He’s just arrived in the demonic land, so he lacks basic physical strength. He says that now is the time to increase his muscle strength rather than his magic power.
He’s been doing this since this morning, so I have to let him take a break from noon.
“Lipa, you need to take a break as well.”
“Yes! Train, eat, and then rest, right?”
“That’s right. And you should also train with the monsters.”
“Ugh… yes!”
Even if you train the same muscles all the time, it doesn’t mean that you’ll be able to use them in the demonic land. It looks like he’ll be practicing flying faster on a flying broom in the afternoon. The good thing about Lipa is that he’s completely devoted.
It seems that Hel, who was supposed to spar with Lipa for training, went to the forest to do some special training.
When I asked her what she was doing at lunch, she said she was looking for vines to use for a whip.
“If I can’t use magic, I thought it would be better to be able to use a whip. If I practice, I should be able to move around by wrapping it around tree branches.”
She seems to be aiming for a three-dimensional movement like a spider monster.
“Do you want to try it, Makyo?”
“Yes, I’ll try it.”
Sylvia said she wouldn’t be diving in the sea today but excavating the collapsed rocks, so I decided to join Hel in her training.
After lunch, Hel and I went into the woods, pulled off some vines that looked suitable, and swung them around.
Snap!
The thin branches snapped when the vines hit them. The vines also had to be soft and flexible, otherwise they would just be sticks. We tried several times, but it didn’t work at all.
“How does it feel? Even just wrapping it around yourself for support is difficult, isn’t it?”
“That’s right. From choosing the right material to instantly judging which branch to use, it’s not easy. What about against monsters?”
“They won’t be able to catch you. The shock and noise will be enough to scare off small monsters.”
Hel said this and then stunned a forest rat running in front of her with her whip.
I’ve tried it, but it’s not that easy; I can only cut the grass. Besides, the vines tear easily and break off where I’m holding them.
“It’s quite difficult to get the balance of power and the strength of the material right, and then there’s the skill of swinging it and hitting the target.”
“I think you’ll get the hang of it as you practice, with the balance and the skill. As for the material, I think you should look for it with Sylvia, like monster skin or something.”
“Yeah, maybe snake skin would be better than vines.”
I tried to imbue the vines with magic power, but the current Hel couldn’t do it.
Even if I imbued them with a little magic power, the vines would tear from the inside. I tried to coat the vines with magic power instead, but it wouldn’t even bend, and all I ended up with was a stick. If I swung it, it would split the tree trunk and be dangerous.
“If I draw a magic circle on the tip of the whip, I think I could make a different kind of attack, but I’d rather attach it to a branch.”
“Yes, that’s true, but please don’t destroy my training grounds too much.”
I realized as Hel warned me, but the vines I had swung with magic power had neatly cut down the bushes and small trees.
“Oh, I’m sorry.”
“No, I just realized that it can also turn into a blade depending on the setting, so it’s okay.”
I felt bad for Hel, so I went and caught some poisonous snakes, like blue snakes and poisonous anacondas, and gave her the snake skins.
“I’ll try to tan them and use them. Thank you.”
While I was off catching snakes, Hel was weaving the vines together like rope to make them stronger and making her own whip.
Every time Hel swung her whip, it seemed to change in strength and length, and she wrote down her own measurements on a piece of paper. It looks like she’s begun her research. Soon, she’ll have perfected the perfect whip for herself.
I quietly left the forest and returned to the beach.
I tried to wake Lipa up from his nap and thought about going monster hunting, but Jennifer caught me.
“Makyo-san, I need your help. The monsters around here are too slow to attack, so it’s not good practice for defense.”
“I thought Jennifer was going to capture the monsters?”
“Before I capture them, I want to make sure I can defend myself properly.”
“Fine, but…”
“Please help me.”
Jennifer used magic to create a wall of earth.
Apparently, I should punch the wall and attack it.
Boom!
The wall shattered easily.
“Hey, are you okay?”
It collapsed too easily, so I was a little worried.
“Yeah, I’m fine. It’s just a strength test. It seems the density is still lacking.”
Jennifer created another wall of earth.
Boom!
The result was the same, and I thought it would be a little harder to break down, but there wasn’t much difference from before.
“Are you serious, Makyo-san?”
“No, I’m not serious.”
“Can you do it with all your might next time? I’ll make it double-layered.”
“Yes!”
Jennifer created two walls of earth, leaving a gap between them. I also took a running start and punched the wall with my fist with all my might.
The two walls shattered into pieces, and even Jennifer, who was holding up a shield behind the wall, was hit hard. Jennifer’s body flew through the air, and she fell into the sea.
The sight of Jennifer, soaked to the skin, emerging from the sea like a moving corpse was even more terrifying than the real thing.
“Makyo-san!”
“What? It was Jennifer who said to go all out. Sorry.”
“Please go easy on me.”
“Yes.”
“Then next…”
It seems that Jennifer is doing it again.
This time, she had made the wall into a V. She asked me to hit the corner, so I tried without building up any momentum, but it broke just as easily as before.
“Makyo-san!”
“No, I did it with moderation! The idea might be right, but even a Haze Turtle would break it if it was that weak.”
“Hmm… If it’s not strong enough, does that mean I need to increase the density even more?”
“I don’t know, but does density mean you have to put magic into it?”
“No, it means compressing the defensive structure. You know, defense magic is like a beehive, right?”
“Is that so?”
“What? You don’t know?”
“No, I don’t. I may look like I can use magic, but I’ve only been taught by Chel.”
“So, how have you defend yourself against monster attacks so far?”
“I either defeated them before they could attack, or I used magic to block or deflect them…”
Jennifer looked like a disappointed child.
“What, so magic can be changed into different forms?”
“Yes, it can. Look at Chel, for example, who can make spears with fire magic. You know, there are also magical tools that can turn a small knife into a big blade, right?”
“Now that you mention it, that’s true. Magic can take different forms. That means it can be made into a beehive shape to withstand impact! That’s amazing! Whoever created the defensive magic is a genius, isn’t he?”
She was truly moved. When I first learned magic, I had the feeling that I could transform various images into shapes using magic power. I didn’t use it much, so maybe I just forgot about it.
“That kind of history from the early days of magic creation is fine. But please try to break this wall.
Jennifer created a wall of mud about the size of her face. I stomped on it from above and broke it, but it was the hardest thing I’ve ever broken.
“It’s pretty hard. Harder than the skin of a rock crocodile.”
“But it’s broken.”
“What if it just expands and contracts like slime around the affected area? That’s fine as long as the impact doesn’t go through to the other side of the wall, right?”
“Are you saying that you want to change the properties of magic instantly? Do you think I can do something that great?”
“I don’t know. Even if you tell me, I don’t know if I can change the nature of magic.”
“No, you can, can’t you? Don’t you remember the magic stone of the honey ant?”
“Oh, that’s right. Anything can be done with magic.”
“Is it too late now? But I think I can see the future.”
“I’m glad to hear that.”
Jennifer started to build some earth walls on the beach, so I left her there and went to wake up Lipa.
“Lipa, let’s go hunting!”
Lipa was lying on the beach looking comfortable, but he was surrounded by small crab monsters, so I woke him up.
“Huh? Oh yeah! Wow, what’s that?”
I caught all the little crab monsters and put them in a pot with a lid. Crab soup for dinner?
“Can I take my wooden sword on the hunt?”
“Sure.”
Lipa tied the wooden sword to his waist and went into the forest. I followed him, practicing making cubes and spheres with my magic.
“Don’t get in Hel’s way too much.”
“Yes. The monsters get stronger the further you go in, right?”
“You won’t get stronger unless you meet strong monsters.”
“That’s right…”
Lipa puffed out his cheeks and took a big step into the depths of the forest as if to put himself in the right frame of mind. He seems to be motivated.
“No, that’s not what I meant. When you see and observe strong monsters, you’ll understand what weapons they use to live in this forest. I was just saying that if you’re careful, you’ll naturally develop the ability to judge and react.”
“Ah~!”
Lipa was convinced with a voice like a crow.
“Then can I climb that big tree and watch it from up there?”
“Oh, that’s good. That’s what I mean.”
We climbed the big tree and watched the monster from above. The big tree was a subspecies of Treant, but since it didn’t attack or react in any way, we decided to use it as we pleased.
Lipa and I used the branches where the forest rats were running around as our observation point and looked out over the forest below. The sea breeze was blowing directly at us, so the branches and leaves were swaying a lot, but it didn’t seem to be a problem for Lipa, who must have a strong core.
“So far, the only thing we have for dinner is crab soup. What kind of meat do you want for your steak?”
“What kind of meat can we find here?”
“There’s a Maaeshitsukawazu over there and a subspecies of field boar over there.”
“That’s right! It has hair growing out of its head that field boars don’t have.”
“It’s near the coast, so it’s probably a little different. I can see a fire over there, so it must be something that breathes fire.”
“You can see it well.”
“Since you’re a bird person, don’t you think you can see further, Lipa?”
“I have no idea.”
There are also many insect-like monsters, such as scorpions and spiders, and giant coconut crab monsters, hiding in the rocks.
“We’ve had enough reptiles; how about some wild boar today?”
“It’s a subspecies of field boar. Its tusks are bent in a really strange way, so as long as we can avoid its attack, I don’t think we’ll have any problems.”
In fact, its tusks are curled up and pointing up, so even if it attacks you, it’s unlikely that it will be able to stab you.
“Let’s try it!”
Lipa jumped down from the branch and quietly approached the boar.
“I’ll try it too.”
I followed Lipa.
Fugofugofugofugo!
The boar noticed Lipa’s scent and charged him.
Since it attacks in a straight line, if you dodge to the side, even if it’s Lipa, it won’t hit you.
Lipa dodged the boar’s attacks several times and then raised his wooden sword. If the attack was strong enough, he could defeat the boar. Both Lipa and I thought so.
However, when the field boar realized that its charge didn’t hit, it moved and thrust its curved horn into the ground.
The next moment, a lump of earth in the shape of a horn shot out of the ground and attacked Lipa.
Surprised, Lipa twisted his body, but he could not avoid it and was hit directly. He was blown far away.
I struck the side of the field boar, who had been caught off guard by its successful magic, with a fist wrapped in magical power.
At the moment of impact, I surrounded the boar’s body with a rectangular box of magical power. The boar that was blown away spun around at high speed and finally stopped when it hit a large tree.
The boar became dizzy and fainted. I immediately ran in the direction Lipa had flown.
“Hey, are you okay~!”
I soon found Lipa unconscious, tangled in branches and vines. When I checked his wounds, I saw that he was bleeding from the side. If I use the healing medicine that Hel made, there shouldn’t be a problem. He should wake up soon.
I returned to the field boar.
I tied its hairy legs with a suitable vine, hooked it to a tree branch, and turned it upside down before starting to dismember it. I also remembered to dig a hole in the ground, as there would be a lot of blood.
Here, I tried touching the ground with my hand to create a magic square and dig out the soil. The first time I did this, the soil was too heavy, and the magic membrane broke, but when I tried making the magic membrane into a beehive shape like the defense magic Jennifer had taught me, it worked surprisingly well.
“I can do it.”
This time, I tried making the magic into a knife shape and sliced into the boar’s belly. It left a mark, but it wasn’t enough to cut it.
“Is it hard to imagine the blade? Maybe it would be different if I had something to hold on to.”
I grabbed a fallen branch and expanded my magic into the shape of a knife. I plunged it into the belly of the boar.
With a slicing sound, it sliced through!
I tore it open up to the neck, and blood gushed out.
After that, I took out the internal organs, put them in the hole, and waited for the blood to stop flowing.
“Makyo-san, I’m sorry.”
Lipa woke up.
“Hey, are you okay?”
“Yes, I’m fine now. I was caught off guard by the unexpected attack.”
“Even though the monsters here are weak, it’s still a demonic land. Unexpected things happen all the time, so observation is important.”
“Yes. So how did you defeat that field boar, Makyo-san?”
“I surrounded it with a magic barrier and hit it.”
“Isn’t that what Jennifer-san is trying to do?”
“Oh no, that’s probably right. But this is really convenient.”
I tried it by placing my hand on the boar’s thigh and expanding the magic power from my palm into a cube. Then, I took out the meat with the skin still on and showed it to him.
“See, you can easily make a block of boar meat like this.”
“What? You can do that without a knife?”
“Well, there’s no point in complaining about something that’s already done. Don’t tell anyone about it.”
“No, but… Ehh?”
I gave Lipa a delicious block of flank meat to keep him quiet.
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There is just so much to unpack in this chapter…jeez
[“Lipa, you need to take a break as well.”
“Yes! Train, eat, and then rest, right?”
“That’s right. And you should also train with the monsters.”
“Ugh… yes!”]
Makyo just thinks on a whole other plane
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This dude is creating his own style of magic just by thinking about it. How far is this guy gonna go lol
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