YM778.TV 9 - Chapter Ix -- Well, It Seems To Pass.
A huge fireball is shot toward me, consuming the entire area around me. Moreover, the super-high temperature that melts even iron is coming toward me at a tremendous speed. A woman with a sword rushes toward me at an unbelievable speed.
"All wards!"
I hold the sword in my right hand and raise my left hand, quickly putting up a ward. A sphere of warding completely surrounds me. I am in a transparent ball.
A fireball hits me as soon as I have the warding up. A tremendous roar and scorching heat. The surrounding vegetation is not only burning but evaporating. A shockwave hits my entire body. I feel as if my body is about to fly off, but I manage to hold on. Just then, a sword is thrust out of the smoke at a tremendous speed. It is Eril.
Kaki-yin-yin!
The sound is like hundreds of pieces of glass breaking all at once. The sword is caught by the ward, but soon cracks and collapses from there. As if anticipating this, Eryl\'s blinding slash swung down toward the center of my brain.
Immediately after that, the sword in my right hand comes down on Eryl. I aim for his arm. I strike the sword off with my arm. But to my surprise, Eryl lets go of the sword and opens his arms to avoid my slash. For a moment, I\'m out of position. But Eril doesn\'t miss it. He quickly grabs the sword in mid-air and strikes me with a killing blow.
Bash!
Eryl\'s sword stopped right in front of me. Eryl did not stop his sword. As soon as he was knocked out of position, I reestablished a thin, yet strong, ward.
"Hey Falco! Why don\'t you attack with magic!"
"Impossible, my lady. Once the wards are up, it\'s too hard to break them.
"Tsk!"
He glares at me in disgust and reluctantly puts down his sword.
"Well, that\'s good, isn\'t it?"
"Yes, I think so too. Well, you\'re in the clear, Linos.
"Oh, thank you. Thank you, Miss Eril, Master Falco.
Kneel down and bow your head. He thanks you more politely than usual.
"Uryaaa!
Suddenly, Eryl slashes at me. I can\'t react at all, but her sword stops right in front of me again. I haven\'t released my warding.
"You\'re so careless, so careless. You have no charm, you know that?
"If I were to be cute, I wouldn\'t be able to live with myself. I cannot give this life to another without your permission, Miss Elsa."
"Lately you\'ve been talking like a real adult. It\'s disgusting.
"Well, well, well, miss. You have broken the boundaries of Llinos that even I cannot break. You should be proud.
This is why I hate men. You don\'t know what you\'re talking about.
Eryl strode back to his room.
"Ah, but we can\'t have this mock battle anymore. We can\'t have this mock battle anymore, because the house will turn into a desert.
Even though we are quite far from the house, the surrounding area is full of sand, rocks, and craters. It used to be a wide open field.
The severity of the situation has increased since Eryl joined my training. I was now exposed to the full force of my master\'s magic, and at the same time, to Eryl\'s slashing attacks.
And the two of them are breathing perfectly together. They surely hit the weak point of my warding. Eryl used a wooden sword at first, but he started to use a serious sword earlier because he thought it was "out of tune". I don\'t know how many times my wards were broken and I was cut into pieces. There were several times when I was mortally wounded, and if I was one step behind, I would have gone to the other side completely.
Moreover, my master ordered me to keep my wards up at all times, and I had to keep them up even when I was sleeping. Naturally, warding required M! However, when he slept soundly, his resilience decreased, but he was sure to gain M! However, it turned out that a good night\'s sleep would definitely restore the M! However, the warding disappears when the subject completely loses consciousness. In order to keep an eye on it, Eryl would unannouncedly slash at me in the middle of the night, a practice which I could only think of as madness. The only thing that saved me was that he was holding back this time and using a wooden sword. Of course, the force that hit me was the full force of the sword. I can\'t tell you how many times I have had my face split open because of this.
I am desperate. It interferes with our good night\'s sleep. And with serious injury. As a result of our desperate efforts, we were able to get the hang of how to keep the warding in place while sleeping soundly. As a byproduct, I somehow gained the ability to detect presence and magic. Now not only Eril but also my master attacks me, but I am able to unconsciously put up a ward the moment I am detected by presence detection or magic detection, so that the damage from their attacks is practically zero.
Because of this, when the three of us started training together, my M! was often empty. Then, my master forced me, almost forcibly, to take my M! Then, almost forcibly, he made me learn the skill of sucking out my M! The way he did it was very efficient, just like him. He put flames on my arms and grabbed me by the chest.
Is it hot? This flame is also made of magic. If it is hot, suck MP from me! That way the flames will go out, right? Ha ha ha ha!"
... I got the skills right away. Not only that, but I also gained the skill of recovery magic.
Eril also gave me a serious weapon and we started to have a mock battle with it. After I had ducked their attacks and been beaten to a pulp. Of course, at first, I was hit by Eril\'s slashes and suffered from severe muscle pains. I didn\'t want to be in pain, so I learned to dodge the sword.
A year later, at the age of ten, I had learned to avoid their attacks, and I no longer suffered death-defying wounds.
By the way, my current status is like this.
Rinos (Slave warder, 10 years old)
H!? H!?
M!? : 213
Warding magic lvl 4 (Master\'s fire magic (lvl 4) no longer works! I can put up wards the way I want!)
Fire Magic LV2 (I can now launch large fireballs!)
Water Magic LV2 (I can now launch large water balls!)
Earth magic LV1 (I can now dig and fill simple holes!)
Healing magic LV3 (can completely heal severe burns and wounds. It can also heal illnesses!)
Life Magic LV1
Chanting LV3
Appraisal Magic LV3
Swordsmanship LV2
M!? Recovery LV2
Presence Detection LV2
Magic Detection LV2
Magic absorption LV1
Physical Reinforcement LV1
Evasion LV2
Good manners LV1
Education LV3
At the age of 10, he is on the same level as the warders of the royal court. Thanks to a good teacher and effective training, he has grown miraculously, but good children should not try to emulate him.
"Well, I have almost nothing left to teach. So I\'m going to give you a graduation exercise from my training."
"Graduation training?"
Yes. You, in three days\' time, go to the forest of Lunois and hunt demons.
Oh, my God. It\'s a den of demons! I might actually die!