「 Ready? Begin! 」
Chris held his sword in front of me, and I pointed my spear at him.
「 Give back the princess!! 」
Chris rushed in with a thrusting posture as he shouted vigorously.
The ramming style is probably an Adicilton way of fighting, Euphy also does it.
That aside, he can achieve that speed in that armor?
Kicking the ground, Chris approached and reduced the fifteen-meter distance in a few seconds, it’s not just the result of his improved physical ability due to the skills, but also the reduction of weight load due to the armor-based skills, which makes him jump off the ground.
He has the physique of a girl, not much different from Euphy, but he’s able to wear such heavy clothes that it is even hard for adults on Earth to Run. Armor-based skills are quite strong
I have two light armor skills two, but I don’t really feel it because it’s leather armor.
Maybe it’s hard for the person himself to understand this kind of systematic skill.
Now, Chris has his two-handed sword reaching me in a few steps.
The reason why I could take it easy thinking is because his skill is only level two.
I could deal with it with room to spare, and a cool way to speak about it is that I already figured out his moves.
But here’s the thing, Gilbert-san told me to get it over quick, but I want to do some experimenting.
I jumped back from the rushing Chris and took some distance, holding the wooden spear in one hand and thrusting my empty hand to calm my mind.
Let’s check if the magic Mirai gave me can be used in real battle.
The process of activating is as follows: first, select the attribute of magic to be used, then a list of available magic appears in the mind, select the magic you want from the list, and mentally prepare until it activates.
There’s no magic chanting, but the more powerful the magic, the longer it takes for the mind to concentrate.
This world is quite sci-fi in many ways, but I don’t see anything like a mental concentration gauge.
But, it creates a sense of something building up in my head.
And when it accumulates, it triggers by uttering the name of the magic at the end.
「 Burst!! Water Ball! 」
As soon as I shouted the name of magic, a mass of watermelon-sized water appeared at the tip of my palm, flying at a speed as if I had thrown it with all its might from the start without any acceleration.
Chris noticed it and tried to avoid it with a panicked voice on his face, not expecting me to use magic, but it hit him directly, and the dull sound of water echoed in mass, his body bounced off, falling to the ground with a clang and the sound of armor clashing at each other.
However, a skill level two magic doesn’t seem to have that much power, and the fallen Chris quickly gets up.
「 Y-You’re a magician? Did you try deceiving me with your spear? Ha, is that how you did the princess?! But, weak magic won’t work on me 」
Well, I knew from the start how powerful it is.
That’s why I used it without hesitation.
But, don’t be so scandalous, saying like I deceived her.
By the way, speaking out the name of magic before casting it has my eighth-grade mind running wild.
It’s heating my ears up.
「 Kuh, magic won’t work. Chris, you’re much more capable than I thought 」
I tried showing a flustered reaction because it looked fun. Does he think that I have no more magic? Or did he see an opportunity from our distance? The soaking wet Chris plunged in again.
This is a bit too close for me to use magic again.
It’s a situation that makes me think that magic has a weak point as a job.
Well, that doesn’t matter to me.
I dodged the two-handed sword thrust from Chris with little momentum and swung the wooden spear at his butt while he lunged at me.
「 Higiii!! W-Wha?! Ugyuu!! 」
Chris turned his face with an amusing shriek, and then I followed up with a punch to the side of his head, and he shrieked again as he was blown sideways.
The impact broke the wooden spear, but that’s to be expected when you hit metal armor.
Chris hits the ground, and this time, he doesn’t get up quickly and uses his sword to rise.
Then, Gilbert-san speaks out, perhaps deciding that the match is already over.
「 That’s enough 」
「 Kuh! I can’t believe it, You could use a spear too?! 」
Chris glares at me in frustration when the results are announced, then slams his fist to the ground.
I’m sorry to use you as my test dummy, but this gives me a real sense of the magician problem.
When using magic, you need to use it from a safe distance or have someone fight in front of you or you’ll be approached and killed immediately.
I’m sure that few people have the same skill set as I do.
Besides, if the opponent has level three skills, they’ll come at almost twice the speed as that one, so even if you could shoot them, it’ll only be weak magic.
That said, I’m sure that a well-known magician or other knows how to deal with that, or uses tools.
Otherwise, the value of magic skills won’t be that high.
As far as we’re concerned, it’s possible to hit them with high-power magic on the first move, but I don’t think it’s inefficient to improve magic skills just for that.
Hmm, I think magic is good, but when it comes to raising it with melee skills makes me think.
That makes it hard for me, the strongest would be to control weapons and magic.
Besides, I can’t get magic skill orbs.
As I reflect on the battle, Gilbert-san approaches me.
「 I’m sure that Chris will change his attitude towards Kotori-dono after that 」
「 Is that so? He seems to be glaring still 」
「 He’s not done sorting out his thoughts yet but he’ll recognize you in time knowing that you’re stronger than he is. I’ll also talk to him. I have one question, Kotori-dono. The water ball has been triggered incredibly fast, do you have a magic tool for it? 」
「 Isn’t that velocity just normal? 」
「 That’s the fastest one I’ve seen from a magician. No, I was too surprised at the speed of activation to think about it but should I be surprised that you have water magic? 」
「 Oh, I don’t know much about magic either so let’s talk about that later 」
I see. So that’s it.
I was thinking that magic skills don’t improve physical abilities, but there’s some sort of systematic effect, like having it increase the speed of magic activation?
I don’t know since it doesn’t show up in my status, but it looks like it increases MP too.
Hmm?
W–Wait.
So you’re saying that if I have multiple high-level magic skills, I can speed up the activation?
Then, is it possible that I can be the most powerful person using both weapons and magic?
No, I’d rather have a specialty, or should I say that I’m already fully handling a single spear, so I don’t think I’d be able to use that many moves.
Even Euphy isn’t comfortable using both swords and magic.
I thought that it would be better to give magic to Nia since she’s dexterous to use it, but when I think about it, she already has three fighting styles, dagger, throwing, and bows.
I thought that it would be a good match and Nia could go for it, but I’m not sure I should add more.
Hmm, I think I’ll have to work on my fighting skills a bit more, and let’s hold off dealing with magic for the time being.
While I was thinking with my arms folded and spear between my armpits, it seemed that my next opponent had been chosen.
A two-meter-tall man with a beard comes forward as if saying “It’s my turn”
I feel like I’ve seen this guy before, but the atmosphere was the same as the rugged warlord who took the peach garden oath.
I thought that he would be holding some kind of snake spear, but unfortunately, he’s holding an axe spear.
It’s longer than what the other knights have, perhaps made to suit his physique.
I think that’s about three meters?
「 The favored one has come 」
Gilbert-san responds to words not directed to anyone else.
「 That’s Hugo. As my assistant, he’s mainly responsible for organizing the general soldiers. We’re almost evenly matched. He’s the second most powerful man in the group today 」
「 I see. I guess they’ll accept me if I take him down? 」
「 Correct. I know I don’t have to worry about Kotori-dono, but he’s a stubborn one. Be careful 」
Gilbert-san gave me some helpful advice, I went to the spot where the big guy was waiting for me.
He’s really big when you’re up close.
In this world, skills are a force that makes no sense for physique, but still, if we have the same skill levels, reach and other things will become relevant.
I almost want to ask if he’s a bandit chief or something? Then he looked at me and laughed./
「 I’m your next opponent. Euphy-sama seems to want to put you in charge, but we won’t recognize you even if you win against Chris 」
「 Then, it seems like I have to work harder for that 」
「 Hmph, if only your hard work results in winning. I won’t cut corners. Be prepared to get hurt! 」
He says with a snort, then he swings his axe spear around, stops, and holds it up.
Hey, that’s cool dude.
I thought that was some entrance scene from a fighting game.
Okay, let’s copy that.
I spin my wooden spear around like in the Chinese martial arts movies, then point the tip at Hugo, he’s grinning, but then his expression tightens.
「 Daiki-nii, go for it 」
Nia’s cheering me on with her fist raised in the air, and Euphy next to her seemed to want to raise her voice but bit her lip, standing firm as a princess.
I want to show off to those two, let’s not play games then.