The Mage Will Master Magic Efficiently In His Second Life

ter beating the roc bird, Lydia hit her palm with her fist as if shed just thought of something.

Nn~ This feelingcould this be the feeling of leveling up?

Congrats Lydia!

Congratulations

I secretly used Scout Scope and saw that Lydias level was still around 13, it didnt appear to have gone up by very much. That should be pretty obvious as Lydia usually acts as a salesperson, minds her shop, and draws up designs instead of hunting usually. The roc bird is worth quite a lot of experience points so this time she was able to level up quite a bit.

Hehe no~ you guys are all pretty strong. Big sis was surprised.

No, Lydia-san is also really..strong..

Yeah! *whistle* The enemy went BOOM and CRASH and you dodged.anyway its amazing!!

Claudes confidence in being the vanguard seems to be tattered a bit, while Milly was waving her arms around to demonstrate how Lydia moved during the fight. Lydias face immediately became pervy and love-struck (deredere).

Everything else aside, the roc bird was a pretty strong enemy. It not only has a pretty high level, but its tough and moves quickly, it is a well-rounded monster.

If two roc birds come Id like Claude and Lydia to take them on, this should be the method of dealing with them. If three come, then Ill take Claude and Milly will take Lydia and run away using teleportation. For now lets go with this kind of plan.

They all nod.

So in order to familiarize ourselves with the roc birds, we aimed to walk to the mountain lodge. We continued to walk leisurely up the mountain path.

There are two over there

Lydia pointed at two roc birds lying around in the bushes comfortably. I cant see very well because of the bushes blocking my view, so if we werent moving this way I probably wouldnt have seen them.

Blue Gale!

Milly cast her magic and at the same time Claude and Lydia rushed out. According to plan, they each take one of them as their opponent. Claude should reach her opponent firstprobably.

I cast Pyro Shot at the roc bird and hurt it while making it recoil. As expected combo magic with good range is much easier to use. Pyro Shot is a little lacking in power though, I should try a little more to develop some magic with both power and range. Recently weve been fighting a lot more tough enemies. Well if I spend some time then I should be able to come up with something.

Blue Gale!

By the time the second tornado hit the roc birds Claude and Lydia had already started fighting. In this way we continued to climb the mountain, a couple times we encountered some roc birds but we made pretty good progress.

As the sun started to set and the sky turned red, Millys face was also pretty red, and she seemed to be pretty tired and sweaty. She was kind of stumbling and her eyes werent focused on anything in particular.

The mountain path must be pretty hard on a child. Even more so because of the need to fight as we progressed.

Even so she has her pride, Do you want Lydia to carry you?, this suggestion was offered many times but it was always rejected.

I can walk fine on my own, so she says.

Claude has quite a bit of travelling experience, so even though she is carrying heavy equipment she doesnt seem extremely tired.

Ooh I see the Mountain Cabin Milly-chan

Really!?

Suddenly Milly got excited and started to run.

Hey come on, its dangerous if you start to run all of a sudden.

As I think that, the next second *Smack* she falls flat on her face. She immediately sits up, stops moving, and her shoulders start to shake.

Ah ahdidnt I tell you

Lydia runs over to Millys side, the Claude and I quickly follow.

Mountain Lodge

Inside the lodge there is a plain table and stool, a fire pit in the center, and a futon folded up in the corner.

Lets stay here for the night

Ahhh Im tired~

Im also kind of covered in sweat. I want to wipe down my body, but.

She says and shoots a glance in my direction.

Get out, that seems to be the message.

Though I intended to do that from the beginning.

When youre done call me

I say so and leave the lodge.

Outside its getting dark, but the roc birds dont move around at night so it should be safe.

As soon as I left, a great commotion started inside the lodge. It seems like the source of the disturbance wasMilly was about to change her clothes and Lydia wanted to help but she refused, then Lydia started chasing her.

What a ridiculous game.

Ah, Lydia sunk her poisonous fangs into Claude who tried to stop them

If I stick around here my heart and morals will be in danger.

I move away from the lodge and sit down upon an overhanging cliff. Its very close to dusk and the mountain wind blows and it feels like todays fatigue is being washed away.

Well, I wasnt really that tired anyways. While we were climbing, I used body reinforcement magic. It wrapped my feet in wind and raised my physical abilities, I used the Sky attribute magic, Black Boots. Also I used recovery magic Healing at the same time, so while my abilities were boosted, my bodys burden was also reduced. When I combine two different support magics together, a new and improved effect is created.

Its a magic that makes you feel like youre walking on air.I think Ill call it Wind Walk

The magic usage and effect arent very suitable for battle, and it doesnt have too many uses. By the way, I didnt use it on Milly because if you have it too easy while youre young your body will end up being badly affected. Mages, even at the best of times, dont move their bodies very much, in essence this kind of magic shouldnt really be used outside of battle.

Also, its not that Im wanting to take things especially easy by using this, I myself am working hard to experiment. When I think about how Claude and Lydia have joined, a magic that can boost physical abilities will definitely be useful. For this reason, I need to think of a couple different kinds of magic that I can use. For example

Zeph!

.and Millys voice has broken my train of thought. It looks like theyve finished cleaning themselves up. Milly has a refreshed look about her as she puts her messy hair into order.

But really, it feels like all my alone time is disappearing. I feel like Ive been spending quite a lot of time with Milly, Ill be training by myself and thinking, and suddenly Milly will just appear.

Come to think of it, Im thinking about Milly and the others an awful lot. Only a little while ago I was thinking about how to use my magic to help out Claude and Lydia.

Hmmmrecently, my goal to practice magic efficiently to the limit seems to be getting further away..

Well, making the guild stronger and leveling up faster is in line with my goals butI feel like I might be caring and thinking about these girls a little too much

Whats wrong?

Milly interrupts my thoughts and stares into my face. Her face is way too close, and I freeze up. If we move our necks a little, wed touch, god theres got to be a limit to how defenseless you can be.

I seem to have changed since I met Milly, and know that I think about it I think Ive continued to change ever since. And the cause of this, Milly, is standing here staring right at me looking confused.

Its nothing, I was just thinking about how Id changed and gotten a little strange. Thats all.

What are you saying Zeph? Youve always been kinda weird. You know a lot about difficult stuff, you use special unique magic, and you say stuff like washi (washi=which is a form of saying I used by elderly men)

Milly says this and giggles.

So thats how it isshe might be right, but she really said quite a bit huh.

I give a wry smile and scratch my head while remembering Millys carefree smile.