A Loner, Having Trained for a Month
Author’s Note: Perhaps I made too quick of a developnt?
Second day of training.
Shun told Alicia “I’m going to run today” and though he took a short break, he ran for nearly four hours. Since he was training on the mountain, he had to run not flat land, but on a steep surface. His stamina was exhausting at an alarming rate, and the burden on his body was increasing, but was to be expected when training.
Shun thought of Alicia as a commanding officer since she chose a not the training grounds, but a mountain.
Third day of training.
On this day, Alicia trained Shun in the forest on how to fight, how to make traps out of wood and install them, how to secure water sources, how to procure food, along with other survival training. While doing this training, Shun marked trees in the forest with his sword.
As to why they were doing this, Shun said “wouldn’t doing this be cool?”
Day four of training.
On this day, Alicia taught him the basics of magic.
“Shun, first…try to envision a fire.”
“A fire, is it?”
Shun could not understand why imagining a fire was necessary for magic.
Isn’t magic done by chanting…?
Alicia nodded to what Shun said.
“Right, a fire.”
“……?”
While tilting his head, Shun imagined a fire like Alicia said to.
Let’s see, for a ntal image…the matches we often use in science should work.
“…Okay, I imagined it.”
While Shun had his eyes closed, Alicia gave a signal,
“Next, take out your hand.”
“Alright.”
“While spreading out your palm, say the following, okay? Flas…dwell within my hand.”
“Sure…um…”
Shun quickly spread out his palm and then recited the words,
“[Fire───dwell within my hand]” (TLN: Alicia said flas while Shun said fire, dunno why it’s different)
Upon which,
*Whoosh*
A fla floated in Shun’s open palm.
“Whoa……!”
Shun was suddenly astonished at the sight with his eyes gleaming like a child’s.
Shun was in high spirits for a bit as he tried to wave his hand, blow on it, and apply the fire to a lying down stone, as if he had returned to his childhood.
“Heh heh…”
Alicia found Shun, who was being so engrossed in the basics of fire magic that he lost awareness of surroundings, quite funny yet charming at the sa ti.
Shun’s face, which had turned cheerful and amazed in flash, reminded Alicia of her early childhood.
Perhaps I was like that as well back then…
“Shun.”
“Huh…?!”
“We’re going to continue…okay?”
“R, right!”
“Anyways…as you’ve just demonstrated, magic cos in elents. Along with the fire elents, the water, wood, and earth elents are the main ones. These are called the ‘four main elents.’ There’s also the light and dark elent. These two are called the ‘Yin-Yang elents’…You can probably use dark, though since you’re a Dark Knight, that’s only reasonable…However, no matter how much the Demon Lord’s Dark Knights struggled to do so, they could not use the light elent. For now, we’ve only confird that you can use the fire elent…so how about you check the other elents?”
“Alright.”
Huh…so there’s light and dark elents. It seems I can do things like using the dark elent or lighting things on fire.
“You can check by saying the words before, but changing ‘fire’ with a different elent.”
Shun nodded and recited what he said before,
“[Water───dwell within my hand]”
Upon which,
“Huh?”
Nothing happened.
“……”
“It seems like you don’t have an apt for it…Well, try the next one.”
“…Alright.”
With a sigh, Shun recited,
“[Wood───dwell within my hand]”
Then,
“…”
He tried to imagine sothing coming into palm twice now, but nothing happened.
“This one too…next.”
“Yeah…”
“Don’t worry about it so much, okay? Normally, people only have an apt for one elent.”
“Really…? You should have told that earlier~”
“Ah hah hah, sorry, sorry.”
“Ugh…well, here I go. [Earth───dwell within my hand]”
When doing so,
“Well…it seems I only have the fire elent.”
Shun sighed while looking at the palm of his hand, where still nothing happened.
Ugh…at least I know that I can use the fire elent.
“Don’t worry, don’t worry…Now, next I’ll teach you beginner level fire magic…Here, I’ll demonstrate so it’s easy to understand.”
“Oh! Sock it to , Teacher!”
“What’s with those words you just said…? Anyways, I’m going to start.”
Alicia stood in front Shun, made a gesture like she was drawing a bow, and recited,
“[Fire───seek a great arrow of raging fire]”
Thereupon, a bow of fire was created in Alicia’s hands while she was chanting, Alicia pulled the bowstring and finally shouted───
“[Fire Arrow]”
The mont Alicia let go of the bowstring, arrows wrapped in a vigorous hellfire launched an explosion after hitting a large tree they were aid at, creating a large gaping hole in the tree.
“Whoa…”
Fire elent magic on trees…has a drastic effect…!
Although it was just beginner level magic, Shun felt shocked beyond belief at its destructive power.
“Well, this is what it is. Imagine pulling back a fire and then letting it go…I’ll tell you that this power of this beginner magic is due yo my magic attack being high. Normally, it’s just an arrow that pierces things.”
“Oh, so that’s what it is…man, that really got nervous.”
Shun made a bitter smile.
“I see…when seeing like this…it frightens you.”
……Hmm? Sothing seems off.
Alicia made a bit of a sorrowful face towards Shun.
“…Teacher?”
“A, ah! It’s nothing! Here, try it yourself.”
Ahー…there’s definitely sothing going on…well, whatever.
“Ahーalright thenーI”ll give it a shotー”
“R, right……”
“*huff*”
After looking straight at Alicia, Shun took a deep breath and put aside his worries.
Ti to concentrate…I just have to form a ntal image of pulling a fire and releasing it, right? Though, maybe it’d be quicker to just imagine a regular bow?
“───Alright.”
Shun opened his eyes, stared at a large tree that would be suitable, made a gesture of drawing a bow like in his ntal image, and mimicked Alicia’s recited words,
“[Fire───seek a great arrow of raging fire]”
Upon which, a bow of fire ford in his hands, just like with Alicia.
Slowly…but mightily pull it back.
While saying that in his mind, the bowstring shined red as he slowly, but mightily pulled it back.
Alright…now!
“[Fire Arrow]!”
While saying that, Shun let go of the bowstring.
At once, an arrow of hellfire was shot and soared straight towards the big tree, causing an impact.
“Alright!”
Shun made a triumphant pose.
Like Alicia said, the arrow Shun released did not cause an explosion, and just pierced through like a normal arrow would.
Although its destructive power was far lower, Shun was filled with a sense of accomplishnt at that mont.
Oooooooooh! That was the first ti in my life! I fired magic! Aah~I want to fire more of them…!
Being overly pleased, Shun suddenly put both of his hands on Alicia’s shoulders.
“───Teacher!”
“Huh, what?!”
With a serious face, Shun stared at Alicia’s blue eyes.
H, h, h, h, his face is really close…! Shun’s eyes are right in front of …huh? My face feels hot for so reason…! Aah, don’t look this way…Though, Shun’s face is also in a similar state…Hey, isn’t there sothing you want to say to…to ? Hurry and say it!
While Alicia was on guard with a blushed face, Shun spoke after a couple of seconds,
“───Please teach magic!”
“───*sigh*…………………………”
Alicia made her longest sigh ever.
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So, using the training from those four days as a basis, he continued a similar training schedule every day.
Shun spent most of his ti with Alicia, devoting himself to training and studying about this world.
After continuing such days without a break, a month had passed.
He looked much more masculine than before. As expected though, his personality didn’t change.
Nevertheless, Shun felt the rapid growth of his body.
Telling himself “why not go up to Alicia to check my status in the morning after a month?”, Shun himself was anxious and checked his status the second ti since he ca to this world.
“This is…”
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Kondou Shun
Male
Human Race
Lv1
HP 320
Attack 438
Magic 290
MP 315
Agility 589
Endurance 227
Skills
Swordsmanship Lv4 /10
Fire Attribute Magic Lv3 /10
Dark Attribute Magic Lv2 /10
Concealnt Lv2/ 10
Innate Skills
Abnormal Status Doubling (Lower Rank)
・The effects of any status abnormality are doubled
・It is added whenever an abnormality occurs in your body
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“I’ve grown quite a bit…”
Shun was surprised, but not astonished.
Well…I’d cry if they didn’t go up by this much after all that hellish training.
It was only because of the training that he reap this much.
Unlike when he touched the crystal for the first ti, he was full of confidence and was pleased by the results.
“……”
However, Shun looked at the status paper and made a bitter smile.
“Innate skill…Abnormal Status Doubling.”
Even after a month, he still didn’t understand the nature of his innate skill.
“I feel uneasy about sothing…”
Shun once again looked at the effects of the innate skill.
・The effects of any status abnormality are doubled
・It is added whenever an abnormality occurs in your body
“If so abnormality is induced on , then it’s effects are amplified…what does that entail?”
Shun, who had gotten stronger, was still worried.
Innate Skill────Abnormal Status Doubling, and its effects.
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