One week has passed since I beca Lunaire’s apprentice.
I practiced my magic in one hand while reading a grimoire with the other.
Currently, I’ve a rough understanding about the magic principles.
In short, it was sothing like an electric circuit.
Or rather, both the magic circle and the magic formulae are magic invoked with electronic circuits.
And mana was the electric current.
After grasping this image, my understanding in magic progressed at a rapid pace.
Naturally, the 《Inquiry of the Magic King》 played a great part in this regard.
While starting the magic formulae, I was suddenly reminded of the day when I just ca to this world.
『…. What in the world are you talking about? I’ve told you before that you’re just going to be a hindrance for staying in this kind of place. So you’re to leave as soon as possible. I’m gonna send you out of this 《Cocytus》 as soon as you’ve reached the end of your training.』
I recalled…. Lunaire had rejected my request to stay in this place.
Her tone when she’d said it was extrely cold.
It’s not like things got awkward between us ever since then.
And I have improved my skills too.
Currently, I wore a dark robe.
This was given to by Lunaire on the morning of the second day of my training. On that day she said, “I found this in the corner of Noble’s body.” Despite saying this, I secretly checked its status with 《Akashic Record》 and discovered that this robe’s na was 《Lunaire’s Robe.》
It seed that Lunaire went all out preparing this robe in secret on the first night I ca to this place.
Though she wanted to hide that fact from , she was too naive.
Should I thank her for pulling an all nighter to make this robe for ? Or should I play dumb about it?
Even after she’d rejected my wish, Lunaire always treated very kindly, and Noble Mimic was always being too loose lipped and cracked jokes from ti to ti about his(?) master.
Nothing has changed at all.
But, I simply couldn’t ask to accompany her living in this place.
「Are you ready? Then let’s go.」
Lunaire called .
I closed both of my eyes and stood there for a while.
「MAkE SuRe YoU GoT FaILURe MArK, Kanata.」
I replied to Noble Mimic with a bitter smile on my face.
Today was…. the day Lunaire was going to put in a live combat test against a real demon.
In short… today was my graduation exam.
I’ve reached the Lv 100 mark that she aid for before.
To be honest, I… wanted to stay a little bit longer with Lunaire and Noble Mimic.
But…. It seed I wasn’t welcod by Lunaire for my unnecessary overstayed visit in her abode.
So, she must’ve judged that my abilities were enough to keep alive.
And that would be depending on the result of today’s test.
After we left her hut, the two of us went towards the garden.
Lunaire maintained her silence along the way.
Sohow, I felt that she kept her distance from after she told about this test.
This matter might’ve been hard for her too.
Though I felt the sa way for her, sugar coated words wouldn’t help out of this situation.
Lunaire kept her distance from and then stretched out her arm.
「Earth Magic, 11st Rank 《Sand Tyrant》」
A huge magic circle appeared and the ground around us rose upwards.
An almost twenty ter long clay dragon appeared in front of us.
I could see sharp fangs from its open mouth.
「GUOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! 」
Lunaire’s newly created golem was the strengthened version of the Earth Magic of the 6th Rank, 《Sand Puppet》.
It seed that she could make an even larger golem.
It seed that her standard creation of the 《Sand Puppet》could range from Lv. 1 to Lv. 100 depending on the input of her mana.
In contrast, she could create a golem up to Lv. 200 with 《Sand Tyrant》.
The earth dragon in front of has “Lv. 150” letters written on its forehead.
「Fire Magic, 7th Rank 《Fla Fus》! 」
A firewall rose up to the ceiling, separating and the earth dragon.
「What are you trying to do? Fire magic has bad compatibility against golems and…..」
I heard Lunaire’s voice.
Naturally, I knew that too.
But, 《Sand Tyrant》 wasn’t the kind of opponent that I could defeat by shooting magic from a distance.
My long distance attack magic was far weaker than my lee attack.
To make the matter worse, golems have a terrifyingly high defense.
On the other hand, since I was much faster than the golem, it wouldn’t be able to catch if I used a hit and run tactic.
The purpose of that firewall was to block its vision as I went for a direct physical attack.
「Wind Magic, 3rd Rank 《Flugel》!」 [TL : Flugel ans wings]
I continued my chant.
The wind pushed my body into the air. While I was mid air, I tore through the thin firewall and I landed directly on the back of the earth dragon..
The earth dragon who had lost sight of dug up the ground with its foreleg.
I cut the earth dragon’s back with 《The Fool’s Magic Sword》.
My attack tore a large chunk of the earth dragon’s back, raising clouds of dust.
I used the recoil of my slash to jump off of the earth dragon’s back while activating 《Flugel》 for the second ti to slip into the earth dragon’s blind spot.
《The Fool’s Magic Sword》 was enough to deal with this kind opponent.
「GUH….」
The earth dragon who had lost sight of my figure stiffened for a mont.
Using that montary opening, I flew back while cutting its forelegs from its base.
The earth dragon’s body collapsed forward.
I spun a gigantic magic circle right in front of the earth dragon.
As soon as the earth dragon saw , it used its falling montum to spring towards .
I was aiming for that.
Depending on the skill of the caster, the higher the ranking magic that they are going to use, the longer the casting ti.
That’s why crushing the opponent before they could complete the spell was a well established tactic in live combat.
For the very sa reason, the earth dragon was rushing towards to prevent from using high ranking magic.
But, using a large magic circle to bait the earth dragon to rush at was my aim all along.
I took out part of the magic formulae from the magic circle that I was conjuring at that mont and used that formulae to activate 《Flugel》.
I used Flugel to push myself straight forward in line with the charging earth dragon.
I dodged the earth dragon’s claws attack and slit its throat.
The earth dragon’s neck shook, and then, its large fra fell on the ground.
I stabbed my sword into the ground to stop my montum and stood again.
The body of the earth dragon twitched, and then stopped moving.
Nurous cracks spread all over its body as it slowly crumbled down.
I managed to defeat a Lv. 150 earth dragon without a hitch.
When I turned around to look at Lunaire, she was looking at with an expressionless look on her face.
I… I hoped that would at least make her twitch her eyebrows though.
「I-I DID IT, MASTER! I DEFEATED THAT EARTH DRAGON! 」
「Eh…… Ah, y-you’re right, congratulation.」
When I called her, Lunaire replied in a way as if she just realized that I passed her graduation exam.
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