TL Note: The Japanese don’t have any L, so they use R and L interchangeably. There’s a pun here in this chapter that plays on this idea, and it’s not really translatable since... well... author is quoting an English word and we’re talking in the English language, so yeah. Just keep it in mind. I’m fairly sure you guys will recognize what I’m talking about as soon as you see it. It’s kind of hard to miss.
Change: last line in previous chapter -> And so, we decided to spend another night outside the labyrinth, and then make our way ho.
Volu 3 Chapter 32
When we got out of the labyrinth, the sun was high up in the sky. We couldn’t tell the ti at all from inside the labyrinth. We then made camp, and then we rested outside the labyrinth as we had lunch.
“Ryouma-kun, how’s your magic power?” [Rheinbach]
“I spent much fighting, but I’ve already recovered 90% of it. It seems like it’s recovering faster than normal though.” [Ryouma]
There, Remiri-san explained why.
“Breathing the air or eating food which both contain magic power will instill the magic power found in those things within your body, quickly increasing the speed of your magic’s recovery. And right now, we’re here right next to a labyrinth which contains much magic power. So the recovery rate of magic power here is faster than other areas. There are wizards who intentionally go to labyrinths for the recovery bonus, so they can train faster.” [Remiri]
I see, so that’s how it is.
“Ryouma-chan, are you going to practice after eating? You’ve already recovered your magic power, so I think you could, but then again, you must be tired from the curse...” [Remiri]
“I’ll train. I’ve fully understood from the recent incident just how important anti-curse spells are. So please teach , Remiri-san.” [Ryouma]
“Really? Well, alright. Let’s start with the light magic, ‘Dispel’.” [Remiri]
After eating, Remiri-san picked up a nearby stone, and chanted,
“’Illness’” [Remiri]
At that instant, Remiri-san passed a stone she clad in magic power.
“Alright, hold this.” [Remiri]
I held the stone as she instructed, and my body began to feel feverish. When I removed my hand from the stone, the feverish sensation vanished.
“There are different kinds of curses. The curse afflicted on that stone is Illness. A curse of illness. When afflicted by this curse or when wielding an objected afflicted by this curse, you will experience the sa symptoms as the illness imbued in the curse. And unlike normal illnesses, you won’t be able to recover from it with dicine.” [Remiri]
“So that’s where that feverish sensation was coming from.” [Ryouma]
“I started off with a simple curse to make it easy to understand. We’ll use that to practice ‘Dispel’.” [Remiri]
Like this I began the training on ‘Dispel’ which perates a target in light attribute magic power to purify the darkness attribute magic power and remove the curse.
The darkness attribute magic power that’s used in curses is altered, and is different from the normal darkness attribute magic power. Which is the reason why the magic jewels did not lose the magic power imbued in them when the curse was lifted from them.
I practiced by recalling the sensation I felt when ‘Dispel’ was used on back in the execution grounds of starvation. The result: I failed 8 tis, and succeeded on the 9th try.
The next spell I was taught is the light magic, ‘Anti-Curse’. It’s a spell that creates a barrier around the body to protect from curses. I also succeeded at using this spell with the concept of magic battle technique.
Then in order to find out just how much I am able to defend against curses with the ‘Anti-Curse’ spell, Remiri-san casted curses at with increasing intensity until I was able to understand my limits.
As a result, I found out that my ‘Anti-Curse’ wasn’t very strong. It imdiately broke as soon as a slightly stronger curse was casted.
Thanks to my ntal resistance and physical pain resistance though, I can actually endure quite a bit even after being afflicted with a curse. It seems I’ll be able to cast ‘Dispel’ on myself to remove curses afflicted on my body. The only problem is the fact that I’ll be left defenseless while I’m doing so. My defense against curses are weak too, so it’s bit worrying. A situation where a strong curse that I can’t defend is casted on won’t be pretty.
There, Remiri-san suggested,
“If you’re that worried, you could try looking for a magic tool.” [Remiri]
“A magic tool?” [Ryouma]
“Right, a magic tool. Amongst magic tools there’s one that’s imbued with the ‘Anti-Curse’ spell. Unfortunately, people who make magic armants imbued with curse resist spells are rare, so it’ll probably be a challenge to find. You’ll probably have to spend a pretty penny too.” [Remiri]
Then Remiri-san jokingly added, it’s because the hated nobles keep gathering those craftsn.
I see... If I find one, I should buy it. But for the anti, I should keep training at it until I’m good enough to defend myself.
With that conclusion we went on to the next magic. But Remiri-san was starting to get low on magic power, so we changed the subject from curses to the other spell that Remiri-san used before, ‘Hide’. We’ll study on curses again tomorrow.
The dark magic, ‘Hide’, is a spell that creates a barrier around one’s surrounding with darkness attribute magic power. That magic power is able to isolate one’s presence. It could also suck the surrounding area to blur one’s image.
This spell’s relatively easy to learn, and I was able to learn it by my fourth try. I decided the spell was good enough when Shiva-san, who was watching us train, told he couldn’t feel my presence anymore.
Incidentally, Shiva-san had a match with five of my king scavengers just a while ago. The labyrinth search was too easy, so Shiva-san was feeling unsatisfied. And so he requested to train with the king scavenger slis. Shiva-san thought it’d be good practice with the slis’ physical attack resistance and ‘Enlarge’ and with all five of them attacking at the sa ti.
As for , I thought it’d be a good way to get experience for the slis as well, so I happily agreed.
As I was thinking that, a zombie ca out of the labyrinth. Then looking at the setting sun, I thought to myself, Oh, it’s already ti for the zombies to co out, huh? And so I thought to feed the scavenger slis and have them split. I need to increase the scavenger slis’ number in order to find out whether there’re still any more after King or not after all.
But I also want to leave so magic power for my training... so I decided to let only a hundred split today.
And so, I had a king scavenger sli split. And I had 100 scavenger slis feed on the zombies. The scavenger slis imdiately chased after the zombies, and the zombies were annihilated.
After that, I gave the OK for the slis to attack the zombies coming out of the labyrinth as well. And I spent the rest of ti with the others, drinking tea as we chatted. A little later, 19 scavenger slis entered the ‘Holy Space’.
As I was wondering why, the slis suddenly began to evolve. Apparently, they wanted a place where they could evolve safely.
The slis began to release and absorb magic power repeatedly as usual, but unlike before, the amount of magic power they released was greater than other evolutions. At first I thought it was just because there were 19 of them evolving at the sa ti. But after looking at them closely, the amount of magic power was greater even individually speaking.
Shiva-san and Remiri-san gazed at the slis with interest with until the slis finished evolving. Apparently, it’s their first ti seeing a sli evolve.
This is sothing I heard from Robelia-san, but apparently, slis won’t evolve unless they are at place where there’re no enemies, and they feel that they’re safe. So there’re actually little opportunities for people aside from researchers to see slis evolve.
As I recalled that to myself, the slis finished evolving. The slis’ bodies have turned into the hue of blackish dirt, and their bodies were considerably bigger compared to other slis, having a diater of 60cm. A perfect height for sitting. Not that I’m going to sit on them though.
I used ‘Identify’ on one of the slis, and I found out that they’re called, ‘Glaive Sli’.
Glaive sli... that weapon that’s like a spear or halberd? But why? Is what I was thinking, but then after looking at their skills, I realized I was mistaken.
Skills
Attract Ghosts Lv1
Absorb Ghosts Lv3
Enshrine Remains Lv3
Disease Resistance Lv7
Poison Resistance Lv7
Eat Filth Lv6
Cleaning Lv2
Deodorize Lv7
Physical Attack Resistance Lv2
Jump Lv3
Digestion Lv7
Absorb Lv3
Split Lv2
Taijutsu Lv2
Attract Ghosts, Absorb Ghosts, Enshrine Remains... Could it be, it’s referring to graves?
Co to think of it, grave is also written in English as グレイブ (Grave/Glaive). In any case, the cleaning skill seems to have gone down in level, and the deodorization liquid skill has vanished. In exchange, the slis learned those three new skills related to graves. It’s good that they didn’t lose the skill they learned from my training though.
After that, I took a look at what attributes they liked, and they liked earth and darkness first, followed by dinsion... Dinsion!?
Well, that’s a surprise. It’s my first ti seeing a sli that likes the dinsion attribute.
I’ve tried feeding slis with dinsion attribute magic power all this ti to no effect, but with this... Maybe, just maybe, it might be possible to bring out a sli that can use dinsion magic!
Then while I was caught up in my own thoughts, Rheinbach-sama asked,
“What kind of sli is it this ti?” [Rheinbach]
“Grave Sli.” [Ryouma]
Apparently, no one’s heard of it yet. A new type it seems.
Since there was no information whatsoever, I decided to try out their new skills. But before everything else, I had the scavenger slis that were feasting on the undead co back first. I then found that 10 were eligible for splitting, so I had them split, and then I contracted them.
After that ca the testing of the skills. When I had the grave slis use the ‘Attract Ghosts’ skill, the grave slis’ body faintly turned pale blue as they shone an obscure light. The undead outside the holy space suddenly started approaching us.
Then with the activation of the ‘Absorb Ghosts’ skill, the slis took the gathered undead into their bodies. And over half of the undead ekly allowed themselves to be swallowed. It’s different compared to when the scavengers were fighting. During that ti the undead were resisting and fighting... Could this be the grave slis’ ability? Looking at the undead closely, there were also those that were heading on their own volition to be swallowed.
Regarding the last skill, ‘Enshrine Remains’, it apparently allows the sli to hide an undead body into their body without letting it rot. The sli can then expulse the undead from its body any ti.
“A sli that catches undead... How strange.” [Remiri]
“It’s convenient for hunting undead. You can gather the undead in one area, and finish them off in one gulp. If there’re too many, then you could just imprison them within the slis, and then gradually whittle them down.” [Shiva]
“It can also be used to ta undead-type magical beasts.” [Rheinbach]
The others gave their own opinions about the grave slis, but it was Rheinbach-sama’s comnt that piqued my curiosity.
“Undead can also be tad?” [Ryouma]
“Of course. The undead are splendid magical beasts. Only... They’re not well liked, so there are no slave magic users that use them. Their regeneration is great, but the problem is that they’re too eerie.” [Rheinbach]
“There’s also the odor from zombies and ghouls. And they’re also weaker during the day, so there’s so downside in using them.” [Sebasu]
“The undead can’t stay at an inn too, so they won’t be able to enter towns.” [Remiri]
“Now that you ntion it, there’s definitely plenty of reason for them to be unpopular.” [Ryouma]
“Right? Because of that, the only ones that employ undead-type into their service are researchers and slave magic users that don’t have any affinity for anything else but undead-type magical beasts. Because of that, there’re barely any that use undead.” [Shiva]
I guess the undead researchers are next to the sli researchers in terms of misfortune.
I wonder what those researchers would think were they to know that there’s a sli like this. You could just have the undead enter the grave slis when it’s inconvenient... And there’s also the ‘Deodorization’ skill, so doesn’t this solve the problem?
I decided to ta an undead to prove my hypothesis. There were already a number of undead nearby because of the grave slis, so I just contracted one of those, and–––
Buchi!!
“What was that just now?” [Remiri]
“What happened?” [Shiva]
“I just thought I’d try contracting zombie, but for so reason, it felt different than normal... It felt like the magic power line wouldn’t connect. Like it was being rejected...” [Ryouma]
It probably just failed, but it felt like a phone that was cut violently.
“Well, you could’ve just failed because it’s your first ti. You might also just have poor affinity for zombies, so why don’t you try with other undead?” [Rheinbach]
Just as Rheinbach suggested, I tried contracting with skeletons and wraiths, but it was all the sa. Apparently, my affinity for undead-type magical beasts is really bad.
The grave slis being able to go in and out holy space is because they’re not undead, but I wonder what would happen if I had an undead-type sli.
While I was thinking that, I decided to retire for the day. We didn’t need to thin out the undead today, so I went inside my ‘Dinsion Ho’, and slept by myself.
The next day.
I readied myself, and then I went out of my ‘Dinsion Ho’.
And first thing in the morning, I received Remiri-san’s lecture on dark magic.
First was how to afflict curses, and after that was how to defend against curses.
The curse and defense against it that I learned were ‘Curse Transfer’ and ‘Return Curse’.
‘Cast Transfer’ isn’t a spell for releasing curses. Instead, it’s a spell that transfers a curse to remove the effect on the target. ‘Return Curse’ is a spell that protects the body, and returns the curse to the person that casted it. They’re both ways of dealing with curses, but they’re very different from each other.
When morning training ended, we were to go ho, but...
Right now, we’re riding on the back of a reddish-brown, western dragon with a length of 50m from its head to its tail.
This dragon is Rheinbach-sama’s slave demon. It’s of the Ignis Dragon variety. It can breathe out fire, and generally lives in volcanoes. But it can live anywhere else too as long as it’s not cold.
It’s been decided that we’ll be going ho on the back of this dragon. As for , I’ll be dropped by sowhere close to Gimuru.
Apparently, they were originally planning to use the dragon to get to the labyrinth, but then they t , and so they didn’t use it in order to buy ti for my lessons. It also worked out well, as the walk going there was good experience for .
They actually went out of their way to walk through that ravine just to teach , I’m really grateful.
“Are you ready? Hold tight!” [Rheinbach]
“Yes!” [Ryouma]
We sat on what appeared to be a saddle on the back of the dragon, and hung onto the handles that were affixed to its body with tals. The dragon spread its giant wings, and it ran as it flapped them. Then it took off with great vigor.
“Wow...” [Ryouma]
It’s my first ti flying since coming to this world. I’ve traveled many tis on air before in my previous life, but this is a completely different experience. The rumbling strong wind blew past , forcing my eyes to a slit as I did my best to resist its pressure. And gradually, the labyrinth down below beca smaller and smaller as the great ravine filled my vision.
This dragon was quite terrifying when it was first summoned. I actually sweated a bit, wondering what was going to happen. But now that I’m riding on it, I have to say, it’s not bad. It flies safely, and the ride is comfortable too.
Rheinbach-sama did tell beforehand that it’s safe, but the dragon’s nacing posture when it was summoned was a considerable pressure. My body froze in fear, and I couldn’t move an inch. I’d hate to actually make an enemy with one of these. Its claws are sharp, and its tail is thick like a log. Every single one of its attacks probably contains a force strong enough to kill in one hit. I’ll make a note to remind to run if I ever et one of these out in the wild.
After all, just because a magical beast has the sa rank as another, doesn’t an that they’re the sa on the danger scale. The Ignis Dragons are A Ranked requests when put up, but they can also be S Rank depending on the situation. You could say that the Ignis Dragons are at the summit of A Rank magical beasts. I’d really rather not fight with one, unless I have to.
The labyrinth grew farther and farther as I quietly thought those things to myself. With this, my first labyrinth search and the training I needed for the Great Forest of Shurus has both co to an end.
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