CH.359 Alice and Lua’s Magic Skills
I finished planting the flowers and explaining the new devices, so we were done at the adventurer’s guild. So after a bit more chit chat, we left the guild and headed for the Sage’s tower. My carriage followed the one that Shisu was riding.
As we ca to the street that led to the Sage’s tower, I was again reminded of just how crazy it looked. Okay, the building itself was quite the simple tower structure, but it was the tallest building in the city, so it is special in that way. But what really makes it special are the two magic circles floating in the air around it. It really is such a wasteful way of upkeep magic, as projecting the magic circles takes quite a bit of mana, but I’m clearly not the only one foolish enough to do that.
“Brian, did you ever reverse engineer those magic circles?” Alice asked.
“Yeah, I did ask my monsters to do that after my second visit.” I answered. “One is a defensive barrier around the city. It is the reason the bird-folk have to co guide my ships down to the ground, because otherwise the barrier would trigger and … well, bad things might happen. The second is so sort of a large scale communication spell, but even my monsters struggled to fully understand it. They think it is what keeps the guild communicator network running.”
“Wow. Great Sage Arcadia must have been a genius if she could co up with sothing your monsters can’t understand.”
“And that one isn’t the only one. There is also the massive magic circle that is drawn on the ground using the streets of this city. They said it is too generic to decipher when it isn’t active.”
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As a reminder, I’m referring to this. The city is built in a way where the streets make a magic circle that looks like this. The Castle Dungeon is in the middle, and the Sage’s tower, the Adventurer’s guild and the main Church are at the center of the three other circles.
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“... what are you doing?” Shisu asked, as I kept installing cards into the magic stones.
“It is called an install. In short, I’m altering the magic stones using my cards. They need to be power stones so that they can hold Spell Counters. It is a bit complicated, but in short, the flowers don’t make mana but Spell Counters. Normal magic stones cannot hold Spell Counters, but these magic stones that I’m turning into power stones can. Then from there, the Spell Counters get broken down into mana that can be used by anything.”
“... I see. … also are these stones larger than the ones you used, or is it just ? You said you needed B-rank stones, but yours were more like C-rank sized.”
“That’s because mine are made by compressing them when they are super critical.” I answered. “These are made by keeping them just sub-critical for a long ti, right?”
“... you … you know how to do that?” Shisu asked.
“I don’t, but … I’ll just summon him.” I decided and pulled a card out of Storage, as I turned my terminal into a duel disk. “Dark Sage.”
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I finished planting the flowers, so my System Mission popped up again. And this ti, it ca with so Synchro monsters. Sure it is just three cards this ti, but I don’t mind. I got a Tuner and a Synchro monster, so that is good.
Spread the Flowers
Flowers planted in The Hero's City at the Sage's tower
Reward: Aromaseraphy Angelica, Aromaseraphy Rosemary and Aromaseraphy Sweet Marjoram
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After confirming the reward, I turned back to Shisu and Dark Sage.
“I’m done here. The two A-rank stones are visible, so you can run a mana line from them to wherever you need the mana.” I spoke up to get Shisu’s attention from Dark Sage. “Could you take to where Alice and Lua are now. I can still catch so of their tests if we hurry.”
[Lucia POV]
“Alright. Let’s start.” Sage Ian said to us.
He, along with a second sage nad Ted were testing Alice and I if we were worthy of being great witches. And to be honest, I was nervous. This should be easy. I an, I’ve studied magic with Mariina and I know how skilled she is, and I feel like I am at least close to her level, so this should be easy. But what if it isn’t?
“First, show off every attribute and magical technique you can use. Only surface level is fine. Just show us a bit of everything.” Ian ordered us.
All of them? Does that include Winged Flight? It is a magical technique, so I think yes. I used the System Link to ask Alice about it, and she confird my suspicion. She also suggested that we both fly while we show off our skills, as that would show our ability to use multiple skills at the sa ti.
Alright. Then I’ll need my wings. And for to have my wings, I’ll need slits in my dress. So I used Dhampir Princess to alter my dress just a bit. I normally use it to hide away the slits so that the dress looks intact, but now, I need them so I used the skill to make them reappear. Then I used Vampiric Body Modification to let my white wings out. While I was doing all of that, I saw Alice glowing softly next to , as she changed her outfit from her regular clothes to a magical girl outfit.
Next, I put so mana into my wings and with a flap, I took off to the sky. Alice next to did the sa using her Mana Flight skill. I took a quick glance towards the judges, but I wasn’t sure if they were impressed just yet, so next step.
Alice brought her mithril swordstaff out of Storage, while I brought out a magic flask filled with blood. And while Alice showed off her Telekinesis skills by controlling the mithril swordstaff with Telekinesis, I showed off my True Blood Magic by controlling the blood in the air, before returning it to the flask.
With the first step done, I returned the flask to Storage and Alice did the sa with her swordstaff. We both then brought out staves from Storage. Alice’s was a treant wood staff that Brian bought her as a gift. She didn’t use it often as the staff really couldn’t take her powerful magic, but we were just showing off weak spells so it could take that, while I used the staff I used back when I was still a part of Pri Rib. It might have been altered when I first got my Unique skill, but it was still near and dear to my heart, so I wanted to use it here. It is also sothing Mrs. Moon bought after I got recognized as a witch, so I believe it is appropriate.
With staves in hand, we began showing so elental magic spells. Alice started with her Dark Magic, while I used so Light. We then switched to Fire and Water, while making sure to use both Full Casts and Quick Casts. Alice even showed off her Instant Cast.
The two of us decided that next would be the ti for our other extra skill besides flight, so I used mine first.
“Summon Water Spirit.” Alice might be better in most things when it cos to magic, but outside of healing, this is the other special thing I can do that she can’t. But just summoning the spirit isn’t all, so I kept going. “Synchro with .” I requested of the spirit, and it did as I asked.
While I was preparing a spirit boosted water magic spell, Alice prepared her own spell.
“Magic Erasing Arrows.” She finished her chant, and five arrows appeared in the air around her. They were a mix of her Unique-Racial skill and Erasure Magic, styled after Brian’s card called Spell Shattering Arrow. Using Erasure Magic, they would remove a spell they hit from existence.
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Technically it is based on Anti-Magic Arrows, but Brian doesn’t have that one yet, so …
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I moved the water spell to attack Alice, while she used her Magic Erasing Arrows to erase my spell. As the arrows hit, they systematically undid my spell.
With that, we were going to end the show. I think this is enough for now, so both of us landed back where we started, and I once again hid my wings away. I might keep them out when I’m on HoBase, but I’m still a bit self conscious about them, so I’ll keep them hidden when I don’t need them.
I then began hearing so clapping from a direction different from the two judges. I turned to look and I saw Brian there, giving us an applause with Sage Shisu.
How much did he see? I hope he saw all of it.
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