I am worn-out …” (Wendelin)
“Me too …” (Luise)
“I don’t feel tired at all! Well then, this is my best attack!” (Armstrong)
It’s been around two and a half years since we settled down in the royal capital. I turned 15 years old a few days ago. Today, I am working hard at my training with Armstrong-doushi alongside Luise.
『Damn it! What kind of serialized battle manga is this!』 would be the way to describe those two and a half years but the fruits of my labour have appeared to an extent.
If there wasn’t any improvement, my mental health would have ended up taking a disastrous blow.
I continued increasing my mana pool just like I have been before coming to the capital. Furthermore, I learned heaps of new spells as well.
Among these, there were three you ought to pay particular attention to: the super physical enhancement, high speed flight and the mobile magic armor and helmet taught by Armstrong-doushi.
The spells consume a ridiculous amount of mana, but their power is guaranteed. As I received a passing mark from Armstrong-doushi a few days ago, it can now be used in actual combat.
Maa, personally I usually prefer finishing things off by using long-range magic without having to get up close and personal.
Or rather, I don’t want to encounter an enemy that I can’t fight without having to use the spells taught by Armstrong-doushi.
And, as Luise received the same coaching as me, she also successfully learned four spells: physical enhancement, high speed flight, mobile magic armor and helmet and meditation.
Influenced by the expansion of her mana pool by quite a bit, she’s advanced from her previous state of only being able to enclose her own body with magic power to her current abilities.
In addition she even acquired the original magic 『Meditation』.
This could be called a magic to heal your own wounds through meditation while on the move. It is quite unique as even Armstrong-doushi and I aren’t able to learn it.
Although it is regrettable that you can’t heal others with it, it should be considerably convenient during battle as you’re able to heal your own injuries.
Even from the perspective of other party members, it is very re-assuring if she is able to somehow handle things by herself although several of the members might be injured at the time.
Such were the circumstances as mentioned above. As for the last concluding part of out training, we carried out a mock battle today.
No, I think I should use more accurate words.
For the last two and a half years, the three of us have, almost everyday carried out mock battles under the pretense of them being mock battles in the wastelands found on the outskirts of the capital.
Consuming huge amounts of mana while fighting to our physical limits, our mana capacity has naturally had increased.
To increase our mana capacity, we used huge amounts of mana fighting to the limit during our mock battles since it was better to perform other training regimes after our mock battles have ended.
Speaking of a sole miscalculation, 『Given that you destroy the army’s training grounds whenever you train, we wish for you to practice at a deserted location』 is what the important people of the army told us, I guess?
Even so, since there are as many uninhabited places on this continent as one likes, there was no problem with that at all.
Therefore, even though we didn’t lack a place to train, Armstrong-doushi, being the original instigator of the problem to begin with, was in an abnormal state of high-tension.
Armstrong-doushi’s magic is beyond normal anyway.
Though he used his mobile magic armor and helmet and changed his cane into a hammer with magic power, he could still hit a dragon with his bare hands.
Flinging it away by grabbing its tail and defending against the dragon’s breath with his armor and weapon by transforming their materials through magic power, he ended up tearing the dragon to pieces.
Of course, even if he taught this to someone, those are things that one simply can’t copy.
Even if he forcibly taught those methods to other magicians, they would end up being in trouble instead.
As he doesn’t possess the normal amount of mana that most magicians have, they would run out of mana right away if they tried to follow his instructions.
As such, he continued to devote himself to his own studies until Luise, who at that time had a high amount of mana without being able to use it after studying at her home’s dojo in the magic combat style, and me, whose mana exceeded his own, appeared.
Luise and I were thrown into rigorous training drills almost everyday due to him being really delighted about this matter for the past two and a half years.
But this will end today.