Chapter 137 – Time to Level Up – 2
It’s creepy, they’re coming.
However, if you think positively, it is an opportunity to level up that will never happen again.
The hero training institution, Melbrit, is a major project in which the Kingdom of Daytun has devoted all its strength.
Selecting candidates who are judged to have the qualities of a hero, and concentrating the souls—experience points—collected from all over the country, to create an imitation hero like an agent of God.
A system that exists because there is a spiritual supporter called a warrior.
This country has survived that way to this day.
It’s as if the spirits that come rushing in are talking.
‘Look. This is Melbrit. It’s your food.’
… And, I
“Fireball!”
Without hesitation, I slam my strongest magic into it and devour it greedily.
If I don’t eat it anyway, someone else will pick up the soul.
There’s no reason to decline, is there?
Now, at this moment, if you scrape and eat with all your might, a year, no, ten years… Or, if you have traveled for decades and wandered around dungeons, you can collect experience points.
Can be obtained at one time.
A person with the qualifications of an agent of a real goddess steals the experience points of imitation warriors. I can’t help it even if someone says it’s unfair.
There are only two women seeking my life. One is even a god.
I forgot everything and focused on leveling up.
He casts fireballs nonstop, and smashes the clogged soul bottles.
A time of extremely intense battles. Even the pain was forgotten.
“No more…!”
Ava’s knees trembled as if they would break.
The number of soul sickness increases. Diana was skillfully knocking out the approaching spirit soldiers with her magic, but
It’s been quite some time since I started fighting and casting magic.
Is this the limit now? Not so.
“Karen!”
I called Karen.
We make eye contact and exchange signals unknown to others.
That signal is the spirit core.
Karen and my spirit core move like dancing.
“Goes!”
As if responding to my voice.
The wind spirit created a gust of wind.
You can’t even call it technology. Simpler than a veil.
Raises the spirit’s power to the maximum and creates wind.
However, the aftermath did not end with just causing the wind.
By joining forces with Karen, he created a blast that could bind the movements of the soul soldiers.
“Keep down!”
I threw a fireball and wiped out the soul soldiers with a flame storm.
“Ugh, uhh!”
Ava clutched her head and lay down.
I tried to squeeze in more wind, but unfortunately the gust stopped after about ten seconds.
I wish it was outdoors instead of indoors…
(The level has risen.)
(The level is…)
However, with the current attack, a huge number of soul soldiers were killed at once.
Suddenly, a suffocating heat surged through his body.
(Strength increased by one level)
(Magic power has risen by one level)
(Stamina has risen by one level)
(Agility increased by one level)
Something has come… !!
Goddess Agent Special Bonus!
The first time I got this was when I went to the dungeon with Karen.
This stat level upgrade is a cheat among cheats that allows even an insignificant guy like me to approach the strength of a real warrior.
The whole body is full of strength.
Fatigue disappears, and the senses sharpen like a sharpened knife.
The spirit sicknesses, who were only focused on blocking them, were clearly visible. Now I could tell exactly how many there were just by looking at them.
“Decal! This is not the time to be idly by!”
Diana exclaimed.
I smashed the approaching soul bottle with my fist.
It was as simple as cracking an egg shell.
“Fireball.”
Cast a spell
It felt like it was a magic I had used a lot. There was a tremendous amount of heat that was incomparable to that of the past.
I’ll blow it where the soul disease is gathered.
The moment it exploded, the heat that spread out was suppressed with a wind curtain.
Then, the heat trapped in the membrane raged through it like a dragon made of fire, turning all the spirit sicknesses into ashes.
The pressure and intense light created by the explosion drew everyone’s attention.
Abba muttered in horror.
“Now that’s ‘Fireball’…?”
“Brother, you’re amazing!”
“…Decal. It was amazing magic.”
Everyone seems to be surprised.
In the middle of a breathtaking fight with dozens of spirit sicknesses, it is surprising when a magic bursts out of nowhere and the situation is resolved.
I was amazed at my magic too.
This is because the fireball he just threw was not condensed.
Also, the curtain perfectly suppressed the aftermath of the magic far beyond expectations.
If it wasn’t for that, it would have been a big deal. I was a little chilled and broke out in a cold sweat.
Physical ability, destructive power of offensive magic, even spiritism.
It was the moment when I confirmed that all abilities had improved dramatically.
Wave 2 is over.
I gulped down the bottle of water to fill up my hunger.
As his ability improved, the total amount of magical power also increased, and it was a feeling that he could not be filled no matter how much he drank.
How strong have you become?
“Diana.”
I threw the water bottle at Diana.
Diana watched me warily as she drank the water.
These are the eyes I saw in class one day.
Was it when I learned the shield at a speed that exceeded her expectations?
“…Hmm. Decal was able to use that kind of magic too?”
“…”
“I didn’t know. You didn’t even know that you were a great wizard, and you must have been quite funny inside because I was pretending to be proud.”
This.
I think I misunderstood that I had been watching from one to ten until now.
It was worth it.
It’s because I’m now as strong as a person who has changed.
Just look at the aftermath of magic.
If the fireball he used before was enough to catch a pack of beasts, the fireball he used now was enough to knock down an elephant in one blow.
What happens when you condense…
“You must be wrong. I didn’t laugh at you.
It’s like that, because I just did it.”
“What…?”
Diana seemed absurd.
Stiana, Karen, and Ava were just watching our conversation with curious eyes because they didn’t know how to use magic, but Diana was a wizard born into an aristocratic family and took an elite course.
She would have hurt her pride if she realized that the gap had widened to such an extent for a former adventurer.
She thought she might hear something nasty.
But that expectation was wrong.
“…”
Diana’s eyes were burning with the desire to win.
“The next wave.”
Diana’s hands experience a magical reaction that has never been seen before.
“I’ll show you this time.”
“All ready!”
Stia exclaimed.
As in the 2nd wave, spirit sickness pours from all sides.
“Thunder Storm…!”
Paper weave!
Diana cast her magic the first time she had seen it.
The electric shock that stretched out like a spider’s web across the floor and space like Lightning Square took control of the door from which spirit sickness poured out.
It was an amazing sight.
It’s not just one door, it’s all in the passageway where all the soul diseases come out!
Diana closes her eyes and maintains her lightning loop, controlling the electricity that coils throughout her test chamber from leaking towards us.
Just by looking at her, she could tell how hard it was to maintain that magic.
She doesn’t even have time to care about her self and her body.
She clenched her fists and focused her attention on the magic she was using.
Defeat all the spirit sicknesses in the test room.
“…Kuuuuu…Fuuuuu…!!”
Diana’s breathing becomes rough.
However, she couldn’t say anything about hitting the candles, telling no one to quit or not to overdo it.
It was such an overwhelming sight.
This guy, like her sister, was a real exhaust genius.
With the fact that she fell behind me, Diana broke her wall.
She said she couldn’t stand still here, she whipped up and showed what real talent is.
She was not bragging when she said that she would destroy the bandits by herself.
My strength is like a cheat that comes from having an agent of a goddess.
Diana’s growth is different.
How serious the spoiled girl was about magic.
When I realized it through my skin, something like a sense of selfishness that I forgot was rising in my body.
The incessant fighting is driving me crazy.
It was then.
“Decal, on the second floor…!”
Stia jerked her head and shouted.
The door was also open on the second floor. And from there, spirits twice as big grabbed the railing and started jumping.
I immediately shouted.
“Protect Diana!”
Karen, Stia, and Ava turn their backs on Diana.
The hulking spirit soldiers charged this way, leading their massive bodies.
If you let them attack Diana, the Thunder Storm will be canceled, and we will be buried in spirit sickness, and the test will be over.
But it could go on a little longer.
Diana immediately changed her magic composition to match the structure of her trial chamber.
There’s no way I can’t imitate Diana’s physical condition and magic power.
“Fireball!”
I thought about it.
Destroying the approaching hulking spirit soldiers with fireballs.
How should I change my magic to fit the test room?
Enough destructive power. Not enough, overflowing
It would be nice to be able to increase the rate of fire while maintaining destructive power, but it is not an easy task.
Fireball’s casting time is at least 1 second.
3 seconds to aim and shoot accurately.
If you add up the time the fireball left the hand and reaches the target, it takes 4 to 5 seconds.
Fast under normal circumstances, but lacking here.
Even in the middle of aiming and shooting, if you don’t prepare your magic, you won’t be able to handle the speed at which the spirit soldiers emerge.
But that doesn’t mean you can’t shoot fast.
Fireball is a dangerous spell.
If you don’t suppress the aftermath with a wind curtain until the last moment so that your allies are not hurt, a catastrophe will happen.
If I were the only one in this room, I would have used all my firepower to wipe it out, whether or not the flames engulfed my body, but it wasn’t a good method.
I don’t know if it was a situation where we ran to die together.
Damn, that’s complicated.
I can’t concentrate because I try to think while fighting.
“Brother!”
“Ugh!?”
A hulking soul soldier fell right next to me.
The ground shook and staggered, but then she regained her balance, catching the hulking spirit soldier’s fist with her arm.
He immediately launched a counterattack, but perhaps because of his large physique, he could not easily subdue him with his fists.
I had no choice but to push it away with force and step back.
The spirit soldiers rushed in without any countermeasures because I wasted a little time on just one.
Is it a crowd now… !!
Our eyes met Neris, who was watching us from a corner.
She saw an opportunity to break in.
Having come to my senses, I decided to struggle to make the most of my time.
“Karen, protect yourself with a veil!”
“Huh!”
“Fireball!”
Destroy the hulking soul soldiers.
Stia takes care of the soul disease that could not be destroyed.
A dagger thrust that quickly destroys the hulking spirit soldier’s limbs and head.
“…”
Neris drained the power from her body.
They crossed their arms as if supporting their big breasts from below and watched us.
With eyes full of hope.
So I wanted to squeeze more.
Anyway, this isn’t a duel to the death, it’s a bonus stage to see how many rewards we can take.
A perfect environment with rankers waiting to save us.
It is true that the risk is much lower than fighting to the death in a dungeon.
So, no one ever said that they would give up.
“Fire…”
I transferred the image that suddenly popped into my head to my fingertips.
The condensed flames at my fingertips hit the hulking soul soldier as if it were erupting.
“…!”
Except for Diana, three of them looked at me.
I was also surprised and looked at my hands.
What. This?
Focus again
Point your hand at the spirit disease and cast a fireball.
But don’t shoot
Condensing, condensing, condensing only the heat into the shroud.
The moment a small hole was made in the curtain.
The suppressed heat spread forward.
“Oops!”
When Karen and Stia are hot, she covers her face with her arms and kicks her back.
A bit more precise.
I mobilized spirit magic as much as possible.
If the ratio of elemental magic was 2 and fire ball was 8 when using Condensed Fire Ball.
It’s the opposite now.
Fireball 2, elementalism 8.
Not only compressing the heat as much as possible with the curtain, but also creating a path to guide the erupting heat.
Way of the wind.
Along the way, the heat soars.
Then it became a whole new magic.
Where I pointed with my fingertips, a laser condensed into flame spread out and locally destroyed the body of the soul soldier.
(Fireball proficiency has increased)
(Fire enchantment has been changed)
(Magic Condensation Mastery has risen)
(Unique skill, ‘End of Fire’ has been acquired)
Reached something
Break the wall again and use the unique skill.
It was not a skill applied to Fire Ball, but a new skill.
Thump, thump, thump!
The hulking souls fell like meteors one after another from the second floor.
He stretched out his crouched body and ran towards it.
I raise my hand as if possessed, pointing.
“Fiery…”
[Incantation] Increases the power of the new skill.
The consumption of mana was rather less than that of Fireball.
However, the excitement that something dangerous was going to happen was much stronger than when using Fireball.
“End.”
Then, a blindingly intense heat ray stretched out, splitting all the soul soldiers with the movement of my hand.
