Chapter 58 – A Witch’s Education?
After hearing Adelia’s story about her past, we received training from her that suited her new skills and abilities.
Her years and experiences so far have taught us a great lesson.
For example, with her wisdom and magic skills that are worthy of her title as the former warrior party’s mage, she gives Erina hints on mana management and how to rise to the next level,
She taught Emil the techniques used by previous warriors and taught him how to use her Uni more effectively.
Well, Ayawashio received teachings on how to utilize her individual abilities more or how to effectively deal with divine powers and spirits, but I couldn’t think of anything worth learning from her.
She wanted to learn swordsmanship, but she was a wizard, not a swordsman. She tried to learn at least the swordsmanship of the former warrior, but the former warrior was a swordsman who utilized the abilities of the holy sword to the fullest, not a swordsman-oriented swordsman, so she said that her swordsmanship skills were inferior to mine.
Perhaps that’s why Adelia invited me to her room alone.
“Adele?”
“Welcome, Ms. Line.”
I knocked on her door and peeked my head in to look inside, and found Adelia still breathing smoke as usual.
As she was looking through the slightly open gap, she moved her finger and gestured for me to come in.
“So why did you call me?”
“First of all, is Ms. Rine a top-level sword expert?”
“Yes.”
At a young age, she reached the highest level of Sword Expert, but even though she wanted to reach this level, she had no idea how to do so.
Although growth did not stop, I was concerned because the growth rate was minimal compared to when growth was at its peak.
Adelia did the same again, and after a moment of silence, she exhaled the smoke into the air.
“Sorry, if I don’t smoke this now, my hands will shake.”
“You can do that.”
Even knights and wizards often smoked gombangdae using magic herb, so they were able to understand.
In the past, when I worked as a member of the Knights Templar, I saw many of my colleagues around me making smoke with magic candles, so I was used to it.
It’s not particularly bad for the body, and on the contrary, it helps with mana circulation, so I don’t pay much attention to it since there are a lot of people smoking it on the streets since there’s no one stopping it.
“First of all, it will be difficult for me to teach you swordsmanship.”
“Then…”
“On the other hand, it doesn’t mean that you can’t teach.”
“Yes?”
I couldn’t teach swordsmanship, but I was skeptical about the fact that I could.
If you can’t teach a knight swordsmanship, what can you teach him?
Hmm… Survivability? Strengthening your body? Or healing magic? No matter how much I think about it, I don’t know what it can teach me.
As I looked at her as if I didn’t know, Adelia didn’t say anything, she just smiled and inhaled the smoke into her mouth and stayed still.
She must have already inhaled all the smoke, so she shook out everything in the ashtray and placed it on the desk, crossing her legs and crossing her arms to expose her chest and laugh.
“Shall we take off the brooch first, Ranel?”
“Huh?!”
There are many cases where even smart wizards don’t notice the brooch on my head, but when this brooch came up with my name and identity, I was so embarrassed that I couldn’t speak properly and just trembled with my lips.
“Huh, how did you know?”
“Hehe… “I am the one who made that brooch, Master Leihart.”
“No way, the person who made it because my mother asked for it!”
“It’s amazing that the little boy has grown up and started a family, but I was very surprised when he suddenly asked me to make a magic tool that can hide his gender.”
My mother was right.
She once boasted to me that her mother had entrusted her magical tools to a very talented witch.
At that time, I asked who she had asked for, but she said that not many people should know about this and that it was a secret, so she did not tell me.
When she was young, she was so curious about it that she would go into her mother’s study or office under the pretext of wanting to be with her and try to find out who she had asked for.
The more they are together, the more her mother likes them.
“The person who made this was Adelia…”
“I also thought about how to make it when I first made it.”
“Thank you.”
I really appreciate it.
Because if Adelia hadn’t made this magic tool for me, I would have had to dress up as a woman with my own hands, and without this magic tool, my daily life would be impossible.
“Well, the current way was to use hallucination magic, but is there another way to transform into a female?”
“Female body painting?”
“Huh. Instead of just making him look like a woman, I thought about turning him into a woman for a moment.”
“But I just like the way it is now. If it had broken down…”
It doesn’t make sense to be a woman.
So, if it weren’t for the current method, I could have become a real woman and worked?
It’s scary just to think about it.
Every time I wear a brooch, my precious partner disappears underneath.
“Still, if you think the brooch will break, don’t worry, it will explode and the magic will be activated.”
“Hmm!”
“Of course it will be a woman’s body.”
“Why do you have to wear a female body?”
“First, I had to maintain my status as a woman, so I had no choice because changing my gender would last the longest. Hmm… Shall we put this aside for now and talk about how we can help you grow?”
“Of course.”
Although I digressed for a moment, I had to return to the most important content.
What should I do?
“What efforts did Ranel-kun make to rise to the next level?”
“Of course I trained my sword skills… “I trained and trained again?”
“Did you only train your swordsmanship and body?”
After listening to Adelia’s words, I thought about it, and up to this point, all I had done was just follow the training method my mother taught me.
Swordsmanship taught by my mother.
The training method my mother taught me.
Mana training method taught by my mother.
Everything was just what my mother told me.
“I think I did everything just the way my mother taught me.”
“Yes? So the effect was good.”
“Yes…”
The effect was good.
Because I just walked the path that my mother had already made.
“I understand that each of the Sword Masters I know has achieved it in their own way. What is your method?”
“I tried to reach there with swordsmanship alone.”
“I tried to climb up using only swordsmanship… Why?”
“Why?”
Suddenly a question arose.
Of course, I trained my swordsmanship, body, and mana until I reached the highest level of Sword Expert, and of course I planned to go to the next level in the same way.
“Do you know how other sword masters reached that level?”
“In the case of my mother, she achieved it with swordsmanship and overwhelming speed…”
“And the others?”
“Well… I do not know. “There is almost no data.”
Certainly, no detailed information was available even when I tried to find out.
This is because there are not many prosecutors who have reached that level and there were no people who knew the information about those people in the first place.
So, according to research results or papers, the only thing written was that a person who realized his or her own sword would ascend after numerous battles.
“I know of a few cases? For example, mastering all swords of different sizes because you feel that one sword is not enough, or materializing overwhelming speed or mana into a sword and changing its size at will.”
“I see.”
“Yes, Ranel, you have to find your own way. “Not like your mother, but in your own way.”
It’s my own way.
I couldn’t have expected it.
I don’t know exactly what part of me I need to evolve and develop.
What have I been swinging my sword for all this time?
“Okay, I don’t know what to do now… So, can I suggest a new path?”
“Which way?”
“Have you ever thought of using sword and magic together? “Compared to other swordsmen, you seem to have an overwhelming amount of mana.”
I saw the sword and Manara.
In the capital, people who lifted their sword with one hand and used their magic with the other hand to perform amazing swordsmanship were called magic knights.
However, magic knights tended to be rarely chosen because they were impractical.
In a battle that goes by so quickly, it’s not enough to focus on swordsmanship, and using magic means you have to move so hard that your head explodes.
“Are you talking about the magic knight?”
“No, they are just third-rate people who tried to use swords and magic. What I am talking about is not general magic, but magic swordsmen who can use magic that only swordsmen can use.”
A magic swordsman…
I’ve never heard of it.
I just thought that if I used magic together, I would be a magic knight, so I never thought about being a magic swordsman.
And what is the difference between a magic swordsman and a magic knight?
“Okay, you won’t understand at first… First, let’s find out what attributes you have.”
Do you really want to find out the properties of my mana?
It is said that when wizards learn mana, they first check their attributes in order to learn the magic that suits them.
Of course, there are quite a few knights who received it, but most of them were people who dreamed of becoming wizards but then changed their careers.
In the first place, when knights use magic, they use it to strengthen their entire bodies.
Then he slowly approached me, removed the brooch from my head with his hand, and smiled.
“So take off your clothes first.”
Yes?
