CHAPTER 43: 43 - MORE TRAINING! [2]

"Ouch... Fucking hell."

I muttered as I massaged my arms and the temple of my head. They hurt like hell.

My training with Clifford just ended, I didn’t get hit by a single stone—but because of his raw strength, the force of his throws accumulated in my arms. Meanwhile, my head hurts as I had to continuously manipulate my cells using mana for my body to perform much better than normal.

And now, after all that... I’m currently heading to where Oscar is waiting for me.

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"Are you okay?"

Oscar asked as soon as he saw me massaging my temple.

"Yes, I’m fine."

I replied and recomposed myself.

"Want to rest for a while?"

"No, let’s start right away."

I urged him. At the moment, the best thing I can do with the wind attribute is produce a wind ball the size of a marble, I have no leeway to rest.

"Okay, let’s start."

Although he was worried about me, Oscar respected my will and started the training.

"For now, let’s try to increase the size of your wind ball."

He said.

"Got it."

I immediately started after hearing that.

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Then finally, after about half an hour of nonstop training—I created a wind ball the size of a baseball!

"Ohh...! It’s the biggest I’ve ever made!"

I exclaimed with a smile on my face.

"Hmm, now maintain that for a minute then launch it."

Oscar instructed while nodding his head in satisfaction.

Then my training with the wind attribute continued for a few more hours.

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After producing the wind ball the size of a baseball, my growth in wind attribute—which had been stagnant for days now—improved drastically.

Using what I learned from Levina in training my electric attribute as a reference, I quickly increased my proficiency in my newly acquired attribute.

I can now cover things with my wind. I can also combine it with my skill Psychokinesis to make things move faster and lift things easier.

And lastly, now I can also increase the speed and force of my attacks!

"Your mana control is absurdly good."

Oscar said as he watched my terrifyingly fast growth. He’s smiling and showing a huge amount of curiosity.

"Ah, haha... Yeah..."

I just laughed awkwardly, averting my eyes away from him. I don’t want to be a test subject of a mage.

’My mana control is a rank higher than my overall rank, after all.’

I thought inwardly.

The same goes for my agility stat.

’What the hell is with my unbalanced stats anyway?’

My stats were fine when I first came here, but they became like this upon me leaping to E- rank.

"Meh, whatever."

Anyway, I didn’t dwell on that topic for long and ignored it. After all, it’s unbalanced in a good way.

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*****

-Oh, you look tired.

Levina mumbled worriedly after seeing my haggard expression.

"No, I’m totally fine."

I replied with a forced smile.

It’s true that I’m tired, but this is the last training session so I shouldn’t laze around and just finish it.

Now I’m going to train my electric attribute with Levina.

She looked at me with doubtful eyes for a while, but then shook her head.

-Today, you should try to at least summon a lightning.

She said.

Levina’s tasks when training are too hard that it’s almost absurd. Though, because of her high standards and strict but non-knowledgeable teaching...

I improved drastically at using my electric attribute.

That’s why I can now even manipulate electricity in my cells.

So even though my goal today sounds hard, I didn’t complain as I’ll also need to do it in the future anyway.

’I think I’ll need to create.’

Unlike Levina, I’ll need that to summon a lightning—at least at my current rank. But because I have a contract with her, the chant will be several times shorter than normal.

So with that, I started to experiment on how to summon lightning using the lowest mana and shortest chant possible.

I trained for hours, I was feeling dizzy and all, then finally...

I achieved the best outcome possible!

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"[Struck everything that is on your path...]"

"[Lightning Bolt!]"

BZZZZT—

BOOM!

A single discharge of lightning was fired from my hand and hit the tree I was aiming at.

CRASH!!

The tree fell to the ground while still burning. Dark burn marks could be seen all over its trunk.

The lightning has the power of a 3rd-tier spell, but when used against water-based creatures—it can be as strong as 4th or even 5th-tier spells!

-As expected of my partner. It’s weaker than my lightning, but it’s satisfactory!

Levina exclaimed, nodding her head.

’Finally! Her standards are really high, shit... I already blasted a lot of lightning, but Levina said they were too weak, so I had to redo it again and again until I reached this result.’

Also, inventing chants is making me cringe. It took a lot of my mental energy just to make one.

Moving on, with that done...

"I’ll rest for a while now. Take care of Yuki."

I said that.

-Okay, see you later!

-Kyuu!

I leave Yuki to Levina from time to time as I don’t want her to be alone in the spatial storage all the time.

I also can’t care for her while I’m training. I don’t want her to feel lonely.

The two of them get along well too so they don’t really mind at all.

Anyway, with that—I left them alone and went to my tent.

I brought my own tent.

I sat inside in a lotus position and started to meditate and circulate my mana.

I always rest like this.

And while doing this... I organize my thoughts too.

’I already have the material for my weapon.’

I decided to use the meteor for a katana, as I already have [Nyx] as my gun, which is with Tyrone at the moment.

’I also need to increase my mana control as much as possible.’

If everything goes smoothly tomorrow while fighting the boss, we will all leave this dungeon happily.

’Is there something that I can do?’

I asked myself as I continued relaxing.

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*****

After meditating—just as usual, I cooked for the group and we all ate peacefully. I didn’t do any more training since we’re going to face the boss monster the next day, so we need to be in good shape.

I went back to my tent and took something out from my spatial storage.

It’s a [Mellow Flower].

’I’ll use it later anyway.’

The method that I thought of to help Clifford and the others was to be as strong as possible when confronting the boss tomorrow!

This herb in my hand will make my mana capacity bigger. It will also make my control better. It was perfect to get strong fast.

So without further ado—I sat down in a lotus position and swallowed the herb raw.

Gulp!

And as soon as I did that, a bitter taste lingered on my taste buds. It was so bitter that my expression crumbled!

"...!"

I closed my eyes tightly and started circulating my mana to make the herb as effective as possible.

Levina and Yuki are outside the tent guarding me. Usually, I’d refuse them, but I didn’t this time as I need to focus on absorbing the herb as much as possible.

[Mellow Flower] is a high-class herb that can only be found in B rank or higher dungeons.

So it’ll take a lot of time for me to absorb it.

And with all of that... I entered a state of trance.

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*****

"Fuuuuuuu..."

Fully absorbing the herb’s effect, I let out a breath and opened my eyes.

A bright light going through the thin cloth of my tent entered my eyes, blinding me slightly.

"...?"

I frowned.

I started at night, and now it’s morning.

But my face relaxed upon feeling that I’m full of energy... No, I actually feel lighter than usual.

The mana inside me became easier to control, and I can also feel that my capacity became bigger just as I expected.

I tried looking at my stats, but nothing changed.

"Guess it’s not gonna be that easy anymore, huh."

I muttered and closed my status window.

Anyway, moving on...

I left the tent and got greeted by everyone.

I started to cook for our breakfast, then after we ate—we all headed to where the boss monster is.