Chapter 155- Another Mock Battle

“You’ll start the descent today.”

“Okay!”

The day before yesterday was the first time I successfully completed that training and yesterday I reached level 90. It’s the perfect time to start training for Spirit Descent in earnest.

“…But before that.”

“Hmm?”

I thought it was going to start right away, but it seems not.

“I heard you had a mock battle with Judy yesterday.”

“Yes.”

Yesterday, I was forced to understand the difference in our abilities. But thanks to that, I can be more diligent. I didn’t get too carried away.

“You’ll do the same with me.”

“What? Why?”

“Just because.”

I couldn’t understand why she was doing it, so I asked her why. She didn’t tell me why, but I could tell she was determined to do it. I took out the two swords from the magic ring that I had been lent. The capacity of the magic ring is as large as Sophie’s. I’ll have to make sure I don’t forget to leave it on.

“So, just like Judy, I won’t use spirit magic.”

“Okay, I got it.”

I’ve heard that Tiya-san is not good at physical attacks and specializes in magic attacks, but will she be okay? Of course, if it was a mock battle based on magic only, I won’t be able to do anything and lose. But this time, I can use anything at my disposal. She didn’t pretend to take out her weapon.

“Begin.”

“Lightning double enchantment, Raiden armor.”

And I wanted to go at Tiya using my usual three-piece set …….

“Ga brr …….”

“Fufufu… stuck?”

The moment I took my first step towards Tiya-san, my body stopped moving. In addition, my whole body is very cold. I couldn’t even move my face, so I just looked at myself and saw that I seemed to be buried in a block of ice. When I looked at the ice with my magic sense, I saw that it was several dozen meters long. But politely, only my face was showing outside.

“Inferno!”

There was no sign that the ice would break, I decided to melt it with magic.

“It’s not melting?”

“Come on, try harder.”

But my magic didn’t melt it at all. Tiya-san said so while walking leisurely. I cast lightning magic with no chanting which I acquired in the battle with the insect monsters.

“BARE.”

But my lightning magic was cancelled out by Tiya’s very same lightning magic.

“A slow no-chant that you just don’t say out loud is worthless.”

“…Yes.

When magic sensing has grown to a certain level, you can even tell what kind of magic your opponent is preparing. I’m not skilled enough to know what my opponent is doing in battle. But if he prepares his magic slowly, I can at least tell what attribute he is using.

“… I’m cold… let me out.”

“I’ll let you out.”

Hearing my surrender, Tiya-san walked towards me happily. In the end, no matter what I tried, I couldn’t break her ice. I was surprised to find that even spirit magic couldn’t break it. She snapped her fingers and the ice that had been blocking my movement disappeared. The ice was gone, but I was still cold.

“Good, you’re cold.”

Then she patted me on the head and my whole body warmed up from the head she was patting.

“Are you good at ice magic?”

I asked as she stroked me. That ice magic is impossible to do with a little practice. I still can’t believe she did it without chanting.

“I’m good at earth, ice, fire and light magic, not so good at water and lightning. Not so good with wind.”

“Eh? Really…”.

I had a selfish image that she was good at all kinds of magic like Sophie. I was surprised to find out that there’s a magic she was not good at.

“I’m good at magic that can utilize spirit magic.”.

“Huh?”

When I asked her for details, she said she had practiced the magic that went well with her spirit magic. Tiya-san seems to be almost useless when there’s nothing requiring spirit magic and at night. The attribute of her spirit magic is shadow. It is a magic that is based on the premise that there are shadows to begin with, so if there are no shadows, she can hardly do anything. she can’t use spirit magic if there’s no such shadow. It seems she tried to make a shadow all by herself because she didn’t want to become useless. She uses earth and ice magic to create projectiles and fire and light magic to create light sources. That’s how she creates the shadows. The water and lightning spells were supposed to replace the earth, ice, fire and light spells when they couldn’t be used for some reason. And if you can’t make use of the wind, you almost never practice it.

I know it sounds bad to say this, but I didn’t think this much about practicing my magic. I’m just trying to improve everything I can, but I’m worried if it’s enough.

“Shall we do the descent?”

“Yes!”

For now, let’s do whatever we can. Since Yug can do anything, then I should be able to do anything and there’s no loss! If I were to specialize in something, it’d still be a good idea.

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