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Magic Beast: Blade Wing

Lv11

State: Temporary Vision Impairment, Mana Shortage (Small)

【Attributes】

HP: 104/120
MP: 12/102
SP: 161/188

I see, it's got its vision back to a degree, but not a lot of mana left.
Well I mean the thing did go crazy shooting magic.
One more and it's gonna fall to Mana Shortage (Large) or worst, Mana Depletion state.
Thus it opted to run instead.

Think I'd let you?

“Alma, mind letting me take care of that bird?”

“Eh? But, it's flying high up, how?”

“Like, this!”

I threw my sword to lighten the load.
It's not gonna do much against that bird anyway.

I've just leveled up thanks to the goblins earlier, my HP and MP are fully restored with higher maximum.
How handy.
I've got the mana.
Should be enough.

Mana emitted out of my body gets harder and less precise to control the farther away it gets.
In other word, mana that sticks very close to my body is the easiest and strongest to control.
I wrap my mana around my gloves and boots, then harden it.
Same with my body and head.
I control this hardened mana and launch it along with myself toward the flying weird bird!

That was the moment I flew in the sky.
At super high speed at that.

Wait what, hiiii!? M-made it flew too fast!
How many kilo is it!? How many k/m!? It feels like moving at around 100 k/m on a highway!
Aah, so this is what it's like to be a Z warrior…
Let's not go there, it's dangerous.

『Kiyiii?!』

As the weird bird got startled by me who caught up to it in no time, I splashed it with liquid in a bottle.
A little smear turns firewood into charcoal instantly, [Fire Frog Oil].
What's gonna happen if an entire bottle gets set on fire? Can you bear it, bird?
Fire out of my hand, Ignite!

The bird blazed up so bright I thought another sun showed up.

『KIIIIYGYAAAAAAAAA!!!』

The weird bird crashed down while loudly wailing to its death.
The Menu display turned red even before it reached the ground.
That did it in huh.

The body kept on burning on the ground, by the time the flame went out, only a charcoal remained.
Kinda waste of mats and meat, but I got a feeling letting it run back to the forest would be bad, so let's not dwell on it.

T-that was tiring.
I leveled up after defeating the weird bird, restoring my HP and MP to max, but I'm just physically and mentally exhausted.
Flying with hardened mana was something I just thought up during mana control training, so that first flight was done without a rehearsal, there was a non trivial chance of it failing.
…Yup, let's not get ahead of myself next time.

Alma ran up to me.
Ah, she picked up my sword.
what a mindful girl.

“Good work.
I'm just glad we're both in one piece.”

“H-Hikaru, did you, just fly…?”

Her face twitched as she said that and handed over the sword.
Don't make that face now.

“It's actually pretty simple when you understand the principle behind it.
Want me to teach you how next time?”

“I-I'll pass.”

She's backing off.
Is she afraid of height?

“Still, wasn't it rare for magic beasts to prowl these parts? And those were some powerful beasts.”

“I had never seen such strong magic beasts coming out of magic beast forest before.
Something might be up in the forest.”

“Any guess?”

“Either they were driven out by strong monsters, or it's an omen of Stampede.”

“Stampede?”

“When magic beasts proliferated too much, they form a swarm and leave their original territory to invade towns and villages.
It shouldn't occur if we just cull out a certain number of them every month…”

“…It's not because you haven't been taking on magic beast elimination quests for the past week, is it?”

“I don't believe a Stampede would suddenly break out just because I didn't do it for a week.
Something's not right.”

“…Either way, we've gotta report back to the guild, let's go.”

“Un.”

We started walking briskly toward the town.
If this Stampede thing is really going to happen, we've gotta plan it out.

Ah, right.
I'll check our Status post-level up in the meantime.

First, me.

Kajikawa Hikaru

Lv5

Age: 25

Race: Man

Job: ERROR (Appraisal not possible)

State: Normal

【Attributes】
HP: 40/40
MP: 36/36
SP: 0/12

STR: 16
ATK: 16 (+30) (+2)
DEF: 16 (+15) (+5)
AGI: 15
INT: 17
DEX: 18
PER: 24
RES: 14
LUK: 14

【Skill】

※Acquisition Not Possible※

EXP: 188
NEXT: 240

Equipment

Iron Sword
ＡＴＫ+３０

Bear Leather Breastplate
ＤＥＦ+１５

Safety Shoes

ＡＴＫ+２　ＤＥＦ+

O-oooh.
All of my attributes got to two digits.
My level went to 5 from 2.
Just how much exp points did that bird have.
Hmu, these values, do my attributes follow after my level?
They were all 0 at level 1, does this mean I'm a late bloomer type.
Meaning, by level 20, my stats would be decent enough.
A long road ahead.

And next.

“Alma, mind if I check your Status?”

“Un.
I leveled up after beating the big goblin earlier, and the option to Job Change came up in my head, I chose Paladin.
I want to see how it's like now.”

So you can Job Change on the spot once the conditions are met huh.
I thought you need to go to a Church or something.

“Oh, well done! Let's see here…”

Almatina

Lv10

Age: 16

Race: Human

Job: Paladin

State: Healthy

【Attributes】

HP: 211/211
MP: 126/126
SP: 70/90

STR: 100
ATK: 100 (+30)
DEF: 92 (+20) (+10)
AGI: 105 (+16)
INT: 133 (+5)
DEX: 64
PER: 106
RES: 85
LUK: 45

【Skills】
Swordsmanship Lv4 – Offensive Magic Lv4 – Martial Arts Lv3 – Throwing Lv1 – Magic Swords Lv2

EXP: 2034
NEXT: 2500

Equipment

Iron Sword (Buff: Int Up)
ATK+30 (INT+5)

Lizard Leather Body Protector
DEF+20

Boots of Wind
DEF+10 AGI+16

Bwoh!?
W-what the heck!
Had no idea you got a bonus with Job Change, these are incredible!

“Y-your attributes saw a huge increase.
Skill levels too, Swordsmanship and magic at lv4, Martial Arts at lv3 and Magic Swords at lv2 now…”

“…That's a huge change.
It's like I'm not me.”

I gotta stop fooling around or else I'm gonna drag Alma down.
Gotta proactively level up and reduce the gap between our stats.
Let's get this reporting to the guild thing over and done with and prepare for magic beast hunting for the sake of my level.
Destroy.