"Is this even possible?" Riveria asked.
Curious of her reaction, others also approached her and the first one to do so was Ais, as she's also incredibly interested in their Basic Abilities when they each faced multiple Minotaurs not too long ago.
Like Loki and Riveria, however, the moment they laid their eyes on it, they thought that it was a very bad joke, except for Line, who had experience adventuring with them.
With the entire Loki Familia silent, Kisuke clapped his hand and said as if nothing was strange at all, "See the last line designated as Ki? It's the same energy I'm talking about. So this proves that it exists and could be used."
"Wait for a second! This line is really surprising, but don't just brush off the ridiculous numbers on her Status! Is this true!?" Tione asked while gripping her hand tightly.
Kisuke squinted his eyes and said, "Of course, it's true. I don't have any reason to lie about this. Besides, can you really say that this is false after witnessing their battle that day? Well, to be fair, Koneko-chan's status was this high when they faced the Minotaurs."
"H-how is this possible?" muttered Ais. But despite the low volume of her voice, everyone heard her.
"Hmm~ I wonder~ Maybe because we do things a bit differently?"
After mulling over, something crossed Loki's mind, "Wait, Hestia. Did you do something else to their Falna?"
Everyone from the Loki Familia thought that Loki was implying that Hestia cheated somehow and to their surprise, Hestia nodded, "It's the old Falna."
Loki's eyes squinted further before she started scratching her head, "So it's really that, huh... Even then, it's very surprising that they managed to improve under that circumstance."
Loki's response broke their expectation and realized that they assumed it wrongly, "Loki, what's this old Falna?" asked Riveria.
"It's the blessing that the Gods gave the people of the Lower World when they first came down. Compared to today's Falna that everyone uses, it gives the ability to grow a lot faster in terms of parameters."
"Then why didn't you give us this type?" asked Ais as she gripped her hand tighter.
Loki understood her feelings and answered, "Because it has a very big flaw. So big that the children who received it didn't get much stronger."
"Flaw?"
"Where do you think the large majority of an Adventurer's strength came from?"
Thinking about it for a moment, Riveria answered, "Skills, Development Abilities, and Magic."
"Correct. And the very first blessing, despite giving the child a large boost to their physical abilities, doesn't provide anything special. You lot should know that beating monsters through simple brute force doesn't really work effectively on strong monsters as normally, they are much stronger. Even Tiona and Tione's 'Berserk' is incredibly useful, not to mention Development Abilities that give resistances."
Eye wide open, Lefiya raised her voice, "Then what about their magic!? Are you saying that those incredible magic they displayed were not from a Deity's blessing?"
Loki, however, stayed silent as she too didn't know. Nevertheless, she looked towards Riveria for clarification.
Riveria, on the other hand, looked towards Kisuke, wanting to ask for his permission. Though before she could ask, she saw him nodding at her. Sighing, Riveria revealed it, "I think it's fair to assume that their magic was something they learned how to cast and even I don't match Kisuke's control in magic power. That's the main reason why I kept going to their place. It is for me to learn magic from him."
"Y-you're learning from him?" asked Lefiya with an incredulous expression. As for others, they were also making the same face. There were so many surprising things today, but this must be the most surprising revelation for them. After all, who would believe that the greatest Mage in Orario would be learning magic from a Level 2 Adventurer?
Riveria didn't mind this reaction and just smiled, "It's true. His control is so amazing that even his Wind Magic, even though it can't outclass Ais' Wind Magic in terms of power, is still a lot better than hers."
Lefiya's jaw dropped and her head mechanically turned to her idol.
Ais then nodded at Riveria's words, "It's true. Despite using my Ariel, I lost to his Wind Magic."
A wave of headaches came to everyone. They couldn't take it anymore or keep up. They thought that this is just a bad dream.
However, this was just the start of their world view collapsing. Ais looked towards Line who was staying quiet and away from other's line of sight, "Line is the first one to start learning magic from him, so if it's really possible to learn their magic, the results should be on her."
Seeing that everyone's attention was now on her, Line couldn't help but smile wryly. Even then, she decided to be honest, "I did learn a few things already. I can now cast my healing magic without chanting. On top of that, I can also cast a few Elemental Magic for everyday use."
Lifting her right hand, a small ball of flame suddenly manifested on top of it, shocking everyone else yet again. They knew for sure that Line wasn't capable of casting any other magic aside from her healing.
Line, however, kept silent on the fact that she reset her Level to 1 and now her parameters are around S and A after Adventuring with Sona and company.
Another round of silence took over the girls of the Loki Familia. They were tired, very tired. Nonetheless, Tiona was the first one to recover and raised her hand with an excited voice, "Please teach me about this Ki! What does it do!?"
The others were very impressed at her recovery rate, 'As expected of the muscle-head. She doesn't think much,' thought everyone.
Kisuke grinned, "Okay~. Koneko-chan, mind stepping over here for a minute?"
Koneko nodded and went beside him as Kisuke continued, "Aside from walking on water, you can also do some other neat tricks with enough mastery."
Kisuke then looked towards Lefiya and said, "Viridis-san, mind attacking Koneko-chan with one of your magic? You don't have to hold back."
"W-what? But that's too dangerous!"
With a condescending expression, Kisuke answered, "It's fine. I'll take responsibility. Though Koneko-chan will definitely be fine."
Something snapped within Lefiya's mind. As one of the most prominent Mages within Orario and Riveria's protégé, she certainly takes pride in it. Of course, Kisuke's attitude didn't bode well with her and agreed to what he wanted.
After getting confirmation from Riveria, Lefiya went away for a moment to get her wand. Once she returned, she immediately warned Kisuke and Koneko, "Please be aware. One of my skills is called Fairy Canon that doubles the effect of my attack magic. Monsters from the deeper floors of the Dungeon will almost always take heavy damage despite their strong defenses that can block multiple attacks from top Adventurers."
However, Kisuke just waved his hand in dismissal as he walked out of the way, "I said it's fine."
Successfully having her nerves touched, Lefiya immediately started casting her magic while Riveria sighed on the side. Even so, she's incredibly curious about how Koneko would block Lefiya's magic, 'She should be aware of how strong Lefiya's magic is and she definitely wouldn't be able to take it head-on when we were together last time. Did something change? Did she level up? If that's true, then they're really one ridiculous group.'
Finishing her chant, Lefiya released an arrow of magic, "Arcs Ray!"
The arrow carved a path along the beach, creating a small explosion of sand particles, partly covering everyone's view. Even then, everyone saw it clearly. Koneko put her right arm in front of her before it lit up in white transparent light.
Seeing that she really didn't dodge, Lefiya panicked a bit and tried to pull away from the trajectory of her magic. However, before she could do so, she witnessed a trauma-inducing scene for Mages happen in front of her.
Figuring out Lefiya's intention, Koneko dashed forward, towards the oncoming magic. Although she heard some screams from the background, she ignored them as she slapped away Lefiya's Arcs Ray with her bare hands, sending it towards the ocean, creating a big explosion of water behind her.
With everyone stupefied, Kisuke explained with a gleeful voice, "Another trick you can do with it is weaponizing your own body~!"
Editors:
28th00: Fear the Mage-killer Martial Artists with “Lol, nope!” tier magic resistance. They cast FIST!
The dumb Amazoness didn't even question what she just saw and simply said, "Please teach that to me!"
"Well, it's a pretty advanced technique. Without proper control, knowledge or capacity, it's impossible to pull off something like that," replied Kisuke.
Those who normally take the vanguard position became very interested in Ki, however, the same couldn't be said to those who normally take the rearguard. They're more interested in how to counter something like that.
If this were to be widespread, their position would be in jeopardy as many people may be able to easily counter them, which in turn, increases the risk to their lives.
Of course, Kisuke knew that not everyone had an affinity with Ki, so as to not widen the gap between Magic and Ki, Kisuke planned to introduce more usages for Magic and break their doctrine that Magic could only be used the way they're currently using it. In other words, breaking their common sense regarding Magic.
"Now then, before we continue, let me add a few things for those who're making sour faces."
Hearing that, Lefiya's pouty face froze and tried to revert her expression to normal. However, her failed attempt only made her face worse. Chuckling at that, Kisuke continued, "It's not just Ki that can do this trick. Magic is also capable of doing so. Moreover, although not specialized for body reinforcement, Magic can also strengthen your body actively."
Of course, as Magic users that are more focused on their Magic parameter and are assigned to deal devastating blows to enemies, they doubt if they could really strengthen their 'frail' bodies.
Guessing their thoughts, Kisuke turned to Serafall and said, "Sera-chan~! These people don't know the true potential of Magic. The most important thing for them is their Magic's firepower. They don't even know how to walk on water despite knowing how to 'use' Magic."
Serafall, who was having a fun time with Sona while ignoring most of the things that were happening because it had nothing to do with her, immediately reacted, "Huh? The most important thing is firepower!? And they can't even walk on water!? Just how poor is their control!? I didn't expect such an infuriating group would exist!"
Since Kisuke and the rest hadn't explained the nature of Magic in this world to Serafall, she didn't know that people of this world depend on chants to control and materialize their Magic. However, even if she did know, she might have said the same thing.
It's true that controlling Magic Power in this world is hard and risky, but total control is not impossible. Just depending on what was given to you, it didn't bode well with Serafall, who even though she had an enormous amount of Demonic Power and could cast Magic through just her imagination, it didn't stop her from studying other systems of Magic, including Holy Magic even if she couldn't use it.
However, Serafall's words hurt their pride that even Riveria couldn't help but furrow her brows, "We're Adventurers. Although we know the importance of versatility in Magic, pure firepower could overturn the situation in the deeper floors, hence it's much more important. How would you defeat hundreds or thousands of monsters besieging you if not with firepower?"
Serafall wanted to refute her but managed to stop herself and simply sigh. Just from Riveria's reaction, Serafall figured that they hadn't met an enemy that could reflect Magic attacks. Pure firepower attacks are indeed effective, but only if the conditions were optimal and you wanted to finish off weakened enemies.
Unless one has special properties in their Magic attack like Sirzechs', it's a basic thing to prepare defensive or reflecting spells against large scale attacks. Moreover, destruction type spells were heavy for Magic Power consumption compared to Bewitching or other crowd control spells which are generally harder to counter due to their variations.
And if you're really besieged, saving your strength is equally important as finishing the battle quickly.
Sighing, Serafall replied, "I won't argue with you anymore since I also don't know what the Dungeon has to offer."
But immediately after, her cheerful expression returned and added, "However, I'll still demonstrate you some nifty magic tricks~!"
Riveria, however, was getting a strange feeling. It's as if a veteran is trying to tell her that she wouldn't understand unless you experienced it yourself.
Meanwhile, Yoruichi approached Kisuke and asked him if this is fine, "It's fine~ She knows she can't show anything powerful."
While receiving doubtful looks from the rearguard members, Serafall continued walking until she stepped on the water. Similar to Kisuke, she kept herself afloat, "I'm doing the same thing as he did, but instead of Ki, I'm controlling my Magic Power to keep the state of the water below me. However, this is a pretty advanced technique and it's a lot easier to just use Elemental Magic."
After her explanation, the water below her slowly froze, without her doing anything evident.
The Mages became wide-eyed seeing this as they couldn't even tell when she cast her magic, nor could they feel the disturbance in Magic Power which is very normal when a spell is being activated.
Disregarding their reactions, Serafall continued walking while creating ice on her path until she stopped a few meters away from the shore, "Of course, this isn't just limited to Ice Magic, as you can use Water Magic to condense and solidify the water itself."
As she took another step forward, instead of ice, under her feet were vortexes, "You can also use Wind Magic to keep yourself afloat, but if it's Wind Magic, you'd rather have just propelled yourself."
As she finished her words, the wind suddenly gathered and gushed around Serafall, before she suddenly shot up to the sky, hovering midair and looking down on everyone with a bright smile, "Well, these are just a few things you could do with Magic~! In a real battle, you can use these to reposition yourselves to more favorable terrain~."
"S-she's flying..." Muttered Lefiya.
"...Even Ais-san couldn't stay that long in midair," added Alicia.
"More importantly, I didn't even hear her chant a single word to do all of that... How was that possible? Is it because of a rare skill?" asked Elfy, Lefiya's roommate.
With a bitter smile, Riveria shook her head, "No... That wasn't a rare skill. After all, Kisuke was also capable of that. You should have seen Sona, Aika and Koneko cast their spells. They didn't mutter a single thing, and I don't think only they are capable of this in their Familia. You know how unlikely it is for individuals to have the same skills, right?"
She then smiled and looked up to Serafall, "She said that firepower isn't the most important thing against a large number of enemies. I wonder what she knows to strongly believe that isn't the case? Either way, I want to know more and if you want to do the same, you first have to throw away your notion of Magic and even those I taught you in the past."
Anakitty understood her stance immediately and said, "Riveria-sama is admitting defeat?"
The first time she witnessed something like this, Riveria thought that Kisuke was someone special. However, after seeing such usage of magic from many individuals, Riveria already accepted that he isn't unique. In that case, she really knew nothing about Magic and only now could she accept it.
Hearing that, Serafall smiled slightly and continued, "Now then~! To master Magic, first you have to discard the thinking that it can only be used effectively from the back. Sure you can be a Mage that bombards enemies, however, being a Magic-Fighter is better overall due to their versatility."
"Magic-Fighter? How are they different from Mages?" asked Riveria.
"If Mages mostly just stay at the back to give covering fire or support, Magic-Fighters are those people who can use Magic to fight, regardless of their position on the battlefield. Well, that's the rough definition. The distinction between Mages and Magic-Fighters is blurry as reality could be a lot more diverse and complicated, you know~." answered Serafall as she conjured a spear made out of ice in an instant.
Editors:
28th00: Serafall-sensei. Sona must be having an idol moment. It kinda blows my mind that they ignore that Serafall is a War Hero in the God-classes in most fanfics, and therefore she would have an astronomical amount of combat experience. And Ki, definitely vital. You’re immortal, you definitely have the time to learn it, not to mention its usefulness is immense. The physical boosts are insanely useful, not even mentioning the regeneration and other healing techniques.
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