252 The Ability To Combine Spell Effects With Techniques
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After I conjured the magic, Aquarina attempted to do it with her dummy, and failed once before doing it successfully the second time, meanwhile, Zack failed three times before finally managing, it was clear that he didn’t had as much talent as Aquarina or I, but he made up for it through his sheer amount of determination. And his abnormally large quantity of mana for someone that is not talented at magic, which still intrigues us.
“Wow, it is really walking slowly!” Said Aquarina surprised about the feat she had accomplished. “I wonder if I can do the same with monsters I am chasing, so they walk slowly and I can catch them...”
“I-It took me some time but I did it...” Sighed Zack. “But how can we add the spell to our attacks?”
“Oh well that takes some more time, you need to be able to find a way to converge spells effects with techniques, that’s more advanced but you should be able to do it if you constantly conjure the spell, it is a fairly easy spell, so you could quite possibly learn how to conjure it without chanting in some days of practice...” My mother said. “but that would be a huge waste of time! So you’re also learning the Weak, Defenseless, and Exhausted Curses, each one decreases a major Attribute of a target. With Slow you decrease speed and movement, even thinking process, Weak makes them physically weaker, Defenseless weakens their physical defense, and Exhausted decreases their stamina and vitality...”
“Ooh, they’re all useful! Alright, let’s do it, Auntie!” Said Aquarina.
“Hm! Good girl.” Said my mother, petting Aquarina who was very pumped up.
“Wait, more spells? Ugh, my head is going to hurt by being forced to memorize so many curses...” Sighed Zack.
And like that, mother taught us each of those valuable curses, they were the lowest tiered and ranked ones, but they were already quite handy. It took us the entire day after lunch to learn each spell and conjure every one of them. My mother was a deadly teacher, and quite ruthless, she didn’t let us rest at all until we were able to conjure each spell at least once...
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She said that memorizing it was not so important, what was important was actually conjuring the spell, for some reason, she said that the moment a children conjures a spell, a “mark” is formed inside their souls, it is like an “history of used spells” even if you don’t remember the spell formula that well, once you finally conjured it properly, recalling it back will become progressively easier as this “history of used spells” registered inside the soul become larger, so the more we conjure a spell, the more we remember it, even when Zack is struggling so much to remember a thing.
When my mother finally finished teaching us, we felt rather exhausted, but thankfully dad and the ret had already settled the tents for the night. As we got closer to the coast, the temperatures got colder every day, but the tents had been enhanced with some magic that produces a certain amount of “warmth” while isolating the interior from the exterior by a bit, although chilly winds sometimes still enter into the tent through the night.
We were currently having some tasty dinner, apparently Nepheline and Ninhursag went to hunt today while we were busy learning magic and my father and Shade protecting the caravan, so they brought a lot of big monsters to eat. There were large Wild Boars, Lightning Raptors, which seemed like small and slimmer versions of Lightning Tyrannosaurus, and even some giant two-meter-big flightless birds with red and sharp as blade beaks named Carnage Birds, capable of shredding a person’s entire body with their beak and eating them into pieces... Scary. These monsters were all around Tier 4 to 6, so I don’t know if we would be able to handle such difficult creatures as easily without getting super exhausted afterwards.
We did fight the Goblin Champion back then by ourselves, but that fight was very difficult and even after defeating him we were about to die against the other goblins, if it wasn’t because of our parents watchful spirits always protecting our backs... Oh well, things are different now, I think I am slowly growing stronger, so perhaps I could handle stronger beasts even by myself.
And even then, Tiers in Physique and Magic Circle aren’t everything, we got the help of our Spirits as well, that adds up a lot of strength boost to our capabilities, and I also got Alice, the system, with her infinite mana, my skills that can be used without conjuration (which is a big cheat by itself in this world) and everything else, even when I a lower Tiered, I still can fight against powerful and frightening opponents above my level by going absolutely all out.
The techniques I have learned too, the spells I can abuse to enhance my physique strength and stacking them together using my large amount of Mana and everything else... Yeah, I am pretty good for a 7-year-old girl, I am pretty sure I have surpassed my previous self by far! And to boot, I got some nice accessories and equipment made by my father and my mother, this six-limbed beast scale chest plate protects me well against blows, and my sword made by the Witch of the Blue Mountain is also pretty awesome, it lets me unleash black flames packed with curses!
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Wait, curses?
Right! I was always able to use curses through this sword! Oh... I never realized that until now, maybe I really had my mind elsewhere... It is just that when my mother explains and teaches me things, I am just in a daze before her amazingness. But I wonder if I could add the curses I learned into my sword techniques then... Perhaps? It is worth a try sometime in the near future, perhaps I could go hunt some monster by myself secretly... Well, I don’t think they’ll let me do it so easily though.
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