I don’t know what conclusion Siphon and the others will reach, but we have some things to do in the meantime.
First, we have to check out our rewards from the Fors dungeon. But of course, since we’re hesitant to do it in the city, we’re going out.
Elsa and Alto are coming along, and so is Naoto’s party.
Argo, Siphon, and their parties are staying because they want to go to the dungeon. Argo wants to check it out while he’s here.
It makes it feel like his idle lifestyle in the capital never even happened. Then again, he says he was acting like that and hitting on people to look for Morrigan, so maybe this is just what he’s actually like.
Apparently he taught Naoto and the others a lot of useful things when they were traveling together.
“Is around here good?”
“Looks like it.”
We’re in a forest south of the city, and since there’s a spring up ahead, we decide to stay here.
Mia, Elsa, Alto, and Shizune start preparing to cook right away. Hikari gives them meat, and then comes back.
Apparently she’s curious about the items Rurika and the others got.
“I’ll go first. I got this hairpin that looks like it goes well with my Gale skill. When I infuse it with magic energy, my body is enveloped in wind, which lowers the wind resistance I get when I use Gale. That means there’s less of a load on me. But since it uses magic energy, I need to find out its limit.”
Yes, when I use Magic Energy Control, I can see a thin film of magic energy around Rurika’s body.
“Can’t you carry other people too? What would happen?”
“I can if I touch them, but… It’s really intense on the magic energy.”
Rurika touches Sera, and then crouches and whispers that she’s feeling languid.
Her magic energy is gone, but she takes a mana potion out of her item pouch, and looks a little better.
“I got this bracelet that raises my maximum magic energy.”
As Sera says, her bracelet gives her two hundred more MP.
It’s definitely a good item for Sera, since she has low magic energy to begin with.
“My boots give me the blessing of the wind. I can move fast, but if I use magic energy, I can move instantly like a fake version of Sora’s Transfer.”
Chris focuses her magic energy, and disappears.
I hear an ‘ouch’, and when I turn to look, I see her sitting on the ground.
“Hum, I didn’t stick the landing.”
She gets up with her face turning red.
“That’s great big sister Chris. Can I do it too?”
“I wonder. It spends a lot of magic energy, so it might be difficult… Do you want to try?”
“Yes!”
Hikari takes the boots, looking very excited, but what about the size?
I think that, but when she puts them on, it feels like they shrink to just the right size.
“It looks like they adjust to the wearer.”
I see. It’s not that rare among magic items. Seriously.
Hikari focuses her magic energy while everyone watches, and…
“C-can’t.”
She says.
I cast Appraisal, and it says you can’t use them if you don’t have the necessary magic energy. And Hikari is definitely on the lower side of the magic energy spectrum.
Also, if Chris says it takes a lot, it definitely takes a lot.
I use it like it’s no big deal, but Transfer is a pretty brutal skill. Someone can instantly appear behind someone else and cut them down.
It makes sense that activating it takes a lot of magic energy.
“Well, I think it’s best if Chris equips them and uses the skill as a way to evade in an emergency.”
“Yes, I will do that.”
“But you need to practice.”
Rurika’s right, even if it causes Chris’ face to turn red again.
She’s thinking back to what just happened.
“I-I’ll try.”
But she knows Rurika is right.
Also, it doesn’t use all that much magic energy when it’s just boosting her speed.
“What about your item, Sora?”
“Nothing changed. I guess I need to free the other gods.”
My bracelet is the same, so I guess I have to look forward to when all the gods are free.
“I see, then…”
Our eyes turn to Kaina.
“When I wear this brooch, I can use the magic I used when I was alive.”
Appraisal calls it a recollection brooch.
Kaina uses magic. Since she’s a miko, it’s light magic, but she says she can use darkness magic too.
“But I can’t use it too much. Magic energy decreasing messes with how I operate.”
It makes sense, considering her body is a golem operated by magic energy.
Still, being able to use magic opens up her options in battle.
After checking everyone’s equipment, Mia says the food is ready. That leads Naoto and the others to come out of the spring too.
They were having fun in their swimsuits. Maybe we could go have some fun too.
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Thanks for the treat.