Wizard Stone - Chapter 707



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707. Why can’t I see the top?

Are you busy managing your territory? Or saving the elves?

I don’t know.

As is the case with most elves, Elihal is particularly elusive.

Even though I’ve known it for quite some time, there are still many things I don’t know. No, it seems like there are more things I don’t know.

Everything still feels like a shadow, with only edges, as if there is a huge cliff of water right in front of you, and you can’t see what’s behind it.

How could you not feel frustrated when such a cliff blocks your path?

It’s been almost a year, but it’s still vivid. Its overwhelming presence is something I can’t forget.

The walls of Elihal were so high that you couldn’t even see the top.

It felt like I was about to climb to the highest point of a mountain range.

Thinking about it that way, I feel a little relieved. The fact that the end is not in sight means that it is that much closer.

In fact, even before reaching the top of the mountain, I felt relief rather than despair.

Now that I looked at it, it seemed like it was over if I just got over this cliff. I couldn’t think of anyone greater than Elihal, whether in the kingdom or the empire.

That is to say, there is absolutely no reason to be afraid. Rather, it is something to be happy about.

Of course, some preparation is necessary. One heart-sinking moment was enough.

Or maybe it would be okay to take a break little by little like that.

I’ve been learning magic for ten years now, and I’m now twenty-six.

There was plenty of time to go up.

Is it because I feel at ease?

Suddenly, one problem was solved. One of the questions that had been unresolved for over a month was suddenly resolved.

Finally, we can see where Mila is shooting her arrows.

To be exact, I only knew the general direction, because the fish exploded as soon as it moved.

As expected, Mila didn’t dare to let the fish approach. It seemed like it would be a bit difficult to know the exact distance now.

“wait for a sec!”

Roy slowly collected the water mana, telling himself to stop training for a while.

After a while, when all the fish had disappeared, Mila appeared.

“What is it?”

“Sorry. Are you really surprised?”

“I wasn’t surprised. I was literally just asking.”

“I ordered the fish to find you. It couldn’t find you before, but it succeeded today.”

I didn’t bother to mention when I started trying and how hard it was. It seemed like nothing happened and it wasn’t important.

“Can I try again? I’m curious to see how far I can search.”

“What should I do?”

“It’s simple. Just as you were separated from me just now, try to separate from me again. Instead of climbing up the tree, stay on the ground.”

“all right.”

Mila walked slowly as she was told, and naturally, Roy’s mouth also slowly opened.

That’s understandable, since it moved almost 50 meters.

I think I finally understand why I haven’t been getting results all this time. It wasn’t a joke that I was shooting from far away.

“Roy?”

“wait for a sec.”

Roy decided to check the exact distance first. After stepping back a bit, he released the fish into the water and had Mila slowly approach him.

The result measured that way was 55 meters.

I checked a couple more times just in case, and the fish reacted at that exact distance.

At this point, it would not be an exaggeration to say that they were shooting from almost the top of the trees… … .

“I was just curious, but why did you shoot from so far away?”

“This is a bit closer. I originally shot it from further away.”

“how much?”

Instead of answering, Mila shot an arrow. The arrow flew about ten meters and stuck in a tree.

Adding up the two distances, it seemed to be over 70 meters.

“… … You kept shooting from that far away?”

“yes.”

“Why? You could have shot from closer, more comfortably.”

“Then you won’t be able to practice.”

“training?”

“Yes. I also practiced a bit.”

“……why?”

“Why? Since you’re going to shoot arrows anyway, it would be good to practice.”

That’s right.

There was nothing better than practicing while doing something. In fact, it was something you were best at.

I just never thought that that would apply to Mila too.

And the reason I thought so is simple.

“You haven’t done it until now.”

“I’ve been shooting a lot of arrows lately. As I shoot, I feel like I’ve become a bit more blunt than before. It’s also a good environment for training.”

“Here?”

“sure.”

Mila looked up with an answer, and only then did Roy understand what she meant.

Certainly, it didn’t look easy to shoot an arrow through branches and leaves.

Maybe it was because I couldn’t see the angle even though I was a little close.

In other words, even the fact that there was no angle was 50 meters. In this dense forest.

Shouldn’t this have been a fight instead of a piece?

“Are you going to continue practicing in the future?”

“If an opportunity like this arises.”

“If you want to do something other than training with me, just tell me.”

“I’ll think about it, Roy.”

“uh?”

“I told you to find that fish. Can anyone find it?”

“Not just anyone. If you don’t know the face, you can’t find it. To be precise, you have to be able to characterize the object.”

“Can’t we do something like ‘find the person who just shot the arrow’?”

“of course.”

“Then, this is also a magic for when the enemy sends a warning.”

“Not right now.”

“Does ‘right now’ mean there is room for improvement?”

“then.”

When I checked the distance, I was surprised, but it wasn’t simply because it was far.

No, that’s what surprised me, but there’s actually one more thing.

This proves that fish can do two things at the same time.

The two things here obviously meant stopping the arrows and finding Mila.

I had thought that the reason I couldn’t find Mila was not simply because the detection range was short, but because I could only do one thing at a time, but fortunately that wasn’t the case.

And this fact, as I told Mila, had quite a lot of potential for development.

It was clear that simply increasing the number of things we could do simultaneously would be a huge help.

Well, it won’t be easy, but… … .

“Let’s go back first.”

“yes.”

After that, Roy continued his training and experiments.

Developing fish is good, but before that, you need to know exactly what level and condition it is at.

And the results were very interesting.

No, it was very surprising.

First of all, the distance at which the fish reacted was different for each target.

That’s why not all the fish reacted to the arrow together even though I found Mila 50 meters away.

The arrow had to come close to react, and Mila reacted immediately when it was only about 55 meters away.

Here, we did not invade each other’s territory.

When one fish moved in response to an arrow, the other fish did not move.

As if the food were the fish’s share.

Finally, fish also had priorities.

I only had two arrows and a millimeter, but I knew which was more important and how to move them.

Of course, the arrow was more important. Even though I moved in response to Mila, when the arrow flew towards me, I changed my target and went straight to intercept it.

There was just one condition: only while in the water.

That is to say, once you get out of the water, your goal will not change.

This is why Roy came up with a hypothesis.

It was clear that the fish were greatly influenced by their own thoughts and images dissolved in the mana of the water.

Otherwise the preceding movements cannot be explained.

That extremely natural and rational movement, just like what you normally think of.

And the important thing here is the word usual.

This means that it is impossible to make a moving fish suddenly stop moving when it sees Mila, or to make two fish react to an arrow.

I guess I still lack training, but it hasn’t gotten to that point yet.

Of course, this alone would have been a great achievement.

The mana of water did not simply provide mana to fish.

I could literally control fish, even though it wasn’t real water.

Well, it’s not a real fish anyway.

It certainly seems like the image is important, considering that something like this was possible just by changing the shape.

No, is it the other way around?

“Roy.”

“Schugel.”

“Are you busy?”

“No. Why?”

“A letter has arrived.”

Shugel took something out of a small pocket on his wheelchair and held it out.

As expected, the envelope had a magic school symbol on it.

“Kids, are you sending them?”

“Yes. To be exact, it has already been sent. It should arrive in ten days at the earliest, or this week at the latest.”

“Well then, I guess I should start getting ready too. How about Marie and Dredd?”

“What are you talking about?”

“Do you think you two are ready to welcome the graduates?”

“That depends on what you want me to do. So, what exactly do you plan on doing?”

“I won’t make you do anything special.”

It wasn’t just a remark to reassure Shugel, there really wasn’t much for the two of them to do.

At best, all he could do was lead the graduates and hunt goblins and kobolds together.

For now, I think I’ll have a better idea of ??what to do once I see the graduates.

Skills are important, but personality is more important than anything else.

If there was even a wizard of noble birth with a hard head, hunting monsters with mercenaries would be a breeze.

No, I think that would be better.

There’s nothing more entertaining than seeing a wizard with no skills but strong pride eventually fall…

I was kind of looking forward to it.

The first thing Roy did in preparation for his graduation exam was to sleep until the sun rose for the first time in a long while.

No matter how much I thought about it, it seemed like it would be hard to supervise the exam while also doing the Daesurim work. I decided to stop setting up the fireballs for a while, at least until the exam was over.

It was also decided to install fire mines in the castle only once every two days.

Even though the amount that needed to be installed was the same, it was easier in many ways to split it up and do it rather than doing it every day.

It was worth it just to be able to sleep peacefully for one day every other day.

Of course, that means waking up at the same time everyone else is waking up.

Maybe it was because of my habit, but I couldn’t sleep well, and even if that wasn’t the case, I had a hard time because of the sword.

I had to wake up around this time to be able to make the level of swords I usually make.

I don’t know about anything else, but I couldn’t rest when it came to Luna’s training.

And the same goes for training with Mila.

Now that I had finally found Mila and knew the way forward, I couldn’t suddenly stop practicing.

There were still many things lacking, not only in terms of water mana, but also in terms of the fish themselves.

The detection range also had to be increased, and the distance it could travel had to be increased.

Fish still cannot survive long out of water.

In his spare time, he met with the mercenaries Eredin had selected, or went hunting with Marie and Dread.

So this week passed by.