Chapter 14

Chapter 14 Strongest Sage, Teaches Magic

"Way of magic combat . . . . No . I want to make the territory prosperous than training heavily in magic . Magic is a mean for that end . "

I see .

If he answered 『I'd like to walk the way of magic』, I was going to give him the magic-up set and the hellish stamina training . . . . But if he's fine with just surpassing Biffgel, I've got something simpler .

"Okay then . First, you should stop using Chant . "

When I told him that, Reich opened his eyes wide in surprises .

"Chantless right from the start!? Don't you think it's too unreasonable . . . . "

"The act of chanting itself is unreasonable you know . "

The use of magic demands stability of mind .

There is no way you'd be able to properly use magic while shouting those embarrassing lines out loud .

"Then how am I supposed to use magic?"

"Of course you do it by gathering mana like this . . . . "

I gathered mana on my right hand while saying that .

You can do this on your legs and head no problem, but doing it on your dominant hand is easier for a beginner .

I thought only doing this much would be simple, however– .

"Gather mana? How do you do that?"

He doesn't know how to . . . gather mana . . . ?

My brother Reich, up until now just how did you activate magic then .

Perhaps there's some sort of secret hidden in these Chant things?

"Hold on . I'd like to test something . "

While saying that, I put my hand toward the tree that Reich used to test his magic on .

And then I mimic the chant thing while feeling embarrassed .

"Fire mana that dwells in my body, become a straight arrow and pierce my-"

And then, a portion of my mana gathered on my hand even though I didn't control it at all .

It feels like an outside force forcefully controlled the mana inside my body .

Furthermore, the mana was changing to magic at an extremely inefficient way–it stopped halfway through and the magic activation was canceled .

It seems the conversion that was automatically happening was hindered because I reflexively controlled my mana .

. . . . This is not a natural phenomenon .

Someone intentionally devised this system during the time I was reincarnating .

A system that makes using magic become exceedingly inefficient while also making mana control unknown to people .

But, for what sake?

You'd normally think that they thought up this method to make magic easier to use, yet it's still too complicated . If it's using your voice as a trigger, a simpler keyword would be more than enough, and in the first place, you can easily activate a magic of this scale simply by controlling mana . The assistance has no point .

Judging from the current situation, this is perhaps intended to keep people from learning how to control mana and for the magic development to– .

"Mathi, you suddenlly fell silent, what's wrong?"

Oops . I got lost in thought .

I was in the middle of teaching my brother magic wasn't I .

Fortunately, I found the problem . Along with the way to overcome it .

"I was thinking a way to teach you how to control mana . . . . I found a good method . "

"Good method?"

"Un . There's this sensation of mana moving when you're chanting a magic right?"

"I'm not sure if it's the sensation of mana moving, but it does feel weird . "

"Try to disturb that . I think you'll grasp the sensation of the movement of mana a bit with that . "

"The movement of mana . . . . I'll give it a try . "

After saying that, Reich chanted once again .

The magic still got activated however . . . . there was a slight disorder in the movement of mana .

"The sensation just now . . . . Did you grasp it?"

"Somehow or another . I'll try it once again . "

Saying that, Reich repeated the same chant .

This time the mana movement truly stopped . The magic didn't activate either .

"Alright . What should I do next?"

"This time, try to move your mana on your own instead of stopping it, without relying on the Chant . I think it's easier if you gather it on your dominant hand . "

"Got it . "

Reich gathered mana on his right hand . He's got some skill . Enough that it's a waste for him to stop at just being a territory lord .

He would be a fine magic combatant if he just kept training for several hundreds years .

But now's not the time to do that .

"Then next, imagine a flame appearing in front of your hand . If the flame is too big, it won't go well due to the lack of output, thus I think starting with a small one is a good idea . . . . "

Right after I said that, a small flame lit up in front of Reich .

If this keeps up, he should surpass Biffgel by tomorrow even if I leave him alone . Reich's crest is the Second Crest after all (It has no special characteristic at first, however its power will increase along with training . )

However, it'll be a waste if I do that, I'll teach him a simple way to practice .

It might even pique his interest in magic combat .

"Looks like you did it . After that, I think you should observe the flame you created and solidify its image . "

The most important thing in changing mana into magic is image .

If you want to quickly increase your magic power, the quickest way is to make the image accurate .

. . . . Though since the amount of your mana is closely related to it, you will also quickly hit the limit if you only do that .

"Image? I don't think an image of flame is that complicated . . . . "

"You think so? Try drawing a flame then . "

"Okay . It's like this . . . Huh?"

The thing Reich drawed on the ground with a stick was a very haphazard deformed not-like-this thing .

Even Reich seems to understand that there's something wrong with it, but he doesn't seem to know what, and the drawing ceases to look like a flame as he repeatedly tries to correct it .

"See?"

An image is more ambiguous than we think ourselves .

That's why when you try to give it a form, it will take a different shape in case of drawing, and in case of magic, reduced conversion efficiency .

Accurately comprehend the phenomenon, memorize it and then reproduce it with magic . That's the first step of magic training .

Looks like Reich is practicing it right away . The flame created by Reich who gathered his mana while staring at it looked slightly bigger than before .

"I see . It got stronger . . . . Mathi, are you really 9 years old?"

"If I wasn't, how old would I be . "

The current me really is 9 .

If we count the past me, it's thousand, un, hundreds years old .

"No well . I know that you're 9 and all . But looking at Mathi's magic and swordsmanship, it's really hard to think so . I think there's only a few adventurers in active duty that could beat you, let alone 9 year olds . Or am I just being a stupid elder brother?"

Since I don't know the level of the current world, I can't be exactly sure about it, but even I should have some problem against adventurers in active duty .

The gap in things like body size and physical strength is way big too . . . .

By the way, I could already win against my father . That is only if I use 【Mana Strike】 and Physical Reinforcement though .

"Though it's probably impossible to catch up to Mathi, I will do my best . It won't be funny if I can't beat Biffgel with this . "

After saying that, Reich restarted practicing magic .

It was one week later that Reich showed flame magic that was several hundreds times stronger than Biffgel's and gained fame as the best magician in the territory .