While having a high mana capacity made things a bit reassuring since he had to spend a bit less time to actually expand his mana. Though in this world, expanding mana could either be physical or mental. While people generally think of magic as for magicians, in fact, knights, hunters, and other people who use weapons also use mana in clever ways to enhance their strength.

A knight enhanced their body and figured out ways to incorporate it into their sword. Hunters figured out ways to expand their mana to discover enemies, quiet their footstep and presence, and discover ways to turn arrows into bullets. Magicians studied and researched ways to manipulate the area around them, creating things from the resources around them.

There were many different examples, but at the end of the day, mana was important, at least for those who want to actually fight or do something that requires a lot of power.

Even though the instructor said that his talents weren’t bad and that most people either have mediocre or below the recommended range, it was still possible for him to become a magician. The instructor specifically recommended healing. Though if there was a reassuring fact, it was that the tests the instructor and everyone else conducts are very limited. At least towards rare affinities.

There have been cases where adventurers discover later on in life that they have an affinity for something rare like gravity, terraforming, or any other bizarre yet useful magic that is either rarely researched or seen. So Yuu was kind of hoping that that was the case, but he decided to suck it up since it wasn’t likely that he did.

He could still become a destructive mage, with but a thought destroying the mountain and seas like in the fantasy shows, summoning entire meteors down or something. But considering the fact that he was in his twenties, and recently arrived in the kingdom of Temploran, he didn’t have much time compared to someone younger who wasn’t even in their teens.

He listened to his instructor and practiced both controlling mana and the most basic healing spell. Even though right now he couldn’t heal anything at all, it is said that some of the best magicians who specialize in that field have been able to restore limbs and even helped people fight others like madmen, having no worry about their bodies as they were constantly healed in battle.

With practicing magic, literature, and knowledge of species, through the three days, he also kept on working on his skills with the scythe. Compared to the sore arms he had on the first few days, even though he felt unbalanced and got tired somewhat quickly, he felt much more comfortable at wielding it.

With it becoming the sixth day of being in the kingdom of Temploran, he decided that it was finally time to actually take on a quest. The quest system worked like how it would in any typical RPG, the person would head into the guild and pick out a request, there would be an objective, the adventurer would complete it and get paid.

Like any typical low-ranked adventurers, those starting out at G-rank did not have anything exciting to do. The most difficult quest at G-rank was clearing out some slimes, wild animals, or rarely a goblin.

Wanting to be on the safer side of things, Yuu picked out a quest to collect herbs for a nearby village. Normally this would've been done by the villagers themselves, but apparently, they got raided recently by a group of goblins, still trying to recover.

Luckily, even though the place he had to head towards was a village and a dense forest nearby it, it was pretty close to the kingdom, just an hour or two away by walking. Despite the village being close and getting raided, nothing was done to help them besides sending a few E-ranked adventurers to check out and eliminate the group of goblins.

Finishing up preparations, he checked to make sure he had a good amount of supplies to venture out, even if it was only for the day. Though the only thing he actually carried was a bag of food. All of the essentials were given to Leah as she seemed to have a near-infinite space for storage, though it wasn’t like he had a mansion of things to keep to test the limits. As for the food, the only reason why he didn’t give her the bag of food was that sometimes she would actually eat it, becoming a problem since he didn’t know how much self-control Leah had to keep a good supply for later.

Showing his adventure card to the guards at the gate, he quickly left, heading towards the direction of the village.

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Taking a detour off the main road, he entered a forest nearby the village, which was the area that he was told to go towards. Even though it was close to the village, the further one went into the forest, the more likely they would encounter wild animals, or even goblins and slimes, which is why they decided not to enter since they usually went in groups.

Leah hopped off his head, landing on the ground, and started looking around and getting close to the plants. He had given her an idea of what they were like, so the two split up but stayed in a distance where they could see each other.

Grabbing a basket wrapped on his backpack, he quickly spotted a few stems and gently plucked them. According to the quest he received, he needed to fill the basket a good amount in order to complete the quest as the villagers needed a decent size. Though even though he found a few stems already, according to the information he acquired, some of the herbs that were requested appeared a bit deeper in, so he only spent a bit of time before moving on with Leah.

While some of the herbs he needed to collect were slightly common, a few on the list were a bit more uncommon and were not worth it for the average person to gather and sell which was why the village even placed a quest in the first place.

Having little to no events taking place, with them only spotting a boar in the distance, going around it, he decided to sit down next to a river. It’s been an hour since he started collecting and only got the basket halfway full.

Eating a piece of stale bread, he stared at the river and the trees that loomed behind it. The river wasn’t large but it carried a strong force. A few leaves were falling towards the river and as soon as it touched the surface, the gentle swaying of the leaves quickly got pulled and roped down to wherever the river led to. Yet despite the strong currents, it didn’t make much noise and sounded a bit relaxing.

The water was clean, almost allowing him to see through it, the rocks had a nice smooth texture on them, pleasant to the eyes while not allowing the bright sun to shine down on it and reflect its cursed rays while the bushy trees swayed in a harmonious manner as the wind brushed his face.

Looking at Leah, she was nomming on a piece of the bread he had, seemingly enjoying the scene as well. But when he looked behind her, in the distance he saw two blobs and a small humanoid figure approaching. From what he could see, there were two slimes, and what appeared to be a young goblin. It was definitely smaller than what he had seen before, so he assumed the goblin was much younger than the others.

“Leah, get ready, we have company.” He pulled his scythe from his back and got into a stance. Leah placed the bread down and got ready. Even though he and Leah barely had any combat experience, within the five days that they trained, they at least had an idea of what to do.

Noticing the two, the goblin grabbed a sharp wooden dagger from his waist and shouted while charging. The slimes behind it followed as well. Even though slimes mostly had little intelligence, if trained and rarely, if bound with a contract, it could eventually learn how to do something. Goblins would generally leave a few with their young ones to have something support them in case something happened.

While the two slimes weren’t necessarily a threat, they were a great hindrance. Since he didn’t have any experience he had to be careful even if the goblin was most likely a kid.