Only My Magic Levels Up - Chapter 43



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Vanity Heat Wave (3)

A few days ago, I returned to Abaca after finishing up the Burtain family business.

Galen stopped by the mercenary guild and placed a request.

It was a request for specific information about the wizards active in the pioneer zone that the Guild was aware of.

Yesterday happened to be the day that the regular flight from the pioneer zone arrived in Abaca, and the documents the union leader handed over even listed the locations of the magicians staying in Abaca as of yesterday.

It’s not exactly a background check, but it’s information that can be obtained by asking around, but it’s not a very pleasant thing for the person involved, so the union leader asked them to be careful.

Galen, who asked for Lilia’s understanding and sent her back first, read through the documents briefly before leaving the mercenary guild.

‘hmm.’

I never expected that Baek Eun would be on the list in the first place.

Whether you have a specific purpose like Galen or Cane, are just stopping by for a quick experience, or have just recently achieved enlightenment from bronze and become silver.

If it weren’t for one of those three, I would have already left for somewhere else where I could make money more easily.

Still, if you count from level 30 onwards as silver, there will be level 10 bronze, level 20 bronze, and level 29 bronze.

First, Galen lined up the people in order of their skills, and then selected those who had extremely bad reviews from those around them, and then selected the rest.

Since I was looking for the place I stayed the night before, some people had already left or were out of the place, but after two empty calls, I managed to meet the third candidate.

“Are you Lord Roy?”

“Yes, but… who are you?”

“I would like to ask you a favor.”

“A request?”

The wizard named Roy was a man who looked to be about thirty years old. He looked embarrassed as soon as he heard Galen’s words.

“I’m sorry, but I just got back from the pioneer zone yesterday. I don’t want to go back right now, but maybe later.”

“This is not a request to go to the pioneer area.”

“Huh? Then what?”

“Well, I have some personal… research? I need your help with something.”

“Research?”

Roy’s expression worsened. He had a suspicious feeling that he was calling in a wizard to do research.

Galen also realized that he had made a slightly wrong choice of words. However, even if he had tried to substitute words, it would not have been of much help since it was only a test or an experiment.

“I’m not a suspicious person… I’m this kind of person.”

Galen decided to simply use his fame. Roy’s eyes widened as he held out the hot golden mercenary badge he had received that morning.

“Uh, uh… Seriously, really?”

Although Roy didn’t know that he had reached the gold rank yet, he had been hearing rumors about Galen all the time he had been staying in the pioneer zone.

Even though he was famous, I couldn’t recognize him in person because there were no pictures or anything like that, but the moment I saw the mercenary badge, I couldn’t help but recognize him.

“Oh, that, uh, excuse me!”

“It’s okay, as long as you don’t mind.”

“Why would someone as great as you have business with someone like me······.”

“As I said, it’s something like personal research. You just need to exchange magic with me a few times on a very light level. There’s absolutely no harm done. And it’s not like we have to go to some secret place to do it.”

“······Are you sure?”

“Today… no. I don’t use magic all day. I’ll give you five gold coins if you hang out with me once.”

“Five coins? In gold?”

“I’ll give you a deposit. If you can go right now.”

Roy gulped at Galen’s refreshing words.

Even though wizards were more valuable than warriors, it was absolutely not worth getting five gold coins for a single-day, bronze-grade job. Five silver coins would have been an option.

In the end, it was greed that won. Roy nodded.

“I will do it.”

“Then please prepare.”

Let’s wait a moment, Roy came out after finishing his preparations. Galen called a carriage and headed to the nearby training grounds.

It was a facility spread across Abaca. It was a place where mercenaries could pay to use for a short time and relax.

Galen, who had rented a small vacant lot surrounded by a wall, faced Roy.

“I heard you are a wizard who uses wind as a weapon.”

“Yes, that’s right.”

“The method is simple. Just take turns attacking and defending.”

“So, you’re attacking?”

“Of course the power will be lowered. Don’t worry if you get hit, you’ll get bruised.”

Roy looked slightly regretful, but he had already received the deposit and come all this way, so he couldn’t turn it down.

Roy, standing with his feet apart, spoke with a slightly trembling voice.

“Then, I will attack first.”

Galen nodded. Roy swallowed hard and extended his arm toward Galen.

Wheeing!

The wind blew.

The flow of wind that even Galen could feel gathered at Roy’s fingertips.

Immediately afterwards, a blade of wind was shot out.

‘It’s fast?’

Of course, it wasn’t to the extent that I couldn’t keep up.

The trajectory of the attack is visible in the time slowed down by the accident acceleration. The blade of wind was not completely transparent, and the movement of the moisture being pushed to the side was also felt.

A shield of water was suddenly erected in front of the blade of wind.

Phew!

The wind succeeded in cutting through the shield, but cutting the water with a sword was of little use. It could not even penetrate the shield and fly away.

[ Wind Blade Run ]

[ 1% progress until first acquisition ]

At that moment, a status window appeared.

Up to this point, Galen had expected it.

The conditions for learning magic that he had figured out were when he came into contact with the book of vision or when he collided with the opponent’s magic.

It feels a bit awkward and unpleasant to bully an innocent and weak bronze wizard to learn new magic, and it also makes me feel bad for others.

Then, how about hiring them with money? It was a reasonable idea, since it was a pioneering area where it was relatively easy to find magicians.

“Then this time I will go first.”

“Yes, yes!”

Galen extended his index finger and pointed at Roy. The weakest and slowest-firing grenade flew.

puck!

Roy’s response was a bit excessive, perhaps because he was very nervous. The blade of wind completely detonated the grenade and destroyed it.

“Just repeat this.”

“Is that so?”

Roy did as he was told, even though he looked like he didn’t understand English.

Thud! Thud! Thud!

The blades of wind and the spheres of water struck each other back and forth.

Roy’s face brightened slightly as he felt relieved that it seemed true that there was absolutely no danger, but on the other hand, Galen’s expression gradually hardened.

‘It’s been going as expected so far. A bit too much.’

The magic that Galen has learned through fighting so far is Spirit Creation and Vanity Flame.

Both Redna and Kane, who were his opponents, were silver.

The silver wizard squeezed out all his magic power until he was on the verge of collapse from exhaustion, and as a result, he was barely able to reach 100% progress.

Would that formula really apply when fighting bronze?

Moreover, whether it is experience gained through sparring or experience gained through killing, the effect decreases exponentially the weaker the opponent is.

It was the same when I was practicing magic I had already learned, so would it be an exception when I first learned magic?

What had been a concern before the experiment began became reality.

“Gasp, gasp······.”

“Are you having a hard time?”

“You can do more, more!”

“No, please don’t force it. I’m not trying to bother you. How much magic power do you have left?”

“······Actually, there’s almost nothing left.”

“Take a rest, then.”

Even though they continued training until Roy’s magic power was depleted.

[ Wind speed ]

[ 3% progress until first acquisition ]

The progress is only 2 percent.

Even that progressed just before it ended, so I almost didn’t get to see it.

Even though bronze and silver are incomparable, their magical power is definitely not fifty times different.

The progress bar didn’t go up at all. At first, I thought the status window was broken.

“Roy Gong?”

“yes!”

“If you were to receive the same request again, when would you be able to do it?”

“Do I have to do it again?”

“Just a hypothetical, hypothetical. If this request were to be repeated over a long period of time, how often would it be possible? I’m just curious.”

“That··· I can’t do it every day, and considering the magic recovery time, I think I’ll have to rest for at least one full day no matter how much I reduce it······.”

“Hmm, once every two days is the maximum. Okay. Thank you for your hard work.”

“Is it the end…?”

“I told you that you only needed to hang out with me once.”

Roy looked dumbfounded. He must have wondered what was going on when he was sent away after being ordered to do incomprehensible tasks and then told that his magic power had run out.

Galen, who had sent Roy off coolly without paying any more attention, went on to find the next candidates.

Three more wizards were lured in and tested using similar methods of persuasion, namely, pressuring them with fame and bribing them with money.

The results were similar to Roy’s. No one went up by 3 percent, and the last person, who was the least skilled, went up by only 1 percent.

‘If we assume it continues to rise by 2 percent, it will be repeated fifty times. Even if we pull it as far as possible, it will take a hundred days. It will take more than three months. That’s the minimum.’

It’s not like you’re simply hired for a hundred days, but you’re forced to squeeze out all your horsepower for fifty days every other day.

If you escape in the middle, you’re screwed. Would there be a wizard who can stick to the schedule until the end? Well, there must be one. But I don’t have a clue how much money they should give.

‘Is there a defect in the bronze level magic? Is that why the status window can’t properly accept it? The standard for mercenaries is bronze, but they say that silver is the starting point for standing tall as a warrior or magician······.’

I don’t know if that’s really the reason, but either way, stealing magic from bronze was just too inefficient.

If it’s a rare and desirable type of magic, then maybe it’s something you want to learn somehow, even if it takes more than three months.

If you want to increase your magic skills, it would be much more efficient to just find a silver magician and start a fight with him. Putting aside the fact that it’s a bit of a hooligan’s business.

‘Yeah, that’s better. If you start by refining your magic, there will come a time when you’ll encounter a new magician. Then you can level it up again.’

Didn’t you originally expect to gain less experience from Bronze? I felt better just giving up like this.

Come to think of it, it hasn’t even been nine months since he first learned how to operate a water gun. While others spend their entire lives focusing on just one, he’s already mastered three.

Wouldn’t it be more solid to gradually master them one by one rather than carrying around dozens of low-level magic spells that you can’t even use?

‘Let’s start by raising the vanity fever.’

Galen, shaking off his foolishness, walked forward with a relieved expression.

*

Two days later, a small incident occurred.

Myra called Galen.

“Have you had a good rest?”

“What could I have done? Your Excellency the Bishop was busy.”

“Actually, I wasn’t that busy. I guess I just had a lot to think about.”

Myra, who had said so, handed Galen an envelope.

“Take it. This is the settlement for last time.”

“Thank you… Oh.”

Galen opened the envelope and was slightly impressed. There were ten promissory notes for one hundred gold coins each.

He had received a similar amount of money for completing the Nigerte affair, but that was only because he had ended a decades-long feud over control of a wealthy port city. It was certainly not the kind of sum a common silver wizard would receive.

Of course, it is now gold, but the general gold travel expenses were not formed from a thousand gold coins.

“You give me a lot.”

“If I hadn’t taken you to the cradle, you don’t know how much damage it would have caused.”

Myra smiled bitterly.

It’s just a hypothesis, but if Galen hadn’t been there, they might have been unaware of Moritz’s betrayal, and if the punitive force was annihilated, the Burtain family would have been next.

The collapse of the Abaca diocese and the shaking of the roots of Elta meant that, to exaggerate a bit, two cities were blown away.

Of course, it can’t be said that the achievement is entirely his since Galen couldn’t have faced Moritz alone without Myra and Lilia.

Still, a thousand gold coins was a large sum for a church. It meant that Myra held Galen in high regard.

Myra asked, watching Galen pack his envelopes.

“You must have received the settlement. Are you thinking of leaving now?”

“Well, I can’t live here my whole life.”

“Have you decided on a destination?”

“Should we decide now?”

“So it’s still undecided.”

Myra nodded at Galen’s answer, paused for a moment, and then opened her mouth.

“How about taking on another request?”

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