Pioneering the Apocalyptic World - Chapter 78

Chapter 13: Warning: be careful when handling

Lightning magic is a highly difficult magic. So let’s start with the ignition, which is a beginner’s class.
Extending my finger and focus my attention, while thinking ‘mana, mana…’ I chant.

“Fire, light up. Ignition.”

…….

……. Nothing happens.
The almost perfect silence made me kind embarrassed.
When I was groaning, Fricka lowered her eyebrows and murmured in trouble.

“… It seems that mana was being released from your fingertips… But it was dissipating before it becomes magic. I’m not sure why that happened…”

It seems that (young) elf children who can’t use magic can’t release mana well. They are good at sensing magic, probably because they can see mana due to their racial traits as an elf, but they have to start the training by getting used to moving mana. And if they become able to release mana, it is rather difficult to fail if it is something as simple as the ignition magic, unless they have no aptitude at all.
In this case, aptitude is whether or not you can use the magic of that attribute. There are individual differences, but elves generally have fire, water, wind, earth, and light aptitudes. Most races don’t have an aptitude for dark magic, and holy attribute fall into another category, so it’s hard to say that any race in particular can use it.
…… Huh? In other words, because Mikos have no aptitude for any attributes, they can’t use magic?

“… Would you like to try other beginner’s class magic?”

“… I will try.”

I pushed my anxiety into a corner of my mind, and tried to continue, using the water magic ‘Spring’ (which produces a small amount of water) and the wind magic ‘Breeze’ (which creates a gentle breeze), both of which didn’t go well.
While I was sweating inside, I crouched down and put my hands on the ground.

“Earth, wake up. Dig.”

Thump

Then… The soil swelled up, albeit slightly.

“O-Ooooh, it moved…!?”

‘Dig’ is a magic that digs the ground, and by chanting it, you can dig a small hole and plow it. It could be convenient to use it for agriculture? It’s that type of magic.
Until now nothing was happening, but I’m glad that a change, albeit a small one, has finally happened.
However, in contrast, Fricka had a somewhat unsettled look on her face.

“… It’s a little strange.”

“Eh? Doesn’t it mean that it was possible to use magic because the soil moved?”

“No, judging from the amount of mana released by Rion-sama, it shouldn’t end with just that…”

For example, it would be like using 10 mana with a magic that consumes 3 mana, but not getting half of the normal results.
What an extremity of waste…! ?

“Uhm… Is possible that just like Uru uses too much power and destroys things, I also use too much mana and destroy magic?”

“In that case, it will only activate a magic that is stronger than usual, it won’t fail or decrease in power.”

Depending on the magic, delicateness may be required, but it seems that she have never heard of such a case with a beginner magic. Unuu, what’s going on?
By the way, Uru was frowning by the example I gave. I’m sorry.

“Anyway, if it moved, it moved, so this is fine… Can’t you end at that?”

“… That’s right. Since Rion-sama is good at making things, you may have an aptitude for earth magic that manipulates solid matter…. Well, I doubt if this can be called an aptitude.”

…… Currently, it’s a too high waste of mana…… But It’s much better than not being able to do it at all……
Uru, who was quietly watching over the progress, intervened here.

“If you’re talking about aptitude, Rion don’t acquired an aptitude for lightning?”

Ah… That could be true.
It could be a development like, I who is a Miko that originally is unable to use magic, may have the aptitude lock for lightning only been unlocked.

“There’s any magic that you know of the lightning attribute?”

“There is, but…”

The first of them, Lightning Bolt.
It is a magic that strikes lightning at the target, which was also used by Altair.
…… However, there is a restriction that it cannot be used without a thundercloud.
You could hold the doubt ‘Isn’t It surprisingly unusable…?’ But in reality, because the restrictions are so great, its power is also very high… I experienced that first hand…

“… It’s impossible.”

Uru who looked up at the deep blue sky where there are no thunderclouds at all, and let out a these words. Watching Fin who is also looking with her is a little heartwarming.

The second one, Sparkfield.
It is a magic that spreads thunder in a plane regardless of whether it is in the air or on the ground, and creates an attack that has paralysis effect. Its power is not that strong, but it has a wide range. Above all, the paralysis status ailment is strong, and if you shoot this at an enemy in the sky, they will drop like flies.
…… When I was in the game, walking in mountainous areas was troublesome, so while jumping above them with jet boots I was shot down several times, hahaha. With the bonus of dying from fall damage!
In addition, Altair is immune to lightning, so it can’t be dropped with this magic.

“… It would be convenient if you could use it, but just hearing about sounds dangerous…”

“Right~”

All the ones that I know are powerful magics.…… Is there such a thing as beginner level lightning magic……?
In that case, I started to wonder if I had to start by searching for them.

“By the way, why was able to Regulus use it?”

“Hmm? You can’t even call that magic?”

“I don’t really understand how to draw the line between magic and non-magic, but first of all, why doesn’t Rion try the same thing, um, the non-magic? Why don’t you try using that lightning?”

“…?… Yeah, that’s right.”

I felt that Uru’s words had a point, so I thought I’d give it a try.
…… I felt like I was caught something in the ‘drawing the line between magic and non-magic’, but at that point it slipped out of my head.

For the time being, as an imitation of Regulus, I try to take a posture with my fist sticking out.
Mana, lightning, mana, lightning … While chanting that, I try to move the thing that I believe to be mana inside my body.
Regulus’s thing was like static electricity, but speaking of actual thunder??

“Rion-sama!!”

“??Hah?”

The moment I imagined thunder and heard Fricka’s desperate voice.

??Crackle!!

“Ughuaah!?”

“Kyaaaaaaaa!!”

Incomparable to the time of Regulus, the intense light that could be called a thunderbolt overflowed and the shockwave was released.
Not only me, the source of the thunder, but also Fricka, who was right next to me, got involved.
… Luckily, maybe because my ability to exercise magic is low, the power was low for the amount of light.

“Rion! Fricka!”

‘Crash!’

However, because the potion Uru immediately threw, it didn’t lead to a serious damage.
With slightly wobbly steps, I crouched down next to Fricka who had fallen.

“… Flicker, I’m sorry. Are you okay…?”

“… Yes, I’m a little numb, it’s just… That…”

I wonder if the paralysis status ailment has occurred? It seems that it was the correct answer to use the relaxation potion while holding her in my arms, she exhaled heavily.
As for burns…… It looks like she doesn’t have any. I put my hand on her cheek to check, but it doesn’t seem to be a problem.

“Fufu, if that had left any scar in me, I could say ‘Please take responsibility for it’?”

“… Ahaha… You’re pretty healthy, Fricka.”

I guess it’s not really a problem because she can joke about it. I smiled wryly on the outside, but inside I was really relieved.

“Are you two okay?”

“Yeah, what about you two?”

Uru and Fin also rushed over and replied, “It was nothing.”.
When I turned my gaze to the place where the two of them had been??There was only one broken line among several lines burnt on the ground.
… I wonder if Uru protected Fin. Still, Uru is unharmed, so I can only say as expected from her.

“Um… I didn’t really understand, but Fricka do you know what happened?”

“I don’t know the details either… But there was too much mana in Rion-sama’s hands…”

Hmmm…? In other words, it’s a case of trying to use a force that I couldn’t handle and it going out of control…?
…… Even though I want to practice because I can’t control it, it’s really annoying.
It was fine this time, but it seems to be dangerous, so from next time onwards, do I have to practice alone? That thought passed in my mind.

“… Rion-sama, please stop from practicing when neither I nor Uru-san are present.”

“…… Yes……”

I wonder if my thoughts were apparent on my face, I was warned. Well, it’s more dangerous if something happens when I am alone.
Anyway, let’s stop for a while…

Thus, my first attempt at magic(fake) was a great failure.