Year 7444, Month 9, Day 19
"tozu.borusu.nobun.keirechi.shiraku"
We both try moving our bodies while chanting the incantation for {Light}. I stood up and started running in place stamping my legs while waving my arms. Ralpha sat down on the bed and start moving her body, legs, and arms around like an octopus or something.
And I was dazed seeing the cups in a total of three places shine.
Li~es.
Seeing this result, both Ralpha and I were surprised and couldn't say a word. Since I was already used to doing something while using spells so honestly speaking, if it was just me then I wouldn't have been surprised. Or rather there's no way I would have noticed it. However, even Ralpha was properly able to use the spell while doing the octopus dance. This, as long as they can properly repeat the incantation wouldn't she be able to move while using the spell? Even though it was my secret technique that I went through that much trouble to learn this simply...Come to think of it, I just remembered this was the reason I tried to learn incantations in the past as well. It was in order to heal myself at times when I had taken wounds that made it impossible to concentrate mentally. I was only use it to learn the way to use mana for the new spells Karl taught me. That was stupid of me.
I didn't think there was much meaning to using spells with incantations but as a matter of fact they were considerably effective. Toris and Gwine's void magic should reach level 4 pretty soon as well. If we include Miduchi and Bel as well then it would be big if we had a total of six people who can run while using spells. It's necessary to be careful to use the precise rhythm while trying to hold your breathing from being disturbed and moving but I doubt it will take as much practice as normally using spells while running.
Even if they can only learn one or two cure and attack types of spells, if they properly practice the incantations things should change quite a bit. It's not the time to be entering the dungeon. I need to drive this into them even just a bit sooner.
"Ralpha, you go to sleep and start recovering your mana already. I'm going to search for everyone."
"Yeah!"
After running out of the room I caught Miduchi looking through the goods at the general store and asked her if she know the location of the other three. It seems she was together with Gwine until just now. I had Miduchi search for Gwine while I tried searching the places Toris and Bel would go. I found the two of them in less than 10 minutes. They were flirting at the side of the lake to the East of Baldukk.
After returning to the inn and Miduchi was talking to Gwine about something on a chair in the lobby. I brought them along to my room. And then, I told them about the spell {Divination}. Everyone was surprised at once, I explained just how useful it would be and had them all learn {Divination} the same as Ralpha. This is good. If they practice it for a short while, I'm sure they'll remember the incantation right away and be able to use it.
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Year 7444, Month 10, Day 2
From the day before yesterday until yesterday one of the slaves and I were were acting separately but for the time being I'll be acting together with everyone else on this 6th floor. This is fine until our levels increase a bit more. On our third teleport teleporting we entered an area that we hadn't been to before. We casually used the spells {Find.Trap}, {Detect.Snare}, and {Perceive.Pitfall} and spent until just past noon to reach the teleport room on the 6th floor.
In order to use this teleport room as our base from here on out, today I had everyone bring along quite a bit of luggage. As expected I didn't have them bring along enough materials to make a shower room but some new blankets and buckets, pots, and tableware, just bringing that along was the limit. Today I started putting down some dirt in a corner as we found a place we can relax for our beds, a place for cooking, and a place to put down the rubber sheet for a foot bath, just that took through the afternoon.
We were doing that until 4 pm but since we didn't have much materials in the first place we quickly ran out of things to do. Since we ran out of things to do other than chat Ralpha started throwing a tantrum.
"Hey~ let's peek into the 7th floor for a bit. I've never seen an ogre and I don't know how strong they are right. Wouldn't it be more efficient to try fighting them once and then after returning spend our time thinking about how to fight them starting tomorrow?"
Hmn, that certainly sounds reasonable. In order to clear the 6th floor today I splurged quite a bit and used an excessive amount of mana but I still have 3,000 MP remaining. I doubt we'll fall behind so easily. In the first place, everyone other than me still has close to full MP. Even if we just leave it alone it'll recover in about an hour or so after all.
"Has Zenom-san fought against an ogre before?"
"Yeah, in the past, a while before I picked up Ralpha..I found one once during my teens. It was a stray ogre though. It was considerably strong. It was when I was acting as escort for a caravan. Though we were ambushed in no time at all four people were killed by just a single ogre...What about you Toris, have you fight one?"
"No, I've never fought one. I've heard that there are a lot of them in the direction of Kanbitt."
So Zenom's fought against an ogre before. However, for just a single one of them to defeat four escorts of a caravan...We should be even more careful than usual.
"Hey~ Zenom, around how strong was it? Do you think we can win against it?"
"Al, that's a foolish question. There's no way there'd be a problem for your magic. And, if it's me now then I don't feel like I would lose one on one. However, it might still be dangerous for Gwine to take one on alone."
After Zenom said that about her Gwine licked her lips once with her beard that's started to grow and after clenching both of her fists made a small guts pose while,
"I'll give it my best, hmph"
and said that in a small voice while putting some fighting spirit into it. Putting that aside, it's reassuring having Zenom who's fought against an ogre before with us.
"Since they're called ogres I wonder if they're like the demon ogres? I wonder if they have horns growing? There shouldn't be any problem with using the bow right.."
Bel said with a troubled face while confirming the condition of her bowstrings.
"I don't know what ogres are like either. However, according to what I've heard they aren't enemy for master right? Please finish them off with magic while we're holding things down in the front."
"It's just as Zulu-sama says. We'll hold down things in front so please take care of things."
My two combat slaves sure are carefree. Well I still think we can manage it.
"..Can I speak for a bit? I'm sorry to throw cold water while everyone is getting in the spirit for it but there's something that everyone is forgetting about. In regards to the stray ogre that Zenom-san fought against in the past but ogres are often lead by an ogre mage. I don't know what kind of feel the ogres that come out here in the dungeon of Baldukk have but depending on the case it might possible there's opponents that can sue magic mixed in with them. We should be extra careful."
Miduchi warned us with a composed voice. Though her usage of the word forgetting isn't wrong. But, ogre mage she says? It uses magic?
"Since we can use the spell {Detect.Life} now it's fine that we don't have to worry as much about being ambushed. Certainly it's just as Zenom-san said they have a height close to 3 meters with large bodies. In proportion to that they're extremely strong in power as well and could be said to be powerful monsters but in reverse they have the weakness of being stupid. There's even cases where intelligent Orks can tame them. Since they're weak to their desires and have no self-control as long as we can find them first they'll easily get caught up in simple decoys. However, even if we don't get ambushed a group of ogres shouldn't be underestimated.
So everything up until now was just the tutorial huh? The real thing might start from here on out.