chapter 17
17 – Rail Violand, fight with me
I checked the box Elise handed me with a blushing face.
She opened the box and found a gold ring inside.
“A ring?”
“This is one of the newly created artifacts.”
Come to think of it, it reminded me of the bracelet Laila showed me at her store a while ago.
Perhaps the jewel encrusted on this ring contained magic.
“You don’t have to give me something like this.”
“No. I made it myself because I wanted to give it to Rail.”
“You made it yourself?”
“Yes. Most of the things sold in the market are made by my father, but I can make them too.”
I took the ring and checked it closely.
The ring had Neon Bar’s name written on it, as Lyla showed, and my name, the user’s name, was engraved on it.
I didn’t expect to receive a surprise gift from her like this, so I expressed my sincere thanks to her.
“But what kind of magic does this artifact contain?”
“Ah, if the magic power of the wearer falls below a certain level, the magic power in the ring will fill up the lack of mana.”
“It would be nice to use it instead of a potion.”
“Yes. Just like at the ball, the rail magic seems to consume a lot of mana, so I made it once.”
Turns out, Ellis knew that I was low on mana, and she created this artifact as part of it.
As if to reciprocate Alice’s gift, I immediately put the ring on her left finger.
“Ba, why are you wearing a ring there?”
“Huh? What?”
I didn’t understand Elise’s bewilderment when she saw the ring on her left ring finger.
And with her embarrassingly flushed face, she describes her carefully ringed finger.
“That, that finger is where the betrothed wears the ring…”
It wasn’t until after hearing Alice’s words that I realized why she was so flustered.
Come to think of it, I remembered that she was a little awkward at the prom when Fenia asked if she was a lover with me.
“Oh, sorry. You didn’t like being involved with me like this either.”
“Oh no! Why do I not like rails? No. That doesn’t mean I like it…!”
Alice suddenly starts stuttering her words as if something is out of order.
In the end, I immediately removed the ring and put it on my middle finger.
The finger didn’t show any reaction this time, so the finger didn’t seem to have a problem.
And only then did I notice the ring that suited my hand.
It was my first time using a ring, and it suited me quite well.
“I’m sorry I couldn’t buy you a present.”
“Oh, it’s really good! If you’re so sorry, please visit our mansion next week!”
“Okay, next week, I’m really going to take Aline and Fenia to visit.”
“Then next week we will see you at our mansion!”
Alice waved her hand and greeted me, and I also lightly waved her hand and accepted her greeting.
With the sound of the horse neighing, the carriage Ellis was riding began to move, and after a while, after Ellis’ figure had completely disappeared, we also moved.
“Then let’s go get some physical training right away.”
“My lord. Today, we have to do more than we did yesterday.”
Come to think of it, I said I’m putting off all the training I couldn’t do today because I visited Alice and her other merchants yesterday.
“By the way, was there a mountain higher than the mountain behind here?”
“There is one, but it is too far away.”
“Then what are you going to do until yesterday?”
“You only have to climb the mountain twice.”
“·······.”
Alin’s answer was so simple that I kept my mouth shut.
These days, my body has become lighter and my stamina has increased a lot, so it wasn’t a job to climb once, but it was the highest mountain around here.
But to climb that mountain twice.
But judging by the look in Aline’s eyes, it didn’t look like it was just a joke.
In the first place, he wasn’t the type to joke around.
“Yeah, I got it. What’s wrong with my mouth?”
“Well thought out. Lord.”
In the end, I accepted Aline’s offer with a deep sigh.
‘I don’t know, it will work somehow.’
So after warming up more properly than usual, I climbed the mountain with Aline.
As expected, when I finished climbing for the first time, I was a little short of breath, but I didn’t feel like I was overexerting myself.
But now, when I should be sitting down, drinking cool water, and resting, I’m about to climb the endless mountain again, and I’m already worried.
And as I feared, I was exhausted before I could even reach the summit on the second climb.
‘I think I’m going crazy.’
My body started to feel heavy, and I could feel my feet shaking seriously every time I moved them.
It felt like the first day I started climbing with a fat body.
But the good news is that I didn’t slam my face into the mud as ugly as I did back then.
But since I hadn’t reached the summit yet, I could have put my face in the meantime.
“Master, is it difficult?”
Alyn turned her head and asked me if I had slowed down too much.
I couldn’t help but nod her head as I struggled to answer.
And I hoped that Allyn, who was watching over me, would rest here for a while and then say she would go.
But Aline’s reply ruthlessly shattered my hopes.
“Now, the top is right in front of your nose. Give me a little more strength. Lord.”
I really wanted to tell Aline to take a break, but I couldn’t say anything because I had said that I would do all of yesterday’s work today.
In the end, I was able to finish the climb 6 hours after I started climbing.
“Ha ha, ha ha.”
Hot breath came out of his mouth.
My whole body was wet with sweat so that if anyone saw my body, they would have thought I had showered with my clothes on.
“Good job. Lord.”
Next to me sprawled out on the floor, Aline calmed her rapid breathing and greeted me for your hard work.
No matter how much physical strength is better than mine, Alyn also seemed to have strength to climb the mountain for more than 6 hours.
“Luna.”
“Yes. Rail boy.”
“Give me some water.”
I didn’t have the strength left to drink water using magic.
In the sprawled state, the body did not move at all.
So I drank the water with Luna’s help.
Knocked up. Jump.
The cold water just before it turned to ice ran down my throat.
I felt a refreshing feeling more refreshing than beer or ion drink after exercise.
“Ha ha. I think I will finally live a little.”
As soon as I filled up with water, my body began to move little by little.
But even that was not fully recovered, so the only thing I could do was to raise my stretched body.
And Fenia, who had been waiting for us, appeared in front of me before I knew it.
“Ugh, if you overwork your body like that, it’s rather counterproductive.”
Looking at me drenched in sweat, Fenia clenched her tongue and thrust her wand towards me.
And then, darker-than-usual magic power rose from her wand, and it immediately began to seep into my body.
After Fenia’s recovery magic was completely over, I could feel my body much lighter than before.
It seemed like he used higher quality magic than the recovery magic he usually used.
But Fenia narrowed her eyes as if she still didn’t like the way I looked.
“Ugh. It smells.”
“Is it that bad?”
“Yes. I tried to be patient, but I just can’t.”
Fenia, pretending to hold her nose with her hand, flicked her fingers lightly at her.
Then, the sweat that was still forming on him disappeared in an instant.
Not only the body, but also the clothes that were wet became dry at the same time.
“Oh, what kind of magic is this?”
“A cleaning magic used when clothes are dirty. If your proficiency increases, you can become as dry as if you took a shower like this.”
Come to think of it, I had never seen Fenia go to wash her body in her mansion.
At first, I thought it was just the wrong time to wash, but now she looks at the magic Fenia showed her, and it seems that she hasn’t taken a shower until now.
But it didn’t smell particularly bad, so I didn’t bother.
“Then what are you going to do today? If I’m going to Harlem again, I think I’ll have to avoid Aron’s gang.”
Because of Aron’s drug party in four days, I did not recommend going to Harlem, where you could meet Aron’s gang.
And Fenia’s thoughts were the same as mine, so she shook her head.
“Today, I will check to what extent your magic has developed, and I will also tell you about new applied magic.”
Applied magic.
I couldn’t help but look forward to Fenia’s words that, like a bullet made by compressing air, she would teach me a new application of magic.
Did you read my thoughts? Fenia smiled a little and opened her mouth.
“But, it’s not as great applied magic as you think.”
“It’s okay. Because the more leftovers, the better. So what is the new applied magic?”
“It would be better to show it than to say it a hundred times.”
At the same time, Fenia immediately used her telekinesis magic.
For a moment, she felt a thick magic flow around her.
It was a mana that was so heavy that it was incomparable to me.
Fenia’s magic hovers around her and slowly begins to take her own place.
And when her magical energy fully settled, Fenia met her eyes with me.
“How is it?”
I couldn’t say anything when Fenia suddenly looked at her and asked how she was.
That would be the case, and Fenia’s appearance was no different from usual.
“I’m not sure?”
“Then what about this?”
Fenia told her to take a good look at herself and lightly kicked her foot.
Thump!
Then, just as she lightly kicked her foot, Fenia’s face, which had been far away, appeared in front of me in an instant.
“Wow, sir! It’s a surprise.”
“hehehe. Surprised?”
“Who isn’t surprised when her face suddenly pops out? “
I was genuinely surprised.
I didn’t even see Fenia’s movement, not using teleport.
Just like when Alyn moved her body at her full speed.
”How did you do it?”
No matter how much Fenia is a great wizard, she will not be able to move her body like Allin.
And, as if my prediction was correct, Fenia immediately explained the movement a moment ago.
“Remember when you crushed your opponent with gravity magic?”
“Of course not.”
“Then do it all in reverse.”
“The reverse of everything?”
“Yes. Gravity magic on yourself, not on the other person. And make the weighty magic even lighter.”
Only then did I find out that Fenia’s movement was an effect that made her own body light.
Come to think of it, she only thought of making the other person’s body heavy, but did not think of making mine lighter.
Once I heard Fenia’s words, I immediately raised her magic power.
It wasn’t that difficult to use magic against me.
And I started to get a feel for lightening my body little by little after repeating a little trial and error.
Penia, who was watching the scene, gave a brief admiration.
“As expected, I learn this right away.”
“Somehow, I feel like my body has become lighter, but I don’t know yet.”
The magic seems to have succeeded, but it didn’t feel like anything had changed.
“Then try it.”
“What?”
“Run to where Luna is over there.”
Luna was as far away from us as Fenia was from me a while ago.
I nodded her head and braced her leg.
And after taking one look at Luna, her destination, she kicked the ground.
Kung.
Like an arrow flying through the air, I ran towards Luna.
No. To be exact, it was more like flying.
It was very slow compared to the speed Penia showed me a while ago, but I couldn’t dare compare what I saw and what I did.
In the end, I couldn’t keep my balance at a faster-than-expected speed and slammed my face on the floor.
“Are you okay?”
“Uh. Are you okay.”
Luna hurriedly approached me and checked my physical condition.
After giving an appropriate answer, I stood up and brushed the dirt off my clothes.
It was certainly not an easy task to balance a body that was lighter than usual.
It was like running on the moon with less gravity.
But thanks to the increased sense of balance from daily physical training, it didn’t seem like it would take long to get used to magic.
And as I expected, it was only after I tapped my face on the floor six times that I was able to balance my somewhat lighter body.
Of course, because he used magic six times, his mana ran out quickly.
“Master. Some mana potions for me.”
“Only at times like this are we called masters.”
Having said that, Fenia immediately took the mana potion out of her arms and handed it to me.
As I ate her potion, I felt her body fill with empty mana.
Recovering my magic, I slowly got up from my seat.
It was already after dark, perhaps because I had climbed the mountain twice.
The time was getting closer to dawn.
Fenia cast a recovery spell, but her mental fatigue hadn’t healed. I wanted to quickly go to her mansion and rest.
After going back to the mansion with Aline and Fenia, a woman I had never seen before was standing in front of the garden.
Her body trembled slightly at the moment of bad premonition.
And the bad feeling was correct as always, and the woman who made eye contact with me strode towards us.
The woman who arrived in front of us drew her sword from her waist, and she pointed it at me and said.
“Rail Bioland, compete with me.”
Anyway, I think I ate too much to sleep today.