“Come now, lady Hinotori.”He directed me towards a crystal-clear orb that sat on a pedestal in the centre of the room.[Item name: Mana Appraisal Orb][Item Rank: High Rare][Item Description: An orb made out of appraisal crystal. With it, one’s magic power can be measured into numerical values]Effect #1 – Changes colour based on mana densityEffect #2 – Records magic power as a number][Value: 20 gold coins | 5 store points]‘A mana appraisal orb?’‘That’s what he meant by testing our magical output?’‘T-this should be a breeze then.’‘I thought he was going to make me fight some monster or something. Phew.’“Please put your hand on the orb.”He gently requested of me.‘Hmm, if she’s the same as Vermillion, then this should shatter.’I honestly had no idea who this Vermillion person was and I had the urge to ask, but I would push that to later. I put my hand on the orb, but nothing happened.‘Am… I supposed to do something?’>‘Oh, I see.’‘Dumbass.’‘Sh
In a dark alleyway on the streets of Yorul, a person wrapped in a cloak moved silently.It was very hard to find a place as dark and filthy as this in Yorul, which was the capital city of Atlantis, named after its founder. Since it is the chosen ground of the highly exalted founder, the residents try their best to ensure that it was safely and cleanly kept. It was seen as a sort of Holy Land that the purest and wisest of the 3 original merfolk, Yorul had decided to set up his kingdom to ensure his people flourished.Eventually his followers became so numerous, they had to create additional cities chosen by Yorul himself, which began the five nations of Atlantis. Since his death, the residents refused to create an additional city since they assumed it would be an offense the first king.So, they ensured that their cities were clean to the best of their abilities. They monitored the increase in size population and came up with magic for that problem. The monitored the increase in crime
After delivering a lengthy speech at the beginning point of the city, the princess made us go to several different locations across the city, just to do the same thing. It really must have been a pain in the ass being unable to simply project herself through some sort of crystal or screen.Couldn’t she do that though? This was the city of magic and so a simple projection spell should have been easy enough for them. Well, I understood the reasons she gave me, but to be frank, it was completely redundant. The same results would be ensured through a projection spell and ending out people to do surveys.In the end, I still couldn’t understand her true thought process. This princess couldn’t just be the genuinely kind-type all of a sudden, right?Fortunately, there was an incident during one of her speeches that gave me time to stop thinking about it.>Quickly, I identified a needle shooting through the water like a bullet. Even with my [Super Tho
I returned to the others after finishing off the assailant. They had surrounded the princess and put up a magic barrier to prevent any further attacks. Maybe they should have done that while she was giving her speech.“When did you-”Sunalla approached me to ask some questions, but now wasn’t the time in my opinion.‘I know who did this. Is it alright if I go handle them?’I looked at the princess for confirmation and she mauled over it for a while.“Who did this?”‘The Sikari Guild from what I gathered.’“Huh? If it’s someone from there, I doubt you would have gotten any answers.”‘I can read minds.’I gave her that simple excuse. It would probably be a bad idea to tell them I eat souls to acquire information I’m seeking. Just imagine you had been insulting someone who could kill you at a moment’s notice without blinking. You’d put your guard up around that person, no?“Even if you know who did it, what good does it do us when we don’t know where the Sikari guild is? For all you know
“Gate keeper.”A robed assassin appeared before the seemingly drunk old merman. The Gate Keeper, as he was called, looked up with a ditzy expression.“Varim der har iz groys.”“Did the Needle Master pass by?”The assassin impatiently asked; however, the Gate Keeper was not going to entertain this sort of attitude from the assassin.“Varim der har iz groys.”“I apologise. Varim der har iz groys.”He quickly realised his mistake and tried to clear it up. The Gate Keeper looked at him with a stern warning, before drinking from his bottle.“Did the Needle Master pass by? I don’t think it was him.”“A false needle master, you say? Interesting.”“You haven’t seen him then? We may still have time then. I have reason to believe he was eliminated. They will be coming here, so we need to change the portal’s location- wait... you’ve never referred to him as Needle Master.”The assassin was immediately on guard. His mind went back to how quickly the person who took down Needle Master moved. It wa
“[Corrosion Arrows]!”“[Body down]!”“[Wall of Magic]!”“[Cyclone cut]!”I heard different magic skills being shouted out with magic circles popping up around me. They were using Rune magic so they didn’t need to chant the spell, yet here they were shouting it’s name.[You have been afflicted with [Weakness]][Your physical stats will go down by 10%]‘What?!’One of the spells had weakened my body. I looked up, searching for the one who cast the spell, but all I got was green slimy arrows heading for my neck and a dark blue slash.Using [Shadow Travel], I reappeared behind one random member and tried to cut his neck, but once again, my sword simply passed through him. Rather, he grabbed my wrist and flipped him over, slamming me into one of the pillars.[You have lost 20 health points]Barely an amount for me to even be bothered about. With [Auto Regeneration], that recovered in an instant. Since at its current level, I’d recover 500 health points in a near instant.While I was thinki
‘[Devil Light Manipulation]?’‘Oooh, yeah. I forgot this skill could do that.’Akira knew something about this skill I presumed was useless and hadn’t told me? The nerve!‘Do what?’‘D-Devil light. It h-has something t-to do with the t-transformation of [Hell]’s physical environment.’‘Eh? Akkun too? But what’s that supposed to mean?’‘Basically, it changes anything it touches into something from hell.’‘… HUH?!’‘No time to explain any further! Just shoot a massive beam!’‘But! Gaah!’I gave up on those two ever explaining it to me properly now. I activated the skill, causing several black rays to shoot out of my finger-tips in all directions randomly.It hit one of the robed men’s arms, making him scream out in pain. His arm turned black and was grossly disfigured as well as surprisingly tinier.He grunted in pain and faded out of the room. It wou
After realising my [Devil Light Manipulation] at maximum power, I had noticed I was the only one present in the temple. Their astral forms had returned to the actual bodies, which I couldn’t sense anywhere near this place.Still, the fact that all that was here was their Astral forms suggested to me that they either knew something like this would happen or they were busy elsewhere and simply sent their forms here to pray. The most logical was the former, but the most likely was the latter.I couldn’t wrap my head around the reason they really weren’t here. Possibly assassination missions? Whatever.I left the temple to go see how my shadows had handled the entire situation. At the bottom of the temple, the generals were kneeling down, awaiting my return.‘Honestly, it would have been better if they came down there to help me.’I begrudgingly realised how easier that entire scenario would have been if they came down there to help me.“AS EXPECTED, THE PRINCESS HAS DELIVERED US WITH AN