Translator: Havion
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The next morning.
While eating a person’s worth of breakfast taken from my storage magic, I took the Nimbus Cloud and headed over to the guild.
I had Caucasus and Beelzebub on standy in the air as always and entered the building.
I randomly picked a C-ranked subjugation request and lined up at the [Requests/Reports/Purchasing] counter.
What I plan to do today is obviously to put the theory of [How to train my divine power quickly] to the test…and to that end, I would require hunting down some monsters.
And so, it should be fine to contribute a little towards ranking up by subjugating the requested monsters.
I came to the guild with that thought in mind.
The line proceeded smoothly despite the majority of the counters being swamped from the morning.
My turn came soon after.
[I would like to take this request.] (Varius)
[Understood, the lesser orthrus subjugation is it? This request is indeed a C-ranked request but…very rarely, the B-ranked orthrus will appear in the lesser orthrus’ habitat. Please be careful and do not overdo it.] (Receptionist)
The receptionist said so as she pointed at the habitat of the lesser orthrus on the map.
Orthrus huh…I’m looking forward to that.
For the theory I’m testing, the stronger the enemies, the better.
If it’s the Orthrus, it’s moderately strong while not being at the level at which it will give the awakened Caucasus a tough fight.
It’s a suitable enemy so I do hope I’ll encounter it but…well, she did say “rarely”, so I won’t get my hopes up.
I left the guild after getting the receptionist to sign the request form.
I then called the Nimbus Cloud to head towards my destination.
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After some tens of minutes, we arrived halfway up the designated mountain.
I used search magic at once to locate the lesser orthrus’ habitat.
[…There’s one.] (Varius)
Using search magic……by some stroke of luck, I found some lesser orthrus along with a single orthrus.
It seems that even the heavens are on my side for theory testing.
Well then again, that serious Artemis up there will always be my ally though that wasn’t what I meant.
While joking in my head, I raised the Nimbus Cloud’s altitude.
There isn’t any reason for a frontal battle after all.
It should be fine for me to just have Caucasus attack from the air and watch over everything.
With that in mind, I directed the Nimbus Cloud towards the orthrus’ habitat…the orthrus came into view soon after.
[Caucasus, can you take that down?] (Varius)
I pointed at the orthrus.
[Yeah.] (Caucasus)
Caucasus replied casually…and fired a powerful ball of plasma from its horn, attacking the orthrus.
Receiving such an overwhelming attack, the orthrus raised a death cry before it died soon after.
… At that moment.
I focused all my attention towards the divine power circuit Artemis made.
When I did that… I felt that the divine power flowing in my body has increased, in both quantity and speed.
[I did it!] (Varius)
I did a guts pose.
Using Caucasus’ battle experience, I was successful in strengthening my divine powers just like the theory had mentioned.
When Caucasus defeats a monster, a portion of his growth flows back into me however…what exactly causes this growth has nothing to do with using Caucasus to defeat the monster.
Up to today, the general guideline to allocating growth would be to wish to “Allocate growth towards physical strength” to raise their muscle strength as well as stamina while wishing to “Allocate growth towards magical strength” would result in an increase in mana, one of these two.
Following that train of thought, if I consciously wish to “ Allocate growth towards divine power”, wouldn’t the experience be allocated towards my divine power?
With that as my theory, I tried testing it out and… it turns out I was right after all.
That being the case, as long as I have Caucasus defeat a bunch of strong monsters, I would train up my divine powers in no time.
Getting all pumped up…I proceeded to subjugate the lesser orthrus in order to fulfil the request.
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After the orthrus was defeated, we went ahead and took down another 6 lesser orthrus and returned to town just after noon.
Obviously, I allocated all the experience from the lesser orthrus Caucasus subjugated towards training my divine power.
Probably due to our early return, the guild was pretty much empty.
Without needing to queue up, I went ahead to report the success of the request.
[I came to report on the success of the request.] (Varius)
[Understood! The lesser orthrus subjugation, correct?! Please take out your proof of subjugation.] (Receptionist)
I was conversing with the same receptionist that handled my taking of the request.
To think that she didn’t need to refer to a copy of the request form…it’s probably one of the many merits of having the conspicuous job of a Sage.
[The proof of subjugation…is is all right if I just produce the whole thing?] (Varius)
[The whole thing…is it? W, well, it is fine.] (Receptionist)
As I am a byproduct of a storage magic accident, I still have my huge storage magic space from my pass life.
I wasn’t going to go through the trouble of cutting off the subjugation pieces to bring back.
Besides, the other parts have some worth as materials anyway.
Having gotten the receptionist’s approval, I quickly took them out.
That was the plan anyway…but right as I was about to do that, a thought struck me.
[Err…I don’t think I can take out 6 lesser orthrus in this space, can I?] (Varius)
That’s right.
There’s no space for me to place them.
I thought I’d discuss the matter with her, which was why I brought it up but…
[Si, you took down six of them?! How on earth did you take down that many in such a short time?!] (Receptionist)
The receptionist was more troubled by the numbers I defeated instead.
Her scream resounded in the near-empty guild.
The receptionist slowly regained her calm and said this.
[M, my apologies, I lost my calm for a moment. That’s to be expected, you’re an Elite Academy student on top of being a Sage after all, I shouldn’t be using common sense with you… Well then, I shall guide you towards the dismantling ground, please follow me.] (Receptionist)
I followed the receptionist towards the guild’s back door.
[……Huh? By the way Varius-kun, when do you even commute to Elite Academy?] (Receptionist)
…… I think I heard the receptionist saying something to herself, guess I’ll ignore it.
I entered the dismantling grounds with the receptionist’s guidance, and took the 6 lesser orthrus out from my storage magic.
By the way, since the orthrus is a monster beyond my current rank, as well as being a good offering for the Kirin, I didn’t take it out.
A staff member came to appraise the lesser orthrus’ condition right after I placed them on the ground to determine their value as materials.
One the appraisal was done, I returned to the counter with the receptionist.
[Haaa… I didn’t expect to see such a sight. Well then, we have 6 times the subjugation reward at 120000 zol and the price of the materials at 60000 zol, coming to a total of 180000 zol.] (Receptionist)
The receptionist placed the money in a bag with a tired look.
[Thank you very much.] (Varius)
I received the reward and left the guild.
[Now then, time to seriously train up my divine powers.] (Varius)
Right after leaving the guild, I got on to the Nimbus Cloud and started thinking about my next destination.
…… Actually, there was a reason why I wrapped up so early today.
The reason being “the rate of subjugation being rather low”.
This is our results after hunting from morning to the afternoon.
1 orthrus and 6 lesser orthrus, just that.
That was the limit, after making full use of search magic and the Nimbus Cloud.
If it’s just completing the request, that would be considered quite a fast pace but…in order to get stronger within the 10-days deadline, it isn’t nearly enough.
That is why I have to go to a place with a higher monster spawn rate.
For example…a dungeon.
I’ll have to enter it before the end of the school term anyway for the sake of my grades.
I’ll conquer it, the Elite Academy’s labyrinth.
Translator: Havion
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The next morning.
While eating a person’s worth of breakfast taken from my storage magic, I took the Nimbus Cloud and headed over to the guild.
I had Caucasus and Beelzebub on standy in the air as always and entered the building.
I randomly picked a C-ranked subjugation request and lined up at the [Requests/Reports/Purchasing] counter.
What I plan to do today is obviously to put the theory of [How to train my divine power quickly] to the test…and to that end, I would require hunting down some monsters.
And so, it should be fine to contribute a little towards ranking up by subjugating the requested monsters.
I came to the guild with that thought in mind.
The line proceeded smoothly despite the majority of the counters being swamped from the morning.
My turn came soon after.
[I would like to take this request.] (Varius)
[Understood, the lesser orthrus subjugation is it? This request is indeed a C-ranked request but…very rarely, the B-ranked orthrus will appear in the lesser orthrus’ habitat. Please be careful and do not overdo it.] (Receptionist)
The receptionist said so as she pointed at the habitat of the lesser orthrus on the map.
Orthrus huh…I’m looking forward to that.
For the theory I’m testing, the stronger the enemies, the better.
If it’s the Orthrus, it’s moderately strong while not being at the level at which it will give the awakened Caucasus a tough fight.
It’s a suitable enemy so I do hope I’ll encounter it but…well, she did say “rarely”, so I won’t get my hopes up.
I left the guild after getting the receptionist to sign the request form.
I then called the Nimbus Cloud to head towards my destination.
***********************************************************
After some tens of minutes, we arrived halfway up the designated mountain.
I used search magic at once to locate the lesser orthrus’ habitat.
[…There’s one.] (Varius)
Using search magic……by some stroke of luck, I found some lesser orthrus along with a single orthrus.
It seems that even the heavens are on my side for theory testing.
Well then again, that serious Artemis up there will always be my ally though that wasn’t what I meant.
While joking in my head, I raised the Nimbus Cloud’s altitude.
There isn’t any reason for a frontal battle after all.
It should be fine for me to just have Caucasus attack from the air and watch over everything.
With that in mind, I directed the Nimbus Cloud towards the orthrus’ habitat…the orthrus came into view soon after.
[Caucasus, can you take that down?] (Varius)
I pointed at the orthrus.
[Yeah.] (Caucasus)
Caucasus replied casually…and fired a powerful ball of plasma from its horn, attacking the orthrus.
Receiving such an overwhelming attack, the orthrus raised a death cry before it died soon after.
… At that moment.
I focused all my attention towards the divine power circuit Artemis made.
When I did that… I felt that the divine power flowing in my body has increased, in both quantity and speed.
[I did it!] (Varius)
I did a guts pose.
Using Caucasus’ battle experience, I was successful in strengthening my divine powers just like the theory had mentioned.
When Caucasus defeats a monster, a portion of his growth flows back into me however…what exactly causes this growth has nothing to do with using Caucasus to defeat the monster.
Up to today, the general guideline to allocating growth would be to wish to “Allocate growth towards physical strength” to raise their muscle strength as well as stamina while wishing to “Allocate growth towards magical strength” would result in an increase in mana, one of these two.
Following that train of thought, if I consciously wish to “ Allocate growth towards divine power”, wouldn’t the experience be allocated towards my divine power?
With that as my theory, I tried testing it out and… it turns out I was right after all.
That being the case, as long as I have Caucasus defeat a bunch of strong monsters, I would train up my divine powers in no time.
Getting all pumped up…I proceeded to subjugate the lesser orthrus in order to fulfil the request.
*************************************************************
After the orthrus was defeated, we went ahead and took down another 6 lesser orthrus and returned to town just after noon.
Obviously, I allocated all the experience from the lesser orthrus Caucasus subjugated towards training my divine power.
Probably due to our early return, the guild was pretty much empty.
Without needing to queue up, I went ahead to report the success of the request.
[I came to report on the success of the request.] (Varius)
[Understood! The lesser orthrus subjugation, correct?! Please take out your proof of subjugation.] (Receptionist)
I was conversing with the same receptionist that handled my taking of the request.
To think that she didn’t need to refer to a copy of the request form…it’s probably one of the many merits of having the conspicuous job of a Sage.
[The proof of subjugation…is is all right if I just produce the whole thing?] (Varius)
[The whole thing…is it? W, well, it is fine.] (Receptionist)
As I am a byproduct of a storage magic accident, I still have my huge storage magic space from my pass life.
I wasn’t going to go through the trouble of cutting off the subjugation pieces to bring back.
Besides, the other parts have some worth as materials anyway.
Having gotten the receptionist’s approval, I quickly took them out.
That was the plan anyway…but right as I was about to do that, a thought struck me.
[Err…I don’t think I can take out 6 lesser orthrus in this space, can I?] (Varius)
That’s right.
There’s no space for me to place them.
I thought I’d discuss the matter with her, which was why I brought it up but…
[Si, you took down six of them?! How on earth did you take down that many in such a short time?!] (Receptionist)
The receptionist was more troubled by the numbers I defeated instead.
Her scream resounded in the near-empty guild.
The receptionist slowly regained her calm and said this.
[M, my apologies, I lost my calm for a moment. That’s to be expected, you’re an Elite Academy student on top of being a Sage after all, I shouldn’t be using common sense with you… Well then, I shall guide you towards the dismantling ground, please follow me.] (Receptionist)
I followed the receptionist towards the guild’s back door.
[……Huh? By the way Varius-kun, when do you even commute to Elite Academy?] (Receptionist)
…… I think I heard the receptionist saying something to herself, guess I’ll ignore it.
I entered the dismantling grounds with the receptionist’s guidance, and took the 6 lesser orthrus out from my storage magic.
By the way, since the orthrus is a monster beyond my current rank, as well as being a good offering for the Kirin, I didn’t take it out.
A staff member came to appraise the lesser orthrus’ condition right after I placed them on the ground to determine their value as materials.
One the appraisal was done, I returned to the counter with the receptionist.
[Haaa… I didn’t expect to see such a sight. Well then, we have 6 times the subjugation reward at 120000 zol and the price of the materials at 60000 zol, coming to a total of 180000 zol.] (Receptionist)
The receptionist placed the money in a bag with a tired look.
[Thank you very much.] (Varius)
I received the reward and left the guild.
[Now then, time to seriously train up my divine powers.] (Varius)
Right after leaving the guild, I got on to the Nimbus Cloud and started thinking about my next destination.
…… Actually, there was a reason why I wrapped up so early today.
The reason being “the rate of subjugation being rather low”.
This is our results after hunting from morning to the afternoon.
1 orthrus and 6 lesser orthrus, just that.
That was the limit, after making full use of search magic and the Nimbus Cloud.
If it’s just completing the request, that would be considered quite a fast pace but…in order to get stronger within the 10-days deadline, it isn’t nearly enough.
That is why I have to go to a place with a higher monster spawn rate.
For example…a dungeon.
I’ll have to enter it before the end of the school term anyway for the sake of my grades.
I’ll conquer it, the Elite Academy’s labyrinth.
