Chapter 96 – The Meaning of Companion Training (02)

I decided to go to bed early today to prepare for tomorrow’s battle.

Moreover, since a monster invasion was expected, I took the astronomical telescope away in advance and promised to just sleep tonight without doing anything else.

I feel a little regretful, but I also need to save up my stamina now.

So, I came in early and tried to fall asleep in the tent together. A somewhat awkward atmosphere filled the tent. As I was forcing myself to close my eyes and try to fall asleep, I heard Alice’s small voice her.

“Aren…”

“Yes.”

“Is there something I want to ask you…” ” “

“Yes. Tell me.”

“What have you done to me?”

“…”

When I made an obscene sign with her finger, Alice blushed and shook her head.

“No. I didn’t do anything special while I was sleeping. Is there some problem?”

“…”

In response to that question, Alice got out of her sleeping bag and extended her hand towards me.

Eventually, when the silver starlight on her hand entered my forehead, my reflection in Alice’s eyes looked like stars flowing along the blood vessels of my entire body.

‘Ah…! Is this what Alice sees me as?’

“It’s strange…”

“It’s strange…?”

“I started to see stars in Aren.”

The moment she heard those words, her heart sank.

I wondered if I should refute Alice’s pointed question even though I hadn’t explained that I had acquired the trait [Star Wizard].

Just as I saw the constellations flowing through her body when I touched her, I couldn’t deceive her even if I tried to hide it if the same thing flowed through my body her her her her.

‘Now that I think about it, I didn’t think of this’

Right away, [Sword Master] Was something I received without knowing and it strengthened my physical abilities, so it was a trait that Marian found difficult to doubt.

In the case of [Shadow Ninjutsu], I was able to receive a high level of knowledge in a short period of time because I explained my abilities to Inori and ‘taught’ her characteristics, but in this case, I explained it in advance and agreed to get out of the situation.

However, in Alice’s case, her characteristics were stolen from me, and more importantly, I recognized that fact right away.

‘What should I answer? Should I lie and say that I had the [Star Wizard] Trait from the beginning?’

“It wasn’t there until a few days ago. That was the first time we saw it… After that day, we started to see it little by little…”

“Oh, really? This is…”

“It was the first time I saw [Star magic] Being transferred to someone else, and more than anything… “

“What… “

“The more Aren understands about [Star magic], The deeper my [Star magic] Goes.”

What does this mean?

“At first… I thought it was strange too, that I was mistaken because my heart was directed towards Aren, but here… After the first day, Aren’s star became brighter, and with that, my star became even more. ..There are more.”

I didn’t quite understand what was being said.

“So, I… Have the [Star Wizard] Ability?”

“Yes.”

Alice didn’t seem to think that this was something I had intentionally stolen.

‘No, that’s a good thing’

“Aren is learning [Star Magic], So why is my ability increasing…?”

“…?”

It was my first time hearing it.

‘My abilities increase as I learn the characteristics?’

“At first, I thought I gained enlightenment or it was just a coincidence… But I became clear after staying here. The more I handed over [Star Magic] To Aren, the stronger my ability as a [Star Magician] Became. And Aren After telling the story of the star yesterday… This time, I was able to go deep beyond the star in my dream.”

“What…?”

“The more Aren learns [Star Magic], The stronger I become…”

After hearing that, I briefly checked out previous cases.

If you think about it, in order to compete with the Sailians, you had to give up the other characters and train only Marian to be able to deal with them similarly, but Marian has grown to the point where she can almost fight the Sailians without I pay much attention.

In the case of Inori, I haven’t been able to confirm it recently, but I heard that she uses [Shadow Ninjitsu] More skillfully than before, but I thought it was because the two of them trained together.

“…”

Alice grabbed my face, tilted her face, and then jumped up.

“Aren…Would you like to learn this?”

“This?”

“[Star Wizard] Family’s Secret Spellbook…”

Alice takes out a book that had been sealed with magic.

Inside the book, which was thought to be her magic book, it actually contained information about what stars were seen during astronomical observations and at what time.

The movement of constellations and stars that I observed just a few days ago, the day before I met.

I felt my mind turning white as I looked at the book, which was made up of only numbers, English, and symbols next to the constellations drawn with a pen.

There were spells written that were so complicated that I couldn’t understand them. I heard that wizards write complicated passwords in case their magic books are stolen or leaked, and [Star Wizards] Seemed to be like that as well.

‘Is this a ciphertext…’

The family magic book was literally like a secret recipe, so it was natural that I, an outsider, would not understand it.

Until now, the magic I had learned was a common magic whose usage methods were public, and I couldn’t even use it properly, so I was just practicing by swinging an enchantment wand. But if I were to suddenly say that I wanted to learn [Star Magic] Now, I think Alice would naturally refuse. Also.

I might be able to teach you if you join the [Star Wizard] Family as a son-in-law, but…

“Huh. It’s difficult because it’s the password of a high-ranking wizard family.”

“That… Was written in plain text…?”

“…?”

I didn’t know.

I thought magic was something that if you just shoot it, it flies away and flutters around.

A meteor falling from the sky, a meteor strike… In the terminology here, it is called [Star magic]. I thought that if you thought, ‘I should drop a star over there,’ it would fall with a bang and devastate the surrounding area.

Isn’t that what magic usually is?

“This is the formula used to calculate when using [Star Magic].”

“…?”

“This is a formula that calculates the exact orbit by checking the observed location and the current location, and this is a formula to maintain the appropriate angle of incidence and summon the most suitable star when dropping a meteor from the sky, and this formula. .. …”

What is it?

I have no idea why Alice is clearly explaining everything kindly and carefully.

“I understand… Huh?”

For my sense of time, after listening to the lecture for about 2 hours, I spoke honestly.

“I don’t know?”

This is not something humans do.

I think this is what artificial intelligence or computers should do.

Rather, are you doing these calculations in your head?

“There are answer sheets and calculation formulas here, so you can just refer to them…”

Alice let out a small sigh and then showed a mathematical equation that was much shorter than the one she had shown earlier.

“What about this?”

Ah, I might be able to figure this out. So…

“I don’t know… I don’t think so?”

If you have a scientific calculator, you can give it a try. But now, if I were to just calculate this in my head, I couldn’t help but gasp.

“…”

I don’t look good.

I know. Now, if you look at it, this is an opportunity where Marian teaches swordsmanship directly and Inori teaches shadow ninjutsu.

Still, if it doesn’t work, it doesn’t work.

“Easier…”

Alice again condensed some equations and showed them.

“This?”

“I think I can solve this.”

I got a pen and paper from Alice and tried to solve it.

Fortunately, Alice was there to help me with a few things while I solved the problem myself, so she was able to do the calculations using only her memory.

“…How about it?”

“Wrong…”

In the middle, he writes down the wrong formulas with a pen, but I don’t know why it happens like this.

This time, Alice, who was biting her nails while thinking for a while, took the part I was lost about and suggested the value herself, fixed it as a constant, and calculated the remainder. This time, after whining for about 30 minutes, I was finally able to complete the calculation.

“It’s all over!”

She proudly handed out her answer sheet as if her homework was being checked by a teacher. This time, Alice nodded her head, checked her answer sheet, and handed it back.

“But what does this have to do with magic?”

“This is a calculation formula that can drop a suitable meteor at this location if cast around 11:00 a.M. Tomorrow… However, there are many parts omitted, so it is difficult to use in practice…”

After hearing her words, I checked the answer sheet again.

“Use it as an explanation by fixing the position data for the star to be loaded and calculating the terrain difference and rotation error in advance. Assuming that the atmosphere will be clear tomorrow…”

In other words, when Alice normally uses [Star Magic], She finds the star she needs right away, calculates the terrain, and hits it at the exact location with precise power.

The calculation formula that I worked hard to calculate helps Alice control only the necessary plunge trajectory and speed while setting the stars to be used tomorrow in advance and fixing the area.

“But Alice, can I teach you this much?”

If you think about it, I’m a thief who stole the [Star Wizard] Trait, but even though she knew it, she was amazed and kindly taught me magic herself. It was strange, no matter how kind she was.

“Well, that…”

Only after I asked directly did Alice become embarrassed and ask me back.

“I shouldn’t tell you…?”

“…”

“I showed the note to other friends too…”

If it doesn’t have the [Star Wizard] Trait, it’s just a calculation technique that can’t be used anyway, so is it okay to just show it?

“That, and…”

Alice was back to her usual shy and shy self, completely different from when she was teaching me math.

“Ah, Aren is special… So it’s okay…”

“…You say such shameful things so casually…”

I heard you have a bold side to me, as well as the fact that you dragged me into a fake lewd incident last time.

And when I finally made it my own by calculating the formula one more time, a star suddenly appeared in Alice’s body and she collapsed on the spot and fell asleep.

“Alice?”

I tried calling just in case, but it didn’t happen.

When I checked the status window, there was no problem and all values ​​​​​​were treated as normal.

I tried shaking her body to wake her up, but even when I gently shook her shoulder her, pinched her cheek her, or gently removed her clothes her, there was no response from Alice.

‘What? Is this your first time doing something like this? Is it bugun?’

There was nothing strange about anything happening in this bug-filled adult mode, but after thinking about the conversation we had earlier, I think the answer was there.

‘Now that I think about it, the reason why I couldn’t wake up this morning… Did you say that the more I learn [Star Magic], The stronger my [Star Magic] Becomes?’

But did you say that there was some side effect in the process and you fell asleep?

“I’m so…”

Well, of course, I didn’t come to any great enlightenment this time, so I’ll probably wake up in the morning…

“…”

In my hand, I saw the calculation formula that Alice had earlier checked as incorrect.

“Ha… I stopped taking math after graduation…”

*

The sun rises.

I was a little short of sleep because I was verifying and resolving calculations all night long, but my condition wasn’t that bad.

“Whoa…”

As I looked at the sunlight rising beyond the horizon, I watched the stars disappearing due to the light.

“Calculation… Complete.”

I plan to use [Star Magic] Myself.