Chapter 264 – Apprentice Blacksmith (1)

The morning of the second day after officially joining the company.

I barely got out of bed, rubbing my eyes that had become stained from studying the new 3rd circle magic all night.

Create a 3-circle magic that has not been formulated so far.

I only took a couple of hours of sleep while completing the task, which I barely started after almost 10 days from the first day I received it.

As a result, I stayed up all night and made a proper result, but that wasn’t particularly the case.

In the first place, it was practically impossible to create a 6-step 3-circle magic within 3 days. Of course, I had some responsibility for bringing the deadline up to three days earlier.

I can’t help it, I’ve been busy myself.

There were a lot of things going on, from receiving swordsmanship training from my first teacher, Eun-young noona, to quenching the libido of a blonde lady and maid whom I hadn’t met for quite a while, to preparing for an interview for a new job at the company.

In the midst of that, making one 3-circle magic was an unreasonable request from the beginning. I’m not just taking one professor’s class.

… Even so, I couldn’t give up in the first place and shamelessly meet senior Hwayoung, so I had to make concrete results somehow.

Fortunately, I had a database-rich system intelligence, so the research environment was a little easier than others.

It was because whenever I came up with a new concept of magic, I received various help in the way of being judged by Esilla.

Whether it is magic that has already been formulated or not, or whether it is practical or not.

‘… After using ‘Ignition’ for ‘Magical Discharge’, spread it with ‘Diffusion’, then ‘Crystallize’ again and ‘fix’ the position to ‘amplify’ it. Then, flames burn sequentially at each crystallized point, creating a chain of flames…’

“You mean ‘Chain Flame’? It’s already formulated magic. If you had come up with it yourself about 300 years ago, you would have been able to become an authority on fire magic.”

‘… So what about this one? After ‘Magic Discharge’, use ‘Stabilization’ first and then use ‘Ignition’. Then you can prevent the mana from burning out quickly. Here, use ‘Aim’ and ‘Detect’ to guide the target, then ‘Accelerate’ to attack…’

“We promised to call it ‘Fire Arrow’, Master.”

‘… Just use ‘Magical Discharge’ five times and maximize firepower with ‘Ignition’…’

“How are you going to attack? Are you going to commit suicide with that?”

‘…’

Of course, just because there was a helper didn’t mean the process itself was smooth.

For reference, he didn’t even ask Esilla to make magic himself.

This was a task given to me by senior Hwayoung, so the process of making it would be a more important experience for me than the result.

Still, as if it wasn’t overshadowed by the worrying all night, how could he create two types of 3-circle fire magic that hadn’t been formalized yet?

I didn’t know if this was practical or not until I bumped into it myself.

“Today isn’t a group launch day anyway, so it’s okay to go around the dungeon alone and test one by one.”

Since the name of the guild is a company, it gives the impression that you have to go out on time, but in reality, the company guild’s operation method was not that strict.

It is enough just to consistently perform at or above your grade. Other than that, you are free to go to work or not.

Of course, if you go to work every day, there are diligence points and additional compensation, but it was really a small reward that can be called a little bonus.

There’s nothing wrong with accepting it, but the important thing right now is to verify the results of the 3rd circle magic I created first.

There was no better place to freely check the power of magic without any burden.

“Hello, Seongcheol Kim Hunter!”

“Hello.”

“It’s been a while since you went to work.”

“Yes, what. In the meantime, I’ve been a bit busy with a lot of things.”

I exchanged simple greetings with the guide of the Guild I hadn’t seen in a long time, and immediately went through the warp gate and chose an appropriate C-class dungeon.

There are many dungeons with few people, no party to belong to, and a place where there won’t be a big stir even if I’m caught using magic.

After all, there was no other place like a combination dungeon to practice magic.

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「Class C dungeon, Valley of Spirits.」

The place they moved through the warp gate was a desolate valley made of ice and soil.

Although it is called the Valley of the Spirits, it was not at all a refreshing place like the spirits living and breathing in fantasy games.

Rather, the expression of a place where only the spirits remained alive was much closer, since only earth, ice, and magic remained.

Most of the spirits that were actually moving were earth and rock spirits or water and ice spirits.

Of course, even those spirits that look so desolate and hard are spirits after all, so the expression valley of the spirits is not completely wrong.

Traces of old ruins appeared here and there in the valley as if to prove that this place was once also a place where there was a civilization.

In addition, the owners of this land, who do not like the presence of strangers, have also appeared one by one.

‘Tack, tap, tap…’

‘Rurreung, wooreung…’

Originally, the owner of this valley, the Ice Spirit and the Rock Spirit, were wary of me as a stranger and started approaching me.

About 2 meters tall. Class C monsters, not even giants like Stonerello, walked towards me from both sides.

I immediately prepared to use one of the two 3-circle fire magics I had prepared on the Ice Spirit.

First of all, from the first spell.

With a blazing sound, the flames from the fingertips drew a long trajectory like a whip and extended to the Ice Spirit, and the flames formed in the form of a long whip wrapped around the Ice Spirit’s body.

‘… !!’

The guy who stirred his body making a sound that I couldn’t tell if it was crying or just the sound of ice breaking.

For a moment, I thought that the newly created magic was properly applied. The ice spirit lightly cut off the flame whip wrapped around her body with just a little struggle.

The guy who had been chained up by the flame whip for a while spoke a voice that made his body cool again toward me.

‘Guuuuu…’

And in the meantime, the body of the rock spirit approaching from behind leaned over and slammed a stone fist into the direction where I was standing.

I dodged lightly and cut it in half with a single sword with the mithril greatsword I took out of the subspace.

‘… ! … , …’

A rock spirit that collapses with a deep, roaring scream like rocks colliding.

After confirming that the obstruction was gone, I immediately used the second flame magic to set my fist on fire.

The right fist blazing with a roaring sound.

I jumped at the ice elemental and slammed the fiery fist straight down.

‘… !’

It didn’t have any effect at all.

Right before it touched his body, the flame faded slightly and its power weakened, but there were definitely dent marks left by the fire on the chest of the guy my ‘Flame Fist’ touched.

As a result, the two 3-circle fire magics could also be concluded to the extent that ‘they are effective’.

… And as long as the 3rd circle magic could only produce that much power, these two magics were like failures.

“Fireball.”

The condensed sphere of fire crashed into the ice spirit’s body and exploded as it was, and the ice spirit, which had a huge hole in its chest due to the flames, stopped working shortly after.

The guy who was able to move even after being hit by two 3rd circle magics was barely hit by the 2nd circle fire magic and died.

It’s a 3-circle magic that doesn’t even have the power of Fireball. I myself was dumbfounded, so a mischievous laugh came out of my mouth.

If this isn’t a failure, you can say that there is no bad magic in the world.

Unfortunately, I was not a magician, so I couldn’t submit a failed magic as an assignment.

The fact that I was determined and had to go back and study new magic right now only made my heart ache.

“… Is it because I wasted a step on stabilization? If possible, it would be better not to use the concept of stabilization…”

It was a waste of time to remain in the Valley of Spirits any longer as I confirmed that the two 3rd circle magics I had created over several hours were ineffective.

Go back quickly and make up for the failed magic, or create a completely new concept of magic.

That’s why the moment you make up your mind to hurry to the warp gate and return to the guild.

“Dizira Ancana… !!”

Stop.

My steps stopped by themselves for a moment at the clear sound of spirit in my ears.

“…”

Although it was unusual to have a customer other than myself in an unpopular dungeon with nothing to collect except magic stones.

Fighting monsters with a spirited spirit usually meant fighting in a fierce situation.

Aside from the strangely strong accent for a Seoulite.

“… Shall we just go and see it?”

It would be impossible to create a world where people would not die from monsters with my still weak power, but ignoring it within the scope of my perception was a completely different problem.

Shouldn’t I save as many lives as possible, at least within my reach?

Of course, it was possible that I was thinking of leaps and bounds, and in reality, there was a good chance that it wasn’t a big crisis, just making loud noises.

I felt like I would feel uncomfortable if I didn’t check this for no reason, so I took a sneak peek at the battle site and moved on with the intention of going back.

It probably won’t be a big deal, recalling such a vague feeling in my head.