Chapter 195 – Summer Vacation (4)

“First of all, shall we begin with a brief explanation?”

“… Yes?”

Upon arriving at the training ground, Iona’s first words tilted her head.

Iona… Described?

As if I wasn’t the only one surprised, Karla and Elisha, who had been watching Iona’s class, also opened their eyes and started whispering.

“Oh my gosh… It’s a theory class, Elisha! Theory class!”

“Yes. No one else, Professor Iona’s theory class… How difficult are you trying to teach?”

I heard it too, so of course Iona heard it too.

Iona pretended to be two with her loose sleeves! She pointed and exclaimed.

“There! Didn’t you have a theory class in the classroom the other day?! Why can’t I remember that! Yandel students! Even Yandel students think it’s strange that Professor Lee Ona teaches theory first?!”

“Well what…”

“That is unfair! That is unfair! First of all, tell me the principle or method and hit me… You have to fight, if you sparred at all, it’s just bullying!”

“Oh, it hits me too.”

I’ll figure it out. Are you saying that if you tell me the theory and understand it to some extent, you’ll start sparring?

If you don’t want to get hit, it’s roughly like that to strengthen your body. I understand now.

With her more at ease, she nodded her head. Seeing my expression like that, Iona let out a sigh.

“Whoa… Anyway anyway. I’m going to start explaining again, okay, Yandel student?”

“Oh. Yes.”

“Good good. So, where should I begin to explain… That’s right. You know how to use conventional body strengthening magic, right?”

“Of course it is. I usually replace it with a potion that lasts longer, but I know how to use magic.”

Strength, haste.

It is the alpha and omega of body strengthening magic.

It’s more difficult and complicated, but it’s not that there aren’t effective magic. After all, it’s an application of strength and haste.

“Then I get it! Strengthening the body through magic is far behind not only auras but also sacred arts!”

“It seems that there is nothing that can be done structurally.”

Aura activates and strengthens the body itself. It feels like sacred arts support all movements, just like wearing a powered suit.

But strength and haste are different.

Strength, with assistance from inside and outside the body, is the magic that pushes you beyond the unconscious limits set by your brain.

Haste is a magic that makes your nerves more sensitive so you can use quick reactions.

Magic that only allows them to temporarily overcome their limitations. In other words, it’s safe to say that it’s magic that overdoes it at an appropriate level.

That’s why I collapsed the other day as soon as the effect of the buff expired.

If you exercise too much, your muscles melt and your bones don’t grind. No matter how much I received the buff, I overworked myself…

On the other hand, Aura is the principle of activating the body’s basic performance itself to increase the cutoff limit, and Sacred Art is a method of improving the result compared to the amount of effort put in.

As a result, there is no recoil unless you forcefully use the Aura.

Reinforcement due to sacred arts doesn’t come back no matter what I do. Instead, the reinforcement limit is set according to the level of the priest.

For reference, the recovery series are also roughly similar.

Magic was artificially activated, Aura strengthened the regenerative power itself, and sacred art was just restoring it to its original form.

Given this feeling, of course healing magic is accompanied by tremendous pain. If you use it too much, it can cause something like a tumor.

The same goes for auras. If you overdo it, your lifespan will be shortened, but if not, there are no side effects.

Restorative Sacred Art has no side effects at all. If there is a foreign substance in the affected area, the ability to spit it out is a bonus.

That’s why wizards drink potions or receive healing from priests.

The potion was purified several times with alchemy to minimize side effects, and with money, you can get a recovery effect that exceeds your capabilities.

Same goes for buffs.

As an auxiliary class, it is impossible to keep up with divine power in terms of basic efficiency or side effects, so if there is a priest, it is a national rule to receive a buff from the priest.

“But but! I basically fought alone That’s why it was difficult to get support from the priest!”

“Vampires have regenerative powers and potions, right?”

“If you use blood magic one more time to turn it into regenerative power, you can kill more cultists? And at that time, space magic wasn’t as developed as it is now, so individuals couldn’t carry a subspace pouch.”

But. The supply and performance improvement of space-type magical tools is the story after summoning magic was banned.

Before summoners became unemployed, subspace pouches must have been a very rare item.

No matter how talented Iona was, it would have been much more efficient to use it for military supplies rather than giving it to individuals.

… By the way, is it true that you’re saying you’d rather kill at least one more guy than turn it into regenerative power?

It’s rather scary to speak in a calm voice.

“Anyway, anyway! For that reason, Iona-style strengthening magic! If you are a Yandel student who fights in a similar way to me, you will definitely be able to use it!”

“Oh oh… !”

“The method is simple! It feels like putting power into the blood itself and transmitting that power to the whole body!”

“Are you using blood vessels instead of mana circuits?”

“No? No? That’s dangerous! The magic created by the mana circuit is melted into the blood!”

“?”

As I stared blankly, Iona grabbed my hand.

Then, in one breath, she pulled him to her own chest.

Molkan.

The heavy softness felt in the palm of your hand. The moment I unknowingly try to squat reflexively.

Iona raised her smirk and adjusted the position of her hand a step faster than I did.

“Oops! Oops! It wasn’t here!”

“Chit.”

Unfortunately, the hand that is close to the upper chest, which has relatively little to touch.

She opened her mouth, feeling the cool body heat through her thin clothes.

“Therefore? Suddenly, what is this, Professor?”

“From now on! From now on! I’m going to try it out myself, so feel it! If you’re a Yandel student now, you should be able to get a rough idea!”

“Anyway, that seems impossible…”

Pounding.

A slow heartbeat transmitted from the palm of your hand.

I don’t know what to do, but suddenly Iona’s blood spurted from her heart and circulated through the blood vessels throughout her body, and she began to feel it.

“It melted mana into her blood. How is it? Do you feel good?”

“Yes. How amazing.”

Iona, who confirmed my nodding of her head, continued her explanation.

“The basic image is simple. In this state, mana becomes power, and it feels like that power melts throughout the body along with the blood!”

“Well… I can guess.”

“Is not it? Is not it? The difficult thing is next, so you have to be alert? Let’s see…”

Having said that, Iona began writing something of hers in the air with one hand. The light stretched along her fingertips, and her empty space became a huge blackboard.

Unknown shapes. Formula. And an excruciatingly long comment.

The only thing I could make out was a brief human anatomy. I’ve seen this many times in my past life…

After writing something down in the air for a long time, Lee Oh-na finished with a light dot.

When she twirled her finger, everything that looked like her left and right reversed because it was written in Iona’s standard was read as normal.

She didn’t mean to say that she could understand that she could read, of course.

“Once upon a time. Listen while memorizing!”

“Yes…”

Due to her excellent memory, she has already memorized it, but once she says so, sparring will begin.

To me who nodded her head politely, Iona continued her supplementary explanation.

“Anyway, since it’s magic that works inside the body, the unconscious protection will work! So don’t worry too much and you can fail! The problem is when you succeed!”

“When did you succeed?”

“Yes. Even if it’s clumsy, if you succeed, from that moment on, the Yandel student’s blood will become the fuel that moves her body. Even if you breathe quietly, the minimum amount of blood will be consumed, and if you use great force, more blood will evaporate.”

“… It looks very dangerous.”

“Right. It’s actually dangerous. If a Yandel student tries to use her power beyond her limit and goes wrong, she might just collapse! In that case, would the cause be excessive bleeding without a wound?”

Iona smiles as if she told a funny joke. However, when I didn’t laugh along, it soon returned to a serious expression.

“Of course, when Yandel students become proficient, nothing dangerous will happen. So, never practice alone until you master it. I practice only when Professor Lee Ona is present. How is it? Can you promise me?”

“Absolutely. It’s for my own safety, so I’ll keep that in mind.”

Once successful, it will be registered in the system and calibrated, so I don’t think there’s anything to worry about.

“By the way, Professor. How is this magic different from other strengthening magic?”

“Ah! Alas! I haven’t told you that part yet! Did you say that earlier? Blood becomes fuel.”

“Yes.”

“Blood itself is the essence of life force. So you can strengthen your body in a similar way to Aurors. As blood magic, the effect is several times better than other strengthening magic! Above all, just as Blood Shift pays for the damage of others, the blood will take the recoil that the Yandel student should receive! This can also be applied to ordinary trauma!”

“It will consume a lot of blood?”

“So, unless you’re a Yandel student today, it’s a skill that only vampires can use. Ah, your name is Blood Force?”

“Huh…”

It’s not enough just to apply blood magic.

Iona’s destructive naming sense only sighs, but it is true that it is incomparably more efficient than conventional strengthening magic.

Doesn’t that mean imitating an aura with magic, and absorbing the shock by consuming blood in times of emergency?

However, the problem is regeneration. There’s no way to beat it with moderate regenerative power.

The thing that increases my regenerative power the most is the protection of the sun god. And this is a blessing that only gives a bonus to regeneration while the sun is up.

Even if I learn at best, I can only use it during the day… No, in the end, all you need is blood, right?

Later, I ask Fei to intensively restore blood… If you ask me to make a potion like hematopoiesis, wouldn’t it be possible to use it at night?

While thinking of various alternatives in my mind. Iona thrust her head into her abruptly.

“What? What? My eyes have been staring into space since earlier! Have you already memorized everything?”

“Ah.”

“You memorize faster than I thought! Eight!”

He pushed me away from me who had been closely attached to me and lightly waved his arms. Then, a red light flowed from Iona’s body.

A group of lights from the now familiar Blood Shift came out and weaved Iona’s body into one.

It meant that the battle was about to begin.

“If Yandel student succeeds in strengthening her body with Blood Force, I will attack with enough force to counter it!”

“Now, wait. Wait! At least give them time to cast their magic! You don’t have to do chanting!”

“You know what, Yandel student?”

“I don’t know what it is, but I think it’s information you don’t really want to know.”

“Blood magic is, to put it bluntly, magic that uses mana and vitality at the same time. That’s why it works so well.”

“That… Right?”

“Yandel students already know how to use magic, so if you just know how to use life force, you mean it?”

“Aaaaagh! I don’t have to say any more!”

I covered her ears at her ominousness and shook her head like a child, but Iona couldn’t stop her mouth.

“And the best way to awaken your life force is to feel the threat to your life!”

“I knew it!”

I tried to fumble with the impromptu spell, but Iona was a little faster than that.

“It’s fine! It’s fine! I put Blood Shift on, so I won’t die!”

Huung.

A distance approaching in an instant. And Iona’s legs bent like her whip.

Her clumsy images and her magic warmed her body, and at the same time, Iona’s instep touched her temple.

Fuck!

The vision that spins round and round with intense pain.

Lying on the floor, I looked up at the sky, which was so blue.

It was the second day of summer vacation.