The Spearmaster and the Black Cat

, I won’t mention this in front of him, however.

“…Maybe.
But, honestly, I don’t know what’s going to happen.
Stay on guard.”

“If you’re telling me to stay on guard, boss, I guess I’ll put some spirit into this…” Tsuan’s eyes gleam.

He releases light threads from the edges of the khukri in his hands, and makes them head straight for a thick tree.
He skilfully manipulates the threads with movements reminding me of a sickle-and-chain weapon.

Once they coil themselves around the trunk, the khukri blade’s middle part changes into something like an air vent, just like before, and begins to reel in the light threads.
In response, Tsuan runs through the air as if being guided by the threads, and moves up to the tree while hanging from a thick branch with his look being razor-sharp.
He keeps watching the vicinity while revolving around the tree as if fighting himself in that amusement park game.

It looks like he can cut off the light threads at any time, and they don’t entwine themselves around his body as you’d expect.
Still, I must say, he’s quite a technician.
Did he possibly possess an acrobat’s combat occupation?

“I see you’re leaving the lookout of the area to the disciple Tsuan-san.
Spirit-sama, eh? I do have some interest in your experiment, master, but I’ll pass this time.
Seeing how my brother’s home is so close, I’ll go the first and take a look.” Mysty says while walking a few steps ahead.

“…”

“Fufu, don’t look at me with such worry.
I’m telling you, I’m really alright now.”

Oh? I guess I let it show on my face unintentionally.

Mysty laughs with her eyes making you feel her intelligence.
Her eyes aren’t dyed with blood anymore.
And, the glasses suit her really well.
Viine also directs a wise smile often at me, but Mysty’s smile with an atmosphere of a female professor definitely has its charm as well.

“Sure, see you later then.”

“Oki, I’ll look around while testing out my simple golem and the .”

“Roger.”

With those words, Mysty takes a metallic ball out of her waist pouch, creates a simple golem, and keeps walking into the forest on the left.
The simple golem forces its way through by breaking branches and shaving off the bark from trees.

“――Since Tsuan is around, I’ll also go check the outer perimeter.
Just as planned first, I’ll put these Adamantine wood axes to good use in Mysty’s circumference.” Mr.
Bear Hankay powerfully swings the ax in his right hand vertically.

With a slight delay, he swings the ax in his left to the side and vertically, forming a cross slash, while making the magic gems embedded on the back of his left hand glow.

I wonder, is that a new style? When it comes to 『Mountain Blow』, the name should be something like 『Bear Blow』 or similar.

Hankay walks after Mysty.

“――Boooss, it looks like there’s still monsters over there and there.
Would it be better for me to also head over in Mysty’s direction?” Tsuan’s maneuvers capitalize on the centrifugal force after pulling the light threads to himself.
He’s in the middle of rotating through a gap in the trees.

“Do as you like.”

“Roger.
I’ll stay here then.”

At that moment, Mysty turns around and bows to the bear Hankay who’s approached her from behind.
And then she briskly lifts her head again, and points at elephant monsters walking heavily in-between two trees behind her.
It’s the monsters Rollo and the Burning Knights had hunted before.
Their numbers are low, but I think they’ve chased after us.

At that point, the Burning Knights, who had drifted away from us, appear and start a surprise attack on the elephant monsters from behind.
I’ve forgotten the names, but…they bisect a scorpion tail with their favorite bone swords.

However, then praying mantis-like monsters, which we haven’t seen so far, show up, turning the whole situation into something like a train chasing after the Burning Knights.
Just as Tsuan has cautioned, it looks like it’ll develop into a melee over there.

Thereupon, Hankay swoops down on the Burning Knights who are clad in smoke, as if complaining about something.
Ah, no, he’s joined up with them.
Hankay protects Adomos’s back while adopting a daunting pose.

“Nuuoo! I’ll take on that white mantis! I’ll crush its guts――” Hankay yells loudly.

After readying his axes, he roars a war cry, and charges.
Swinging an ax upwards from diagonally below as if performing a drive swing, he severs the mantis’ head.
The head with its compound eyes on the left and right drops to the ground.
Hankay uses the other ax, which he had thrown like a boomerang, to clash it against that falling head.
The mantis head explodes in midair.
The fragments of its compound eyes splatter in all directions.

“…There’s something I want to test on those mantis and elephant monsters, but I’m going to wait here for you, Master, with Rollo-sama.”

“Nya.” Rollo agrees with the lovable Viine.

I think she might want to join the unusual battle of the Burning Knights and Hankay, but Rollo looks at Viine, and then briskly walks over to her.
After stopping at her feet, she greets Viine with a “Nn, nya.”

“Rollo-sama, judging by that look and your voice, you desire the new biscuit I received from Sweets Empress Rebecca, right?” Viine’s expression betrays that her feelings of motherhood got triggered.

She retrieves a single baked sweet from the waist pouch tied to her tight waist with a string.
And then she bends down so as to match her eye line with Rollo’s, and offers Rollo the sweet.

“Nyano～” Rollo meows something like 『It’s great that you understood me nya～』, and sinks her teeth into the new biscuit on Viine’s palm.

“Fufu, Rollo-sama, I’ve still got more, so please eat at ease.”

The battlefield on the right, and the relaxed atmosphere over here are completely opposite to each other.

After chewing and swallowing down the biscuit, Rollo sniffs the scent of Viine’s slender angle, apparently happy, and bumps her small head against her shin.
She’s fawning on Viine, but it doesn’t go as far as with Hankay.

Now then, I’ll use the time to take a quick peek at my abilities, I guess.

Status.

Name: Shuuya Kagari
Age: 22
Title: Emissary of Light Evil
Race: Light Demon Lucival
Combat Occupation: Spirit Spear Blood Chain Master : Sage Art Apprentice

Strength: 25 → 25.6
Agility: 25 → 25.8
Stamina: 23.2 → 23.6
Mana: 28.3 → 28.9
Dexterity: 23 → 23.4
Spirit: 31 → 31.3
Luck: 11.5 → 11.6

Current Status: Normal

First, the stats.
Since I’ve gone through real combat at the Dignified Heaven’s Shrine and the banquet and have been continuing my hunting and training every day, they’ve grown well…

Oh? How unusual for luck to go up.
Is this a congratulatory gift for having left Pelneet? Or maybe it’s a blessing by the God of Fate for having rescued the wandering troupe, including Nonno-chan?

That lamp-using grandfather Benjamin-san…that’s not actually possible, right?

Next, there’s the new combat occupation next to .
It hasn’t fused the spear one, and since it’s about apprenticeship, I think it’s an occupation that’s completely out of line.

Are new possibilities for me starting to bloom?

Anyway, the basics are important.
The basics where you know the time has come after spending long, long hours of training.
It might be best to consider this as something that will gradually keep piling up from now on.
I’ll learn everything by happily studying it while playing around.

Skill Status.

Obtained Skills: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , (NEW), (NEW)

Permanent Skills: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , (NEW)

Extra Skills: , , , , ,

Next I check out the new spear skill by touching .

※Fang Stab※

※ Strong Spear Style Techniques: Basic lower stab.
The number of variations is unknown, if one includes the variations among the high-ranking techniques ※

was categorized as part of the Strong Spear Style, huh? As for me, I’d like to acquire the skills of the Wind Spear Style through my own training as a connection with Master, but…as a result of learning it after watching Soleck use it, I’ve ended up learning a Strong Spear Style technique.
I think it’s a power technique because a catman with four arms used it, but if I consider that my compatibility matches with the Strong Spear Style, it’s consistent. Like this story, then support the trasnlator by reading it on their blog.
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Currently I feel like exploring options to incorporate it with .

Next I touch .

※Spirit Ball Conception※

※ A Sage technique acquired through the growth of the contracted spirit and various other components.
A skill inherent to the Sage Art skillset ※

Even after touching the ‘various other components’ part, it doesn’t show me any details.
Well, I guess it doesn’t matter since we’re going to test it out soon anyway.
It might be okay to consider it as a counter ability coming out of my left eye like it happened during the battle against Hogbar.

Next, the permanent skill .

※Sage Art – Understanding of the Yellow Water Ribbon※

※ The cause lies with Water Goddess Akreshys’ Divine Protection.
It’s a skill that will be automatically acquired by one using , , and the grown Water Spirit of Everlasting Darkness Helme.
It brings about the inherent Sage technique ※

This doesn’t give me any further details upon touching either.

『Helme, are you ready? We’re going to start』

『Okay』

I invoke .

At that moment, a glittering Helme appears from the retina in my left eye.
The end of Helme, who can be described as liquid or fluid that’s connected to my left eye, is clad with an orb.
She floats while maintaining her three-dimensional shape, as if opposing the planet’s gravity.

The fluid Helme heads for the idol enshrined in the chapel, to the figure that might be an ancient goddess.
At the same time, the source of Helme, which extends from my left eye, the fluid looking like a tree’s root slightly expands to the side, deploying towards the chest of Hal’Konk.
While dyeing Hal’Konk’s dark green into a pretty turquoise blue, it engulfs a part of my left shoulder.
And then the sight in my left eye becomes the same as during the last time.

The sight of looking through Helme’s semi-transparent body shows a mysterious and strange world.
The act of her engulfing a part of my body with her liquid resembles the times when she cleans my body, but…now it’s widely different.
Helme’s contents swirl through her body while blending, mixing, combining things like mana, space, the houseboat of the Seven Lucky Gods, slime, meteors, electron shells, amoeba, debonchichi, or something unknown.

It’s the effect of .
This might have become the defensive layer as sage technique that blocked Hogbar’s attack.
The external shape of the fluid Helme might be abnormal.
It’s close to my ? Yep, I guess it might be…

“Nyaa…”

“Ooohh, the huge underground lake Adoban! It resembles the shadowgraph of the illusionary underground lord’s appearance… And, I can also see a secret art that seems to be used by a dark elf priest! The dome is wandering, and something similar to strange stars also…”

Rollo meows in confusion, and Viine is plainly excited.
Seemingly being able to hear them, Helme creates delicate waves as if to answer them.

Helme’s round end heads to the headless idol that stands inside the chapel.