episode_0009

Skill window update? Previously, there was only a status window and a party window, so it felt a bit empty, but a skill update?

Do Yu-geon cheered and shouted.

“Skill window!”

Really a skill? I felt like there was something game-like about it since the login term was login, but the skills were really too game-like. What does the system do? I like things like games like this.

This isn’t the first game-like update for the system. The reason the door inside the slime room opened was because the update was in progress.

“It’s a passive skill!”

“It’s not active. Thank goodness.”

I’m glad it’s not that absurd. If it were an active skill, I would have been confused to think about how it would be activated.

Let’s take a look.

“Skill window.”

[Skill Window]

basic skills

◇ Magical sense – OFF

◇ Presence detection – OFF

hmm. Basic skills mean that there are other skills as well. Giving a sense of magic would mean that a talent for detecting magic would be required.

But what is the sign of presence detection? Is it a sound? I don’t think it’s a sound.

[Try to activate the passive skill. Just shout the skill name and activation together.]

The system is a bit unfriendly. There was no mention in the skill window what the passive skill was, but it said to activate it. If you’ve played the game for a while, you might be able to tell, but if you haven’t played the game, you don’t know what a passive skill is.

“It’s magic power! Magic power!”

Do Yu-geon looked at the sky and waved his arms. I think I just activated the magic sense skill and now I can feel magic.

“Can you feel the magic?”

“I can feel it!”

He looks excited. You look like you’re having a lot of fun. Well, he was like that when he first realized his magical power. Wasn’t it that bad?

the guy asked.

“How do you use magic?”

“You just need to move your magic power.”

“How do you move magic power?”

“hmm.”

It’s hard to say specifically how you move because you just do it. How do I explain it? I wonder if I can demonstrate it.

He created wind with magical power. Leaves and grass rustled.

“You can do it like this.”

“……how?”

“like this.”

The wind started up again. Do Yu-geon tilted his head as if he didn’t know. Can’t you tell?

Afterwards, they continued to talk about how to move magical power, but Do Yu-geon was unable to move his magical power. Feeling magical power and moving magical energy seem like two different realms.

In addition, I checked the range of magic sense using the magic sense skill and it seems to be about 2 meters. It’s 2 meters tall, so it’s impossible to find a goblin at that level.

I haven’t measured it myself, but I can roughly measure hundreds of meters without any effort, so I can see how narrow a range 2 meters is.

It seems that the magic sense skill itself is useless. Still, I wonder if it can serve as a priming material to help people with less talent use magic. Because the existence of magical power can be clearly imprinted.

I tried activating the magic sense skill to see if the skill range varies depending on talent. Then, I felt an unpleasant sensation overlapping my senses.

I tried to endure the discomfort and check what range the skill had, but I couldn’t check because the skill had no effect and only irritated my senses. I’ll have to look it up on the internet later.

Now that you have confirmed your magic sense, it is time to check your presence detection.

“Activate presence detection.”

[Presence detection—ON]

As always, I felt uncomfortable when the system intervened, but I looked at it to see if anything had changed.

hmm… … . Has something changed? I don’t know.

When I used the Magic Sensing skill, I felt like it was being overlaid on my senses, but I don’t know that the Presence Detection skill has changed at all. Let’s turn it off because it’s unpleasant.

“Disable presence detection.”

[Presence detection – OFF]

The guy approached.

“how is it?”

“It’s not working. Are you there?”

The guy laughed. He then said that he could determine the location of objects with his eyes closed.

“I can do that too.”

“This skill is not about magical power, but about detecting presence by feeling it.”

“A presence?”

When I asked him if he was hearing sounds, he thought about it and answered no. If you close your eyes and guess the location without hearing the sound, it’s a complete fantasy. Ah, fantasy.

I decided to check if it was true. The guy closed his eyes and used magic to levitate the notebook in the air. The guy’s magic sense skill is turned off.

No matter which side the notebook was placed on, right or left, it was positioned accurately.

that’s interesting. I don’t know at all, but is this a difference in talent?

However, since this method can produce sound by moving the air even slightly, you cannot be sure that you will not hear the sound. It could be that presence detection maximizes hearing. Is there any other way to properly verify it?

As I was thinking about it, the guy said.

“Let me guess how many fingers you have outstretched.”

“Is that okay?”

“I think it will work.”

The movement of your fingers also affects the air, but you can ignore that. Because it’s not academic research.

I spread out two fingers.

“this.”

I spread out seven fingers.

“seven.”

oh? I spread out three fingers.

“three.”

Wow, there is a 0.1% chance of guessing correctly, but I got it right.

Then, let’s verify it more rigorously.

“I’ll do it one more time.”

A strong wind was created using magic. Clothes were fluttering and hair was flying. As the fallen leaves flew up and the grass swayed, I stretched out two fingers.

The guy answered. I don’t know what I said because I was muffled by the sound of the wind.

I tidied up my disheveled hair and clothes.

The guy opened his eyes and asked with a flushed expression.

“Did you get it right?”

“I couldn’t hear you properly because of the wind. How many?”

“two.”

“That’s right.”

“Cheer up!”

I stood up, saw the guy raising his fist, and shook off his clothes. Dirt splashed. I tried to create a strong wind to keep the dirt from splashing, but it didn’t work. When will I be able to read with such magical skills?

“Hahaha! After all, I’m a genius!”

What are you talking about?

“Even though you have talent, aren’t you too conceited to call yourself a genius?”

“Are you talking about the frog in the well hypothesis? We are geniuses. Among them, I am a swordsman genius…”

I’m suddenly overly self-conscious.

“Oh, yes, that’s right.”

“But! Even among geniuses, there are superiors and inferiorities. If we compare, a swordsman genius is stronger than a magic genius. If the two of us fight, I will win.”

“okay?”

I can’t just ignore this statement. Of course this one is stronger.

I gathered my magic power, sharpened the tip, and shot it at the tree. After making several improvements, we concluded that this method was fast and robust. A hole opened in the tree and the other side was visible.

He looked at the tree with a hole in it and said.

“It means that I will win in a swordsmanship match.”

“Of course.”

“But now I can win with my eyes closed.”

“Oh no, that’s not it. You’re too conceited.”

“Then why don’t you give it a try? There’s a wooden sword in the preparation room.”

The guy has a confident expression. The difference in capabilities is significant, but wouldn’t it be too arrogant to close our eyes?

hmm… … .

I kept looking at him, but he was still confident. I’m so confident that I feel like I’m going to lose.

“I’m tired today, so let’s do it next time.”

* * *

Research into magic circles is still difficult. I’ve thought about it every time it comes to mind, but I can’t find a groundbreaking solution.

I just need to mass produce grimoires or understand magic circles, but I don’t know how to do both. Parasol of the magic book was blocked because I did not know how to make a magic circle.

Likewise, understanding the magic circle is not possible and the time spent observing aimlessly only passes. At first, I was able to figure out that it consisted of using magic, accumulating magic power, and fixing a magic circle, but I only looked into how it works once or twice, and now I don’t know what else to consider.

I think it’s more difficult because I’m conducting research in a haphazard manner without a proper research methodology. Since my major is not science or engineering, I don’t know how to approach it.

Although I did some reading about it, I only realized that I needed practical experience to learn it properly. Even if you take reading to the academic level, it is ultimately just a hobby and you cannot become an expert.

The magic circle circle spun around and then returned to its original position. Can’t you do it? Since we are not going to present our research to academia, let’s do it at a self-satisfying level. I expect that I will continue to get stuck later on, but I can think about it later. But I think I made this promise last time too, didn’t I?

I gave up trying to look into or create a magic circle and decided to mess with the grimoire. I didn’t want to be indebted to someone I knew, so I tried to save the grimoire, but I also didn’t want to go through the trouble of buying it.

But when I actually tried to touch the magic circle in the grimoire, this question arose.

Is it safe to touch this?

It was okay when I first found the grimoire and touched it, but is it safe to touch it now? Maybe I was lucky that time?

Wouldn’t it explode or the magic circle would run out of control and cause unimaginable problems?

If it explodes, you can deal with it, but what if a magic circle goes crazy and unknown magic comes into play?

Magic circle runaway is a serious problem in the foreseeable future. What if the magic to be activated is common sense? What should I do if it is non-sensical?

For example, an infectious disease with a 100% fatality rate that spreads through the air. Add in the fact that it is a magical disease that cannot be discovered by modern science with an incubation period of several years, and it is easy for humanity to become extinct.

The point is whether what happens when you touch this grimoire is fantasy or cosmic horror.

Considering the fantasy situations so far, we can infer that it is a future that can be dealt with even though it is unusual, but that does not guarantee that this grimoire will be okay. The fantasy so far is simply the tip of the iceberg, and what will happen in the future may be a cosmic horror.

However, this kind of concern is something that only you or a very small minority of people worry about. Since the magic sense was added as a skill, many magic reviews have been posted on the Internet. There were many reviews saying that the grimoire was damaged.

Some said that they accidentally broke the magic circle, but others said that they found magic accumulating in the grimoire, although the cause is unknown. As some of these success stories emerged, the number of reviews destroying the grimoire continued to increase.

Although Do Yu-gun was not able to move magical power, it seems that a certain number of people, if not a significant number, were able to move magical power soon after using the magic sense skill.

If you have such talents, I hope you will carefully judge them according to your talents… … .

There were no incidents caused by the grimoire on the Internet, and there were no major incidents in the news, so I decided to stop thinking about it and just touch the magic circle of the grimoire. Although it has not been verified for things like infectious diseases, it is not something you can prepare for by being careful on your own.

I took the grimoire. Still, let’s touch it in the preparation room so as not to inconvenience our parents.

“log in.”

I entered a white space. This is the first time I have come here alone without Do Yu-gun, except when I came to chase after Do Yu-geon about a month ago. I’m not particularly impressed, though.

I put the grimoire on the shelf. I concentrated and looked at the magic circle. The magic circle in the grimoire is not one, but three.

One is a magic circle that covers the contents of the book, two are magic circles that accumulate magical power, and three are magic circles that fix the magic circle to the grimoire.

What we need to do from now on is to break the magic use magic circle, not the fixed magic circle, to break the balance of magic use and accumulation.

I intervened in the operating magic circle and drained a small amount of magical power. I felt the magic covering the contents of the book disappear. I didn’t notice it before, but now I know it’s gone.

As expected, when the balance of magical power was broken, magical power began to accumulate in the grimoire. It doesn’t accumulate very quickly, but if you have time to walk through the forest and look for goblins, you’ll probably accumulate enough to use in battle.

Let’s leave it in the preparation room first and check the maximum total amount and the side effects that will occur if it accumulates too much.

I decided to log out, but suddenly a wooden sword near the shelf caught my eye. Speaking of which, I promised Do Yu-geon that I would compete in swordsmanship the next time I logged in. But I haven’t even held a wooden sword yet.

He approached and picked up a wooden sword. Although it has a heavy weight, it is lighter than a real sword. I went to the center of the preparation room and drew my sword vertically. Everything is awkward.

I swung the sword vertically and horizontally a few times, but the awkwardness did not go away. Do Yu-geon said he would close his eyes, but I don’t know if he will really lose if he does this. Should I secretly use magic?

As I was wondering what to do, I felt magic at work. When I looked there, Do Yu-geon appeared out of thin air.

The guy looked towards the weapons flag as he was used to and found this.

“Huh? What, are you practicing without me knowing?”

“I didn’t even practice, but when I had time, I tried swinging it once.”

“You won’t be able to beat me even if you practice.”

“I said it before, but I’m really overconfident.”

The guy laughed.

“Then why don’t we check now?”

“Right Now?”

“uh.”

Now… … .

Does it matter?

“Ok, fine.”