Helping with Adventurer Party Management

Episode 226: Invisible Enemy

Magic in this world is a technology that can only be used by extremely limited human beings.

First of all, it is difficult to obtain knowledge of witchcraft.

If ordinary people want to master witchcraft, they have to find magicians who are hiding in villages and towns and pay expensive gratuities to beg for teaching.

Training needs to start at an early age, and efficiency drops dramatically when you grow up.

Only a very simple sorcery can be taught there, like flying a preliminary flare or stone bullet.

To master more complex sorcery than that, you have to join the Mage Guild, which exists in the King's Capital and the Great Territories, to pile up drills, it seems.

I was also an adventurer for about five years, so I had a little contact with the guys who said I could use magic, but almost everyone could only use preliminary magic. In the first place, that would be normal because there is so much to learn that advanced magic can be used, and if you are wealthy, you will not become an adventurer, etc.

Besides, the use of magic requires a catalyst, and it costs money to do it.

Even the exercise of preliminary witchcraft costs about one piece of copper coin, so the price of the catalyst necessary for the use of advanced witchcraft is unknown to the ceiling. Besides, if you're about to fly a firebomb, it's more powerful to hit it with a long bow, and it has a long range. It's cheaper than anything. It's a story that has nothing to do with witchcraft for poor adventurers in the middle of nowhere.

But it's also a different story if you're a first-rate adventurer, like a soldier of sword fangs, or a grand aristocrat.

Sorcery has an extremely powerful effect depending on how it is used.

If you cast a blessing sorcery on your shield, you can bounce off a powerful monster blow, and if you throw a powerful wind sorcery on a flying monster, you can also upset your flight balance and drop it to the ground, apparently.

"Apparently, that sounds kind of unreliable!

That was Sarah's reaction when I told her all I knew about the sorcery.

"You don't have a choice. I can't use magic at all."

That's what I say, I look back at Kirik the escort.

"You know what?"

But the only unreliable reply I came back with was "I only know as much about it as I do".

Even if it's someone who uses witchcraft, in any case, the company's shoe factory security system must be reviewed again.

We headed home from church to the office of the Sword Tooth Corps on that leg.

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"You're still causing trouble, Kenji. Nevertheless, the next time the opponent is to the great nobleman of the city of leeway, is he a magician? That's troublesome."

Jilboa, who came to talk to me about security, thought with a rare look on his face.

"Do you have any troublesome enemies?"

When I asked, Jilboa replied with a bitter smile.

"What the hell do you think I am? The enemy is always a pain in the ass. All the more so if the enemy is an invisible opponent who cannot wave his sword and defeat him. You'll need to be more aware of unseen threats than you can see about this enemy."

"Invisible threat?

I repeated Jilboa's point like an idiot.

"Oh, enemies don't just come from before, they don't just come from outside"

Jilboa's story seemed like it was going to be a dark, unpleasant story behind it, with no mood for anything.