Chapter 67: 68

Peasant Arc

Chapter 68 - Quality and Quantity of Mana

"Oraaah!"

　

　The peasant soldiers tried to distance themselves from me, who was wielding a stick made of Hardened Bricks.

　

　Their faces were drawn with fear.

　

　Of course they were.

　

　I'm a child, and I'm blowing away adults, which is obviously abnormal.

　

　Maybe that's why they just looked at me from a distance and didn't try to get close to me.

　

　That's fine then.

　

　My goal is not only to defeat the opponent in front of me.

　

　My goal is to win this battle.

　

　That means I have to defeat the commander.

　

　I decided to chase after the man who was running away from me back into Fontana's army.

"Hey, Ars, wait a minute. Don't go in there alone."

　

　But there was something that was holding me back from charging in.

　

　It was my Baito-nii, who had been chasing behind me.

　

　Like me, he was riding a Valkyrie, swinging a stick as he approached.

　

　I looked at him and then behind him to get a grasp of the situation.

　

　It seems that I was charging in too far on my own.

　

　Although I had succeeded in breaking through to the front of the Fontana army, the distance between me and the Barca forces had widened.

　

　There was another reason for this, besides the fact that I was on a mount.

　

　It was because of the strength of the Barca people who were fighting with me.

　

　The Barca people, to whom I had given the Barca surname and magic, were not as strong as I was in blowing away their opponents.

　

　They were stronger than the peasants of the Fontanas' army, thanks to the magic of [Body Strengthening] and [Shotgun].

　

　But it was not enough to overwhelm their opponents.

　

　The magic I had given them, especially the [Body Strengthining], certainly improved their physical abilities.

　

　It's not a super-enhancement, but it's just a magnification that allows you to carry something a little heavier than you used to in everyday life.

　

　But even with that out of the way, I felt like they had less of a power increase than I did as a child.

　

　This may have something to do with the quality of their mana.

　

　I was the same way when I was little, but basically, mana is often left to drip out of a person's body naturally.

　

　It's quite like a steam rising from a person's body, like a wisp of steam.

　

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　But I was trying to make the magic more powerful by trial and error.

　

　There was a way to simply increase the amount of mana by taking in mana from the air.

　

　Then, I tried to mix that mana with my own mana.

　

　In addition, by concentrating the combined mana in their stomach and intestines, one can increase the amount of magic power taken in through food.

　

　In this way, I had been continuously improving the quantity and quality of my mana.

　

　Perhaps, other people don't do so many things with their magical power.

　

　They just make use of the thin mana naturally generated by their bodies.

　

　That's why, even after I named them, some of them couldn't use magic that requires large amount of mana, such as [Wall Construction] and [Road Laying].

　

　If you improve the quality of your magic power, even a child's body that has not yet grown physically can blow away an adult.

　

　Does this mean that the quality and quantity of magic power is directly related to a person's fighting ability?

　

　There are only a limited number of people who can work with this enhanced version of me.

"Baito- nii, Vargas-san, you two come with me. Dad and Maddock-san, you lead the others and come after us."

　

　My brother Baito is good at strengthening his body because I taught him how to train his magic power a long time ago, and Vargas has good defense from his experience on the battlefield, and he's still in good shape even after being hit by a [Shotgun].

　

　These two can be a match made in heaven.*

 TLN*: This can also be translated as: "These two can be Ikki Tousen." I believe that is a reference to Ikki Tousen (a popular manga series in Japan) which has an English title named something around "A Mighty Knight Who Matches a Thousand Knights". Just letting you know.)

　

　I decided to take the lead and cut through with the two of them.

"We're aiming for the armor-clad people in the middle of the enemy army. We'll go there."

　

　And so, the target was the armored group, probably a group of nobles below the Fontanas.

　

　That's a strong enemy.

　

　Just the fact that they are wearing metal armor is a threat to us.

　

　After all, [Shotgun] probably won't work.

　No matter how hard they are, flying stones will not pierce the metal armor satisfactorily and will not damage them.

　

　But even more than that, the people wearing the armor had a lot of magic power.

　

　I could see all of their mana quantities through my eyes.

　

　Whether it was the result of training or some other secret, all of the people wearing armor had high magic power.

　

　Of course, their strength is probably no greater than that of peasant soldiers.

　

　But that's why it makes sense to target them.

　

　Me, Baito-niisan, and Vargas-san are our main force and our mental pillars.

　

　In the same way, for the Fontana army, the armorers must be the emotional support for the peasants.

　

　If we destroy them, the peasants will not be able to hold together.

　

　With that in mind, the two of them and I made our way toward the center of the enemy army, paying no attention to the peasants. 

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