Chapter 32 - My Fist Time Magic
"I would like to apologize in advance for forcibly borrowing you, oh magic staff whose name I do not yet know," I said to the magic staff belonging to the holy woman from the Aurora Goddess Shrine.
During panic due to the appearance of the sin-eating slime that continued to grow taller until it displayed a scary and disgusting form, I grabbed the magic staff that had a low-level holy magic energy resonance in my hand.
When I held it, the holy magic staff rippled and vibrated while adjusting its length based on my height while keeping the magic staff on my hand.
"Oh, it seems you don't mind being borrowed you for a while?" I joked to the magic staff while looking at the holy woman who seemed confused by the changes in her magic staff.
"What just happened? Why could an artifact owned by the Aurora Goddess Shrine resonate with your magic energy, little girl?" asked the adult woman while rubbing her eyes as if she couldn't believe that her magic staff resonated with my magic energy to the point of changing its size.
"I told you I would borrow it, you don't mind, right? Holy sister from the Aurora Goddess Shrine?" Since I didn't know the adult woman's name, I had to use formal language and try not to hurt her with my rude behavior.
"I don't mind about that, it's just that I need to report this if someone can resonate with the sacred artifact owned by the Aurora Goddess Shrine," she replied with a heavy expression on her face.
"If you do that, it will be a great loss for me and my family. Can you keep what I'm going to do next a secret?"
I could see that the adult woman was a little depressed about something.
The woman looked at me from head to toe and seemed to want to comment on something.
The woman suddenly covered her face with her palms and said, "I don't know anything and I don't understand anything! It seems like my magic staff fell somewhere!"
I just chuckled as I watched the adult woman pretend to be careless in answering my question.
Since my identity was already a secret from the adult woman who had been observing me closely, it would be difficult for me to pretend not to know her when my light brown skin had been remembered by her.
"By the way, this is a very good magic staff. You must have taken care of it with all your heart. I can feel your presence always taking care of it and I will tell you something. This magic staff likes the care you give it so it doesn't become a magic staff that is just a display in the Aurora Goddess Shrine."
"In short, this magic staff is more than just an artifact displayed in the Aurora Goddess Shrine but a magic staff that can bring out magic potential and magic manifestation much more efficiently than a regular magic staff."
"If you allow it, would you like to see your magic staff shine brightly when used other than as a display?"
I spoke at length to the adult woman who still had her eyes closed. It was not just empty talk but reality.
I could feel the remnants of holy magic energy stored inside the magic staff but it was rarely used by the right people and was slowly dimming due to lack of use.
To show the true power of this magic staff, it seems that I need to use my understanding of magic based on basic magic written in the magic book of one of the Great Heroes who understood the concept of elemental magic.
Alice and Alyssa had learned elemental magic with extraordinary ability.
I wasn't sure I could summon and manifest the elemental magic properly, but it was worth a try since this was my first time using my body's magical energy.
I had completely surrendered my safety to my Goddess.
"Ugh, it feels like I'm getting too nervous when doing something I've never done before," I said to overcome my nervousness before using magical energy for the first time.
I took a deep breath to calm my heart which was pounding non-stop.
The magical staff in my hand had heated up and wanted to release its magical energy potential to the maximum.
My memory was drawn to the past when Alice and Alyssa came to my room to ask for the translation of a magic book that used a complicated language that they didn't understand.
I stretched my hand forward and stared intently at the sin-eating slime. According to the book on monster ecology that the Great Hero often read and wrote in his magic book, the slime's greatest weakness was the existence of fire that threatened its body form that was filled with liquid.
The basic fire elemental magic that I had learned was Fireball.
Drawing a magic formation in my head and realizing it in the real timeline would be a bit difficult for me.
Using magic energy and katana to fight were two different things.
When I was using the katana, I didn't think at all about how my mind was occupied by other things and focused on swinging my hand that moved according to the tempo of the attack. However, it was very different from fighting using magic energy. The reason why wizard or witch were so rare in adventurer groups was the level of complexity in casting magic spells that were used to manifest magic energy into tangible magic.
The memory of the magic energy formation of Fireball was engraved in my head.
The complicated magic formation pattern was depicted with all my body's senses that had forgotten the existence around me and focused on the sin-eating slime.
"First-level basic magic..."
"Basic magic chant..."
I said those words while clearly remembering the magic formation of Fireball that slowly became clear in my memory. When the magic formation was engraved, I could see traces of magic energy that created the magic formation before my eyes.
Slliiirrr...
The imperfect magic formation forced itself to connect to each other but I could feel that my magic energy was slowly draining. To draw the magic formation and display it apparently took a lot of magic energy, now I could feel how tired Alice and Alyssa were who collapsed while practicing using magic.
"Kuh! This feels so heavy," I grumbled while forcing my magic energy to draw the magic energy formation.
When the magic energy formation was clearly depicted in front of me, I felt a strangeness that tickled my whole body when I saw it. It felt like the magic formation I manifested felt very strange.
The strange feeling grew stronger and made my body feel uncomfortable.
"I don't know why I want to change this magic formation," I muttered as I prepared to launch the Fireball magic formation.
When the magic formation was complete. I then chanted the spell to manifest the elementary magic form by shouting, "Fireball!!"
The heat of the burning fire immediately formed after my magic formation disappeared.
Puffsshh...
Baamm...
The elementary magic that I used flew towards the sin-eating slime, the explosion of the burning fire hit the outer part of the sin-eating slime and exploded.
Pyaarr...
Some parts of the sin-eating slime's body broke apart when the fire from my elementary magic hit its slime body.
The fat sin-eating slime's body suddenly grew back as if the lost body parts could be replaced with new body tissue.
I had a little trouble breathing because the burden of the magic formation I used seemed to be sucking more of my magic energy than it did damage.
There was something wrong with the Fireball magic formation I used and I realized it after experiencing it.
"Should I fix the Fireball magic formation with a new Fireball magic formation that is more efficient in absorbing magic energy?"
For some reason, my body felt very uncomfortable when using that magic formation.
I tried to think while forming different Fireball magic formations around my body. The pain from the stabbing headache was so obvious but I ignored it because the discomfort from the magic formation that didn't fit was more disturbing than the pain. Explore more stories at empire
Several basic Fireball magic formations were formed around me, their basic formations in the form of circles divided into several different forms of incantations. The formations divided my magic energy into several different parts according to the different patterns of the magic formations.
"Fireball!!"
Pamm...
"Fireball!!"
Bamm...
"Fireball!!"
Puusshhh...
"Fireball!!"
Tang...
"Fireball!!"
Kaboom...
Out of the five new Fireball basic magic formations I created, there was only one Fireball attack that had the level of damage and magic efficiency suitable for regular use. Luckily, I had stored that new basic magic formation in my head.
According to the records written by the Great Hero, the potential of elementary magic can be changed according to the situation. For example, the variation of elementary magic Fireball can be changed into hundreds of formations of deadly attacks or paralyzing attacks.
At first, I did not understand the writing but after experiencing this, I understood much more about the needs that were adjusted to the situation.
If the elementary magic Fireball can be changed like this, why is it recorded as having only one magic formation?
Isn't it a shame to only use one Fireball magic formation?
It seems I have to show how elementary magic Fireball is much more terrifying than intermediate magic or advanced magic.
"This will be my first experience in using magical energy that is fun!" I said with a smile filled with happiness when I saw the full potential of the Fireball magic formation and the best ability of the magic staff of the Aurora Goddess Shrine.
I glanced at the situation around me which was much calmer than before, it filled me with a high level of concentration.
That made me inadvertently create a Fireball magic formation that was surrounded by the sacred magic flames possessed by the magic staff.
The blazing hot flame was surrounded by a golden aura.
"Fireball!!"
With that one chant of the magic spell, I accidentally created a new holy magic that was not registered in the Aurora Kingdom's magic catalog.
When the elementary magic of Fireball wrapped in golden energy hit the body of the sin-eating slime, it made the slime's body evaporate without being able to regenerate its body tissue with new ones.
Without me realizing it, it seemed to be elementary magic created the new form of Purification Fireball. It was the same as the purification that was usually used by the Original Saintess who was directly chosen by the Goddess.