NOVEL NEXT 5. Vritra’s Magic Circle
You can see a young man around 20 years old leisurely strolling through the streets of Kuoh. He has dark black hair, deep red eyes, and a lean muscular body with a height of 6 feet.
His facial has a unique charm to it making every passing woman whisper and watch him with dazed passionate eyes. He's wearing a white shirt under a black jacket with blue jeans.
This hunk of a man is none other than our very own protagonist using his recently acquired 'Body Transformation' skill.
[Kouske's POV]
Right now I'm using one of my skills to change my appearance to that of a 20-year-old man. I changed my blonde hair to dark black and ocean blue eyes to deep red. So I might look completely different from how I normally look.
I'm going to go to the next few towns searching for some rich corrupt politician as I have some people I need information about. So hypnotizing a corrupted politician is my first choice. I don't have any kind of information network or influence of my own.
So I will be using a politician's influence to get my desired info. First I need to find out Lavinia Reni. She should be 9 by now as Issei is also 6 this year. I only know that she lives in Italy and her parents died in a car accident when she was 9.
So it should be around that time for her. I remember she awakened her Longinus before 9 and told her parent and relatives about the doll. But nobody believed her. After her parent's death, no relatives wanted to take her in.
That's when Glenda from Wizards of Oz took her in to study her sacred gear. I want to make contact with her before that. So after going around different towns for hours and hypnotizing many politicians I came to that many of them are criminals.
They are connected to local gangsters. So I went to three gangster headquarters and beat the shit out of them. Then used mass hypnosis on the core members to recognize me as their leader.
I gave them details about Lavinia like her age, name, country, and how she would most likely look which should at least help them locate her mother. Well, these gangsters should have their way of finding information about normal people. I gave them two months to locate her and ordered them to go to Italy. Let's just hope for the best.
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It's been a week since then. I've been using this time to get better at controlling Blaze Black Flare. I even bought a cool sword from the shop with all the points I've been accumulating.
Night Sky Blade(B): The blade is made from the hardest wood found in the Underworld by a master blacksmith. It has the properties of absorbing mana from the user to further strengthen itself or to release mass mana with a darkness attribute. The one-handed blade has the of property of increasing its length with enough mana consumption. (Evolvable)-40000 points
The best thing about it is that it is still evolvable and extremely mana conductive. With enough time its rank could rise. It's a double-edged sword pitch black. When I look at the blade it gives me an ominous feeling like it could consume the light surrounding it. The blade is less than 120 cm in length.
Another noteworthy thing is I finally got a magic circle. It happened two days after I first talked with Vritra.
"So you are saying you also have a magic circle? But do dragons need magic circles?"I asked confusedly.
"Of course. Do you what a magic circle does?"
"It's used to effectively cast magic, right?"
"Yes, but its most important feature is that it consumes less mana to cast a magic spell using a magic circle compared to not using one. A noble devil's magic circle can save up to roughly 80-85% mana. The longer one researches and improves their magic circles the better it is in functionality. It's one of the most safely guarded secrets of a faction"
"So how is your magic circle compared to the devils?" I asked her curiously.
"Hmph! My magic circle is one of the best circles out there. You're lucky to be able to use mine" she replies haughtily.
"So how much exactly does it save up to?"
"Huh.Roughly 94%.You know unlike those other brute dragons I like to use my brain more ably. So I studied many different types of magic"
After that, I was given her purple magic circle.
<<Magic Circle>>
Right now I'm in the dungeon. I'm using Blaze Black Flare through the magic circle. I can feel that my mana usage is also negligible. I came to understand that a simple magic circle could actually turn the tide of the battle for magicians with roughly the same mana and skill levels.
Right in front of me is three earth elemental slimes with low-class (high) level strength. Hawks is battling one with his magics while I'm facing the other two. The Hawks have improved in this time. Now he can also use 'Wind Slash' alongside 'Wind Bullets',
'Wind Slash' is a spell that sends gales of winds forward in a slashing motion. Hawks doing fine against the slime.
Today I'm using my new blade to fight. I coat it in Blaze Black Flare like how martial artists coat their weapons in ki. I swing my sword towards the slime as it uses an earth wall. My sword cuts the earth wall like tofu. After cutting the wall in half I rush in to slash the slime.
At that moment the other slime sends multiple rocks towards me. I dodge the attack but use a dark sword strike through the blade's inherent element. It cuts the slime in half. After that, with a bit of effort, I finished off the other one. At that time Hawks was also finished with his opponent.
"You are getting the hang of using a sword," says Clarice.
"Yeah. Let's go back for now." At first, I was only swinging around the sword inefficiently but with Vritra's guidance, I've gotten the hang of it. I need more spells. So for the next few days instead of hunting I think I will focus on learning more spells alongside Hawks.
"Screech" Hawks comes to sit on my shoulder as we return home.