Chapter 241 (1/2)

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Chapter 241 – The Gravity Balancer and Roy's Growth

Katy apparently used Hikaru's story of how the wingless Gray n.o.ble Drakon flew in the air as reference when developing the Gravity Balancer. Drake didn't possess the level of power to make a huge body like that float, but his body was equipped with the same function as well, which Katy studied.

Holy mana's effect on gravity obeyed certain laws which she explained using a blackboard. Though it was too technical that Hikaru could only get the general gist of it.

「So basically, holy mana isn't used like a wing to glide through the air, but rather it exerts direct influence on gravity or repulsive forces, and doesn't obey any existing laws of physics. Instead, it has its own laws.」

「Exactly. I'm glad you catch on quick… but you don't seem that surprised.」

「Well, yeah…」

This world has magic, so that doesn't really surprise me at all.

「There's a similar air Spirit magic spell called Air Wall which creates an air cus.h.i.+on, but this one works on a completely different fundamental principles.」

「Hmm… Let's give it a try, then.」

「Do you want me to do it?」Lavia said.「It requires mana, right?」

Hikaru barely had any mana. But he thought there wouldn't really be a chance for Lavia to use it, unless she fell from a high place or she needed to land on water for a moment. Then again, she could probably use it to fly. However, Hikaru decided he would do the first test run. He didn't want Lavia to do anything potentially dangerous.

「I'll try it first with my measly amount of mana.」Hikaru said.

Since he already had their party bracelet on his right arm, Hikaru put on the wrist.w.a.tch-looking device on his left arm instead.

「Hmm… Oh.」

With Mana Detection, Hikaru watched his mana flow into the Gravity Balancer. Then he felt his body become lighter, like all the hair on his body stood on end.

「This is incredible.」

「Did you float?」

「Yeah, it sure felt like it.」

「You can think of it this way: that device's effects has a two-meter radius range.」

「Got it. Thank you. Though I hope I don't have to use it anytime soon.」

This needs more tests, Hikaru thought.

「Hahaha. Right, I have a parting gift for you as well, Lavia.」

「For me?」

Katy returned to the lab and came back with a ma.s.sive book. Lavia's eyes brightened. Its leather binding was worn-out, the blurry characters on the front unreadable. It was about 10 by 7 inches in size.

「Are these… notes?」

「More like a codex. It was left here a long time ago by someone from the academy. It was handed over to my lab by chance, but I never found it useful.」

「What's it about?」

「It's a grimoire. Advanced fire-type Spirit magic is written in there. If I recall correctly, you use fire type spells, right?」

Lavia could use widely-known spells like Fire Breath, Flame Wall, and Flame Gospel. Only those who studied fire-type Spirit magic could use anything more advanced than those. Most of them were either secret techniques known only to the one who developed it, or spells that were for exclusive use only.

Not a lot of doc.u.ments remained about them, and most of them were kept by royal families or research facilities.

「C-Can I really have it?」

「Of course. Just don't expect to find terribly destructive spells. It's just a bunch of tricky spells that are hard to use or requires much skill to cast. I even forgot about the book until now.」

「Still, I'm sure it'll be of great help!」

Katy watched Lavia with a smile as she embraced the grimoire in her hands.

After bidding farewell to Katy, they made their way to the training area where they found Professor Mikhail and his students who just finished preparing the grounds. The professor wore a complex look when Hikaru told him they were leaving Scholarzard.

「I see. I knew you would leave one day. You probably don't have much to learn from this academy. But you being here really encouraged everyone.」

Mikhail's great sword students watched Hikaru with glistening eyes. They had practiced here a lot, but in the end, not one of them managed to land a hit on Hikaru. As they grew and improved, so did he. They failed to close the gap in skills; in fact, it only grew bigger. Most of them were from Jarazack.

「Professor, please allow me to fight Hikaru one last time.」

「Hey, no fair! I wanted to ask first!」

「Me too!」

「No, me!」

The first one who raised his hand was not a citizen of Jarazack, but a young man from Rumania, Roy “Yellow Tiger” Rumania. Hikaru was curious about the serious look in his eyes.

「You heard him, Hikaru. What do you say?」the professor said.

「Well, since it's the last one… and as long as it's only Roy, I'm in.」

「What?!」

「No fair!」

A few complained.

「Have some shame, men. It's first come, first served. Get ready, you two.」