Volume 5 Chapter 2.6 (1/2)

Volume 5 Chapter 2.6

Editor: Weasalopes

「Well, we at least got this far, so let’s go ahead and take it to the end.」

The wave of unease on her shoulders relieved, Fum decided to take the enchantment all the way through its course. It was at this time that an irregularity occurred.

「Huh？ Wha！？」

Letting out a pathetic “btoom” sound, the enchantment fixed in place had been repelled. Fum hurriedly examined the pestle she had tried to enchant.

「……Nothing’s happened to it yet, huh？」

「Right, it’s just a normal pestle.」

「There wasn’t a single enchantment on it before, so I assume it’s still that way？」

Gazing intently at the failed pestle, three of them gave their conclusions.

「I guess we need to test this out one more time？」

Teres and Nora nodded with serious faces at Fum’s question. Once Fum got back into the procedure, Nora gave Lime instructions in a low voice.

「Lime. After this is over, I want you to show me your magic class notes.」

「Kaaay.」

Lime replied in a low voice, and as she did so, the enchantment failed with the same timing as before.

「Weird. Guess I’ll try a bit with the boss man formula.」

As Lime went to get her notes, Fum cast the same enchantment with the same method she always used. This time it was successful. The enchant was imbued into the pestle like normal.

「Reeeally weird. As I thought, there must be a hole somewhere in the theory……」

「And in order to figure that out, I had Lime bring her notes over.」

As they were discussing this, Lime, notes in hand, came back alongside Hiroshi. He seemed to have come back here from Rufeus to run some sort of errand.

「Oh, Boss Man？」

「Heard from Lime that y’all were doin’ somethin’ cool. I’ll spectate a lil bit.」

Hiroshi grinned as he motioned for Fum to start the process. Nodding, Fum first explained what they were doing and then used a pestle of the same material to begin. As he watched her do that, Hiroshi suddenly interjected.

「Another mighty darn weird way of doin’ things, mate.」

「Ah, so I am doing something wrong. We also thought something was off, but didn’t know what specifically.」

「Well yeah, there’s no way y’all would git that. The steps themselves ain’t gonna make a huge difference other than the school of thought they emerged from, but the catalyst has a horrible affinity with Strength Up.」

Immediately pointing out the irregularity, Hiroshi took out several other catalysts and began an explanation.

「Y’see, while it’s true those catalysts ain’t got many kinks in ‘em ‘n ya can use ‘em for most enchantments, their affinity’s horribly bad with several enchantments like Strength Up, like lethally bad. The wood materials used to make pestels are also bad with Strength Up, so if yer gonna do it ya gotta first do it with the catalysts I got right here, mate.」

「But the mortar went fine, didn’t it? Besides, the weird part was when I connected the lines, and Lime also said the main abnormality had to do with the flow of mana.」

「The main reason it went fine was purely cuz the mortar’s materials have a fantastic affinity with Strength Up. I won’t be able to say much about the flow until I try it myself.」

Nodding at Fum’s question, Hiroshi implemented the enchantment via the same method Fum previously did in order to investigate the cause. The conclusion……

「The procedure, the catalyst, the enchantment material, all these are super wack with their affinities, mate.」

…was that.

「If ya swap out the first step for a different one, the process becomes that much better, mate.」