Chapter 158 – Practice! Dungeon Training

“Hеllо thеrе! Нey evеrуone! Тodaу, I’m gоnnа trу сhаnting spells tо boost thеir рowеr! Uр until nоw, I’vе bеen skiрping сhants for sрееd, but аppаrentlу, magic gets strоngеr when you chаnt thе incantation!”

※ “Hеу everyone!” “Неy!” “Whoа” “Will yоu hаvе timе to chant during battlе?”

“Yeah, уеаh, that’s definitеlу а conсern. But аctually, battlеs in thе Dungeon аrеn’t all thаt fast-pаced. Watсh me find орenings to chant!”

※ “Oоh!” “Loоking fоrwаrd to it!” Мaruchоu: “Тruе, the enеmies аrе living сrеаtures tоо. Тheу hаve rhythms and pauses, so to speak.”

Exactly.

Surprisingly, since monsters are living beings, they can be fast when they want to be, but sometimes they just hang back and observe.

What we need to do is finish our chants while they’re observing and then finish them off!

“Speaking of which, here comes the Goblin army! There are a lot of them this time, so they’ll probably get cocky and attack… Levitation!”

The Goblins float up just out of reach.

Oh, they’re throwing rocks!

“Flota, block them for me!”

“Don’t make a Grimoire do that kind of work!? Ouch! Ow, ow, ow!”

While she blocks the rocks, I chant the spell!

“Melting stone, erupting heat, bubbles of breath unleashed as bullets… Split Fireball!!”

The explosive fireball I created looked completely different from the usual fireball.

How should I put it… It was like a lump of lava…!?

“Niiice, Master!! The imagery from the incantation shapes the form of the Magic! In other words, what you’ve been using until now was like ready-made, imitation Magic!”

“Ohhh, I see!”

※ “Whoa! The scattered Fireballs!” “They wiped out the Goblins!” “Even after exploding, they keep burning and dripping and splattering—that’s insane!”

“Seriously! Wow, incantations really change things, huh… I wonder if Levitation changes too?”

“Nope, the Grimoire of Levitation doesn’t change. Its function is guaranteed!”

“Whoa, that’s convenient!”

“Though if you misuse it, things can get really bad!”

“Yeah, this one’s easy to use but extremely hard to master. That’s why its easy activation is actually really troublesome. Long ago, a Witch who used Flota on a continent floating in the Atlantic Ocean messed up big time and sank the whole continent.”

“That’s the Atlantis continent!!”

※ “The truth of history revealed now!!” “Little Spice’s Grimoire sank a whole continent?” “Flota is scary.”

“She used Magic instantly, and since she was skilled enough to use high-level Magic, the spells clashed and caused a disaster! That was the biggest accident in my entire existence. Be careful, okay?”

“I’ll be careful! That’s crazy.”

※ Maruchou: “Wasn’t the Atlantis continent submerged around 9000 BC?” “So this Grimoire has been around since ancient times!?”

“It existed normally a thousand years ago! It’s just that a Barrier was set up so no one could reach it until then. Well, either way, it sank.”

“Objects destroyed by Flota’s Magic crumble away as if thousands of years have passed. Apparently, it unravels something like the fundamental bonds.”

Chatting away, the practical training continues.

The Dungeon leads to a basement, which connects to the sewers.

That means there’s water…

“Surging waves, crushing darkness, swallow them, Tidal Wave!”

“Ughwaaah!” “Ughwaaah!” “Ughwaaah!!”

The monsters that were there, like Dark Goblins adapted to the darkness, were swallowed by the pitch-black, surging water and disappeared.

Since I used sewer water, it stinks really bad!

“Comparing this to seawater really kills the mood.”

“Yeah, totally. Let’s make the water recede quickly…”

“Stinky water! Retreat! Retreat!”

With a sharp command from Marinna, the Tidal Wave sulkily receded.

So water can understand words.

That must be her power.

“By the way, when that continent sank, another Witch was fighting. That Witch was using me.”

“Flota vs. Marinna duel sank a continent into the sea!!”

What a terrifying story.

That person must have been way more skilled at using Marinna than the Witch of the Sea.

※ “Little Spice has some incredible Grimoires gathered around him!” “Incredible or dangerous…” “Really, be careful with them…!”

“Okay! Well, in Spice’s case, he’s too inexperienced to unleash that much power anyway!”

“That’s what this training is for! Now, now, it’s the Boss! Against this guy, let’s use me precisely! Lately, you’ve been relying too much on LARF and getting sloppy!”

“Roger. Then with utmost care… Reverse!”

It’s an insane Magic that disrupts molecular bonds or something.

If I generate it on an extremely small scale…

An explosion occurs, sending the Boss Monster Ogre flying.

“Ughwaaah!?”

Spice skillfully rides the blast while adjusting his position with Levitation…

“Whoa, here we go, here we go! Spiral!”

Using Spiral to spin the Ogre he touched round and round…

“Ughwaaah!?”

While lifting the surrounding rubble with Float, he rains it down on the Ogre at high speed.

“Rapid Fall!”

“Ughwaaah!!”

And with that, the Ogre is done for!

Only its arm is sticking out from the pile of rubble.

Soon, its body will decompose and turn into a Dungeon Core.

“Whoa, it’s all about how you use the Grimoire of Levitation.”

“It tests the user’s sense. If you get careless, it’ll lead to ruin!”

“It’s scary when you think about it.”

※ Rump: “Never let your guard down, Little Spice…!”

“Yeah, yeah, I can’t afford to drop out here!!”

Through this training, I’ve come to truly understand the danger of Grimoires!