Chapter 22
Chain
Lightning
Translator : PolterGlast
All Lightning Magic,
except for "Accel," which one learns at LV 5 and increases one
movement speed by wrapping lightning around one's body, is all offensive
spells.
Most of them are
mid-range to long-range spells, but like Light, there is also a magic sword
that allows you to set your own name.
I don't plan on using
them much at the moment though.
Now, which magic
should I choose... if possible, it would be nice to be able to defeat the
skeletons all at once.
"Chain Lightning"
The lightning magic I
chose is "Chain Lightning," which can be learned at LV 4.
Its characteristic is
that, as the name suggests, a chain of lightning.
"Gah!?"
First, the Chain
Lightning I unleashed hits the skeleton on the right.
It then flashed and...
split.
"Gigah!?"
The split lightning
flew to the other skeleton nearby and hit it perfectly.
Both cores seemed to
be destroyed with a single blow, and the skeletons stopped moving and collapsed
to the ground.
Chain Lightning is a
magic that, once released, sends out a chain of lightning bolts that fly to
nearby enemies.
Like Light Arrow Rain,
it has an area of effect (AoE) in game terms.
However, while Light
Arrow Rain releases weak Light Arrows to the entire area and attacks a wide
range evenly, Chain Lightning only splits and flies to monsters that are
relatively close by.
And the power of
lightning weakens each time it splits.
However, its power is
higher and its speed is faster.
Chain Lightning before
splitting is much more powerful than Lightning.
The second lightning
that just split is also much more powerful than Lightning.
To put it in game
terms again, Light Arrow Rain is better for fighting a large number of weak
enemies, and Chain Lightning is better for fighting up to about five enemies.
"For now, it's a
skeleton, so I'll collect the core..."
In this world, mana is
used as an energy source.
And what is used as a
power source in the kingdom is the magic stone that monsters have in their
bodies.
This is basically
located in the heart, and since it stores the mana of the monster, it can be
used as a battery if it is put into a magic tool.
Basically, it's a
one-time use, and the demand for magic stones always exceeds the supply.
The reason why
ruffians like adventurers are recognized as members of the city is also very
much due to the fact that they are collecting essential goods for life called
magic stones.
"So this is the
core, huh... it's quite scattered. I'll use a dustpan to collect it next
time."
The monsters that
appear in this [Knight's Holy Remains]... or rather, the undead, have very
small magic stones.
Zombies and Zombie
Dogs only have magic stones about the size of a fingertip, so you'd have to
collect a lot of them before you could sell them.
There's no one crazy
enough to dissect zombies whose stench of rot can be smelled even from a short
distance away, while bathing in blood and rotten body fluids, and collect such
things... so zombie corpses are basically left as they are.
However, among the
monsters that appear in the [Knight's Holy Remains], there is one that has
something that can be exchanged for money.
That monster is the
skeleton I just defeated.
Skeleton-type monsters
have a core, which is like an organ in humans.
This core seems to
play a role in the body similar to a magic stone, and it seems to conduct mana
well, so the core can be sold.
It seems that it can
be sold at about the same unit price as a magic stone if it is clean.
But in the first
place, it is necessary to destroy the core to defeat the skeleton.
In other words, even
if you defeat it, what you get is...
"Shattered
core."
What I finally
finished collecting in the bag were the remains of the cores that were
shattered by Chain Lightning.
Naturally, the
shattered core sells for an incredibly low price.
I don't know how much
I could get from these, but... I shouldn't expect too much.
The request that
Melissa-san brought me also said that the core fragments are sold by weight.
The core can be sold,
but it can't be collected unless the core is broken... I see, this is quite
stressful.
I found another reason
why the [Knight's Holy Remains] is unpopular.
Personally, I'm
grateful because there's no problem other than not being able to earn money.
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