Chapter 208

Chapter 208: Light Power and Playing in the Sand

Since drinking alcohol so early in the day was kind of iffy, I decided to leave it for later .

I placed the box of alcohol underneath the parasol on the sandy beach . I was about to move them when…

「Daichi-oniisan what are you doing~?」

Athena trotted over .

「That’s…alcohol? Did you go into town to shop?」
「No, I received this . There are some acquaintances nearby and they gave me this . Actually is the town that close to here?」

Hesty had shown me a map of the area once and the lake looked fairly distant from the Fort City . Maybe I was remembering wrong .

「Uh-uh, it’s far from here, but I heard you were going to go somewhere with Onee-sama so I thought you had teleported there . 」

Oh I see . She was talking about Dianeia guiding me around the area .

「Well, it’s true that we’ll be going places, but that’s in the afternoon . 」


「Oh so that’s what it was~ . I wanted to come with if it was in the morning…but it’s my training time in the afternoon . Hmm…ok, I’ll just cheer Onee-sama on from here!」

I don’t know why she has to cheer her on for walking around, but since she was smiling happily it was fine . Actually what bothered me more was…

「You’re doing your training time here?」

I’d heard that Athena and Karen were doing magic practice…but they’re even doing it here?

「Un . We fell behind thanks to the break yesterday . Since we came to the resort I thought we wouldn’t have to… . . but now that Karen is here with Daichi-oniisan she seems way more enthusiastic . 」

Athena said with a giggle .

「She’s getting fired up because she’s in front of me?」
「Un, I think she wants to show off her power in front of you . You know that Karen uses showing her power as a greeting right?」
「I don’t really get Dragon King greetings . Actually…what kind of training is it to show off her power?」

I asked . Athena hesitated for a bit and looked out to the beach and lake .

Then she slowly started to speak .

「Umm, normally we jump into a dungeon…but here we’ll probably run on the beach, swim through the water, and repel some light attacks from Karen…I think . 」
「That’s quite sports-like . 」


「Un . But since it’s magic practice we’ll most likely apply different magics to accomplish these things . Like train how to use magic with the beach for defense or control sand…stuff like that . 」

Athena said while putting her hands in the sand .

Then she quietly chanted a spell .

「—The sleeping power of nature within my hands harden . 《Sand Shield》—」

The moment she finished her spell the sand in her hands transformed into a small circular shield .

「See? Like this . Using something from nature to be a shield and deflecting or dodging Karen’s attacks……but with my training I’m only able to do this much . 」
「Oh that’s pretty amazing . A shield of sand?」

I’ve used wood, ground, and water but to use sand which was so scattered…

I’d like to try this out .

I thrust my hand into the sand…

「Umm… . Create the Sand Shield in my Mind —《Shield》—!」

For now I decided to create a shield that I had imagined in my mind . Then…

—Zuoo!—

With fierce momentum the sandy beach before my eyes began to rise up .

Then what appeared was a great shield large enough to hide my body .

「……I see just learning by watching made it larger than I expected . 」
「Eh, umm…when it’s this big it’s less a shield and more of a wall . It’s much thicker than mine as well……D-Daichi-oniisan wasn’t this the first time you made things with sand?」
「Well… . yeah . 」

I had made a mistake trying to imitate her and made it way too big .

After I admitted it, Athena’s mouth dropped open .

「Wow for you to make such detail on the shield……Daichi-oniisan is really skilled!」
「No… . I’m not really you know?」
「Eh? Really!?」

As I said that Athena opened her eyes in surprise . I don’t think it deserves that reaction…

My knowledge and technique are still far from good enough . Even the small details were from my previous golem making experience .

「This is simply me using my experience in making things . I’m still inexperienced in controlling sand . 」
「Hoe~ Daichi-oniisan thinks that way huh?」
「Yeah, because of that I was thinking of doing some practice . 」

Unexpectedly making a new type of golem from sand might be interesting .

With those thoughts in mind I wanted to use the time I had until lunch to try it .

「—ok then, I’ll be playing around and practicing a bit . 」

I muttered and Athena looked at me in surprise .

「You’re doing it now? Then can I join you Daichi-oniisan?」
「Un? I don’t mind . 」
「Alright! Then I’ll watch Daichi-oniisan’s magic and study a lot!」

Athena said happily and started putting her hands in the sand .

I started getting prepared .

And just like that, Athena and I played in the sand until lunch .