Next Life - Volume 1 - Chapter 4

Both of the suns disappeared into the horizon.
Both of them shone an excellent shade of red.
There were two different suns, so the sunset color should be in a different color too. Marius was quite surprised to find this fault.
Magic training for now could be said to be steady.
Magic below 1st-class has all been briefly tested and he had confirmed all of it could be used.
Just as he thought, the higher-class the magic the more difficult it was to control the power.
If he was not careful, the surrounding environment would become devastated.
Though the currently destroyed half could already be said so.
In his sight, about one-tenth were fallen trees.
If had stimulate plant growth magic there where he want to use it. (ED Fuj: Not too sure how to reword this)
Even though Marius keep pounding magic, his magic power never ran out thanks to his high status and equipments. Besides that, he was expecting the presence of somebody to come closer and see.
Although he randomly shot magic to memorize the control for reducing the damage given to surrounding, it was also with the intention of making his actions eye-catching.
However, regarding the latter part, the possibility to make a difference had yet to come out.
Of course they may have been simply too scared to approach or that there was no one had who had the knowledge of magic. In case, the possibility of them not noticing the surrounding anomalies was already considered.
Or perhaps the one that noticed the surrounding anomalies hired a person and that person has yet come.

(There’s no choice other than search to search for them myself.)

Luckily, he found a goblin nest.
If he left it at some extent, subjugation quest will come up and people will come.
Getting in touch with a person, or perhaps a group was fine.
He didn’t destroy goblin nest because he simply disliked slaughter.
It can be said he wanted to increase chances to make contact with people of this land, but it can also be said that he arbitrarily gave them a big reason to make him their enemy.
However, just now he had killed 10 goblins, as it was unknown how long the request for until the subjugation would occur.
He didn’t know how long this kind of livelihood would continue. It’s was much better to have many choices.

(But it’s best if I train a little more.)

Not being able to control when using 5th-class or higher magic made him worried.
The feeling of wanting to master it was strong.
Even he isn’t poking his neck in the midst of battle, it didn’t mean he couldn’t get involved.
Continuing eating the “Grilled-meat” by bonfire, he thought that.
Although in the loneliness of an environment without living creatures, it was suitable as a location for practicing magic.
In a short time dusk had come and a silvery half-moon was climbing up.
Yesterday a blue half-moon had climbed up, “Blue and silver moons can be seen in turns”, it looks like the FAO setting was still active.
Even in a different continent, the suns and moons seen wasn’t different, this was a fact.
While looking at the moon shining brightly in silver, that kind of thought flashed.
Even though there was no clouds around the moon, only about twenty stars can be seen.
It’s also happened yesterday, perhaps the star in this world did not amount to much.
Or perhaps it was due to the season.
Only that was squeezed out from Marius judgment.
The wind was blowing, but it was not cold.
In the original world, it was like spring’s or autumn’s climate.
A pleasant climate, if there were any nocturnal animals, then they must be doing their activities now.
But yesterday and today, Marius had confirmed that there was no kind of such animals in surrounding.

(Lets try to confirm it there.)

The location where he hasn’t confirmed last night.
The location where he encountered goblin and armor deer at noon,
Still not sleepy.
In fact, there some necessary changes other encountering some animal to be made.
It would probably be just collecting battle experience at best.
Nevertheless,  even just a bit, he wanted some information.

“[Teleport]”

Imagining the place where the armor deer was slain, he casted the spell.
In an instant, he moved there.

“Ho-ho-”

Immediately a sound like a bird’s cry can be heard.
Look like there were nocturnal animals here.

“[Detection]”

Confirming it with magic, there was several responses.

(Assuming this, why was there none in this vicinity?)

Living creatures were absent, he could not think of a reason for this frightening thing
It was a fact that Marius was safe, but still, reasons filled with poison came out.

(Panicking now doesn’t change anything.)

Switching immediately, Marius prepared his equipment and was approaching to where the creature’s presence is.
Hearing some cries in the dark, the region around neck his neck burned by a sensation like electricity running on it.
It was the same sensation when he discover some goblins that other time.
However this time in the dark, the enemy’s figure cannot be easily seen was the problem.
The moonlight could not be said to be strong enough to illuminate everything.

“[Light]”

He create light ball about fist-sized to illuminate his surroundings.
The light almost deprived Marius’s sight, so it must be also effective to nocturnal bird monster.
When he heard small groan, the sound of something falling followed.
Looking at that direction, one-size bigger than Marius, a black bird entered his line of sight.
That was in his calculations ,but a snake-type monster jumping from the side was out of Marius’s expectation.

(Shit!)

Reflexively using “Warp”.
In next moment, Marius moved far behind and the snake-type monster attacked and only cut empty-space.
The Space-and-time-system magic, Warp.
The user transferred to a visible surrounding, located in 7th-class magic for emergency avoidance for magicians.

(Glad I had practice I it.)

If he not had tested this being able to be used by thoughts only and if not experiencing an actual battle with goblins, he doubted that he could have avoided the surprise attack.
Even though he had overwhelming ability, Marius himself was a person that had no fate connected with battle, bloodshed, etc.
Even if the level wasn’t high, the opponent was still a monster with unknown special abilities.
It wasn’t about avoiding an attack.
It was about how a lion would use all of it ability to bring down a rabbit.
In the wilderness, hospitality and kindness didn’t exist, injury by carelessness can easily lead to a life-threatening one.
Marius’s current thought process lead to that.
Even if recovery magic existed, he didn’t know to what extent it could be relied on.
In other words, it can be said that the wild beast also had that mental state.
The snake-type monster only lost the figure of Marius for an instant, immediately found and glared at him.
It had excellent detection ability.
Turning his eyes to ground where black bird is, it seem to have recovered and it flapped its feathers to start soaring to the sky.
Apparently, there was no time to use “Scan”.
Exclaiming a cry, the black bird came rushing and aiming at Marius.
As if matching to it, the snake-type monster jumped too.
Not knowing if they aimed to cooperate or if it was just by chance.
But the simultaneous attack from the air and ground was favorable for Marius.

“[Fire Storm]”

releasing a magic using the same image as during noon, he reproduced a fire pillar with the same size.
The bird and snake were like insect in the summer flying towards a fire and dove themselves into the fire pillar, evaporating instantly.
Easily ending the battle, Marius didn’t think of it tasteless.
More than the fact that he was amateur, prioritizing safety is a matter of course.
Moreover, he did not recognize the bird and snake monsters.
Finishing it in one attack was a thing to be relieved about.

(But wait.)

If it was looking for any material that may come out, at least its name can be seen.
Suddenly such a thought crossed his mind, Marius was stunned.
Of course, there may be a pattern just like the fruits that he didn’t know about because he didn’t have the knowledge.

“[Detection]”

Trying to scout with magic, there were no monsters nearby.
The battle a while ago may have made them run away.
While clicking his tongue, Marius took out the dagger taken from the goblin leader.
Try to appraise by “Appraisal”, only “Dagger of goblin” was shown on his mind.
It may have been known because it was equipped, or it may be because it was goblin’s thing.
The results could be mixed-up so that it couldn’t be judged.

(“Damn it!”)

It wasn’t like when he was in-game, nothing dropped from the goblins.
Monster in this world didn’t drop items, if he did not strip it from carcass, nothing would be gotten.

If it came to that, burning it away with fire-system magic became a beginner’s mistake.
At least, there was a need to drop down the power so the carcass would still remain.
He didn’t think about using magic to light the walk-path in the dark forest.
It was not too late as the morning had yet to come.
When fighting monster, from now on he decided to use only wind-system or earth-system magic. While thinking that, using “Teleport” Marius got back to base.
End of Episode 4