Chapter VII - Chant

Adventurer wearing a big hat: "Jack! Where did you run off to so suddenly?!"

Jack: "I'm sorry Filda, I just heard screams, And when I got there I found Kawano. He's coming back with us."

Filda: "kawano? Hi, my name is Filda, D-rank water mage, and she's Liza."

Liza: "Hi, um... I'm Liza... E-rank... It's a pleasure. "

Kawano: "Hi Filda and Liza, nice to meet you! ... Liza, what's your class?"

Liza: "um..."

Sam: "As you can see, she's a shy person"

Liza: "Im a healer..."

Jack: "well, its almost night fall, we better set up a camp here for now, we'll depart at dawn."

Jack: "Kawano, you must be hungry right? Let's eat while we get to know a bit about each other, It is important to know who you're traveling with!"

*Kawano nods*

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For what I understand, we're currently in the kindom of Aslaf, which has mainly humans. There are many different races in this world, and it also has magic and skills.

Jack: "Where are you from kawano?"

Kawano: "... It's kind of...  complicated..."

Jack: "You don't have to tell me if you don't feel comfortable about it."

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Kawano: "Jack, can I ask you for a favor?"

Jack: "If it's within my reach, yes."

Kawano: "can you teach me how to fight? If it wasn't for you back there, I would be dead, so I think that I should learn how to protect myself..."

I should learn how to take care of myself nnow that I'm in a different world.

Jack: "Sure, I can teach you If you want to learn about the basics of swordsmanship, but If you want to learn about magic, then Filda is a better option for a teacher."

Kawano: "I don't feel like I have a good magic aptitude, so I would like to learn swordsmanship."

I can only use strengthening for 1 second...

Jack: "ok, then we'll practice using this sticks. Here, grab this. "

*grabs stick*

*Blimp*

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Weapon: Stick

This is a piece of oak tree. It has a low durability, so it breaks easily.

Effect: attack +1.

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A weapon!

Sam: "oh, this is going to be interesting. Let's go Kawano! trash him!"

Jack: "Firstly, let's see where you're at, attack me with everything that you've got."

Kawano: "Attack you?"

Jack: "yea, why? Are you scared to hurt me? Don't worry, I might be a D-rank, but I have some experience in swordsmanship, I'll be alright. "

He said that he's going to be alright.

Kawano: "Ok, then, Activate Strengthening! "

Jack: "huh?"

Kawano: "Hyiahh!"

*Stick hits air.*

Jack: "behind you!"

*stick touches neck gently*

Kawano: "I lost."

Jack: "By the way, what kind of chant is that?"

Kawano: "Chant? What's that?"

Jack: "are you really going to tell me that you just activated the strengthening ability without knowing what's a chant?"

Kawano: "what do you mean by that?"

Filda: "all spells and skills require a chant to be activated. Like for example-"

Filda: "godess of water, Queen of sea, paint thy blessing onto our world, water!"

*Splash!*

Kawano: "that was awesome! You made a hole the tree with the water!"

Filda: "Yes, but the weird thing is that you didn't chant... the chant for strengthening is: 'god of war, grant me thy strength to defeat my enemies.' But you just activated it without chanting, which is very weird."

Kawano: "I see... but I can only use it for 1 second though..."

Filda: "That's not enough, I now understand why you said that you don't have aptitude for magic... It seems that you have a lot of unused talent. I think that you should practice more, because mana reservoirs increase when you use it a lot.

Kawano: "I will practice more."

Jack: "ok, enough chitchat if we want to practice more swordsmanship! Pick up your stick, and try to imitate my movements."

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~morning~

Jack: "kawano wake up! We're setting off!"

Kawano: "Yaawwn! Ok, I'm coming."

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Kawano: "What's the towns name?"

Sam: "were going to the town of Hagan, which is the closest to us. "

Jack: "If we hurry up, we might arrive in an hour."