- My first fight, don't disappoint me -

Mika starts to run from the front.

"Shit, I know this is reckless, but there’s no other choice. Since one hit from him probably means death, I need to gamble on a surprise ambush anyway."

Using only a knife, attacking from the front was probably suicidal.

The other hoodlum was surprised with that action, but not Garon.

He knew she would have some kind of plan.

"Well, it’s sink or swim."

Mika suddenly stopped midway and threw a pouch to Garon.

It’s a beginner scroll with basic magic.

"Sand splash."

Suddenly a pile of sand came out from his field of vision.

After he got surprised a little, he started to focus on Mika again.

As expected from a former adventurer. He already was used to it.

But Mika wasn’t anywhere.

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"Hmm..?"

When he opened his eyes, Mika was gone from his field of vision.

And behind him...

A tree suddenly rolled towards him

- Let's turn back time for a few moment -

While his vision was blinded, Mika moved to his blind spot and neared the remaining trees.

Knowing that direct attacks are not going to work, she moved to one of the mowed down tree.

After putting something into the trees, she put all of her strength to push it to Garon.

Then...

"...Hmph."

With a disinterested face, Garon ignored the trees.

Well, that’s understandable. He mowed down the entire forest. Why should he be afraid of one tree?

But that carelessness turned to be fatal.

Inserted into that tree were numerous amount of magic scrolls.

Fire, wind and earth magic scrolls, with complicated inscription that turned it into different magic.

Mika knew the theory behind magic scroll, but doesn’t know how to make one.

All she knew was that the inscription inside the magic scroll "gave" a command to the magic inside the scroll.

Most of them are only simple command like "out" to let the magic inside out.

That’s why she experimented with combining multiple scrolls and changing their command.

By changing the command to “compress”, “combustion” and “dust”, she made a pseudo-dust explosion scroll.

Of course, she didn’t know the theory behind it, and she only thinks it’s similar to a dust explosion.

To explain it in one word, it was made by her instincts.

As such, a new, completely different magic was created.

Since she made it with the image of a black hole, it was more fitting to call it

"gravity explosion!"

A small concentrated explosion occurred without sound.