My job became easier when Jose started to help. By now, I've imbued a dozen magic crystals and turned them into a stove. These are to be sold later.

Although I only do it at the lake, because it was hard for me to concentrate here in the city. How come Jose can do it? Could it be from magician training?

Because I've imbued at the lake a lot of times it sprouted the myth of a priestess appearing at the lake in the middle of the night, accompanied by bright lights, playing and swimming around in it.

If you were to witness it, great luck shall befall on you... I facepalmed when I heard about it, people of this world really...

A lot of things happened during this month.

Now, I've learned how to control my wind enchant. It had more effects than I thought.

First, when I fire off ▪Crescent, by the way, I called it Crescent because it's cool if I could name my own moves! I mean how come only spells and sword strikes have their own names, so unfair... anyway...

▪Crescent▪ A wall or a blade of wind-shaped like a crescent. Depending on how much energy you put into it, it gives it different effects.

If you pour more energy it becomes big and slow well, not that slow. If it's big, it will have a wall-like crushing effect via blunt force. This is really hard to stop once it gets going.

Its drawback is it's very draining to use and it travels at maybe around 20-30/kph since it moves very slowly you can judge where its path is, so it's easy to dodge.

If you use less energy it becomes smaller but fast and also sharp. Similar to the ▪Air Cutter▪ spell, but with better area coverage its speed is at 90/kph.

The drawbacks is it needed to impact something for it to dispel. I usually countered this by shooting it upwards. Mostly useful against flying enemies.

▪Bladestorm▪ - Similar to Crescent, but with even lower energy, projectiles fired in quick succession. I copied this move from a game character that I used to play in my handheld, the name was dissidia {1} and the guy uses a really long thin sword {2}.

My limit right now is I can only fire off seven slashes. Its drawback is it only inflicts minor wounds.

While my wind enchant is in effect, aside from making my weapon weightless it increases my attack speed depending on the energy consumed. At full power, my speed is increased by six times, at low three times. I only used the 3x speed, because it makes my screw-ups less and is economical in terms of energy saving.

At 6x speed. As I've said before, it was hard to land a hit to where you wanted them to. Imagine if you're playing time crisis {3} that is sped up six times. Is it easy to aim?

The attack was really hard to follow with my eyes and I'm not used to moving that fast.

The drawback... only my hands and arms benefit from the speed...

Maria has now learned offensive magic up to Regular level on all elements, except for sub-elements which are at Expert level.

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For now, it seems that she is bottlenecked at Healing and Support since there is no one that can teach her. She's trying to learn Expert level magic via self-study as we speak.

Blake was amazing from training with his mentor. His swordsmanship skill had dramatically increased. When we spar, even with my wind enchant. He could still keep up with me even at six times of my speed! Deflecting, blocking and even dodging them.

What's more, he isn't even breaking a sweat and looked like he was just playing with me. I was really jealous of him. I said to him that with my enchant he would be unstoppable. Blake shrugged it off and said something humble like "You have more talent than me." Or "Don't belittle yourself so much."

I really look up to him, he grew up this fast... the little crybaby who used to hide behind me, now stands on the stage above me...

~~~Meanwhile~~~

An old man sitting on his bed reading a paper. Flipping to the next page, his eyes widen. At his sight is a hand-drawn picture of the people who had saved the city of Cagban.

In the corner that was slightly blurred was a drawn picture of a young girl with a female magician and a male swordsman beside her. The article says "While fighting with the orc legion, an inventor lent her aid with magic crystals which helped in the saving of the city of Cagban."

He gestured to the man standing by his side.

"Howard..."

"... Yes?" [Howard]

"Get me to Cagban city."

"But sir! You are still in need of rest." [Howard]

"Howard... from this age I wouldn't be able to recover even if I wanted to."

"Sir..." [Howard]

"Would you take me there?"

"May, I ask why?" [Howard]

"I wanted to meet someone."

"I'll bring that person here then." [Howard]

"What if that person says they don't want to come?"

"Then I will force them to." [Howard]

"Don't... just don't... If you do it like that... then I might as well go there myself."

"My apologies... I will bring them here without fail." [Howard]

"And how will you do that??"

Three days later...

~~~Angelica~~~

A person entered Jose's shop accompanied by two knights behind him. He had introduced himself as Howard and said that I was invited to somewhere... It was very shady as he does not want to disclose the location so I try to come up with excuses for not coming, then he showed me a letter.

"What is this?" [Angelica]

"The invitation." [Howard]

"Umm sorry, I'm quite busy at the moment..." [Angelica]

"That can wait." [Howard]

Who is this guy really... and what is with this invitation? I don't want to come with him, he might be dangerous. In my past life, I've heard of people saying some stuff and it was all lies just to kidnap the person. Speaking of which... I am the only one who was able to enchant using my imbuing methods.

"Is something the matter Angelica?" [Blake]

"This guy says that I was invited somewhere, I said that I didn't want to come, but he still..." [Angelica]

"You! What are you planning?!" [Blake]

Blake, unsheathed his jian its fire burning wildly... The man named Howard fell on his butt and the two knights moved into the front to protect him. The three of them were surprised when the sword suddenly lit up in front of them.

"Do you know who you're pointing your sword at you bastard?!" [Knight 1]

"Are you asking for your execution!" [Knight 2]

The door behind us opens.

"What's with the commotion?!!" [Jose]

"J-jose?!" [Howard]

"Ohh! Howard!" [Jose]

"You knew each other?" [Blake]

"Knew? We're best buds." [Jose]

"I can see the resemblance." [Blake]

Blake says as he looked on to their huge foreheads.

"Quit being sarcastic boy." [Jose]

Blake sheaths his jian and moves beside me. The knights helped Howard get up and as he recovered Jose gave him a hug.

"It has been a long time my friend." [Jose]

"Ahh yes." [Howard]

"How was the schedule? I thought that you were very busy?" [Jose]

"Yes, but there was a request." [Howard]

"Request?" [Jose]

Howard gestures toward me. I handed over the letter to Jose who was reaching his hand.

As he read it...

"This letter is from?!!" [Jose]

References

{1} Final Fantasy Dissidia a game where all of the Final Fantasy main protagonists and antagonists fight each other. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PhyK2oy5Z4

{2} A reference to Sephiroth's moveset in dissidia

{3} Time Crisis an arcade shooting game