As they advanced to the center of the training area, Saijo and Nagase also gathered to set the rules.

When I swing my arm down after I have increased my quickness, that will signal the beginning."

　Nagase said, looking at me and Saijo's faces alternately.

'Do you allow magic to do anything other than increase your quickness?'

　Saijo checked with Nagase. Nagase looks at me.

What are you going to do?　Mr. Grimm, you decide."

Let's not use any other magic since this is a mock battle to see if I can fight on equal terms with the Silver Ogre.

Fair enough."

　Saijo and I distance ourselves a little and then increase our speed. Saijo activates "Hermes Speed" and I pour magic power into "Vikaten's Ring".

　Among the adventurers watching around them, those who could use magic-armor magic seemed to use magic to increase their speed to watch the event. Tesshin also activated his "Top Speed" magic.

　After Nagase activated "Hermes Speed", he made sure that I and Saijo had increased our quickness, and then he swung his arm down.

　Saijo runs toward me. His speed is probably the same as mine. If you can master the "Hermes Speed," you can gain ten times the speed, but he didn't seem to have improved that much even though he trained with Nagase.

　Saijo throws a right low kick. I backstep and duck the kick. The kick struck out, sending up a cloud of dust on the training ground. I wonder if Saijo is taking it easy on me.　If it hits, it has the power to injure for sure.

　I fire a jab at Saijo, who strikes out, aiming for his face as he dives. Saijo shakes his head to avoid that jab and tries to use his full body spring to slam a left spinning kick into my side.

　I took a step toward my opponent, catching the kick with my hip, and slammed a left palm strike into his chest. Saijo's knee smacked me in the ass, but the force was lessened by my proximity.

　Meanwhile, my palm strike lands cleanly and Saijo lands on his butt on the training ground. Saijo's face turns red and he jumps to his feet and starts throwing left and right punches at high speed.

　He swayed his body from side to side to avoid the punch and waited for his chance. Thanks to my super-speed vision, I could see Saijo's movements clearly. Saijo landed a right hook with a slightly larger swing.

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　I counter with a right palm strike to Saijo's face as he lowers his head to avoid that punch. My hand crushes Saijo's face and his knees collapse and he cower to the ground.

　Nagase approached Saijo to see if he was a giver. Saijo refused, stood up, and came toward me with a bloody nose and dirty face.

　Deciding that a punch was not going to do the trick, he launched a front kick, so he stepped his left leg out to the side while scooping up the kick with his right hand and slamming a low kick into Saijo's axial leg.

　With that blow, Saijo was unable to move. Saijo's "Hermes Speed" was released, and Nagase and I also got out of the high-speed battle.

　The moment I returned to normal, I found that the adventurers were cheering me on, shouting at the top of their lungs.

I was like, "Wow, Dr. Grimm, that's great. No wonder you were able to defeat the Silver Ogre."

　Tesshin tapped me on the shoulder with a happy look on his face.

　Nagase comes over and talks to us.

Tell me one thing."

What is it?"

Did you find any weapons among the Silver Ogre's drops?"

There were no weapons."

I see, I made a mistake in choosing the wrong person to team up with. If I had teamed up with Mr. Grimm, we might have defeated the Silver Ogre sooner."

　I said in my mind, "I refuse to do that. Nagase really wants a mythic-class magic weapon, but why don't you try the "Dedication Room" ......, but you might have to dedicate a legendary-class magic weapon to get a mythic-class magic weapon out of it.

　If you do that, the Silver Ogre might come out to play against you. After all, the "Dedication Room" is too dangerous.

　Kondo, the branch manager, could be heard talking to Saijo.

Saijo, you may have been getting a little cocky, but now you know that there is always a higher up. You are the best. So, if you think you are right, your growth will stop.

　Saijo bit his lip and fell on his face. Saijo slurred something about going back to Hokkaido to train again, and walked out of the training hall.

　I'm starting to feel somewhat tired. Let's go home today. I greeted the branch manager and returned to the mansion.

Welcome back."

　Kongoji Temple welcomes you with Toshizo.

Toshizo, get the bath ready."

"Kashiko, Marishita."

　His pronunciation is still unreliable, but he is able to do simple things.

　After dinner and bath and Kongoji left, I started talking to Metis.

'You won the Silver Ogre match without a single injury, were you strong?'

There's no doubt they were strong. I just thought it was a problem when you're fighting as a team and you don't have the magic to attack without getting your teammates involved."

　Magic with slow flying speed, such as "Crash Ball," will not hit quick demons such as the Silver Ogre unless it is fired at close range. I remember when I used "Crash Ball" to tome the Silver Ogre, but more than half of the shots were evaded even though I fired it at close range.

　I'll think about new life magic when I have time. For now, I decided to put it off since I don't plan to fight a demon as quick as the Silver Ogre.

'Perhaps you want to check your newly acquired scrolls?'

　As a matter of fact, it is. I had been curious about it for a long time and wanted to open it to see what it was all about. I took out the scroll and unfolded it, and the sage system automatically started up and began capturing information from the magic circle on the scroll.

　When I finished capturing the information and looked at the D-particle secondary mutation column of the Sage system, I found that the characteristic had been added.

　After examining this "arithmetic core," I finally discovered that "procedure control" is now available. ＜It seems that "Procedure Control" is used in combination with "Arithmetic Core".

What can the combination of procedural control and arithmetic cores do for me?"

It's allowing the magic of life to determine what's going on and to change the way we move."

What exactly are you talking about?"

'Yes. ...... for example, it means that if the target tries to dodge to the right, we can now sense it and correct its trajectory to the right."

'I suppose we could have done something like this before, where if you hit a target, it would explode.'

'No, that was just one next action. Now we can do more complex commands, like if the target dodges to the right, we're going to change its trajectory to the right, and if it dodges to the left, we're going to change its trajectory to the left."