Episode 53 D-Particle Primary Mutation

"You were in such a place."

Amane saw me and ran towards me.

"Please look. I've become F-class."

Amane showed me her adventurer's card. Alisa and the others also came and showed me their adventurer cards.

It's bad, they caught up with me. I have to do my best to aim for E-class.

The Branch Chief came to the place where they were making a fuss. The Branch Chief turned his face to me,

"You were here, huh. I was thinking of summoning you."

"What for?"

"The matter from a month ago has been evaluated, and I have decided to give you the qualifications to take the promotion test to E-class. Would you like to take the test?"

The reason why that matter was delayed was that it took a long time to get approval from the Adventurer's Guild Headquarters. The lack of the internet and computers had slowed down paperwork. He said it was because they went back to the old way of applying for everything through paperwork and stamping a lot of seals.(TN:You'd think they'd come up with some magic for that kind of thing ... Oh wait, they have no brains.)

"I accept."

I answered immediately. Just when I was thinking of working hard to aim for E-class, an opportunity came. There was no reason to hesitate.

"The task this time, defeat the OrcKnight on the 12th floor of the Suigetsu Dungeon."

"Is just one of them okay?"

"That's right. However, the OrcKnights on the 12th floor sometimes form groups of four or five. At that time, you may need to choose to run away."

"Do OrcKnights form groups?"

"They're more like a gatekeeper than a herd. They guard the entrance to the castle."

I had conquered the 11th floor of the Suigetsu Dungeon in a month, but I hadn't touched the 12th floor. So, I don't know much about the 12th floor.

"There's a castle on the 12th floor. I didn't know that."

"It's said that there is a treasure house in the Orc Castle, but no F-class adventurer has found it ... I warn you, the purpose of the exam is only to defeat one OrcKnight. Don't enter the castle out of greed."

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I find a treasure house attractive, but I know it would be reckless to enter the Orc Castle solo. There are four or five OrcKnights even in front of the entrance.

I have no idea how many OrcKnights guard the treasury. Maybe I'll encounter the monster called an OrcGeneral.

Tesshin interjected.

"Wait a minute. Grimm has just become F-class. How can he take the E-class promotion exam. You said it was a month ago, but when you said you defeated the GoblinKing, was that true?"

The Branch Chief turned his gaze to Tesshin.

"Didn't you hear about the GoblinKing from Grimm?"

"Are you serious. So it really was Grimm, no, Grimm-sensei who defeated the GoblinKing?"

Even Tesshin began to call me 'Grimm-sensei'.

"Life Magic has that much potential."

It seems that the reason I was able to take the E-class promotion exam was because I was evaluated for my achievements in defeating the GoblinKing, but the fact that it took a month may also be related to the fact that I am a Life Wizard.

The executives of the Adventurer's Guild Headquarters couldn't believe that a Life Wizard had defeated the GoblinKing, so they must have confirmed it many times.

On that day, I treated Amane and the others to sushi as a celebration of passing the F-class exam, and then returned to my apartment.

"Three days from now, a promotion exam. I don't have time to prepare anything."

The magic level of my Life Magic is '11'. It went up two levels when I defeated the GoblinKing. I can create level 11 magic with the Sage System, but I have no idea what kind of magic to create.

By the way, it was impossible to activate 11 times. The limit of multiple activation is ninefold activation, and if it goes beyond that, a huge amount of magical power is required, which seems to be practically impossible.

It seemed that even the ninefold activation that was possible took time to activate, and for practical use, it was up to sevenfold activation.

"Does that mean I have to prepare more powerful Life Magic in preparation for encounters with monsters that even SeventhHighBlade cannot defeat?"

There are monsters that even a SeventhHighBlade that can destroy rocks, can't kill. FireDrake for example. Drakes are said to have Dragons as their ancestors, and they have different breaths depending on their type.

FireDrake is a Mid-Boss on the 30th floor of the Suigetsu Dungeon. The Mid-Boss of the Suigetsu Dungeon is not just one. There are Mid-Boss rooms at intervals of about ten floors, and there are powerful Mid-Bosses on the 9th, 20th, and 30th floors.

And it seemed that there was a super-powerful Dungeon Boss on the final floor.

"A new magic, huh. I need to investigate the Primary Mutation of the D-Particles."

The D-Particle Primary Mutation was to inject magical power into the D-Particle to make it temporarily unstable and add a certain characteristic.

The magic that used the D-Particle Primary Mutation was something like 'Light' or 'Ignition' that emitted light or high heat.

They are effective only when the D-Particles are unstable. The added properties disappear when the D-Particles returned to their original stable state.

Currently, and could be added, and only could be used for attacks. seemed to be able to make something like a flash bullet, but that alone wouldn't do any damage to monsters. I launched the Sage System and investigated the D-Particle Primary Mutation.

After all, the only additional characteristics were and . 'Ignition' was a Life Magic that set combustibles on fire, but it was a collection of D-Particles that formed something like a marble, to which was added with the D-Particle Primary Mutation.

In Life Magic, that was called a heat dissipation ball. The temperature of this heat dissipation ball was about 900 degrees, which was about the same temperature as a candle flame.

I imagined what would happen if a mass of D-Particles with properties were hit against a monster. I felt like it could do a lot of damage, so I thought about adding the property to 'Cone Arrow'.

"No, if that's the case, I wouldn't know if the monster died because it was stabbed, or if it died from the heat."

Therefore, I decided to create something like a ping-pong ball cut in half with D-Particles. Since it looked like a small bowl used for cooking, I called it a D-Particle Bowl.

Actually, it would be easier to make it spherical, but if it were made spherical, it wouldn't be able to overlap with multiple activations, so I made it bowl-shaped.

I created magic that added the property to the D-Particle Bowl to make it fly. It became magic that could be learned at magic level 2. The D-Particle Bowl with the property was called a Heat Dissipation Bowl, and the magic was named 'Heat Bowl'.

The next day, I went to the first floor of the Suigetsu Dungeon and tried it against a Goblin. First, I activated a single 'Heat Bowl' and shot it at the Goblin's chest.

The HeatBowl hit the Goblin and shattered. The Goblin stopped and screamed. I could see the burn marks on its chest area. That's no good, I thought such and threw a TripleHeatBowl.

If it were a TripleArrow, it would pierce the Goblin's chest and kill it, but the Goblin hit by the TripleHeatBowl was knocked away and rolled on the ground, but it seemed that it just fainted.

The skin on its chest was charred, and I could see traces of burns from the extremely high temperature.

"With multiple activations, the flight speed and temperature have increased, but the power is subtle."

After killing the Goblin with my Tatakanata, I tried throwing a TripleHeatBowl at a nearby tree. Part of it was carbonized due to the high heat, but that was all.

"This magic, is it a failure."

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