I’m thinking of summarizing what I’ve learned about magic in class in this notebook.
I can’t use magic, but the people of this world can.
Which means that every single one of my potential enemies can use magic too.
In the Life Field battles, it was always crucial to predict and understand the opponent’s power, weapons, and skill sets.
And since I’m smart, I know this: If you understand your enemy, you can win.
As for why my intelligence stat never seems to go up, it’s probably just a bug, so I’ll ignore it for now.
First, let’s start with the most basic aspect: physical enhancement through magic power.
Here, I’ll summarize the review, thoughts, and countermeasures for magic users who specialize in close combat.
[Type: Magic]
[Category: Enhancement Magic]
- A magic user is someone who wields magic power and, through their own will, brings about supernatural phenomena known as magic. In this world, those who can wield magic are special, and it seems that nearly all of the aristocracy belong to this privileged class of magic users.
- Each magic user has a type of magic that they excel in. This seems to be entirely a matter of talent, and it’s almost impossible to develop it further later in life. Scarlet said so.
- Magic can be broadly divided into six categories, with enhancement magic being the most direct in its effects.
- As the name suggests, enhancement magic uses magic power to enhance the user’s physical body and senses. It allows them to exceed their natural abilities and move in ways that far surpass human capabilities.
- Enhancement magic is generally applied only to the user’s own body. Each person has their own magical attribute, and using magic power that isn’t their own can actually harm their body.
- Some special tools and weapons made from rare materials can either have enhancement magic applied to them or automatically apply it.
- A body strengthened with enhancement magic can become a weapon in itself. Muscles and bones can become harder than steel, and reflexes and senses can rival those of wild animals. Facing a trained enhancement magic user is said to be like battling a monster.
- That’s a rough overview of enhancement magic. If I get into the nitty-gritty, like the balance between the body, skeleton, and magic power, it’ll get lengthy, so I’ll save that for another time.
- There are a few strategies for dealing with enhancement magic users:Long-Range Combat. The biggest strength of an enhancement magic user is their physical enhancement. If so, attacking from a distance where their body can’t reach is ideal. However, this is a fairly effective tactic against non-enhancement users too, so calling it a “countermeasure” might be a bit basic.Trickery.
I had White and the others use enhancement magic and observed their magic power movements with my sorcery eye. I noticed that during the use of enhancement magic, the flow of magic power inside their brain gets disrupted.Normally, a magic user’s power circulates regularly along their blood vessels, similar to how blood flows, perhaps?But when using enhancement magic, the magic flow in the head becomes unusually erratic.In the Life Field battles, many enhancement-type skills had a debuff called “mental weakening” as a downside.In the game, using enhancement-type skills made the user more susceptible to enemy mind-control debuffs.Comparing that with this, the disrupted magic flow in the magic user’s head could be a side effect of the unnatural activity caused by enhancement magic.If that’s the case, then with their magic flow already disturbed, they might become vulnerable to magic that targets the mind, especially if their subconscious defenses are weakened.So, after class at the magic academy, I snuck outside the grounds after lights out and got some bandits to help me.Here’s a record of that:”Do you even know who I am? I’m an S-rank bounty target, the one with the Iron Body—Romani! You really think a small fry like you can even scratch my enhancement magic—whoa!?””Sorcery Manipulation.”There was no need for a full-blown spell like the Heian-style Declaration Incantation Command.I channeled sorcery directly into his head.If it were before he used enhancement magic, his magic flow might have been able to resist it…”Papiko.”Yep, just like this.Even a body that could crush steel is useless now.My sorcery has invaded his brain, and it seems like he can no longer make rational decisions.Now, I just increase the sorcery’s influence while whispering a command.”Self-destruct.””Panapp.”Boom!The bandit made his own magic power explode and, well, he’s gone now. - Yep, just like that.Conclusion: How to kill an enhancement magic user.Inject sorcery into the head of a close-combat enthusiast and make them blow themselves up.This strategy is too cerebral… I’ll have to teach it to White and the others later.Now then, it’s almost lights-out time.I think tomorrow is when they’ll assign us groups for the dungeon exploration practice.I’m actually pretty excited about it… Anyway, I’ll do my best.
