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Volume 12 Chapter 1 Part 4

And from what I saw, it looks like she can fight properly without that much difficulty, so it’s probably just that her parents were really spoiling her when she was younger and didn’t allow her to fight at all.

For someone who was raised like that, she was more than capable of holding on her own though. Even when the battle with the Floor Boss started, she was actively looking for the opportunities to thrust the Holy Spear into the Floor Boss’s body, and even hitting if from behind whenever it was occupied with the rest of us in the front of it.

Still, if you were to ask me whether I was scared or not, I would have to say that I was a little scared about her, because even though she was trying to stay behind the monsters as much as possible, she was still occasionally getting attacked by them.

「I did it, desu!」

Thankfully, we had Miria in this Floor Boss battle, so we didn’t have to wait too long for the results.

「I’m glad to see that Rutina can fight as well.」

「Thank you very much. I will try to do my best to not become a hindrance to you all.」

I think you don’t have to worry about it all that much.

「Certainly, I think that Rutina is doing well, so there’s no need for her to worry about being a hindrance to us.」

Roxanne-sensei also gave Rutina a seal of her approval.

「Now we are fighting on the 44th floor of Quratar like this, it is very likely that the battles will only get tougher as we progress further and further, so that’s why we’re going to stay on this floor for a while. Our focus is going to be getting Rutina used to our fighting style as fast as possible so that she could start fighting with us for real without falling too far behind.」

「Of course. I also want to get stronger as soon as possible so that I could be of more help in the subjugation of the Labyrinths.」

「Yes, desu!」

She still looks like she’s a little bit worried, so we all tell her that she should relax more and not be so tense.

「Don’t worry. We’ll take it easy for now.」

「That’s right. We all thought that the 44th floor is going to be an incredibly hard one to fight in, but it turns out that not only the floor itself but also the Floor Boss battle is incredibly easy here, so I think you can slowly get used to it.」

「Ah, y-yes, of course.」

I wonder if she really thinks like that. Did we help her take at least a little bit of weight off her shoulders, or did we just end up making it worse?

「Yes. Because master is so amazing, even the battles with the Floor Bosses are easy for us. If we keep going at the pace we’re going at right now, then we’ll be able to advance to the next floor soon enough.」

Look, see? Are the words of Roxanne-sensei not filling you with motivation?

「Uhm… I also think that lately it’s been going much easier than we initially expected it to go.」

Oh, so now even Sherry is agreeing with Roxanne? Now that’s something that I didn’t expect to hear.

Well, it’s true that just by me acquiring the Wizard Job, the battles have become much easier to handle, even more so since I set the Wizard’s 「Intermediate Thunder Magic」 Skill as the Skill of the Jobless Job.

At the very least, I can say since acquiring the Wizard Job, things have definitely become easier for myself.

Once the level of the Wizard Job reaches a certain threshold though, we will have no choice but to proceed to the upper floors whether I like it or not, because some of the members of my Party are simply dying for us to keep going forward.

Are we going to be able to continue going with the pace of one floor of the Labyrinth per day? I don’t know, but it’s true that Roxanne just doesn’t want to stop.

「Let’s do it, desu!」

「I think that we are going to be all right.」

With that, Miria wanted to say 「Let’s do it on the 44th floor, desu!」.

By that, Vesta meant 「I think we are going to be alright on the 44th floor」.

「Yes. I will also do my best to get stronger as fast as possible.」

No, you don’t have to do it fast, Rutina. Please take your time with it.

I mean really. Seriously. I’m begging you!

After that, we went around the 44th floor without fighting on the 45th floor. In the end, I have no choice but to keep fighting on the 44th floor to keep us from advancing any further.

Rutina soon became a Villager Lv.5 and acquired a Mage Job for herself.

「Hmm… what to do now? Should I have you fight as a Mage now, or continue to have you get used to various other things? Which option sounds better to you, Rutina?」

「No, uhm. I am sorry.」

When I checked with the person in question, she apologized to me for some reason, when all that I wanted to do was to ask her which approach she wants to take.

Well, I guess it doesn’t really matter all that much which one she picks anyway.

「What should I do?」

Even if she eventually becomes a Mage, she’s not used to fighting as one just yet, so I don’t know if it’s possible for her to make a decision like that at this point, even if at first she’s going to level the Job up quite fast.

「No, it’s not like that. As I said earlier, my father never entered the Labyrinths himself, and he did nothing to aid in the effort of subjugating them, and he raised me the same way. If only I knew that becoming a Mage would not take as much time as I thought it would, I could have been more useful.」

There’s no need for you to be so condescending towards yourself, you know?

「Well, but here you are, and you managed to become a Mage as well.」

「Yes?」

「Now then, as a test of your new Job, try to think about a 「Fire Wall」Spell in your head.」

After setting Rutina’s job as a mage, I let her do it.

「Eh… Ehh? ·····Ehhh?」
Was Rutina practicing the three-stage conjugation of the word 「Eh」just now?

All that she needs to do right now is to think about the 「Fire Wall」Spell, and the incantation needed to activate it should automatically appear in her mind, and when that happens, she will have the definitive proof that she has become a Mage.

「I see, so that’s how it is.」

「Eh. But what… how…」

「Because that’s master for you, so this much is nothing for him!」

It’s just like Roxanne said… but are you really sure about that, Roxanne? Is that really what you want to say to her?

Well, if that is what you want go with, then we are just going to leave it at that I guess.

「Eh, ehhh…」

Even so, Rutina still looks like she’s a little bit taken aback by this situation.

「Once you get used to it, I’ll have you fight together with us like normally, but only after we’ll make a few tests. Until then, just focus on trying to get a hang of it, okay?」
「Y-Yes!」

For the time being, all the serious fighting should be postponed until Rutina learns how to cast Spells properly.

Just like it was for me when I was trying to defeat a monster with my bare hands to get the Monk Job, I have a feeling that the best way to have Rutina learn how to cast Spells as a Mage properly is to just have to try it by trial and error over and over again until she eventually succeeds.

That being said, I feel like having lots of different Jobs available might be of help to her too, even if only by a little.

At the very least, maybe she should go as far as to unlock the Jobless Job for herself? But then again, I feel like it might be more than a little bit difficult to use Jobless effectively when you can only have access to a single Job instead of multiple ones, since then you can use only one Job Effect and one Skill.