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Volume 12 Chapter 1 Part 5

Even if it has the inherent advantage of Skill being replaceable, it doesn’t change the fact that Jobless is a Job that is best suited for those who have access to multiple Jobs at once.

Well, since all the members of my Party had to do things such as defeating monsters with their bare hands or poisoning them to get their new Jobs, then Rutina should do it as well.

I have a sneaking suspicion that it might be best not to give her special treatment over the others, because Roxanne and the rest might just get the wrong idea and interpret it as some kind of strange favoritism from me.

「Um. Can I try using magic now?」
Rutina made a suggestion while we were advancing through the Labyrinth.

Magic, huh?

I would love to see her learning how to use it. It was the same with me as well, so I can definitely understand it when someone is expressing their desire of wanting to use magic themselves.

Her reason for wanting to learn magic is also better then my own which is like the of a middle-schooler who has just been hit hard by his Chuunibyou phase, which was pretty bad.

「Well, you might as well give it a try. Try using the Spell called「Breeze Storm」.」

「 「Breeze Storm」, you say?」

After receiving my encouragement, Rutina went and muttered 「Breeze Storm」to herself, upon doing which her complexion has drastically changed.

If you have a proper Job set up and you manage to fulfill all of the requirements for using a given Spell or Skill, then you are going to find out the incantations needed to use that Spell or Skill simply by muttering their names, so my guess is that Rutina must’ve just figured out how to invoke the 「Breeze Storm」properly.

「Don’t worry too much about monsters’ weak points right now, just try focusing on using the Spell itself.」

「Okay.」
Though it is unlikely, I ended up recommending trying out 「Breeze Storm」to Rutina, considering the possibility of causing an accidental explosion if she were to try using Fire Magic instead.

「Firestorm」 is a really scary Spell after all, and playing with fire is not a good thing to do, no matter how old you are.
With 「Breeze Storm」though, even if Rutina fails to cast it properly and it ends up going out of control, then the worst thing that it’s going to cause is generating a few strong gusts of wind, but that should be it.

We might end up looking like the victims of the Kamaitachi, but that is still a preferrable alternative to being set on fire.
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It would be a terrible thing if the fire spread around to the rest of this floor as well.

「Rutina is finally going to try using magic? In that case, we need to find a place with a lots of opponents in it for her.」

Roxanne, that’s a bit of an overkill, don’t you think?

Well, I guess I should have expected such a statement from her to pop up, since it was somewhat suspicious that until now Roxanne was guiding us to the places that didn’t have that many monsters in a single group present.

Is it because Rutina entered the Labyrinth for the first time, so she was taking it easy for her sake?

Is that what’s been going on here?

Certainly, Roxanne was definitely guiding us to less places that had six monsters in a group ever since we took Rutina to the Labyrinth with us.

Hmm, I wonder if that is actually true?

Maybe we were going to less places with that many enemies, or maybe we weren’t. The battles we’ve been engaging in lately have all been so easy that I simply stopped thinking about it.

But since Rutina will be using magic for the first time, going to a place with a large number of monsters might not be a bad idea, now that I think about it.

Ever since Rutina entered the Labyrinth for the first time with us, we weren’t in a place with a large number of monsters.

It might be because of nothing at all, but we might go to a place with a lot of monsters, even though in the places where there are many monsters the battle might devolve into a complete mess.

This is Roxanne, without a doubt.

As Roxanne guides us through the Labyrinth, we finally happen upon a group of enemies comprising of six monsters.

Yeah, somehow I knew that this was the result we were heading towards.
The four of them start running, and I cast two Spells before chasing right after them.

「To seize the Aroma of the wind, display your might before the enemy and jet forward: 「Breeze Storm」!」

Rutina chants her own magic in the meantime. Was it an incantation like that? I didn’t know since I never used it with proper incantation.

Anyway, it seems Rutina doesn’t have a problem with Brahim Language. She was taught the precise words since she was the Earl’s Daughter, after all. It also seems that Brahim is used the nobles engage in conversation with one another.

There’s no incantation resonance problems so far between the magic I used and the magic that Rutina used. I wonder if it was fine because I have 「Chant Omission」Skill?

It will probably work out, but I am feeling relieved now that I’ve actually tried it.

When Rutina unleashes her magic just once, after which she pulls past me and charges at the monster.

Was she only going to fire her magic once? Now that I think about it, I probably should have warned her that if she was going to expend too much MP at once to cast the Spell then her mental state is going to worsen considerably since I know that better than anyone, and yet I didn’t do it.

What an idiot I am.

I am right here, aren’t I?

Un, I am here, and yet I acted as if I was not here. That fail is entirely on me.

I am not going to try to make excuses like saying that it was all due to Roxanne’s brainwashing, because it was not.

I fucked up big time.

Dufufufu, you hear that, people? It was my fault!

As for the other monsters that were present on the battlefield, I have employed the strategy of hitting them with Thunder Magic….

「I did it, desu!」

… and then I simply watched as Miria was annihilating them all one after another.

Overall, I guess you can say that the battle went as good as always.

「Thanks to Rutina’s magic, we were able to somehow pull through.」

「No, no, I did not contribute to this victory all that much.」

「That’s not true at all. If it wasn’t for you, defeating all these enemies would’ve taken us much longer.」

「Oh… a-alright.」

Even though Rutina was trying to be humble, Roxanne just had to go and try to brainwash her even further.

No matter what Roxanne is going to say to her, I won’t allow us to go to the upper floors just yet.

「Since Rutina can use magic properly now, the strength of our Party has increased even further. This is a wonderful result.」

「Yes. And moreover, since we now have one more Mage in our Party, then not only we managed to grow stronger, but we’re also going to have more strategic options available to us now. And it’s all thanks to Rutina.」

「As expected, desu.」

「I think it’s amazing.」
The girls are celebrating Rutina’s successful cast of her very first Spell.

「Thank you very much, everyone.」

「Using magic effectively might be hard at first so make sure you don’t push yourself too hard for a while and just do things at the pace you’re comfortable with. Just try to shoot magic from time to time, and everything should stabilize itself in a few days.」

「Yes. Using too much magic is going to make you feel sick, so be sure to remember that if you don’t want to become an unwilling inconvenience.」

Rather, it’s okay if you use it too much and cause trouble for us. I mean it in all seriousness: don’t take care of yourself and be as much of an annoyance as you want, as long as it will delay our journey to the higher floors.

You should go out of your way to cause trouble. You shouldn’t hide anything and cause trouble for us with all your problems and worries.
We are here for you after all. And even if you try to hide your worries, Roxanne will simply detect them with her sense of smell.