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Volume 4 Chapter 67

Solitary training

After the lecture ended, I was practicing the training method I was taught in the lecture to expand the magic path whenever a problem arose.

Meanwhile everyone in the class, including Tina, who was at the training center with me, hve collapsed.

[Is, is everyone okay!?]

[Ugh, I feel sick.]

[Oh my God, my head Harutos!]

[I’m feeling lightheaded. I can’t stand up.]

[ I’m gonna…]

The symptoms of their physical condition were mixed.

Tina and Rifa were in the same state as when they entered the World Tree Dungeon.

It’s as if──

[I feel as if you all need a mage doctor. You are all intensely sick with magic energy.] Luano the Sage concludes.

It seems to be magic energy sickness after all.

But everyone except me was training to expand the magic furnace.

I still don’t understand how the training can cause magic sickness, as it is the one that expands the magic transmission path.

Also the fact that I, who should be getting magic sickness, didn’t have any symptoms of it at all.

What could this mean?

[Haruto’s magic is very pervasive in this training camp. I say It’s even more dense than that of that demon kings castle.]

It is said that the castle of the demon king that once reigned in this world was at a level where those without resistance could not move a single meter once they set foot in the castle with the amount of evil magic energy that flowed throughout the area.

And now, I’ve heard that my magic power is even more concentrated in this space than in the Demon King’s castle.

[I concur that the magic of Haruto is too strong, and so his magic power has invaded our own path.]

[ ….Anyway, why don’t you just absorb it all? I don’t like the feeling either.]

[What? Oh, I’m sorry!

I hurriedly collected my magic power that I released into the surroundings.

It was quite a lot of magical power, but I still didn’t get magic sickness.

[Phew, that’s a lot easier.”

[Huff, huff. We were so close…]

Everyone seemed to be feeling better.

Some of them, including Rifa and Luna, had flushed cheeks.

[Luna, I’m a little curious as to what you meant.]

[I’m sorry, guys.

[It didn’t feel good, it was as if I was being forced to take in large amounts of energy… but since it was the Lord’s magic, I don’t feel bad about it.

[We were kind of light,

Yoko and Mai and the others seem to forgive me.

[I’m sorry, Haruto, but I don’t think I can handle your magic. I feel as if I am going to crack my head open when you release too much.

[I feel just like Luke.

Luke and Ryushin seemed to have a bad headache, and they asked me not to train them to expand the magic transmission path nearby anymore.

But I wasn’t intentionally releasing my magic energy though.

When I released the magic energy, I immediately retrieved it, and shortly before everyone else fell, I took a break and followed up with everyone who was training to expand the magic furnace.

[It’s because Haruto’s magic path has expanded so much that the magic power began leaking out. Now it’s leaking out again, little by little.]

I checked my body’s surroundings with my mystic eyes.

A thin layer of magic power was indeed leaking out.

This seems to have made everyone sick.

[How can I help the flow?]

[Simply imagine a tap in the centre of your body and close it.]

[A tap … like a water faucet, right?]

I closed my eyes and imagined a tap.

Then I saw what looked like a trickle of water pouring out of the faucet.

I closed the faucet.

[Hmmm, it’s ready. You’re very good.

It seems that the magic leakage has stopped.

[Haruto wouldn’t run out of magic, so it’s not a problem for him, but you shouldn’t do that when someone’s in the same room with you.]

It seems that if I train for the expansion of the Magic Road, it will become a danger zone equal to the Demon King’s Castle.

[You’ll be training alone for a while, huh?

Yes.

Everyone still seemed to be doing their magic furnace expansion training, and I was the only one who had to move to another room.
However, if I did my best, I was likely to cause damage to the surroundings no matter where I did it, so I decided to move the location farther away.

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With my transfer magic, I came to the forest by my parents’ house.

This is the forest where Tina and I used to train to hunt demons in the past.

Even though it’s on the side of my parents’ house, it’s a few kilometers away and there are no houses around, so I’ll be able to train to expand my magic path with all my might here.

[..I suppose I shall do it?]

I mutter to myself.

It’s a bit lonely when I’m alone.

In the past, I used to hide from Tina and practice sneaking magic in this forest.

But since I entered the magic academy, I’ve always trained with everyone else.

That’s why it was lacking when I was alone for the first time in a long time like this.

Well, I should just quickly expand my magic transmission path as much as I can and go back to everyone else’s place, right?

I switched and began to release my magic power.

It seems that the magic transmission channel is steadily expanding, and the speed of magic power release is much faster than before.

There’s a large number of chunks of magic energy worth 10 units or so floating around me.

I’m going to take these lumps and make them into a single lump…

In the outstretched right hand, while imagining the pathway of the magic power, the magic power released is pushed towards the pathway.

The magic power returned to my body while expanding the pathway of the magic power.

I repeated this several times.

When the path of magic in my right hand expands, the next step is to use my left hand.

In order to release the magic power quickly, I release it not only from my left and right palms, but also from my fingers.

The amount of magic power I can release at once is 10.

In the past, the challenge for me was how to keep releasing this amount of magic power quickly.

One day I realized that it’s much faster to release magic power from each of my 10 fingertips than it is to release 10 magic power from the palm of my hand.

That’s why when I use strong magic, I release the magic power from all the fingers of both hands almost simultaneously.

I was able to expand the magic transmission path to the palm of my hand.

The next step is to extend the magic path to the tips of my fingers.

I began to release my magic power again.

It’s enough for ten fingers, do you think it’s enough to release ten times as much magic power as before?

The space is filled with my magical power.

I feel like the ground is shaking but…

Well, it’s okay.

[Cease at once mortal! You have roused me from my sleep, what do you want!?]

[…What?!]

A huge white wolf appeared and began to bare its fangs and threaten me.