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Chapter 52: Using Thick-Skinned Martina as Target Practice

Their conversation was overheard by Junice, who hurried over and praised, “A dual-element mage… amazing, Reiner; if her talent is decent, she might become a real sorcerer.”

Reiner shook his head decisively.

From Martina’s attribute panel, she was better suited to be a front-line warrior.

Her Spirit aptitude was only C, a merely average level that barely passed the threshold.

Even if she learned magic later, she could only use it for support, because talent set the limits.

She still needed to charge in swinging a greatsword and fight the enemy hand to hand.

“A warrior is the path that fits her best; let her learn magic only for backup.”

“True, otherwise all that strength would go to waste,” Junice agreed with a nod.

Reiner sighed deeply; although Martina had awakened 2 elemental attributes, he owned no corresponding grimoire.

He let Nora study magic by borrowing Junice’s fire magic book.

As for lightning magic and wind magic, he would have to buy those for her in a big city once they had money.

“Martina, amuse yourself for a bit,” Reiner said, then turned toward Nora.

The girl was sitting with her knees hugged to her chest, staring blankly at Reiner’s cheek.

(Master looks different from most people, and his skin tone is different too, yet he’s so handsome…)

When their eyes met, she shook her head vigorously, perked her cat ears, and asked, “What is it?”

“Stop daydreaming; I’m teaching you magic, so pay attention.”

Looking at the earnest Nora, Reiner recited the Fireball incantation once. “Did you get it?”

(???)

Nora shook her head in confusion.

Reiner thought of another way. “Can you read the characters of your demi-human tongue?”

He could write the spell out phonetically and let Nora practice it repeatedly.

After all, to cast a spell you didn’t need to understand its mechanics, you only had to recite it correctly.

Yet Nora shook her head. “Master, I can’t read.”

That made things troublesome.

“Then I’ll teach you bit by bit and you memorize it; the incantation isn’t long and can be read within 5 seconds,” Reiner began the lesson in clear, precise tones.

When Nora had roughly memorized the words, he handed her Breath of the Red Dragon.

The moment Nora touched the staff, it flew to the side, wandered for a few seconds, and then tapped Reiner lightly on the head.

“Forget it… practice empty-handed; this staff doesn’t like being touched.”

“Oh, okay.” Nora sat on the ground and repeated the incantation over and over.

Seeing that she had started practicing, Reiner slowly opened the earth magic book in his hands and began to study it ravenously.

The table of contents listed a total of 10 earth magic spells.

Reiner started with the simplest one, the Earthquake Spell.

After memorizing the incantation in silence, he raised his staff and aimed the move at the distant lawn.

“Boom!”

The ground out there rumbled and the grass shook violently.

Reiner held his breath and continued to pour in mana.

The spell’s range instantly expanded from a 10-meter diameter to 100 meters.

The 4 people standing far away could all feel the obvious tremor.

Reiner lowered his staff and quietly classified the magic.

It was a support spell that caused no damage, but it could disrupt the enemy, and its mana cost was so low it could be spammed.

“Martina, stop napping and go over there to be my target; if you can’t take it, just say so.”

“Sure.”

She ran over in big strides.

Reiner used the Earthquake Spell on her without hesitation.

“Boom!”

While Martina was running, she suddenly lost her balance and fell flat.

She tried to stand up again, but toppled after only a few seconds.

Reiner had never experienced an earthquake, yet he felt this spell’s disruption was ridiculously strong.

After he stopped casting, Martina ran back covered in dirt.

“Well? Can you move?”

She shook her head and complained, “Don’t say ‘sure’… I can’t even stand steadily. Reiner, I want to learn this too!”

“You can’t,” Reiner shook his head. “You can only learn wind and lightning elements; this is earth magic.”

“Then what about you?”

“I can only learn 5 elements.”

“That’s not much better than me.”

Junice chuckled and couldn’t resist chiming in. “Humans can learn at most 5 kinds of natural magic.”

Martina’s grin shifted toward Reiner.

Hands on her hips, she said disdainfully, “So what? You still can’t beat me.”

Junice walked up, patted Martina’s shoulder, and laughed. “The biggest problem for mages in real combat is that their attack casting is slow, so they need protection. But Reiner figured out chantless casting on his own and can fire a spell within 2 seconds, which pretty much fixes that flaw. He has studied magic for just over a month and already has this level; in a few more months he’ll probably surpass you.”

Martina’s face flushed hot.

Puffing her cheeks, she sat down beside Nora and muttered, “For now I’m still the strongest.”

“All right, all right, you’re the strongest. Martina is unbelievably strong and can easily defeat monsters several times her size; you’re my most trusted partner.”

Although Martina kept a straight face, inside she was over the moon.

(Of course! I’m amazing.)

She looked mature, yet inside she was really like a child.

A little praise was enough to make her happy.

Reiner buried himself in studying magic again.

Junice suddenly leaned over, smiling with ill-concealed mischief.

“What is it?”

“Reiner, I feel like you know everything; you haven’t been alive for a thousand years, have you? You looked at this ancient-era earth magic for just a few seconds and mastered it.”

Reiner was momentarily speechless.

Maybe it was because he had been a veteran otaku and played a lot of games before…

“I didn’t know magic back then; weren’t you the one who taught me?”

Junice nodded. “That’s why I increasingly feel you’re a mysterious man… born with extraordinary talent, yet full of inexplicable parts.”

“Stop overthinking and keep practicing your chantless magic,” Reiner scooted sideways.

Right after that, Nora’s inner voice drifted into his ears.

(They were standing so close just now… Maybe soon she’ll move in too… Still, Junice is kind to us, and I like being around her. But she’s so pretty; if she becomes Master’s woman too… will Master stop wanting me?)

Reiner glanced at Nora.

The girl was lowering her head, fidgeting with her fingers, looking worried.

She was worrying for nothing.

Reiner’s kink was beast-eared girls; these common folk without ears or tails simply couldn’t get him hard.

He pinched Nora’s chin and planted a quick kiss on her lips.

The move drew the eyes of both Martina and Junice.

“M-Master!” Nora yelped and punched Reiner.

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