“Eeeiyaah!”

The holy magic Ray fired was coming straight at me.

“Too slow.”

“Yaaahhhh!”

“I can see the trajectory clearly. No need to rush, just launch each one steadily.”

After breakfast, I was training with Ray in the village outskirts square.

It’s a bit late to say it now, but her adventurer rank is D. That means she’s the same rank as me.

Holy magic is an all-rounder attribute, capable of attack, healing, and support. That’s why it’s a highly valued skill. In other words, it’s a “good skill”.

However, she doesn’t have much combat experience.
It’s understandable since she’s royalty, but the truth is she’s not yet able to fully utilize this good skill.

Thinking about the future, it’s best if she gets stronger as well.

That’s why Ray herself requested it: Please train me.

“Ugh… Arios, you’re too strong…”

“Well, it can’t be helped. That’s just how it is.”

I reached out my hand to the slumping Ray.

Well, even I am just someone who happened to get fire attribute magic through 《Cheat Code Manipulation》. I’m not really in a position to speak arrogantly.

“But… somehow, when I fight you, Arios, I feel like I’m slowly getting stronger…”

“Haha… is that so?”

Her feeling isn’t wrong.

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List of usable cheat codes:

• Attack Power Up (Small)
• Full use of fire attribute magic
• Visualization of target’s HP
• Rewriting target’s attack power (small)
• Absorption
• Invincibility Time (Extremely Small)
• Ancient Weapon Summon (I)
• ★Doubling the target’s experience accumulation

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Doubling the target’s experience accumulation—
This ability was gained recently after defeating a member of the Arceus Salvation Party.

As expected, it seems to speed up growth.

Right now, Ray is improving her power moment by moment just by casting magic at me.

And the key point about this ability is that the user themselves can also be a target.
So actually, it’s not just Ray who’s getting stronger. I am too.

“Ray-chan!”
“Do your best!!”
“Arios-san, you too, keep it up!”

Before I knew it, villagers had gathered.
They were happily watching our training.

And then—

“Arios-san… it’s about time.”
“…You’re really coming, huh.”

Beside us, Kaya Luthis, an A-rank adventurer, was readying her sword.

She had said she wanted to spar for a while, so she had quietly joined in.

…Though she is an A-rank adventurer.
While Ray and I were still fighting, she probably couldn’t handle both of us, but Kaya said, “Arios-san will be fine.”
I don’t really get it, but I assume she’s going easy on me.

Well, I’m grateful for that.
It means I’ll get even stronger.

“Seiaaah!”

With a shout, Kaya charged with her sword, and I at least caught the blow.

As expected of an A-rank adventurer.
That was a heavy strike.

“Tei! Yah!”

She kept swinging her sword, but I was able to handle every attack.
She must be holding back.
No really threatening attacks came.

“Uryaaaaa!”

Meanwhile, Ray launched holy magic from the side, but I neutralized it with fire magic of equal power. Ray’s attack trajectory is easy to read, so it’s still manageable.

We continued training for about an hour.

“W-why can’t I land a single hit…?”
“Arios-san is way too strong…”

Ray and Kaya collapsed onto the ground.