CH 39

We're presently staying in the village so we can deal with the boars anytime they come.

The villagers are letting us stay at a vacant house for free and even provide daily necessities. Makes for good saving on lodging expense.

It's the fifth day now. We've exterminated around 20 boars so far.

They're raiding the village from all directions day and night so it's been mentally and physically exhausting.

Well we're pretty much on rest mode besides those moments so it's not that bad, but they sometimes come out when we're sleeping or eating, it's seriously annoying.

Still better than having to work overtime on my days off back on earth though. Wonder if somebody else has taken my place at the factory. Eh, who cares about that I guess.

"We've taken care so many already yet it's not even half of them. Wonder how long till we can complete this commission."

"Those boars make for good test subjects for my arranged magic, so I'm not bored."

That remark is a bit scary. Are you a mad scientist?

Well, I'm not one to talk seeing as I've been giving Alma advice like making the stone the shape of a bullet and spinning it, or speeding it up instead of sizing it up.

And the result of my advice was a much higher penetrating power, the stones shot through those boars. That still eats up around 20MP per shoot though.

I had a hard time explaining how to image a bullet. Or more like I'm bad at explaining this stuff.

I'd have liked to show by example but I can't even create a stone.

Materializing mana seems possible for stuff like combustible gas or water through the mana doing this or that with the air around or something, but I can't make it create rocks somehow.

Yeah, it's obvious that I've been using this mana thing haphazardly. Can't believe I managed to learn magic on my own.

Even just creating a pebble from mana seems to require a considerable control. I don't even know if it's done by directly turning mana into material or making it convert the atom in the air or something. Heck, I haven't the slightest clue how either of that work, none at all.

"O-oy! It's terrible! A herd of magic beasts got in the village!"

A villager rushed in our lodging in panic.

Here we go again. How many time would this be.

"Understood. How many of them are there?"

"At least 20 of 'em from what we can tell! It ain't nothin' like anything before!"