Volume 2 - An Unexpected Encounter

<Author's Note>

S-So... Hear me out... I enjoyed reading a lot of generic isekai manga as well as playing Genshin that I actually forgot to finish even if I've planned this chapter around 3 days in advance... B-But! I was also planning with the prequel series that's a contest entry too! That's why it came late~! 

I'll be delaying the new chapter of the prequel novel later too, so expect a double chapter tomorrow~!

A-Anyways... Enjoy the chapter! 

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It's currently the second day of the three days in a week that I was allotted to become an adventurer, but things are already not going to be pretty good for me... It was a good thing that I can conceal my status information before coming to the Adventurer's Guild yesterday since...

Status Info:

Name: Emilia von Celestia y Altair (ex. Nakamura Kurayami)
Job: Hero
Age: 6 years, 5 months, 29 days old
Level: 70 - 12,877,305 / 34,888,896 EXP (10x)
HP: 9,000 (10x)
MP: 12,500 (12.5x)
STR: 10,000 (10x)
INT: 12,500 (25x)
DEF: 8,000 (15x)
DEX: 9,000 (10x)

Blessings:
Anastasia’s Holy Blessing of Love
- Complete Bad Status Nullification
- Complete Retention of the Past Life's Memory
- True Blessing of Love and Protection from the God of Creation "Anastasia"
- Bestowal of the <Hero> skill and job

Skills:
- Hero (SSS)
  - Critical Point of Fate (SS)
  - All-Nature Attribute Elemental Magic (SS)
    - Earth-Attribute Elemental Magic (C)
    - Fire-Attribute Elemental Magic (C)
    - Water-Attribute Elemental Magic (C)
    - Wind-Attribute Elemental Magic (C)
    - Steam-Attribute Elemental Magic (B)
    - Lightning-Attribute Elemental Magic (B)
    - Mud-Attribute Elemental Magic (B)
    - Ice-Attribute Elemental Magic (B)
    - Magma-Attribute Elemental Magic (B)
    - Magnetic-Attribute Elemental Magic (A)
  - Light Attribute Elemental Magic (SS)
  - Dark Attribute Elemental Magic (SS)
  - Holy Attribute Elemental Magic (SS)
  - Deep Appraisal (SS)
    - Elemental Sight (S)
    - Appraisal (A)
- Spell Weaver (SS)
    - Melt Slash (Unique)
  - Dimensional Storage (SS)
  - Hero's Haki (SS)

- Non-Elemental Magic (S)
- Information Concealment Magic (S)
- Magic Swordsman (S)
- Maximum Mana Regeneration (S)
- Magic Power Operation (S)
- Parallel Processing (S)
- Thought Acceleration (A)
- Limited Teleportation (A)
- Acceleration Magic (B)
- Optical Concealment Magic (B)
- Chantless Casting (B)
- Eagle Eye (B)
- Translation Magic (D)
- Body-Strengthening Magic (D)
- Maid (D)
- Cooking (E)

Title:
True Hero
- Anyone who has gained the <Hero> job and skill would automatically be granted the <Hero> title. No one else can be a true hero. Has access to <Critical Point of Fate> skill.
Otherworlder
- This title has been granted by the God of Creation "Anastasia" to those who transmigrate to this world from another. The title holder will have its INT status to be permanently multiplied by 25.
Queenslayer
- A title gained by slaying a Leader-level insect monster, and all of its subordinated creatures in one attack. This title will grant the title holder a defense buff multiplier of 5 and an MP buff multiplier of 2.5 for killing the Leader-level insect monster with only magic.

Like... what the hell's with the status I have right now?! I've grown around 32 levels?! I was wondering why I could go a lot faster than before, and be capable of that <Limited Teleportation> skill without feeling super tired... 

Also... there's a new section with titles huh... I can understand the Hero and the Otherworlder titles but... The Queenslayer...? So this is suffering from success, huh...?

...

I'm currently on my way for my second day of hunting the dire wolves. They're a C-Rank threat that usually has a level of around level 25 but they're usually hunting in groups of 4 to 6 wolves per group which puts them at a tier higher at B-Rank threat which is as much of a threat as a Giant Queen Hornet that I hunted last week.

[But to be honest... They're only good at farming levels, and resources if this world is a game.]

I muttered to myself as I slashed the final dire wolf of the 4th pack that I've hunted for today.

[9,540 EXP has been given to the individual "Emilia von Celestia". Tallying the amount of dire wolf that has been slain, 343,440 EXP has been collected overall. 

Multiplying it to around 30 times due to "Anastasia's Holy Blessing of Love" and "Belial's Kiss" would be given......]

Stop! Stop! I didn't even activate my blessing's intrinsic skills! Stop it, I just want to grow quietly!

[343,440 EXP has been collected from 36 dire wolves that have been slain overall.]

[Thank you! That's what I like to see! Like seriously... It's buffing me like crazy to think that I can raise as many levels as I can do so without effort.]

I thought as I immediately collected the magic stones that are usually inside of all the magical creatures that are just inside the forest beyond the hills that surround the city of Celeste. My hands are a bit shaky as I tried on slicing the dire wolf's hide since it's my first time actually doing so after the fortitude training that I've done with Mama Clara a few months ago where I have to kill a living being like livestock inside the mansion.

I vividly remember myself vomiting after doing it a few times, but as expected... I can't bear myself on having any kind of killing intent if it's related to humans. So I avoid a lot of C-Rank requests which involve bandit subjugation.

[As expected... I still have a long way to go when it comes to experie-- huh?!]

I immediately felt a minuscule wave of mana from behind. From what I knew while studying it, monsters with low amounts of mana tend to radiate mana in a constant manner while the more powerful ones create ripples or waves of mana.

I immediately put the body of the dead dire wolf using my <Dimensional Storage> for now before utilizing both my <Elemental Sight> and <Magic Power Operation> into use to try and discern what's happening right now...

...

[GYAHHH!!]

[KIEK!! KIEK!! KIEK!!]

[Himari! Are you okay?!]

[T-This is f-fine... J-Just a scratch...!]

[Tch! That ain't like a scratch to me! I really can't believe this...]

What in the world is happening right now... We're only here to subjugate a goblin's nest inside this forest, but we immediately encountered something that's a lot more sinister than that... 

How in the world did an A-Rank monster " Praying Titano-Mantis" appear here...? Mia and Ceres were already knocked out by that thing's wind magic while Himari is seriously injured...

The Praying Titano-Mantis' exoskeleton is a lot harder than steel with an elemental affinity of wind, and can also perform magic attacks as well aside from the common fact that it can fly... Even though its weakness is fire, there's no one in our party that can do elemental fire magic...

This is really the end for the four of us... huh...?

[ORA!! Inferno Magic. Cross Slash!]

[GYIEEEEEEEK!!!]

[Inferno Magic?! A magic swordsman?!]

Right before my eyes, a red-haired girl in a red adventurer outfit ran towards us and jumped over the Praying Titano-Mantis' neck and gave out an elemental fire magic attack using two of her swords... Is she dual-wielding...?

After landing on the ground with her legs, the Praying Titano-Mantis exploded soon after, leaving a lot of charred remains except the head and the giant magic stone. The magic swordsman girl puts both of her weapons on their sheathes and immediately ran toward us.

She has quite a normal stature and figure for a woman, but that strength and posture... It would make sense for her to be of noble descent...

[Eh?! Are you guys alright?! I sensed that there was a powerful monster here so I can't help but subjugate it quickly...]

[I-I'm alright... B-But...]

As I said that, I looked over to Himari who was bleeding profusely on her left abdomen while standing as she puts her katana back on its sheath.

[Oh my... We need to quickly administer her wound now...]

[Wai--]

[Healing.]

As the red-haired girl said that, she puts her hand on Himari's wound and her hand immediately started glowing with a gold hue. Is that healing magic?! She also knew that too?!

After a few moments, Himari's wound which was supposed to be a fatal one was healed just like that... Is she a knight from the Holy Empire...? Wait no... I heard that Paladins can only do that... A Paladin-level Knight?!

[Alright... That's good now, but you lost a lot of blood so rest for now.]

[T-Thank... y-you...]

[H-Himari?!]

[Shhh... Let her rest for now... ]

Himari leaned over to the red-haired girl as she lost her consciousness.

[How about the other two there...?]

[T-They were affected by the Titano-Mantis' Magic. S-So they were knocked out...]

[Is that so...? Let's set a camp here since the night's quickly approaching. We'll leave by the morning.]

[U-Unnn... T-Thank you...]

As she said that, she immediately gave the unconscious Himari to me as she walked towards the other two and started to tend to the two of them while building a temporary camp for today... 

Even with her intimidating golden eyes, it seems that she doesn't bore any ill will or danger to the four of us, considering that she even saved us in the first place.

...

[Phew... That was really taxing... It's the first time in quite a long while for me to talk to strangers again...

I didn't know that there were people there... But to see a Praying Titano-Mantis earlier, I knew that something was not right... But the four of them...]

As I thought of that, I turned my head towards the four adventurers that I met earlier by chance. The two who were knocked out and the other one whom I healed from a serious injury was sleeping with the sleeping futons that I've bought yesterday near the bonfire. 

While the only guy who's at the party was sleeping while sitting on the log in front of the bonfire, so I'm currently on the watch for the night. It seems that their fatigue led them to sleep for quite a long time. But...

[Healing Magic - An A-Rank magic skill that speeds up the growth of the flesh of a living organism that has mana. It can heal wounds depending on the skill holder's skill, medical knowledge, and level but cannot replace what can be lost like blood.

Bestowed to the individual "Emilia von Celestia" through the <Hero> skill and the "Anastasia's Holy Blessing of Love".]

I'd have to thank the Goddess-sama again for this instance for I have now the capability to save people now unlike in the past...