Taming The Villainesses

(EP-103.1) Eyes #4

103 – Piercing Eyes #4

The room or stage that a Mage could enter would depend on their Rank.

The door I just opened was the door to Stage 2.

Which made me curious.

“How many stages are there?”

After staring at the door in thought for some time, Mirna said with uncertainty.

“I heard that there’s a Stage 6. But the last thing I found was Stage 5.”

“Stage 6….”

“I heard that the door to Stage 6 only appears to those who have acquired certain qualifications. But with your skills, Stage 3 is probably your limit, Theo. So there’s no need to worry about it.”

“That’s true.”

Stage 6 was way too far out of reach for the current me.

In fact, just dealing with the skeleton soldiers was already tiring enough…

━Greuuu-.

Like Mirna said, the Stage 2 skeletons wielded weapons such as shields, rusty swords, and clubs.

They formed groups of threes to fives which made the already narrow corridors even more claustrophobic.

─Paimon-!

Thus, I casted a spell to try and disrupt their ranks.

However, unlike the Stage 1 skeletons that would crumble after one hit, these guys didn’t stop moving even if a part of them or their weapons dropped.

I tensed up as I watched the skeleton soldiers continue to approach me despite having their arms blown off. Meanwhile, Mirna was smiling satisfactorily at my reaction.

“The Stage 2 skeleton soldiers were strengthened by Narmi herself.”

“So Lady Narmi made them.. .”

“That’s right. Narmi specializes in necromancy while I specialize in enchantment. The Rank 3 Knight and Rank 4 Mage were also created by Narmi.”

… What Knight and Mage?

I didn’t know what they were, but they sounded terrifying…

“If you enter Stage 5, you might even encounter the Death Knight that my father, Lord Aleister, created himself.”

“That’s scary!”

―Paaaii-.

I began to cast another spell just as I said that. At the same time, I could feel the magic power within me boil.

─mon!!!

Having finished charging, I felt a bowling ball-sized air bullet shoot out of my hand along with a big recoil.

It flew in a blink of an eye, shattering the squad of skeleton soldiers like bowling pins.

Tukang-!!!!

Quajik-, quajijijik-.

「Great Strike!

Job: Mage +1 Level

Mage Lv. 7 → Lv. 8

The power and success rate of your spells have greatly increased!」

Great, I’d leveled up!

Level 8 Mage should be Rank 4, right?

I was trying my best, but it made me doubt if leveling up was really this easy.

It just felt like I was grinding a game character, so I wondered if my skills were really improving.

However, the sudden burst of magic power in my exhausted body undoubtedly indicated an increase in power.

“To take down my sister’s skeleton soldiers in one attack. It’s like the combat mages’ ‘Fireball’, but faster and simpler.”

Mirna praised my magic spell. When I asked moderately, “Is it?”, she added to her words.

“It doesn’t look like an ordinary spell. It’s likely a high-ranking, advanced magic. How did you get your hands on such a spell? Did you make it?”

Mirna was curious about the origin of my spell.

「Paimon: A high-level physical destruction spell. The higher the caster’s rank, the stronger the power and mana consumption.」

Although it looked boring, it was still a ‘high-level physical destruction spell’. It was at the same level as Gamigin, the living magic that gave us a hard time.

As for how I got this, it was from the Treasure Nymph Goldnoi at the Nymph Gathering. But even if I told her that, she wouldn’t believe me, so I decided to just gloss over it.

“It’s a fairy’s secret.”

“Fairy’s secret?”

Mirna frowned in displeasure and snorted.

“So you mean you won’t tell me?… All right, it’s your magic so keeping it as a secret should be fine.”

A Mage’s magic spells were sometimes top secret information. That was why some wouldn’t want to reveal them, and others also understood this unwritten rule.

Fortunately, thanks to this, I was able to hide the fact that this was Angmar’s power.

Let’s keep referring my dirty laundry to Nymphs’ secret from now on.