The Mage Will Master Magic Efficiently In His Second Life

..ly!..Milly! Get it together Milly!

n..nya?

After I called her over and over, finally Millys eyelids opened.

Lydia hasnt stopped bleeding and shows no signs of waking up.

..huh? Zeph whats wrong?

*Kyoton*(Astonished SFX) Milly looks at me vacantly and it seems like she doesnt understand the situation at all.

Hurry and cast healing on Lydia!

Huh? Ummm..!?

Seeing the blood covered Lydia, Millys expression instantly changes.

She rushes over to Lydia and begins to cover her in Healing magic.

The boss pounced on and assaulted us. Lydia covered you when you fainted, and now Claude is facing it alone

..!

I reported the desperate situation and she gasped.

When I heard it coming out of my own mouth, it even made me feel like crying.

..Is Claude ok?

Its tough

Milly blanched and focused on speeding up her healing.

However, when I said its tough I meant itd be tough for her to do it alone.

If I go, then I should be able to handle it one way or another.

..but, shit

My magic is still hasnt even recovered to 20% as of yet, because Im in such a rush and my calm has been disrupted, I cant meditate properly.

It cant be helped, even though this goes against my nature

I bend myself over the unconscious Lydias stomach, stuck my hand up through the bottom of her clothes, and felt around.

Wh-wh-wh, What are you doing at a time like this Zeph?!!

Sh-shut up fool! Even I didnt want to have to do this if I didnt ha..there it is!

I pull out Lydias bag from between her breasts. I stick my arm into it and grab the Magic Recovery medicines from inside it, then I drank.

While I was drinking I cast Time Square, then Healing twice.

The healing light layered on top of Millys and brightened further, Lydias horrible complexion became a little healthier.

But, it seems like she still hasnt regained consciousness. Ive already taken many magic recovery medicines and even my pocket has some stuffed inside.

Im going back to give Claude back up. Milly, Ill leave Lydia in your care. Be careful of the roc birds around here.

O, Okay

I cast teleport to return to Claudes position. The battlefield is quieter than it was before, and I cant help but get a bad feeling about this.

When I teleport back to Claude the fight seems to be nearing its end.

One of the Sunny Ravens wings is cut, shredded, and dyed red with blood.

Its beak is cracked and chipped in several places. The tip of the battered beak is wet with blood and Claudes body is inside it.

Her body is dangling loosely from the beak. She isnt moving at all, not even a twitch.

CLAUDE!

The Sunny Raven turns toward me as it hears my scream and begins to growl.

The moment I see the Sunny Ravens emotionless face, the entire world is dyed in blood red.

..Kill

I face the Sunny Raven and prepare for battle as magic floods out of my body. The moment I cast Time Square to utilize Gravity Sphere, Claudes hand twitched in response to my voice and she moved.

Thank goodness, somehow shes still alive.

However, I still want to kill this bastard.

I aimed at the Sunny Raven and magic gathered in my hand.

Gravity SphereLock

I have to quickly save Claude from that evil birds beak.

At that moment the Sunny Raven opened its beak wide to swallow Claude.

..Crash!

I aimed at the scruff of that things neck and invoked Gravity Sphere.

The magic sphere appeared and warped the space around it, dragging the things body in while distorting it as it let out a creaking, crunching sound.

Gururururururu eeeeeeeee!!

It let out a cry as it tried to endure, it opened its beak wide and released Claude, who fell towards the ground. I managed to teleport fast enough to catch her.

Claude dropped from a considerable height, and when I caught her my arms received quite a shock, strong enough that it felt like my arms were going to fall off.

Heavy!

I was supposed to catch her all cool and suave, but I let out a groan and spoke without thinking.

As expected, my strength has fallen back to how it was as a child.

It looks like Ill have to train myself once again.

.Thats horrible of you..to say youre heavy to a girl

Holding onto consciousness, Claude whispers this while smiling slightly.

So she heard that just now

..the armor is heavy

I played it off with all my might, but she smiled and it seemed like shed seen through it.

*Tsk*, this isnt over.

I smiled wryly as I held Claude in my arms and was about to teleport away, but it looks like things werent going to work out like that.

The Sunny Ravens eyes shine sharply, it is forcefully pushing Gravity Sphere down and attacking me with its wing.

By chance it misread the distance and when I jumped back I was barely able to dodge.

I cast teleport, but I cant activate it properly.

The Sunny Raven is getting close, and Im carrying Claude.

It takes more concentration to use teleport, I need to calm down or I wont be able to use it.

Sensing my flustered mental state, Claude whispers in a small voice.

Zeph-kun, leave me..

Are you a fool? If I planned to abandon you then I wouldnt have come to save you in the first place

I guess so

Claude grabs onto my clothes.

Hold on tight

..ok

I cast Time Square while embracing Claude.

Inside the time suspension I cast Black Boots twice and activate it.

My feet are surrounded by wind and I run with all my might..but, the weight of two people lowered the speed more than I had thought.

The reason for this is physical enhancement magic largely depends on the subjects initial physical abilities.

Jump to the left please!

I react to Claudes voice and jump left, and a large yellow beak passes to my side.

The Sunny Raven creates gusts of wind as it stabs down.

If I get hit by something like that, even if I have Safe Protection, it wont end without injury.

The wind pressure breaks my balance slightly and I quickly look to the side, and see at the end of a long neck, a big birds head looking at me and smiling.

No, its flame leaking from the beak, thats what that expression means.

Red Barre.Pyro Crash

The spiraling flames that I blasted forth, smashes the Sunny Ravens jaws open, and it engulfs the Red Barrett as the spiral continues to grow.

_____________!!

The smashed beak of the Sunny Raven issues a mute cry as the flames spread to its head and neck.

Now when I have the chance.!

The appearance of the Sunny Ravens wrecked body, gives the feeling of a fallen king.

When a boss takes a certain amount of damage it can enter into Madness/Rampage mode, in this mode fighting power increases.

The shell of the Raven crumbles, and a burning red body made of flames is revealed.

As it spreads its wings fully, it seems like a flaming fortress.

*Tsk* damn, its entered its madness mode huh?

One of the conditions to enter madness mode is to have magic power lowered to one-third of the total. Claudes valiant fight against it may have backfired in this situation.

Furthermore the Sunny Raven has.

-such overpowering magic.

Madness mode bosses spread out overpowering magic, magic with a certain range including teleportation magic that requires good concentration are basically sealed.

The range of this fallen king is remarkably vast.

It seems like its no longer possible to run away.

Its red eyes burning with a desire for revenge, the Sunny Raven glares at me.

It flaps its wings towards me as if waving hello, and from there a huge number of fire balls are flung towards me.

GehRed Ball! Moreover such an insane number!

White Wa.

As I cast White Wall, I stop.

Shit, the magic power I have now is

Magic recovery medicine.!

I desperately try to search the bag, but by now the Red Ball is almost right on top of us.

No good I wont make it

Zeph-kun!

Claude cries out, embraces the back of my head, and I suddenly feel a soft sensation pressing against my lips.

Instantly my mind stops.

Right in front of me, with her eyes closed, is the face of a furiously blushing Claude.

Claudes tongue enters into my mouth, and at this point I finally understand what has just happened.

The next moment the Red Ball rained down on us, a pillar of fire and a cloud of smoke exploded into the air.

The smoke cleared up and little by little a big round shadow slowly crumbled.

That was the White Wall which at the very last instant blocked the rain of Red Balls.

From behind the crumbling wall the figures of myself and Claude appeared.

We separated our faces, and *Puwaaa* breathed.

There is a slightly bitter taste left in my mouth.

A while ago, Claude fed me the magic recovery medicine mouth to mouth.

Though I had Claude take the magic recovery medicines before, I never thought that it would come in handy like this.

Sorry. You really helped me out.

As one would expect, its embarrassing.

I thank Claude with a red face.

Um, this should be left a secret from Milly-san

This last sentence was said very quietly.

Were so close that we can hear each others heartbeat.

Well Claude, a secret is all well and good, but can you keep what Im about to do to yourself?

Eh..what are you..Yaaah!?

I slightly drop Claude making her let out a little scream.

When I regain my balance properly, I once again lift Claude back up.

Since the Sunny Raven has entered its madness mode, its magic has a big range. In this situation escaping is really difficult. Thats why, Im just going to kill it

Thats..yeah, ok. But, why did you want it to be a secret?

I gave the confused Claude a roguish smile and answered.

Because Im not going to use very decent or respectable methods

(TN: Shits about to go down)