Skill? Nee yo Sonnamon! ~ Fugusha tachi no Saino Kaika ~

mple, I promise.
It's nothing toilsome to you.
To you, that is.

The preparations were complete two days later, and we went to the magic beast cave to start the training.
The way to learn Offensive Skill is super simple: have Reina equip the Skill-granting necklace we ordered and make her shoot the spell over and over again.
How the heck did they turn that Pepur Slime's core into such a small a necklace.
Equipping this necklace allow the wearer to cast Earth Magic such as Stone Bullet.
Apparently it's not applicable to Production type Job people though.
Alma and I would take turn refilling Reina's mana whenever she ran out, thus she should manage to gain quite a bit of proficiency even from day one.
I had her equip some random ring and told her that was how we share our mana.
She could reproduce spells from Offensive Magic if she knew how to do Mana Control, but even learning that technique alone would take time and it's too early for her to know that, so rejected.
By the way, shooting spell at nothing still raises Skill proficiency, but hitting a target gives much higher proficiency points.

Reina is presently shooting into a 15 cm hole over and over again.

“Umm, I'd like to ask something.”

“What is it?”

bwosh

『…..Oo…..』

“Did you two dig this hole for my training?”

“Yeah.
You might hit some unwitting people shooting randomly, y'see.
So I asked Alma to dig out a really deep hole with Spirit Magic.”

bwosh

『……Ooo……..』

“…I'm sorry, can I ask another thing.”

“What do you wanna know?”

bakyun

『…..Gaa…..aaaa……』

“I've been hearing some kinda cries whenever I shoot magic into this deep hole, what, what is that…?”

“Nah, you're just imagining things.
It's, you know, the winds, yeah sometimes winds produce sounds when they blow through narrow slits.”

Bam

『…..Gya! ….Gagaa…..!』

“No no no! There's definitely something inside this hole! What is it!? Just what's in there!?”

“You mind, you lose.
Ah, I'm refilling your mana, it's running short.”

“But I do mind! I can't concentrate at all!”

Reina seems really bothered with what's in the hole, but really it's nothing big.
Seeing as Skill proficiency rises better when you hit a target, we went out looking for a High Cave Bear and dropped it down the hole yesterday.
The pitfall is so deep there's no way to climb it up, so it's super safe.
The sole exit is a small hole Reina has been shooting her magic to.
The inside is quite cramped, so she won't miss.
It's an automatic Skill proficiency machine.
Very nasty if I do say so myself.
By the way, there's no deep meaning to me not telling Reina the truth.
I just find her reactions amusing.
lol.

“…Hikaru, time to change shift for mana supply.”

“Ah, I'll leave it to you.
Make sure that thing stays inside the hole.”

“I knew there's something inside!! This is scary!! I wanna go home!!”

Looks like I won't get bored for a while just from watching this kid's reactions.
Ganbareina.
Fighto.