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

g and Fire, it wins out against all other elements generally.
This power should prove mighty once she's figured out how.

Alma's training is largely about such.
She's been trying many ways on arranging magic over a short period of time, but presently the Skill with the biggest firepower potential is Spirit Magic.
Most enemies can't deal with getting dropped into a pitfall.
Spirit Magic is seriously a cheat.
…Her power level would go out of control if only she could enter a contract with other elemental spirits.
There's no more traces of her from the day she was called a failed job.
Far from it, she's a genuine cheat now.

As for me, my goal is to develop a high powered technique as my secret weapon.
Presently, that corresponds to a technique that can deal considerable damage to a High Cave Bear.
The combo of Pseudo Ground Shrink and Pile Bunker is the most powerful attack I have in my arsenal, yet that failed short against the bear.
Using up all my mana on 'Ignite' would reasonably increases its output, but that's way too inefficient.
I need a more practical means in real combat otherwise I'd drive myself into the corner.
Thus after coming up and trying out all kinds of things, I came up with only two promising techniques.
And both of them are a variation of Mana Pile Bunker.
I'm lamenting my lack of imagination.
Leaving the detail aside for now, one is a combination of both offense and defense however I need to match with my opponent's attack, so it's not exceedingly practical in actual combat.
It's also highly risky because a mistake could end with me eating a direct attack.
Though when it works, this technique neutralizes the attack while dealing damage, like a perfect counter.
The other one is just really high powered.
This.
however, comes with a considerable recoil.
And I'm talking physically, not something that's only in my mind.
I thought my arm had been torn off when I shot it that one time…
I've managed to improve it and reduced the recoil now, but its weakness of requiring to build up power for a bit of time remains.
By the way the target was a High Cave Bear.
I hit it right in the head, and the grotesque scene of its entire part getting literally blown away into dust got etched in my mind.
Our fangs, and all those mats…
W-well, at least I'm no longer lacking in firepower now.

“…I feel like your firepower was anything but lacking, overt even…”

“No no, I clearly was, I mean I couldn't even put a dent on the magic beasts roaming this cave.
You have Magic Swords and Mana Blade with you Alma, but I got no reprise if I didn't improvise here.”

“Killing magic beasts way above your level as your goal is weird to begin with…”

“Might be.
But if a demon way above our level came attacking, we'd be dead in no time if we didn't have any way to damage them, or am I wrong?”

“!…
You're right.”

Sure enough, Alma's face was twitching when I showed off my new technique but not for long after I mentioned demon.
It might look like we're focusing too much on demons with our training but those demons are a complete unknown to me, you can never get too prepared against them.
Honestly, I'm not even sure if this new technique will work on them, but I'm prepared to expose my identity as Soarer and fly away with Alma and Reina if it comes down to it.

“Un, I'm gonna try out mixes of Magic Swords and Swordsmanship a bit more.”

“Yeah, do your best.”

Looks like she's getting motivated from what I told her.
She's activating Burning Blade and attempting to use Swordsmanship Skill together.
Powered up by mana control, Burning Blade's flame turned from blue to white.
Even that is more than enough firepower, guessing she's aiming higher.

Bunssu po

“Ah.”

ah

Doswu!　Juuuu…..

…She combined powered up 'Mana Blade Gale' with a magic sword ability and tried to swing Burning Blade at high speed but she lost control and got her sword slipped off her hand.
That's super dangerous, hey.
The sword flew off and struck the wall, melting the part where it touched.
So the high temp remains even off hand huh.

“…I failed.”

“…Don't mind.”

Alma muttered looking a bit embarrassed.
Well, can't have everything always go well on your first try, this is still much better than learning the hard way during an actual combat.

“I won't let go next time.”

No no, let's try other combo instead.
I shudder at the thought of that sword flying my way.