The Unwanted Undead Adventurer: Volume 7 [Complete] by Yu Okano

Author:Yu Okano
Language: eng
Format: epub

Chapter 4: Vampires of Days Past

“That’s what I wanted to ask,” Gharb said as she came up behind us. She was here to confirm that the match was over, presumably. Lorraine had also been watching from a short distance away, but she approached us too.

“But you already more or less know, don’t you, Gharb?” I asked.

“I suppose I do. Part of it is your appearance right now, but even when you first got here, I felt something was off. You can learn to sense an individual’s mana and spirit, and your mana is much different from the last time I saw you. You have a lot more of it than before, but that wasn’t what concerned me. It’s not uncommon for people to go through experiences that rapidly increase their mana. In your case, however, the quality of your mana has changed. That doesn’t happen except in very extreme circumstances.”

I was still a novice at magic and couldn’t comment, but Lorraine looked disgruntled. “What she’s talking about isn’t normal,” she said. “It is possible to sense someone’s mana waveforms, yes, but that requires a complex magic item. I can see mana, but I can’t analyze it in such detail. What Gharb is talking about would be like licking water from the earth to determine if the land was good for growing crops. Does that sound easy to you?”

That sounded impossible; I didn’t need to think twice about that. Maybe if the water had certain obvious qualities, like if it was refreshing or if it was carbonated, something could be determined from that, but not much. You couldn’t say in detail if that land was good for agriculture. And not all land had water, but tons of people had mana. I didn’t know what it felt like to sense mana in the first place, but there had to be plenty of people whose mana was similar to that of others, so distinguishing between them sounded like a challenge. But apparently Gharb could do it.

“I’ve been hiding my mana for ages, so I’ve become highly attuned to sensing it,” Gharb said. “This is a skill I’ve been honing for decades, so if it weren’t easy for me by now, I’d be disappointed in myself.”

“Is that because you need to hide that you’re a magician from the rest of the Hatharans?”

“Yes, and my teacher could do this as well. Perhaps it’s one of our unique skills. In any case, Rentt, I sensed that your mana is quite different than it used to be. It wasn’t hard to see that you had changed somehow. To be honest, I’ve been suspicious about what happened to you in Maalt. Your physical constitution has changed, you have a familiar—all these things kept me wondering. And then it hit me.”

I guess it hit her that I really had transformed into something peculiar. That would explain why my mana was different, why my combat abilities had increased, and how my physical constitution had changed. Maybe I gave Gharb too many hints.

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