I Put all my Stats into Charm - Chapter 73

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I Put All My Stats Into Charm Episode 073

The blue light that had enveloped my body gradually faded as if seeping into me. The cold sensation that had spread throughout my entire body soon subsided as well.

I stared blankly at the system window that appeared before my eyes.

[Magic Power LV.101]

[Mind Control LV.13]

My magic power, which hadn’t shown any signs of improvement despite all my desperate training, suddenly increased? By 100 points at that?

Not only my magic power, but my Mind Control skill had also leveled up.

‘What’s going on?’

I shifted my gaze to the magic stone I had just touched.

The magic stone that had been radiating a brilliant blue light just moments ago was now emitting only a faint glow, as if its life had been drained.

“Lady!”

Lowell rushed over and grabbed my shoulders. Then he frantically examined my body.

“Are you alright? Are you hurt anywhere?”

“Uh… I think so?”

“How could you carelessly touch just anything in a place like this!”

“Ack!”

Lowell struck my back with his palm. A sharp sound rang out along with a stinging sensation that spread across my back.

Lowell, you’ve got quite the heavy hand.

“What if! There had been! A trap here?!”

As if one hit wasn’t enough to calm his anger, Lowell continued to pound on my back.

“If something had! Gone wrong! You could have! Lost your life!”

“Ack! I’m sorry! I’m sorry, so please stop hitting me!”

When I raised my hands in surrender, Lowell stopped his beating.

Then he sighed and placed his palm on my forehead.

“Let me check if there’s really nothing wrong.”

To avoid getting scolded more, I had no choice but to stay still and let him examine me.

Before long, Lowell’s eyes widened.

“Your magic power control has increased?”

As expected of the Empire’s chief mage. He seemed to have noticed that my magic power had increased just by placing his hand on my forehead.

“Lady, would you like to try following along?”

Lowell showed me his open palm.

“Lumen Orbis.”

When Lowell chanted the spell, a small glowing orb appeared above his palm.

Finally! Could I now use magic too?

Since my magic power had increased by a whopping 100 points, I might now be able to use simple basic magic.

With an excited heart, I opened my palm.

Then I recited the spell following Lowell.

“Lumen Orbis!”

But disappointingly, nothing happened at all.

“You still can’t use magic.”

“…”

My Magic Power skill increased by 100 points, so why can’t I even cast such a simple spell?!

I looked down at my empty palm with a dejected expression.

Lowell, who had been watching me with pitying eyes, spoke up.

“Magic stones are originally used to increase magic power. Lady’s increased magic power control must be due to the magic stone.”

My guess was correct.

I don’t know how my Mind Control skill also increased, but it was definitely the magic stone that raised my magic power.

Then couldn’t I just use magic stones to increase my magic power from now on?

That way I wouldn’t need to train separately, right?

As if reading my thoughts, Lowell said,

“That’s why magic stones are treated as very expensive items. With the average Imperial citizen’s lifetime income, it’s difficult to even obtain a palm-sized magic stone.”

Right. If magic stones were that easy to obtain, every Tom, Dick, and Harry would have become great mages.

As I nodded in agreement with Lowell’s words, he continued his explanation.

“But magic power doesn’t increase just from touching them. I’ll need to investigate whether the magic stones here are special or if there’s another reason.”

Lowell put on special gloves for mining magic stones.

“Unfortunately, the one Lady touched seems to be the last intact magic stone, so let’s at least take the remaining fragments.”

If magic stones are that expensive, how much was this mine worth?

It looks like they scraped away all the magic stones very thoroughly.

Thinking about the unknown person who must have struck it rich made my stomach ache with envy.

“The person who took the magic stones must have become incredibly wealthy.”

“They probably didn’t mine this place just to sell the magic stones.”

Lowell continued speaking while collecting the magic stone fragments.

“To use black magic that affects souls requires consuming considerable magic power. So much magic power is needed that it can even endanger the caster’s life.”

As I listened intently to Lowell’s words, I recalled his explanation about magic stones.

“Then…”

“They must have used the magic stones to supply the magic power needed for black magic.”

Calliton suddenly appeared.

“The magic stones that were here were probably used to turn Imperial citizens into monsters.”

He ground his teeth.

Calliton’s already sharp features became even more fierce.

My heart became just as troubled as Calliton’s.

To summarize the story, didn’t Jerome, who had been kidnapped, suffer the same fate as the Imperial citizens who turned into harpies?

When we had talked at the Duke’s Palace, Jerome had said he was experimented on while kidnapped.

I shifted my gaze toward Jerome.

He had his usual calm expression.

‘He seems too normal for someone who went through that…?’

That’s exactly why it felt strange.

When I looked down, I could see blood dripping from Jerome’s clenched fist.

I immediately grabbed his hand.

“Duke, are you alright?”

“…”

I could see deep nail marks embedded in Jerome’s palm.

How tightly had he been clenching his fist?

I took out my handkerchief and pressed it firmly against Jerome’s palm.

“You’re bleeding. Let me stop the bleeding.”

Then I whispered quietly enough that only he could hear.

“You’re worried about that person, aren’t you?”

“…”

He just stared silently at his palm without answering.

His silence was as good as an affirmation.

I thought so.

“No concrete evidence has been found yet.”

I applied some ointment I had brought to Jerome’s palm.

“His Imperial Highness the Crown Prince and my master, the Empire’s most outstanding mage, are both searching together, so it’s too early to think of the worst-case scenario.”

Even while I was speaking, Jerome remained silent, his gaze fixed on the hand being treated.

After tying the handkerchief around Jerome’s hand to finish the treatment, I looked at him.

“So please don’t hurt yourself, Duke.”

“….”

He, who had been quietly receiving treatment, raised his head.

He stared at me with heavily sunken eyes, then slowly moved his lips.

“…I’m sorry for causing you worry.”

At the shadow still lingering in his eyes, I deliberately spoke in a cheerful voice.

“The person the Duke is looking for is surely safe and well somewhere. So please don’t worry too much, Duke.”

“I will. Thank you for treating me.”

I responded to his light bow with a smile.

A bitter taste rose up.

Jerome’s mind seemed completely filled with thoughts of finding ‘that person.’

As he said, there seemed to be no room for anyone else.

‘Go ahead and live happily ever after with whoever you’re so desperately searching for. Or spend your whole life as a lonely old man.’

I can just conquer anyone and go back.

Just as I was having somewhat spiteful thoughts.

A familiar noise began coming from the cave ceiling.

“Squeak, screech.”

“Screech.”

Looking up, I saw a group of Brocksh climbing down the cave walls.

There appeared to be dozens of them, but I didn’t feel any sense of crisis.

With the Empire’s greatest experts here, mere rats would be dealt with in an instant.

I spoke to Lowell.

“Master, let’s blow them away with magic in one shot.”

“That would be problematic.”

Lowell said with a truly troubled expression.

“The mana fluctuations are unstable because of the mana stones. If we use magic in a place like this, the cave might collapse.”

Jerome also added a comment.

“From here on, we’ll have to fight individually.”

Calliton also gripped his sword and said.

“The monsters’ true forms might be Empire citizens. So subdue them without killing.”

No magic allowed, and we can’t kill them either?

This is really troublesome.

Those things have neurotoxin, so you get paralyzed if they bite you!

As if not giving us time to worry, dozens of Brocksh rushed toward us.

“Squeak!”

“Screech!”

The party began striking the Brocksh with tools like sword flats and shields to knock them unconscious.

Lowell and I stayed close to the knights, taking cover.

But there were more coming down the walls than the knights could knock unconscious.

Then, one Brocksh that had squeezed between the knights charged at me.

“Aaah!”

When the monster bared its front teeth.

Jerome’s back blocked my view.

“Ugh!”

Thanks to that, I could avoid the Brocksh’s attack, but the problem was that Jerome got his arm bitten by the Brocksh.

“Duke!”

The bad news didn’t end there.

“Squeak!”

“Screeeech!”

“Screeeeeak!”

What looked like hundreds of Brocksh began coming down, covering the cave walls in black.

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