Chapter 55: Magic and Immortal Art
"You have a way?"
Yukino was asked to transfer the grilled snake meat onto a wooden plate.
Today, there was a new member, so she needed to prepare more food.
"That bear weighs at least five tons."
Yukino looked at the river, where the huge bear's body was still partly under the water.
Even cutting its skin and meat would be hard.
They might just end up watching the bear's body rot slowly in the river.
A body that big... even if they all worked together, they still wouldn't be able to move it.
They didn't have any strong rope, only tree vines, which clearly wouldn't be enough.
"Not just five tons. It could be more than seven..."
Jun replied, staring seriously at the two-meter-tall body.
"Seven, maybe even eight tons."
"Then what do you want to do?"
Yukino couldn't imagine how to lift a corpse that big onto land, especially without advanced tools.
"I can do magic,"
Jun said this with a straight face, as if it was the most normal thing in the world.
Yukino immediately scoffed.
"Ha, Katō Jun, you really can't stop joking, can you? If you can do magic, then I can do immortal arts."
She glared at Jun, who was sitting across from her.
This guy never took anything seriously.
But Jun just smiled and said, half-jokingly.
"Yukino, you really can... immortal arts."
"Oh please..."
Yukino scoffed even harder.
"If I could do immortal arts, I would've beaten you already yesterday!"
She didn't want to keep arguing.
Jun always told jokes without thinking too much about them.
Every day, there was something new with him.
"These days, telling the truth is considered a joke."
Jun muttered, feeling helpless.
"Even if this is isekai, becoming a Great Mage still takes until you're thirty."
His sister, Megumi, suddenly spoke up with a quiet comment.
"And even then, it's just a minor character."
Jun almost continued explaining, but he had already been interrupted.
He tried to get a Lamp Fruit from the tray, but Megumi slapped his hand away.
"Wash your hands. We're about to eat," she said in a firm tone.
Megumi looked a little upset.
Recently, the atmosphere between Jun and Yukino felt a bit too close for some reason.
It's like a married couple already living together.
Megumi really hoped that was just her imagination.
"Haha... my sister's getting more intense,"
Jun complained as he walked slowly to the riverbank.
He looked at the giant bear's body nearby and then at his hands.
Then, he grabbed the thick fur on the bear's head, ready to drag it out of the river.
Yes. Really. With his bare hands.
Splash.
Jun's actions seemed silly.
Or crazy.
But the bear's body actually moved.
The heavy sound of the dead body moving at the bottom of the river, the noise of that huge body rubbing against the riverbank—it was all real.
"I knew this could be done."
Jun looked at his status panel.
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[Name: Katō Jun
Hunger: 270/310 (Full)
Health: 320/320
Stamina: 31,990/32,000 [Enhanced]
Sanity: 300/300 [Locked]
[Skill 1 – Lock: Locks one attribute value to not decrease or drop for 3 hours (1x per 24 hours)
[Skill 2 – Throwing Accuracy (Passive Skill)]
[Skill 3 – Enhancement [ACTIVE]]
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This improvement skill was more effective than Jun expected.
He could increase one attribute value by up to 100 times! Stamina and physical strength were closely related.
Jun had three times the normal human strength, even though he only had 300 stamina.
Now, with more than 30,000? He was much stronger than an ordinary human.
With that kind of power, dragging a ten-ton bear corpse wasn't a problem.
Jun pulled the huge body onto the grassy land very easily.
Thud!
The giant bear's body landed with a loud thud.
But soon after, Jun started to feel hungry and his health got much worse.
Luckily, his sanity value had already been locked using his first skill.
The loud thump shocked the girls around their new campsite.
"What just happened?"
"Senpai... he..."
Ginko was shocked.
Jun really did everything by himself.
"I wasn't seeing things, right? He pulled that huge body alone…"
Utaha looked shocked.
The others did the same.
Yukino put the grilled meat in the fire.
The Lamp Fruits from Megumi's tray also fell.
"Onii-chan...?"
Yui and Nanako, who had been playing, suddenly stopped moving.
"What happened? Why is the bear's body lying on the ground?"
I asked Yui.
She hadn't seen Jun's action, so her surprised reaction was slightly delayed compared to the others.
"ONII-CHAN! You're bleeding!"
Megumi shouted.
Even from far away, she could see blood dripping from her brother's hand. Some parts of his body were already covered in blood.
All the girls panicked and hurried over to Jun.
"The side effects are pretty obvious..."
Jun's health value dropped to the 200s.
The joints in his arms and legs had started bleeding.
"Are you all right?"
Yukino quickly took out the first aid kit to help.
Jun's body looked weak and pale.
"Just minor injuries. No need for bandages..."
He replied in June, trying to stand up, but he lost his balance right away.
The wild girl—who was now officially named Nanako—quickly supported him.
"Minor injuries my ass!"
Yukino was almost crying because she was scared.
She opened the first aid kit with shaking hands.
"You... how did this happen? What did you do? Why are you this badly hurt?"
Yukino didn't know which part to bandage first.
Jun had been through too much.
"I'm sorry. I used my magic skill too much."
He answered in June, smiling.
This wasn't yet the hardest he had ever been, but it was hard enough to feel pain like he was being pulled from all directions.
My body feels like it's being torn from the inside.
Jun thought to himself, "It makes sense that in the past, cruel emperors liked to punish people by tying them to horses and pulling them in four directions."
"This doesn't feel like magic... this feels more like..."
Yukino stopped talking.
Yukino's hand, which was still touching Jun's arm, began to glow.
A soft white light.
"What is this?"
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There are a lot of skill name changes in this chapter, so I'm sorry if it's annoying.
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