It’s been one hour since Fran’s sparring match and defeat with Amanda.
After waking up, Fran took a seat face-to-face with Amanda. As Amanda was feeling apologetic for letting the battle escalate so far, it was decided that she would teach us some of the information we wanted to know.
As Fran was able to learn a lot through the battle, I don’t really think that there was a need take over Fran’s watch and personally guard her while she slept as well as grant us this, but… Since it’s already like this, we’ve might as well accept it, right?
「Then, first I’ll explain fighting Skills.」
「Please.」
「However, I’m not too strong when it comes to theories, so I won’t be able to explain everything. Is that alright?」
「That’s fine.」
To us who know near-nothing, any information is precious.
「Then, Combat Arts are things like Sword Arts, which allow one to improve their handling with a respective weapon; these improvements can also be seen with Techniques. Combat Techniques like Sword Techniques, Pugilist Techniques, and my preferred Whip Techniques all hold special moves that consume one’s magical power. Did you know of that?」
「Nn. I know.」
Sword Arts is required to learn Sword Techniques, and Bow Arts is required to learn Bow Techniques. Furthermore, it’s impossible to learn Combat Techniques at a higher level than their respective Combat Arts, making the two a pair. In other words, one must bear in mind that if their Sword Arts is only Lv5, they can only level Sword Techniques up to Lv5.
「After that is only a matter of learning how to use Combat Techniques themselves, but……」
「Nn.」
「Well, I’m not really clear on the details surrounding that.」
「Eh?」
「No, well, the methods to learn can be grasped through training, but… I don’t really know the detailed theory around it. If you ask someone researching the subject, you might be able to understand it a bit better.」
「Just training method is fine.」
「That’s usually how it is for Adventurers. Anyways, I suppose for that I should talk about the prerequisites of Vigor Manipulation and Magic Manipulation? As for the reason for needing them…… To be frank, I don’t know why either. As a Half-Elf, I gained both of them before I could remember. Well, it seems that Fran didn’t have any problems with them either, so shall I simply omit it?」
「Nn. Don’t mind.」
「Then, moving onto the training method for Combat Techniques, just envision yourself pouring your magic into the weapon as well as your body. Then, like a flash, Combat Techniques arrive. The Techniques themselves are activated when you don’t go against that flash. After the first use, the Technique is acquired in the form of a Skill of sorts, so there’s no problem using it from that point on. Fran can use Combat Techniques too, so do you remember acquiring them?」
「?」
「Well, Fran is still small, so you probably learned your Combat Techniques when you were even younger, right? It’s possible that you’ve forgotten. Still, to be able to use Combat Techniques at such a young age, you’re pretty prodigious, huh.」
Dangerous. We were saved by the fact that Fran’s a child. Anyways, in regards to the method of obtaining Combat Techniques, I have a rough idea of how it works. With this, not only Sword Arts, but Sword Techniques should also be able to be trained manually.
「Once a Combat Technique has been learned, you should continuously use it to raise the Skill’s level. The reason being each time a level goes up in a form of Combat Techniques, a new Technique is learned.」