Great Sorcerer, Nurture (3)

The plan to make the humans and the dwarves stronger by summoning the slimes got canceled. Still, Evan acquired a small new world connected with Miraseuls necklacehe didnt understand why things turned out this way. He did his best to explain what happened, but even Mirole couldnt understand it.

How could such a vast world exist within this tiny necklace? Ah, thank you for the meal.

This is a reward for completing your morning training.

Ha, aaaah! It looks delicious! Thank you for the meal!

Miroles eyes sparkled as she looked at the panna cotta which Evan put on her plate. Panna cotta, where cold whipped cream was put on top of sweet and sour peach, was more valuable than a sparkling jewel for people in this era, where sweet deserts were precious and rare.

Hmm, I was the one who made it, but it really is delicious. Whip cream is the key to make a great panna cotta.

Maybell smiled in satisfaction as she took a bite. FYI, good whipping cream needed good milk, and Mirole might freak out if she learned the milk source, so Evan decided to seal his mouth. The hint was Minotaur. However, Mirole froze as she heard Maybells words although the milks source was still hidden. The food fell from her mouth.

You mean you made this?

Why are you surprised? Im Evans personal maid. This much cooking skill is nothing.

Are you still insisting on that nonsense?

Ma-maid? Werent you a demon?

Mirole was seriously lost. It surely was very tasty food, but it seemed to feel weird after hearing that she was the one who made it. Was it through the Demons Touch that the food was unforgettably delicious!?

I know what you are thinking, but dont get it wrong since its simple food. Look, Im eating too.

Evan took a big bite of the whipped cream and puree as proof for Mirole, who misunderstood things. Cold, sweet, soft, and sour. Its taste was just perfect.

You arent a simple human!

Well, I do have resistance to poison, but you are being mean. Its just a simple dish. Why dont you ask the spirits for that?

But its way too delicious! Its unforgettable!

Hmm, hmm. You are right, of course.

Maybell became arrogant at Miroles honest expression. And Mirole felt utter defeat by her reaction. She was stronger than her, more attractive (it was hard for Mirole, who was still a girl, to win over the attractiveness of the Succubus Queen), and cooked better than her, too!

These are the abilities of Evans personal maid!

Well, you arent my maid anymore.

Although her cooking skill was incomparable to the owner of the Brotherhood Skewers, whose dishes were magical, Maybell and Belois tend to create more delicious desserts, like cookies, since the owners expertise was monster meat. Furthermore, their master was the strict head maid who was famous in the Marquis household, so the skills of those two, who were honed to become Evans personal maids, had already exceeded that of a professional ptissier. And they had reached their own peak with Evans modern desert knowledge added to their collection. However, most people in the world wouldnt know about it.

A demon that can cook this kind of a dish, and a human that made such a demon into his maidIm starting to get lost in knowing your identity.

I feel the same, so dont worry.

Evan told himself that his amnesia alibi was really convenient. He could just say he didnt know when it comes to explaining his innate knowledge!

Us, us too

Then, a voice was heard from somewhere. It sounded like a voice from the dead that crawled up from the surface of hell. When Evan turned around and looked, the voice came from those still practicing Evans training techniques.

Dear God, we want to eat it, too!

Please share with us, your grace!

Arggggh!

Its too early for you guys. If you come back with satisfying results, Ill think about it in the evening.

The humans, in agony, cried out to Evan, Mirole, and Maybell, enjoying their tea time. It sure was a strange group for a tea party in Gods Era.

Mirole came up with achievement with her superhuman concentration in just a few hours, so Im giving her a break. Ill give you guys whatever you want from panna cotta to puddings and many more if you come up with something like that, so try harder.

Why are you so obsessed with the jellylike desserts!?

The current time was 3 pm. The dwarves ran towards their tents to research magic tools after they finished their lunch. Their hearts in researching the magic tools were sincere for sure, but Evan also got a feeling that they wanted to avoid the harsh training that would come next.

But dwarves have different starting points than the humans in the first place.

They are the earth fairies with the blessings from the ground, although the forest fairies in the Mother Forest had stable lives. They have naturally superior bodies, and they also had talents in crafting weapons. So, they had a good reason to only spend their morning on training.

But humans are weak.

Weak. So weak. Weak in all aspects. He wanted to put them in a spiritual training room if it ever existed. Their skills would fall behind if they trained like the dwarves, but many of them collapsed out of fatigue in the first half of the morning training due to its difficulty. The remaining people failed in maintaining their posture, which would deny the meaning of the training.

You wont get the pudding or even dinner if you guys keep doing what you are doing right now. Im not here for a free service. If you want to survive, make your posture right and do as I taught you.

Ah, understooood!

The reason why Evan was enjoying the fabulous (in their eyes) desert in front of the humans was to motivate them at all costand in fact, the achievement made by Mirole after starting her training in just half a day was too superb. She barely stayed low on the ground after depleting all her mana after her hard training.

Maybell offered her another plate of panna cotta since she ate it so well. Mirole answered with a happy smile while receiving it delightfully.

I came to realize after training, just like what Zero told me. My archery skill, which hit a dead end, was improving at a tremendous speed.

As expected from the guide of the New Wayouch.

Be quiet.

Evan punished Maybell for mumbling in admiration, but she wasnt all wrong. Evans second job, the Guide, amplified the abilities and the growth speed of those following him. And its effectiveness depended on how deeply they trusted him. So, it wasnt a surprise that Save was able to catch up with the Astray members in just a short period. He expected Mirole not to benefit much from that effect as she just came to know Evan, but perhaps he was wrong.

And that is how I started to think about the meaning behind my actions. Then I realized the movements that I do are the compressed version of the ultimate archery technique.

Hyah.

Did she come to understand that the movement in pretending to move around the scattered arrows and pluck them was, in fact, the training for the ultimate archery skill, the Iron Barrage!? He thought that she wouldnt notice the meaning behind it since, for just archery training, canceling the movement after its first stage wouldnt merit the user with any experience, so the user had to mix it with the last stage right after canceling the first movement!

Im not sure what you are thinking, Master, but it probably isnt.

For sure, I havent pulled the bow even once, but I can understand the possibility of a technique after learning the direction of the bow, the method on how to process my line of sight, and the movements Ive done so far. The reason why you havent told me about its origin is that you know I cant afford to cast it completely just yet, am I right, Zero?

Nope. Going through that technique from the beginning to the end would render the ability training useless, and it devastated everything around it.

I still dont know your identity. Yet, I am trusting you fully. My belief in you became even more solid during the training which youve taught me.

Thatsa relief. Sure, thats right. Ill teach you a different technique in the afternoon that doesnt require any mana.

Iron Barrage was, bluntly speaking, a special skill. It couldnt be cast normally if the archery skill and the mana didnt reach a certain amount. If basic conditions werent met during the training, it couldnt even be started. So, acquiring mastery in archery with the training was high. Still, one side effect was that even the canceling training consumed mana.

The best basic technique in archery training was the Tiger Hunt, which didnt require any mana, and it was completed when the user just shook his bow a few times without an arrow. Beginners that didnt have mana would start with the Tiger Hunt, and it was the right path for them to interchange between the Tiger Hunt and the Iron Barrage once they accumulated enough mana. Even Jhin of the Astray Knights was taught the Tiger Hunt in the beginning.

As expected, there was another techniqueI was thinking that it was too complicated for training.

Youll be surprised. It doesnt even require arrows.

Evan smiled bitterly as he spoke. The memories of Sherden suddenly came up. When Mirole, who came to Sherden, entered Astray, Evan showed her the Tiger Huntor rather the technique on canceling the Tiger Hunt. And it was her first time looking at it, but she precisely copied the move. Evan was very shocked but had it pass by thinking that she had mastered the archery skills, but come to think about it, it was because she has already learned it from the Great Ancient Sorcererfrom Evan, at this point. He recalled the memory and simply wanted to trick her, so he didnt teach her the Tiger Hunt, which was way easier than the Iron Barrage. And as a result, he yielded to the potential of the high elf.

But has she continued with her archery training which Ive taught her from this point until that day?

No way. She would have stopped it once her archery skill maxed out. Even if she maxed archery skill turned into a unique skill, she would have stopped after maxing that unique skill. Once the unique skill was learned, the effectiveness of the former attribute training falls behind a bit. However, half of the effects were still retained since it shared the same skill root with the one before the unique skill. Most of the unique skills didnt have attribute training, so there were many cases where experiences were learned through basic attribute trainingand unique skills werent something people could acquire that often.

Whoa, I see. So. Well, well, she was able to become that strong through masters specific intervention.

What are you murmuring about, Maybell?

Secret.

The look that Maybell gave as if she came to understand something somewhat irritated him. Come to think about it, they did mention a secret which only Maybell and Mirole knew prior to coming to Gods Era. Wouldnt know about them be important in surviving through the unknown circumstances of Gods Era? Evan spoke as he looked at Maybell in a strange way.

You have to tell me everything tonight.

Eeeeeh.

Maybell intentionally acted coquettishly, a provocation that aimed to make Evan suffer. Evan decided to play by her scheme, but he didnt realize that Mirole was secretly looking at them with a blushing face.

Shall we start with our afternoon work?

Is there new work to do? Oh, even Zero is planning to train.

No. No way.

Evan smiled subtly while opening and clenching his fist at the word training.

Then what is it? Ah, the dungeon?

Wrong again. Im thinking of rearranging the environment.

Rearranging the environment?

He asked Mirole, who was tilting her head.

So, Im wondering if its all right to pluck out some of the trees in this forest. Can I?