18. Chapter 18 Guild Women Are Tigers
Chapter 18 Guild Women Are Tigers
Erza, who looks resolute and has a terrifying aura, would be so careful to bring specialties for her companions?
Rhode was a little curious about what was in the gift box… It couldn’t be armor, could it?
”I’ll open it now!”
Laki laid the gift box flat, gently pulled the ribbon tied with a bow on it, and opened the lid.
”What is this?” Rhode couldn’t recognize what was inside for a while.
First of all, it’s not armor, but it is indeed a metal product. It looks like a statue of a woman? No, there shouldn’t be strange gaps and handles on the statue.
Just as Rhode was wondering, Lucky had already pulled the handle and opened the “metal statue”, revealing the hideous spikes inside.
Unexpectedly, Laqi’s expression was not one of fear, but of surprise: “Ah! It’s the Iron Lady!”
She stroked the cold metal, and her face flushed: “Great!”
”Iron… Iron…” Rhode’s tongue was a little tangled, his head was buzzing, and he unconsciously took a half step back.
This thing is a torture device! Isn’t it a specialty? What place’s specialty is a torture device? Why give someone an Iron Lady as a gift? And Laqi can bring this thing back without changing her expression. Is she born with supernatural power like Cana? The biggest question is, girl, why are you so excited? Mira smiled: “Ah, Erza prepared a very thoughtful gift.”
Intentional? Ulterior motives, right?
“No, that, Mira…” Rhode considered his words, “Are you sure this thing is a gift, not a death threat or something?”
”How could it be, Laqi’s favorite is all kinds of torture instruments, this well-made Iron Lady is the best gift for her.”
Mira tilted her head, “Hey, didn’t I tell you? Laqi’s room has a lot of torture instruments.”
”…” You only told me that Laqi’s collection is very interesting, and said that I have the opportunity to visit.
Rhode realized a serious problem, the girls in the guild, such as Miji, Kana, Laqi, Erza…
Although each one is prettier than the other, they are also more difficult to mess with than the other.
That is, Leibi is cute and has a good personality. Although Mira is a little black-bellied, she is very gentle most of the time.
I just don’t know if there is any side that he doesn’t know. —— The afternoon is a little free, and Rhode has time to practice magic for a while.
Erza seemed to have nothing to do, so she came to the guild to chat with a girl with long green hair.
Thanks to her, the tavern was unprecedentedly quiet.
However, according to Mira, it was only when Erza just came back that everyone would be noisy again soon.
Levy was holding a small notebook, reviewing the pronunciation she learned in the morning. When she saw Rhode taking a break from practice, she would come to him to learn a few Chinese character strokes.
During this period, Makarov also helped Rhode to modify the summoning spell.
Usually, when a celestial wizard summons a celestial spirit, he would call out the name of the celestial spirit and use the corresponding key.
And Rhode only had one pendant, but it was connected to different summons at the same time. Now he could only distinguish them by calling out their names.
When he became more proficient in magic, he could omit most of the lengthy spell chanting in the front and just call out the name.
The initial spell would be used when he felt that there was a new summon.
“Toad, three wolves, six birds, stone monster…” Rhodes counted the monsters he might summon next with his fingers, and felt that there was still a long way to go before the small dragon and the big dragon.
Although I don’t know if there are any special monsters among those ordinary monsters, judging from the size of the river crab today, even monsters like three wolves and six birds, which are very weak in the game, can be called beasts just by their size when summoned.
For Rhodes, the most important thing now is to increase magic power and improve magic proficiency.
The time for meditation every day is limited for magic power, and it can’t be rushed, so the only thing that can be practiced is magic.
Rhodes caught Worm, who was cheating in the tavern, and started practicing the magic of “closing the door”, that is, canceling the summoning.
”I am the one who communicates the road between the two worlds. You obey my will and return to the abyss, Poro!”
After the spell of closing the door was chanted, Worm’s figure gradually became transparent and finally disappeared completely. “Success!” Rhodes was very happy.It works the first time.
Then he began to chant the summoning spell:
”I am… Go through the door! Open, the door of the abyss, Poro!”
The magic vortex appeared and disappeared, and Worm reappeared in front of Rhodes.
”Very good, try again!”
”… Return to the abyss! Poro!”
”… Open, the door of the abyss, Poro!”
”… Return…”
”… Open…”
Rhodes practiced magic over and over again, and Worm could only cooperate.
It was okay at the beginning, but it got boring after a lot of times, and the little guy became more and more casual.
Sometimes it appeared standing, sometimes it appeared sitting, and sometimes it lay on its back and tried to cross its legs but couldn’t…
Worm felt very annoyed, but Rhodes had no choice, who told it to consume less magic power?
If he were to summon a river crab, with Rhode’s current magic power, he would have to rest after two times at most, and there was no way he could practice repeatedly.
”Woo~ah, ah…A-choo~~~”
After countless times of practice, Worm sneezed hard when he appeared in the tavern again.
It had retracted its long tongue, and a long snot hung up.
Rhode’s first reaction was: “So you have a nose.”
Worm sucked his snot hard, turned around and faced Rhode with his butt, and the little horns on his head drooped down – it was a little angry.
It was a harsh winter over at the Howling Abyss, but it was already summer in the Kingdom of Fiore. After so many times of going back and forth between hot and cold, even a Poro would have caught a cold.
”Ah, sorry, it’s my fault.”
What should I do if a Poro is angry? Rod thought for a moment and said tentatively: “Mira, I want an omelette…”
Worm’s drooping little horns stood up.
”…Add a bowl of tomato and egg soup?”
Worm turned around and stuck out his tongue again, with happiness written all over his face.
Although he hadn’t fully understood Worm’s hobbies, eggs were definitely one of Worm’s favorite foods.
”It’s so easy to coax.” Rod skillfully reached out to touch his head, horns, chin, and belly.
Mira smiled and helped him order, but a slightly harsh voice sounded from above: ”Are you finally quiet? You guys have been noisy since just now.”
Rod raised his head and the person who spoke was a blond young man with a lightning scar on his right eye.
Wearing something like headphones, a brown top, and a coat on the outside – it was obviously summer now.
At this time, he placed his hands on the railing on the second floor and looked down at Rhodes with a bad look on his face.
(End of this chapter)
