My Servant System

Chapter 1163: Chapter 1162: Preparing For Action



Jahi Pov

I watched as Anput skipped away happily to go create her forge once more and churn out the rest of our incredible gear before watching as Leone grabbed Kat's hand and led her away, over towards the tents that housed the few alchemists that the Sultana had on her payroll. Suddenly I was left all alone, surrounded by people I not only didn't care about, but people that I didn't know anything about, and while it would have been easy to go and just turn in for the time being and take this opportunity to rest up, that wasn't something that I wanted to do.

There were better ways to spend my time, and they were things that I needed to do

eventually, if only to further stack assurances in my favor for any battle going forwards and not just this one; assurances against stronger mortal opponents, and also against Fiendish ones too, though the effectiveness against them would need to be thoroughly tested in the upcoming days.

My mind wasn't exactly geared up for this purpose though, so I definitely needed every single minute that I could squeeze out before this battle began, and to that point I needed to go and find myself a place to sit that was peaceful and quiet, which was a slightly large ask in a giant encampment like this.n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om

Still, I made do as I found an open space to set up our tent, and during the minutes it took to assemble the 'mobile home' that Kat jokingly called it I began to go over some of the things I felt needed some desperate work inside of my mind.

My confidence bordered on arrogance far too often, my skillset wasn't as diverse as I wanted it to be, and my reliance on my gear dulled my overall strength; some of those were easier to change than others, namely the diversifying of my arsenal.

Relying on my gear was a hard crutch to discard since not using my gear was suicidal and idiotic, but not acknowledging it was just as stupid, while my confidence needed a deep retreat into my own mind to figure out...

And it wasn't looking too good for me to overcome that hurdle of thinking of myself as better than most since... well, the cards were just stacked too heavily in my favor, weren't they?

Acknowledging that isn't exactly being cocky, right?

That was something I needed to ask the others about, so instead I focused on the easiest way to improve; new ideas on how to fight, especially against the Fiends that we were about to be facing soon.

Light Magic was by far the greatest weapon in my arsenal, and the most I was doing with it currently was coating my blade in it and occasionally summoning a discus to throw at someone's face; not exactly the best use of such a potent and incredible tool, and that was something I wanted to change.

The question was obviously how I could do that, and the answer was one that I had come to quite a bit ago, but one I hadn't given much thought or importance since I could just brute force my way through everything with my talent, gear, and comrades.

That was definitely no longer the case, so the first thing I needed to do was upgrade my suite of spells to reflect it's importance even more, and to do so I had quite the idea, one that I was rather proud of overall.

Magic in general was rather... uninteresting to me, something I didn't really want to rely on in a clash of physical prowess, which had got me thinking; what if I used magic that relied on my physical prowess after being cast?

That idea spiraled rapidly into different ones, with the main one being the idea of using my Light Mana to create a construct of mana to act as a new body part, be it an arm, tail, or even a pair of wings; that was the first idea I had, and it was a rather strong one.

The problem was trying to control that kind of spell in the midst of battle, but the idea seemed sound to me since I thought I was going to be rather quick at picking up that sort of control, and it only needed a little bit to get to a lethal state.

No one would expect an arm to appear out of nowhere - made entirely from Light Mana - and punch them in the face, and they definitely wouldn't anticipate a spiky tail swinging at their torso going extremely fast.

With that in mind to drive me on, I finished assembling our tent and tossed down the blankets and bedrolls before grabbing one of Kat's extra notebooks, beginning to fill the pages with runes as I drafted up rows of runic sequences before combining them into Ritual Circles.

It only took a handful of them to make my brain ache slightly, bringing a wry smile to my lips as I found myself wondering how both Leone and Kat spent so long staring at a page coming up with these fascinating ideas seemingly one after another before merging them all into a handful of spells that would change everything about their arsenal.

I was already itching to head back outside, but I forced myself to remain seated as I kept inking those pages up as much as I could, coming up with a few new spells of my own that I desperately prayed worked as well as I thought they would, but just in case I came up with variations that might work too.

By the end of it I was drained and in need of a fresh influx of energy from someone, and yet no one had returned just yet, leaving me on my own to reluctantly resume my work after getting myself a drink.

Funnily enough the ideas flowed better when the stinging taste of alcohol assaulted my tastebuds...