Even the roads that had dried out earlier surged like a river, carrying away the heat of the day.
"Oh, it's cooler but I hope it doesn't rain too much."
While the coolness is welcome, overflowing rivers or collapsed roads are not.
Taro rot before harvest can make overwintering difficult.
Although it was before I was born, I heard that long rains in summer wiped out the taro army, causing some people to starve in winter.
"Wait until autumn, maybe we can make dried fish"
For efficiency reasons, it might be better to hunt the pig and make dried meat, but even if you successfully defeat the pig, there is no way to bring it back to the village.
"Instead of acting as an adventurer, it is better to become an independent person first."
The rain was gradually subsiding, and a crimson shimmer appeared in the western sky.
The river flowing through the village does not seem to overflow its banks.
With my family’s fish in hand, I walked towards the dusk road.
As street size increases, racial prejudice and discrimination appear to become more severe.
In small mountain villages like Azka Village, there is little discrimination because every villager must play a working role to maintain the village.
Nonetheless, prejudice and discrimination are not completely absent.
First of all, cat people are smaller than other races.
If the altercation escalates into an arm-wrestling showdown, the outcome is clear.
Growing up, I often saw my father being threatened by the neighborhood bullies and forced to take on trouble.
Physically, I'm like a cross between an elementary school student and a big man, so it's not surprising that I feel scared.
I also expressed dissatisfaction with the village chief's grandson, the werewolf Miguel, and would quickly use my agility to escape if challenged to an arm-wrestling contest.
I don’t want to be easily killed after being bullied like in my previous life, and I don’t want to live without the right to speak.
Miguel always defiantly called me mean and cowardly, but I wasn't going to let him offend me.
It would be unwise to go head-to-head with someone with superior arm strength.
If he calls me mean and cowardly, I will use my agility to defeat him.
After returning from the lair departure ceremony, Miguel's life was lazy for a while, but he seemed to have received a severe lesson from his father and recently started to go to school seriously.
However, he seems to have no training in attribute magic, so now, I should be able to defeat him in a head-on battle.
After about two months of training, my armor and shield also improved.
The first is the material, whose strength has been greatly improved.
Boards made of the same material will still break when hit with a stick, but they will still bounce back.
Considering I'm a cat person, my attacks only go so far, so I don't think it can withstand monster attacks, but it should be better than taking nothing at all.
The second improvement is the helmet.
Unlike metal, the clear material doesn't block vision, but can cause breath to accumulate and blur, so I put vents in the helmet.
Also, good hearing doesn't work if the ears are covered, so I decided to use two types of helmets: those that expose the ears and those that cover them.
Use the type that does not cover your ears when searching, and use the type that covers your ears when fighting.
The third improvement is the use of shields.
The shield is meant to ward off enemy attacks, but I found that the magic was more powerful when fixed in the air than when I held it in my hand.
If I'm holding a shield, the shield will move if the opponent pushes it with more force than I do, but if it's held in the air with magic, there are only two options: take the hit or shatter, and it won't move from its place.
So instead of holding the shield, I decided to use magic to levitate it in the air.
During training, I made two small shields that moved around me, but as I became familiar with the use of stepping, it seemed faster to give up moving and unfold a new shield.
Faster than I can detect danger, auto-deployment would be ideal, but it seems difficult to get to that level.
If you continue to train, escape and defense should be able to reach a satisfactory level, but the problem is increasing the attack power.
Since the Catman's body is small and light, although it is possible to create a strong and lightweight weapon with empty magic, it is difficult to increase the power of a blow even if the magic is enhanced.
If heavy attacks are not possible, then the only option is to pursue speed to the extreme.
In order to do this, I sought out ways to learn body strengthening magic.
Body strengthening magic is magic that enhances physical abilities through magic, but it cannot be used without training.
After the attribute magic is unsealed during the lair departure ceremony, it seems that it can be used immediately like a memory, but I don't know where to start.
Even if I know the principle of strengthening the body through magic power, I don't know how to flow magic power into the body, and I don't know the basic feelings.
Just like using attribute magic, even if magic elements are injected into the magic veins to strengthen the attribute magic, the body will not be strengthened.
Although some people can use it alone, due to the inability to control the degree of strengthening, it is easy to injure muscles and ligaments, and may even cause serious sequelae.
Therefore, it is best to start out learning under the guidance of someone who is familiar with the skill.
In Azka Village, the person who is best at this kind of magic is probably Mr. Zeol hired by the village chief, but I heard that he does not teach this skill easily.
Even if the village chief's grandson Miguel begged him, he would not agree with the professor.
Since I often catch rats and get paid, I have more opportunities to meet Mr. Zeol, but only to say hello. From the appearance, he is a strong middle-aged man, and I don’t know how to contact him.
The season has completely turned into autumn, and the trees on the mountains have begun to turn red leaves. This is the season for red leaves.
As soon as autumn comes, winter comes.
This season, the squirrels begin to store food for the winter, and their activities become more active, so I also become very busy.
In the past, only about five were caught in a day, but since autumn, sometimes fifteen can be caught in a day, or even three times as many as before.
So the income has increased, but there are always some people who don't like others making money.
On that day, when I had just received the reward of fifteen squirrels and was about to leave the village chief's house, Miguel and the others were lying in wait by the door.
In the past, I would have thought about where to escape at this time, but thanks to the void attribute magic, I have many escape paths.
"Meow, you are cheating."
"Huh? What did you say suddenly?"
"You can't catch ten or even fifteen squirrels in a day without cheating."
"No, I don't understand what you are talking about. First of all, is there any so-called legitimate way or a cheating way to catch squirrels? As long as you don't cause trouble to others, no matter what method you use to catch squirrels, it will be beneficial to the village. There is no reason to be condemned."
"What are you talking about, guy, who do you think is paying you?"
"Of course it's the village. The village's money is different from the village chief's personal money. If you want to be the village chief in the future, you still have to keep this in mind."
