How To Suck Honey With Extras [EN]: Chapter 6

Episode 6

9. The Flower of Attack is Ranged! (3)

This is the best way to get used to summoning and improve your ability to maintain a spirit.

Playing around while using spirit magic is also sufficient training.

“Then let’s use spirit magic to our heart’s content today, Undine.”

-Okay!

Undine flew up energetically and nodded.

The basic principle of spirit magic is simple.

I supply the spirit with as much power as it needs to use its power.

Then it will take care of the rest.

The great advantage of spirit magic is that it does not require complicated theories or techniques.

“Undine! First, create water!”

If I command like this, Undine understands immediately.

A skilled spirit mage can communicate and command with thoughts alone, but I am not yet capable of that.

For now, it’s easier to command with words.

Besides, the protagonist lectured on spirit magic, saying that it was best to give commands verbally as much as possible.

According to that logic, even the highest-level spirit mages find it more efficient to make a sound and command, even if it’s a short word.

Since it’s the protagonist’s claim, that must be the answer.

“Okay. Gather the maximum amount of water here!”

-Water! Gather!

Undine gestures, flapping her small arms, and uses the mana she draws from me to summon water.

The ability of Undine, the lowest-level water spirit, is, of course, to summon and manipulate water.

There is a limit to the amount, but she can freely manipulate the summoned water.

Soon, an amount of water equal to twice the size of my head gathered.

‘This is all I can do so far…….’

Higher-level water spirits can control water in large lake units, but this is the limit for Undine now.

Well, this is enough to use.

The water summoned by Undine can be freely manipulated as much as possible.

When I gesture and reach out my hand, Undine moves the water she created in that direction.

The water floats in the air.

It stretches out according to instructions, or it splits into water droplets and stirs them separately.

Using this, you can fill the opponent’s head or respiratory system with water and use it as a means of drowning.

More than anything, if you apply more water manipulation.

“Undine! Water Arrow!”

-Okay! Arrow!

Upon command, the water droplets split and create about ten sharp water arrows.

This is one of the basic applications using Undine’s ability, the Water Arrow.

The power of the arrow itself is not great.

It’s not even as good as an ordinary bow used by hunters.

The range and speed are shorter and slower than real arrows.

But if you think this is useless, you’d be wrong!

‘If you use Undine’s ability, you can use it for more than just a simple arrow.’

The real value of this is not power.

“Shoot!”

When I command her to fire the arrow, Undine shoots the water arrow forward.

“Start arrow manipulation!”

-Manipulation!

This is water!

That means that as long as Undine controls it, she can manipulate it freely.

The direction of the flying water arrow seems to be changing, and soon it moves freely and stirs the air.

It’s not a miss.

She is correcting the trajectory using Undine’s manipulation.

And the target is the target hanging on that branch.

Pa pa pa pa pak!

The water arrows, which danced wildly in the air, hit the target one after another.

The advantage of the water arrow is that it can freely change its trajectory like this.

The enemy will be caught off guard because they cannot follow the erratic trajectory of this water arrow.

I came back home and wanted to practice the next task.

This is because it requires quite a bit of concentration, so it is safer to be at home than in the mountains.

After taking a short break, I summoned Undine again and sat still and began to concentrate.

Recently, I have become somewhat aware of mana.

Thanks to that, there is something possible.

‘Concrete control is impossible, but it is possible to adjust it little by little.’

Like slowly turning the valve of a faucet.

That’s how I adjust the amount of mana sent to Undine.

This is practice to awaken some special technique of spirit summoning.

-Ah!

At that time, Undine made a sound as if she felt a sense of discomfort.

She sensed the change in the amount of mana.

-Less!

Contractor, you’re stingy with mana.

“It’s on purpose. So bear with it.”

To maintain the summoning of a spirit, the spirit mage must supply mana in real time.

If you summon a spirit and leave it there, mana will be constantly consumed.

If mana is insufficient, the spirit’s summoning will be canceled.

But what if you adjust the amount to the point where the summoning is barely maintained?

“Ugh…… Ummm…….”

In fact, it’s quite difficult to control, so I haven’t succeeded yet.

I had mastered reducing the amount of mana, but I couldn’t estimate the amount, so I kept canceling the summoning.

But this time it’s different.

‘I caught it!’

-Huh? Uh uh uh uh?

Finally, Undine’s body became translucent.

I maintained the adjusted amount of mana in its current state.

If I remember this feeling, there will be no problem.

-Strange!

Undine spins around in front of my eyes, moving as if to show off her translucent body.

“It’s okay, that’s a success. Remember this, Undine. That’s spirit body summoning.”

This is one of the tricks of spirit summoning.

Spirit Body Summoning.

It is to maintain the spirit’s materialization to the lowest level by controlling the amount of mana sent.

‘It’s a kind of trick, but.’

Undine only appears translucent to my eyes, but she will not be visible to others.

Only another spirit mage or a skilled magician can sense it.

‘Spirit body summoning is a basic skill that must be mastered early on.’

This summoning method is very useful.

It is useful when I want to hide my identity and only use spirit magic, and in many other ways.

More than anything, it’s power control.

In other words, it becomes a basic technique to save mana.

The protagonist Sylvester also said that this trick is the first skill that a spirit mage should learn.

If you neglect this, it is dangerous because you will not be able to grasp the sense of fuel efficiency when contracting with spirits of higher level or higher rank in the future.

In this spirit body summoning state, you can maintain the summoning of the current Undine for ten hours.

‘Well, the power is weakened by that much.’

You can think of it as about 30% of the power when summoned normally.

Summon normally when power is needed.

Spirit body summoning when minimum power and secrecy are needed.

It can be used in the right place at the right time.

‘Yeah. With this, I don’t have to use spirits while being conscious of others.’

I can hide it as much as I want, so I will have more things to do.

‘Now all that’s left is that.’

Thanks to recent proficiency, I have quite a bit of mana left.

It is better to consume the remaining mana to increase the basic mana amount.

Let’s consume everything efficiently.

I took out a wooden bowl the size of my face from the cupboard and placed it on the table, and then ordered Undine.

“Undine, this is my last request for today. Please extract some spirit water. You can use the remaining mana to the limit.”

-Okay! Spirit water!

Undine readily gathered water and extracted it.

The water quickly filled the bowl.

-It’s done!

“Okay, good job. See you tomorrow, Undine.”

I stroked Undine, praised her, and then sent her back because my mana was at its limit.

I gently touched the water in the bowl.

The texture is also somewhat mysterious.

“This is spirit water.”

This is spirit water, a special water that you can get when you contract with a water spirit.

You can usually create water, but you can also create this according to your command.

Humans cannot drink it, but it is widely used as a material for medicinal herbs.

It’s precious water.

“Then shall we make medicine today?”

I laid out the herbs that I had secured from the mountains from time to time and began processing them.

“Grind the herbs, boil them, filter out the sediment, and extract only the undiluted solution……. Yeah. The procedure is not difficult.”

The processing order was based on the original work.

Originally, this is knowledge monopolized by the spirit mage’s secret guild, but I can easily access it thanks to the original work.

The original work is a cheat!

‘Well, it was still a lot of hard work to make even one low-level potion.’

Even though it was original knowledge, it was a novel, so there were few detailed manufacturing descriptions, including specific blending ratios.

On the first day, I suffered from a stomachache after eating it.

It’s a recipe that I barely obtained through repeated failures.

“Mix the undiluted solution with spirit water and boil it thoroughly as if cooking this time…….”

In that way, three bottles of potion were finally completed.

“This is Nymph’s Healing Water.”

Nymph’s Healing Water.

Its efficacy is to heal a certain level of wounds, and it belongs to the low-level potion category.

Among them, the advantage of this potion is that it is very less burden compared to other potions of the same class.

A potion is a medicine that shows excellent recovery effects, but it puts a burden on the human body.

However, potions using spirit water have very little burden.

It’s an advantage that cannot be ignored.

I have only learned this so far, but I will be able to realize more diverse recipes in the future.

“Medicine is more important than clumsy attack power.”

Medicine is useful.

There is nothing more important than securing recovery methods.

‘In addition, I can produce quite a lot of this.’

If I were to use all of my mana all day long to extract only spirit water, I could extract up to 20 times the amount of spirit water I created a little while ago.

The meaning is great.

‘I can do business with this!’

I might even be able to aim to set up a full-fledged store.

‘Money is good. I really like it~’

Money! Money! You can get something precious that enriches your life!

‘The problem is that there are many unstable factors to do it now.’

I have never breathed a word about spirit magic to anyone yet.

Moreover, no one should know about the potion.

It’s dangerous.

‘Because this is not a completely safe world.’

Even if you only consider the times, customs, and social perceptions, it is easy to get your head cut off if you live with the senses you had when you lived on Earth.

Moreover, if this is the world of the original work that I know, the risk factor jumps thousands of times.

‘There are too many dangerous things here.’

The extent to which there are many dangerous elements such as poor security, monsters, and epidemics is cute.

The really dangerous things are separate.

For example, there are the world’s top 10 magic realms.

It is the most dangerous place on the continent, feared by people, and no one wants to approach it.

A dead World Tree, a valley ruled by a Mad Dragon, a dungeon where a crazy lich [undead magic user] is hiding…… and so on.

There are so many of them.

Even people are dangerous.

‘There are many dangerous people.’

Villains such as thieves, human traffickers, and robbers are also dangerous, but there are also really dangerous guys.

A secret organization trying to overthrow the world.

A mastermind who does not care about means and methods for personal secrets.

Perverted guys.

In addition, there are dangerous villains here and there.

In particular, the villains who confront the protagonist are the most dangerous.

If I get involved with those guys, an extra like me will surely say goodbye to the world.

‘First of all, there is no change in the fact that I have to increase my strength.’

I have to grow to the point where I am not afraid of ordinary thieves or low-level criminal organizations before I can make plans.

Otherwise, even if you succeed in business, you will be robbed of everything.

Anyway, strength.

‘I think it’s about time to aim for the next spirit.’

My mana has also increased little by little, so I have some leeway.

The advantage of a spirit mage is that they can contract with and handle as many spirits as they can within their individual capabilities.

It is desirable to actively try spirit summoning.

‘……The problem is the means to summon it.’

There is a spirit that I want to summon.

I want to increase the probability of success as much as possible, but I still can’t think of a way.

‘Well, shall we think about it slowly for now?’

There is no need to rush.

Originally, I was going to watch it for a year.

Let’s slowly look for opportunities.

And that night, an unexpected opportunity came.

A sudden rainstorm struck the village with lightning.