An Extra’s POV

Eric knew full well that Kar'en was an impossible enemy to plan against.

'Even if we create an elaborate plan, we still have to communicate it to one another.'

When it came to 'characters' like the Dragon General, it was possible that she had some special Skill that would allow her to bypass Sound Magic, making it very likely that she would see through whatever strategy they made.

The more complex a plan was, the more important it was to clearly communicate it with allies.

'Even if we speak to each other and use English, there's no guarantee that she won't be able to decipher the plan somehow.' The more Eric thought about it, the more he felt like they were stuck.

… So he found a loophole.

He would communicate only a part of the plan to his allies—

the simplified format of what would happen. Since this meant they would be speaking in English, and he would be using [Grand Sound Magic], there was a chance that the Dragon General wouldn't be able to hear them.

However, still accounting for the small chance that she could, then Eric had to create a follow-up plan that only he could understand and execute.

'I misdirected everyone in order to fool the enemy, but it was necessary.'

By telling everyone he would provide ground support for both offensive and defensive moves, they trusted him and went along with the simplistic plan.

The goal was for Adonis to kill R'ashu, and perhaps wound Kar'en after. If doing the latter was too ambitious, they only had to achieve the first.

All the pieces were on the table, so all he had to do was play his role—something completely different from what he had established.

'In Magic, there are a lot of theories that exist. It's difficult to understand them, much less apply them, without the necessary Skills to back it up.'

[Magic Application] certainly made

it was a consensus—even among Mages—that one should only practice Magic in the direction of one's Skills. After the formative

Exclusive Skill in a certain discipline of

path already laid out by your Skill, hence polishing the gem of an

like Lucielle could use all kinds of Magic and diversify into multiple spheres, and that was simply due to

an outlier in

Eric thinking of such things in such a critical moment like this? Well… it was because he disagreed with

way he saw it, one had to strive in multiple areas of Magic, and so develop

the [Fire Magic] Skill would be far more skilled than someone who

own privileged status. As an Otherworlder, he had the talent and growth rate that the natives of this

given a solid Class from the

work from scratch, the way most people in this world did,

So, he didn't.

subjected only

diverse fields of Magic. I want to understand the principles behind them, using

detect all the Skills he could use, they couldn't possibly detect

He already had Offense-related Magic Skills, and

be doing his Party any

dedicate his time on a cause, it

Something only he

three months, he finally did it—he was able to crack the code right before they departed to

he would get to use it during the Grand Calamity Dungeon, but every single thing that happened then prevented him from doing

when they fought the Skeletal Dragon Lord, he could not afford to use the

Why?

conditions to it that needed to

ample supply of Mana. The Spell took up an incomprehensible amount of Mana to activate, and even more every second he kept it