The Hero Sidekick Is The Demon King

Opening Milla's second mana channel

“Thank you for accompanying me for the day.”

“No problem princess, if you need me to accompany you again, feel free to come and visit me. Although I don’t know how long will we be able to stay in the inn for free.”

“I’m sure sir Elmer arranged it so you can stay for a week or so before you need to find a new place.”

“Ah, one week is definitely enough time for us to settle down and find a new place.”

“Are you perhaps going to find a place with Milla?”

“Yes, that’s probably going to happen since it will be cheaper if we can find a place for both of us. If not, we’ll just move out to a village nearby. I still don’t know whether I could find a job in a town like this. Unlike you princess, normal people like me need to earn money to sustain our daily life.”

“Then, as my benefactor, how about I offer something in return? Although you have received a reward from our royal father, it wasn’t something that could express my gratitude. How about I arrange a place for you to stay and a job for you in the meantime?”

“Is that really alright? I wonder if it was too much. It will also make it seem like I am helping you for some benefit. I don’t want people to badmouth me or you because of that.”

Once again, Lance’s answer is making Alicia happy and think better about him. It shows that although Lance comes from the countryside, he isn’t ignorant or ambitious. He is also considerate to think that her action will affect how other people think about her.

“It’s alright, you don’t have to worry about that. The place that I will prepare for you belonged to me so it won’t affect you much since I rarely used it. as for the job, I will have to find something. Maybe as a guard? Since I saw your battle and I think you are proficient enough to be a guard.”

“I will leave it to you princess since I know that you will prepare the best for me.”

“Un, leave it to me.”

After that, the day finished as Lance take her back to the castle and he himself goes back to the inn. Inside the inn, he meets with Milla once again.

“How’s your practice today?”

Lance knows that Milla doesn’t go out at all except for meals and personal time in the toilet. Other than that, she is working hard on her training.

“Look at this.”

Milla then stretched out her right hand and point her index finger upwards. Soon after, a little spark of flame appeared from the tip of her finger. It seemed that she managed to successfully open the mana channel on her hand.

“Oh, you finally managed to pen your second mana channel. Not bad, I thought it would take longer. Although your aptitude isn’t the best, it seemed that it wasn’t the worse either.”

To be honest, Milla was expecting some kind of consolation or praise from Lance. However, what kind of talented people the former demon king hasn’t seen? To really acquire praise for him is very hard, even harder than climbing the Darkwood mountain.

“So, what do you think about the mana technique that I give you earlier today?”

“I’ve looked into it but it is much more complicated and fuller of pointless explanation. I tried to run my mana in the explanation on the mana technique book but it barely circulates my mana.”

“As you know, that is the best mana technique you could get from the kingdom’s treasury. If it was at the level of trash, you know how valuable the mana technique that I have give you right? That is to say, for you to manage to open your second mana channel, don’t think that it was entirely contributed to your talent. The mana technique you used also takes an important part of it.”

After hearing Lance’s explanation, Milla is feeling dejected but of course, Lance won’t leave it like this. He has experience in controlling his subordinate, although it was mostly contributed to his power, he understands the concept of giving and take.

“Alright, don’t feel so down. Your progress is not bad. But remember don’t let it get over your head or you won’t be able to improve later. Since you managed to open your second mana channel, I will give you a reward.”

Hearing that, Milla’s head who is already downcast is raised again.

“What kind of reward?”

“If you learned how to control mana before, now I will teach you some spell to complement it. what you did earlier, making a torch, it wasn’t a spell at all, it was a mana manipulation at most. If you put it in a simple equation your mana can be counted as one and mana manipulation isn’t changing anything, it was only turning one into another one. A spell, on the other hand, is able to turn your mana and enhanced it by multiplying or adding it. So, your one amount of mana could be added into two or multiplied into four or five.”

Hearing what Lance said, Milla is a bit excited, since it means that she could become even stronger. If what she learned before is how to float inside the water, this would be teaching her the different strokes so she could move around freely.

Of course, if Milla’s training to become stronger is watched by Lance, Clyde who is specifically trained by Elmer is also starting to learn on how to control mana. Not to mention that Elmer is the head guard for the royalty of the Brunia kingdom.

Behind Elmer’s place, on the training ground that Clyde and Elmer spared yesterday, right now, Clyde’s body is sweating profusely as he is sitting cross-legged in the middle of the training ground.

“Clyde, remember to focus. You can use mana but you don’t understand the principle behind it. the moment you learn the principle, you will be able to utilize it better and your power will be increased by multiple folds.”

“Sir Elmer, I have tried to feel it, however, I feel overwhelmed due to the amount of the mana in the surroundings.”

If someone who is trying to learn mana heard Clyde’s complaint, they might want to curse him to death. Other people are having a hard time trying to feel the mana in the surroundings due to the lack of mana that they could feel. While Clyde on the other hand, he could feel too much mana to the point that he didn’t know where to start.

It is also lucky for Clyde to have Elmer guiding him. Otherwise, it will be harder for anyone else to explain it. As a knight that also uses mana on the battlefield, it could be said that Elmer’s style is suitable for Clyde to learn. If it was a pure spell caster like a magician, Clyde will have an easier time understanding mana but will be harder in the application later on. For now, Clyde will have a bit hurdle in feeling the mana but once he is adept at it, Elmer’s battle style will make Clyde’s ability jumped out of bounds.