Ch 78 -- My Blessings (Small) Turn Out To Be Really Useful After All

　　Right then, next up is the verification of the changes to my own magic powers. There are various things I want to try and they'll take a bit of time. In that case...

　　"Hey Fer, I want to try out my magic powers and it may take a while. While I'm doing this can you go find a Black Serpent and hunt it for me?"

　　"Oh, is that about you wanting a Black Serpent skin? You said something about it earlier."

　　"Yeah, that's it. Lambert-san talked me into agreeing to wholesale him a Black Serpent skin. Can you catch one for me?"

　　"Yeah, no problem. I'm not doing anything else anyway. I'll be right back." Fer hesitated. "Yes, I've put up a Barrier for you. I know how you worry about such things." Condescension doesn't suit you, Fer.

　　"Oh Fer-sama, thank you thank you thank you." Fer ignored my sarcastic riposte, das.h.i.+ng off quickly into the distance. He could really move when he wanted to. Right, to work.

　　"Lessee, let's try fire magic first." There was a danger of fires if I shot off Fireb.a.l.l.s randomly in the forest so I first tried changing the size of a Fireball held on my palm. I started with a regular Fireball.

　　"Wow!" The Fireball I made was double the size of the ones I could create before.

　　"Is this the power of the G.o.ddess' blessing?" OK, dial it back a bit... I tried to deliberately make a Fireball of the usual size, using a lot less magical power... Oh, I made it. That looks good. So if I cut back on the magical power I feed into the Fireball it gets smaller. More power, it gets bigger. I kept pumping magical power into it and eventually I ended up with a Fireball about a metre in diameter.

　　"It takes a lot of effort to keep it this size." I muttered.

　　"Wow, Aruji is amazing-" Sui commented.

　　"Sui, this is a Fireball and it's really hot so you shouldn't get too close to it."

　　"I understand-"

　　While Sui was telling me I was amazing I saw the Fireball growing and shrinking. I had to concentrate to maintain its size.

　　"Next up, another Fireball at the same time..." I created two smaller Fireb.a.l.l.s, one on each hand. That worked too. I spent about 15 minutes trying a.s.sorted combinations then I paused, puzzled by the way I felt.

　　"Huh? I'm not at all tired?" I would feel tired by now normally. I'd want to sit down after expending so much magical energy but it's no problem now.