Danmachi: The Magic Grandmaster Chapter 49: Kaiten

In Orario, roughly half of all registered adventurers were level 1, and most of them ford parties to safely farm floors 1 through 6.

Each floor brought exponentially greater danger. Many adventurers didn't have a thirst for risk or glory. They treated their adventure rely as a secure high paying job.

As a result, they comfortably coasted by bullying weak monsters on the floors closest to the surface.

This was exactly why, even though the world had entered the age of gods and the total number of adventurers had skyrocketed, the actual quality of heroes had not improved.

Sion certainly would not stoop so low as to compete with these weak unmotivated adventurers for their ager scraps.

Rushing rapidly down into the depths of the dungeon, Sion arrived at the 10th floor.

"Let's stop here."

Sion halted his forward montum and slowly drifted down from the ceiling.

The Orcs that spawned on the 10th floor were excellent test subjects. While the Infant dragons on the 12th floor were technically better for testing, their spawn rates were far too low.

As for the Orcs, Sion could kill them in bulk for quite a while.

"I've used up one third of my Mind capacity. That's quite a lot just for travel," Sion murmured.

He entered a state of active focus to rapidly restore his Mind.

Besides standard concentration, Sion had also developed a Mind spell, an advanced application of his physical regulation theories.

Mind was fundantally tied to the physical body. It was an energy produced by an active brain and a healthy physiology.

Therefore, physical stamina and ntal energy could theoretically be converted into each other.

The Mind spell was a brute force thod to restore Mind by overdrawing physical stamina.

Ard with this ergency failsafe, Sion was much bolder than he had been during his first trip into the dungeon.

Standard concentration could restore his depleted Mind in ten minutes, while Mind spell could do it in thirty seconds at the cost of physical exhaustion.

He focused his gaze on the Orcs slowly appearing from the dungeon walls. With a single thought, his weapons floated into the air compressed of wind elental magic.

Then the monster had its neck severed...

With Sion's current Mind output, his elental attacks were more than enough to effortlessly kill Orcs.

He estimated he would only face slight resistance against an infant dragon's scales.

"Not enough."

Sion pulled a monster attracting item from his pouch and smashed it on the stone floor.

Before long, more than thirty Orcs sward the cavern, completely surrounding him.

"Let's conduct the elental magic experints first."

Lightning sparked around Sion's hand, the energy rapidly compressing until it sounded like a thousand birds screaming in unison.

"Chidori."

Sion dashed forward and effortlessly put his hand straight through the monsters heart.

"Chidori spear!"

He killed three more monsters in the blink of an eye.

At that mont, two monsters leaped up from below, raising their massive clubs to smash him out of the air.

"Kaiten."

Sion simply willed his magic to generate a hyper dense, spherical rotation of kinetic force around his body.

The rapidly grinding barrier deflected the Orcs crushing blows, though the sheer kinetic impact caused Sion's hovering body to sink slightly in the air.

It seems that with my current base output, a pure kinetic barrier is already at its structural limit against an Orc's strength, Sion analyzed calmly.

"Wind shield: kaiten."

Faced with the follow up attack of another Orc, Sion activated the barrier once again, but this ti, he infused it with elental changes.

Compared to the previous defense, this enhanced barrier deflected the weapon cleanly.

Not only that, but as the blow was deflected, the violently rotating outer layer of the barrier transford into sharp wind blades, instantly decapitating the two monsters closest to him.

If a basic magic bullet was low tier magic, then a spell that could maintain a complex form and move dynamically was interdiate magic.

By fully integrating a highly compressed elental attribute into that dynamic form, it crossed the threshold into high tier magic.

The base kaiten, which only involved a change in structural form, was an interdiate spell.

While the wind shield: kaiten was an high tier spell.

It was perfectly adequate for conventional dungeon combat, but it was still lightyears away from being enough to block a strike from a cataclysmic entity like that dragon.

"Shockwave barrier provides reactionary protection, while the Kaiten is a more sustained defense."

"It offers a slightly longer protection window and lower total Mind consumption, and integrating elentalization vastly enhances its defensive ceiling. It's far more well-rounded than a simple blunt shockwave."

Sion pondered the areas that needed improvent and ultimately realized that this specific rotational formula had reached its conceptual limit.

He needed sothing structurally denser.

Fortunately, Sion had also been developing a long lasting shield spell.

"Breastplate of the Earth."

A translucent, golden shield ca to life around him. Sion deliberately lowered himself to the floor and stood perfectly still, staring blankly as the remaining Orcs surrounded him and relentlessly swung their massive weapon.

The Breastplate spell compressed raw earth elent into hyper dense crystalline particles, resulting in a qualitative change in their state.

He used his spells once more. Soo, The remaining horde of Orcs were killed.

"Such a sense of security," Sion sighed, admiring the lingering light of his shield.

Although it was essentially just a standard, high density application of earth elents, the sheer durability it offered placed it firmly in the high tier.

The conceptual prototype for this absolute defense ca from Noelle, a combat maid from Genshin Impact.

"To summarize~"

With the experint completed, Sion began to ntally catalogue the defensive capabilities he had just tested.

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