Furthermore, although that monster was strong, it wasn't to the point of being unmanageable. It was a pity that the monster left no trace. Plus, at the time, she didn't expect she would encounter so many things later, with even the mastermind jumping out to attack her, so she hadn't taken the matter of this monster too seriously, only instructing her subordinates to keep an eye out.
If she had known so much would happen later, she would have found a way to hunt that monster long ago and use its feathers to weave a Resurrection Armor to wear.
What a pity.
In reality, there is no medicine for regret that can let one start over.
Glancing at the night sky,
Tsukasa walked toward her room.
Although with her mental strength, not sleeping today wouldn't be a problem, she hadn't learned a skill like Sleep Invalid that would allow her to go without sleep. Although she once had the chance to learn it, she had never considered skills that were themselves a kind of side effect.
Among that category of skills, the only one she had learned
was an Outer Path Magic called Five Senses Control.
However, except for when facing Wakaba-san's dark cuisine, she hadn't had a chance to use this skill later. After all, she possessed two Evil Eyes—one was the Petrification Evil Eye and the other was the Paralysis Evil Eye. To control an opponent, Evil Eyes were much more convenient than this magic.
However, in her Sword Saint State, she discovered that this magic she had previously ignored wasn't actually weak; it possessed extremely high potential. It was just that her past self hadn't developed the skill's potential, which was why she thought the skill was weak.
She muttered to herself somewhat gloomily.
"The effect of continuing to work behind closed doors is very limited, and researching further would be putting the cart before the horse. Although I really want a trump card for self-preservation, if I neglect the training of my own strength because of it, then even if I can research it, it won't have any meaning."
The time she had set for herself was one month.
Although this time seemed very short to outsiders—if the Empire's Head Magician knew, he would surely say disdainfully that no Magic Caster could research a new magic within a month, let alone Resurrection Magic.
First of all, Resurrection Magic was already a rare magic.
And you want to research it in a month?
Why don't you just ascend to the heavens already?
But Tsukasa had a very clear understanding of that state of hers. In this state, it wasn't just as simple as an open-book exam; it was as if her head had been replaced with that of a genius. If she couldn't research it in a month, it meant her foundation was insufficient; even if she were given more time, it would be impossible to research it.
Also,
this state didn't have many restrictions as she had previously worried.
Or rather, there were almost no restrictions at all.
As long as she wanted, she could enter the state at any time, and she could maintain this state for up to three hours.
But after three hours, her mind could no longer maintain focus and she would be forced out.
Then she would need to rest for at least an hour before she could enter this state again.
Although there were still some restrictions,
compared to the buffs of this state, these minor restrictions were nothing at all.
In this state, she could increase her skill proficiency through training, and the results obtained from training could be maintained even in her normal state.
Now, even in her normal state, she had already recovered ninety percent of her former strength.
As for the remaining ten percent,
it was because the buffs from her former Titles were all gone.
As for the swordsmanship buffs?
Indeed.
She could now use swordsmanship in her normal state as well.
But the gap between her normal self and her Sword Saint State was simply too large. If her normal self were judged on swordsmanship alone, she was really just at an ordinary level now.
So she decided to first improve her normal level and enrich her foundation; only in this way could she become stronger. After all, the Sword Saint State could help her break through her ceiling, but what she lacked was the foundation, so she had to go out and enrich her experience.
She planned to participate in the Kingdom's swordsmanship tournament.
Although the Empire's military power was far higher than the Kingdom's, the Empire didn't have a swordsmanship tournament open to the general public. There were such competitions within the military, but she had no intention of joining the Imperial Army.
So she planned to go crash the party in the neighboring Kingdom.
She hadn't forgotten that it was because of the Kingdom that her mission bounty was being held up.
One should know that all the human nations had already acknowledged it; it was only the Kingdom's side that was still dragging its feet and refusing to agree.
But it wasn't surprising they would do this. After all, the Empire and the Kingdom were enemies and went to war every year, and this year's war seemed to be approaching soon.
Although anyone with eyes could see that the Kingdom was doomed to lose, the reason the Empire didn't conquer the Kingdom in one go was simply that they didn't want to sacrifice too much. So every time they were about to win, they would withdraw their troops, using this 'boiling a frog in lukewarm water' method to consume the Kingdom's vital strength.
Once the moment came when the Kingdom had exhausted its strength,
the Empire would launch a general offensive.
By then, the Empire could swallow the Kingdom's territory without even consuming much military force.
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