By the Grace of the Gods: Volume 1

1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-7183-6898-9
Verlag: J-Novel Club
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 359 Seiten

Reihe: By the Grace of the Gods

Under the protection of the gods, a relaxed life with slimes in another world begins!
One day, the life of middle-aged Japanese businessman Ryoma Takebayashi came to a rather sudden and disappointing end. Ryoma had never had a blessed life, but after his death, three great gods sought his cooperation and reincarnated him as a child in another world with swords and magic!
Receiving a most cordial and divine welcome from the gods, Ryoma decides to live leisurely on his own in the forest for the time being. Working diligently at magic and hunting, Ryoma's greatest passion comes to be researching his tamed slimes?! Training a variety of slimes (some newly discovered), the curtain rises on this easygoing life fantasy celebrating a second life with kind people in another world!

Autoren/Hrsg.

Roy

Weitere Mitwirkende

Ririnra

Z., Mana

Leseproben

“Peep!”

“Chirp chirp!”

A light tearing sound echoed through the quiet forest.

Despite the tree being alive and healthy, the trunk cleanly snapped in half and fell to the ground, stirring the birds resting their wings in the nearby greenery.

Seeing that result summarized the rest of his movements up until then for Ryoma.

Having reached that conclusion, Ryoma returned to the base of the tree he had been sleeping against and checked for his current position on the map. He picked up the bag and put the letter away, at the same time finding a knife to keep by his side as he started walking towards the destination the gods had marked.

Two hours later.

Ryoma had spotted several small animals and creatures that didn’t exist on Earth, but they were all weak monsters that either fled of their own accord or ignored him completely.

While traveling took a little more time with his child legs, the journey itself wasn’t dangerous and even allowed him to gather herbs and edible plants using the knowledge the gods had bestowed upon him in advance.

Thus, Ryoma eventually walked into the depths of the dimly lit forest.

The trees parted before a cliff face of bare rock.

Ryoma looked around to confirm his safety before quickly putting down his belongings and sitting down to read the continuation of the letter from the gods.

“Hmm, so there’s a river nearby. Looks like the perfect place for a home base.”

Ryoma muttered to himself as he read more of the letter, showing no signs of heading towards civilization nor intent to actually leave the forest.

Like he had told the gods, he planned on starting from living as a recluse in the forest.

“Apparently there’s a tent among the supplies, but a cave would be safer when up against monsters...”

The safety of a tent wasn’t very reassuring.

With that thought, Ryoma approached the cliff face and poked the bare rock with his right hand before moving his eyes back to the letter in his left hand.

The page on top was an explanation of how to use magic.

“First, calm your heart and focus within your body... Like this? It feels like there’s a water balloon under my skin... Gross...”

Despite calling it gross, the tone of his voice was a mix of excitement and delight, and his expression also softened faintly.

However, no matter how much of an interest he had in games and light novels, even if he had thought of countless fantasies between the breaks of his busy work life, he still had never used magic before.

Because of that...

“Umm... Once you feel the magical energy within your body... Move while imagining that magical energy flowing out of your body, yup.”

He checked each and every step along the way.

He was almost the spitting image of an elderly person with an instruction manual in one hand while struggling to keep up with modern-day technology. But once he imagined the magical energy flowing out of his fingertips, it slowly but surely started to happen.

For the record, the twelve elements of magic were: Neutral, Fire, Water, Wind, Earth, Ice, Lightning, Wood, Poison, Light, Dark, and Space.

Each element was sorted into a difficulty level referred to as lower elements, middle elements, or higher elements.

Furthermore, the element of a magic type was changed based on what someone imagined as they released their magical energy, and could be activated by chanting the spell name of the magic.

Having read this sentence in the letter, Ryoma decided to select one of the earth magics recorded on the page and test it out.

“The magical energy flows into the rock of the cliff, breaking it into dirt... Break Rock.”

The cliff touching the end of his fingertip crumbled slightly, creating a small hole in the face.

The hole was roughly three fingers wide and as deep as his first knuckle.

It was more of a dent than a hole, but Ryoma just looked at it and laughed quietly.

While remaining alert of his surroundings, he continued to use Break Rock with a smiling face for some time.

But after he was satisfied with his first use of magic, Ryoma muttered to himself.

“This isn’t very efficient.”

With that thought, Ryoma decided to take a break and retrieve water from the nearby river. Once he returned, he started to read the next part of the letter.

Ryoma had turned the page in search of a solution to his problem and came across a table where all his current abilities and statistics were displayed.

On the page, these words were written.

Name: Ryoma Takebayashi

Gender: Male

Age: 8

Race: Human

Physical Energy: 10,486

Magical Energy: 102,300

Note: The average adult male has a physical energy of around 1000, while adventurers, soldiers, and others that have undergone training have an average of 2000-3000.

“Wow, am I a musclehead?”

A similar note was written for magical energy, where the average person had 100. Warriors that used supplementary magic had 500-700. Normal magicians had anywhere from 1000-5000, while royal sorcerers had an average of 10,000-50,000.

Everyday Skills

Housekeeping 10, Etiquette 7, Performance 3, Singing 3, Calculation 5

Combat Skills

Unarmed Combat 7, Sword Mastery 7, Dagger Mastery 6, Hidden Weapon Mastery 7, Spear Mastery 4, Bow Mastery 4, Staff Mastery 6, Chain Weapon Mastery 4, Throwing Weapon Mastery 7, Stealth 6, Trapping 4, Body Control 5, Energy Meditation 5

Magic Skills

Taming Magic 1, Barrier Magic 1, Healing Magic 1, Alchemy 1, Fire Magic 1, Water Magic 1, Wind Magic 1, Earth Magic 1, Neutral Magic 1, Lightning Magic 1, Ice Magic 1, Poison Magic 1, Wood Magic 1, Light Magic 1, Dark Magic 1, Space Magic 1, Magic Detection 1, Magic Control 1, Magic Recovery Speed 1

Crafting Skills

Medicine 6, Blacksmithing 1, Architecture 2, Woodworking 2, Modeling 3, Painting 4

Resistance Skills

Physical Pain Resistance 8, Mental Pain Resistance 9, Health 7

Special Skills

Life Enhancement 3, Super Recovery 3, Stamina Enhancement 6, Mental Concentration 5, Survival Arts 3

Titles

Rise from Below

Ended an Unfortunate Life

Apprentice of the God of Military Arts

Apprentice of the Sage

Beloved Child of the Gods

Protections

Protection of Gain, the Creator

Protection of Kufo, God of Life

Protection of Lulutia, Goddess of Love

For the next ten minutes, Ryoma glared at the explanations...