The Magus of Genesis

"So you're going hunting that far?

"Yep..."

Luca's father - Tauro - shook his tail without force as he surrounded the burning fire that exploded with his patsy. They go out of their way to hunt from here to a place that takes nearly a whole day one way.

Two days on the move, one day on the hunt. The children are happily clinging to their first three days of baked prey. The appetite is so pleasant to watch, but the meat of the beasts that Tauro and his wife have captured is reduced by the mistletoe. This... wouldn't last all day, would it?

"How did you get so far away?

Lucoscentaurs all hunt as they travel according to the season. A simple tent doesn't settle in one place. It's for them to carry.

Unlike humans, completely carnivorous, they cannot fill their bellies with nuts and vegetables, and they cover all their meals by hunting. That's why they travel to places with lots of prey and live every season. It was an honest feeling that if there was no more prey around here, I wish I'd just moved.

"As a matter of fact... I lost a territorial battle."

Tauro answers the triangular ear over his head with no force.

"We each have our own territory, and we determine our place by the battle of the head of the flock. But………………"

"You lost?

"Here, Yuki"

To Yuki's words without offense, Tauro drooped his tail even more depressed.

"So these days, Dad, I've been hunting in the woods outside the territory."

That's how Luca explains it on behalf of Tauro as she wipes her little sister's mouth. The only territory of the Lycos is basically the meadows. Their hunting is what chases the prey around and captures the tired. Because it's not suitable for hunting in the woods.

"I have this that my teacher made for me."

And what Tauro took out was a spear with a stone tip.

"I miss you. You still used it."

How many decades ago did I give it to you? It was made for Tauro, who couldn't hunt well. The people of Hiiro Village throw magic at it and use it, but if it's Tauro, it doesn't have to either. Run the lower half of the wolf like the wind. If you stick out a long spear, you can easily hunt even a quick one. It was probably easier for him to hunt in the woods than in the meadows.

"Let me help you, stay!

"Mm-hmm. Even so."

Indeed, there would be little room for living like that. Luca is too busy taking care of the kids to come to school.

"You just have to win the fight, right? I'll tell you what I fought for!

Yuki mumbled his usual spell, strengthening his own flesh and letting it jump a little. A little body girlfriend jumps up a few meters. Most of the Lucos can't use magical magic. Bring in the magic of Yuki, who specializes in interpersonal fights there, and you'll certainly win first...

"No, I think that would be difficult."

"Yep. I wonder."

Magic that strengthens the flesh is surprisingly difficult. It's hard to imagine making your body stronger than usual. It's hard to move a strengthened body this time, even if it can be used. Even if I meant to put as much effort into it, I got too much power, and mostly I can't help running. Not to mention that it took a lot of taste and training to say that we would fight with enhanced magic. I can also say that I can barely use it on a practical level.

The Sword Ministry clan has been specialized in this magic for generations, and I use it fine until my opponent's weakening on top of the triple reinforcement, but honestly, that was like a curved craft. Neena, on the other hand, can't do that.

"Besides, I don't think it suits Tauro's personality."

I've known about him since he was a younger wolf than Luca is today. For him, who has been kind and gentle in heart for a long time, a territorial feud would not be suitable. And that was the same thing for me.

Sure, they're the closest of the lucos, but they're not the ones who don't even know the faces of the other herds. If the Tauro herd spreads its territory, it's just a story of other herds eating that split. That's not a very constructive story.

"So... So, you're not going to do anything about it?

"No."

I slowly shook my head to the side and replied to Yuki, who frowned sadly.

"Don't take away from each other at times like this. Spread the pie."

Then, a few days later.

"Okay, we're done!

I wiped the sweat on my forehead and looked at it finished. Wouldn't it be reasonably possible for an amateur to make it? Though self-admiring.

"What, this?

Yuki twisted his neck and stared at it, which Tauro and Luca could do just as strangely. I cut out a tree and made it, it's shaped like a big box. I guess the odd parts on that side just seem like unintelligible decorations to them.

"This is a luggage truck."

I pounded it and said so.

There are two types of great inventions.

One was traced by the development of technology and civilization.

And the other is the idea of innovating the world itself, found by a handful of geniuses. The wheel would be the best of them all.

I'm not a genius, of course, but I know what genius came up with. As long as I knew, it wasn't that hard to build a wheel.

"Put your prey in this and pull it, we can carry a lot of prey."

I pull the rope on the luggage truck and let it move. A luggage car of considerable size and weight could easily be moved, however, even as a human figure.

"With more to take home, that's less often you go hunting, right?

"But... wouldn't that be so much less?"

Looking at the luggage car, Luca frowns like she's in trouble. Tauro has a wide back. It is also possible to carry two or three deer. I go hunting with a couple, so the amount I can bring home is nearly double that. In contrast, the quantity that can be put on this luggage truck will be at most four heads.

Tauro won't be able to pull the luggage car while carrying his prey either, so in the end the total quantity will increase by about one head at best. Range of error. Luca's point is correct.

"- If it's Tauro who pulls this luggage."

Luca looked up at me with a smile.

"Yuki, how are you doing?

"Kanpei!

Turning a glance, the red-haired girl tenses her chest and turns back to the young children of Lucos.

"Come on, do it."

"We're tough!

Luca's brother, his sisters, spin that spell together and grab a luggage rope for both of us. And when I pulled, a lot bigger than their bodies moved out.

It's like a backgammon, so to speak, of the use of enhanced magic.

There are two ways to capture a stronger image. One is to feel close and imitate the presence close to who you have become stronger. That's tauro for them. It is difficult to hold the image of just being strong without any landmarks, but it is easy to understand that you will be as strong as Tauro.

The other is the only move Yuki can make. It's a rough business to apply enhanced magic to others. This is really authentic, only Yuki can do it. It was just a magic to my brother Amata, and to Yuki, who had never been able to do it in the sword department.

If you actually do reinforcement magic, you quickly know what it means to be reinforced. In these two ways, about half of Luca's sisters were able to master enhanced magic.

If the problem is that even if you can master it, it is difficult to act while using enhanced magic, the luggage car itself solved it. It's not at all elaborate on the idea of lightening up. That's very heavy. Even if it is possible to move itself thanks to the wheel, it can only move very slowly. Not to mention that there are no paved paths in the meadows.

But it weighs well. Reinforced magic doesn't work well because otherwise the body will be the same and only the engine will replace it with a large one. Then you should also make the load bigger as the horsepower comes out. If I could put more power into my luggage, my body would run wild and pop out.

"I can even carry my prey to the little ones with this. Which means we can go hunting together."

There was another problem with the current situation. Lucos and his children follow their parents and learn how to hunt. But Tauro couldn't even afford it. Accompanying the children who will be stuck in their feet on a harsh hunt won't get enough prey to feed them all.

That's why Luca stayed and taught her siblings how to hunt.

"Doctor, bye -!"

"Of course I have to try it a few times to see if it actually works………"

Try to peek into the girl's face, I ask.

"Will you come to our school?

"Yes! Happy!

With a glowing smile, Luca nodded as she waved her tail.