Mushoku Tensei Spanish:Chapter 03

Esta traducción ha sido realizada a partir de la versión inglesa encontrada en esta misma página (enlace) realizada por SilentWolfie.

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1. Traducido por Sergiocamjur (talk) 13:47, 10 January 2015 (CST)

Capítulo 03 - El libro de Magia

1ª Parte

Han pasado 2 años desde que me reencarné.

Mi cintura y mis piernas comenzaban a estar desarrolladas suficientemente como para poder andar.

Y comenzaba a entender las conversaciones de mis padres.

2ª Parte

Tras decidir que viviría mi vida al máximo, estuve sopesando las cosas que podía hacer.

¿Qué necesitaba en la vida?

Conocimentos, entrenamiento físico, y competencia en al menos un rango de habilidades.

Al ser un bebé, no puedo dedicarle tiempo a la mayoría de mis opciones. Al menos puedo hundir mi cabeza entre los pechos de quienes me rodean.

Cada vez que se lo hacía a la sirvienta ponía mala cara.

No cabe duda que la sirvienta odia los niños.

El entrenamiento físico es algo que podría hacer en un futuro, así que por ahora buscaré libros en casa para aprender a leer y así poder obtener conocimiento.

Es importante saber leer.

Casi todas las personas en Japón saben leer, pero muchas de ellas eran muy malas con el inglés, por lo que se resistían a la idea de cruzar el pacífico o incluso considerar la opción de aprender idiomas. Por todo esto, aprender el lenguaje de este mundo fue mi primera tarea.

En la casa encontré 5 libros.

¿Es posible que los libros en este mundo tiene un coste enorme? ¿O será que Paul y Zenith no leen mucho? Es posible que ambas razones sean correctas; sin embargo, para una persona con miles de libros como yo, esto era difícil de asimilar.

Todo sea dicho, todos mis libros son novelas ligeras.

Tan sólo encontré 5 libros, pero eran suficientes para ir aprendiendo el lenguaje escrito.

La gramática de este mundo era similar a la japonesa, por lo que me fue fácil ir pillando detalles.

Aunque el alfabeto era completamente distinto, aprender el lenguaje oral marchó como la seda.

Siempre que memorizara suficiente vocabulario no tendría problema, y todo gracias a prestarle atención a las conversaciones.

Padre me leyó un libro en más de una ocasión, por lo que aprendí la pronunciación de las palabras sin dificultad.

Aunque quizás, esa facilidad provenía de la habilidad de memorizar que poseía este cuerpo.

Cuando fui capaz de leer el idioma, me di cuenta de que los libros que tenía en casa eran muy interesantes.

En mi vida anterior nunca pensé que aprender fuera de interés, pero si me paraba a pensarlo... era lo mismo que recordar información encontrada en internet, ¿cómo no iba a ser interesante?

Ahora que lo pienso, ¿acaso mi padre pensaba que un niño tan joven sería capaz de comprender el contenido de esos libros?

Soy un caso especial, pero un niño normal de 1 año hubiera puesto mala cara antes de empezar a berrear.

Estos eran los 5 libros que había en mi casa.

<<Recorriendo el Mundo>>

Este era una enciclopedia especializada en contener información de los distintos paises de este mundo.

<<Monstruos de Fedoa*Debilidades>>

Un libro que describía los monstruos que aparecían por Fedoa y las estrategias para encargarte de ellos.

<<Guía de Estudio Sobre Magia>>

Una guía de aprendizaje que explicaba como utilizar magia ofensiva de nivel básico hasta el nivel avanzado.

<<La Leyenda de Perugius>>

Un cuento de hadas sobre un invocador llamado Perugius que viajó junto a sus compañeros peleando contra los dioses demoniacos, salvando el mundo, castigando el mal y recompensando el bien.

<<Los 3 Espadachines y el Laberinto>>

The adventures of three talented swordsmen belonging to different sword style classes who met each other and entered the labyrinth.

Putting aside the two books about fighting, the other three let me learn a lot.

Especially the guidebook about magic.

To me, who came from the world without magic, the things that were recorded here made me develop a very deep interest in it.

After reading through them, I understood a few basic things.

1. First of all, magic can be roughly sorted into three categories.

• [[Attack Magic]] --- Attacking a target
• [[Healing Magic]] --- Healing a target
• [[Summoning Magic]] --- Call out something

Three types. Easy to understand.

According to the guidebook, even though it has various functions magic was originally developed for war. It still wasn't really used outside of battle and hunting.

2. To use magic, you must have mana.

Conversely, as long as you have mana, you could use magic.

There were two ways of using mana.

• [[Use your own mana within your body]]
• [[Draw out mana from something that contains mana]]

It must be one of these two.

I can't think of a good example. It's probably something like a generator for the former, and a battery for the latter.

A long time ago people only used their own mana to use magic, but as generations passed, magic was analyzed and became more advanced, and the amount of mana people used increased explosively.

This was fine for the people who had a lot of mana, but those who had less mana couldn't use that sort of magic.

So the magicians of the past thought of ways to draw out mana from elsewhere to fulfill the magic's requirements.

3. There were two ways to activate magic.

• [[Chanting]]
• [[Magic formation]]

There's really no need to explain right? Use your mouth or draw a magic formation to activate magic.

Magic formations were the norm a very long time ago, but at this time chanting was more common.

In the past, the simplest chant required one to two minutes.

Even though this wasn't very long, this method was very difficult to use in battles.

In contrast, once a magic formation was drawn it could be used repeatedly.

There was a certain magician who successfully reduced the chant time. Then chanting became the norm.

The simplest chants took about five seconds, so basic magic attacks could be used with chanting.

But unless the situation was urgent, complicated magic techniques were still cast with magic formations.

4. A person's mana is basically set when they are born.

A normal RPG increased your MP as you level up, but it seemed this world would not.

Basically, everyone's profession is Warrior. Just saying that term makes me feel like there was something of a change......

What about me, hmm.

Apparently the amount of mana one possessed was hereditary.

The fact that my mother was capable of magic meant I could probably hope for certain amount of innate mana.

It was a little worrying. Even if my parents were talented, my genetic makeup felt like it wouldn't be of use.

Part 3

In any case, I started to try out the simplest magic.

The guidebook contained methods for both chanting and magic formation, but since chanting was the norm and there wasn't any place for me to draw magic formations, I started with chanting.

It seemed that the more complicated a spell was, the longer the chant time would be. In fact, very complicated techniques had to be chanted in conjunction with magic formations, but for beginning magic that wasn't a problem.

It seemed a skilled magician would be able to use magic without chanting.

Voiceless incantation or reducing the chant. Something like that.

But why was it that you didn't need chanting when you were skilled?

The amount of mana required to cast the technique didn't change, and even if you leveled up, your MP wouldn't increase either.....

Or was it the more skilled you were, the less mana you'd use?

But even if that did decrease your mana usage, there was no reason to skip a step.

.............Whatever, I'll just try it out first.

I held the guidebook in my left hand, stretched out my right, and read out the words from the book.

[Bestow the protection of water on the place thee demandest, let thine crystal clear flow here, WATER BALL]

I felt something like blood was gathering in my right hand.

As if the blood was squeezed out, a water bullet the size of a fist appeared in front of my hand.

[Whoa!!]

The moment I was touched by it, the water bullet fell onto the ground and dampened the floor.

The book said the bullet should be shot, but it had fallen instead.

Perhaps my concentration had been broken, causing the spell to fail.

Concentrate, concentrate......

The feeling of blood gathering in my right hand. This, this, this kind of feeling ....... Mmmm.

I once again raised my right hand and recalled that feeling from before, imagining it in my mind.

Even though I didn't know how much mana I had, it was best not to treat it like I could use it multiple times.

Concentrate and let every attempt be successful.

First I had to imagine it, then repeat it over and over in my mind, then use it in reality.

If it was a failure, then I would imagine it again in my mind.

Until I could do it perfectly in my head.

In the past, this was how I practiced every move in fighting games.

Because of that, I didn't really fail when I tried to execute a combo.

I should have no problems if I practiced using this method...... So I hoped.

[Brea....the.....]

A deep breath.

Sending blood flowing from my feet and head into my right hand, using that feeling to gather strength.

And fire it out from my hand.

Carefully, carefully. With every heartbeat, gathering it bit by bit.....

Water, Water, Water, Water Bullet, Water's Ball, Water Ball, Water Ball Panties.....

Evil thoughts were mixed in to it. Let me try it again.

Concentrate, squeezing out waterrrrrrr.........

[HAH!]

I unconsciously shouted like a monk, and the water bullet came out.

[Eh, huh.....?]

Plop.

Plob

I was so surprised I lost my concentration, and the water bullet fell to the ground.

[............ Ah.]

But just now, I didn't chant it, right?

Why did......?

What I had done was recall the feeling of using that spell and imitating it in my mind.

But could it be that just redoing the flow of the magic made chanting unnecessary?

Was voiceless incantation that simple?

Wasn't it supposed to be an upper class technique?

[If it's that easy to succeed, what's the use of chanting?]

Even a novice like me could use voiceless incantation to activate magic.

Concentrating the mana in my fingers and creating the shape in my mind.

It was just that.

In that case, chanting was completely unnecessary. Everyone should just use voiceless incantation.

(............ Hm.)

Could it be that chanting was the automatic use of magic?

Rather than needing to gather that feeling like blood-flow, you could just say the chant and the spell would compile on its own.

It might be something like that.

It was just like an automatic car. You could actually change it to manual and it would still work.

[Chanting will automatically compile into magic.]

There would be several advantages to using chanting.

1) It was easy.

Gathering that blood-flow-like feeling...... instead of trying to teach something nebulous like that, why not let everyone use chanting and be able to succeed? Then both teacher and student will have an easier time.

And after doing it like that every time, it became [[Chanting is something that is necessary]].

2) It was convenient to use.

Needless to say, attack magic was meant to be used in combat.

Rather than closing your eyes and going "mmmmmmm" while concentrating, quickly chanting a spell was still faster.

Running with all your strength while drawing a clear picture, or running with all your strength while saying the chant words - it was a question of which is easier.

[It must be different for various people. Perhaps there are those who would find it easier with the former.....]

I quickly flipped through the magic textbook, but I found nothing on voiceless incantations.

Weird. Based on my experience, it wasn't that hard.

Perhaps was a talent of mine, but wasn't as if other people couldn't use it at all.

Maybe it was like this.

A magician typically started out as a beginner and ended up as a veteran, and everyone used the chanting method to cast.

After thousands, ten of thousands of times, their body would be used to chanting.

Then when it came to voiceless incantations, they didn't know what to do.

Therefore, as it wasn't disseminated, it wasn't recorded in the guidebook.

[Whoaa, that explains it!]

Then I'm an uncommon person, rawr.

That's something amazing right?

It's like I'm using a tip sheet.

[They used a crime catalyst without singing an oratorio!?] [But all I did was use this catalyst like normal and open the gate.]

That kind of feeling?

Woohoo, I'm getting excited!

.................

Ah, no no. Calm down, cool down.

The past me was deceived by this feeling.

Just because I'm better at using the computer than the average person and got that feeling that I was some kind of chosen one, I became greedy and eventually ended up a failure.

I had to be humble. The most important thing was to not treat myself like someone who was better than others.

I'm a novice. A novice.

A novice who had beginner's luck and managed to hit the bowling pins with a strike.

Merely beginner's luck. Don't think that I'm a person with talent. I should be concentrating on studying hard.

Good. I needed to first rely on the chant to use a spell, then based on the feeling I experienced when casting I could practice the voiceless incantation repeatedly.

I would just use that format to learn.

[Then let's do it again.]

But when I stretched out my right hand, I felt a little tired.

As if there was something heavy on my shoulders.

The feeling of fatigue.

Is it because I'm concentrating too hard?

No, I was at least considered half-pro at using the internet (self-proclaimed). If I had needed to, I could continue hunting for six full days without sleeping.

My concentration wouldn't vanish from just two attempts.

[That is to say, could my MP be spent....?]

That's just too little right? Or is it because I'm a beginner, and my efficiency when using mana properly is really low?

No, how can that be?

To be safe, I tried firing off the spell one more time, but in the end I fainted.

[Oh really, Rudeus, If you're sleepy just go to the toilet and then sleep on the bed.]

When I woke up, I was treated as if I'd wetted the floor after falling asleep while reading the book.

Damn. I'm already so old I got scolded for wetting the floor.....

Damn it...... Damn it..... Eh, I'm only two, right? Wetting the bed is still forgivable.

But seriously, my mana was too low.

Hah...... This made me feel really powerless...... Well, since it was only 2 water bullets, in the end that had to be the method I used to learn.

In any case, I should practice to the point where I can fire it straight away......

Hah......

Part 4

The second day, I was fine even after firing four water bullets.

I only felt tired after the fifth shot.

[Strange.....?]

Based on my experience yesterday, I knew I would faint if I fired again and I decided to stop there.

So I began to think.

My current maximum was six shots. That was twice that of yesterday.

I looked at the barrel's-worth of five water bullets and thought.

After the second day, would did the number of times I could fire triple?

Was it because I was already tired yesterday, or was it because yesterday I had used more MP?

Today I had also cast using voiceless incantation, but there shouldn't be any difference between the two methods.

I didn't get it.

Maybe after the next day the number would continue to increase.

Part 5

Another day had passed. The number of times I could create water bullets had increased.

Eleven times.

It was as if I could increase the number of shots I could fire with each cast.

If my theory was true, then by tomorrow I should be be able to use the spell 21 times.

Another day passed.

To confirm my guess, I used the spell five times, then stopped.

Another day passed, and my limit became 26 times.

My limit really was the same as the number of times I had cast the spell.

(You actually bluffed me.............................!)

What do you mean a persons aggregate amount of magic power is decided at the time they're born?

Deciding something that you can't even see with your own eyes.

A child's potential isn't what an adult can see through!!

[Well, it also means to not blindly trust something from a book.]

The book was probably saying something like, [Human's happiness has a cap.] That kind of thing.

Or was it referring to the results of training?

Did it mean that after rigorous training, your mana cap had a limit.

No, it's still too early to draw a conclusion. This is still just a hypothesis.

Something like..... Yeah, like, it's based on how much you can grow, or something.

When you use magic to the fullest during childhood, you can reach your maximum growth, or something like that.

Ah, but perhaps it's due to my special body. That possibility can't be ignored either.

..... No, it's not good to treat myself as special.

In my past world, people's physical limits grew quite a bit during puberty as well.

But the problem was that after puberty, no matter how hard you try, you won't progress.

Even in this world, for something like magic, a human being's structure was should be no different.

It was the same.

Then, there's only one thing to do.

Before puberty ends, train as hard as possible.

Part 6

From that moment onward I used my mana to the fullest every day.

At the same time, I increased the magic I could use.

As long as I could remember the feeling, it was easy to use voiceless incantation-based magic.

My short-term target was to completely master elementary magic.

Elementary magic was just what it sounded like. It had the lowest grade in all attack magic.

Water and flame bullets had this elementary grade.

There are seven ranks to magic.

[[Elementary, Intermediate, Advanced, Saint, King, Emperor, God]]

I read that a magician who receives an education can bring his specialized magic up to the advanced rank, while the uneducated will be able to cast elementary to intermediate ranked spells.

Based on this system, if one could use the grade above advanced they would be named Fire-Saint or Water-Saint and considered to be 1 in 10,000.

The saint rank.

I looked forward to that, just a little.

But the magic guidebook only had fire, water, wind, and earth systems up to the advanced rank.

Where could I learn magic saint ranked and above......?

No, it's better not to think too far ahead.

RPG Maker was the same. If you started by creating the strongest monster, you had a very high chance of being set back.

One should start from the slime.

Though in the end I didn't even finish the slime.

Part 7

The book contained the following elementary water spells:

Water bullet: A small ball of water that can be shot at an enemy. Water Ball.

Water shield: Water that rises from the ground to form a wall. Water shield.

Water arrow: An dart that can fly over twenty meters. Water Arrow.

Ice strike: Creates a column of ice to smite an enemy. Ice Smash.

Ice weapon: Forms a sword of ice by freezing the water vapor around the caster. Ice blade.

I tried out everything.

Even though each spell was of the elementary rank, the amount of mana it took to cast them varied.

I used the water bullet as my standard. Depending on the spell, a single cast would expend between two and twenty water-bullets-worth of mana.

Basically, I only practiced water.

It would have been a problem if I'd tried the fire system and caused a fire disaster.

Speaking of fire disasters, the amount of mana I had to spend on a spell had something to do with the temperature. Magic in the more advanced ranks of ice was colder.

While the book said certain spells should fly out of my hand, whether it water bullet or water arrow I could never get them to work properly.

Why was that? Where had I gone wrong.....

Hmmmph. I don't get it.

The book had said something about a spell's size and speed.

Could it be that after creating the bullet, you still need to use magic to control it?

Let's try it out, hmm.

[Oh?]

The water bullet became bigger.

[Ohhhh!!]

Plop.

[Oh.....]

But it still fell onto the floor.

After that I tried various means to change the bullet's size.

Created two different bullets at the same time.

Changed the size of the bullets at the same time.

Even if this was a new discovery, none of the bullets gave the slightest sign of forward motion.

Fire and wind weren't affected by gravity and could float in the air, but after some time they would still disappear. <--lol, air's not affected by gravity? oookay-->

I used wind to try and blow a fire ball out, but it felt wrong somewhere.

Hmmm......

Part 8

After 2 months.

After trying out various wrong attempts, I finally succeeded in making the water bullet fly.

By now, I basically understood the concepts behind chanting.

Chanting had certain steps.

Creation > Setting of size > Setting of firing speed > Activation.

During this, the magic spell is done after the user had set the size and speed.

Which means after the chant, the spell:

1) Automatically created the shape of the magic.

2) After this, within an additional time frame to set the strength of the mana input, was the adjustment of the size.

3) After adjusting what the size is, again with an additional time frame with extra mana input, was the adjustment of the speed setting.

4) After the period to prepare was over, the magic spell would leave the caster's hand and automatically shoot out towards its target.

This was the sequence of the entire thing.

At least, I was fairly sure it was correct.......

After chanting, there were two additional mana inputs - these were the key elements.

If there was no adjustment of the spell's size, the adjustment of the firing it's speed would not occur.

No wonder when I had tried to fire the bullet, it was only changing in size and nothing else was happening.

Just to add on - this entire process was done by me using voiceless incantation.

Even though it was a pain, it could reduce the time needed to change the size and firing speed of the spell.

It was several times faster than using an incantation.

Also, voiceless incantation could change the "creation" portion of the magic.

For example, what the book did not record was how to freeze the water bullet to create an ice bullet.

Learning this might even have let me use the Phoenix Kaiser attack (My face's expression was full of pride).

With different foundations, I could create a variety of effects.

This was becoming interesting!!

............ But, the basics were definitely important.

I would have to wait until my overall mana increased before experimenting.

• [[Increasing the mana capacity]]
• [[Using voiceless incantation until it's as easy as breathing in]]

Those were my two assignments.

Suddenly setting a large goal could make it easy to meet setbacks.

It was best to start off from something small.

Alright, it's time to work hard.

And so, I kept practicing elementary magic until I nearly fainted.

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