Talk:Day 311-320/@comment-26857085-20150813123829/@comment-26857085-20150813134232

Day 315 Sato's day, I don't quite understand this phrase... rotting sword ball? Drunken ball? Hmm. Okay well, seems like Sato is making "people" out of blood using her ability and her sword. "Blood sword demon army." Something like that, Rou compares it to his blood familiars, but a higher ranked version. Oh, Therese is out VP this time. Apparently some of the blood soldiers release poison when you slash them. Therese had her group enter a formation to protect the magic users who try to blast away the blood soldiers, but they are severly disadvantaged. "Chance of victory is, if I'm being kind, basically 0." But she still considers herself a leader so she barks out orders and keeps her group together. Hmm... she preps her own attack and... Rou gave her a new magic sword, "Water Star," after he returned from the previous chapter/set of days. Heh, because he felt bad that maybe he had forgotten that she existed, or that she resented not going on adventures with him. She likes the sword, but isn't happy that he thinks he can make up for it with gifts. But this is still a better life than she expected after losing in a duel to a monster. She uses the power she gained when she got her new class... the "gold light user."(I'm not confident in this term at all.) Anyway, her golden light is an area de-buff that saps strength and agility from her enemies. This gives her group a chance to push back against the blood army but... well, they are just magic constructs so they reform after a short period. Still, it gives them a chance to catch their breath.

Oh wait, is the game dodgeball? That'd make sense. Uhh let's see... Therese decides to keep up her aura for as long as she can. The group has some idle, somewhat cute chatter as they struggle against Sato's blood army. Apparently the punishment for a group not lasting until the time limit is that instead of a normal period of rest, they only get a single minute before Sato comes and fights them. And Sato is terrifying. A few people nearly die as Sato sweeps through them like a typhoon. One hundred people are given serious injuries and require immediate healing from Sato's assault. Therese's group is doing well so far though... until some of the blood soldiers unify into a single creature as big as a Troll. Her mages focus fire on the monster. Therese settles in for a "long, painful battle." That's the end of Therese's VP.

Apparently Sato REALLY wants to fight more, but she can only do so as punishment for when a group fails the game. She's also only supposed to fight for a minute, but she's the one in charge of counting that minute so you know... it's more of a guideline. Rou gets worried that the medical unit is over stretched, and decides to help out a bit with his blood and his own healing magic.

Day 316 Sei's day. Sei is standing on a tower in the middle of a bowl-like landscape and every so often, just nuking everything around her. Her spells aren't able to outpace her MP regen so she can do this basically forever. VP is one of Sei's Spell Lord subordinates. The air is basically full of various attack spells that Sei is lazily unleashing, and all of the Spell Lord's hope is gone. Still impressed by Sei though. The sheer number of spells she's shooting out, from different schools at different levels of mastery is amazing. It's like, "writing with one hand, cooking with another, counting money with a foot, drawing pictures with the other, using your mouth to turn pages and balancing an infant on your head at the same time." The concept is possible, but actually doing it without making any mistake is something you have to admire. The Spell Lord has a buddy named MinoTakeshi-kun and the two of them are trying to survive this game, with the Spell Lord defending against the magic, and the Minotaur carrying him and concentrating on dodging. But the Spell Lord is getting motion sickness now.

Neither wants to die here, since they are still young. So that may be a hint that Rou will live past 30... or maybe they were born as high ranking monsters, and 30 years is a long time for them. Hm. Anyway, the Spell Lord keeps trying to counter Sei's magic, and only makes a little bit of breathing room. He and his friend are determined to make it through this, then he gets distracted by the fact that Sei is using this as an opportunity to experiment with newly learned magic, and is knocked out. VP ends.

Rou appreciates all the time Sei spent hunting down magic books now, and thinks of the exercise as a good chance for people to learn how to deal with various attack spells. Also, the hot springs are being used extensively to recoup bodily and mental damage. With most of the festival over already, he's worried he might be exhausting everyone before the holy war, but he figures he has time for everyone to recoup. That night, everyone gets to eat Dragon Empress meat, and other labyrinth goods. Rou talks a lot about how tasty it is.