Fairy Tail: I Don’t Want to Be the President

Chapter 39 Salaries are paid

After entering August, the weather seems to be a bit hotter.

The greening in Magnolia is good, trees can be seen everywhere, which also leads to the endless chirping of cicadas.

You may feel good listening to it when you are calm, and feel that this is what summer should be like.

But when I'm not in such a good mood, it just feels annoying.

The ceiling fan in the guild was spinning slowly, bringing a breeze that was better than nothing in the noisy tavern.

In this hot weather, Rhodes felt that even everyone's noisy voices were filled with heat.

In fact, there were many people in the tavern who were as hot and lazy as Rhodes. In severe cases, they were unable to speak, and only a few sips of cold beer could alleviate the problem.

At this time, Gray became one of the most popular people.

Even though he was sweating profusely due to the heat, he still couldn't resist everyone's entreaties and became a ruthless ice-making machine.

But this is also good for him, even if the people who receive his favor are embarrassed to remind him to put on clothes.

Of course, these people don't include Natsu.

This guy is completely unaffected and even in this heat he still has the energy to run around and occasionally even do some weird dances.

Mira brought an empty glass, put a few ice cubes on it, poured a drink and pushed it to Rhodes: "You don't seem to be in good spirits."

"Thank you." Rhodes said with a grimace, "I didn't sleep well last night. It was too hot, and the mosquitoes were very noisy."

The mosquito repellent left over from Goodman's move just ran out, and Rod reminded himself to buy a new bottle after get off work.

Mira showed sympathetic eyes: "That's hard enough... Why haven't you seen Worm in the past two days?"

"I don't want to come out because the weather is too hot. I'm an unloyal guy, so he hides in the Howling Abyss to escape the heat."

Rhodes picked up the cup and put it on his forehead. The cold touch made him feel better.

"I suspect that things may have been unfavorable recently, and even the increase in magic power is not as obvious as before."

"That's of course, because your magic level is already very good. The same increase is certainly not as obvious as it was at first."

"Can I be considered good like this?"

"At least Jet and Marcus are completely inferior to you..." Mira covered her mouth slightly, feeling that saying this seemed a bit rude to Jet and the others.

When Rhodes first obtained the stone beetle, it was already a headache for Jet, not to mention that his magic power has increased a lot now, and he also has the 'Three Wolves'.

Three Wolves is the common name of this wild monster combination, including two shadow wolves and a large shadow wolf.

The shadow wolf is similar in size to a tiger, much larger than an ordinary wolf, and looks more powerful than an ordinary wolf, a bit like a saber-toothed tiger.

Large Shadow Wolves are even larger and have two heads.

When the three giant wolves leaned down and bared their teeth, their ferocious looks were revealed, and they clearly knew they were not to be trifled with.

After many tests and sparring sessions with his companions, Rhodes determined that they were more agile than stone beetles and better at attacking.

In addition to the basic bite attack, shadow wolves have a keen sense of smell that can be used for tracking, and are also good at sneaking and making surprise attacks in the shadows. The wolves live up to their name.

Although weak in the game, it's pretty good here - at least Kana can't hit them with cards as easily as she can with Stone Beetles.

As for the magic power consumed to summon them, it is basically about three river crabs, which is similar to that of stone beetles.

Now Rhodes can command the stone beetle and shadow wolf to fight at the same time. As soon as the fight starts, the one-on-one fight will immediately turn into a group fight, which is a huge advantage.

The problem that followed was that Rhodes himself was more likely to be targeted as a breakthrough point.

There are currently two most effective solutions. One is to ride on a river crab and run far away.

The second is to follow the stone beetle to burrow into the ground and run as far as possible within the limited breath-holding time.

The tactics are awkward, but they work.

However, these can only cure the symptoms. If you want to cure the root cause, you still need your own strength.

Continuously exercising your body and practicing fighting skills is one way, but it requires long-term persistence.

Another way is to learn one or two ability-based magics, but this method... Rhodes asked: "Everyone seems to only specialize in one kind of magic. Why not learn a few more to deal with different situations?"

"Because there is not enough time and energy." Mira said, "Whether it is learning magic or improving magic, it requires a lot of time and energy.

If you learn many kinds of magic at the same time, you may achieve nothing for a long time. It is better to concentrate on studying a certain kind of magic.

Imagine if you added one more magical practice to your current schedule, would you still be able to squeeze in time? "

Rhodes thought for a while, meditation and physical fitness are the basis for becoming stronger, and they must not be given up.

The proficiency of summoning magic is an important factor in reducing the chant words, and the time for this practice should not be less.

Also, working hours…

You can't just do nothing and wait for the guild to support you - even Nabu, who has never accepted tasks, occasionally works part-time to earn some food money.

Other than that, it’s time to read.

When your common sense is almost complete, you should be able to use it to learn other magic.

Now...

"Squeeze in some time to sleep?"

"No!" Mira immediately objected. She raised her index finger to indicate the importance of what she was going to say next.

"Sleep is an important way to restore mental strength. You have mentioned your time schedule before, right?

That is already an exaggeration. If you reduce your sleep time to practice magic, you will run the risk of suffering from magic power deficiency! "

Rhodes has read about magic deficiency syndrome in books, and it is usually easily induced when magic power is overdrawn.

Once the disease occurs, it can range from coma to sudden death, which is a very dangerous disease for magicians.

Practicing magic because you are afraid of death, and practicing magic to death... That's too stupid.

Rhodes responded seriously: "I know."

Just because you don’t have time to practice now doesn’t mean you’ll have to prioritize things later.

As long as the goals of this stage are completed - supplementing knowledge and shortening chants, there will naturally be time to practice other things in the future.

He had only been studying for less than a month, so he couldn't rush it.

"Don't look so sad. Let me tell you some good news."

Mira seemed to be relieved and put a stack of bills on the counter, "Dang dang dang...salary has been paid!"

"So early!" Rhodes was surprised and picked up the banknotes and clicked them. No more, no less than 120,000 J. He asked,

"No, I don't think I've been working for a full month."

Mira thought for a while: "I worked overtime on the purchasing day."

"Then...then thank you."

I want to thank the guild for taking care of me, and also thank Mira for thinking of a reason.

Rhodes realized that this was not the hotel where he worked as a summer job, but the guild, Fairy Tail.

Mira waved to Lucky, who was chatting with her companions not far away: "Raqi, come here and get your share!"

"Here we come!" Lucky took over her salary. She was a full-time employee and her banknotes were thicker than Rhodes's.

"I finally received a measure of the value of my time and labor..."

Lucky’s strange expression of the value of time and labor.

Rhodes eliminated this phrase from his vocabulary. Correcting the common language was already very hard and he didn't want to learn it.

Lucky rubbed the banknote with her face affectionately: "I can buy a few more 'little cuties'."

Little cutie…

OK.

(End of chapter)