Chapter 26— Fatigue recovery

"This is painful. Ahhh."

　I was worried about what happened while my whole body’s muscles aching in pain made me sleepless at night.

　The reason for the pain is that I rode on Valkyrie.

　I was on Valkyrie's back with only the reins.

　The attempt itself turned out to work reasonably well.

　Normally, when it comes to horseback riding, not everyone can ride easily.

　Riding on the backs of creatures that move freely is not something that can be done easily.

　The creatures may not like it and may shake their bodies to throw you off.

　Even if they don't, moving them the way you want shouldn't be a trivial technique.

　But with Valkyrie, there was no problem with that.

　Originally, Valkyrie is not a horse that I have seen in the past, but a creature called a Familiar.

　She was born and raised with my magical power, and from the time she was born, Valkyrie had the intelligence to understand and listen to me.

　Riding on Valkyrie's back was as easy as riding a horse.

　Even if I don't say anything, she moves so that I, who rides on her back, doesn't feel burdened.

　Thanks to the caring Valkyrie, I was able to ride without much pain.

　However, it was still difficult for me to ride.

　Perhaps it is also related to the lack of tools such as saddles and stirrups.

　The movement of Valkyrie, who moves her legs with Kappokappo, shakes very much no matter how carefully she moves.

　And what can I do to keep myself from falling from the swaying Valkyrie?

　I had no choice but to hold onto Valkyrie's torso between her left and right legs and fix my body’s position.

　This was harder than I had imagined.

　After riding for a while, the insides of my thighs are cramping, and if I touch it even a little, I feel pain that almost makes me want to jump up.

　Moreover, muscle soreness is not limited only to my lower body.

　No matter how much effort you put into your lower body, if your upper body is unstable, you may fall.

　So what can I do to keep our upper body from shaking on the swaying Valkyrie?

　The answer was to mobilize all of my core muscles.

　The trunk, also known as the core muscle. 

　A person with a solid core stands straight from the tip of his head to his buttocks as if they were a single stick.

　Should I say that the axis of the body is solid?

　If you can keep that state firmly, the shaking should be greatly reduced.

　The idea was never wrong.

　However, at the same time, screams of muscle pain are ringing from various parts of my body.

　I didn't expect that there would be so much damage just because I was riding.

　I have to say that I was thinking of sweet thoughts, thinking that it would be so easy .

　But that doesn't mean I'll give up.

　In my previous life, there were even horsemen. (TLN: Horsemen: Skillful riders on horseback.)

　Riding on the back of an animal is not an impossible task.

　Then, from that day on, I decided to continue horse riding training every day.

　* * *

"[Meditation]."

　Shortly after I started training to ride, I developed a new magic.

　However, it's actually an application of the thing that I've been doing.

　The magic I developed this time was named [Meditation].

　This is to prevent any magical power that naturally leaks from my body from leaking out.

　When I concentrate my magical power on my eyes, I can see the magical power in color.

　Then, when I looked at other people in that state, I could observe that a vague blue gas like a haze was rising from their bodies.

　I think this is probably because the magical power generated in the person's body is flowing out of the body as if it were the steam of hot water that evaporates and diminishes from boiling water.

　In other words, the created magical power is always wasted.

　Then, what happens if the magical power does not leak from the body?

　I tried this.

　The result is that my natural healing power is greatly improved.

　The magical power that usually was wasted will help to heal the body.

　Until now, it already had this effect, but I hadn’t given it a name, yet .

　If I want to help recover from fatigue when I get tired, I can use it without having to use a spell.

　There is a reason why I gave it a spell name.

　That's because I focused on the fact that the effect that appears when casting a spell is constant.

　The magic of [Leveling] will always level the land of a fixed size.

　If you use [Brick Making], you can make bricks of the same shape every time you cast the spell.

　However, in addition to the effect of strengthening the body, [Body Strengthening] also has the aspect that the effect lasts for a certain period of time after casting the spell.

　In other words, the duration of the spell is also determined during the naming of the spell.

　And what's interesting is that after casting the [Body Strengthening] spell, the effect of that spell seems to continue even if I fall asleep.

　In fact, there was an incident in which I turned over and smashed the wall of the house in a reinforced state.

　Breaking the walls of the house is a problem, but [Body Strengthening] can be useful depending on how you use it.

　In short, I decided to create a spell name for [Meditation] so that the effect of it would last for a long time.

　As a result, I succeeded in keeping the natural healing power in a strengthened state by casting the spell [Meditation] and then sleeping, and no matter how severe the muscle pain in my body was, I can recover completely by sleeping overnight.

　When I sleep in bed, I feel like I've healed everywhere.

　In this way, I got a means of recovery and was able to do daily riding training without hesitation.

TLN: Summary: Ars practiced riding horseback(Valkyrie). His whole body was in pain, though, because he was inexperienced. He found out that magical power evaporates from a person even if they aren’t usually using it. The evaporated magic power can be kept in and he can heal his body from pain if he keeps the magic in his body. 

Ars usually does that without needing a spell. However, when giving a magic a name, its effects will be continuous. For example, the [Body Strengthening] he cast one time kept working even after he fell asleep. So, after casting [Meditation], the magic’s effects of keeping in magic will work even after Ars starts to sleep and his control over how much magic he let out goes away. 

Chapter ⅔ for today.