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Translator: Kazumi
Editor: Kabur & Silavin
What Kousuke was trying to do with Nana’s help was to see if he could “see” the enemy’s weak points.
As it turned out, Nana’s attack was so strong that we could not see which of them was responsible for the defeat.
Kousuke thought about using the wolves that Cecil and Arisa had with them to check, but decided to do that later.
Currently, they were with Sally’s party.
Kousuke was sure they would allow him to stay longer if he told them, but he decided against it.
Above all, there was no need to go to the trouble of showing off in the presence of another party.
“Well, I’m done. I didn’t need to extend the experiment. I could not confirm anything after all.”
Kousuke said as he returned to Sally.
“What’s that? What were you checking?”
“Well, I wanted to see if I could take out a Brown Bear with one blow if I attacked its weak point…but as have witnessed”
Kousuke looked at Nana, and she glanced at him.
Seeing this, Sally also chuckled.
“Oh. So, you’re saying that this girl’s power is too strong for you to understand.”
“That’s about it. Now that I know I can’t confirm it here, we better go back.”
Kousuke’s statement that he was going back had a basis, of course.
There was no way Kousuke was going to keep an eye out for himself without a tent if he was going to make this his hunting ground instead of going back right away.
Sally was a good leader when it came to noticing such subtleties.
“Alright. Hey, you guys had enough rest. We’re heading back to the city!”
“”Yes!””
Sally called out, and her party members responded.
The newcomers were in good shape, and there seemed to be no problems of concern.
After that, the party eventually made their way back to town and separated from Sally and the others while clearing out the monsters that attacked them on the move.
Kousuke, on the other hand, forgot about the experiment and spent a few days relaxing at an inn.
He felt that the members of the Administration group were beginning to utilize the power of their Blessings.
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Floria came with Haku to the Southwest Tower.
She brought Haku with her to serve as an escort.
She usually came to check on the Tower, but this time she had other purposes as well.
In order to confirm that purpose, they had come to the Floor where the goblins were.
“What is there to check?”
Haku asked Floria as they made their way to where the goblins’ base was located.
“Oh. I just wanted to try something.”
“Hmm?”
Haku tilted his head at Floria’s muddled way of speaking, but nodded along nonetheless.
Since it was certain that they were planning to do something again later at the goblins’ place, they decided to confirm it again at that time.
It was not a great distance from the location of the transfer gate to the base where the goblins were, so they soon arrived at their destination.
Then, some goblins noticed Floria and approached her.
As with the other Towers, only Kousuke was recognized as the current keeper of the Tower.
Therefore, the summoned goblins also have the title of “Kousuke’s Dependent”, but they didn’t attack her, as if they understood that Floria was in fact in charge of the administration.
That was because Floria was the one who summoned them from a summoning circle in the first place, which meant that she was the first one they saw when they came out into this world.
Not that there was any imprinting phenomenon going on, but they probably thought of her as something similar to their parents.
The situation with the other members managing the Towers were similar.
What Floria was trying to do when she came to them was, of course, to confirm the power of the Blessing.
While checking Kousuke’s Blessing with Sylvia, an idea came to her mind.
It may be more correct to say that it was an intuition rather than an idea.
She came here following that intuition.
After Floria and Haku stayed there for a while, with the rest of the goblins at the base, they gathered around.
The others were probably out hunting.
Some of them had evolved into Ogre-kin, a term used to describe a goblin who had evolved into an ogre.
When they evolved to Ogre-kin, they seemed to be able to understand human language to some extent, and they could follow Floria’s instructions.
When the Ogre-kin were given those instructions, the Ogre-kin uttered muffled words and gave instructions to the goblins.
Then, just as Floria had directed, one Ogre-kin and four other ordinary goblins remained on the spot.
The Ogre-kin looked at Floria for confirmation, and she nodded once to let them know it was okay.
Floria closed her eyes once and focused her mind.
Normally, she would have to be able to do this without needing to do things like this, but as she was still inexperienced, this was the only way she could do it.
After concentrating and sensing Kousuke’s power within her, Floria opened her eyes and released the power she sensed in the next instant.
Then, the goblins in front of her fell to their knees all at once.
Seeing this, Floria was convinced that she had successfully manifested the power of the Blessing.
She immediately released her power and apologized to the goblins.
“Sorry. I just wanted to try it out.”
They sensed the power that Floria had just released.
And that power belonged to Kousuke.
That was why they fell to their knees.
They must have been confused because they sensed the power of Kousuke, who was not supposed to be there.
When Floria released her power, there was a distinct sense of relief in the air.
“That’s wonderful. Was that Father’s power?”
“Yes, it is.”
Floria hadn’t said anything yet, but Haku seemed to immediately understand what the power she had just released was.
“Was it the manifestation of Father’s Power himself, I mean?”
“Great. You can tell.”
With just that one detail, Haku apparently saw through the essence of the power.
Floria nodded quickly, as she had no intention of hiding it either.
“Yes, that’s right. If I release the power of Blessing itself as it is, I probably won’t be able to endure it.”
“Is that so?”
“Well. After all, I am still lacking in training.”
But at least now Floria was sure that she too could release the power of the Blessing.
All that remained was to return to the Administration Floor and let her friends experience it.
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Returning to the Administration Floor, Floria immediately did the same thing she had done to the goblins in front of everyone.
Release the power of the Blessing.
That was all she did, but soon the members seemed to understand what Floria had done.
“I see. It’s like ‘The Intimidation of a Champion’, right?”
“That’s a good way to put it.”
“No, wait. Isn’t that a bit over the top?”
Floria interrupted Shrein and Sylvia’s comment as if flustered.
Certainly, if she could develop this power, she would be able to suppress monsters.
But for now, she could barely keep the low-ranked monsters at bay.
She was convinced of this when she checked on the goblins she had observed earlier.
Above all, it would be impossible to use it in a real battle if she had to close her eyes every once in a while to use it.
“But it’s going to become like that eventually, so I think it’s okay to call it that from the start, don’t you think so?”
When Collete said so, Shrein and Sylvia nodded.
Kouhi, who was casually listening by her side, also nodded.
Incidentally, Mitsuki was preparing a meal.
After this, Mitsuki joined in, and while Floria was the only one who objected, everyone else unanimously agreed that the name of Floria’s Blessing power was <Intimidation of a Champion>.
