I’m Not Good at Offensive Magic, but I’ll Do My Best With Support Magic! - V1 Chapter 1

An E-Rank Adventurer and a Dinner With the Fire Dragon Wings

「Yes, you really need to check the details of the requests. Last time we almost died because of that」

「Despite the request said we needed to defeat a low-rank Red Fire Dragon, it ended up being a Red Flame Dragon instead」

「I see, I’ll keep that in mind」

I was raised in an orphanage, and now I’m already a grownup. As soon as I turned 15, I left the orphanage and started my journey. The director said I could stay there and volunteer at the orphanage, but if I just did that, the orphanage would always remain poor as it is. It’s not like you’d easily become rich by doing this, but if I became skilled enough, I could earn a large amount of money and send it to the orphanage someday. However, in order to make money, you need to risk your life.

「Nevertheless, to think that this young girl was an E-rank…」

The adventurer’s ranks from strongest to weakest are S, A, B, C, D, E, and F. In addition, there’s an adventurer apprentice G-rank, but that one is given to kids who are under the age of 13. That brings back memories from when I was still in the orphanage and signed up to become an adventurer at the guild. I was 12 years old then, and was able to earn a little money by doing small tasks such as helping around the town. Then I turned 13 and became an F-rank novice adventurer. By completing several tasks, such as gathering ingredients for herbal medicine by the nearby forest, I became the E-rank I’m now.

「I’m good at support magic」

I’m now attending a dinner with an A-rank party. The Fire Dragon Wings have been taking care of me since I participated in that Red Flame Dragon fight. It seemed like a good opportunity to hear experiences from the high-grade ranks, they are treating me for dinner as gratitude, and I’m definitely very grateful for that!

「I see, so you’re a support. Isn’t recovery support magic too?」

The healer role Elle muttered while drinking alcohol little by little.

「Gahaha! Elle is jealous, look, she helped us, isn’t that good?!」

「I’m not jealous at all」

The warrior Roy cracked up and Elle scowled at him. Roy pretended he didn’t notice and gulped down his drink.

「Well, it’s not like I can’t understand what Elle means. It was the first time I saw that kind of magic too」

「The first defense spell was amazing, but the other spell… was it Enchantment? I was astonished by that too」

In that battle, all I did was to defend the Dragon’s Breath with a defensive spell, and before the spell effect was over, restored them all. Then I used Enchantment for everyone’s weapons.

「I hope it was useful」

「It was more than just useful. My sword became lighter, and it even became sharper. It was as if I could even feel that my mithril sword became a sacred sword. Although I’ve never used a sacred sword before」

「My magic became more powerful just by holding my staff, too」

I’m a support specialized in recovery magic, strength augmentation boosts for my allies, and generating defensive barriers. Besides that, I can use some day-to-day magic spells unrelated to combat, such as starting a fire and producing water. However, I’m terrible at offensive magic so I don’t use it at all.

「I became specialized to compensate for the offensive part in which I can’t participate at all」

The fundamental duties in a party are the offensive roles called the attackers, and the auxiliaries also called the supporters. I’m not good at offensive magic, so my role is support.

「But, is it really okay for me to get 10% of the reward?」

「But also, it was defeated by all the members of the Fire Dragon Wings party who had accepted the request」

「Yeah, but if this young girl didn’t appear, we’d be all annihilated without a doubt」

「That’s right, if we take into account that she saved our lives, I wouldn’t say the whole reward should be hers but… at least 80% sounds good」

「Still, 80% is too much for me, and I’m afraid that in the worst case a rumor of me taking most of the reward just for helping out would be leaked」

That’s because it’s common that before one realizes it, the information gets leaked and exaggerated. If it becomes known that I have received a large amount of money, it wouldn’t be strange for a party to get close to me with my money as their objective. If I had someone reliable to count on, I’d probably have accepted, as I’m bad at combat, I can only defend myself and that’s not enough to defeat an enemy. And so, thinking it would be better to remain quiet for the time being, I decided to take only the amount I needed to continue my travel.

「But there is also a chance that rumor wouldn’t spread, and there’s no need to carry that amount of money with you, if you use magical storage, then you’d be alright, what do you think?」

Magical storage is a spell that relies on your magic power to deposit and withdraw your things at will. It’s a spell that allows you to deposit your goods without the need of a middleman.

「I can use magical storage but I’m a little jealous as it’s not as good as Yuan’s」

「However, Elle and Luka help me a lot with theirs」

There’s no such person who can’t use magical storage to begin with, however, its size depends on the user. If your magic power is high or your magical ability is good, its capacity will be larger too. That’s why magical storage spells are becoming a standard for magical users to measure their real ability.
 

「Anyway, 10% of the reward is enough for me」

「If you say so, young girl, I accept it gratefully, but…」

The leader of the Fire Dragon Wings, Eugene, seemed to be still not convinced.

「In that case, I’d rather you help me if I end up in trouble. I think I’m usually looked down on because of my appearance…」

Judging by my appearance, I’m so short that I can say I’m 3 or 12 years old and people still wouldn’t be convinced. Even if I present myself as an adventurer, there’s a chance I’ll get doubted. I don’t have that problem here, but I ran into trouble before when I went to the guild in a big town because of my appearance. It’d have been reassuring to have someone by my side then. Although I say that, if there are no members of the Fire Dragon Wings there, it doesn’t make much sense. However, if there’s a chance we meet again in another place, it wouldn’t hurt to have them as insurance.

「Alright. I swear by the name of the Fire Dragon Wings that we’ll certainly help Miss Yuan if anything happens」

After hearing Eugene’s words, Elle and Luka, and Roy, who was considerably drunk by then, all nodded in agreement.

「Thank you」

After that, I received my share of the reward not for defeating the Red Fire Dragon, but for the Red Flame Dragon, and was ready to leave.

「By the way, young girl…」

When I was about to leave the place, I was called by Eugene.

「What is it?」

「Uh, are you a girl?」

「I’m as you can see!」