I immediately test out if Alo’s〖Mana Drain〗works.
I extend my tail to Treant’s branches and have Alo touch it.

Alo notices my tail swinging in front of her and looks at me confused.
I nodded to her and kept swinging my tail, gesturing to say “Do it!”.

“T-…… tha, nk, yo……”

Alo gives me a broken thank you as she reaches to touch my tail.
She then held tight on it as if she’s hugging it.
Then, the sandy portions of Alo’s soil-like body, which were because of her exhaustion of magic power, fluttered in the air.

The contacted part of Alo’s hands and my tail shines faintly.
I can feel the magic from my tail being transferred to her.

“A, a ah……”

The broken parts of Alo’s body gets fixed up and begins to look moist.
Looking at it normally, parts of her skin is already looking better.
Especially since her hair is rough, the change is strikingly obvious…… I can’t ignore it.
It was a really subtle change.
She looks revitalized now.
Though, I think it’s because of my magic power that Alo is oozing out dark aura.

Well anyway, let’s see if her MP really did recover.

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Name: Alo
Species: Revana Mage
Status: Cursed, Magic Power Revised (large)
Lv: 14/30
HP: 78/78
MP: 87/87
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Ooh, it actually recovered.
I was kinda doubtful at first if we really should be going after the Abyss next, but it must be because she absorbed my magic that she received a strange status condition.
〖Magic Power Revised〗?
This is unexpectedly lucky.
Now that she’s powered up with〖Magic Power Revised〗 thanks to〖Mana Drain〗, she can release any excess magic without wasting her own.
With this, she can ignore rank difference and attack the Abyss regardless of defense.

“…………”

Even though Alo’s MP is already fully charged, she’s still hugging my tail.
…………
…… Hee~ey, you can let go now.

“…… It feels nice”

I-I see.
After waiting for Alo to calm down, I left the Grafant’s corpse behind and began my hunt for the Abyss to test Alo’s level up.

“Gra~a~a~a……”

Partner sobs as we leave the Grafant’s meat behind.
We’ll bring it home later, I’ll even cook it up for you, so just bare with it.

The spiders cling to the Grafant’s tail, trying to bring the Grafant so they could eat it along the way.
After three tries, the baby spiders finally gave up and caught up to me by sticking on my back.

With everyone ready, we continued the Abyss hunt.
To think there’d come a time when we’re the ones looking for it.

A rank C Abyss is perfect for Alo to level up faster if she deals sufficient enough damage.
If she beats one on her own, then she’ll definitely evolve.

And, yet…… we couldn’t find any Abyss……
Even though we’re going out of our way just to look for it, it won’t even show.

…… Aaaah, right, I forgot they can hide their presence.
I also killed quite a lot of them so they must be avoiding me now.
Then, of course I won’t be able to find them that easily anymore.

“Gra~a…… gra~a……”

The longer we walk, Partner is looking more and more down.

【“Hee~ey, aren’t ya hungry yet? Let’s eat”】

…… Are you really that hungry?
I still want to put Alo’s〖Mana Drain〗to the test and level her up a bit, can’t you wait until then?

【”…… shouldn’t we eat first?”】

Food tastes better after an exercise.

【“We’re just gonna watch from the sidelines again…… c’mon…… let’s eat……”】

…… Fine. We haven’t found any Abyss yet, so let’s go back.
I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t craving for meat too.
Especially since that Grafant is nothing but meat. It’s sad we don’t have salt for the occasion.

I turn around and head back to the Grafant.
Lesser Treant, who’s carrying Alo on his branch, follows after me and the baby spiders jump off, going to the juicy meat ahead.

When the Grafant was on sight, Partner started drooling.

【“Meat! Meat! Meat! Meat!”】

…… This glutton is the same cute woman when humanized, right?
I feel like it’s such a waste or a mistake.
Maybe if you were a little more modest and watch your manners……

I swear, if Partner goes to a big city in her human form, she’s sure to attract attention, and not just her looks.

【Meat! Meat! M-…… meat……?】

When we approached the Grafant, Partner looked hesitant.
Oh, but of course she would, I mean……

“Vu~e~e~e~e~e~eee~e!”
“Vu~e~e, vu~e~e~ee~a!”
“Vu~e~e~aa~a~a!”

…… Exactly my point, there are three Abyss gathering around the meat we hunted.
The three Abyss gnaw, chew, and bite off the Grafant’s meat that we were all looking forward to.
That’s right, I forgot that it uses the corpse of large monsters to house its nest.

“Gra~a~a~a~a~a~a~a~a~a~a~a!”

Partner rages and swings her head around violently.
I think I saw tears trickling in her eyes.

【“I told ya we should’ve ate first……”】

M-My bad…… so what if it’s slobbered in Abyss drool?
We’ll drive them away, so we cool?
I’ll even cook it like I promised!

“Gra~a~aa……”

Still, they really pop up from anywhere.
How many are there in the forest now?

I take my eyes off Partner and look at Alo.
She understood my intentions and nodded.
Thanks to the〖Servant of the Evil Dragon〗title, I can give Alo and Lesser Treant orders without needing to talk.
I can’t waste MP to humanize every time I want to say something, especially when a fight is about to start.

I extend my tail to Treant’s branch, where Alo is.
Alo jumped from the branch to my tail.
I stretch my tail to my front, bringing Alo close to my face.

Now listen, you don’t have to worry about MP.
Keep using your skills at their maximum power.

Alo raises her right hand overhead.
The black aura around Alo gets concentrated on her right hand.

“…… -ome, wi- nd,〖Gale〗!” [T.N: Come, wind,〖Gale〗]

The gathered magic power that was compressed on her hand releases at once.
A small twister is formed, the wind force powerful enough to dig through the solid ground, and it swirls its way through the Abyss.
Because she leveled up, her current power is vastly different from before when she was struggling against the Grafant.

“Vu~e~a!”

The twister hit one of the Abyss that was still devouring the Grafant.
The Grafant’s bloody corpse was taken in by the twister and blood splashes everywhere.
The Abyss was sandwiched between the twister and the Grafant’s body that it got blown away and fell hard on its back.

“Vu~e~e~ee~e!”

The Abyss wriggled its eight legs and stood up, finally taking notice of us.

“〖Gale〗!”

A second twister blows the Abyss away again even though it just got up.
The Abyss was blown a few meters high.
It landed on a sharp rock and it spat out that creamy liquid from its mouth.

But, the next problem is how much damage did it really receive.
From the looks of it, that should’ve dealt a lot of dam-……

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Species: Abyss
Status: Enraged (small)
Lv: 24/58
HP: 229/288
MP: 58/58
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…… R-Right, that did the trick alright!
Two shots only did 59 damage…… so, Alo’s full power can at best deal around 30 damage.
It may look small, but there’s certainly damage dealt.
Though a bit risky, but we can deal more damage if we attack it from the front.
If Alo performs well enough against a high ranked monster on her own, the level up she’ll receive is gonna be significantly high.