Experimental Technique Electromagnetic Cannon

Mia's academy was on break today, so she returned home quite early. As soon as she opened the door to their family's ironworking workshop, she saw her chuunibyou brother standing on a blade, laughing maniacally as he flew haphazardly around the courtyard.

"Brother, what are you doing?"

Matthews controlled the blade to hover in mid-air before striking a cool pose. Miming the motion of holding a fan and waving it in the void, he acted all high and mighty as he spoke to his sister: "Three million swordsmen across the continent, yet all must lower their heads when they see me!"

Watching her pretentious, chuunibyou brother, Mia sighed helplessly. Aside from being stingy and a chuunibyou, her brother was actually decent in every other way.

"Hey, hey—thump—"

Watching her brother land face-first on the ground, Mia rolled her eyes.

Matthews stood up awkwardly and rubbed his head.

"Well, that was just a slight miscalculation."

"Whatever makes you happy."

"Really, your brother just ran out of battle qi. I actually succeeded before you got here!"

Mia felt a bit helpless. When she was being taught by her parents, they had always wanted her to become an elegant mage. Now, after being with this unreliable brother, she had actually learned how to retort and roll her eyes. Just thinking about it made her feel exhausted; she felt like her brother was the child here.

"I gave that gold coin card to Winter."

Matthews nodded and stood up to put away the blade that had fallen to the side. He had wanted to experience the feeling of a sword immortal; he imagined that in a world where warriors were all rough brutes, he could be as elegant as a sword immortal.

Furthermore, being able to fly meant having high mobility. In this world, flight was a privilege reserved only for Saint-level humans, aside from wind-attribute mages.

Unfortunately, this method of flying on a sword didn't suit him right now. He had chosen to use dual weapons. A sword wasn't suitable for a reverse grip in the left hand, as a double-edged blade would cut his own arm, so he had chosen blades as his weapons.

His current long-range attack method was limited to metal projectiles fired by his Electromagnetic Cannon.

He couldn't yet control his weapons to fly off and attack at a distance; once any iron object flew out, it was beyond his control.

"Sis, why are you back?"

Mia walked toward the house and said, "We're on break. We have a month and a half of vacation."

"I see. That's perfect, I'm going to be practicing my blade techniques during this time, so you should train with me too!"

"Ah, let's not. Aren't I already a mage!"

Matthews understood Mia's perspective. He knew that her parents had been mages, so naturally, she didn't want to be one of those bitter, struggling warriors.

Matthews decided to correct her way of thinking and followed her into the house. After Mia poured her brother a glass of water and poured one for herself, she sat down next to him!

"I don't want to become one of those smelly warriors!"

Matthews took a sip of water, set the glass on the table, and said, "That won't do. Even though you are a mage now."

"Although mages who don't exercise their bodies will eventually have the physique of a third or fourth-level warrior due to the nourishment of magic elements, the weakness of a mage is their body. You still need to practice some basic close-quarters techniques."

"But these techniques don't have much effect against opponents of the same rank!"

Matthews looked at her face, which was full of reluctance, and knew that even if he forced her, she would likely practice, but she would also harbor resentment, which would only be a waste of time.

"Fine, if you don't want to practice, then don't."

The next morning, Matthews took his sister and prepared to leave the city.

"Brother, where are we going?"

"Out of the city. The Imperial Capital isn't suitable for us to test out new moves."

The siblings brought some simple supplies and food, then chose a direction and left.

Three days' journey from the Imperial Capital, there was a mountain peak with a small river. Matthews had checked and seen fish there, so they could easily solve their food needs, and he decided to stop here with his sister.

That day, after Matthews finished practicing his dual-blade techniques, he heard Mia call out, "Brother, come and eat."

Matthews had been practicing his blade techniques all morning, so he went over to his sister.

His sister had made fish soup that day, and Matthews found the steamed rice he was eating a bit bland.

"Let's catch something to roast tomorrow."

Mia nodded, "Mm, we've been eating fish for days, I don't want to eat it anymore either."

"Hmm—"

Mia saw that her brother had just been talking about eating, and now he was acting like this, so she asked, "What's wrong?"

"It's nothing, that's a snake-type Magic Beast."

Mia looked in the direction her brother was pointing and saw a green snake appearing not far away. She said, "Let's drive it away."

"Forget it, it's just a Magic Beast cub."

As he spoke, Matthews tossed a fish to it. The little creature looked at the fish Matthews threw with caution. It didn't eat it immediately, but just stared at them.

After a while, in Matthews's perception, it sniffed the fish, then grabbed it in its mouth and disappeared into the small river.

In the afternoon, Matthews brought his sister to the edge of the mountain forest. Mia saw Matthews's left arm beginning to spark with electricity and asked, "Brother, what are you going to do?"

"Hide behind me. This is my first time testing this move."

After Matthews finished speaking, he raised his left arm. He controlled the lightning-attribute battle qi within his body, accelerating it to circulate around the device on his left arm. The lightning elements began to move rapidly, cutting through the special device he had crafted using magnets.

"Electromagnetic Cannon."

Just as Matthews finished speaking, a flash of electric light streaked from the direction of his fist. An oval-shaped piece of iron flew out at incredible speed, the bolt of lightning shattering several trees along its path before finally slamming into a massive boulder.

"Wow, that's so cool!"

"Brother, that was really cool."

Mia had also seen the electric light flashing on her brother's left arm, and then watched as a beam of electricity erupted from his fist, piercing straight through the trees in its line of fire. Although she didn't know how her brother had managed it, his move was truly impressive.

Watching his younger sister shouting and cheering, Matthews thought to himself that even though she had been mocking him for being a pretentious chuunibyou earlier, she was clearly won over now!

Matthews then proceeded to experiment a few more times, only to find that the attack power still hadn't reached his intended goal.

"Let's go, let's take a look."

When Matthews arrived in front of that large boulder, he saw that the projectile he had fired had pierced through the stone and flattened against a second boulder behind it like scattered mud.

"Sigh, it seems the strength of the projectile still isn't enough."

"Brother, it's already very powerful."

Seeing his sister's attempt to comfort him, Matthews knew she hadn't seen many powerful experts in action. He remembered that in the original story, a Level 6 warrior from Wushan Town, where the protagonist was born, could shatter a boulder with a single slap.

His current Electromagnetic Cannon was likely inferior to that level of attack power, as it hadn't even managed to shatter the boulder.