He hurried over to her to keep her from falling to the ground and said to her, "Sorry about that. I felt irritated for some reason."
She shook her head and said, "I understand. I believe that it was my fault. My body causes some people to feel a rejection towards me."
He didn't know what her body was trying to do or why he had reacted like that, so he frowned when he heard what she said and asked, "Why is that?"
She explained to him, "My body tries to control mana. This means that it tries to control the world and the people in it."
"For now, there is no problem with my body trying to control the world. But there are oftentimes problems when my body tries to control people."
When he heard what she said, he realized that he was touching her. He was touching her in order to help her stay afloat.
His hand was gripping her arm. But now he isn't so sure that was a good idea.
He wasn't sure that being in physical contact with a body that tries to take control of people is a good thing. But he didn't feel any different, and he didn't want her to feel bad about her body, so he didn't let her go instantly.
He first made sure that she could stay in the air on her own before he let her go. Then two of them resumed speaking.
He tried to console her, "I'm sure that everything will be fine once you learn to control your talents. That should be around the corner anytime now. You should be able to control your talents when you establish your foundation."
She nodded and said, "I hope so. But even if it doesn't happen, it is not entirely bad. The ability to influence the world and people means that I can be a good beast tamer."
She held out her hand and began counting as she said, "That's just one of the benefits I gained from my physique. There is the fact that I learn spells quickly."
"There is also the benefit of cultivating quickly. Because of my body, I only spent 5 years to reach the peak of the second mortal coil, and now I'm about to establish my foundation."
Roar shook his head and said, "If I had to choose between the two, I would choose the god physique. I was sold on it when you said it helped you to learn spells quickly."
She lowered her head and denied it vehemently, "No, no. I think senior Red Mane's talent is much better."
Roar was about to argue with her about that, but Arthur interrupted them by saying, "Let's talk about it on our way to the mission hall."
The two of them obliged, so they went to the mission hall. On the way there, they spoke to each other.
Roar and Stellar were the ones who did most of the talking, though. Arthur was mostly silent. He only added one or two bits when Stellar asked him about his books.
From there, the three of them went to hunt beasts. Arthur was too strong for the beasts. He couldn't be defeated by a single beast, which wasn't exactly a good thing for him.
It is good that the beasts couldn't threaten him, but it is bad for his evaluation if there is no struggle during the hunting. In order to solve this problem of a lack of struggle, he delayed the fight for as long as possible.
He didn't kill the beasts that he encountered immediately. Instead, he allowed them to accumulate so that they would gain the advantage of number against him.
It was not until there were at least 20 enemies that he began to fight them. By this time, the colony of bees that he was fighting had become alert to his presence. They sent more soldiers to take him down, which caused the number of enemies to balloon from 20 to 50.
50 flying and buzzing bees, with each of them at the peak of the third mortal coil with a power output of at least 10D, quickly surrounded him.
This was a little out of his expectations. But he welcomed it nonetheless because it brought the much-needed struggle that he wanted to boost his evaluation.
Stellar also got the opportunity to display her power. As someone at the peak of the second mortal coil with an armament, her power output should be 200F or 2E. But she was able to fight and easily defeat the best that the bee colony could provide.
The bees with the power output of 10D were supposed to be 500 times stronger than her. But they were toyed with because of her special physique.
What made things worse for the bees was that their bodies were soft and they lacked any spells. This lack of a powerful defense made it easy for them to fall prey to her lightning spells.