E9 - Praxis Begins

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[00:01] Logwell
    A celebration of the all-student praxis
    is being held again this year, Lord Cariot.
[00:06] Cariot
    There is no need to report
    every little detail to me, Logwell.
[00:10] Cariot
    Temporary though it may be, representing
     the Wands doesn't suit me at all.
[00:14] Logwell
    Lightning is self-indulgent, the elves
    are arrogant, and ice is indolent.
[00:20] Logwell
    There is no one more suited than you,
    the Flame Emperor's Wand, Incindia Barham.
SIGN    Flame Emperor's Wand
    Cariot Incindia Wiseman
[00:29] Cariot
    Has our Light Sovereign not yet returned?
SIGN    Fire Faction Aide-de-Camp
    Logwell
[00:33] Logwell
    Still on campaign, I'm afraid.
[00:36] Cariot
    Honestly... All when the barrier
    seems about to fall, no less.
[00:44] Edward
    And now, the all-student praxis begins!
[00:57] Will
    I'll achieve real results here and
    make my way to see Elfie!
[01:01] Lihanna
    Wignall, I'm counting on you.
[01:03] Will
    What?
[01:05] Wignall
    Mellvent.
[01:19] Wignall
    Let us be on our way.
[01:21] Colette
    Are you all right?
[01:22] Will
    Ow, ow...
[01:26] Will
    That's a Crimson Ant!
[01:31] Will
    A whole swarm of them
     appeared out of nowhere!
[01:33] Will
    Mages are weak in melee.
    As their vanguard, I have to be their shield!
[01:38] Wignall
    Don't concern yourself.
[01:39] Will
    What?
[01:40] Wignall
    Lihanna Owenzaus...
[01:43] Wignall
    Are you unaware of her family's reputation?
[01:51] Lihanna
    Whicker, lightning sprite,
[01:53] Lihanna
    and accompany my mission.
[01:56] Lihanna
    Owen Sique...
[01:59] Lihanna
    Lisolde Dua!
[02:02] Will
    An enchantment?
[02:04] Wignall
    The Owenzauses are a line of knights.
[02:07] Wignall
    Lihanna is rare among mages.
    She specializes in close quarters combat.
[02:17] Lihanna
    Competing for credits
    would be too much of a bother.
[02:20] Lihanna
    We must advance faster than any other party.
[02:23] Lihanna
    Let's keep moving.
SIGN    Episode 9
    Praxis Begins
[03:56] (Flashback) Workner
    Do you know what magic is most
    vital in the dungeon, Will?
[04:01] (Flashback) Workner
    Attack magic? Defensive magic? No.
[04:06] (Flashback) Workner
    The answer is Search,
[04:08] (Flashback) Workner
    a common spell that detects
     enemies and abnormalities.
[04:13] (Flashback) Workner
    It is indispensable for mages
     traversing the dungeon.
[04:16] (Flashback) Workner
    It is the basis of all basics.
[04:25] Julius
    You're in the way, laggard!
[04:28] Will
    I can't sense enemies fast enough!
[04:29] Will
    No, Julius and the others
    are using Search magic
[04:32] Will
    to perceive a larger area
    than my senses can.
[04:35] Will
    At this rate, they'll clean up all of
    the monsters before I can intercept any.
[04:41] Will
    I finally got one!
[04:42] Wignall
    Zephros Claw.
[04:49] Will
    H-He wiped them all out in one go?
[04:53] Wignall
    You're more of a burden
    than I thought you'd be.
[04:56] Wignall
    You haven't even fulfilled
    your role as a shield.
[04:59] Wignall
    Perhaps this means I should be
    questioning your judgment, Lihanna.
[05:05] Lihanna
    To be precise, he simply hasn't
    had time to act as a shield.
[05:08] Lihanna
    He will show his true strength
    against over-five enemies.
[05:12] Lihanna
    Probably.
SIGN    "Probably"
[05:14] Lihanna
    So it's all right if he's
    a burden at the moment.
[05:16] Lihanna
    Probably.
SIGN    "Probably"
[05:18] Lihanna
    I'm sure he's strong.
[05:19] Lihanna
    Probably.
[05:21] Julius
    I told you, didn't I?
[05:23] Julius
    Someone who can't even
    use Search will only hold us back.
[05:29] Will
    Mages use their wands
    to absorb the magic traces
[05:33] Will
    that issue from fallen monsters.
[05:35] Will
    In this way, their wands serve as a record.
[05:38] Will
    The academy can check the number
    of targets a student has defeated.
[05:44] Colette
    Hang on a second!
[05:45] Colette
    We haven't finished collecting the drops!
[05:48] Wignall
    There's no point in hauling drops
    of hardly any value, is there?
[05:52] Will
    Sorry! I'm good to go now.
[05:55] Will
    That's why, with no way
    to absorb traces of magic,
[05:59] Will
    I have to lug back monster remains
    in order to earn my credits,
[06:02] Will
    much to the chagrin of the rest of my party.
[06:05] Sion
    Since you've joined up with us,
    try not to disgrace us, laggard.
[06:10] Colette
    Will, are you all right?
[06:13] Will
    I knew it'd be like this from the outset.
[06:17] Will
    I'm going to do my best to be
    helpful to them at some point.
[06:22] Will
    I say that, but...
[06:28] Will
    There's nothing I can do!
[06:31] Will
    I knew that! I knew it, but still!
[06:34] Will
    Everyone is so skilled,
    there's no time for me to cut in.
[06:37] Will
    At this rate, I'm nothing
    more than a pack mule.
[06:43] Lihanna
    It's already been a day since
    the all-student praxis began.
[06:46] Lihanna
    I'd like to take short rest soon.
[06:48] Julius
    In a place like this?
[06:50] Julius
    I'm not asking for a first-rate inn,
[06:52] Julius
    but I'd like to feel safe enough
     that I can actually relax.
[06:56] Wignall
    Then perhaps we need a fortress of flame.
[06:59] Wignall
    Nardrea.
[07:04] Colette
    Incredible. Is this elven illusion magic?
[07:08] Will
    Yeah, looks like it.
[07:09] Will
    The flames themselves are illusory,
[07:13] Will
    but the monsters are wary of the sight
    of flames springing out of nowhere.
[07:17] Will
    They won't come near.
[07:19] Lihanna
    Serfort.
[07:21] Lihanna
    Please distribute the rations
    I gave you before.
[07:24] Will
    Oh, sure.
[07:27] Will
    Here's yours, Julius.
[07:29] Will
    And yours, Sion.
[07:32] Will
    Wignall, this is for you.
[07:33] Wignall
    Don't come any closer.
     Leave it on the ground.
[07:36] Will
    What?
[07:37] Wignall
    Elves only allow those they deem
    worthy to touch them.
[07:41] Wignall
    I don't want to accidentally touch you.
[07:43] Colette
    Hey! We're all in the same party, aren't we?
    Why would you say something like that?
[07:47] Wignall
    You are all mages, and I am an elf.
[07:51] Wignall
    Leave it at that.
[07:52] Wignall
    The only person in this party
    I deem worthy is Lihanna.
[07:58] Will
    Colette, let's not fight.
[08:00] Colette
    But...
[08:01] Will
    It's fine. Elven culture and
    customs differ from ours.
[08:05] Will
    I'm all right.
[08:08] Will
    Elves...
[08:09] Will
    Like dwarves, they come from another world.
[08:13] Will
    They are magic users,
    a gifted and highly revered race.
[08:18] Will
    They value their own kind over
    others and can be insufferable,
[08:22] Will
    but their talents surpass most mages.
[08:26] Will
    At the head of one of the Magia Vander
    factions is none other than...
[08:30] Will
    the elven queen.
[08:37] Lihanna
    I will now go over our next steps.
[08:43] Lihanna
    Our priority target is the Luminous Naberus.
[08:47] Lihanna
    It's worth 110 credits and there is only one,
[08:51] Lihanna
    so we will be slaying
     the floor keeper of floor 10.
[08:53] Colette
    A hundred and ten? That's the highest
    credit count in this praxis!
[08:57] Julius
    It's common knowledge that anyone
    who challenges it pays the price.
[09:01] Julius
    It is, without a doubt,
    the final boss of the all-student praxis.
[09:04] Lihanna
    You could say that I built this party
    for the purpose of slaying the Naberus.
[09:10] Lihanna
    We have the skills to fell
    a 110-credit monster.
[09:14] Lihanna
    I will demonstrate that to the tower.
[09:16] Wignall
    Well, this ship has already left port.
    I have no intention of abandoning it midway.
[09:20] Wignall
    But are we going to ignore the appetizers
    and go straight for the main dish?
[09:26] Lihanna
    I want to challenge it in top form
    with our magic reserves intact.
[09:29] Lihanna
    We can get the other monsters later.
[09:32] Lihanna
    If there are no objections,
    we'll take shortest route to floor 10.
[09:37] Will
    All I've managed today
    is a measly five credits.
[09:41] Will
    That's not good enough.
[09:43] Will
    Slaying a floor keeper...
[09:45] Will
    I'd be lying if I said I wasn't scared, but...
[09:48] Will
    I'm going, Elfie.
[09:55] Marze
    Hey, what're you doing, Headless?
[09:58] Marze
    You go and slaughter the guys upstairs?
[10:05] Headless
    I was getting sick of things.
[10:07] Marze
    Huh?
[10:08] Headless
    So I went and gave them a taste of hell.
[10:23] Julius
    What is all this?
[10:25] Julius
    There are monster corpses
     scattered all around.
[10:30] Julius
    Is this the work of another party?
SIGN    Dungeon, Floor 10
[10:32] Wignall
    No, that isn't possible.
[10:35] Sion
    We took the shortest route here,
    even skipping the base camps.
[10:39] Sion
    There couldn't be any students
    who've gotten so far ahead of us.
[10:44] Colette
    What are you doing, Will?
[10:47] Will
    There's no evidence of magic here.
[10:50] Will
    It was ripped apart
    with brute strength alone.
[10:53] Lihanna
    The chamber where the
     Naberus appears is up ahead.
[11:08] Will
    The dungeon is so quiet it feels fake.
[11:13] Will
    Don't tell me...
[11:19] Lihanna
    Everyone, Search!
[11:22] Colette
    What's going on?
[11:24] Wignall
    Its magic traces haven't fully dissipated.
[11:25] Lihanna
    It was only just killed.
[11:27] Sion
    The floor keeper's been slaughtered?
[11:29] Julius
    Who could have done this?
[11:32] (Flashback) Workner
    Search is an all-purpose spell,
[11:34] (Flashback) Workner
    but it isn't all-powerful.
[11:36] (Flashback) Workner
    It's difficult to detect clever traps with it.
[11:39] (Flashback) Workner
    Mages can use Hide
     to cloak themselves from it.
[11:43] (Flashback) Workner
    And there's a type of monster
    capable of evading Search magic.
[12:01] Will
    Everyone!
[12:02] Will
    Heads up!
[12:07] Colette
    Will!
[12:12] Wignall
    What's the meaning of this?
[12:19] Will
    Wignall!
[12:25] Sion
    Crims...
[12:26] Julius
    Glace...
[12:26] Colette
    Stear...
[12:27] Lihanna
    Sagius...
[12:51] student; male
    What causing this jolt?
[12:55] Rosty
    Will...
[13:07] Will
    I-I'm sorry!
[13:10] Will
    His arm!
[13:14] Will
    This is even further below floor 10.
[13:17] Will
    We're outside academy territory.
[13:20] Julius
    Floor 11?!
[13:22] Sion
    You saw it yourself! We fell to the next floor!
[13:26] Julius
    You must be joking. You can't be serious!
[13:29] Julius
    Floors 11 downward are tower territory.
[13:31] Julius
    Only high mages are allowed to set foot
     down in this treacherous place!
[13:40] Lihanna
    The Nightmare's Maw.
[13:43] Lihanna
    This vast region stretches
    all the way to floor 15.
[13:46] Lihanna
    The complexity of its structure
    and strength of its monsters...
[13:49] Lihanna
    are on another level
    from all the previous floors.
[13:52] Colette
    Lihanna, you're bleeding!
[13:54] Lihanna
    It's not serious.
[13:56] Lihanna
    A rock merely struck me
     during the collapse.
[13:59] Lihanna
    We seem to be the only two around.
[14:02] Lihanna
    Getting separated on floor 11
    will prove fatal.
[14:06] Lihanna
    If we don't reunite with others,
    and fast, the dungeon will eat us alive.
[14:11] Lihanna
    All of us, including your friend Serfort.
SIGN    The Great Barrier
    
    "If it goes, we're all goners.
    That's how important it is."
    
    
    -The words of a certain little person
SIGN    Greenseed Wand
SIGN    Wignall Lindor
    
    Race: Elf
    Age: 75 (as mages
    go, roughly 15)
    Height: 176 cm
    Birthday: 1st of Arzhelmoon
    Likes: The collection of elven legends he used to read
    together with his milk siblings; the herbal tea from
    the elite teahouse Lihanna introduced him to, Night
    Dislikes: Dwarves in general
    Wants to Protect: Ellenor Ljos Alf
    
    Deepest Dungeon Floor Reached: 11th
    Equipment: Greenseed wand
    Skills: Spells primarily focused on wind;
     illusion magic
    
    An elf who hails from Alfswood, far to the north.
    Came to the capital of magic, Urbus Rigarden, to study.
    He holds fast to elven customs and does not allow
     anyone he does not deem worthy to touch him.
    Shares the same dream as a certain no-talent.
[14:28] elf; female
    Living in obscurity at some
    academy for mere mages...
[14:32] elf; male
    You can't even manage illusions
    with any real skill.
[14:36] elf; male 2
    Have you no shame?!
[14:40] Ellenor
    You are a disgrace to our people.
    I have no need of you.
[14:45] Wignall; 20 yo
    Wait. Wait!
[14:47] Ellenor
    That talentless arm...
[14:49] Wignall; 20 yo
    Ellenor!
[14:50] Ellenor
    Surely you have no need of it.
[15:04] Wignall
    Wh-Where am I?
[15:06] Will
    I'm so glad you're awake!
[15:08] Will; background
    I'm sorry I couldn't treat you right away.
[15:08] Wignall
    This monster...
    Don't tell me he did that alone.
[15:10] Will; background
    I'll give you first aid now.
[15:13] Wignall
    Don't touch me!
[15:16] Wignall
    I am an elf.
[15:19] Wignall
    Don't touch me, you no-talent!
[15:21] Will
    Even if it means you'll hate me all my life
     and one day come to kill me,
[15:25] Will
    I can't just leave you like this.
[15:27] Will
    Please allow me to treat your arm.
[15:30] Wignall
    I can perform emergency first aid on myself.
[15:33] Wignall
    Hand over the supplies!
[15:40] Will
    Wignall is injured.
[15:43] Will
    Aside from our medical supplies,
    we've lost nearly all of our gear.
[15:47] Will
    We have a total of three sub-weapons,
    including Rosty's magic items.
[15:52] Will
    We each have our own food and water.
[15:55] Will
    Colette and the others should
    be set with their own too,
[15:58] Will
    so we can last two days.
[16:00] Will
    No, given the extreme conditions
    of floor 11, make it one day.
[16:06] Will
    Our time limit is 24 hours.
    That's all we've got.
[16:12] Will
    Wignall.
[16:14] Will
    I want to prioritize finding
     Colette and the others.
[16:17] Will
    That means walking around the dungeon.
    Can you manage that?
[16:20] Wignall
    When stranded in the dungeon,
    the best practice is to wait for rescue.
[16:25] Will
    If we don't act, we'll die.
[16:28] Will
    That's my understanding of the dungeon.
[16:31] Will
    Besides...
[16:33] Will
    With that monster on floor 10,
[16:36] Will
    any rescue would take a while.
[16:40] Workner
    What's going on, Professor Eliza?
[16:49] Eliza
    It's a stampede, Workner.
SIGN    Dungeon, Floor 8
    Base Camp
[16:51] Eliza
    The rush of monsters
    has destroyed our base camp.
[16:55] Workner
    Destroyed it?! What of Bruno and the others?
[17:02] Eliza
    They've been killed.
    Something twisted their heads off.
[17:09] Eliza
    All of our handheld mazers have been wrecked.
[17:12] Eliza
    We don't know the situation
    on floor 9 and below,
[17:15] Eliza
    but I'd wager they've fallen into
     the same chaos as here on floor 8.
[17:21] Workner
    Not only was there a monster stampede,
[17:23] Workner
    but academy professors have been killed?
[17:25] Workner
    That can't be a coincidence.
[17:27] Workner
    Was this some scheme?
[17:30] Workner
    What is going on here?
[17:32] Edward
    Workner! The all-student praxis is canceled!
[17:35] Workner
    Professor Edward!
[17:37] Edward
    These anomalies are jeopardizing the students!
[17:39] Edward
    We're going in!
[17:41] Workner
    R-Right!
[18:03] Will
    Wignall, you should probably
    refrain from using Search.
[18:07] Will
    It's only common magic, but use it
    too much and you'll exhaust yourself.
[18:11] Will
    Prioritize saving your magic and—
[18:13] Wignall
    Shut up!
[18:14] Wignall
    What'll you do if we're
     ambushed like that again?!
[18:17] Wignall
    This is floor 11, you know?
    There's no telling what may happen!
[18:21] Wignall
    How can you be so cavalier
    in such a dangerous place?
[18:23] Will
    Search is effective
    over an area, not over time.
[18:27] Will
    That area varies, but it should be
    at least 140 mille at the smallest.
[18:31] Will
    My stride is roughly seventy selle.
[18:34] Will
    I'll tell you when we've gone
    two hundred paces.
[18:37] Will
    That's when I'd like you to use Search again.
[18:39] Will
    You and I detect different things.
[18:42] Will
    I'd like to divide the work to utilize that.
[18:45] Will
    Leave enemies in our immediate
    vicinity to me and Kiki.
[18:48] Will
    We'll take out any monsters
    that Search can't catch.
[18:53] Will
    Wignall, you stay vigilant
    against monsters in the distance.
[18:56] Will
    We want to avoid encountering
     any large swarms.
[18:58] Will
    Right now, it isn't ambushes
    we need to worry about most.
[19:01] Will
    We need to keep our fighting
     to a bare minimum.
[19:05] Wignall
    How? How can you stay so calm
    under the circumstances?
[19:13] Will
    In order to ascend the tower,
    I have no choice but to take credits by force.
[19:18] Will
    I've researched all I can about the dungeon,
    and I've tried everything I can, too.
[19:22] Will
    It's not something I'm proud of,
[19:24] Will
    but I've been stranded on different
    floors over a hundred times.
[19:28] Will
    With that experience, I just know
    how to deal with this a little better.
[19:33] Will
    That's all.
[19:38] Will
    Something's coming!
SIGN    Gergesa
    8 credits
[19:52] Will
    Demon spirit swine... Gergesa!
[19:55] Will
    I can sense different swarms
    in the other passageways.
[19:58] Will
    We have no choice but to fight!
[20:00] Will
    I'll take point, Wignall!
    You take the one in the back!
[20:06] Wignall
    Arrowhead, pierce true!
[20:07] Wignall
    Verdes Lana!
[20:23] Wignall
    How? How can he move like that?
[20:27] Wignall
    How can he still fight in this situation?
[20:29] Wignall
    He's turned knowledge into wisdom,
    and the unknown into the known.
[20:34] Wignall
    You're telling me that's
    how he became so strong?
[20:37] Wignall
    While in comparison, I...
[20:41] Wignall
    I have...
[20:44] Wignall
    Oh no—
[20:46] Wignall
    No time to chant a counterattack spell!
[20:47] Wignall
    I'll hide myself first, then regroup!
[20:50] Wignall
    Nardrea!
[20:53] Will
    No!
[20:55] Will
    That won't work, Wignall!
[20:57] Will
    That monster—
[21:22] Will
    Are you all right?
[21:24] Will
    Gergesa don't have eyes, so their sense of
    smell is extremely developed to compensate.
[21:28] Will
    Illusions won't work on them.
[21:38] Wignall
    What a disgrace.
[21:42] Will
    Let's just shake it off.
    You're a supremely talented elf!
[21:45] Will
    Next time, we'll have a plan.
[21:46] Wignall
    You're wrong. You've got it all wrong.
[21:51] Wignall
    I'm not talented.
[21:55] Wignall
    I'm one of the dregs. A laggard.
[23:36] Will
    Next time on Wistoria: Wand and Sword,
[23:39] Will
    episode 10, "Our Dream."
SIGN    Episode 10
    Our Dream