The protagonist of "The Story of a Boy from a Village in Front of the Last Dungeon Living in an Early Town," or "Last Dungeon" for short, is Lloyd, who uses his incredible strength to defeat monsters and demon kings. Most of the time, he doesn't rely on magic, but instead overwhelms his enemies with his strength, using only his high potential. However, in this world, "magic" has developed to the point that a magic tournament is held, and magic and curses appear in the story. So this time, we'll be talking about "magic" rather than strength, and introducing what kind of magic appears!
Wind Magic Aero
The magic that the protagonist Lloyd is least good at. Before the Magic Tournament, a test was conducted on magic aptitude using a "dummy wrapped in an anti-magic talisman." Fire magic melted the dummy, lightning magic turned it to ash, and water magic blew it into pieces... Among them, wind magic only managed to "smash the dummy to pieces," so wind magic was chosen for the Magic Tournament because it has a "low probability of killing someone when used against them." (It's still an instant death spell, though...) The beginner class of wind magic is "Aero." Lloyd accidentally killed his opponent when he cast Aero at the Magic Tournament, but fortunately he bit his tongue and cast "Airyo," reducing the power and only blowing the opponent into the wall. After that, when he cast "Aero" properly, he demonstrated its incredible power, enough to break through several houses.
Flame Magic
The basic form of fire magic. It is the only magic that Selene, who was a beginner at magic, can use. She is praised for her good logic because she was able to use it immediately, but the power is far inferior to Lloyd's and Riho's. In the magic tournament, she used only this flame to pass the preliminaries. She continued to chant flame for more than 10 minutes against the perverted monk. A derivative technique from this flame is the "Fire Arrow," which shoots flames like a bow and arrow. There is also the "Fire Wall," which surrounds the enemy in a wall of flame, and Riho used the firewall in the magic tournament preliminaries. The opponent also used a firewall, but due to the difference in magical power, Riho's flames were overwhelmingly thicker and more powerful. Also, a water magic version of the firewall, "Aqua Wall", appears in the story.
Lightning Magic - Thunderbolt
A magic spell that Riho used only once in the magic tournament. She stretches out her hand and generates lightning to attack the enemy. However, this technique was only used once to intimidate a weak opponent in the magic tournament preliminaries, and no one has used it in the manga, so it does not seem to be a main magic spell.
Advanced chant magic Tidal Wave
This is the big move that Riho tried to use on Roll in the finals of the magic tournament. Unlike the simple magic introduced so far, this is an advanced chant magic that requires a long chant. The chant is "I will summon a torrent from that land -- I will sacrifice words -- I wish to inherit malice -- Follow me, great waterfall -- Tidal Wave." Advanced chant magic requires a huge amount of magical power, but in the first place, the magic cannot be used even if it is chanted unless the caster's ability is quite high. Even Riho, who is skilled in using various magic, said, "There's no way I can cast advanced magic." By the way, "Tidal Wave" is a name that is sometimes used in other works, and "tidal wave" means high waves or tsunamis in Japanese, so it is definitely an advanced water magic.
Water Magic Water Ball
A magic that shoots water into a sphere. It does not have the lethal power of directly attacking the enemy and inflicting damage like Flame Arrow or Thunderbolt. However, it is a terrifying spell in the sense that it instantly generates a sphere of water that covers the enemy's face in the sphere of water and suffocates them... It seems that it is possible to deactivate the water balls cast by an average wizard, but the older sister of the Kinon sisters, Mare class (a level that can also cast the advanced incantation spell Tidal Wave), can generate water balls that cannot be deactivated. If there is one drawback, it is that it is not a spell that appears and disappears instantly like Flame, but a spell that gradually torments the enemy over time, so it consumes a lot of magical power to maintain. When I used it on Lloyd, Lloyd's breath lasted too long and I was unable to maintain the spell and it was deactivated halfway through.
Magic using magic stones and other "medium" magic
When using magic without chanting a spell, it is common to use magic stones, wands, and crystals as a medium. It is easy and anyone can use it, but it consumes a lot of magical power, and it also costs money to prepare magic stones and other materials used as a medium. (Magic stones are consumed, so if you keep using them, they will eventually run out.) I think that usually magic is manifested from magic stones, but in this work, only two people used magic stones in battle: Riho and the younger sister of the Kinon sisters, Filo. However, neither of them used them in the normal way, and Filo just grabbed a magic stone and slammed it down, which is a brainless magic? Riho even used a magic stone embedded in her cut arm and slammed it down to explode the arm as a suicidal technique. The magic stone seems to be designed to explode when slammed down.
Recovery magic Heal
Colin, who is also a colonel in the Azami Kingdom Army, is good at healing magic. It is not flashy and does not stand out much, but Colin is an expert in healing magic and serves as a colonel and magic instructor. It can be used to heal injured people, and it seems to have a variety of uses, and it is also possible to heal after injury by applying a delayed heal before injury. Riho used this slow-acting heal before self-destructing, instantly healing her right hand, which was severely injured by the magic stone explosion. Also, it seems that the effect of heal is amplified by using it multiple times rather than just once. (If you heal multiple times before you get injured, you can quickly recover even from severe injuries.)
Teleportation magic used by Arka
The distance between Azami Kingdom and Konron Village takes nearly a week even if you take a carriage or train, but Arka can use teleportation magic to travel between Konron Village and Azami Kingdom in an instant. (For the residents of Konron Village, it's a distance that takes about two days to run...) This type of magic uses a "medium." No spells or anything like that are needed to teleport, and it seems to be a magic that uses a crystal as a medium. However, Alluka is the only one who uses teleportation in this work, and seeing as she can only appear from the crystal she gave to Lloyd beforehand when she went to Azami Kingdom, it seems to be a magic that connects crystals and allows travel. As it is a teleportation spell, it is a bit different from teleportation, where you automatically travel to wherever you want to go.
Ancient magic using runes
Normal magic requires chanting, emblems, or a medium such as magic stones, but runes, which are ancient magic, do not require any of these things. All you need for ancient magic runes is letters! You can cast magic just by writing runes with your finger. You can write them on a wall, a handkerchief, or anything else. In any case, if you write words in a font that evokes the effect, it can be said to be a cheat-like magic that can do anything. For example, if you write "world", "destroy", "dragon", and "summon" in a similar way, you can summon a dragon that will destroy the world. However, it seems that a correspondingly huge amount of magical power is also required, and ordinary humans cannot handle it. (Although Alluka has tried to destroy the world in the past...)
Ancient magic using runes "Unbinding"
The magic of "Unbinding" is one of the ancient magics using runes that appears in various scenes and demonstrates its power, so much so that it can be said to be the main magic of this work. It can literally unbind any curse, and Marie also spent a long time learning the runes of unbinding in order to help her father. And the main character Lloyd uses these "Unbinding" runes frequently in his daily life! Lloyd himself does not know that runes are special, and sometimes uses them to clean his room. He uses these runes to remove the curse from Selene's belt, and also removes the curse from Meltfan, who was being controlled by the Demon King. Finally, he cleansed the curse from the King, who had been taken over by the Demon King, with the runes of removal written on a handkerchief.
Summary of the magic that appears in Last Dungeon
So far, we have introduced the magic that appears in Last Dungeon. What did you think? Fire, water, lightning, wind... there are various types of magic, but the ancient magic of runes seems to be in a class of its own. Alluka also used things like meteors, so look forward to seeing what kind of magic will appear in the anime!
