Chapter 488: That Guy Among the Four Heavenly Kings... 3
When Han Se-ah hastily began explaining after noticing my threatening aura with clenched fists, ready to give her a good smack upside the head if she was making decisions based on donation amounts.
"There's a reason - enhancing my staff with the lightning stone probably won't boost Call Lightning's performance much. I'm actually planning to learn an advanced spell I had my eye on at the Magic Tower."
Summon Ice Storm was more of a CC skill for holding mobs than a pure attack spell. Call Lightning could be either AoE or single-target depending on how it was controlled, but lacked raw power.
When she said "lacking" about a high-rank magic that could drop dozens of lightning bolts, I wondered what she meant - but she quickly explained further.
Now that enemies had enough HP to not get completely shredded by the holy sword, she wanted to maximize burst damage against mid-bosses and boss monsters by using fire enhancement to achieve something like an all-out barrage.
In other words, she wanted to throw bombs.
'...Should I hit her or not?'
Since our party had plenty of gold and Grace's arrow issue was solved, Han Se-ah planned to fill her inventory with alchemically crafted bombs to throw alongside Hell Fire. It wasn't a completely ridiculous idea - the others nodded along as if it made sense.
The party seemed to understand Han Se-ah's obsession with explosives by now. They didn't even question her absurd reasoning that she wanted to learn advanced fire magic to use bombs more efficiently.
