Chapter 219 - Racial Gifts (2/2)
It only took an hour to successfully cast it.
With a wave of his hand, he turned the swamp in front of him back into a rocky ground, which was originally just gra.s.s and mud-it was now a fairly flat square of stone slabs.
Well… I used a little too much force.
Roland repeated casting Stone to Mud and Mud to Stone several more times before finding the right level of force to turn stone back into normal mud.
Mud to Stone was simple to learn but somewhat difficult to master. Whether it was turning a swamp into mud or stone, it was all up to the Mage’s control.
He practiced these two spells several more times, and feeling almost finished, he was about to leave and return to his room to rest and recover his magic power when a sudden light flashed in his mind.
Roland once again used Mud to Stone. This time he deliberately made the area of the swamp small, then using his mental power, he forced the mud of the swamp to mold into the shape of a ball, and then unleashed Mud to Stone on it.
In the earthen pit ahead, there was a large, round stone with a rather s.h.i.+ny surface.
Roland walked over to the large round stone and stepped on it with his foot, finding it very, very hard.
Then he froze for a moment, then slowly smiled in a Crayon s.h.i.+n-chan[1] way.
Hehehe!
When Kaka returned from the a.s.sociation headquarters, he hopped off the wagon and walked at a brisk pace to the backyard of the manor before his eyes widened. The s.p.a.ce in the backyard was filled with all sorts of strange things.
A statue of a naked man in a contemplative pose, a cherub showing its bird peeing, a giant octopus, a big round ball with a quirky, squinty-eyed, wacky grin on it, and so on.
All were stone statues, some very crude, but others were clearly quite exquisite.
Then he realized that, looking from left to right, it just happened to be a process of crudeness slowly becoming exquisiteness.
“What the… What the h.e.l.l!” What’s going on here? Kaka gulped. Didn’t he just go out for a few hours? How did his own backyard become like this?
Roland saw Kaka and smiled somewhat proudly. He said, “I’ve found the correct use of Stone to Mud.”
He snapped his fingers and all the statues before him turned to mud and fell to the ground, which was rapidly turning into a vast swamp.
Kaka instinctively stepped back.
Then the swamp moved strangely, first bulging out with four walls about two meters high, then synthesizing into a square shape, then the walls continued to rise and synthesized into another two-meter high square shape.Then a hole began to appear in the square shape on both the upper and lower levels. A larger vertical rectangle appeared on the mud wall facing them on the first level.
At first, Kaka didn’t know what Roland was doing, but seeing this rectangular shape, he suddenly realized that it seemed to be… a door.
At this moment, Roland snapped his fingers again, and this mud hardened at a very fast rate, then turned into a very good quality stone.
In the blink of an eye, a small, square, two-story building with a door and windows appeared in front of Kaka.
“Oh my G.o.d!” Kaka felt like his worldview had been refreshed. “You used this magic to build a stone building?”
Roland nodded proudly. “Yeah, I just thought of it while making the statues. With this spell, we Mages will be able to go anywhere in the future—even in the middle of nowhere. As long as we can build this kind of stone building, we won’t have to be afraid of wild animals and poisonous insects, nor of storms.”
“No one has ever thought that this spell could be used like this.” Kaka stared blankly at Roland with a frightened expression, as if he had seen a demon. “How does that head of yours work?”
[1] j.a.panese anime and manga