Chapter 106 (2/2)
This explanation is probably boring to the kids, on the contrary Claura was attentively looking at the book and me.
[Then what is sorcery? It’s the ability to influence the natural world the “magic power” that resides within you.
In addition, sorcery allows you to use the “chaos” of the “Inner world” to change reality. The corridor that connects the “world” and the “chaos” and the “door of wizardly” that serves as a boundary, it might be closer to a magician's magic*.]
The world, huh? Maybe Earth and Cedia are worlds that were individually born from the chaos.
Eh?
... Just now, that thought. Something somewhere just clicked...
I somehow have the impression something important just flashed right in front of me.
[[.........]]
[Er, sorry, well continuing...]
Looking at the serious faces of the kids and Claure I immediately returned to the lecture.
Alchemy is not only the basis of sorcery, the real world as well all the matter it contains, is the result of temporary giving a form to the “chaos”, that’s the rule.
In other words, if you can manipulate the chaos, you can create all the matter in the world, you can even create matter that normally doesn’t exists.
Normally, physical beings cannot touch nor are aware of the chaos. Only wizards can make it through the domain of chaos inside one’s mind.
The thing about alchemy is that, a clump (or something akin to that) of chaos has the possibility of transforming into every kind of matter, following the next steps in order (that’s the setting/rule).
Chaos → Ether → Element (chemical) → Material (matter)
The Ether is a kind of “pure energy without any specific properties”, The elements are “energies that can take the properties of earth, water, fire and wind”.
(Now that I think about it I’ve been mixing in proper chemistry terms huh.....)
[...... Margils?]
[No, it’s nothing.
As I was saying...... by reducing the substance, or matter, you are drawing out the ether and the element, so if you now add the raw materials for potions and other items, you are now able to manifest the effects of the spell that otherwise are impossible in reality.]
To put it simply, if you add the element of fire to a sword you get the “Cursed sword of flames”, if you add the water element to common water it turns into a “healing potion”.
[Yep, if you said like that it becomes so much easier to get right?........]
[L-Log don’t say that.......]
[So, specifically, how do you take out the elements and the ether from the matter?]
[Simple, by smas.h.i.+ng, heating, dissolving, boiling....... after processing you can extract it.]
Claura asked a bit impatiently.
I picked up the sack that was on the floor and then took out several tools from it. Log was whispering to Daya [See it was soo easy], but well nothing to fret about.
The small ones are beakers, flask, mortar, pitcher, an alcohol lamp, rasp and hammers.
The larger ones are a pot still, a filter and a brazier.
The long table is full of strange tools now.
[They somehow resemble the tools for making medicine]
[Ah, that’s probably right. I can’t show you now the essential “Alchemical furnace”, but I’ll show it to you in the future.]
In simple terms, an Alchemical furnace is a heating device. This tool in particular is a magic item that requires the chanting of a spell beforehand.
It’s a tool that’s as tall as child, after this I’ll ask Balbo and the carpenter Zek to make a lab for alchemy experimentation.
[For the time being, until the lab is completed, keep reading the introduction to alchemy and memorize how to use these tools.]
[[[Yes!!]]]
[..... ahhhh]
[Thank you for your hard work, my lord]
After giving the kids their homework and finis.h.i.+ng my first lecture I was in my room drinking tea.
Mora was busy so Leiha was the one serving the tea.
[I understand the theory but.... this chaos thing is a bit frightening right? Isn’t it dangerous?]
Sitting in front of me, drinking elegantly her tea, Claura asked.
Her beautiful eyebrows frowned a bit, Is Leihas’s tea bitter?
[Well, one has to be careful when creating golems, but I’m thinking on making the kids to learn first how to make potions.]
[Why is that?]
[One reason is to practice before making golems. And the other... well for financial reasons.]
[....... ah, so that’s why........]
[........]
For some reason there’s now this awkward silence.
There’s the thing with the shortage of supplies, and before expanding the trade route I want a stable source of income, that said, it was a realistic approach.
At that moment.
[Margils-sama, it’s time]
[....... ah..... yes....]
Irudo called to me.
It was the latest of my ever increasing tasks since the day I returned
A banquet to entertain “The guests that wish for a meeting with me” is now starting.
Notes:
1: regarding the snake, the original line is:
「よっしゃ！ 明日からは戦斧郷からフィルサンドへの交易路の基礎工事だな！ さっそくあんたの長虫でトンネル堀りをしてもらうぞ！」
I don't really understand why a snake thought? I don't remember one in the story so far nor I do know of a snake spell in D&D.
2: The full sentence:
それに対して魔法は、『世界の外』にある『混沌』を利用して現実そのものを変える技術、ということになる。『世界』と『混沌』を繋ぐ回廊であり境界でもある『魔導門』が、魔術師のいう魔術盤に近いかも知れないな」
There's probably something I'm missing here, like comparing the door of wizardhood to how the magicians adquire their magic.
3: And lastly, Lilly is cute. I just thought you should know that.
P.D.: Feel free to point any mistake in the grammar, or translation.
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