Chapter 8: Magic and Aptitude (1/2)
8 Magic and Aptitude
[Saying you want to be taught ic…Touya, do you have any aptitude?]
[Aptitude?]
[Magic greatly depends on the aptitude one is born with…A person who doesn’t have any aptitude cannot use ic no matter what they do]
I see, so it would seem it’s not an ability that’s usable by everyone He if civilization developed further into the ic side
[Aptitude Huh…yeah However, wouldn’t it be alright? A certain person guaranteed and said I can use ic immediately if it’s me]
[Who is it, that person?]
[That…he is a really important person]
God-sama desu Will they question my sanity if I say it? I’ll stay silent about that
[Whether I have aptitude or not, I have no method to find out]
To my question, Lindsey takes out some translucent stones frolass from red and blue, yellow to colourless approximately at the size of one centi like that on the silver wand that Lindsey bought, but that one was er
[This, what is it?]
[…This is a ical power is aate your aptitude using this However, only roughly]
[Water] I wonder if it’s easy to understand…I mumbled Lindsey picks up a bluish transparent stone in her hand and then places it above the cup of tea that I just finished drinking
[Come forth, water]
When Lindsey speaks those words, a sic stone and falls into the cup
[Ooh]
[…This is the state when ic stone produces water in response to ical power]
[By the way…]
The nearby Elsie receives the er sister and chants the incantation the saic stone doesn’t show any reaction Not one drop of water came out
[This is what happens when you have no aptitude in water So this h you’re twins, Elsie can’t use it]
[Don’t just bluntly say what’s on your mind… Well, not that I ue However, Elsie isn’t seriously angry I’ic, but instead she can use body strengtheningbecause I would need the aptitude to able to use it]
I see So that was the source of her outrageously destructive power Even though her body looks slender, it isfro that everyone possesses, but if they have no aptitude for it, they can’t use the skill]