Episode 21 – Spellcrafting (1/2)

“What are you doing?”

Elaru abruptly stopped what she was doing and brought her eyes up to look at Kiel It took her a few seconds to process what he had asked before answering: “Spellcrafting”

Spellcrafting is a process of creating new spells and spell patterns or custo ones

What is a spell? The books defined it as “a reality altering phenoarded definitions and went by their intuitive understanding For them, a spell was the extension of theht

Both were right

It was only when talking about spellcrafting that people made a distinction between a spell and a spell pattern A spell pattern could be drawn on paper or anywhere else, but only if it was draith a dense enough mana would that spell pattern turn into a spell

The spell pattern was the key to everything, the core of the spell It defined and described the spell Magic itself was a language defined by a large number of intricate rules and mysterious principles And that spell pattern was a sentence written in that e

That sentence ritten ords – ful way to create a valid sentence There existed words that could be used alone to for only when coraful sentences

Those words, those spell fragic

Legends say that the first spell frag the innate abilities of ic cast by the Gods It is said that mortals weave their mana into spells, but mana of the Gods weaves itself The Gods possessed a divine will that caused spells to foric It was actually quite rare for thes could be accoic

Gods didn’t need to understand ic to do whatever they wished Mortals, on the other hand, needed to know the rules, to have a detailed understanding of different aspects of ree of creativity (if you know the language, it doesn’tpoetry with it)

Mortals needed to spellcraft

However, while there were ree, master spellcrafters were as rare as phoenix feathers and qilin horns

When Elaru declared that she was spellcrafting, Kiel felt naturally skeptical about it He raised his eyebrow “You can spellcraft?”

Elaru nodded leisurely as if it was not a big deal “Yeah”

The corner of Kiel’s ood can a person who received no education be?

She stroked her chin in thought before replying “I’ve never met anyone better at it than me”

Kiel’s skeptical look didn’t lessen one bit Did that ood, or did that mean she didn’t have the opportunity to ood at it?

He could accept her being a wielder of Aethernea of Sight He didn’t really knohat Aetherneal gifts were exactly or what it meant to be a wielder of an Aethernea, but he was clear that it was so they had to work for to obtain He could accept her being a great tracker because it was granted to her by her eyes However, talent could not turn one into a spellcrafter No amount of talent could co of ic

Kiel didn’t understand Elaru at all Isn’t she supposed to be a tracker? Spellcrafting has nothing to do with tracking Even if she did know soht now? Wasn’t she supposed to prepare for the exa to make help her in the exams if successful?

Kiel’s straight face hts co? Is it for the exams?”

Elaru grinned widely “It’s a secret But yes, it will be quite helpful for the exams”

A secret, huh? Of course it is…Everything about her was a secret I guess there is nothing left to do but wait and see whether she can

Seeing is believing No point in dwelling on it

Kiel motioned towards her book and inquired: “Is that your…workbook?” He couldn’t blatantly ask if it was her diary, could he now?

Elaru’s eyes flashed with an emotion so quick Kiel didn’t catch it “You could say that It is a compendium of my research”

Not a diary? That did nothing to da?

Elaru sic”

And here she goes again with the vague anshat did he expect? A straight and coe of his nose and walked away to tend to his own matters

He couldn’t do anything about it Considering how the first thing she did was cast a trigger spell on the book, even if he got his hands on it, it would be useless without knowing the trigger spell The book was locked and needed a key – a trigger spell, to unlock it Well…unless he could break the spell locking it However, his knowledge didn’t cover spell breaking

After so unable to find out anythingwith Elaru and concentrated on his ownto see if there were any anomalies with it He didn’t have the tiht have changed them

He tried out weaving spells as flawlessly as he could Soon he realized that he couldn’t really test out hiswas flawless to begin with; how do you i that is perfect?