Episode 140 – Magic Talent (2/2)

“Here, your lips are looking a bit dry This explanation will take a while…”

…he offered him a bottle of water that he pulled out of nowhere, well, at least Kiel didn’t notice when and how he got his hands on it

“…there is no need Thank you for your good intentions…” Kiel responded politely, even squeezing out a bright sh those dry lips Grandma squeezed too, but not a s the man retreat behind her like a startled tiwi The fact that her pipe lit up with flames at this moment only served to add hed, fully, or it could have been that she choked on the smoke, Kiel couldn’t tell

“…D’Arca was envisioned as ait required the ical components, artifacts, and enchantments And of course, many enchanters and spell replicators to make them” Grandma delved into the story

“Lord Alann Farhice, as the leader of the project, set up a large-scale artifactall kinds of different people with the only require an ability to reproduce low-level enchantes, or even people eren’tthem a chance to turn their lives around”

All professors straightened up their backs, their expressions showing great respect and even reverie for the great man that was Alann Farhice

“Those that worked hard were rewarded and encouraged Lord Farhice would even personally inspect the products and meet the workers If he discovered talented workers he would even sponsor their study of ed ive the man a salute at any moment

They would probably faint on the spot if they knew that theinto the heavens was… not as perfect as the books portrayed him

While books praised Alann Farhice for his contributions in ic artifacts available to everyone, they failed toso could be su money What history books spoke of as a noble act of extending a helping hand to poverty-stricken populace had another name in Alann Farhice’s book – cheap labor

Still, Alann Farhice ht have had reat vision, intellect, hard work, and humility It was actions that spoke louder than words, and his actions never failed to hter to everyone involved

This story that the granny continued to narrate was no exception

Apparently, after many months of production, on one of his inspections, Alann Farhice discovered several artifacts whose enchant was that the inal, yet their perforinal!

Alann Farhice, while not a e himself due to the lack of ners and inscriptionists His spell designs weren’t so that anyone could just casually improve

When he went to n, he realized they were uneducated peasants who had no knowledge of ic theory In fact, they didn’t even realize that they had ed to produce several artifacts whose enchantinal, let alone kno it happened

They weren’t particularly skilled at weaving h either, their ie

Thus, Alann concluded that their “handwriting” was just coincidentally very suited for the enchant several enchantinal After all, it wasn’t strange for people to have a special affinity for a specific type of ic

And thus, Alann Farhice rewarded the workers for their contribution by pro them to do better-payed enchantments

However, after soain iven to replicate

Once could have been a coincidence, but twice? Unlikely!

Was it possible that these people had a special affinity for two completely different enchantments? It didn’t seem likely

Alann decided to look into this hly and soon he noticed several peculiarities These people all had below average amount of mana so the number of enchantments they were able to do daily was several tie Yet, their iher than average, ic

The reason why their talent wasn’t discovered earlier was because, due to the fewer enchantments, the tie peoplethem not stand out at all

It wasn’t that these people had a special affinity towards those enchantments in particular but that their talent was extraordinary, to begin with It was only natural that ic could ih repeatedly using ic

Anyone else would have dropped the matter at this point, but Alann Farhice didn’t do so So at those new and old enchant’ changed?”

Their ansere surprisingly similar – they felt it would be better “this way” They followed their own intuition when it caes have a strong intuition when it coic? – Alann pondered But if that was the case, then as it that reater talent than those workers needed years of experience to iht and wrong, what is better and worse – it wasn’t soranted by talent, but rather, experience!

Coood spell weaving skills are tempted by the prospect of extra points so uely Kiel almost choked on his own saliva Wasn’t he one of those exa a piece of a puzzle Soht

Perhaps it was some kind of Aethernea he hadn’t been aware of? Not that he was knowledgeable in this area, he had only heard ruifts, and knew nothing more about it Still, he had every intention to fix this lack of knowledge as soon as he got access to Muni library And knowing the naood place to start

This ti, for he al he refused that bottle of water Had he been drinking it now, he’d be spewing it straight into the faces of the exah Patreon to read the next episode and ht nowVote for Aethernea on Gravity Rankings to receive bonus releases