Chapter 142 - New World (2/2)

This dark elf was actually a top scholar!

That said, as the elves possessed longer lives, it was destined that they would have more time to learn knowledge than humans. Unfortunately, their long lives also doomed them with a slow growth.

Their upper limits for magic made it so that even if they knew a lot of runes, they were incapable of activating magics capable of determining the outcome of a battle.

Joshua did not bother to ask this dark elf lady how old she was. To rashly ask a woman her age, especially someone whose age was in the triple digits, was an irrational behavior akin to courting death.

“Since you’re proficient in the runes of order, it’ll be simple then.”

The small amount of ordinary magic power flowed out from Joshua’s palm. A spinning cube appeared above his hand.

“This is… magic from the order system? Milord, please excuse my rudeness. I’ve already grasped all rank five magic and below from the order system. From rank six magic and above, they’ve become difficult and impractical for me to use.”

The dark elf believed the order system’s magic to be the most practical for assassination. Her abilities were all based on the magic ‘Mage Hand,’ one of the most basic magic. Using that basic magic, the dark elf was able to expand it to countless different applications.

Magic was not something that was better the more complicated it was. Instead, she believed practicality of magic to be much more important. As such, she was a combat mage like Ciri.

“Strictly speaking, this thing is not magic.”

Joshua tossed the white cube to the dark elf. The dark elf extended her hand to catch the cube. The cube bagan to spin on her hand nonstop.

“Not… magic?”

The dark elf looked at Joshua with a confused look. She saw Joshua making a motion of clenching one’s hand. Copying Joshua’s motion, the dark elf grabbed the cube.

The cube immediately shattered into countless rune inscriptions. Like a powerful current, the runes rushed into the dark elf’s body. She opened her eyes wide in shock. A pitch-black window was present before her eyes. Gradually, the window turned pure white.

A series of words, ‘Windows XP,’ appeared on the center of the white window.

She took a couple steps back to distance herself from that strange window. But, in a short few seconds, she realized that the window had appeared in her line of sight directly, that she was simply unable to escape from it.

“This is… an illusion magic?”

The only kind of magic the dark elf knew that could change what a person was seeing would be illusion magics. But, illusion magics do not belong to the order system. Instead, it belonged to a very rarely seen rune system.

“No. Strictly speaking, this is a new world.”

Joshua did not fully compile the Windows XP operating system. The order runes were different from computers’ diodes. The only reason why he named the operating system he made using the order runes as Windows Xp was all because of nostalgia.

“A new world?”

The dark elf was unable to comprehend what Joshua was saying. After all, to the people living in the 18th century during the magic industrial revolution, computers were a concept much ahead of their time.

“I believe that there should be an icon called ‘Mage Forum’ on your desktop. Use your hand to tap at it.”

Joshua used his hand to do a tapping motion.

Although the dark elf was shocked by what appeared before her eyes, her professional allowed her to quickly calm her mind. She ran her eyes across the ‘desktop’ mentioned by Joshua. There were three special icons. They’re respectively ‘My System,”Norland Radio Station’ and ‘Mage Forum.’