Have Magic - Chapter 106



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Embrace the Magic (106)

There was no need to carve the magic circle on all four sides. Rodin had the magic to save and print images. He could just perfectly carve one side, save the image, and then print it on the other side.

But even carving that one side wasn’t easy. It took two full days to carve the space expansion magic into the warehouse.

Even the 5th circle space expansion magic was difficult, let alone the 7th circle status preservation magic.

In addition, this time I was planning to engrave several magic spells in combination. Naturally, the difficulty level increased several times.

“Whew, it’s hard. It’s hard.”

Rodin wiped the sweat from his forehead and looked back at the magic circle. The walls were covered with traces of several days of work.

It took exactly 11 days to carve one side. Since it was difficult to retry due to material issues, 3 days were spent on reviewing it.

In exactly 14 days, a state preservation magic circle, a space expansion magic circle, and even a mana accumulation magic circle and a mana storage magic circle.

I completed all the complex magic circles. I also stacked 10 high-grade mana stones in the center to cause the flow of mana.

“Please. Please. Activate.”

The elaborately carved magic circle was activated. A faint light shone across the entire wall.

As the space expansion magic circle was activated, the front, back, up, down, left, and right all moved away at the same time. It became wider than before. Before, it was expanded twice, but now the space has expanded more than four times.

The mana accumulation magic circle drew in the surrounding mana. The mana drawn into the magic circle was affected by the mana storage magic circle and accumulated, and the accumulated mana maintained the state inside the warehouse at a constant level.

“Okay.”

At first glance, it seemed like a success. But you had to keep the item to see if it was really a success or not.

“Mag…, no. You have to do this yourself.”

Rodin first took out all the items in the warehouse. Then he opened the food storage next door and moved the ingredients into the newly renovated warehouse.

It was time to buy new ingredients, and there wasn’t much left. I was able to move all the ingredients to the new storage in less than an hour.

“Huh…? What are you doing here?”

“I came to see Brother Rodin. Is it all over?”

“Yeah. It’s all finished.”

“Brother. But what did you do? Why did you leave the warehouse open?”

Bianca walked between the two warehouses, stroking the walls. Her fingertips felt nothing.

“Is it weird?”

“Brother. Didn’t you make the warehouse into an artifact? But why isn’t there a magic circle?”

“Hahaha, that’s my own vision.”

Bianca was no different from everyone else. She couldn’t sense the mana. There were magic circles made of mana all around, but Bianca couldn’t see anything.

“Ew. That doesn’t look cool.”

“taste?”

“Yeah. It would be cool if the magic circle looked complicated like this.”

“There are also advantages to not being able to see the magic circle. Other people…, no. You think so. That’s not a bad thing either.”

In fact, many people, like Bianca, found the shape of the magic circle cool.

Most people think so, and many magicians also try to draw magic circles more complexly and beautifully. They consider the appearance of magic circles to be a work of art.

“Brother. Shouldn’t I learn too?”

“what?”

“Creating artifacts. I want to try it too.”

“What artifact specifically? If it’s something you can learn, I’ll teach you.”

Bianca’s rune acquisition level was average. It was neither fast nor slow.

Besides, the realm of magic is still at 1 circle. In any case, the number of artifacts that can be created is limited.

“I want to make a potion.”

“Potions…, healing potions are difficult. You have to be a 2nd circle wizard to start using them.”

“I want to learn how to cure diseases. So I can make Grandma Margaret better.”

“Huh? Is Margaret sick?”

Rodin had no idea that Margaret was sick. The breakfast this morning was still delicious, so he had no idea that she was sick.

“Yeah. I had a really high fever yesterday. My hands were hot. So I made some water and soaked a towel in it for you.”

“Really? What about breakfast?”

“Uncle Matthew did it. Uncle Matthew is a good cook, too. But Grandma Margaret is a better cook.”

“Matthew did it. I didn’t know. It’s just as delicious.”

Rodin, despite liking delicious food, wasn’t particularly sensitive to taste. He found anything above a certain level delicious.

“Brother, will you teach me?”

“Yes. You can learn disease cure potions in the first circle, so I’ll teach you.”

There were mixed opinions on whether potions should be considered artifacts or not.

Most people claimed that it was an artifact, since only a wizard could inject magic power into it. The special forces training center viewed potions as artifacts, and most magic towers also viewed potions as a type of artifact.

However, since it does not have a magic circle engraved on it, there were quite a few people who claimed that it was not an artifact. All four magic towers considered potions to be a branch of alchemy, and not an artifact.

Rodin was of the opinion that it didn’t matter. It didn’t matter whether it was classified as an artifact or not.

“Really? You’re going to teach me?”

“Okay. I’ll teach you. Let’s go for now.”

“Where?”

“To see Margaret. You said you were sick?”

Rodin strode briskly toward the annex where Margaret and Matthew lived.

Bianca followed him, almost running, and grabbed his sleeve.

“Brother, why are you so fast? You trained with Larry and got faster.”

“Really? I’ll take it slow. By the way, where’s Larry?”

“I went to the blacksmith to get my sword fixed. I’ll be back soon.”

“okay.”

As I was walking, I suddenly arrived at the annex where Margaret was.

Matthew went in to make some meat soup, and encountered Rodin at the entrance.

“What brings you here, boss?”

“You said Margaret was sick? I came to check on her. I’ll fix her if I can.”

“It’s… something like a cold. Can it be cured with magic?”

“Maybe it will work. Even if it doesn’t cure it, it might be able to lessen the symptoms.”

Matthew’s dark face brightened. Matthew’s hands were busy as he quickly opened the door.

I went through the door that Matthew had opened for me. When I entered the room, Margaret was sleeping with a towel on her forehead.

“You have a cold?”

“Yes, isn’t it? It’s like a cold. I heard there’s a cold going around in the whole territory these days.”

Rodin felt a faint, dark magic containing a cursed aura on Margaret’s body. It was so subtle that anyone but Rodin would have had a hard time noticing it right away.

“Hmm. Let me take a look.”

“Yes, sir.”

“True Eye.”

Just in case, I checked inside my body. There wasn’t anything particularly foreign in my body.

Instead, the body temperature was quite high. This was enough to make Bianca feel hot.

“Hmm.”

“Why? Is it a serious illness?”

“Let me look into it a little more.”

This time, Rodin used his magic to analyze the curse on his body.

The aggression was weak. It was tenacious, but it could be easily recovered with the individual’s natural healing ability.

‘It’s a problem for the elderly or children.’

Margaret was not young, but her natural healing powers were not enough to overcome this curse. If she had been healthy, she would have overcome it on her own.

But when I was unlucky enough to catch a real cold and my immune system was weakened, I was cursed. Once my body was weakened by the curse, it created conditions for the curse to become even more rampant.

“president?”

“It’s not a disease… it’s more like a curse. Right now, you’ll just have a high fever, but as time passes, you’ll feel exhausted and helpless. Eventually, your body will wither away and you’ll die.”

“Huh? A curse? Mom’s under a curse?”

“Don’t worry too much, the treatment is easy. Purification.”

Rodin briefly chanted the rune and used the water seal to perform a 6th circle purification.

The purifying energy that started from Rodin’s hand permeated Margaret’s body, and in just a few seconds, the curse was completely removed.

For the level of curse on Margaret’s body, a 3-circle clean-up magic was enough. It would take 3-4 hours to get up and get out, but the treatment itself was easy.

But Margaret was an important person in this household. Her very presence served to stabilize Larry and Bianca mentally.

So I used the 6th circle magic. I made sure that there were no aftereffects on my body, so I should be able to get up and shake it off within an hour.

“Ugh……”

As soon as the curse was washed away with purification, Margaret opened her eyes. They were still dazed and unfocused.

“Sleep a little longer, Margaret. Sleep.”

Margaret, who had just woken up, closed her eyes again.

Matthew’s eyes widened for a moment, but he was relieved to see that it wasn’t a bad situation.

“Thank you, sir.”

“It’s something that should be done. But are there many patients like this?”

“Yes. There are about 5 or 6 cold patients in this area alone. There are more in the entire territory.”

“Hmm. I guess I’ll have to look into it.”

I was about to go out when I stopped. The curse issue was more important than doing what I was going to do.

“Is there anything you want me to do?”

“Matthew, can I go somewhere with you for a minute?”

I led Matthew to the newly built warehouse. Bianca followed me and stayed by my side.

“I made some improvements to the warehouse.”

“In what way?”

“Go inside. Not to the left, but to the right.”

“Yes, sir.”

Matthew opened the right storage room where he had originally stored all sorts of things. He saw shelves lined up neatly in front and on both sides, with food items placed on them.

“Wow! It’s gotten so big. But may I ask why you moved the ingredients here?”

“I added some magic to it. It’s called status preservation magic. Simply put, it’s magic that prevents food from spoiling.”

“Rodin, brother. Wow! You were making something like this?”

“Sir, does such magic really exist?”

Bianca’s eyes widened, and Matthew’s mouth fell open.

State preservation magic.

It was a magic that everyone wanted. Not only the housekeepers, but also the owners of the upper floors and the merchants of the grocery stores would surely pay a thousand dollars for such magic.

“It’s hard to make anything else besides this. We’re out of ingredients now. Anyway, from now on, use this place as a food storage. The status preservation magic stops when the door is open or there’s someone inside. So if you minimize the time the door is open and the time you stay inside, you should be able to easily store even easily spoiled ingredients for decades.”

“Oh! But we don’t buy a lot of groceries. We buy them once every five days, so we don’t have to store a lot at a time, boss.”

“I was going to say that anyway. Buy as much groceries as you can. I’ll pay for them. Just buy as much as you can to fill up this place.”

“This whole large warehouse?”

A few thousand gold coins would not be enough to fill this vast warehouse. It would probably take at least tens of thousands, or perhaps hundreds of thousands of gold coins.

“Yes, as many as possible.”

“If we fill this up, we can live off of it for decades, sir.”

“Is that a lot? Hmm, that might be a bit excessive. Then, fill up the food as if the five of us would eat for about five years.”

“Five years… Okay, I understand.”

At first, Rodin decided to give Margaret 100 gold each month for food. He thought that would be enough to feed a family of four, but it was too much.

Margaret returned her 50 gold in the first month without even using it all. The second month was similar, always leaving half behind and returning it at the end of the month.

50 gold per month. Based on this, 5 years’ worth of food would cost approximately 3,000 gold.

“There’s no need to rush, but please fill it up quickly.”

“Is there a special reason?”

“Hmm, I think ingredients are going to become scarce.”

“Yes? Uh… the Marquess of Richmond… no. I’ll fill it in as soon as I can.”

I could guess what Matthew was trying to say. He probably meant to say that grain prices were unlikely to rise much because of the wide plains to the south and west.

In general, Matthew was right, but these were not normal times.

The starting point of the volcano was not an underground ruin, but a mountain in Sorien. It was known as a place where volcanic activity stopped a long time ago, but in reality, lava was still flowing out.

However, the volcano has not erupted yet thanks to the underground ruins that have supported and cooled the lava that flowed from the mountain.

If the underground ruins eventually collapse, the mountain will emit huge flames and black smoke.

From then on, crops were bound to fail. It was unlikely that there would be a proper harvest around here until the volcano quietened down again and the smoke cleared.

“Here’s the money.”

“Oh… this much money.”

Rodin generously gave Matthew 5,000 gold.

Matthew took the money and his body froze.

It was the first time in my life that I had ever touched a large sum of money. I had been saving my monthly salary, but I had only managed to save 200 gold.

I wondered why he gave it to me if I ran away with it, but at the same time, I felt good because it seemed like he trusted me.

“I trust Matthew.”

“I will really work hard.”

“I’m already working hard. If I do any more, I’ll get in trouble.”

“Yes, sir.”

Matthew drove the carriage outside, holding 5,000 gold coins tightly in his arms.

* * *

The idea of ​​finding out about the curse never came to fruition. Before they could investigate, a research team arrived from a nearby magic tower.

The Marquis of Richmond was aware of the disturbances in his domain before Rodin.

The funeral of the Marquis of Richmond was attended by many outsiders, some of whom were wizards who discovered traces of a curse in the Marquisate of Richmond.

Naturally, the news was reported to the eldest son, who had not yet inherited the title of Marquis. The eldest son, Baker Richmond, immediately requested help from the nearby castle tower.