Have Magic - Chapter 75



Only Noblemtl

Embrace the Magic (75)

The sun set and darkness came. The children who had been crying without anyone asking them to do so gathered around Rodin.

“Ha, have you said your goodbyes enough?”

Nod nod!

“Let’s send it now. Magic Hand. Dig!”

I lifted the corpse with magic and dug the ground with magic.

31 bodies were found here, 7 bodies of children were found at the place where the children were rescued. A total of 38 holes were dug and 1 body was placed in each hole.

‘I’m tired today.’

If there had been no survivors, Rodin would have dug a single large hole and buried all the bodies. He disposed of all the bodies he had seen on his way here in the same way.

“Would you like to say goodbye for the last time?”

Nod!

“Light.”

Rodin floated a ball of light into the air. The children looked at their families, pale and cold in the light.

Just when I thought I was holding back tears, someone started crying. It was a girl. As one of them started crying, the other boy started crying too.

Rodin left the children alone to cry as much as they wanted. Emotions that are bottled up can lead to illness.

‘I need to start getting ready soon.’

It was past time to prepare for camping. If things continued this way, I would have to sleep in the wilderness without any preparation to block the wind.

‘It’s not cold weather though.’

Fortunately, spring was almost over and now it was early summer. It was the kind of weather where you wouldn’t catch a cold at night even if you had a bonfire.

“are you okay?”

Nod!

The children who had been crying for a long time gathered again. Rodin gathered some branches from the surrounding area, made a bonfire, and prepared dinner.

The only thing I could call a meal was beef jerky boiled in water. I didn’t have the skills of a baker, so I couldn’t really expect it to taste good.

I gave them food. The kids just looked around, eating or not.

Rodin left for a moment, and the children began to eat their food in a hurry.

Rodin waited until the children had finished eating before returning. The children were just pretending not to know anything, their mouths slurping with soup.

“Want more?”

Crackle crackle.

“Thank you.”

The older of the two children nodded. Then, as if embarrassed, he turned his head back to the ground.

“While we’re on the subject, I should ask for your opinions. Do you have any other family or relatives nearby?”

Crackle crackle.

“no.”

One answered with a nod, the other with a barely audible voice.

“I think we’re on our way to Lance, is that right?”

“yes that’s right.”

Nod nod!

This time too, the boy answered quietly, and the girl just nodded.

“If you want me to take you to the city, I’ll take you to Lance. The choice is yours.”

“Uh……, uh…….”

“You don’t have to answer now. I plan to spend the night here, so think about it until the morning and then answer.”

Rodin unloaded the pack from his horse and spread out the blanket, pillow, and quilt.

“Stay here. I’ll see you tomorrow morning.”

“yes.”

Leaving the children behind, Rodin sat a little way away.

The children were whispering among themselves. It was a small voice, but loud enough to be heard if you listened closely.

‘I ended up staying up all night.’

Rodin used his printing magic to draw a mana accumulation magic circle on the floor. Then, with his eyes closed, he called out the lesson of the pocket watch.

Fortunately, the children did not disturb Rodin. They kept whispering among themselves and then fell asleep while hugging each other tightly.

Rodin concentrated on his lessons on the watch. It was still a basic course, but he was progressing faster than before. He was gradually learning the language.

After about 3 hours, I entered the center of the mana accumulation magic circle and performed 2 cycles of the magic power training method.

Even when staying at the inn, I never skipped the magic training method. As important as gaining new knowledge was accumulating magic power.

After finishing the training method, I resumed importing pocket watches. My concentration gradually increased and the contents of the class were engraved in my mind.

‘Huh? Proval?’

It’s been over two months since I started taking the class, but I still don’t know what race the teacher is.

A race that looks similar to humans when viewed from the front, but has bony plates on its back and a blunt tail. So, I have always remembered it as a name like ‘Bone Plate Tribe’.

But today, during class, the name of that race was mentioned for the first time by the teacher.

Purbal.

It was not a language with any special meaning. Dwarves were just dwarves, and elves were just elves. Likewise, Purval was just Purval.

The teacher showed great pride in his race by talking about ‘Great Purbal’. It was as crazy as a human’s saying ‘Great Human’ or something.

‘Purbal. Just remember the name.’

Anyway, they are a different species from me. Whether the other person thinks Purbal is great or not, there is no need for me to think of myself as great.

I focused on class again.

Now Rodin understood more than half of the basic words. He didn’t have to try to fit them into the context.

‘Is this roughly the language ability of a three or four year old human?’

Although there is still a long way to go, it was important to note that things were improving little by little.

Rodin was smart. Although he is currently learning slowly due to his lack of basic linguistic knowledge, once this problem is solved, he will acquire knowledge at a frightening rate.

‘You just need to have the vocabulary of a 10-year-old.’

Even now, he was rapidly learning the language that Proval used. He believed that he could overcome some singularity that affected the speed of learning in about half a year, or at the latest, a year.

* * *

Before the sun rose, Rodin checked the items he had taken from the bodies of the marauders yesterday.

Exactly 203 gold coins. In addition, there were gold ornaments that must have been someone’s heirloom and documents proving ownership of land and houses in a certain area.

I piled up things that could be of value to one side and prepared breakfast. The food was no different from yesterday.

It was a jerky soup with water, jerky, and a little salt.

“It’s a little better now that I’ve tried it once.”

Yesterday it was a little bland. I thought the jerky was salty so I put in too little salt.

Today, I added a little more salt, learning from yesterday’s failure. It was seasoned appropriately.

“When will you wake up?”

I didn’t bother waking the children up.

Yesterday was a tough day for the kids. They must have been mentally exhausted, so I decided to leave them until they cooled down.

I closed my eyes and took out my pocket watch. I was thinking about continuing the class I had been listening to at night, but then I hesitated for a moment.

‘What’s in the class I’m listening to later?’

While Rodin was being educated through the welcoming, there were times when he wondered what he was doing. The content of the classes was focused on language and the level was at an infant level.

‘You were so thoughtless.’

The level of artifacts that were welcomed as educational were so high that I felt that if I continued to take the classes, I would eventually gain some great knowledge.

But nothing was confirmed. I was just receiving training with vague expectations.

‘I guess I’ll have to check.’

I adjusted the number on my pocket watch to around 3.

Since 1 was the lowest level, the number 3 wasn’t that high either. Since it would be knowledge that wouldn’t reach an advanced level, I didn’t have high expectations.

‘uh?’

But then, in 3, a rune suddenly popped out. It was a rune that Rodin knew, so he recognized it as soon as he saw it.

The training that Welcome was giving was, of course, incomprehensible. However, since I already knew the runes, it was easy to guess what was being said.

‘Would it be better to learn the language here?’

I put my worries aside and changed the time on my pocket watch again. This time, I set the hour hand to 6.

‘Ah, there’s a rune here too.’

Although I didn’t know the letters, I recognized that they were runes. An enthusiastic teacher was teaching while showing off numerous illustrations.

‘How far does the rune extend?’

Even when I set the clock to 7, the lesson was in runes. As expected, it was an unknown language.

It was a rune lesson that continued until the hour hand reached 8, 9, and 10. Even if I listened roughly, there were more runes I didn’t know than the ones I did.

As soon as I turned the clock to 11, another class started. It was a class I had no connection with Rodin, but was curious about.

‘Swordsmanship lessons? I expected it anyway.’

The lessons of the watchman were not ordinary. They were much higher level than ordinary people. It was clear that the artifacts were intended to teach at least high-ranking nobles.

‘Perhaps it is teaching the one who will become the emperor.’

The teacher, who was there as a welcome presence, treated the unknown student very carefully. He tried to maintain a gentle tone while teaching according to the set curriculum.

‘What is 12?’

I changed the hour hand to 12 and called out a welcome message.

The welcome teacher who appeared stared at Rodin, shook his head, then nodded and disappeared.

‘What? What qualifications did you have to have?’

I had my doubts, but I didn’t delve too deeply into them. Instead, I turned the clock to 2 and started the welcome class.

‘Huh? Is this geography class?’

As soon as the class was called, a huge map appeared before his eyes. Even for Rodin, who had seen the continent’s topography in books several times, it was an unfamiliar shape.

“What is this? Is this the continent? I have a feeling it’s not.”

I kept trying to match the map of the continent in my head with the map that appeared before my eyes. No matter how hard I tried, nothing matched.

‘Let’s think about the past. During the time of the Magic Empire, Masurim was the capital, right? If so, let’s assume that it was the center.’

I moved the map of the continent I had seen in the book to the east of the map that appeared before my eyes.

‘This doesn’t seem right either.’

No matter how I tried, it just didn’t fit. No matter how much time had passed and the terrain had changed, it didn’t make sense that there were no parts that matched to this extent.

‘Hmm.’

I left the hour hand at 2 and moved the minute hand slightly. Then, the huge map that had appeared in front of me disappeared and a similarly sized map appeared again.

‘There’s another map? Oh, this is the continent.’

Finally, I saw a familiar terrain. The eastern part of the map that appeared before my eyes roughly matched the entire continent I saw in the book.

‘The current Eastern Continent, Central Continent, and Western Continent were all just the eastern part of the continent at this time.’

The map showed the land where the Masurim was and all the way to the west beyond.

That means that the period when Proval’s civilization flourished overlapped with or even preceded the period of the Magic Empire.

The Magic Empire was destroyed about 5,000 years ago, and Masurim was born at that time. In other words, from 5,000 years ago, not only Masurim but also the land beyond it was not a human land.

‘Around the same time as the Magic Empire, or maybe before? I’ve never heard of such a thing.’

The oldest known record is that of the fall of the Magic Empire. There are no records left of the time when the Magic Empire was at its peak and of the time before that.

‘It was a really long time ago.’

Rodin stared blankly at the ring on his left hand and the pocket watch he was holding in his right hand.

It was hard to believe that this object was an antique that was at least 5,000 years old, even though I was seeing it in person.

No matter how I looked at it, it seemed like a fairly old item that had been made about 10 years ago.

‘Hmm.’

The map not only depicted the terrain, but also had many letters written on it. The names of the terrain were written in Proval’s letters.

‘if.’

I chose a spot on the map by will, and immediately a sound came to my ear.

-Asakaph. Konahi Hoabira Osieria Monrist… … .

“Ah! That’s ridiculous!”

Rodin was so surprised that he cried out without thinking. The sound was so loud that it reached the ears of the sleeping children.

‘Writing isn’t everything?’

It wasn’t just letters written down. When you selected a letter, the name and description of the place name appeared.

‘Is Proval before the time of the Magic Empire?’

Rodin was not surprised that the place names were merely explained, because the letters were written all over the map, some of which were artificial locations.

For example, the names of places like libraries, watchtowers, and laboratories were written all over the map. Naturally, it was the library built by Proval, the watchtower built by Proval, and the laboratory built by Proval.

This meant that the entire land shown on the map was under the rule of Proval.

‘Proval. What is this? A civilization this strong?’

It wouldn’t be the same time as the Magic Empire. There are few records of the Magic Empire, but there are records of it being a great empire that ruled the entire continent.

It made no sense that two civilizations shared the same world at the same time.

In the end, it was clear that Proval was a civilization that predated the Magic Empire.