Black Iron’s Glory

Chapter 93 Magic Books and Magic Scrolls

The carriage was driving on the highway.

In the trunk, looking at Lady Maria sitting across the street, Claude felt a little headache: "Ma'am, is this a good idea? In your capacity, it should be for my father to visit you, not for you to bow down to the cold house as a guest...”

Mrs. Maria replied with a smile, “No, I don't care about the details. Also, I have something to discuss with your father, such as hiring you to guard my forest..."

After finally dragging those three boars down the hill, Claude found that the wagon man Wayne and the Theories of the Watchman had nothing to do with splitting them. All right, Caravan Wayne's bleeding out, not slaughtering live. Seeing that Theori, the Lin man, was semi-disabled, with only three fingers on his right hand, he could not hold the slaughter knife, and was said to have been injured and disabled in the war when he was young.

The rest is housekeeper Ludhan and Aunt Langhi, the wife of Theori the Lin people, who look at them and know that it's hopeless to expect them to break down and slaughter the boars.

At the end of the day, Claude did it himself and asked Luther Ann Butler to find a few things for the carriagemen Wayne and Theories to do. After they lost sight of the irrelevant people, Claude again carried out magical hands and precise control. It only took about half an hour to decompose the two boars, peel them off and remove the viscera. It was organized, useful and useless. Place them clearly...

Lady Maria watched the frowning dance beside her, not at all disgusted by the smell of blood. When Claude borrowed a carriage from her after work in preparation for transporting his 300-pound boar home, she went into the trunk and said she was taking Claude home, visiting Mr. Morsan, the chief of administration of Bai Lu Town...

That's why Claude had a headache.

“Ma'am, do you really want to hire me as your garden guard?” Claude asked.

“Of course. Why would I lie to you?” Lady Maria said, "You see, the Theories are getting older, Theories is half crippled again, I'm careful that the boars will come to my woodland to mess with it, if you're asked to guard, don't worry about it. Plus, you can stay in the woods, and I'll give you the keys to the pharmacy lab, where you can read all you want. ”

Claude grinned, "Madam, let me remind you, I'm graduating from the country in two and a half months. Do you think this is a good time to hire me? ”

“Well, I don't want to hide it from you because you're so familiar, but I want you to do one thing for me. You just need a week off from school, maybe not a week. ”

“Ma'am, what can I do for you? ”

“Claude, didn't I say I could only stay here another ten days and go back to the King? In fact, I want to take the alligator specimen apart for the next 10 days and use the skin mask inside to make plaque paper to bring it back to the king... you know if I take this alligator specimen to the king, I might not be able to keep this alligator specimen... If you help me, I think I might be able to make the plaque paper made from the alligator skin directly into a magic book, so that the magic book might be better preserved...”

Claude was interested in hearing Lady Maria say, "Ma'am, can you tell me what this magic book is for? Is writing used for long periods of time? ”

Claude thought Lady Maria's magic book made with the Nanirose crocodile specimen, like the two diaries and magic notebooks of Master Landers, could ignore the passage of time and preserve it almost six hundred years later as if it were new.

I didn't expect Lady Maria to hear Claude say that, but she laughed, “I'm sorry, Claude, I forgot you're a magical rookie, I don't know all this magical common sense. In fact, magic books are divided into many kinds, like you said, basically magic books made of the lowest calligraphy paper, which have little effect except that they can be preserved for a long time.

And the magic book I'm going to make with this Niros crocodile specimen is quite advanced, basically for engraving the magic charm array. By the way, Claude, have you heard of that magical power theory? It is to quantify the magic in the six-mang star and measure the magnitude and difference of the magic consumption between the various spells with this quantified magic... ”

This seems to have been seen in the diary of Master Landers. Claude nodded and remembered that Master Landers had given this example in his diary when he spoke of engraving seven basic spells. If the magic in the Six-Mounth Star were 100, the main basic spells engraved would consume between one and three magic each time, and the six basic spells next to him would consume between three and five magic each time.

And the spells that are not engraved in the Six-Mounth Star, although they can be carried out, draw the magic array in the sky and then release the spells, which consume more than a dozen to twenty of their own magic. Not only will the spells last longer than the seven basic spells engraved in the Six-Mountain Star, but the magic consumed is enormous, so any magician must choose a basic spell that suits him as best as possible when promoted...

Seeing Claude nods herself to understand this theory of magic power, Mrs. Maria continues: “No magician can carry out only seven basic spells of his own, but magic limits the number of other spells, so more than 2,000 years ago, a magic scroll was invented by a magician, which is to engrave the magic character array on the paper of the script, and when it is carried out, it is only necessary to enter magic to release the spells, the advantage of which is to save half the magic of the magic applied by emptiness.

However, this magic spindle also has the disadvantage that engraved spell cannot be released multiple times, making the magic scroll of plaintext paper does not withstand the magic shock of multiple spell releases and is easily damaged. Later, some magicians improved on the basis of this magic scroll, compiled it into a book, and plotted a reply grammar array on the cover and back so that the script paper carrying the structure of the magic script array could slowly reply to itself after the release spell.

One of the better things about the Magic Book than the Magic Scroll is that it avoids the singularity of spells. A Magic Book is a 24-page piece of paper that can be engraved with 24 spells. When used, the Magician can choose a variety of spells to combine.

In this way, unlike the magic scroll, there is only one spell, and the combination of spells has to be chosen from many magic scrolls, which is both cumbersome and a waste of time. At the same time, the reply grammar array of the magic book itself can prolong the use and durability of the script paper, while at the same time saving the consumption of its own magic. It is a good thing.

So an official magician also has at least one or two magic books for his or her alternate magic choices. The Magic Scroll was replaced by the Magic Book, and then developed by the Magician another role, which is to become the carrier of disposable spells. Now the magic scroll is stamped with the magic charm array structure and sealed with magic. Just tearing the scroll is tantamount to releasing the magic, so that the magic can be used even if it is not a magician. ”

Lady Maria knew that Claude lacked cognition of magic common sense, so she explained in great detail: “By the end of the Dark Calendar, the fall of magical civilization, the growing scarcity and depletion of magical materials and magical resources, the magician was left with only two categories: the Battle Mage and the Syntax Mage. Few magicians had been able to carry with them a few magic books engraved with magic, because the script paper used to make those advanced magic books was from the fur of the beast, which by then had been extinct in the Farea continent.

Do you know why I drove all the Nilos crocodiles back from White Deer Town as soon as I heard someone hunting? ”

Claude shook his head very well.

Mrs. Maria went on to say, "Because until now, the skin film of the Niros adult crocodile is one of three animal furs on the entire Farea continent capable of producing magic book script paper. There are also two red eye monkeys in the western highlands of the continent and a blood-backed gray wolf in the southern peninsula of the continent, the one known in the novel as the Alpine Demon Wolf.

Of course, a plaintext paper made from a Niros alligator film can only carry zero and one level spells at most if used to make a magic book. If you engrave a higher level of magic, it's like the original magic scroll, unable to withstand the magic shock of the magic release, which eventually damages the entire magic book.

That's also why the magicians couldn't see the Niros crocodile hundreds of years ago, but for us registered magicians, a specimen of the Niros crocodile was enough for us to break our heads, after all, we were learning the same low-level harmless spell as garbage. Fortunately, this time I got the news and rushed over. Otherwise, I won't have my share until Wang Du's special department finds out... ”

“Now you understand? Why do I have to stay here for about ten days?” Lady Maria looked at Claude and said, "I'm going to peel the skin film off the Niros crocodile here in the woodland, make it into plaintext paper, and then bring it back to Wangdu, so no one can rob me, and they can barter with me if they want.

When you just cut down those two boars, I suddenly realized that if Claude had helped me, I wouldn't have had to go down the skin mask from that alligator specimen, and you could have done it with your magical hands. Then I'll have time to use this alligator skin mask to make some more magic books. Anyway, I have all the materials here in the woodland... ”

Claude finally understood why Lady Maria was after herself, and he could only smile bitterly: "Ma'am, I can teach you the magic hand and precise control of these two spells so that you can make the magic book out of that crocodile specimen without any effort. ”

Lady Maria refused: “That would be a waste of my magic. You are engraving these two spells as basic spells that do not require much magic. I don't have a magic book to carry these two spells right now. I guess I have to waste a lot of magic every time I use them at least. I can't use them a few times a day, so I think it's better to call you...”

Well, it's been laid.

“Claude, don't think I'm calling you. Think for yourself, I'm doing you a lot of good.” Mrs. Maria said positively.

What's in it? Claude looked at her indissolubly.

Lady Maria laughed again, and she seemed to enjoy watching Claude do this: “Think for yourself, when I called you, did you follow me and learn how to make plaque paper out of the Niros crocodile's skin film? I'm sure you haven't learned? ”

Learned, Claude said in his heart that the Landessors documented in his diary the steps and process of using the Niros crocodile's film to make plaque paper. Of course, the Landessors only made their own diary and magic notes from this plaque paper, not the magic book that Mrs. Maria used to engrave low-level magic. Claude just saw it and remembered it, he hasn't practiced it yet.

At that time, however, he could only nod silently.

“Also, I may make a few magic books and scrolls after I make the script paper, and you can also learn the whole process next to me, if you don't understand, I'll give you an answer.” Another more attractive condition has been put forward by Mrs. Maria.

“Really?” Claude moved, and the Landers magician didn't write it in his diary. If Lady Maria taught him how to make magic books, he could have gone to the Camida Swamp to hunt the Niros crocodile himself and come back to make magic books by peeling off his skin mask.

“Besides, I can give you a copy of this magic book if it's well made, as if it's your reward.” Mrs. Maria lured Claude again: “The only condition is that you live in my woodland and do what I tell you to do.

I heard a joke about you climbing the roof last year as a thief by a patrol cop, and I think you were practicing meditation. If you live in my woodland, you don't have to worry about being discovered.

Ten days later, I went back to Wangdu, and you were in charge of the forest, and like I said to your father, I hired you as guard of the forest. You can continue to live here, read my books, and even use my pharmacy lab. ”

Claude finally moved: “Well, ma'am, as long as you can convince my father, I'm always at your disposal...”