Meikyuu Toshi no Antique Shop

Remove the glasses and stick them into the pocket in the abdominal position of the apron and remove the usual props instead.

Rubber band first.

I tied my long hair together.

Then insert the black short cylinder into one eye.

An indispensable magnifying glass to see the details of an item.

Put on more white gloves. Needless to say, it's for not putting extra fingerprints on my client's deposits.

This is the costume as an appraiser.

After that, if you take out the table with the cross of deer skin (seme) and place it on the counter, it is the completion of the workshop.

"Well. Look at that."

When Fujiwara pulled the firesword deposited from Soara out of the skin sheath, only the body was placed on the workbench.

First touch the area around the tip of the sword with your index finger. Slowly explore something toward the sword.

Fujiwara mutters something by placing her index finger on the part where the sword body engraving is floating. It is a preliminary spell used by a magician to release the magic in his body outwards.

It releases the earlier magic outward, and now adds the effect of revealing what is being covered up.

"This is..."

"This is the technology that generates magical phenomena without magic -"

After the sword body beneath his fingertips echoes small, blue and white muscles stretch around the design as if blood vessels were rising, branching, spreading and forming something of an odd pattern.

If you look closely, they are made up of countless magical characters, and if you look at what you see, they look like abstract paintings and blueprints.

It's called a magic circuit.

One scholar said about this it was like a mechanical trick with a combination of complicated and strange gears.

Another poet said it was a finished form of poetry packed with every word play.

But if you ask an appraiser or a magician, starting with Fujiwara, the most common resemblance is the contract.

Magic is a paid contract act with the world in the first place.

The principle is to talk to the world by intervening in 'language' by spells, gestures and spells, to get approval, to use magic as a currency, to elicit some phenomenon.

It is the magic circuit that is subrogating the principle by letters.

And this essentially consists of three undertakings.

i.e. 'Qualifications', 'Compensation' and 'Compensation'.

"Qualification" refers to the qualification to be a party to the contract - that is, to use the tools' abilities.

Examples of what is actually there include "Only bandits can handle it" or "Only if you fight on the battlefield".

Other than that, there are ties that cannot be helped by the will of the person, such as blood muscles and age limits.

"Price" refers to the consideration to be paid when using abilities.

Money, hair, etc. may be rarely required for this (most of the time, incineration), but in most cases, it can definitely be assumed that the magic of the user is required first.

"Reward" is a magical phenomenon that can be obtained from the world.

Needless to say, if the two points mentioned earlier are not cleared, they will not be drawn out, but the more difficult they are, the more effective and powerful they become.

I mean...

"By reading this, you know under what conditions you can use it, how much you need to spend to use it, your abilities, your power, etc."

"I know how I can get a flame out of my sword..."

That's what I'm talking about.

Fujiwara carries out the analysis as she talks.

From time to time I run and write something with a blade pen, looking at a pattern carved onto the surface of my sword body over a monocular.

A seemingly plain and monotonous task, but its appearance was a total mobilization of knowledge, intelligence and nerves that could be held in the back.

It's not easy to attack a maze of words that are so intricate that they are cryptographic and unsupported.

Well, it's not a task I hate.

Find and convert hidden codes and hidden words in words and phrases -.

Substitution and conversion according to predetermined algorithms -.

I could solve the words like a puzzle. Cut and bond the text -.

Join again after deleting unnecessary modifiers...

In a repetition of the task that would drive him insane if he were a regular person, Fujiwara became aware of the laughter spilling from the edge of his mouth.

He's more of a fun type to learn about (well, that's why Anemone calls him a pervert).

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Eventually, words decrypted little by little pile up, revealing themselves as one meaningful sentence.

"Thou shalt give three hundred and twenty and five drops of blood, which thou shalt tell all but the barbarians of unclean grey eyes - and the world shall oxidize, and fire, and burn, as the bonfire of the Pichtheim garden."

This is what compressed, abstracted, and abstracted the magic circuitry short to its limit, where even just a single sentence is spent a huge amount of magic characters.

It's like a novel.

It is equally true that the text, which at first sight seems to be nothing more than an unintelligible poem or a mystery, has become so completely naked that it no longer needs to be examined.

Fujiwara intrigues each and every one of its meanings.

First of all, it is a statement about "qualifications": "Tell you, all but the barbarians of dirty grey eyes."

This simply means that whoever is not a grey-eyed barbarian can use it. It is easy to imagine why such a constraint was imposed. Once the sorcerers were at war with the barbarians called the Grey-Eyed. And they were not left on earth, even if they were made extinct.

Next is a description of "The Price": "Give Three Hundred Twenty-Five Drops of Blood."

What is required here is not the blood itself, but the magic contained in three hundred and twenty-five drops of blood.

The magic content in the blood is not a very helpful value because race differences, personal differences are huge and the common human being at the time of production should be the criterion, but given that the consumption of the initial attack spell is around five hundred drops of blood, it would be an amount that is not a burden on the body

(For the record, humans lose more than half of the blood flowing through their bodies, about 40,000 drops of magic, which is believed to result in significant mental disorder or shock death).

And the second half of the description of "Rewards" is all about "Then the world will oxidize, ignite, burn, as per the bonfire in Pichtheim Garden."

There will be no need to explain the flow leading to the first half of the flame.

Important here is the part in the second half of "As the Bonfire in the Pichtheim Garden".

This is an indication of the quality and scale of the flames, the bonfires that dwarves appear in old stories burn when they celebrate.

As for the size of the flame, it can be said that it is large enough to enhance the weapon by overlapping three lighting pine lights used in the dungeon.

"In conclusion, the quality of this sword is not 'crude (ravish)'"

Fujiwara removes the plea mirror and turns it into a pocket.

Then deliver the short sword you were putting on the appraisal bench to the sheath, clasp it, and then hand it to the owner with both hands to avoid dropping it.

"Does Soara know about the quality (quality) of the item"

"Yeah, that's"

Quality (quality) is a system initiated by the Continental Commercial Federation. Rate items on a five-level basis so that even layers who do not know the difference in maker, material, ability, etc. can shop safely.

"Luxury", "Good", "Unmarked", "Crude" and "Useless".

Needless to say, that grade greatly affects trading. Although there are general decisions about the good and the bad, there is a great deal of discretion due to the addition or subtraction of the merchant handling the item. So maybe it's a good idea when buying something in the store, but it's possible that they want to buy it when they sell it. Although it may not be generally a good system, it is now widely practised outside the Federation's umbrella shops.

"This firesword can be used by almost anyone, with a small amount of magic to lose and a lot of flaming power. We can say that performance is good quality, but there's only one problem."

……

"The wires in the magic circuit are very coarse. This is inhibiting the circulation of magic. Maybe that's why you couldn't handle it."

So you're saying it's a defect?

"No, you can handle it. It's just harder to handle than usual. You have to master some initial magic to deal with this."

"How long does it take to remember that?

"At the very least, we have to train in magic for nearly six months."

……

Soara leans down and stares at the sword in her hand.

Indeed, the overall value of the firesword was not as bad as initially imagined.

I could say it was rather a good result.

Quality would have a reasonable rating of 'difficulty (peaky)'.

Think of it as something less familiar but equivalent to 'unmarked'. Even if you sell it, it's a lot different from "crude." It's expensive.

But that's not what Soara wants.

What he wanted to know in the appraisal was not the general value of the sword, but how it could be used.

"Let's do something else."

As Soara became an Explorer, the day he left the country town, the master who dropped me off gave me his hand with a whisper of his nose was the sword he loved to use.

Soara was immediately speechless in her unexpected gift.

'As you know, this is the prey I got in my active life. Then it's a horse, so I guess you can't handle it anyway'

I said thank you, "I'll take care of it" in tears, and I said, "You're not. I mean, sell it now and get geared up, Da Abao 'and my fist bones fell off.

With tears holding his head down, Soara said back, 'I'll definitely use this damn jizzy,' 'cause I'll give it back to you.

I still remember the pain in my fist bones then.

Of course, because I was happy.

Actually, Soara wasn't that depressed.

Even before I visited here, I had already gone around and appraised many shops, and I had heard that it was' a defect that might not catch fire 'in those shops.

However, there was no place for me to treat Soara, the rushing seeker, as a decent customer, and I could barely give up the results because I could barely get a test.

So it turned out to be an unwanted result, but I am rather satisfied to have it appraised in this "| The Age of Good Old Mages (Old Good)".

Because I could finally convince myself of the new fact that 'it may be handled depending on training' and, above all, that the sword cannot be handled.

"Mr. Store Manager, I have a favor to ask you".

Soara grabbed the received sword hard before deciding to put it back on the counter again.

"Can I have this kid bought out at this store?

"It's possible, but why...?

"I don't have enough money to train magic."

The funds I had made available when I left my hometown were already running out of money. You won't be able to continue your life in a labyrinth city as soon as you don't stabilize your earnings as an explorer like this.

"So with the money I sold this, I'm going to get a new grant weapon and attack the basement third floor"

Maybe there's really a better way to do it, or the right way to do it.

Maybe this is the wrong choice.

Of course, I don't want to sell the precious things my master gave me. I want to take care of it until I can handle it if I can.

But this is all I can think of right now.

Besides, I didn't do what I could right now, and I didn't want to get away from what was right in front of me like this.

"Okay."

Fujiwara nods and takes up the sword put on the counter.

"Then for the amount of money you sold the Firesword, let's see what weapons you deserve."

"Is it true? Thank you."

That was an offer I didn't even wish for.

That's as much as I was going to ask you to do.

Soara was so glad to be here. It was a shame that I was to let go of my important sword, but I had no choice and could not hope more than to deal with it. Above all, there will be no further consequences.

- But.

"I guess… is the answer as an exemplary merchant"

Fujiwara said as she fixed the position of her glasses with her index finger.

"Hate, I refuse because this is a convenient appraiser's shop"