Chapter 65 – Wandering Mage Luke #2
“Really? That’s the average bronze mage?”
“That’s right. Bronze Wandering Wizards are capable of doing a little more strange tricks than ordinary people.”
Coincidentally, a breeze blew across the gymnasium, and the flame burning in the palm of the middle-aged wizard picked and went out.
“Hook.”
At that moment, the middle-aged wizard blew a little late and pretended that the flame had gone out.
The more I looked at it, the more it looked like a piece of shit.
I’d rather keep the flames I made longer.
After that, the middle-aged wizard cast several more spells in front of the adventurers.
With the characteristic cheesy long chant.
“I’m kicking out, the fangs of the wind that rips out the heart—!”
A light breeze gently fluttering the fallen leaves on the ground.
“A rope of nightmare that restrains the enemy—-!”
A rope that does not restrain the enemy and just wriggles on the floor.
He probably used the rope trick among basic magic.
“Heo-eok. Heo-eok.”
It was a middle-aged wizard who convulsed as if he would die after casting his magic a few more times.
I looked at the middle-aged wizard with a sigh.
Could this be a wandering wizard?
It was something that straddled the line between the criminal and the real wizard. The adventurers who were watching the middle-aged wizard weren’t too surprised, they just looked at them curiously. It’s like watching a street magic show.
“It’s kind of disappointing that that’s an average bronze mage. I thought I’d be able to see some flashy magic.”
“That’s right.”
It was when Rebecca and I were both looking disappointed.
Wendy from the side opened her mouth with a soft smile.
“Do you understand now? Why did I show the wandering wizard to Luke?”
“No, I have no idea.”
“Promote quickly and become a silver tier. You can’t be treated like a bronze wizard like that person. Hurry up and escape the deep sea and go up to the town where people live!”
Only then did I understand Wendy’s meaning.
It was intended to inspire my desire to train by showing the cocksucking wizard.
Bronze level wizards don’t seem to be highly evaluated by people.
Certainly, a bronze wizard like me is treated quite differently from Kate, the same bronze nun.
I don’t get bombarded with gifts like Kate.
“Thank you. Thanks to you, I have the motivation to practice magic.”
“It’s good for me when Luke-sama grows up. I’ll be evaluated for my merits as the receptionist in charge. Then, the wandering wizard tour ends here! Both of you can disband.”
After saying her goodbyes to Wendy.
Me and Rebecca parted ways in front of the Adventurer’s Guild building.
Left alone, I burned with the will to practice magic. Seriously, I didn’t want to be treated the same as the crappy wizard I just saw.
You can go to the magic shop and buy a new spell book.
But more than that, there was something I had to check first. It was a book that had been lying in the inn room for a while. A mysterious book that spewed out new magic spells whenever the time was right. Now that I’ve completed the quest to subdue the giants and returned, wouldn’t the new magic have been renewed?
I returned to the inn with high expectations.
*
“It’s up, it’s up.”
I arrived at the inn room in the late afternoon.
Opening the thick book I had on the bed, I let out a voice full of joy.
This is because the practitioner, who worked diligently on only water droplets in the paper, finally began to show new behavior.
There was a picture in the back of the book, which was originally blank.
‘What are you trying to do?’
I turned the pages as if reading a manga serialized in a magazine. Because in the picture, the practitioner did not end up showing magic. The monk was walking down the street with a certain purpose in mind.
In the painting, the monk stopped his hand manipulating the water. Then, the water droplets that were floating around fell to the floor. Leaving behind the wet ground, the monk walked forward in silence.
Eventually, the monk arrived in front of a large lake.
The monk, who looked around him as if appreciating the view of the lake, began making hand signs with his fingers before he knew it. A new magical handicapper appeared, but I just turned the page back. Because I was curious about what kind of result the practitioner’s magic would bring.
After all hand-signing is done.
It was the moment the monk dipped one hand in the lake.
“All.”
The water in the lake, which had been full, began to boil. Air bubbles rose as if heated by fire from beneath the ground. It wasn’t long before the lake began to rise and puff up smoke.
It’s like hot spring water in a volcanic area!
‘I made the water in the lake boil. Is this also water magic?’
To make such a large lake boil at once.
Certainly, the attendant seemed to be an old wizard who couldn’t even compare to me. He wondered what he was going to do by making an alternate lake boil.
But what the monk intended to do with the water of the boiling lake was unknown. It was because the picture that continued at that scene was cut off.
Just like the writers who use cutting magic in serial novels.
I couldn’t help but burst out swearing while looking at the back page that remained empty.
Oh, it’s so fucking tantalizing.
Isn’t there a function like preview?
Doesn’t it have a capitalistic function that previews the next episode when you insert a coin?
Just in case, I dropped a 1 copper coin on the paper, but nothing changed.
Still only emptiness greets me.
‘So what’s the name of the magic?’
I read the writing that hangs under the last picture. Unlike the magic books bought at the magic shop, only the key points are briefly listed. In it, I discovered a new magic name.
Boiling.
Magic that raises the temperature of water.
It worked by infusing magical energy into the water that came in contact with the body. It was completely different from liquid magic, which simply manipulated the flow of water. At this moment, I was able to learn a new way to manipulate water.
If it’s a magic that raises the temperature of water, where can it be used?
Looking at the boiling lake in the picture, I couldn’t help but think. Of course, the magic that interferes with the temperature of the water has many uses.
Even in battle right now, if you heat up the water whip, it will increase its power.
In addition to inflicting blows on the enemy, it should be able to feed them with feverish thoughts.
However, other than using it in battle, I came up with a different way to use it.
‘The picture of the lake has become like a hot spring.’
Feels like watching a warm hot spring.
It seems that you can enjoy a hot spring bath that will melt if you enter the painting and soak your body.
After all, isn’t that pretty amazing magic? A magic that raises the water temperature just by dipping your hand in the water. This is a magic that would be useful even in a previous life where science and technology were developed.
‘Now I can do business with water magic.’
Make water
Manipulate the flow of water.
To increase the temperature of the water.
Combining these three spells, I would be able to run a public bath in another world.
A large public bath that I saw when I went to the trading city. There are a lot of people coming and going, so the shop owner must be making a lot of money. Maybe in the future, if I retire from adventure work, it would be okay to build a bathhouse in Yoensuu.
It is a bathhouse run by a magician.
Word of mouth spreads, and nobles and ministers may be able to attend.
“I guess I can make a solid plan for my retirement. I heard that I was good at learning magic.”
I began to practice magic, full of dreams of setting up my own shop in the middle of the land of Joensu.
*
While practicing boiling magic, it was late at night. Filling the basin with water, signing the water seal, and dipping your hand into it has been repeated until now. However, while practicing boiling magic, I couldn’t help but be a little surprised.
‘Did this magic work right away?’
According to the book’s commentary, boiling magic was quite a difficult magic. Neither the method of making a hand sign nor the method of inducing mana in the body was simple. However, after a couple of attempts, it quickly became successful. No matter how familiar water magic was, it was noticeably fast.
‘Is it because I recharged my magic with Rebecca?’
Did my magic skills increase thanks to the magic charge? It was because the warm energy felt in the abdomen had definitely increased compared to before. It wasn’t that difficult to send mana outside. I was fortunate to have sex with Rebecca beforehand.
And, there was a fact that I learned after using magic until nightfall.
‘You can raise the temperature of the water without having to dip your hands in it. You could use other body parts like feet or elbows.’
Although in the book, practitioners used magic by dipping their hands.
In fact, it was possible to increase the temperature of the water using any other body part. In addition, the higher the area in contact with the skin, the faster the temperature rises. Submerging both hands was faster than using only one hand.
It takes a total of 30 minutes to heat the basin with one hand.
However, additional soaking of other body parts shortens the time by several minutes. At the moment of this realization, I felt that the basin in the room was too small. It was because the basin was not large enough to put the whole body in.
If you are training magic, wouldn’t it be better to use mana and train with all your might?
Anyway, thanks to last night’s magic charge, my mana seems to have increased considerably.
Eventually I needed a new basin.
That means you need a fucking big basin.
After thinking about it, I went downstairs and asked the innkeeper.
“Mr. Brown, do you have any extra basins in the inn storage room? Something big enough to hold my body in.”
“Is it a big basin? Big enough to hold you? There are some items like that left over from the bathroom fixtures.”
“Please lend me.”
Innkeeper Brown shook his head and lifted his fingers to make a coin shape.
“You can’t lend something that big for free. If you borrow it carelessly and break it, it’s a loss.”
“You mean buy a basin?”
“That’s how it is. I’ll hand over the wooden basin for 10 coppers. It’s like a brand new item that’s rarely been used, so don’t worry about its durability.”
There is nothing difficult about it.
If it’s money, it’s enough for the reward for catching the giant.
I handed the 10 coppers to the innkeeper, who quickly returned to the reception desk with a basin. It was a basin large enough for me to submerge myself in.
“You may keep the basin I lent you before. Even a small basin within 10 coppers will be counted.”
“Great.”
“But what the hell are you doing in your room? The inn guests say you keep hearing the sound of water in your room.”
“I’m taking a shower.”
“A shower? Are you washing yourself all day?!”
“I’m a dreamer who looks cleaner than I look.
With a suitable excuse, he answered the innkeeper’s question.
Speaking of practicing magic, it seemed like I would have to give an unnecessarily long explanation. I’ll have to explain it to the innkeeper someday, but practicing boiling magic was more important to me now.
“Good job, Mr. Brown.”
I hurriedly took the basin and returned to the inn room. Perhaps because it was a fairly large basin, it took up a lot of space in the room when I put it on the floor. Water may splash around, so I put things away.
“Water.”
Then fill a large basin with water.
I took off the clothes I was wearing.
I took off all of my underwear and entered the basin naked.
‘It’s cold.’
I was half-immersed, but I went into the basin and shivered. Because my water created by water magic was basically very cold. However, making hand signs in this state would also help increase concentration.
I made a hand sign and immediately cast magic.
“Boiling-.”
Is it because the whole body is soaked like taking a bath?
The speed at which the water warmed up was incomparably faster than before. The amount of cold water in the basin increased as well, but the temperature of the water was rising enough to be felt by the skin.
The water became lukewarm
The temperature went up and it was warm enough to warm up the body.
Maybe 15 minutes had passed since then.
Squeak-.
The water in the basin began to emit a misty steam.
I looked in amazement at the water in the basin that had turned into hot spring water. The temperature of the water was hot enough, and before I knew it, I was enjoying a half-body bath in my room. It’s so warm that I want to lie down and fall asleep.
I looked at the steam rising to the ceiling and was satisfied.
Is this the power of water magic?
At least I don’t think I’ll have to worry about bath water for the rest of my life.
‘Isn’t that great?’
In this moment, I became a walking hot water maker.
