Chapter 46 – Volume 10 – Graveda Academy (1)
“Carly?”
Of course, it will take too long to develop computers in normal order from the early semiconductors.
But isn’t that the case with circuits using ‘electricity’?
Using magic, it may be possible to easily overcome the barriers to progress in the original computer.
So the reason I can be wishful thinking about this part is that, after all, I don’t know much about magic.
“Carl, Lee!”
“Uh, huh?”
“What do you think? You don’t answer what I asked.”
“Because that’s what I was worried about.”
“Is that so?”
“Yes.”
To be honest, there are refrigerators in the Middle Ages, water comes out for free, and there is even a function to heat water.
In some parts, there are parts that show better performance than Hyundai, right?
If you use this well, wouldn’t a computer be possible?
“Then, should we try?”
“Really!?”
“Yeah, but you gave up on swordsmanship, right? I want to learn magic.”
“Ah, if that’s the case, I can teach you the basics needed for the entrance exam.”
“But isn’t it just a short while before the entrance exam?”
“That’s true, and why did you say this as soon as you came, because it wasn’t long before the application date?”
I heard that because of the request I put in when I was outsourcing the other day, Graveda Academy and other academies under the direct control of the empire created a type of admission based on drawing skills alone.
I’d get right through with the LD picture, but I was a bit unsure of the SD.
But if I put it in LD, it’s difficult because it’s like revealing that I’m ‘Siwoo’.
“So you’re saying Leah teaches me magic?”
“Yeah! Oh, didn’t you draw anything before that? I have to go apply first.”
If that’s the case, there were some SDs I drew in case people would ask if I had drawn anything during the 2nd semester.
There were a few SDs that were colored, and there were also some that were drawn in monochrome for sketches and comics.
It’s probably enough for a portfolio.
“Can I just submit a picture?”
“Because magic-related exams are evaluated after passing the document exam.”
“Then what about a wizard who doesn’t paint?”
“Isn’t it not often? If there is, if you draw a magic circle and submit it, depending on your level of knowledge, you will pass the 1st round.”
Instead, the score on the painting side is lower, so you must have good magic skills.
However, he said that the magic test, which is a practical skill, had a much higher score, so it seemed like it was actually for the first pass.
That’s why commoners who haven’t learned magic don’t even try to enter school even if they know how to draw.
“Okay, then I can go submit it tomorrow… Shall I teach you some magic today?”
“I’m curious. Actually, I’ve only seen you use it. I don’t know anything about magic.”
It’s a publishing business that started to develop because of the need to teach that magic.
For reasons of danger, magic books can only be circulated within the academy, so it was not easy for ordinary people like me to read them.
That’s why, when I was researching the data, I remember that there was very little information about magic.
Of course, since I’m a noble, I could ask a magician or bribe a student.
It wasn’t that I was interested enough to do that.
Come to think of it, Rosalia is right next to her, and it seems like I asked her for all the common sense I was curious about.
Rosalia pulled out one of her pens and began her explanation as she drew something with magic in the air.
She usually used her magic by drawing a magic circle with it.
Could that be used like a blackboard like that?
“First of all, magic is largely divided into three types.”
“Three?”
“Yes. Low-level magic, high-level magic, and record magic.”
“I can imagine how it feels for the low and high class, but what is the record?”
Then, Rosalia explained that record magic is to use low-class or high-class materials and make them dwell in things.
Even wizards with low skills are earning money by working in a factory by drawing simple recorded magic.
It seems that this has been operated only by human hands so far, so it has to be done manually.
Painting tools that use magic are not expensive for nothing.
“Still, aren’t quite a few things really cheap? Honestly, common people’s homes are well stocked with refrigerators and the like.”
“It’s big.”
“Uh?”
“The word is manual, so the ‘wizard’ controls the tool that prints the shape as it is and draws it in one second. That’s why it can be made at a tremendous speed, so it’s cheaper.”
Conversely, small-sized painting tools are difficult to do, so the price goes up.
Because it takes a lot of manual work to put all the functions in its size and weight.
The more you listen to the story, the more difficult it seems to miniaturize products, so your dream of making a computer is about to disappear?
Is this right?
“But is record magic very different from normal magic? It’s the same thing to draw magic anyway…”
“The only thing a wizard needs to do is to assist magic when drawing so that it can be activated, but the two are completely different. Recording magic is activated when the ‘mana stone’ supplies mana to the magic letters drawn with ‘magic ink’.”
It seems that there is something similar to the ink used exclusively for recording magic called ‘Magic Ink’.
Even with that guy, he couldn’t activate normal magic that uses the wizard’s magic, and he said that it was only for magic stones.
It seems to be completely separated.
“But then, if you’re not making small things, you’re saying that wizard skills don’t matter?”
“Yeah, that’s right. In fact, it doesn’t matter if it’s a bit difficult because, as I said before, it can be done in the form of a dojo.”
Then why the hell do you need a mage?
I don’t know why wizards are treated so well.
Isn’t it possible to do pretty much anything with just a magic stone and magic ink, and even a mage with no skills?
“Ah, Kali doesn’t know… The limit of record magic is just like a refrigerator.”
“Refrigerator level?”
Come to think of it, there was a refrigerator, but there was no freezer here.
So it was a world where you could drink cold water, but not ice.
I wondered why it was like that, but was it because of the output limit of record magic?
“If you stack them well, you can lower the temperature even more, but it’s virtually impossible for it to have lethal power or have a big impact. Record magic’s firepower is weaker than that of a rookie wizard.”
It is said that the limits of what can be done with mana stones and mana ink are so weak that some magics fail.
In fact, it only has the advantage that it continues to operate automatically without the need for a wizard, but it is said to be inferior to quite a few low-level wizards.
On the other hand, printing magic is a high-level magic that is difficult for most people to follow.
Since the firepower of the magic power itself is minimal, it is said that it is somehow operated with the magic stone.
“Oh, but for things like drawing tools, you have to put in the magic yourself. If you have a magic stone, you don’t need it, right?”
“Among the mana stones, in the case of very small ones, there is not enough mana to operate them. So, I immediately charge that mana and charge it into the mana stone to convert it in real time.”
Five…
It all goes back to its own logic.
Anyway, in order to use magic as a combat tool for that reason, it is said that a wizard is needed unconditionally because of firepower.
And since only wizards can use magic that cannot be realized with record magic, of course we need wizards.
“Of course, record magic is very convenient and shows good efficiency when a skilled wizard designs it finely. It’s worth paying for something like a handmade magic tool made by a wizard with all his might.”
“Aha…”
Well, if the limits are tight, making something within those limits is also a skill.
The genres are different, but because of the level of understanding of magic, most of them said that the two skills are proportional.
“Ah, I’ve lost myself in a completely unnecessary story. I didn’t mean to say this.”
He said that record magic or advanced magic with high difficulty were not included in the evaluation list anyway.
So I was going to just talk about it and move on to the explanation of beginner magic.
Somehow, I started blaming myself for giving a grand lesson on record magic.
“No. That’s what I was most curious about. It was so fun and informative, so don’t worry.”
“Really?”
“And it’s not right away, but it’s necessary eventually.”
It didn’t take too much time either.
Please explain the following at a time when you should blame yourself.
After I persuaded her to do so, Rosalia nodded and began to explain her lower level magic.
“Low-level magic can be activated just by drawing ‘magic letters’ in a ‘magic circle’.”
“I have no idea what it is. Is the circle that Lia usually draws a magic circle?”
“Oh, right.”
She said that the closer the circle is to the exact shape, the more efficiently the ‘magic circle’ creates magic.
However, this part is ‘conceptual’ to the end and has nothing to do with the actual drawing.
With the aid of a tool, the effect can be worse than a squashed one, even if the shape is a circle, she said.
“You’ll know when you start drawing magic on the sky, but it’s harder to get used to than I thought. My hands are shaking so much because the magic is running wild. Of course, now I can do it perfectly.”
For that reason, it is said that this is the first step of the entrance exam, drawing a magic circle.
Evaluate how accurately the magic circle can be drawn in a circular shape without the help of a tool.
Rosaria is said to have got a perfect score here, but she says that’s pretty rare.
“The Graveda Academy?”
“Really low-level places, if the circle is enough to activate magic, it will pass right away? Well, it’s hard to be perfect. Most of them draw an almost perfect circle at a rough glance.”
Even during the first year, most of them can draw a perfect circle like Rosaria.
It’s just a little difficult at the level of an incoming student, but it’s like a required liberal arts by the standards of Graveda Academy.
“Because this is a pen that helps you draw with magic? Do you want to try it?”
“Wait a minute.”
It’s been a really long time since I’ve been trying to draw magic.
Certainly, as Rosaria said, her hands trembled because of the strange feeling of magic.
Still, is this enough to be honest?
It didn’t seem like I was hearing that this was basic for nothing.
“Like this?”
Rosaria’s expression was shocked at the almost perfect circle I had drawn.
