The moment I left the mansion, my father spoke to me.
Apparently after he waves his sword, heâs sweating from his face.
âYes, I will come looking for talented peopleâ
âRight. Actually, I wanted you to find something magically good.â
âIs it magic?
âOh, magic will be the key to the battle ahead. Magic isnât talented, itâs useless. I canât use magic properly either. There are a few things the minister can use magic on, but itâs not enough yet, so Iâd like you to bring me something talented.â
Magic.
I donât know much about magic.
My father told me to use it once. In a weird tool, I put red liquid in it and cast a short spell and it activated. A small fireball broke out and flew toward the target.
But then, my father told me, âYou donât seem like magic to me,â and I havenât been allowed to use it since.
I was quite impressed when the magic was activated, so Iâd like to try it again.
Does that mean I didnât have the gift to use magic? If you only used it once, you donât have to bother asking me.
I guess I used magic that didnât feel so talented.
âOkay. Iâm going to look for magically talented people.â
âI asked for it.â
I happily accepted my fatherâs request and left for town with Leeds.
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Horses are used on the road to town.
I canât ride, so Iâm riding two in a way that Leeds will hold me in.
Reetz has cavalry aptitude s on boulders.\nThe more I roared at my father, the better I handled horses.
Using a horse, you reach town in about two hours.
Iâm going to stay in town for about two days.
âLeeds, I donât know much about magic, so why donât you tell me?
Using my time on the road, I thought Leeds would teach me about magic.
âIs it magic? Do you know the basics?
âYeah, I used it once. I put red liquid in the weird equipment and when I cast the spell it activatedâ
âYes, its weird equipment is called a catalyst, red liquid is called magic water. When you put magic water in the catalyst and cast a spell, magic occurs. At that time, the magic water you put in is consumed.â
Catalyst and magic water? Letâs remember.
âOriginally magic was something that would be used for entertainment because if I did it, the spell would be long and the power would be weak and thought to be unusable in battle. However, the development of catalytic machines has shortened the spell and increased its power, which is now used in warfare. Sounds like youâve been spreading explosively within the SomerForce Empire for about a decade now.â
âIs that so recent?â
âYes, even when I was in the mercenary corps, the ancient Ginseng soldier moaned that something terrible had recently been developed and was in trouble.â
It hasnât been used in battle for a long time, has it? It was surprising.
âIs magic water to fuel something you can often take?
âMagic water is made by melting stones called magic stones. The magic stone itself is not that uncommon, but the price seems to be soaring due to increased demand, which will cost a lot of money to operate the magic unitâ
âMoney⌠the Lovents donât earn that much.â
Income is low each year because it is small and there are no specialties in particular. It is the current situation that I am managing to communicate with.
âYou donât have to form a unit, because if you have one competent magician, it will change a lot. You should be able to hire about one. Letâs find it this time.â
âRight.â
Then he was rocked by a horse for a while and arrived in town.
The town I visited this time was called Canale. \nIt is a major town in Canale County.
Surrounded by fine walls, itâs a castle city.
There are quite a few houses standing outside the castle as well.
I guess this is happening because we didnât need to defend ourselves because this has been peaceful for a long time.
Naturally the castle was created in an era before the unification of the Samaforce, which seems to be quite ancient and ageing.
In the center of this town stands the Canale County Mayorâs house, the Pires house.
I walk in a town outside the castle.
Inside the castle, it can only be put in what is now a stately one.
Well, Iâm the lordâs son, so I can get in, but thereâs nothing in the castle for this talent hunt.
The town outside the castle is quite busy. There are also a lot of people.
The whole population is about 50,000.
Seeing all of this is going to drain your eyes considerably. But you donât have to see them all. You only need to look at those dressed as poor.
Talent in this town is likely to be unemployable, assuming itâs good.
I invite him to come all the way to Randolph, but many would think he didnât want to come all the way from town to village. The reward canât be that high, either.
So much so that I can only hire something thatâs in trouble with the money.
If youâve lived in a village since the beginning, youâd basically be happy to take it on.
Anyway, the wealthy are likely not to come, so just look at the poor.
âWell, weâll find itâ
âYes.â
I took a lice look at the poor people on the street from the top of my horse.
\nI examine each and every slave in the cage.
Yeah, well, there couldnât be any good people, and when I almost gave up,