Chapter 43

Chapter 43

Luciel sent a thank-you letter to Kizef, but there was no reply. She didn’t get sad. Because in the first place, she didn’t send it hoping for something.

In fact, Luciel didn’t have time to wait for Kizef’s letter.

Time flew by as she learned magic and cared for the herbs. One day among the peaceful days that continued.

“……Luciel.”

In an evening when the soft moonlight fell, Luciel finally had her own wand. Gillard held out a wand wrapped in blue velvet to her.

“Take it. Your wand has been completed. It was made by a master craftsman.”

“I was really looking forward to it.”

Luciel took the wand from Gillard and carefully unraveled the velvet cloth. When she saw the wand, she was at a loss for words.

The long, stretched wand was a transparent blue. At the top, there was a colorless and transparent gem stuck in a cross-slit groove.

“Do you like it?”

Luciel nodded her head repeatedly, clasped the wand in her hand, and waved it.

“It’s more awesome than what I imagined… I don’t know what to say. I love it! Grandpa, thank you.”

Luciel jumped up and fell into Gillard’s arms.

“Oh, my child. Do you like it that much?”

“Yes.”

Nod Nod.

Luciel’s eyes twinkled as she looked at the wand.

“Now I can really do my own magic. With my own strength.”

Unable to hide her pride, Luciel smiled broadly. With such a cute smile, he almost petted Luciel without realizing, but Gillard endured it and proceeded with the next step.

“Okay, let’s start with mana pairing, a process that connects your mana to the wand for the first time.”

“Yes. What should I do?”

Luciel’s crimson eyes twinkled like jewels more than ever before, so Gillard said with a laugh,

“It’ll be easier for grandpa to demonstrate, right?”

“Yes, please.”

As Gillard seemed to sweep the air with his palm, a staff wrapped around his hand appeared.

“Huh?”

For a moment, Luciel said, ‘What did I see?’ and rubbed her eyes slightly.

“Come on, watch what I do and follow along.”

“Yes!”

“Hold the wand lightly, close your eyes, and feel the mana gathered in your heart.”

Luciel closed her eyes and felt the magical energy gathering in her heart.

Ba-dum.

Light air swirled between the wand and Luciel.

Sharak!

The moment Luciel’s mana, which was spinning, seeped into the jewel embedded in the wand, her heart pounded and started to resonate.

Then, Luciel’s wand rang and vibrated. The sound echoed through her palms, chest, and head. At that moment, even Luciel, who closed her eyes, felt the light coming from the staff.

Gillard’s voice was heard.

“Luciel, open your eyes now. Mana pairing is complete. Now you can hide your wand and take it out again at any time to use it.”

“Wow, that’s convenient.”

When I opened my eyes, the staff in my hand was shining softly and transparently. The appearance was sacred and beautiful.

“I think the magic wand is really cool. Every time I cast a spell, I’ll think of Grandpa!”

“It’s a weapon that will always be with you, so take good care of it.”

“Yes. I’ll work hard. Thank you, Grandpa. It seems to me that you are giving only precious things every time.”

Luciel happily nodded her head once again, giving Gillard a hug.

“You are a precious treasure to me, Luciel.”

At those words, Luciel’s heart tickled even more softly.

Gillard patted the little girl on the back and gently stroked her pink cheeks full of excitement.

If I had known that she would like it this much, I would have given it to her sooner. In fact, it was not an ordinary magic wand, so it took more time, but he still felt a little bit of regret.

Gillard looked at Luciel’s wand again.

He visited the dwarf Rupdell, who had a knack for making magic weapons, and paid a high price for a wand that could contain pure non-attribute mana.

Since Rupdell produced a wand in return for Gillard saving his life, they have been doing business together.

For this wand, which can only contain honest and pure magic, Rupdell gave the name of ‘Innocent’, and Gillard thought that it was a very suitable name for the innocent Luciel.

Above all, the great thing about Rupdell’s wands was that it grew according to the users. It was qualitatively different from the wands sold in common magic shops.

‘I can’t wait to see how Luciel’s wand will change.’

I didn’t intend to tell Luciel about it yet. Even if I didn’t say that, Luciel must have been trying too hard just by the fact that she had a new wand. But if you tell her that the wand is a growing weapon, she’ll push it even more.

Gillard plans to quietly let her know when the weapon grows for the first time in the future.

“Grandpa, today, can I try it out!”

Luciel’s eyes, full of enthusiasm, gleamed with vitality.

“Yes, practice freely today!”

“Thank you. Hehe.”

Luciel, who got her first wand ever, was so excited. She glanced over it again and again. As Gillard said, Luciel’s mana-paired wand could be with her anytime, anywhere.

It listened very well to her, just by simply giving orders like ‘Disappear.’ and ‘Come here.’ inside her mind.

‘I think it’s completely different from the wands I used in practice.’

However, this wand did not contain any engraved magic spells with attributes.

“I need to fill it up with my own strength.”

First of all, Luciel tried casting a non-attribute, 1st circle magic spell.

Maybe it was because she was mana paired with the wand. After Luciel memorized the magic formula once, it was engraved on it, and even before she could completely recall the magic formula in her head, a small transparent magic circle appeared in the air that activated the spell.

Even before uttering a trigger word with her voice, the doll she cast the spell on floated with magic.

It was truly a new world.

“It’s so nice.”

Luciel was so happy that she wanted to run around in one place. Her heart was pounding even as she slept.

* * *

After her class, Luciel ran to the greenhouse garden. She was there to see the herbs planted in the flower bed.

The dome-shaped ceiling in the greenhouse garden was made of glass, and Eva said it contained the magic of absorbing and storing sunlight, so it was adjusted to give only the amount needed to plants.

Thanks to this, sunlight was shining on the inside of the greenhouse without being too much or too little.

Luciel squatted in front of the flower bed. It seemed that the trunk of the Ruga tree had slightly thickened. Tatea and Thierry have been planted for a week, and she thought it was still a long way from sprouting.

“Oh.”

I thought it would take a lot longer for Tatea, especially since the seeds were smaller and softer, but light green little buds were sticking out.

“I’m kind of happy. This is how it feels to grow something.”

Luciel smiled mischievously. It felt like she had been given a gift she was not expecting at all.

In addition, the empty flower bed was also filled with herbs planted by Cicline. The place already seemed to give out a wafting subtle and fragrant herbal scent.

‘If this happens, the greenhouse garden will become a medicinal herb garden.’

She just asked Cicline for help, but everything is changing so much like this. It seems like she’s one step closer to working for Bellstein, so Luciel was somehow proud of it.

“Okay.”

Turning her head, she saw Cicline bringing a large sack into the garden. Soon after, she laid it down on the floor and grabbed her arm for a moment. It seemed very heavy.

“Dr. Cicline, what’s all this?”

“Little Madam? Ah, I went to the farm to get fertilizer for the herbs. That way it will grow faster and better.”

Having said that, Cicline fertilized the herbs and watered them down. Luciel, who watched her as she cultivated the herbs more carefully than anyone else, made a promise. A promise to make a great apothecary for Bellstein, for herself, and for Cicline.

From then on, Luciel practiced magic every day, with or without classes.

It was very fun to record magic spells one by one on her wand. Now, she learned and recorded everything of non-attribute spells up to the 2nd circle.

“You mean you practiced and recorded all of this yourself?”

It took a lot of time and effort.

“Yes. It was so much fun.”

“That’s great.”

“That’s how I can make it mine.”

Gillard shook his tongue at the child’s terrifying persistence.

‘I wonder where in that small body dwells such power.’

At first, he thought that she just had great magical powers, but Luciel’s real talent was that raw persistence. That child will be strong. She will train herself until she becomes strong….. He was happy to have met a disciple whom he liked very much after a long time.

“It’s a good attitude. If you keep doing that, you will definitely become a good wizard.”

At his praise, Luciel’s plump cheeks turned red like an apple. But soon the child’s eyes twinkled with confidence.

“I will keep that in mind and work hard!”

He thought that the more outstanding a child was, it was a virtue to save praise and show off less, but sometimes expressing oneself honestly leads to better results.

Luciel was such a child.

* * *

After finishing his day, Kizef lay down on his dormitory bed. He used to avoid the school cafeteria in the evening.

Maximus and his gang usually occupied it. He really doesn’t have any appetite. Suddenly, Kizef missed the luxurious dishes he ate in Bellstein.

-Hoot.

-Hoot.

‘Why is the little one crying?’

For some reason, Kizef was bothered.

I caught five bugs earlier, are you hungry again? Come to think of it, it’s really annoying. That owl and that letter.

With a dry expression on his face, Kizef took out the letter from the chest of drawers. Contrary to his expression, the letters were neatly placed. It had been over a week since the letter arrived, and the owl had no intention of leaving.

Raven, who slowly appeared, said.

[Are you still struggling with the carrier owl? You can just blow it away.]

“……It won’t fall away from me, how can I throw it away?”

[Then should I scare and chase it away?]

Raven narrowed his eyes and approached the owl with a mischievous face. Then Kizef wrapped his hand around the owl and pushed Raven away.

“What are you going to do? Get away.”

[Killjoy. Are you interested in the owl owner?]

“The owner is a boy.”