Chapter 194 - The Spiritual Garden’s Array

What surprised Cecil as he went through the Magi-tech building was that as he got to the higher floors, the more advanced was the knowledge that he could gleam from the doc.u.ments. Naturally he copied them into his Magic Tome.

Even if it was miscellaneous knowledge, as long as it was interesting enough and advanced, Cecil would copy it down. Who knows, maybe someday this knowledge might help him later.

"Hohohohhh...There's gonna be a whole lotta stuff I'll be studying when we get back!"

The basic information in regards to magi-tech development was found on the first floor and Cecil had long since copied them into his book. The basics were always important and the introductory knowledge would help him build a foundation when he would eventually have to study the advanced knowledge he was currently copying down.

For some reason, Cecil found it enjoyable when he was going to study about magi-tech. He was already naturally attracted to his MID so now that he had the opportunity to learn about its inner workings and the knowledge used to create such a device...he was naturally ecstatic!

Cecil continued copying the doc.u.ments and he finally reached the top most floor of the building. There was only one room on the floor and it most likely led to the teleportation gate. He made his way back down to the first floor and noticed that there were more and more students coming and going.

Cecil exited the place and walked over to the herb garden. When he entered he noticed that the nature mana in the garden was much denser when compared to outside of the garden.

He walked around and didn't find anything of interest. Cecil activated his Mana Eyes and noticed the magic array that was encircling the entire garden. It attracted the ambient nature mana into the garden and trapped it inside.

It also seemed to function to accelerate the growth of the plants and herbs inside the garden. It was fascinating, so Cecil decided to sit down and try to copy the formation into his book.

Naturally, the Elves in the garden that was cultivating their mana noticed him. Cleo noticed the boy and naturally grew curious when she saw him stare out into space and writing down on his book non-stop.

She walked over and tapped him on the shoulder, "Cecil?"

"Ueh? O-oh! What's wrong Cleo?"

"What're you doing?"

"Me? Oh, I'm just copying down the garden's magic array! It's really fascinating!"

"...?"

Cleo looked around the garden, but couldn't find this magic array. When she turned to look at Cecil again, she noticed that the boy was looking off into space. She tried to align her sight with his, but still couldn't see anything.

"What array? I don't see anything!" Cleo asked. She then began to pout when she noticed Cecil ignoring her.

He was so focused on writing in his book that the boy didn't register Cleo asking him something. She naturally turned her eyes onto the book in his hand.

The array that Cecil was drawing was pretty big and detailed. He had to use up two whole pages to inscribe the entirety of the array. Even then, he had only copied down about 1/5th of the array onto his book.

There was at least a million runes composing this magic array and it would surely take a while for him to inscribe the array into his book. Not to mention that he had to double, triple, and maybe even quadruple check it. Just to make sure that it wasn't wrong and was a complete and exact copy of the herb garden's array.

Two hours later, Cecil had finished inscribing half of the array. It took him this long because he was also checking his work as he continued writing down, making sure there wasn't a mistake in his copy.

Cleo was sitting next to him the entire time looking at him working. She tried calling out to him a couple of times, but Cecil was unresponsive.

"...this blockhead is so focused that he's basically blocked out any outside interference..."

She also looked at Cecil's focused eyes and was somewhat enchanted.

"Such beautiful eyes..."

Cecil's golden pupils seemed a little unique to Cleo. It was like there were small runes glimmering in his eyes.

"Cel?"

From behind a voice sounded out and Cleo turned her body to look at the voice. A beautiful foxkin girl with silver hair came into view and she was staring directly at Cecil and her. Then her face crumpled into a frown and the girl made her way over to them.

Behind her was pink haired rabbitkin girl that followed after. Cleo remembered who the two girls were, the second strongest person from Arks Royal Academy, Lucia Yukihime and the Arks Academy's Student Council Secretary, Serilla Lunarts.

She remembered that these two girls hung around Cecil and it was obvious that they liked the boy.

When the two arrived next to Cleo and Cecil, they finally noticed that Cecil was writing down something very seriously. They didn't want to disturb him so they turned towards Cleo.

"What are you two doing here?"

Met with such a question, Cleo's eyes shone with a little surprise before she smirked back at the girls.

"I'm accompanying Cecil~"

"...to do what?"

"Uhm...Sightseeing?"

Cleo's excuse caused Lucia to frown and Serilla to giggle.

"Hmm...Cel's obviously doing something important...you shouldn't bother him."

"I know that~ I'm just sitting next to him and cultivating quietly...I'm sure I'm not a bother. Look, even Cecil isn't saying anything!"

"..."

Lucia's attempt at trying to shoo away Cleo ended with her defeat. She didn't want to look overbearing and high-handed so she just let the elf girl do whatever.

Lucia plopped down next to Cecil and peered over. She noticed that he was inscribing some kind of runic magic array into the two pages of the book. The other page was already filled and he was currently just starting on the next page.

Cecil snapped out of his focused state and stretched his body. He then stood up and turned around before he plopped back down onto his butt. It was then that he noticed the three people around him.

"Eh?"

"Heya~!"

"Cel!"

"Hmhm~"

Cecil only gave them a short glance before turning his attention back to the magic array.

"Don't bother me..."

"..."

"..."

"..."

His words caused the 3 girls to blank out for a bit. Lucia was the first to recover. She wanted to explode out and smash the idiot in the face, but when she saw his focused and serious look, it was clear that what he was doing was very important, important to the point where he even coldly told them not to bother him.

"Hmph. Fine...I won't say anything...not until you're finished at least," Lucia grumbled quietly. She didn't get up, but decided to stay sitting down next to Cecil. Serilla sat down close by and closed her eyes to meditate.

Cleo was a little disgruntled by Cecil's reply, but she sighed and closed her eyes to resume her cultivation. She had spent two hours just staring at Cecil, seeing how the two girls beside the boy had promptly sat down and begin to quietly cultivate, she followed suit.

Cecil was using his hyper-sensitivity to take a long look at the array before he swiftly continued to draw, he would then glance up again and use the skill to make sure he didn't create any mistakes when copying down the array.

He continued doing this for another 6 hours. Then he used another hour and a half to check his completed copy. When he made sure that there were no mistakes, he finally noticed how exhausted he was.

He had used up a lot of his brain power during the almost 10 hours he used to inscribe the array. Cecil tiredly got up and quickly made his way to the healing ward. He quickly entered into a room and plopped down onto the bed.

He was mentally exhausted. Silver plopped down next to him and quickly closed his eyes, but then he raised his head and barked and Cecil.

"What is it, Silv?"

"Wa! Wafu!"

"Huh? I...forgot something?"

"Wafu!"

Cecil tried to think about something, but he couldn't recall himself forgetting anything. He checked and rechecked the array he inscribed and he was 100% sure that it was an exact replica without any mistakes.

He also had all the magi-tech knowledge stored inside his Magic Tome of Infinite Pages. What could he have forgotten?

"...No, Silv...I didn't forget anything...just hurry up and sleep...we still have to visit the Armory and Library... I also forgot to take out something from the garden so I'll revisit the place tomorrow..."

Cecil fell into a deep slumber. He was too exhausted to keep his eyes open. Silver barked one more time. He made a pitiful expression that read 'you're digging your own grave master...'and indeed, Cecil probably just did dig his own grave.

Back at the garden, the girls had long since stopped their cultivation when they noticed that Cecil had finished his work. They wanted to call out to him, but the boy seemed a little listless. He didn't pay any attention to them and straightforwardly walked out of the garden, with Silver in his arms.

They sat there quietly in place as the wind blew. Lucia's face was dark and she looked just about ready to explode.

Serilla was panicky as she tried to calm her down. Cleo was the only one who had the nerve to laugh at their predicament.

After finishing his inscribing, Cecil had directly left the girls behind without even giving them a single glance. It was the first time Cleo experienced being neglected and it caused her to laugh at the situation.

"Ahahahahaha~"

"Cel! You're dead!"

"Now, now Lulu, calm down~"