Chapter 298 - Meeting Balba
Chapter 298: Meeting Balba
Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations
“Alright, since I’m here. A new cantrip it is!” Angor puffed up his chest. “Tell me what kind of cantrip you want to learn.”
“Really, any cantrip?” Sailum was quite happy.
“Any, as long as it’s an elemental one.”
Angor’s tablet could only work out very basic cantrips, most of which used natural elements.
Nausica only planned to watch the kids having fun. However, when she heard Angor being so confident, she could not help teasing by asking, “How about you show us something that causes mist in the area?”
Among level-0 cantrips, Nausica only heard of a cantrip with such an effect called Dark Mist, which was available for Dark Wizards. There were other level-0 cantrips with a similar effect which all required a specific attribute, and there was no Element one.
Nausica asked this one to pull Angor’s leg. She never expected a valid answer.
Sailum’s eyes twinkled. “I almost forgot!”
Nausica, on the other hand, looked at Angor in shock. She felt relieved when Balba came and interrupted their subject, which meant Angor no longer had to “act tough”. But now…
Or can he actually use such a cantrip? But that will break many rules written in the textbooks!
Despite her doubt, Angor already began his lesson. “I’m not talking about one cantrip, but a composite one. First, you need to learn Frost.”
Frost was one of the most commonly-used movement-hindering spells among apprentices. Of course, Nausica and Sailum both knew about it. Even Balba found the textbook of it from Cloud Library.
“A composite cantrip? But that’s… something difficult, right? I saw that concept from a book,” said Sailum as he tilted his head.
“Then you’re better than me, cause I never saw it before. What’s a composite cantrip?” Nausica said.
“Two cantrips used together,” Angor explained.
The principle of a composite cantrip was way more complicated than his explanation. Any sophisticated wizard here would be beyond astonished if they heard Angor talking about a newly-created composite cantrip.
Being able to create composite spells was one of the essentials for stepping onto the path of truth!
“To learn this composite cantrip, you need to use Frost, plus another cantrip I modified based on Dust Removal, called ‘Dust’.”
Balba was quite shocked to see what Angor was telling them. A cantrip that was free to be passed to someone else either originated from somewhere outside Brute Cavern or was created by Angor himself. It was probably the latter.
Balba smiled bitterly and shook his head. While “his peer” was creating new cantrips, he had only learned several useless ones. He really wished he could listen to Angor’s lesson, but he could not—it was obvious that he was not invited for this.
Balba stood up and prepared to leave.
“You can stay for a moment. It’s not anything big anyway, just something to obstruct someone’s view,” said Angor. After all, he initiated the topic just so Balba could study from him too.
When Flora asked Angor to give Balba some random cantrips, she had never expected Angor to actually do it. Knowing something did not mean the ability to teach. To Flora, Angor was not qualified as a teacher yet.
Flora never thought about the possibility of self-created cantrips.
Hearing Angor, Balba hesitated for quite a bit and finally surrendered to his eagerness to learn. “I… owe you one.”
Angor did not mind him at all.
“I shall name this cantrip ‘Dusty Haze’…”
…
Angor bid farewell to his friends when the moon hanged high in the sky.
Inside Sailum’s yard, Nausica, Sailum, and Balba were all writing something down, and their eyes reflected the glimmer of enlightenment.
Nausica picked up her paper and exclaimed, “So it IS based on Dust Removal! And such a solid model!”
She thought Angor was bluffing when he mentioned it to teach them. But it was real! A moment ago, Angor showed them the outcome of “Dusty Haze”. The cantrip could not fully block vision, and they could still see the faint shadows of people inside the area of effect. Yet it was enough to be considered a smokescreen-inducing cantrip.
While joyous, Nausica also felt a bit depressed.
“I’ve fallen so much behind you…”