Chapter 158 - Cantrip Model
They almost could not see the sky because of all the people.
When looking from the Falling Cloud Stop, they had already lost count of how many apprentices were here. Only God knew how many more were hiding out there.
Angor’s attention lied on the sky bridge. Before learning how to fly, the bridge was their only way to the Phantom Island.
“Sh*t. It’s so full,” Angor checked the situation on the sky bridge and complained.
He could not see any open space left on the bridge because of the dense crowd on it. Angor was afraid that every single apprentice in Brute Cavern was here now. How else would this place get so crowded?
“Ugh. We aren’t going any further,” said Sailum. He still looked stressed.
“Try squeezing our way maybe?” Nausica suggested.
Nausica recalled her glorious days and emphasized on the importance of water. Then she looked at Sailum and asked, “So, did you bring water as well?”
Sailum humphed. “I always bring some ration with me because of my childhood habit. I don’t take water with me.”
“Oh my. Without water, this thing is so hard to swallow.”
Angor spoke, “You two didn’t learn any water cantrips? Any of it will get us some water.”
Water cantrip?
Sailum shook his head. “I already read some cantrip books in Cloud Library. The weakest water spell is a level-1 cantrip. But I only know a few level-0 ones.”
Nausica also stated that she only learned level-0 cantrips. Fewer than Sailum. She spent most of her time on bodybuilding to prepare to study bloodline art.
“What about Cleanse spell? Do you have this one?” Angor asked again.
“I know it. But that won’t get water for us,” Sailum said.
Angor raised an eyebrow. “Do you have a pen and paper?”
“Yeah,” said Sailum, He took some writing instrument out.
Angor accepted the pen and skillfully jotted down lines of data on the paper before showing them to Sailum.
“Use this data on your magic formula and create the cantrip model.”
Sailum looked at the paper doubtfully. “This is… spell data?”
Angor nodded.
“But the organization forbids people from exchanging books from Cloud Library with each other in private…”
Angor smiled. “Don’t worry. The data didn’t come from any book in Cloud Library.”
Sailum accepted the paper happily. For an apprentice, getting to learn a new spell for free was always a good thing.
“Not from Cloud Library. Did you buy it from the underground market?” asked Sailum as he eagerly began to construct the cantrip model using the data provided by Angor.
“No. I worked it out myself.”
Himself?! Sailum’s pen halted in the air. Nausica also stared at Angor in surprise.
Angor frowned at their reaction. “What? You never tried to understand the structures and element combinations of spells when learning them?”
Sailum shook his head.
Nausica followed suit. Although she realized something herself. “Do you need to do that when learning spells? Can’t we just use the models concluded by other people? Wait… Mister Sunders taught you to do that?”
Angor spread his hands. “No. I want to see the root of spells myself, so I disassembled the structure of Cleanse and created another combination.”
“Now that you mentioned it, I tried to do that too. But the cantrip model I found did nothing in the end. I wasted a whole week on it,” Sailum said.
Angor shrugged and said, “The data I found don’t have much effect either. But it’s enough to quench our thirst. I named the spell as, ahem, Create Water.”
Angor explained the effect of the spell and how it worked.
They accepted Angor’s idea. Summoning some water was not something too surprising. At first, Sailum thought Angor discovered a perfect cantrip model by himself. Creating a perfect model was something worth noting down in history.
However, the wizarding world had witnessed an extremely long history. Almost all spell combinations were the works of ancestors. It was really difficult to discover new perfect models at this age.