Warlock Apprentice

Butler Goode was responsible for keeping order for the outer area of the island, so he came to the outside together with Angor.

“Mister Padt, as Lady Flora said, the master didn’t teach you spells for your own good,” Goode spoke in a small voice.

Angor looked at him and waited for his explanation.

“Do you know about ‘the path of truth’?”

Angor nodded. The path of truth meant that a wizard should walk his or her own path when doing wizardry. Sunders told him before, that “Walking on your own path without being restricted by the ancestors and keep it up for years on end. Even if you can’t see where you’re going, you are creating your unique sight. Such a wizard is a real wizard”.

Angor did not understand though.

Didn’t every wizard already create their own path? If they could succeed by copying the ways of ancestors, formal wizards should not be so scarce.

He did not wish to follow ancestors and copy the models. He wanted to start from zero and worked out how Cleanse spell came into being on his own.

Angor found the page that explained the fundamentals of the cantrip and read on carefully.

A day later, Angor began to calculate the combination patterns of wind and water elements on his own. He spent half a day on filling twenty pages with his formulas. There were too many calculations involved and he failed to figure out any viable combination.

“No wonder people only copied the books. It would take forever making out a combination on my own, and it probably won’t be correct,” Angor muttered. He did not give up though. The boy really wanted to see how spells worked from their root.

After another day, he finally discovered a combination.

Using the appropriate formula, Angor built the combination into a new cantrip model.

The model now looked like “a magatama sliced up by several surfaces”, which was completely different from the one on the book where the magatama stood on top of one single surface.

Following his own cantrip model, Angor slowly channeled his mana.

A moment later, he felt a small breeze. His collar moved a little.

Angor took out his notes and wrote down: [The Cleanse spell following this combination did not achieve a balance between wind and water elements. Water element almost did not exist, and the wind element was too weak. It doesn’t work as a Cleanse spell. Not even a Breeze spell.]

He put down the note and prepared to find another combination.

But this time, he was planning to use the tablet to help him calculate the results faster.

For the first combination, Angor used paper and pen in order to see the essentials of the spell and know its “nature”. Once this was done, he no longer had to work out further combinations on his own. Using the tablet would save him a lot of time.

He set two different elements as “A” and “B”, and put his formula, variables, and data into the hologram tablet.

The system began working on its own.

It only took ten minutes for the system to return more than 30 different combinations for Angor.