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Chapter 142
🕑 Added 2024-06-23 02:00:04 +0000 UTCAnton’s success in creating the wooden tablet of Fire Bolt light had him thinking that he should be able to create a magic wand without any issue so he immediately turned one of the wooden tablets into a stick resembling a wand using telekinesis.
He then thought of the mana pathway that he would carve into the stick. He thought of creating a magic wand of Ice Bolt since the spell Ice Bolt was less dangerous compared to Fire Bolt since it would not cause any accidental fire.
Anton then thought that for the wand, he should make sure that the spell attached to it should be powerful enough to destroy an enemy. That meant that he would need to study the pathway that would increase a spell’s power.
After several trials and errors, he found the mana pathway that corresponds to the spell’s power and unfortunately, he could only create the pathway to the maximum level of the level of spell that he had. In the case of his Ice Bolt, the spell was only level one so he only had the mana pathway for a level one Ice Bolt. At least his Frozen Orb had a high enough level but it would still be best to start with something simple.
The mana pathway for the mana storage, then the pathway for the ice elements, then the spell structure was carved into the wand. Unfortunately, he didn’t have the pathway that would let the wand holder instinctively know how to cast the spell with the wand so he thought of an alternative.
After several tries, Anton stopped since he wasn’t successful in creating the wand and it was almost lunchtime. The problem was the trigger for the casting of the spell stored in the wand. With an ordinary magic wand, the user could cast using his instinct but with the wand that he created, the only thing that he had was to create an on-and-off switch which was basically cutting off the pathway to the mana storage.
The problem with an on-and-off switch with a wand, the user needed to point the wand to the enemy first and when it was turned on, the wand would constantly spew out the spell until the mana in the mana storage was spent.
Another problem that Anton encountered was the wooden wand that he made from carving one of the tablets was destroyed when the tenth Ice Bolt came out of the wand. He could create some sort of trigger but then it wouldn’t be a wand anymore but some sort of a magic gun but the durability was still a problem.
Since he wanted to explore the city, Anton shelved his wand project and went outside the room. When he reached the inn’s common room, he was surprised to see his Father, Nemina, and Lucas eating lunch.
Anna and the others weren’t there and he assumed that they were in the city exploring. He joined his father at their table and ordered lunch from one of the waiters.
“Father, did you earn a lot of coins?”
“Yes. We found a merchant who purchased almost all of our armor and weapons inventory and we replaced them with old and broken things that we bought from the merchants so I’m sorry to say that you will have a lot of repairing to do while we are traveling to the city of Zalnothel.”
“That’s fine with me. By the way, I have a new enchanted item and it’s a good one.”
Anton retrieved the wooden tablet of Fire Bolt light from his inventory, turned it on, and showed it to Anders.
“It’s as bright as five candles and with its mana storage full which was six cantrips spell would fill, it would last for a month of non-stop use. Meaning it should last for more than a month if a person uses it only when it’s dark. And since the mana output is considerably low compared to the air conditioner, its durability is longer as well. Meaning, the wooden board would last for a hundred emptying of its storage, which meant a hundred months of non-stop use. Not only that, it’s safe and would not cause any fire.”
“Can you put the enchantment on something else like maybe an actual lantern?” Nemina asked.
“Yes. I can even put it on an art sculpture. I used a wooden board since it was easier to experiment using a plain wooden tablet.”
“How small an item can you enchant the light into? Nemina continued asking.
Anton then calculated the area that he would need to make sure that all the pathway was carved successfully and took out a paper from his inventory. He then drew a simple-looking box size six inches by six inches then gave the paper to Nemina.
“That’s the minimum size that I will need to carve the magical runes. It could be a little smaller than that but not much. It could be longer as well, which meant it could look like a regular lantern but I will need one of the sides to be fully enclosed. You can put a mirror on that side inside the lantern to increase the brightness of the light.”
“I will have someone create something like this so we can replace the lantern in the caravan. Will that be all right with you?” Anders asked.
“That’s fine father. It doesn’t take long for me to create the enchanted light. By the way, I started creating a magic wand but I was not successful. I will need to purchase one so I can dismantle and reverse-engineer the crafting process. I will purchase one later while I’m exploring the city.”
“Reverse-engineer? Do you need more coins?” Anton’s father asked.
“Sorry. What I meant was to dismantle it to learn how it was made and no, the one hundred gold coins you gave me should be enough.”
After lunch, Anton went outside to begin his exploration. He first went back to the street that was full of magic shops but this time, he went to a small store since he was only planning to buy a simple wand and one or two second-level spells. He wanted to check if he could memorize a second-level spell.
He went to a small store and told the lady that he was looking for a cheap and simple magic wand. The lady presented him with a wand of magic missile and Anton thought that magic missile should be the most common spell that was enchanted to a wand. It only had three charges so it was cheap at five gold coins. It really didn’t matter how many charges it had since he was planning to dismantle it to check the runes that were used to create the wand.
Anton then asked if the lady had second-level spellbooks. The lady answered that most intermediate to large magic shops had up to third-level spellbooks and higher spells than that could only be purchased by VIPs from the largest stores.
The lady then told Anton that he was in luck since she happened to come upon a single second-level and third-level spell each. The second-level spell was Gust of Wind and her third-level spell was Stinking Cloud and he could have both for seventy gold coins.
Anton would have preferred a different set of spells but wasn’t picky since he was purchasing the spellbooks to check if he could memorize them. He didn’t haggle with the lady and purchased the two spells together with the cheap wand and an empty spellbook that he would use to create his grimoire.
