Rebirth in the Magic Continent

7. Drawing

The Esther Empire is now the only empire established by humans on the magic continent.

There are all kinds of races in this magic continent which was born by the blessing of the gods, and compared to the elves, orcs, and dwarves who were born with their own talents, humans are considered to be the most balanced race created by the gods.

Historical legends state that humans are creatures created by the gods according to their own appearance. Roughly to balance out the favoritism given at this point, the human race was not given specific racial gifts.

Creatures of other races are given only a portion of the physical features belonging to the gods, but in contrast, they are born with an affinity for the elements of magic, and possess unrivaled mastery in certain specific areas of magic. In addition, after cultivating hard enough, they can also get rid of the inherent appearance limitations of racial constraints and possess a skin that is close to that of a god.

As for humans, they were born without fixed attributes, and only one percent of humans could even possess magical talent. And these humans often need to go through a special magic bonding stone as a guiding medium to trigger the awakening.

Humans who had awakened their magical talent would not be subject to the same specific restrictions as other races, and could learn any magic related to their attributes.

Of course, this does not mean that only this one percent of humans can engage in magic-related professions.

The Magic Binding Stone could be used to judge future magicians, but at the same time, it could also be used to judge another category of future Imperial Magicians who couldn't use magic themselves, but could drive magical props.

The gift of Goumou, in other words: although one cannot become a human magician, one can become a martial artist above ordinary people, and a martial artist who uses magical props to perfection is not necessarily inferior to a magician.

The gods who created this magic continent maintained a delicate balance between these races.

Although almost all the races recognized the rule that the creator god who created everything was just. However, humans, who inherited the external features of the creator god by birth, still firmly believe that humans are the race favored by the creator god.

The only empire founded by human beings, the Esteemed Empire, worships the creator god under this “favored” concept.

The Magic Binding Stone was the symbolic magic stone of the Esteemed Empire.

It is said that this magic stone is a special stone given by the God of Creation to mankind, and it is also known as the “Invitation Stone”.

--It is also known as the “Invitation Stone”.

Inari's direct impression of the Magic Binding Stone came from five years ago: a stone that changed color after the magician recited an incantation when her hand was placed on it.

Afterward, Inari had repeatedly recalled the details of that day. To be sure, she didn't feel any special changes in her body. Until now, Inari still couldn't understand why she was still judged to be magically unbound when it was clear that the bonding stone emitted light after being touched by herself. The judgment of being unattached even cut off Inari's possibility of becoming a “magician” and developing into a martial artist.

Inari had carefully searched through the books on magic in the small library, but unfortunately, there were no books describing the mechanism of this particular magic stone, and asking her mother did not provide any answers.

As a minor without a national certificate, it was also impossible for Inari to accomplish the feat of stealing ten gold coins behind Fursil's back and going to the Adventurer's Guild for a second private inspection.

During these five years, the only thing Inari could do was to make her own wild guesses by attending the academies run by adventurers of all sizes and prying into these adventurers' impressions of the Magic Binding Stones.

Before awakening her memories of her previous life, Inari had only planned to go to the Adventurer's Guild to touch the Knotting Stone one more time after getting her National Certificate at the age of twelve.

And now, with an opportunity right in front of her, Inari didn't want to wait two more years.

--

A black hole appeared in the barrier-wrapped circular platform.

The man in black wizard's robes stepped out of this black hole, and Maria, who was pinching his cuffs, followed close behind. Completing its mission, the black hole quickly faded away.

Inari had been observing the round table that had changed, and she had a vague vision that behind the black hole was a room with tables and chairs, about a VIP lounge somewhere in the church.

The black barrier that was covered with blackness just now cut off all prying eyes, and the small commotion Inari had caused didn't seem to be known by the two people who had appeared on the round platform. For that matter, she received no special stares.

Inari noticed that Derek, who had appeared after a short break, was also looking a little better.

The most notable evidence of this was that, this time, when he appeared, his eyes didn't drift over the top of this church, but quickly swept over all the people below the round platform. Although there was still no expression on his face, the impatience from before was also gone.

On the contrary, although Maria, who appeared before and after with the same elegant and polite smile amplitude, Inari always felt a slight frown arcing up between her eyebrows, Maria should have encountered something that affected her mood.

This observed change made Inari feel a hint of nervousness, during the time Daili and Maria had left to rest there must have been some kind of drama that she didn't deserve to know about ...... for example, Daili had encountered someone or something and decided that he wanted to take on an apprentice on the spot or something like that.

Inari had already made up her mind not to act recklessly and be a quiet bystander today, and even though she could see what was going on at the moment, she didn't rush to do anything out of the ordinary again.

However, Inari felt her own wrist, was Marlene aunt gripping the place of force tightened a few points, a kind of want to lock themselves to the side of the implication, which makes Inari can not help but a little laugh and cry ......

Sure enough, in Aunt Marlene's eyes, she had already left an impression that she was particularly reckless. It was just the appearance of a magician, she wasn't so bad that she immediately lost her comportment.

Inari swiveled her eyes while receiving a scowling hint from Jerry, as if Jerry had been caught hard too, only he, like herself, was too afraid to speak.

Looking up, Great Aunt Marlene was still gazing out at the center of the dais, and wondering if she was looking intently at someone or something. In response, Inari could only raise an eyebrow lovingly at Jerry, indicating that this place would have to suffer in silence. For the rest of the day, she'd have to stay a good, non-problematic child.

......

This time, Derek spoke. The silver-haired, gray-eyed youth introduced his name and biography in short language [Dai Li, having mastered some of the space magic, accepted the palace's invitation to serve as a court magician].

The name part was connected to the information scoured from Inari's memories, except that in this scene where he was surrounded by commoners, Dai Li surprisingly didn't bring up the noble background behind him either. This mysterious noble who did not fit the aristocratic style made Inari's head spin in particular.

In Inari's memories, the information about Dai Li was also limited to [Name is Dai Li, behind him is a mysterious magical noble family, Maria's first magical initiation teacher, took in a magical apprentice at Keslang Church, disappeared after accepting a mission to investigate the Imperial Palace].

Inari was expecting that Daili's self-introduction would follow the nobles' most customary way of going from last name to first name, and then she would be able to gather more basic information about Daili as a person... Miscalculation.

Dai Li's pre-disappearance intelligence was also related to magic dragons, and Inari always felt that the disappearance of the magician Dai Li might be slightly connected to the disappearance of her Kandra ancestor, and thus held a particular amount of interest in him.

As a result, the only useful information Inari could get from Dai Li's self-introduction turned out to be “Dai Li knows space magic”, a conclusion that was obvious when Dai Li made his appearance. Inari's mood instantly became irritated.

Dai Li was calmly continuing his simple, by-the-numbers, uncontagious speech.

After a short introduction, Derek briefly and honestly explained that he just happened to be passing through the town to borrow a room at the church, and that he had specifically agreed to a simple magical teaching session at the church in Keslang in order to pay off his lodging and hospitality expenses.

The next special interactive session was simply a random selection of lucky spectators to observe the magician's magical props up close.

......

After listening to this speech, the impatience in Inari's heart turned into amusement at this unwarranted expectation and unwarranted disappointment, the great ups and downs of her mood.

Dai Li is not not a nobleman, but just mixes the nobleman's unique sense of superiority and distance into his words, actions and behaviors.

Picking lucky spectators to observe magical props up close?

To be honest, anyone with a little bit of magical knowledge would know that a magician's magic prop would only be what it appears to be without the magician's manipulation, and there is no difference between looking at it from a distance and looking at it up close. Inari was not taking this as any special interaction at all.

But...that was probably just Inari's thoughts alone. She saw Jerry's suddenly enthusiastic, eager-to-try expression, just like the other children's, and his eyes were already glued to the few, but beautifully shaped, props on the dais.

Inari couldn't help but sigh for her little friend, who hadn't had much foresight, knowing that Jerry had seen a lot of the magical props from Fursil that she had produced. However, due to the fact that Fushir's magic props were too much for simplicity, all of them being the most basic [Stones endowed with magic] created from stones that could store magic power, Jerry didn't really believe in Inari's introduction, and even laughed at her for bluffing with strange looking stones acting as magic props.

Now when it came to Derek's magic props, he was interested? It's just some props that have a good trimming into the shape of a pretty item ......

However, Inari's waning mood did flare up again. She saw the transparent stone that was naturally de-decorated.

--

Derek didn't even say anything about the magical props he had on display, and after announcing the special interactive session, he casually took a few steps back and gestured for Maria to come up and continue to preside over the rest of the matter. He sat down on the only chair on the circular stage...and at the table where the magical edge stones were placed.

At the moment Maria was back to her normal self, or at least Inari didn't see any other little extra expressions on her face anymore. With her pretty mouth curved at the end, Maria announced the method of drawing the lucky audience in a soothing and cordial tone.

Audience members present who held a national card placed it on a special prop provided by the church to read the national points. Dai Li had written seven numbers in advance, and as long as the national points matched a number, all those present secured by the national passes would be given the opportunity to climb onto the round platform to see the magical props up close.

After Maria announced the rules of the draw, she waved the wand in her hand that was still just a bare wooden stick appearance, and softly recited a string of incantations, a large magic formation appeared outside the barrier beyond the round platform, slowly appearing in the shape of three tiers of wooden steps, and the curtain of light-like barrier revealed a square hole under the touch of the head of the wooden stick in Maria's hand.

This was a path leading up to the top of the round platform, and the location where it appeared also happened to be right in front of Inari. This series of changes managed to attract everyone's attention.

A cleric holding a square with a small box with a depression in the center appeared in front of Inari's eyes as he walked up the first step.

It was then that Inari realized that the door to the main hall had quietly closed again.