Rebirth in the Magic Continent

6. Rumors

Jerry had always treated the fact that Inari was going to be a wizard in the future as common knowledge.

Inari had a mother who held the title of Level 6 Wizard.

Although such a thing as magical talent was not all inherited, there was indeed information that proved that the offspring conceived by a magician with high personal magical talent had a high chance of inheriting the magical talent of their parents.

Although Jerry was once troubled by the fact that Inari's mother, who was obviously a magician who made easy money, didn't have any extra gold coins for Inari to pay for the expenses of contacting the “magical bonding stone” in the Adventurer's Association, he had questioned Inari about this.

Jerry questions Inari about this and asks her to hide her test results.

Inari gave a “reasonable” explanation: mother and daughter were in debt and sold their big house to hide in this small town, the gold earned by Fushil was only enough to pay off the debt and daily expenses, the family was still paying off the debt to save money, and they could not take out the extra money to do the test for the time being.

Jerry once believed Inari's nonsense, however, the next day to bump into the neighbor aunt wearing a variety of beautiful gems out ......

The same day, Jerry went to accuse Inari, the once most trustworthy little friend of lying, and by the way, venting his anger to ridicule Inari, must be a small waste without inheriting the magic talent, and do not dare to tell the truth ......

As the mocking gleefulness grew, Jerry met Inari's tearful, hurt expression and backed off.

He quickly believed Inari's additional notes:

[A magician needs to spend a lot of money, gemstones are indispensable props for a magician, Inari just wants to rely on herself to earn gold coins to go to the Adventurer's Guild by herself to have her magical talent detected after receiving her national certificate.]

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Jerry naturally echoed the grandiose statement Inari made, and even had the intention of joking together, that

“I'll become a magician before Lily before I need Lily's relief.”

......

Between the banter, Maria's magic demonstration ended, along with the curtain of milky white light that had enveloped everyone in the main hall, leaving only the curtain of light that had enveloped the dais.

It was now about a simple intermission of sorts.

As the blessings bestowed upon everyone in the main hall faded away, Maria politely and graciously thanked everyone under the main hall who had appreciated her immature display of magic, and announced that after a short preparation there would be an interactive session.

As Maria's words ended, the momentarily closed door to the main hall opened, and more people poured in.

This time, it wasn't just limited to the children who came along to catch the novelty, there were also many ordinary citizens of the town who came to the church for afternoon prayers.

The end of the magic demonstration belonging to Maria happened to coincide with the end of the weekday prayers.

At the moment, however, Inari's attention was drawn to the “curtain of light” that covered the exterior of the large circular platform.

As she watched, the color of the “curtain of light” that covered the exterior of the dais gradually deepened, and finally turned into pure black, completely blocking out all sight...

Before completely blocking out the line of sight, Inari only saw the black-robed Grand Magician Dai Li casually retracting his gaze and turning his back, while Maria was obediently approaching to hold the cuff of Dai Li's magical robe once again.

......

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The church belongs to the national organization, responsible for registering the national information, and will also provide assistance in life, the mode of operation is very similar to the governmental organs in the scientific era of the previous life.

The point of differentiation from the Science Era was that the church would open up daily prayer times for Imperial nationals who had landed.

Prayer is purely a matter of making a wish to the statue of the creator god that the empire believes in, while expressing one's devotion.

It is not a mandatory item, but each prayer is registered into the national points of the national card.

The number of National Points relates to the number of number plates that will be distributed later on when seeking help from the church after the audit is sorted.

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Except for today's special event, the church is still functioning normally.

According to the simple one-page guide of today's activities distributed before entering the church, the activity of [Palace magicians bringing noble magic apprentices to set up the church and open up a simple magic demonstration for teaching...] was also just a small item in the list of activities provided by the church.

For most of the ordinary imperial citizens living in this small town far from the center of the empire, wizards from the court were certainly rare, but it was the small local daily life that was superior to everything else.

Afternoon prayers outweighed all other activities, and besides, visitors with titles of nobility had an attitude of superiority and were too expensive to look at.

The only people who are enthusiastic about this kind of demonstration of nobility are the children who have untapped talent and potential, and then the adventurers who have free time and are in a hurry.

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It was only after Inari had watched the “light screen” turn black to keep out prying eyes that she noticed the sudden increase in the number of people.

Afterward, she realized that the door to the main hall had gone through a cycle of closing and opening.

Now, most of the people coming in were parents of children under the age of twelve in the main hall.

After completing today's portion of prayers to the God of Creation, picking up their children and at the same time, stopping by to visit the court wizards that they usually only know through rumors.

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Great Aunt Marlene, who was always worrying about Jerry and herself on weekdays, was the one who was late in appearing in the crowd.

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Inari was only able to obtain this qualification to enter the church by bothering Aunt Marlene.

Although Aunt Marlene had emphasized many times that it was just a favor, and that today was a day of daily prayers, and then she was looking for a clergyman to take care of some chores on the way, Inari still thanked her for a long time.

Inari felt sorry that Aunt Marlene had not accompanied her to this event, and that she had missed out on the great blessing spell of today's event. The effect of a blessing spell could be more meaningful than a single prayer.

Listening to the words of the other adults who rushed to the side, today's prayer activities presided over by the magician before the end of the prayer has a special disclosure: this activity organized by the court magician as the main body borrowed quite a lot of church's special magic props, participate in the more or less can dillydally to some sweetness.

Judging from the previous situation, when the next event in the main hall began, it was likely that the door would be closed again to control the number of people, and Aunt Marlene didn't know what she would miss again.

Jerry realized this, and began to get anxious, looking back frequently. But at the same time, he didn't want to give up the perfect spot he had now, where he could reach out and touch the display table.

Unsure of the official time for the next event to begin.

Inari was expecting Aunt Marlene to make it to this next event sooner rather than later, and at the same time, she was glad that Marlene wasn't there right now. She had the chance to carry out the somewhat dangerous plan she had thought of a while ago.

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The crowd was getting a little crowded, too.

Inari took advantage of a small push and shove caused by the movement of the crowd, and her body was unsteady, and her whole body fell towards the round table surrounded by a “black curtain” of unknown composition.

After all, the early stage has a good occupation of the terrain, this is half a camouflaged fall, exactly according to Inari's calculations, enough to touch the screen to the round table around the “black screen”.

In fact, Inari knew very well that this was a dangerous test.

The “black curtain” was obviously a magical barrier created for isolation and to protect privacy.

In this era of overly strict class divisions, ordinary nobles would not allow deliberate, or even unintentional, offenses to their privacy from commoners.

Inari closed her eyes, only to hear Jerry's panicked yell of “Lily!”

One of her hands was also clutched tightly as Jerry, the little twit, tried to save her from what might have been a less-than-perfect, injury-inducing crash...or “wallop”.

Inari felt half of her cheek touch a soft, cool, bouncy object, and she opened her eyes.

Now she was settling into a strange half-tilted position.

Jerry struggled to maintain her balance by tugging at her left arm, while her cheek rested against the rippling “black curtain” and made a small crater.

The thing wrapped around the dome felt like transparent jelly...

Inari didn't have time to analyze the experience, but she was pulled up by Jerry and sat down on the floor together.

The small accident in the main hall easily gained everyone's attention, there seemed to be others holding their breath, and Inari heard small whispers close by “Is she cursed if she touches it...”

Of course these were not exaggerated rumors, but rather normal speculation for those born and raised in the small town of Kesrang.

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The church of Keslang, though a small one, had had a visit from a court wizard decades ago.

On that occasion there was no performance by any magical apprentice, nor was there an interactive session.

The court wizard was there purely for the induction ceremony of the new bishop of the chapel, and was invited as a “friend” to support the occasion and provide a friendly demonstration of spells to liven up the atmosphere.

The court magician who had been visiting for several decades majored in necromancy.

What was demonstrated on the day of the visit was not passed down, but the advice of 'keep your distance from the great magician' was passed down in Kesrang town.

In the past, there were adventurers in the adventurer's academy that Inari had dabbled in who talked about this advice, using the incident that happened in the Kesrang church a few decades ago as an example.

A great magician was performing his magic under a circle of isolated light curtains, and a curious child touched the light curtains, and instantly his body was covered in black lines, and then slowly turned into a dry corpse in front of everyone.

The incident was a big deal, after all, it happened when the Archbishop was inaugurated. The archbishop expedited to give the child who turned into a dry corpse special recitation of the purification of the past life magic spell, so that the child on that day to save his life, but about that child's follow-up but no one knows again.

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This decades-old event was widely rumored in the small town of Kesrang and even the surrounding small towns, and Inari had heard of it and clearly recognized the danger of her move.

It was just a matter of considering that, firstly, she hadn't made a move against this barrier while the wizard was in the middle of a magical demonstration, and secondly, today was a day with Maria present and part of the plot, and there had been absolutely no mention of anything untoward happening to this chapel in the past books.

The most important point, of course, is that, assuming she does get hurt in any way by this act, she'll instead get the attention she wants for it.

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“Lily!”

Inari heard a voice from Great-Aunt Marlene, who struggled to weave her way through the crowd and jogged over to Inari.

Aunt Marlene's face was flustered, and she went straight up and cupped Inari's face, examining it from side to side, pinching and squeezing, largely unable to see any specific glaring errors, and only reluctantly letting go of her heart after receiving a reassuringly giggly smile from Inari.

The spear was aimed at Jerry, who was also stretched out stupidly on the floor, “Jerry, you don't know how to keep a good eye on your sister, if something happens to her, how are we going to explain it to your Auntie Fusil.”

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The platform covered by black did not undergo any special changes, and even the ripples briefly stirred up by Inari on the “black curtain” also slowly calmed down and returned to the past, and Inari did not find any discomfort in her body.

The crowd of onlookers also slowly calmed down, regarded all this as a small episode, and began to discuss in words that the court magician and the magic apprentice from the nobility who visited Kesrang Church this time were all good visitors with kind dispositions, and wondered what other benefits they could get next.

Of course, Inari also heard a small portion of people gossiping about herself.

[Inari is an unlucky child, the illegitimate daughter of a free man magician with little power...before she could be tested for magical talent, she was orphaned, and now she is nothing but pretty...in the future, she might be taken as a mistress by some nobleman].

During this period of time, Inari had also heard a lot of these remarks, after all, the town of Kesrang was not big.

Although she was used to it, now in front of so many people, especially in front of Auntie Marlene and Jerry, she was still a little embarrassed.

Still, Aunt Marlene quickly gathered her emotions and lifted both Inari and Jerry off the ground with one hand, then grabbed the two children and stood up straight to avoid any more ruckus.

Inari looked at the innocent suffering Jerry with a look of mingled bemusement, regret and fear, and instantly felt guilty...

This plan of hers was too reckless, and now not only did it not achieve the effect of attracting the attention of the wizard, but it also caused her little friend to suffer, Inari decided not to do any more redundant acts today, and just go with the flow.

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A faint white light lit up around the black barrier, and the blackness gradually faded away, slowly revealing the sight of the round table again.

The round table that reappeared was no longer as empty as before, several small round tables appeared on the round table, and many different novelty objects were placed on them.

With Inari's knowledge and experience, she was able to confirm that these small round tables were all magic props.

Inari also saw a small transparent stone...it was a magic bonding stone.