She whispered, “Let him rest. He looks tired.”
“Okay.” Now Sailum also noticed Angor’s unusual fatigue.
No one spoke for the next moment. Angor was planning to rest his spirit a little, but the peaceful atmosphere and the gentle wind caused him to fall asleep for real.
The silence lasted for half an hour until Sailum suddenly asked, “Miss Nausica, so you’re really going to challenge the Sky Tower?”
Nausica nodded. “It’s a good opportunity. Yes, I will.”
“But you only broke through recently too. How will you fight those apprentices who have years of experience?”
Nausica took out her long-handled pipe, lit it up and slowly inhaled.
“I know an apprentice who’s good at drawing magic scrolls. She’s Mister Fantase’s previous student. I can buy some scrolls from her at a better price.”
“But you still need a lot of merit points, no?” Sailum wondered. He did not know why Nausica was so eager to participate in the challenges.
“I’ll just earn some. There are still several months. I’ll make it,” said Nausica. Her voice grew lower. She looked away, seemingly thinking about something else.
…
When Angor woke up, it was already noontime the next day.
Sailum quickly noticed him.
“Finally. You missed two meals. Here, I’ve got some ration,” said Sailum as he took out a small pancake from his bag and handed it to Angor.
Angor’s mind was still blurry upon waking up. He took the pancake subconsciously and asked, “What time is it?”
“What time? You slept for a whole night,” said Sailum. He cleaned his hands carefully and took out his precious book to read.
Angor managed to clear his mind after a while. Since Sailum was reading, and Nausica seemed to be meditating, Angor ate his pancake really slowly so as not to make any noises.
When he was done, Nausica finished her meditation and began having some of Sailum’s ration as well.
“Man. If I didn’t bring these, are you two going to starve yourselves out?” Sailum complained.
Nausica nodded nonchalantly. “When I was a pirate on Blackberry Waters, I often went several days and nights without eating. I’m fine with that.”
Angor, on the other hand, had Butler Goode to prepare food for him on Phantom Island. However, his plan had gone wrong.
Nausica added something again. “Being without food was a common thing to happen on the sea. The real disaster was when you don’t have water.”
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.