CH 9

Time to begin the afternoon class of Magic Sword lesson.

You there! How long you're planning on doing that! No seriously give it a break. Please.

"Looks like you've got enough practice with controlling your inner mana, so now let's proceed with external mana."

"External?"

"Yeah. Try to practice casting magic without relying on skill."

Skills seem to virtually auto pilot the usage of mana, hence she can't adjust its shape and power well on her own.

"You know Livelihood magic [Ignite] used for cooking right, how do you think that works?"

"It turns mana, into flame?"

"Roughly speaking, that's correct. Specifically, it turns mana into flammable gas that gets emitted on your fingertip, then another mana ignites it like a flint."

"Err... Flammable gas? Flint?"

My awkward explanation didn't seem to do the job. Well, that's why I've done my preps though.

"Ah, guess it's faster to see it in practice. Hold on a bit."

Seeing is believing. Let's give her a non-magic example.

I took a bottle of oil and firewood out of my bag.

【Fire Frog Oil】

<<Oil stocked up from the insides of a giant frog monster that spews flames. Highly combustible, use with care.>>

I bought some monster mats in a store near Adventurer Guild. 4000 en for 100ml. Way to pricey.

The store seems to stock up stuff for apothecaries and alchemists, it's even got Hiruka and Antidote grass for sale.

There's even some dangerous things like a needle that paralyzes you for 10 minutes if even the tip stabs you. Though they won't sell that just to anyone.

I could only purchase this oil after showing my guild member card too.

Oops, back to topic at hands. So here I plan to reproduce magic using this oil.

Err, and here's two stones.

I smear a bit of the oil on the firewood, done.

"Think of this oil as flammable gas, firewood as a sword, and these stones as flints."

"??? Eh? Eh?"

"Well, just watch."

I knock the two stones together with my hands to create sparks.

Kachi, kachi.