Chapter 298: eting Balba
Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations
“Alright, since I’m here. A new cantrip it is!” Angor puffed up his chest. “Tell what kind of cantrip you want to learn.”
“Really, any cantrip?” Sailum was quite happy.
“Any, as long as it’s an elental one.”
Angor’s tablet could only work out very basic cantrips, most of which used natural elents.
Nausica only planned to watch the kids having fun. However, when she heard Angor being so confident, she could not help teasing by asking, “How about you show us sothing that causes mist in the area?”
Among level-0 cantrips, Nausica only heard of a cantrip with such an effect called Dark Mist, which was available for Dark Wizards. There were other level-0 cantrips with a similar effect which all required a specific attribute, and there was no Elent one.
Nausica asked this one to pull Angor’s leg. She never expected a valid answer.
Instead of replying her, Angor turned to Sailum again. “So a mist cantrip? How about you? I’ll show you one if you agree with her.”
Nausica watched with a smile. They all knew that Sailum was talented at Dark Arts, so he could easily learn to cast Dark Mist.
Nausica believed Angor asked Sailum’s opinion because he wanted Sailum to give a different answer, so he did not need to actually try sothing impossible.
She did not say it. It was only a harmless joke between friends, and she did not intend to embarrass Angor. Now that Angor was trying to distract their attention, she would gladly play along.
But she overlooked sothing—even if she successfully saw through Angor’s plan, the other individual on the scene might not obey her assumption.
... Sailum had not learned Dark Mist yet.
“Let’s do this then,” Sailum nodded happily. “I need to learn this one too.”
Nausica almost choked on her water. She saw Angor considering sothing with a serious expression. In order not to “embarrass” Angor any further, she decided to change the subject quickly.
“Actually, I’m not really interested—”
Knock, knock!
Soone ca to the door of their yard.
They looked around and saw a bulky figure standing outside. Angor heard Sailum muttering sothing before he could get a good look at the visitor.
“Weird. He said he’s going to et his professor. Why is he here?”
When Sailum invited the man inside, Angor noticed that it was soone he had not t in a while. Balba.
Balba had changed his wild dressing style into an ordinary one by wearing a common wizard robe, which did not help him cover his ferocious aura.
Nausica spoked to Angor, “We were ambushed by a flock of Abyss Rodent half a month ago. I tripped and fell among them by accident. Thanks to Balba, I escaped alive. That was when I lost my right arm too. Balba joined our team since that day.”
Angor believed he saw Nausica revealing a bitter look when she ntioned the “accident”.
“We invited Balba to our al tonight. However, he didn’t accept the invitation because he heard Lady Flora ca back to Brute Cavern,” Nausica explained Balba’s reason to co here so that Angor would not mind Balba interrupting their al.
However, she worried too much. Angor considered Balba a savior when the man protected him from Hookdick’s assassin.
Balba joined them at the table. He gave Angor a really brief bright look before he returned to being all unruffled. He said nothing apart from a “Hello” as a courtesy.
Considering Balba’s mild frown, Angor took a guess that Flora did sothing to annoy Balba again.
Sailum went to bring a serving for Balba.
The fourth man at the table successfully turned their once joyful ambiance into an awkward silence.
Nausica tried to strike a topic by asking sothing, “Didn’t you go see Lady Flora? Why are you back so fast?”
Balba’s spoon halted in the air. “Soone told that the professor already left by the ti I arrived.”
Sailum frowned. “Again? Is she going to teach you anything at all? How irresponsible-”
“Hey, Sailum, careful with your words,” Nausica interrupted him with a serious look.
Sailum sighed. “It’s just... not fair for Balba. You know, we don’t see that many people stronger than Balba when we fought in the outer area of the abyss. If we know more spells, we would have kept that bastard!”
Nausica looked down. “It’s alright. I’ll find ti to kill him myself.”
“What are you talking about? Which bastard?” Angor was confused.
Nausica lit up her pipe and inhaled. “It’s nothing. A cunning fool who tried to trick us. I can handle him.”
Angor realized Nausica did not want to talk about it, so he did not push.
“You can always ask if you need help.”
Nausica nodded. “Relax. I know what I’m doing.”
“My professor already taught a channeling thod,” Balba suddenly spoke up.
It took them several seconds to realize that Balba was answering Sailum’s comnt earlier.
“But we all have one. She should at least teach you that,” Sailum said.
Angor rubbed his temples. Now he thought about it, Flora never gave Balba anything yet. HE was the one who gave Balba the channeling thod book.
He glanced at Balba and recalled Sunders words—”Do as you like. His fate is sealed.”
And he felt sad about it.
It seed Balba was born with sothing to silence people. The al went on in complete quietness again. The only sound they could hear was the food being munched on.
Angor tried to break the embarrassnt this ti. “Back to our talk. Since Sailum wants to learn to use mist too, I’ll teach you one.”
Sailum’s eyes twinkled. “I almost forgot!”
Nausica, on the other hand, looked at Angor in shock. She felt relieved when Balba ca and interrupted their subject, which ant Angor no longer had to “act tough”. But now...
Or can he actually use such a cantrip? But that will break many rules written in the textbooks!
Despite her doubt, Angor already began his lesson. “I’m not talking about one cantrip, but a composite one. First, you need to learn Frost.”
Frost was one of the most commonly-used movent-hindering spells among apprentices. Of course, Nausica and Sailum both knew about it. Even Balba found the textbook of it from Cloud Library.
“A composite cantrip? But that’s... sothing difficult, right? I saw that concept from a book,” said Sailum as he tilted his head.
“Then you’re better than , cause I never saw it before. What’s a composite cantrip?” Nausica said.
“Two cantrips used together,” Angor explained.
The principle of a composite cantrip was way more complicated than his explanation. Any sophisticated wizard here would be beyond astonished if they heard Angor talking about a newly-created composite cantrip.
Being able to create composite spells was one of the essentials for stepping onto the path of truth!
“To learn this composite cantrip, you need to use Frost, plus another cantrip I modified based on Dust Removal, called ‘Dust’.”
Balba was quite shocked to see what Angor was telling them. A cantrip that was free to be passed to soone else either originated from sowhere outside Brute Cavern or was created by Angor himself. It was probably the latter.
Balba smiled bitterly and shook his head. While “his peer” was creating new cantrips, he had only learned several useless ones. He really wished he could listen to Angor’s lesson, but he could not—it was obvious that he was not invited for this.
Balba stood up and prepared to leave.
“You can stay for a mont. It’s not anything big anyway, just sothing to obstruct soone’s view,” said Angor. After all, he initiated the topic just so Balba could study from him too.
When Flora asked Angor to give Balba so random cantrips, she had never expected Angor to actually do it. Knowing sothing did not an the ability to teach. To Flora, Angor was not qualified as a teacher yet.
Flora never thought about the possibility of self-created cantrips.
Hearing Angor, Balba hesitated for quite a bit and finally surrendered to his eagerness to learn. “I... owe you one.”
Angor did not mind him at all.
“I shall na this cantrip ‘Dusty Haze’...”
...
Angor bid farewell to his friends when the moon hanged high in the sky.
Inside Sailum’s yard, Nausica, Sailum, and Balba were all writing sothing down, and their eyes reflected the glimr of enlightennt.
Nausica picked up her paper and exclaid, “So it IS based on Dust Removal! And such a solid model!”
She thought Angor was bluffing when he ntioned it to teach them. But it was real! A mont ago, Angor showed them the outco of “Dusty Haze”. The cantrip could not fully block vision, and they could still see the faint shadows of people inside the area of effect. Yet it was enough to be considered a smokescreen-inducing cantrip.
While joyous, Nausica also felt a bit depressed.
“I’ve fallen so much behind you...”
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