Chapter 119 – Magic Book Rumi

“I’m sure there will be. If I keep clinging to Madma, Rebecca will hate me.”

There was a sense of weight in the serious voice that was pronounced clearly. However, Rebecca, who heard Kate’s words, frowned in amazement.

“No, how do you know my heart? There’s really nothing you’ll hate. I’ve already allowed you to date me, so what does it matter? You can cling to me or not. I’ll cling to you that much too.”
“Maybe she doesn’t really care now. But in time, you never know again? Maybe she’s going to make her sister hate me. It’s a woman’s heart to want to monopolize the guy she likes.”

Rebecca and Kate faced each other with me between them.
There was a tense tension between them.
No matter how much the conversation continued, the two women did not try to change their minds.

“As much as I want to monopolize Luke, I also want to get along well with the person who will become my younger brother in the future. I am a stranger from a desert kingdom that no one knows. The only person I am close with is Luke. That you want.”
“It’s nice to hear that my sister and I get along like friends. But female friendship is superficial. Women’s friendship is easily broken in front of a guy you like. There’s no way my sister and I can get along like real friends.”
“No… Ha ha.”

Watching Kate linger on her horse’s tail, Rebecca put her hand on her chest as if she was about to die of frustration.

“Do you want to keep arguing? I don’t care. Have you mastered mind-reading? Or can you see the future? It’s something to judge after spending time together. The three of us go on dates together, and after the two of us have a drink together…”
“You have no choice but to be frustrated.”
“Yes?”
“I’m not like Rebecca.”

Said Kate, placing her hand on her chest just like Rebecca.

“I’m not as nice as my older sister. If I were the older sister, I would have been very mean to the woman who came in behind me. Rather than being like a friend, I would have made sure who was on the top by intimidating me and went. That’s a truth I learned while living as a nun in the church. Because it means that you should never be ignored by people below you.”

In fact, she had reasons to be strict with Kate.
As far as I know, the nuns’ organization is like an army, and they say that they are very particular about standard and rank. It was impossible to be friends with a junior nun of a lower rank.
It’s a violation of the discipline of the nun organization itself.
It is for this reason that I sometimes liken Kate to her late sergeant.

“So I’ll be satisfied with the second one. I’ll go out with the dreamer as long as I don’t disturb her older sister. There’s no law that says you have to go on a date only today, so I’ll go back to church.”

Kate turned her back on me and Rebecca, and she started walking.
The direction she was moving her steps was none other than the church.

“Hey, Kate!”

Before going back to her church, I chased Kate down and tried to catch her. But Rebecca grabbed my wrist so hard that I couldn’t move in front of her.

“Les, Rebecca? Are you going to let her go like this?”
“…Let’s just leave today. I couldn’t communicate because I was completely choked up. I think we could fight after holding on to each other for no reason. We’re going to see each other anyway.”

Obviously we are a fixed party.
We were meant to move forward together.
It means that there is no need to touch Kate, who is now in a state like a lit fuse.
Rebecca let out her exhausted sigh as she told me.

“I came to congratulate you guys at the promotion ceremony, but the atmosphere has cooled down.
“You came, of course, thank you. Don’t blame yourself.”

Originally, we planned to go on a date after the promotion ceremony, but it all seems to have been ruined.
Left on the street, Rebecca and I weren’t in the mood to go play.

“Luke. Are you going shopping for clothes? I just want to go home.”
“Let’s just go back.”

We just walked through the city and went back to the inn.
After a brief greeting in the hallway, they went into their respective rooms.
Before I knew it, I was left alone in the inn room, lying on the bed.

‘Everything will be fine.’

I firmly believe that time will solve my problems with my lovers.

*

A month has passed since then.
For a month, I tried everything to make the two lovers get along. Because of Kate’s insistence, the three of us didn’t have to go out privately, but at least it was a fixed party, so we had something to do together on quests.

‘Hey, I’ll go out for a while.’
‘Where are you going, Mongma?’
‘Leave it alone. Let’s stay together, Kei.’

Or create a situation where there are just the two of you naturally.

‘Rebecca. Please escort Kate.’
‘Please leave it to me. K! I trust only this sister.’
‘You’re reliable, older sister.’

Like getting Rebecca to watch over Kate so we can spend more time together from work.

‘Oh, I can’t do the quest today. Do you want to go alone?’
‘Let’s go Kay! Let’s go catch goblins with her sister!’
‘Okay…’

Like deliberately sending only two of the quests without me.
However, all attempts were meaningless in front of Kate who hit the iron wall. In the end, Kate didn’t cross the line with Rebecca any more than was necessary. She just acted hard, like a soldier dealing with her superiors.

‘K. After the quest, let’s go have a drink with her sister.’
‘Sister Rebecca. There is no drinking between me and her sister. It won’t be a big deal if you get drunk and have palm time with her sister.’
‘What’s up with my sister! You suddenly want to write me with the word ‘nim’!’
‘Yes, sister.’

Truly, Kate was a strong woman.
She hit the iron wall while hanging out together for a long time of a month. The funny thing about her was that even Kate herself was frustrated halfway through and she complained to me.

‘Mongma-nim, I’m frustrated. Every time I go on a quest, I feel suffocated.’
‘If you’re feeling frustrated, quickly get comfortable with Rebecca.’
‘But you can’t do that. I’m second.’
‘No.’

In the end, she stayed that way until now, a month later.
Today is the day my fixed party goes on a goblin subjugation quest.
The quest was all about beating the goblins that proliferated like cockroaches in Morris Forest with ignorance. The three of us set out for Maurice Forest early in the morning and were able to return to the city by nightfall.

When we got to town, Kate was the first to speak up.

“Mongma-sama. Rebecca sister. I’ll stop and go back to church. See you next time.”
“Aren’t we going to have an after party? It’s already been a month since our fixed party.
“How can I drink when I have an older sister? I don’t drink in front of her.”

Kate flatly declined my offer of a drink and she went back to church. She’s not some kind of knife-going new recruit, she’s Kate, who disappears in a flash every time as soon as she’s done her quest.
Rebecca and I just stared blankly at the back of Kate, who walked quickly away.

Hodad.

“Luke. He’s gone again. Isn’t it time to relax a bit?”
“Yeah.”
“The thought of drinking is running away. I’ll just go home and sleep.”
“I’ll have to cancel the party. I want to have the first anniversary party with Kate. It’s a proper celebration when all the members of the fixed party come together.”

We ran out of alcohol and went back to the inn and went to our respective rooms.
After lying on the bed in the room and loafing around for a while, a magic book suddenly came to mind.
A magic book I got from a mysterious old man a few months ago.
It is a book where all the pages are blank, but over time, the blanks are sometimes filled with new spells. I still haven’t figured out under what conditions this book introduces new spells.

‘Isn’t it time for a new order?’

Seruk.
I opened the book with anticipation.
So far, there are a total of four spells that the book has introduced to me.
Magic Missile, Water, Liquid, Boiling.
After those four spells, no new spells were introduced. It’s been quite a while since we last introduced spells, so it’s time for an update.

“Hmm.”

But the moment I looked through the book, I was discouraged.
The parts of the book that were still blank remain blank. I couldn’t find any traces of a new spell even after washing my eyes.

‘I don’t know. Maybe I’ll end up teaching you four spells. The rest of the paper might just be for writing notes.’

Around this time, even as a wizard, my growth was stagnant.
It was because he bought new spells at the magic shop and studied them carefully, but his understanding of magic could not go deeper. Should I say that it feels like I am only increasing my shallow knowledge by scratching the surface of a watermelon?

In more detail, it is as follows.
Currently, my rank as a mage is third-rate.
This is because wizards, like warriors, are classified as third-class, second-class, first-class, master, and demon according to their rank.
If you consider a demon level wizard as a warrior, you can treat it as a person with the same skill as a sword master. When he rises to the level of a demon, he is treated as a great wizard who leaves his name in history.
In the old days, I just knew that there was such a thing, and I had no idea how to reach a higher rank.
Unlike the students of the Mage Tower, I was a wandering wizard with few ways to learn magic knowledge.
However, he was able to learn how to be promoted to a higher rank from the owner of the Magic Shop, Mr. Grace.
Of course it wasn’t free.

‘The condition to be recognized as a third-class wizard is to be able to use three elements. All you need is to be able to command three elements out of water, fire, earth, and wind.’

For the past month, I have paid the magic shop to learn rock magic.
Rock is the ground attribute basic magic that summons small stones.
Water, Fire, and Rock magic have all been mastered, so you can use the three elements.
It is said that people with ordinary magical talent find it very difficult to learn even one element. I heard that it is very rare for people like me to be able to master the three elements in just a few months.

Yes.
It’s okay to quickly rise to a third-rate wizard.
This world is overflowing with unranked wizards who are not even third-rate.
You can look down on it because it’s third-rate, but even if it’s this much, it’s enough monster from the point of view of ordinary people.
It’s easy to massacre ordinary people even if you just use magic from afar.

However, being promoted to a second-class wizard is not something I can accomplish with my own will.

‘The condition for being promoted to second-class wizard is to realize one’s destiny as a wizard. If you get a matching magic wand and acquire your own class, you will be promoted at that moment. Your understanding of magic will expand and you will be able to learn higher level spells.’

To get a magic wand and realize what my class is.
This is the condition for being promoted to a second-class wizard.
Now that I know the conditions, I can understand why wandering wizards can’t get out of the third-rate even after training for the rest of their lives.
Because magic wands are very rare items.

‘I don’t even have a magic wand right now.’

A month ago, Bella, the assistant guild master, promised me that she would find me a magic wand that would suit me. However, he hadn’t contacted me yet, probably because it was difficult to get a cane.
At this point, I wonder if he has forgotten about me.
Without a magic wand, it was impossible to realize my class.
It means that the path to promotion to a second-class wizard is currently blocked.

My growth is stagnant and I can’t properly date the lovers I’ve dated, so I’m really dying.
I want to break through this stuffy feeling.
But feeling is not a clogged toilet, so there’s no way it can be pierced in one shot.
It was when I was lying on the bed, staring blankly at my magic book.
A sharp shout echoed outside the window.

“Where is this for business!”
“If you want to sell something, pay protection tax. This is our district.”
“He’s an old man, but he doesn’t know common morals. When he’s old, he’ll be quietly locked in a small room. Why did he come outside?”

There was a commotion, so I stuck my head out the window and looked.
In the street near the inn, thugs were surrounding one person and taking money. They’re thugs who have recently appeared in this district and rob merchants while talking about protection taxes and all.

It wasn’t that my money was being ripped off, so I just left it alone.
If it hadn’t been a big deal, I would have ignored it and went back to bed.
However, the moment I saw a person surrounded by bullies, I couldn’t ignore it.
I saw a gray-haired old man carrying a bundle behind his back.

“Uh?”

Words spontaneously come out of your mouth.
Because I saw that old man once.

-Don’t you need something?

The days when no one accepted me to the party, so I was a lonely adventurer.
After receiving the book the old man gave me, I became a wizard.

-Those things that will turn your unhappy life upside down.

At this moment, the old man appeared before me once more.