Chapter 21 – Accelerated Tutoring (2)

“Oh okay! I’ll do it like this. I’ll do it, so watch me play with my belly….”

Carla wept and placed her hand on my chest.

Sarak.

The touch of thin fingers through the thin hem of the dress.

For a while, enjoying Carla’s body temperature, which somehow tickled her chest.

Carla, who had been touching my breasts for a while, tilted her head left and right as she stretched.

“Yes? Yes? Uh huh… ?”

“What’s the matter? What’s wrong?”

“No. Rather than a problem….”

Carla stopped touching her hand and gently pressed her palm.

“Is it too good?”

“… My body?”

No wonder.

In fact, Karla was a child she reveals. That’s why she was able to come up with Juji Kiss or something.

As she nodded her head in agreement, Carla shook her head in fright.

“Oh no! No! Not the body, but the core! It was that the core was so good!”

“Ugh! He was a pervert who was more excited about his core than people. You have to catch me sometime and give me proper sex education.”

“It’s not like that….”

Am I teasing you too much? The trembling of Karla’s thighs felt in the back of her head was unusual.

How to say When she was in elementary school, she stole the pocket of her partner’s slipper and ran away, and at first, why did she chase after her?

At this rate, it looks like she’ll go beyond crying and even whimper. She patted Carla on her side and changed her subject.

“What, what a joke. Did I mention that the core is too good? What are you talking about?”

“… It’s because it’s so sophisticated.”

It seems like she’s trying not to show it off as much as possible, but the resentment that comes out in her voice.

But since it seems like the story won’t go any further if I make fun of this again, she skips it and continues.

“Sophisticated. Carla, does she want to say that you taught her well?”

“Of course, it’s true that I forced myself to make a core because I wanted to look good to my master.”

That’s what it says. Originally, when she first received her mana core, her rank was D to E.

Even if there is a difference in how far they grow in the end, everyone starts at the bottom when they first start.

However, the C-rank start of the Lindbloom Core that Karla passed on.

It wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say that Kara was overdoing it.

“But it just made the core a little bigger and stronger. The texture of the core… The efficiency that comes from that is a completely different matter.”

“Uh… I can’t understand it even if I hear it like that.”

“I will give you an easy analogy. Imagine having identical twins? We are the same height and weight, and we have the same strength.”

Carla continues her explanation while punching the air.

“But the skills they learned are different. If one learned to play an instrument for 10 years, the other learned to work as a miner for 10 years. If the two fight, who will win?”

“It must have been a miner. Even if all physical conditions were equal, you would know better how to exert yourself.”

“That’s it! Even with the same core, if you know how to handle it properly, you can manipulate mana more efficiently! The current owner feels just like that.”

“… Didn’t I do anything?”

“So it is strange. By any chance, did you also touch her core while cycling her magical energy?”

“No way. You know that if you touch it wrong, something will happen.”

Just because your core is broken doesn’t mean your heart explodes. Instead, it becomes a body that can never make a core again.

At best, I bought Karla and fixed her inability to respond to mana, but she couldn’t become a core cripple.

“Oh my gosh… It was just luck that it was made in its current form… No, if I did, I wouldn’t be able to keep it.”

“You mean good?”

“Sure! It’s not a level to end with a good word. This is about the same level as my father, who was a great wizard, but how could he… Oh, that’s… The thing just… So….”

Carla was talking gibberish instead of talking.

She probably thought it was her mistake to say that she resembled her own father, whom she knew as a cult.

I’ll have to take a chance later and tell you that the Lindelheit family’s accusations of being cultists are false.

Originally, it was a negotiating card in preparation for the time when the enslavement was lifted on its own… Looking at Carla now, she doesn’t seem to have to do that.

Looking up from below, he patted Karla’s heavy chest, which half-obscured her vision.

“Hyat! Lord, Master… ?”

“It’s okay. You were just trying to give an example, right? I have no idea what to say about that.”

“Thank you….”

“Anyway, I know my core is finely structured. So, specifically, how does it feel?”

“Ugh. Isn’t the Lindbloom breathing method weaving small loops together to make one big loop?”

“Right.”

Even now, if you pay attention to the heart a little bit, you can clearly feel the existence of the core, so you can see this much right away.

“But usually, the size of each small ring is jagged, and there are many cases where the large rings are crooked. Right now, I somehow got the big rings in shape, but I couldn’t completely correct the small ones.”

“Hey… Now I see what you mean.”

The size of the core felt near the heart is subtle. No more, no less, just the feeling of being C-ranked.

However, if you look closely, the components of the core that you can feel are at a level that can hardly be called a C rank.

Each small ring is the same size, and the large ring formed by gathering them forms a perfect circle.

A form without humanity, as if it were produced in a factory.

… Form without humanity?

There was something that bothered me a little, so I urged Carla.

“Isn’t it good anyway? There’s no problem, so let’s do what we’re doing now.”

“Ah, yes. From now on, I will resonate with the master’s core and draw out his mana, so please remember it well.”

Carla’s hand on my heart. A faint coolness emanates from it. And.

Pounding. Pounding.

The sound of a heartbeat ringing in your ears.

No, this is not the sound of the heart.

It is just an illusion created by the core surrounding the heart exuding a clear presence.

And one more sound coming from outside, not inside me.

Thud. Thud.

Another echo was transmitted through the hand touching her chest.

Karla’s core, which boasts a much clearer momentum than mine, is pulsating in response to my core.

It looks like they are even talking to each other.

However, the interval between the giving and receiving echoes gradually became shorter, and soon overlapped into one whole.

The core that should resonate with the mana from the outside began to resonate with Karla’s core.

Ung-ung-

Around the time I couldn’t even tell which one was my heartbeat and which one was Carla’s heartbeat.

The refreshing magic that flowed from Karla’s hand flowed into her body.

Originally, the magical powers of others, which should have been repulsive and pushed away, naturally blend as if they were one from the beginning.

Then, taking my magical power, which only moved along the mana circuit, to the outside of the meeting… It moved to the tip of the index finger.

“It is true that magic is most stable when it moves along the mana circuit. But that doesn’t mean you have to move only with mana circuits.”

As I stared blankly at her shining blue fingertips, Carla continued her explanation in a low voice.

“Later, you can draw a magic circle outside by resonating the core and surrounding mana, but it will be difficult for now. At first, it would be more convenient to draw a magic circle with the mana concentrated on your fingertips.”

“If I draw a magic circle like this, will the magic come out? Oh, didn’t you have to memorize the spell too?”

“That’s only the surface part. You will be able to manifest the magic only after going through a little more complicated processing from the inside.”

“… I’ve read some basic magic books before. Are you referring to the imagination, will, intuition, and formulas in them?”

Thanks to her excellent memory, when I told her what she had memorized, Kara’s voice burst into laughter.

“Right! You know me well. The four elements that make up magic are imagination, will, intuition, and formula.”

“It’s magic, but doesn’t it include mana?”

“A wizard’s will is magic. So, the phrase to do something with the will shown while reading the magic book is to pour in stronger magic power.”

That’s what it meant

If the limbs are moved by muscles, mana is moved by will.

If you raise your magic power, you will naturally have a strong will.

“At this point, I will explain the stages of the manifestation of magic by solving it a little more. To be honest, no matter how basic a magic book is, it’s not a book made for self-study. Master, if you had read it alone, it would have been very difficult.”

“… Somehow I didn’t understand a thing.”

I wasn’t stupid

After muttering that in her relieved voice, Carla chuckled.

“But I am here now, right? It’s a little embarrassing to say with my own mouth, but I’m a really capable slave.”

“I guess so. If you’re a middle-ranking wizard, you’re considered an elite among wizards.”

For reference, high-ranking wizards are treated as siege weapons rather than individuals. In fact, high-ranking magic has that much power.

Hehe… Anyway, let’s get back to the main topic. Were you talking about the order of magical manifestations?”

First, imagine the desired phenomenon, overlay the will on the imagination, and correct the result with intuition and formulas.

That was the order of magic that Karla was talking about.

“The simpler the magic, the less importance there is on intuition and formulas. As simple as it is, there is not much to correct.”

For example, clean magic that Kara often uses.

It’s magic to wash away dirty things, but what is the standard for dirty things in the first place?

If it is waste, how far is the waste that needs to be removed, and where is the dead skin that is needed?

Isn’t it possible that the skin peels off if you use it incorrectly once?

Besides that, when you try to wipe up a spilled drink on your clothes, you might blow the water out of your eyeballs as well.

It is called intuition to control the parts that are difficult to explain one by one in these words.

“The formula is a little easier to understand. It’s about controlling the range or direction.”

“Like you won’t be harmed by your own magic?”

“Oh, that’s the realm of intuition. The formula is to prevent oneself from being caught up in the aftermath of one’s own magic.”

Maybe it was thanks to seeing Carla wearing her prominence flare. I think she knows how it feels.

She nodded her head without saying anything, and Carla, who thought she was ready now, smiled brightly.

“Then let’s do it ourselves! What would be good Shall we start with Tinder? As for the embers, I can put them out when the need arises.”

“… I don’t know what to do even if I try to use it once and for all.”

“There is nothing difficult. Didn’t I tell you before? In basic magic, imagination and will are more important than intuition and formula. First, imagine an ember.”

It’s a fire… I often lit a bonfire. It wasn’t too difficult to recall the sparks flying over the bonfire, thanks to its excellent memory properties.

“I am moving the magic, so don’t worry about it. Just remember the move and wish it strongly.”

Embers. It’s small, but if you put in firewood, you can make a big fire at any time….

I kept thinking about it in my mind.

“Have you been? Then, draw a circle with the finger where the mana is concentrated.”

Round and round

Blue light remained in the air like an afterimage, drawing a slightly distorted circle.

“Now, in the circle of magic, you can recite the chant in the hope that an ember will be born. Anything is fine as long as the image is easy to come up with and it signals that the magic is about to begin.”

It should feel similar to when giving orders to Karla with a slave stamp.

“Come up. [Tinder].”

Hwareuk.

A small ember lit up in a blue circle as a signal for the last starter word.

It’s the size of a match at best, and it even sways around unsteadily… It’s magic though.

The first magic I ever used. A mysterious power that only exists in this world.

“Her….”

For a while, I was staring blankly at the small fire I had caused as if possessed by something.

Tring!

【Basic Magic: Tinder (F) learned.】

【You learned magic for the first time. Acquire Crude Magic (F) trait.]

At the same time as the familiar notification sound is heard.

Fire.

The shaking of the fire, which seemed to be extinguished any minute, stopped.

Then it started to burn with a scarlet light that was clearly clearer than before.

… Somehow it caught on something.

Was this the cause