Chapter 3 A World of Magic <TOC> Chapter 5 Back to the Castle
Translator: SumTLMan
Bang bang bang~
The knock on the door interrupted Otto Braun’s thoughts, but the impact of his first glimpse of another world was far from gone.
Verna dragged his lunch into the room, and after a greeting, she skillfully places his lunch in the centre of a round blue sycamore log table.
“Lord Otto Braun, enjoy your meal.”
“Thank you.”
Otto Braun sat down, as if on cue, and asked the girl as she prepares to leave: “Has there been anything special in the city recently?”
Upon hearing Otto Braun’s inquiry, Verna was pleasantly surprised. Although she was his personal maid, Otto Braun seldom spoke to her.
“Lord Otto Braun, I recently heard that the Mage Guild will hold a magic spell seminar in November. All three Grand Mages from the Mage Guild will be attending.”
“What else?” Otto Braun set his plate and straightened his utensils. He wasn’t interested in the meeting at the moment.
Thinking of the scene he just saw through the window sill, he continued to ask: “Has there always been so many beggars on the streets?”
Verna quickly shook her head and said: “No, Lord Otto Braun. The orcs south of the distant mountains have recently waged another war again. So, more refugees are fleeing for refuge.”
After speaking, she hurriedly said: “If they displease you, I shall immediately send for someone to drive away all the beggars near the mage tower.”
Most mages have strange temperaments or quirks. Although Verna was reluctant to drive away those poor beggars.
She was more afraid those beggars might lose their lives if they’d somehow offend Lord Otto Braun.
Otto Braun shook his head. From the scene on the street just now, he can roughly judge the current political, economic and status of most people living in Green City or within the Norland Empire.
High above at the top are the aristocracy, next is the large slave owners, and below are the cautious civilians, cruel mercenaries, poor beggars and kind but fearful of trouble shop owners.
This isn’t a peaceful world.
“No, if there is any extra bread, you can give out some alms, but don’t give too much. You can head down first.”
Upon hearing Otto Braun’s words, Verna’s thoughts turned and she immediately understood that although her master is kind, he also understands human nature.
If given too much, those beggars will gather in large numbers, at that point, it will be very difficult to deal with them then.
The master of this mage tower isn’t the lord of the city, so they don’t bear the responsibility of sending relief to the beggars.
“Yes, Lord Otto Braun.”
Seeing Otto Braun having nothing left to say, Verna pursed her charming lips, lowered her head and left. Her steps were somewhat slow as she walked away with a drooping gait.
Otto Braun was clear about his maid’s thoughtful intentions but said nothing else.
It was fine for those beggars to receive some food, but it was impossible to lend aid on a massive scale.
Though his present status was precarious, it was still understandable that a mage lord would occasionally offer some morsels of food out of the kindness of their heart, but doing it often would appear unnatural.
This is the city lord’s business, and the lord certainly doesn’t need a mage to take part in these activities.
For a vampire, human blood is food. Though no harm will be caused to his stomach from eating human food, it doesn’t provide him with enough nutrition…
In order to hide his identity, the original vampire ancestor eats at the same time every day.
Otto Braun isn’t a vampire at heart, and naturally has a hobby of enjoying delicious meals. So, he treats the vampire ancestor’s meal as an indulgence rather than a task.
Lunch looked quite hearty, with a glass of milk, a large piece of roast meat containing abundant magic power, two large loaves of bread plus two small plates of side dishes and dessert.
The rarest and most expensive of all the dishes was the roast meat. Only meat belonging to magic beasts could have possessed such intense magic power.
In Green City, this magic beast meat can sell for at least 50 silver pooks.
The salary of a waiter in a restaurant is only 10 silver pooks a month.
This piece of meat which he’s having for lunch is enough to feed a family of three for an entire year.
The currency in << Glory >> is divided into copper pook, silver pook and gold pook. The exchange ratio is 100 copper pooks = 1 silver pook, and 100 silver pooks = 1 gold pook.
A copper pook is the smallest unit of the common currency. 1 copper pook can buy a loaf of black bread on the street, and the purchasing power is roughly equivalent to 1 RMB.
However, this world is different and the currency cannot be measured as such. Although << Glory >> is an extraordinary magical world, it still has a western medieval background where the productivity isn’t high. So, the purchasing power of the currency should be even stronger.
Otto Braun, as an elite member of the Green City Mage Guild and a Baron with a title conferred by the Norland Empire, receives a subsidy of 20 gold pooks every month.
In addition, the area around Scarlet Mage Tower is sheltered by him, so he receives an additional protection fee of about 10 gold pooks every month.
Plus, some well-connected aristocrats will provide him with a certain amount of money every month for asylum, paying a fee which also adds up to about 20 gold pooks.
Therefore, Otto Braun’s monthly income is about 50 gold pooks, while it takes 20 gold pooks to maintain and keep Scarlet Mage Tower running every month, that leaves about 30 gold pooks left on his balance.
Eating magic beast roast which is considered extravagant and expensive in the eyes of commoners is no big deal to him.
When the roast meat containing abundant magic power enters his mouth, it was if electricity ran through his veins. After the rich magic power enters his body, it begins to purify every cell in the body.
His body feels as if it has gone through a massage and warm bath with every cell cheering along.
“This is what it means to compare vegetables to a treasured sword!”
Otto Braun’s face looked very comfortable as he thought, ‘No wonder the price of magic beast meat was so high.’
After eating roast magic beast meat, the other food seemed a little bland and tasteless in comparison. So, he finished the food on the table in a couple of bites.
After a short break, Otto Braun excitedly looked at the spell skills on the property panel and was ready to begin.
As an earthling, his curiosity about these extraordinary abilities is unquestionable.
Especially after his soul crossed through and into this world, his curiosity grew even greater.
Magic spell, the charm of these two words are more attractive than any amount of gold coins.
Although he has no spellcasting experience, Otto Braun became intimately familiar with his skills and spells after receiving the memories of the original vampire ancestor.
It was as if he’d practised casting the spells a million times before.
Feeling nothing strange or uncomfortable about the process at all.
It was a great sigh of relief for him.
The World of Glory isn’t a peaceful world, this is a world filled with evil people with bad intentions.
If one doesn’t possess enough strength, one might not be able to live a good life.
He has now become a vampire ancestor in the game, and may not be able to resurrect infinitely like a regular player anymore.
If he dies and can’t be resurrected, then he would really be finished with playing this game.
Magic spell.
Otto Braun turned his attention to his skills.
For a modern person, only this ability of transcending reality truly arouses his interest.
Here he goes.
The magic spell which has been practised countless times from the memories belonging to the original body has formed a map of lines and dots in his spiritual sea.
Magic spell model.
What a familiar yet unfamiliar name.
To cast a spell, a mage must activate a magic spell model.
The magic spell model is composed of two parts: the magic spell node and the magic spell loop.
The magic spell node is a fixed point while the route connecting the magic spell nodes is called the magic spell loop.
The magic power begins from the first magic spell node and enters into the second magic spell node through a fixed magic spell loop, and so on.
By the time the last magic spell node is activated by magic power, the magic spell model has been formed and the magic spell can be cast immediately.
The principle behind a magic spell isn’t difficult to comprehend, but comprehension and performance are two completely different concepts.
If a mage wants to cast a magic spell, they must depict the spell model in their spiritual sea.
The original vampire ancestor has learned more than a dozen magic spells. All of which have become successfully depicted magic spell models in the spiritual sea.
Now if he wants to cast a spell, all he has to do is input magic power according to the original magic spell model.
After recalling the spellcasting process several times, Otto Braun suppressed his inner excitement and slowly regained his composure.
It’s better to stay calm when casting a spell, it’s common sense for a mage to know that too many emotional swings will affect the spellcasting process.
Once his mood had calmed down, Otto Braun began to slowly transfer his magic power through the magic spell model.
Small Fireball.
This is a mage’s simplest entry-level spell, a first circle magic spell.
There should be no more than 100 magic spell nodes connected to a first circle magic spell while Small Fireball has only 50 magic spell nodes.
If it was cast by the original owner of the body, this type of first circle magic spell would be successfully cast with just one snap of the fingers.
However, Otto Braun is a newbie after all, and he was still a little nervous about his first spellcasting.
Stretching out his left hand, which is the casting posture he had learned from the memories, he began to silently invoke the magic in his mind.
Five seconds later.
Brush~
An orange-red fireball the size of an apple floats in mid-air.
As the scorching hot fireball raised the temperature in the room by several degrees.
Otto Braun’s face appeared pleasantly surprised.
Success!!!!!
His first time spellcasting was a success!!
He felt infatuation, it’s hard to imagine the thrill of summoning a fireball from one’s own hand without experiencing it firsthand.
This is a magic spell far beyond his previous reality.
Otto Braun can clearly feel his control over the fireball floating above his hand as he moves it at will.
With only a bit mental force, the fireball can be sent flying towards the enemy at a speed of tens of meters per second.
And the power contained would be no less than an explosion from a gas tank.
If he wanted to increase the power, he would continue injecting magic power into the small fireball to increase the overall power.
He turned his head and looked around, looking at the storage shelf in his magic spell laboratory, shook his head, and snuffed out the plan he had in mind.
Activated by his mental force, the small fireball kept flying in front of him like a tugged balloon.
The scorching flames flashed with astonishing temperature as the temperature in the room kept constantly rising because of this small existence.
The orange fireball looks like the most beautiful flower he has ever seen, full of danger and mystery.
The scorching small fireball flew up and down and left and right, spinning at his fingertips, bouncing under his feet and floating before eyes.
Otto Braun’s mind was completely silent while the magic spell was active.
It wasn’t until half a helios later that he began to slowly stop sending magic power into the small fireball.
Without magic power to support it, the fireball began to slowly shrink, as the orange-red scorching light gradually dimmed and turned into nothingness a few minutes later. He came to a conclusion.
This was a magic spell.
Otto Braun’s interest in magic spells immediately reached its peak after successfully casting Small Fireball.
He loved the sense of control over magic, the feeling of sending a fireball flying at his fingertips, and he swears he has never felt a greater sense of accomplishment or fulfilment than this.
Chapter 3 A World of Magic <TOC> Chapter 5 Back to the Castle