Have Magic - Chapter 135



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Embrace the Magic (135)

Rodin left the reception room and went to the counter, where he revealed himself as the guarantor for Charis and Jenna.

“Baekgeumpae Rodin can vouch for these people’s identities?”

“Yes. Is there a problem?”

“No. If you have the platinum badge, anything is possible. Please wait a moment.”

After filling out a document, he put down the name Rodin as the guarantor for Charis and Jenna.

“Let me double check. Karis, Jenna. Is the guarantor for the two aspiring mercenaries actually Rodin, the holder of the platinum badge?”

“Yes, that’s right.”

“Charis, Jenna, if you two become mercenaries……”

Charis and Jenna had to listen to a long explanation of what not to do when becoming a mercenary.

Even if it was a platinum card, the conditions were the same. If Charis and Jenna had an accident within the next three years, Rodin, who had registered as their guarantor, would have to take responsibility.

“Wizard Rodin. The registration of the guarantor has been completed.”

“thank you.”

Rodin left the mercenary guild first and waited in the carriage. After about ten minutes, Bianca returned to the carriage.

“Brother! I decided to take the mercenary exam too.”

“You want to become a mercenary?”

“I don’t know. But I don’t want to be the only one left out.”

“Yeah. It’s not a bad idea to get a mercenary badge.”

Mercenary cards cost money to be examined, and you also have to pay the mercenary card price when you receive them. If you don’t have money, you can’t become a mercenary in the central continent.

Rodin was issued a platinum badge for free, but that was because it was platinum. Rodin also had to pay to have it reissued when he lost it.

“Yeah. I’m definitely going to become a mercenary. Mercenary magicians are incredibly rare.”

“It’s rare. When is the judging?”

“Tomorrow at 9 a.m. I’m screening number 2.”

“Number 2? Oh! Do the special jobs get it first?”

If the mercenary examination is tomorrow, many applicants will have already applied for the mercenary examination. Considering the size of the mercenary guild, the number will not be small.

Yet Bianca was given the number 2 screening number. It was clear that only special jobs were screened first.

“Yeah. I said this was my second time applying to be a wizard.”

“I guess I can just eat breakfast tomorrow and go.”

“huh.”

The Western Continent and the Central Continent had different methods of evaluating mercenaries in many ways.

The Western Continent was not a place where mercenaries were treated well, and there were not many mercenaries. Naturally, it was difficult to find people who wanted to become mercenaries. As a result, it was sufficient to conduct mercenary screenings randomly whenever applicants came in without regular screening.

Rodin was also randomly selected and became a mercenary that very day. It took a few days to receive the mercenary badge, but he became a mercenary that very day.

However, the central continent treated mercenaries well, and there were many people who wanted to become mercenaries.

The trading city of Asir had hundreds of people flocking to become mercenaries every month. The Marquisate of Richmond had several times as many.

In order to evaluate many people, regular evaluations were conducted. Before the regular evaluations, there was also a minimum qualification test.

“But why did it take so long?”

“I showed you the light because you asked me to.”

“aha.”

For wizards, light magic was the minimum qualification test. This meant that if you couldn’t even do light magic when taking the wizard job evaluation, you wouldn’t even need to take the regular evaluation.

“Larry must have some minimum requirements too.”

“Minimum requirements?”

“Just like you showed me light magic.”

“Ah, I see. What could it be?”

Charis came back about ten minutes later. Jenna and Larry showed up another ten minutes or so later.

“The trial is tomorrow, right?”

“Yes, bro. I’m supposed to start at 2pm. But since my screening number is at the end, I think it’ll probably be after 4pm.”

It was the same with Charis and Jenna. There were so many applicants for the inspection position that there was no choice.

“I thought there was something like a pre-test?”

“It was nothing special. It was just cutting down a scarecrow. The test itself was easy.”

“Yeah, bro. The test was easy, but the line was so long that I had to wait a long time.”

“You’ve all worked hard. Let’s go to the inn first.”

Cutting down a scarecrow in one go wasn’t that difficult, at least for those who had mastered Aura.

However, for someone who only swung his sword without any aura, even cutting down a scarecrow was not easy. He had to concentrate for a long time and pour out all his strength at once to cut down the scarecrow in one go.

There were countless applicants who lost concentration and were unable to cut down the scarecrow.

They were hung up on regret, but it was hopeless. Unfortunately, they had to wait for the next evaluation.

* * *

Around 10 o’clock at night.

Rodin put the grayish-white stone he was holding in his hand down on the floor. It had a shiny appearance.

“It’s finally finished.”

Rodin’s face was brighter than usual. He had finally succeeded in creating the magic stone.

In fact, it was five days ago that I first completed the magic stone. I succeeded in making the magic stone by concentrating after dinner at the campsite.

But the problem was that the entire process was manual. It was something I had already experienced when making potions, but it was inconvenient to have to pour in a lot of magic power for a long time to make it.

The magic stone didn’t take as long as a potion, but it still took more than three days to handle. It was too inconvenient and a waste of time.

So I was thinking about an easy way to make it and developed a new method using Mithril plates.

Specially processed mithril could store an enormous amount of magical power. Using this property, magical power was infused into it and a certain amount of magical power was continuously released.

If you inject the magical power emitted here into a first-processed mana stone, you can create one magic stone every three days. If you make the Mithril plate large, you can create many magic stones at once.

“The key is mithril processing.”

Modern people only use mithril to increase the strength of metals. This is because they do not know how to process mithril into a form that suits the properties of magic.

Rodin discovered a way to give Mithril three properties through the books of the Magic Empire.

Absorb magic power, store magic power, transform magic power.

Magic absorption was the property of accepting magic power injected by Rodin, and magic storage was the property of storing the injected magic power for a long time. These two properties were used in the magic stone production device.

Magic Transformation was a property where when magic was injected into a special form, the shape would become soft. If this property was used well, it could be turned into equipment such as a sword or shield without the help of a blacksmith.

“I guess I should buy some mithril.”

The mithril plate I had was too small. I needed to make a larger mithril plate for crafting magic stones.

Since there were no large ingots in the city of Hedens, I only bought two small mithril ingots. I processed them to make a magic stone crafting board, so I could only make one magic stone at a time.

The small ingot was only about the size of a thumb. Even if you put two together, the amount would not be much.

“Go to the Marquisate of Richmond and take care of Mithril. All that’s left is teleportation.”

I’ve roughly collected and organized the runes related to space. Now I have to try combining them in various ways, but it won’t be easy.

Artifact creation does not cause damage to the creator if it fails, but if the spell fails, the caster takes damage. If done incorrectly, the circle can be damaged.

“Attack magic is easy to combine.”

Rodin was a celestial battle magician. All the magic he learned at the special forces training school was also combat magic. That’s why combining combat-related magic was much easier and more familiar.

Magic other than battle magic was learned in the library’s deep storage, and was all magic left behind by Chairman Crate. Since he was from the Magic Tower, there were surprisingly many useful magics recorded there.

However, since he was a 6th circle magician, there was no record of 7th circle magic. The magic tower he came from was also a small to medium-sized magic tower that did not know teleportation magic.

“But it’s not like you’re creating something out of nothing.”

Spatial magic itself was not unfamiliar to Rodin.

I also made an artifact that engraved space expansion, and I also had a subspace bracelet. I also had a space movement artifact that was used by a merchant who died in the Western Continent. Although the artifact had lost its function, the magic circle inside it was not erased.

“First, class.”

From now until midnight, it was time to attend the Proval Welcome Class.

Rodin stored all the items he had taken out, including the magic stone, in his subspace bracelet. After clearing the surroundings, he summoned the Proval illusion.

* * *

The morning dawned. A cold breeze blew in through the open window.

Bianca wrapped the blanket around her body in her sleep.

“Hmm.”

“Bianca, you need to wake up.”

Larry had some free time because the mercenary examination was in the afternoon, but Bianca didn’t. She had to eat breakfast and warm up beforehand so she wouldn’t be late for the mercenary examination.

“Just a little more.”

“Aren’t you going to examine the mercenaries?”

“I’ll see. I’ll see… I won’t be late even if I sleep for 10 more minutes.”

“It’s late. Wake up.”

Rodin grabbed the blanket tightly. Only then did Bianca sit up, groaning.

“Ah! I hate mornings.”

“You’re going to hate breakfast too. Come out. You have to eat breakfast.”

“Ugh.”

The person who was judged in the morning was Bianca, but she actually woke up the latest.

Charis and Jenna were battle dolls that didn’t need to sleep in the first place, and Larry woke up at dawn and sweated with Rodin. It was the same routine as usual.

Rodin decided not to go to the mercenary guild.

The appearance of the Platinum Badge could have an impact on the mercenary screening. In particular, it was obvious that trouble would arise if it was revealed that Bianca was the disciple of the Archmage.

After breakfast, Bianca took a stagecoach to the mercenary guild. Jenna followed her as her escort.

The two set off in time for the mercenary examination, and returned to the inn shortly thereafter.

“Brother Rodin!”

“It’s over already?”

“Yeah. I passed. I’m a mercenary now.”

Bianca smiled triumphantly and lifted her chin.

Rodin checked the time and clicked his tongue.

It was only 9:40. It must have taken 20 minutes to get there by stagecoach, so the examination must have taken less than 20 minutes.

“I guess there aren’t many wizards.”

“Yeah. There was an old man in front of me who was doing the promotion test, and then it was me.”

“You don’t have a back?”

“Yeah. I’m done.”

There really weren’t any magicians in the mercenary world. Even in a city like Asir, which is considered a large city, it’s hard to find a mercenary magician.

It made sense that the mercenary guild branch leader would rush over to see the Grand Mage’s Platinum Plate. Rodin might have seemed like some kind of imaginary creature to them.

“What’s your rank? Your buddy?”

“No. Iron defeat.”

“Hmm, is the Eastern Continent different from the Western Continent? Or has the policy changed?”

Rodin thought Bianca would start with a pair of trinkets since she was a sorceress.

Special forces originally tended to be treated better, and this tendency was even stronger in the mercenary sector.

However, the mercenary rank that Bianca was to receive was a lower rank than expected, the Iron Badge. It was still higher than the Wooden Badge, which was the starting point for the inspection.

‘Is it better?’

If the level difference was two levels, it was difficult to complete the request. It was easier to complete the same request if the level was the same or similar.

“When will I receive the mercenary badge?”

“After three days, long time.”

“It’s the same.”

The morning was spent listening to Bianca’s tales of bravery all day long. The judging lasted less than 20 minutes, but the tales lasted three hours.

After lunch, Charis, Jenna, and Larry left for the Mercenary Guild, only to return just in time for dinner.

“What happened?”

“All passed, Your Majesty.”

“Ugh, I got through them all. But it’s so hard. Why is the waiting time so long?”

Larry slumped down in his chair, apparently exhausted.

It’s hard to just sit still and do nothing. It’s doubly tiring to sit still in an unfamiliar place with unfamiliar people.

At least I had Charis and Jenna with me so I could have at least talked to them. If I had been alone, I would have just spent hours in a daze.

“Thank you for your hard work. What is your mercenary rank?”

“It’s a wooden plaque. What?”

All three received the rank of Mokpae. Unless they were in a special job group or a special case like a master, the original inspection started from Mokpae.

“Ugh. I’m a total loser!”

“You’re a wizard.”

It wasn’t uncommon for wizards to be treated specially. Larry had seen it many times before, so he figured it would be the case.

“Bianca.”

“Did you call the Ironclad Mercenary Bianca?”

“Oh, yeah. Bianca, the Ironclad Mercenary. You don’t write poetry these days?”

“Huh? Poet… huh? I think I’m more suited to being a platinum mercenary than a poet.”

In the meantime, you gave up on your dream of becoming a poet. I expected that to happen, so I wasn’t surprised.

“I thought about it carefully.”

“Hehehe, Rodin, the next archmage will be me!”

“Okay. Work hard.”

We stayed in Asir for three more days to receive the mercenary badges from our party.