Actually, the Luminous Pearl, Ignite and Water Gathering spells that Claude demonstrated were all harmless spells that Maria referred to as.
It was said that such harmless spells were sold in magic shops set up by the royal capital's special department for ten crowns to registered magi so that they could show off and show off in order to achieve their goals.
In fact, the so-called harmless spells were emasculated versions. The special department guaranteed that the spells wouldn't cause too much damage to others.
To Maria, other than the illumination spell, Luminous Pearl, which was useful for her to study and experiment with potions at night, the other spells, such as Ignite, Gather Water, and Detect, were dispensable spells to her.
After all, she was born into a noble family and lived a comfortable life. She didn't need to light candles and could just press the summoning bell when she was thirsty and the servants would bring her all sorts of delicious drinks.
To Claude, however, there were no such things as useless spells. He just didn't use them in the right place.
Just like the Radiant Pearl, the Fire Ignition Spell, and the Water Condensation Spell, these three spells were simply the best choice for living in seclusion in the forest.
Claude believed that those three spells would be more useful to the magus than Spellhand and Fine Control. With a source of light at night, fire and clean water, living in seclusion in the forest wouldn't be so difficult.
As for the spell, Claude added it later.
He found it strange that rune magi had the Eye of Detection and battlemages had the Sight spell. Yet, the natural spell that Maria mentioned didn't include a spell to check mana imprints. That would put her at a disadvantage.
Firstly, she couldn't tell if the other party was of the same kind and had no spellcasting ability. That would make it easy for her to be ambushed by other magi with ill intentions.
Secondly, it was easy for her to waste her magic power. For example, the poisonous smoke traps she set in the Witch Forest, she often had to reset them every five days because she couldn't tell which ones were about to expire and which ones could last for another day or two.
With the Detect spell, she would be able to distinguish the strength of the magic imprints left behind by the poisonous smoke traps. She only needed to replenish the magic imprints that were about to disappear. That way, she wouldn't need to spend two days to rearrange the poisonous smoke traps in the Witch Forest.
When Claude told her about the use of Detect, the pitiful Sheila fell onto her bed, struggling to decide which spell she should give up.
In the end, she looked at Claude pitifully like a puppy begging for food.
Even though she couldn't bring herself to say it, her gaze clearly indicated that she wanted Claude to give all four spells to her. She knew very well how useful those four spells were to her, who lived alone in Witch Forest with the black wolf.
Claude averted his eyes and looked up at the wooden ceiling as if there were some patterns on it that fascinated him. He even whistled softly.
So infuriating!
The young mage on the bed was very angry. Her breathing became heavier, like a little wild boar.
In the end, she said in a fit of pique, "I'll trade with you. I want all four spells!"
"You want all of them?" Claude turned to her with a surprised look. "You still have spells you haven't told me?"
"It's not a spell!"
The young female mage pouted. "I still have three formulas. I'll use them to exchange for your Detect spell …"
"Three prescriptions. Apart from the ones for colds and external injuries, what's the other one?"
Claude had purposely mentioned the four spells because he wanted those two prescriptions. His bottom line was to trade one prescription for one spell. At most, he could give Featherfall to the magus in exchange for the one for external injuries.
He didn't think that the magus would be willing to trade three prescriptions for one spell. That was a pleasant surprise. He couldn't help but feel guilty for bullying a weak girl.
"My mother also left a prescription for healing broken bones. But it requires the bone powder and marrow of a mountain leopard. It's very effective.
However, there aren't any leopards in this area, so we didn't make this ointment.
If you can't find a mountain leopard, you can use a mountain cat instead, but it won't be as effective, "Sheila said sheepishly.
She didn't know if Claude would be willing to trade since she didn't have a physical copy of the prescription.
"Alright, I'll trade with you." Claude nodded and gave the magus a pleasant surprise.
By the time Claude left, he had already drawn the five spell formations on a piece of paper and handed it to the magus.
At the same time, he now had three prescriptions and five types of Nature Spell Rune Structure Diagrams.
In the following days, he needed to memorize and use these five natural spells, and then destroy the blueprints of these five spells on him.
He was currently in the army and couldn't bring anything related to magic with him, lest others discover his identity as a magus.
Naturally, he wanted the magus to practice the five spells in her room after learning them. She had to close the windows and doors and not make too much noise to avoid attracting the attention of the soldiers.
He knew very well that no matter how he explained to others that the magus was just a hunter's daughter living in seclusion in the forest, he wouldn't be able to wash away the suspicion of being a witch. Just the big black wolf by her side was enough to convince the soldiers that she was a witch.
When Claude went downstairs, he saw Myjack, Gum and two other signal soldiers frying the marinated bear meat in a pot of hot oil. The aroma of meat wafted into his nose.
Although it smelled delicious, the palm-sized bear meat was only cooked on the surface. The meat inside was still raw. It needed to be placed in a stew pot, poured in the marinated sauce, and cooked over high heat for about an hour before it was truly cooked. At that time, it could be taken out and dried to be considered braised.
"Sir, you haven't rested yet?" Gum asked the moment she saw Claude come down.
Rest?
Where am I supposed to rest? Do you think I'm sharing a bed with Sheila?
Claude now regretted sending her to the empty guest room on the second floor instead of his own bedroom.
Now that she was lying on his bed, he was too embarrassed to ask her to move to another room.
"Myjack, after you put the bear meat in the pot, go upstairs with Gum and move your things into the guest room. You and Gum will be staying in the guest room from now on.
As for the two of you, make room for me. "
He had no choice but to go through all that trouble. He was only worried that the magus practicing in her room would disturb Myjack and Gum. The two rooms were separated by a wooden wall and it was easy for them to sense what was going on next door.
Some time ago, when Baroness Vakusili was still around, Claude and Myjack left the room the next morning with dark circles under their eyes, looking rather exhausted.
They had been eavesdropping for most of the night and didn't sleep well at all.
"Alright, Sir. I'll go move my things in a bit," Myjack hurriedly replied.
Even though he didn't know what the relationship between the lady and his superior was, the fact that he let her stay in his room meant that they were close.
Who knew, he might end up moaning like Baroness Vakusili one night.
If that happened, he and Gum would have a hard time living next door and would have to masturbate three times a night.
It was safer to stay further away. Myjack wasn't stupid.
If Claude stayed in the guest room, he would have to pass by the corridor in front of his and Gum's room to sneak out to meet the lady with the big black wolf. How awkward would it be if the two of them were to bump into him?
It would be just like the time when Claude carried Baroness Vakusili back to their room. When he opened the door, he wanted to give himself two tight slaps.
Claude didn't expect that his decision to switch rooms would cause his orderly's imagination to run wild.
After giving the order, he put on his raincoat and went to the stone warehouse to check on the condition of his men. He also had to check on the layoffs at the camp gate.
Although Makci was supposed to be in charge of those matters, he knew that he couldn't be counted on to take care of those matters after seeing how drunk he was.
After another week, the magus had recovered from her injuries. However, she complained that the ointment he applied on her was military-grade and wasn't of the best quality.
For example, while stopping the bleeding was an advantage, it would leave a scar.
The reason she was dissatisfied was that there were three claw marks about half a foot long on the left side of her chest.
She said hatefully. If she had already made the ointment to treat external injuries, there wouldn't have been three claw marks on her chest.
Claude really wanted to study the marks, but the magus didn't give him the chance.
Sheila had been getting lazier and lazier as she laid on the bed. Apart from going to the bathroom to relieve herself, take a shower, and eat, she basically stayed in bed all day without moving.
After casting Spellhand and Fine Control, she would use those two spells to do things, be it for cleaning or reading.
He even used a Hand of Magic to lift the Big Black Wolf in the air, while the other Hand of Magic turned into a brush, and cleaned the Big Black Wolf up.
As for Luminous Pearl and Aqua Condensation, she used them quite a bit. There was always a Luminous Pearl floating above her room and the two cups of water she drank every day were spring water made from Aqua Condensation.
Thankfully, the doors and windows were shut tight and the curtains were drawn. No one outside knew what she was doing inside.
For the past two days, the young sorceress had been studying the structure of the Ignite spell. She had inadvertently discovered that the structure of the Ignite spell was somewhat similar to the structure of the Fireball spell that her mother was good at.
However, Sheila wasn't even thirteen back then and had just started meditating with her mother. She hadn't become a full-fledged nature magus yet.
Once, she followed her mother to collect mushrooms on the mountain and encountered a few big bad wolves. Her mother just stretched out her hand and used a few small fireballs to blow the big bad wolves down the mountain.
At that time, the young mage thought that her mother's posture when she cast the small fireball was simply too cool, so when she got home, she pestered her mother to learn it. Her mother thought it was funny. She had just started practicing meditation, so how could she learn magic?
However, in order not to disappoint the young Sheerah, her mother still drew the magic rune structure of Fireball on the table and taught her how to cast Fireball. Of course, at that time, the young mage was only listening casually. She didn't know how to cast Fireball.
Later on, Sheila's mother went on a treasure hunt with another magus and never came back. She was only fourteen back then and hadn't become a first-ring nature magus yet.
She thought that her mother would come back in half a year, but she was dumbfounded when she became a first-ring nature magus. Without her mother's magic tome, she didn't even know what basic spells to inscribe.
After waiting for a few more months, he had no choice but to engrave the five spells that he had memorized. He had waited until now.
Because the fireball spell was first taught to her by her mother, the young sorcerer only had a vague impression of it in her mind. She could not recall the entire magic rune structure of the fireball spell, so she could not cast this offensive spell.
Now that she had the rune formation for Ignition, the more she looked at it, the more familiar it seemed. She finally recalled the rune formation for Fireball that her mother had drawn for her.
However, when she told Claude about her discovery, he was shocked as well.
He remembered that Maria had once told him that Icefreeze was a simplified version of Freeze. The special department had simplified Freeze into Icefreeze, a harmless spell that could only be used to make ice cubes for drinking in the summer.
In that case, Ignition was most likely a simplified version of Fireball, so it was only natural that their rune formations were similar. However, Fireball was much more complicated than Ignition. It was good news that Sheila could recall the rune formation for Fireball from Ignition's rune formation.
The magus excitedly drew more than ten similar rune formations on the paper, eager to test out which one was the real Fireball.
Claude grabbed her and told her to calm down, not knowing whether to laugh or to cry.
Didn't she know where she was? If she were to test out Fireball in her room, Claude was certain that the wooden building would be destroyed.
Moreover, testing the structure of these magic rune arrays was no joke. The wrong structure of the magic rune arrays would cause the spell to explode in the hands of the caster, and in the worst case, the spell would backfire. Damaging the hexagram in the spiritual space was no small matter, and it meant that he would have to start all over again.
Claude promised her again and again that he would go to the back of the mountain with her to test out the spell after the rainy season was over. Only then did the impatient magus give up on the experiment and started drawing runes on the new bearskin with a pout.
Since Claude had traded for Beast Shapeshifting, he had to familiarize himself with drawing runes even if he didn't like the spell.
He asked the magus why she valued the bearskin so much.
She said that with the new bearskin, she could transform into a big black bear and go to the back of the mountain to take back the cave that was used as a bear cave.
Her mother had hidden a lot of books in that cave …