Ascendance of a Bookworm: Part 5 Volume 6 [Parts 1 to 6] by Miya Kazuki

Author:Miya Kazuki
Language: eng
Format: epub

Hartmut and Clarissa returned the next day with the required amount of gold dust—though it had apparently been quite a struggle to obtain—and started brewing fey paper. As I waited for them to finish, I drew magic circles on the high-quality paper I’d made yesterday and performed the experiments that had interested them.

Just as Hartmut had predicted, channeling mana into a magic circle drawn on the effon paper caused the chant to be performed automatically. It required a bit more mana than usual, but it could prove useful in situations when one couldn’t chant, or when the chant was just too ridiculously long.

Still, the problem is that I’m the only one who can draw on it right now.

Clarissa had hoped to make the nanseb paper reusable, but not even our high-quality version was that durable. It erupted into golden flames as any other paper would, leaving only a few burning fragments behind. I had to admit, there was something quite satisfying about them gathering together on their own.

“Lady Rozemyne, we’ve finished,” my two scholars eventually announced. They had each made some high-quality fey paper, which I attempted to draw on. I could put a clear line on Hartmut’s but nothing on Clarissa’s.

“Does this mean Clarissa has more mana than I do?” I asked.

“Absolutely not,” they both replied at once. The speed with which I’d turned my feystones into gold dust made it clear that I was still very much ahead, but it hadn’t even been a genuine question. I’d asked them in jest, assuming that the answer was obvious.

“What is causing this, then?” I asked, cocking my head at them.

Clarissa immediately came up with an idea: “It must be the name-swearing! That’s about the only distinction between Hartmut and me, in any case.”

I really didn’t want to believe that the name-swearing was the only distinction between them, but she was probably right. “As name-swearing binds one in the mana of another, that most likely is having an impact.”

It was through name-swearing that Roderick had managed to become omni-elemental, at least to some degree. Hartmut was similarly under the influence of my mana, which seemed to explain why I could write only on his paper.

“If our suspicions are correct and the paper can be written on only by its creator or those who are name-sworn to them, then it really is a failure,” I said.

“The problem is that the paper deflects mana, correct?” Hartmut asked. “Perhaps we could try adding mana-absorbing ingredients.”

I gave him a quizzical look. “Do you mean black feystones?”

“If we can use ingredients harvested from Darkness fey creatures to add absorption properties to the paper—without changing its fundamental qualities, of course—then we should be able to apply mana ink to it.”

Darkness fey creatures? Does he mean things like ternisbefallens and trombes?

I gazed at the trombe paper while recalling the Darkness fey creatures I’d encountered in the past. “I see. Let us try that, then.”

I tried to fuse a sheet of trombe paper with the high-quality effon paper that Hartmut had made.

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