Enough with This Slow Life! I Was Reincarnated as a High Elf and Now I’m Bored: Volume 6 Part 1 by rarutori

Author:rarutori
Language: eng
Format: epub

Now, I had some time before the preparations for the river were complete, so how would I spend that time?

“Lord Acer! Is this good?”

By teaching the elven children sculpting, of course.

Well, we weren’t actually using hammers and chisels or anything. Instead, I had prepared a number of small stone blocks for them, and had the children trace their fingers along the stone, getting the earth spirits to help them carve it. It was more like a game, and if they worked hard at it, they’d end up with a small statue they could carry home.

“Yes, exactly! That’s great. This is a bird, right? What kind of bird is it?”

The child beamed at my praise. They never ended up telling me what kind of bird it was, but it didn’t matter as long as they were having fun. Naturally, being made by a child, there were plenty of distortions, and the finer details were all amateurish at best. But the fact I could recognize what it was despite all that meant it was pretty well done in my eyes.

Using the earth spirits to carve a statue out of stone was actually much harder than it sounded. In order to get the help of the spirits, one needed a close relationship with them and a precise mental image of what you wanted to accomplish. If you weren’t that close to them, they would just ignore your request. And no matter how much they liked you, if you couldn’t clearly communicate what you wanted, there was no way they could respond properly.

Of course, factors like one’s personal affinity for the spirits and ability to empathize with them also came into play, but in the end, Spirit Arts came down to getting along with the spirits and asking them for help. That’s why I thought that practicing in the Spirit Arts should always be done in a way that was fun for the trainee and the spirits. Doing something that left a permanent result would be fun for both of them, and the sculpting process would help the children practice holding more precise images in mind. While I had been learning under Professor Myos, I had done everything myself, but that didn’t stop the spirits from watching with a keen interest.

It would be decades before these children grew up, so the situation here in the west would likely be entirely different by then, but it was never a bad thing for them to have more tools in their belt. While the current situation was very much a crisis for the elves, from the perspective of their extensive lifespans, it was still only a temporary rough patch. I had no idea what kind of future would be waiting for these children, but no matter how the world changed, the spirits would always be at their sides.

So I was teaching the children how to interact with the spirits and ask them for help. Of course, if any of them actually wanted to take up sculpting for

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