I Surrendered My Sword for a New Life as a Mage: Volume 3 [Complete] by Shin Kouduki

Author:Shin Kouduki
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf

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Soma was initially surprised to see two people there.

It really was rare for students and faculty to frequent the library; usually he would have been lucky to pass by even one person in the time that it took him to find a book, check out, and leave, and it wasn’t unusual that he would come and go without seeing anyone else inside at all. He had started visiting the library on his second day of classes, but this was the first time he’d encountered two people in one day.

And another factor in his surprise was that they were familiar faces. While he knew them, it was his first time seeing them together, which made for a novel sight.

“Imagine seeing you two here.”

“Soma...?”

“Oh, what a coincidence!”

It was Sierra with one of the magic instructors, Carine.

“Strange that the first time I see you in three days should be here of all places, Sierra. You still seem to be oddly well connected. And you as well, Ms. Carine.”

Although they were studying different concentrations and lived in different dorms, he saw Sierra often enough that this may have been the longest they’d gone without seeing each other since they met.

This was their first time meeting in the library, though.

“I’m looking for a spellbook.”

“Ah, I see. So that’s how you decided to approach it.”

“Mm-hmm.”

It still felt strange to see Sierra’s golden hair sway as she nodded, but Soma nodded back.

There were various ways to approach magic, and a place like the Royal Academy had a vast amount of material. It was so much that Sierra had had a hard time deciding where to start, but this meant she had finally settled on one option.

“And that would explain why Ms. Carine is showing you around.”

“Yes, that’s it! After class, Sierra asked me where to find spellbooks, but as you can see, it’s hard for a first-timer to navigate this place, isn’t it? So I thought I’d tag along, since I don’t have anything else to do right now.”

As she spoke, Carine handed a stack of books to Sierra. Soma observed and nodded in understanding.

Carine was certainly well suited to that role in multiple ways.

Spellbooks weren’t exactly books about sorcery; they were more like a sort of magical tool. Just reading a spellbook would give one the ability to use a certain spell—magecraft, to be precise—with no Sorcery Skill necessary; all it took was using the book.

But because spellbooks were both highly convenient and difficult to obtain except in the rare instances in which one could find them in a dungeon, they were extremely expensive. They didn’t circulate in the general population, and even a duke would have had a hard time getting his hands on one.

That meant that only a few people were knowledgeable about spellbooks.

Also, though it was magecraft and not magic that one could use with a spellbook, the two closely resembled each other in a sense. Magecraft was inevitably treated the same as magic in research, and their lectures had touched on that.

That meant that if you wanted to learn about spellbooks, it would be best to ask a sorcery instructor.

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