The Big Brewhaha: A Tavern-Building Cozy Fantasy LitRPG (Beers and Beards Book 3) by JollyJupiter

Author:JollyJupiter [JollyJupiter]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Aethon Books
Published: 2024-11-06T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FORTY-ONE

MAGIC, HELL YEAH!

Ever since I’d arrived on Erd, I’d wanted two things. To save beer, and get magic. That had expanded to include getting ownership of my soul back, and finding Lucky Jean’s treasure. Oh, and winning the Great Game of the Gods, who could forget that!

And now, one of those goals had finally been met!!!

As soon as I made it into the brew room, I grabbed a mug from the office and poured myself a glass of Barista Brew. I specifically wanted a stout for this, but our local porter would do. I activated my [Manasight] again, and peered into the depths of the mug. The Mana of the brew was mostly white, with hints of blue and yellow. According to ‘Professor’ Richter, that indicated the presence of gaseous Aethers and liquid Aethers, as well as some minute solids.

The elements in Erd were different from back home. There was no periodic table, and certainly no fantasy concepts like Earth, Fire, Wind, Water. Instead, there were the fundamentals, which were split into the Fundamental Elements: Aether, Matter, Nether, and Mana, and the Fundamentals of Life: Chaos, Law, Spirit, and Spark.

Mana was a building block that defined how the other Fundamentals acted. So, for example, Nether that was infused with Gravity Mana pulled things towards it. Our bottling system used Nether infused with Void Mana to provide a sterile environment . Fire was Aether infused with Fire Mana. Light was Chaos Mana in Aether. So on and so forth. Darrel’s elementals were bits of Aether given some Spirit and then infused with a bit of water Mana. He could make fire elementals if he wanted by using fire Mana instead, but didn’t for obvious reasons.

To perform magic, you took Mana from your own body, and using a standardized formula of sigils, or in Berry’s case, music, changed it to a different kind of Mana. Then you pushed the modified Mana into a surrounding Fundamental, changing its form to match the new Mana.

For example, a person who focused on fire spells might take their personal Mana, change it into Fire Mana, then push it into the Aether of the air around them. Fire Mana in Aether made pure flame, resulting in a jet of fire. If they instead infused it into the ground, they’d get something more akin to lava. There were limits of course, with some Mana types repelling others, and the Mana of other sentient beings being nearly impossible to affect.

Each use case required a different sigil with modifications for everything from distance to how you wanted the new Mana to act. As a result, learning how to do anything beyond one or two spells was hard, especially since you were usually forced to learn the sigils without the [Manasight] necessary to do the magic in the first place. Students at Archis Academy studied for years to gain Archis’s approval and the Blessing necessary to see Mana.

I reached into my desk and pulled out a simple beginner wand that looked like a pen with a ruby on it.

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