The Ideal Sponger Life: Volume 14 [Complete] by Tsunehiko Watanabe

Author:Tsunehiko Watanabe
Language: eng
Format: epub

Chapter 4 — The Next Steps

That afternoon, Aura was on an island owned by the Capuan royal family. Alone.

She had purposefully chosen the hottest period of the day—despite it still being the blazing season—for the same reason that she was alone. That reason was to keep her actions here as secret as possible.

The island itself was one of the largest that the royal family personally owned, but the ocean currents made it unsuitable for both fishing and trade. It had therefore remained uninhabited. The Capuan royal family used it instead for magic experiments that they wanted to keep secret.

While the royals themselves usually used it, there were occasions when other mages would get permission as well. Espiridion—the head of the country’s mages—and his wife, Pasquala, were regulars here. A particularly rare group was when Carlos II—who had been a skilled mage and researcher—would come here each time he thought up a new spell, accompanied by a trusted maid.

The queen was standing on this rather storied island with a small marble in her hand. It was gripped between her index finger, her middle finger, and her thumb, and formed the basis of the flameburst magic tool she had commissioned from Francesco in secret. The marble was caged within a metal frame, and one of its eight vertices was colored red.

Aura carefully positioned the frame with its red corner facing out, making sure there was no way it was even close to pointing at her. She found herself slipping into the calm usually associated with casting magic and purposefully shook that off. Instead, she focused her thoughts on other matters as far from magic as she could before speaking the activation word.

“Conflagrate.”

A beat later, her vision was swallowed by red. As the incantation suggested, the air on the island was filled with roaring flames of crimson. Aura only maintained her cool due to already being proficient with the spell. She had cast it under her own power before without the assistance of a magic tool. Therefore, the sight itself was no shock to her. It was also only active for a scarce few instants. Once its effects ran their course, the only signs of it were a slightly warmer area and a few scorch marks on the ground.

Flameburst was a spell that Aura had used on many occasions, so she was familiar with both its effects and force. She had cast it in an open space and relatively high into the air so that the flames didn’t catch on any of the plants in the area.

Ideally, she would cast it on some form of physical target like trees or rocks to see exactly how destructive it was, but she was confident on that front. The trees on the Southern Continent had a rather high water content and wouldn’t catch alight easily, but the risk was still present. Aura would find it rather difficult to extinguish any such fire on her own.

Either way, the test itself had been a success. Still, Aura’s expression remained completely placid.

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