First Course of Action

Noah walked outside of the room.

He saw a maid carrying a cup of tea in her hands, waiting outside.

"M-Milord..." She called him with a shaking voice.

"Hmm?" Noah looked at her with confusion in her eyes.

"I-I brought you tea...I knocked on the door, but you didn't respond." She said. Her voice was a little shaky.

In her eyes, Noah looked extremely scary. Cold, and emotionless, a person who looked ruthless and won't blink twice to kill a soul.

"Oh, sorry." Noah wasn't in rush like the previous time, so he processed the situation and responded according to it.

"No no, lord. I don't deserve your apology." The maid bowed multiple times.

"Ok." Noah didn't care. He did understand, that this world had all unreasonable etiquette to please noble.

"This tea..." She looked at the cup of tea.

"Hmm, just throw it. I am not in the mood for tea."

"O-Ok." The maid left the area.

Noah walked to the empty ground just the backside of the mansion.

It was a huge ground, which could be used to play soccer.

Since there was a curse in this land, even land as barren as this contained no grass.

Noah stood near the entrance to the backyard and took a slightly long breath. He raised his hands and circulated his mana.

His mana flowed out from his hand and accumulated near his palm.

A transparent glowing magical disk formed which contained dense magical lines which formed patterns. The circle looked divine and out of the world.

As the magic circle was formed on his hand, a fireball flung out from the magic circle and was fired. The fired fireball hit the ground.

The magic circle didn't disappear. If one wanted to let go of the circle, they just have to stop pouring mana.

But, Noah continued to pour mana on the magic circle. And he pour it a little quicker and the fireball started to be fired continuously.

Servants who were working inside the house, jolted when they heard the sound of an explosion. It was the sound of fireballs exploding in contact with the ground.

They hurriedly rushed to the backyard and found Noah firing fireballs. They didn't make a sound, except they watch the show with open mouths.

Well, they never had seen anyone use magic, so this was something amazing for them. They again were reminded how scary mages were by looking at the barren land forming craters.

The crater increased in size as more fireballs hit it.

Noah stopped after firing 100 fireballs. He was satisfied and felt his mana was surprisingly larger than other mages.

While he may not know how much exactly a second-rate mage has, from his knowledge, he knew even a third-rate magician can't cast 100 fireballs continually and doesn't feel any exhaustion.

While Noah was pondering, the servants looked at Noah with more respect.

"Our lord is amazing..."

"He is so powerful..."

The maids couldn't help but gasped their breath at his amazing performance. Even the butlers who were middle and old age were filled with astonishment.

Noah walked inside, he was sweating.

"Here, master."

A maid gave him a towel and bowed then left.

Noah wiped himself and walked to his rooms. He had a shower in his room, and he used that shower while thinking about other spells.

He knew three first-tier magic spells, and he used his own knowledge to form those spells. Of course, its spell power increase like in novels where the protagonist increases one's spell power with modern scientific knowledge.

Of course, he could have used it, but it isn't as easy as it sounds.

Spell here work on mana and pattern, even oxygen which lit fire is in the form in the pattern. It's like coding to form a program.

Even simple task like making the program say something requires one line of code. Not to mention, creating a fireball requires at least 1000 lines of code. These codes are the pattern.

It's not like he had to create the pattern himself, he need to use the knowledge of the spell to make patterns in mana combing his memory.

If he changed something, the magic would change drastically. And, who knows, it could even self-explode.

"Let's forget about magic, let's talk about curses here."

The curse of this area is pretty strange, but he didn't dwell on the curse itself.

"Let's try to make organic fertilizer, chemical fertilizer, and let's try to make my own mana fertilizer..."

Noah mumbled.

"Wait, there's also monster invasion...interesting."

Noah thought of some plans in his head and he will decide to do other things the next day.

"My first course of action...learn several spells and try to make my own spell!"

Noah nodded slightly.

He may look cold on the outside, but he was also normal, emotionless man inside.