Volume 1 Chapter 41: From Seed to Sprout 2

They are a group of well armed robbers, but their average battle power is a lot worse than those mobs in the forest.

The soldiers, who should have gotten here already, are gone for no reason, and the alarm didn't ring. What the heck?

I counted the red dots on the Mini-map. There are nearly 40 robbers, three-fourths of them went to battle with Marbon and Maany and three more helpers. The rest of them are chasing the escaping Villagers.

Looks like they want to kill us all. Well, with me here - with us here - we won't allow this to go any further.

I used spider strings to hang those ten selfish retards on the gate. And the rest of them… I was worried about Grace, who was going against seven of them. Even though I've heard how strong people really are in this world from Maany and Mirabella - and found myself wanting, because they are far weaker than Grace - I can't help feel worried since it's Grace's debut in human combat.

Because of this, I'm now watching Grace and Melon's battles from the top of the guarding tower, with my binoculars.

Melon literally just aced the battle. After I made her a special equipment, her skills are beyond what this world's common sense could understand now. She is now in an undecidable category with an uncategorized job class.

That equipment, I called them Bands of the Bold. There are four of them, one on each arm and legs. It looks like unique bracers and legguards. I got the ideas from G▢nos' arm, and Yang's Ember Ce▢icas.

You have to use it with special ammunition bullets, but it's not for shooting enemies. The recipe for the ammunition bullet is cheap, each recipe can make 4 bullets, from stone shells made with regular cobblestone, and a compressed gunpowder.

Compressed gunpowder can be crafted by using some regular gunpowder. There are creepers in this world as mobs, and they're not too rare so the Guild often announces sweeping missions on them.

As the technology level for this world, they lack the understanding of gunpowder and it's not treated as a usable resource. No one will buy them nor sell them. So the guild will be happy to sell you if you ask them for it.

Anyway, the bullets are loaded into the Bands of the Bold. There's also a small mechanism made up with redstone and magic stones right at where the bullets are loaded. Melon only has to transfer mana in a specific way to shoot it. She can also micro-adjust the mechanism for changing the bullet's direction.

When fired, the bullet will explode immediately, which creates a force to let Melon thrust towards the enemies. The power of the force from a single bullet is limited, but don't worry about that. She can control the amount of the bullets that get fired by controlling the amount of mana she transferred into, which can control the power of the force each time.

Of course, The Bands of the Bold must be enchanted with [Blast protection], or else they can't sustain the explosions.

Every part and every bullet for this weapon, are related to Minecraft. So in other words, only I can make this weapon.

The weapon requires a user with high mastery - to understand and be familiar with the weapon, and a strong enough body, to not get hurt while practicing.

The reason why you need a strong body is that, when you're using the Bands of the Bold, the explosive forces will also hurt you.

But for Melon, she has scales covered on her arms and legs, which give her another layer of protection. And I enchanted [Protection] or [Blast Protection] on her larger scales, too. Doing this has used up all my stocks of protective enchantments.

She has extremely high dynamic visual acuity skills and fast reaction skills. Those skills are also compatible with this special creation.

A year ago, after she finally broke all of the iron dummies I gave them to Melon to let her start practicing.

Even if it's just a regular punch or a kick, they can boost her fist or leg with explosive force when the Bands of the Bold are used, and do a huge amount of damage on the enemy.

By the way, the Bands of the Bold will get very hot after using them continuously. I was worried about that, but Melon even learned [Heat Resistance] skill to prevent the heat… This is something that literally only Melon can control. Because only she has all the skills and fulfills all the criteria, as well as having special enchantments only she would be able to get.

So basically, there is no problem on her side. Let's see how Grace is doing.

I know I should let go of my worries the moment I watched Grace use magic in a faster and more efficient way than the magic army, this also helped my Magic Theorem come to another conclusion.

Before this, let's talk about what is "to use mana" by casting the spells to "do something".

And what is casting? Well, I will use a simple way to tell you guys how people in this world learn magic.

First, pretend you're a teenage boy in a regular family. After you got identified as someone who has the potential to be a mage, your daddy and mommy were very happy about it. And the next day, they spend a lot of money to buy you a Magic Tome.

The name of the book is "Spells for beginners-Fireball (Deluxe version, with explanation)." But when you opened the book with excitement, the book said:

「 &* &^#&^ &^*&! ^&#&^&*!$ %#HDKEJ ^%!% ^^%!$~!$

*% !^%#(&) (&%$&!_&*#&_*!( &*#*& ^$^&#^(&^!* #&

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&(*&)(*&*(& *)!&*#^)& !^&#^&! ^#&^&! ^#*( #&(*#*&#&*

—[Fireball]—」

You can't read it right? It's fine. Because the book is in the Deluxe version, so you also got a piece of paper. Here's what it says:

The definitions of those three paragraphs in order are "Fireball" "Straight Forward" and "Shoot"

Wait, now there's another question. What do those % 's mean in the second paragraph?

I'll give you five columns of time to think about it.

…

…

…

…

…Ok. Time's up.

For real, I don't understand either. If you want to learn how to cast a fireball, all you can do is try to remember every single word from the spell book above. After that, you'll know the first paragraph means Fireball, the second means Straightforward, and the last one is Shoot.

Now you might think, "Can you get a different result by changing the order of the paragraphs in other spells?"

Is it that easy? No! There are thousands of branches of casting. Different branches have different meanings. If you put two different branches together, the result will be like mixing 2 languages together. Ain't nobody gonna understand that!

Then, the casing will fail. The side effects for failing, a little explosion if mild, but can cause a mana backfire when severe. This is why there are fewer magicians as the ranks get higher. Because most of them died from the improper use of magic.

It's suicide to research and figuring out spells.

After I became the Vassal of Flora, and can finally learn magic, I experienced this point first-handedly, and was briefly swallowed by guilt. How could I have let Grace, an Elementalist, take risks this high by freely changing the spell chants?

Coincidentally, I found out the purpose of magic is to let Elemental Fairies do something through casting with the cost of mana." This is very similar to how programming languages work back to Earth, "to let the computer do something through programming with the cost of electricity.

Because of this, I went to Lady Dryad, created another new magic branch based on C++, a common kind of programming language. Even though I almost died a few times in the process of creation, but I have finally made it.

I added things such as "if" "while" loops, into my magic casting branch. The most interesting part must be the "while" loop.

During the battle, the magicians need to keep casting nonstop to keep that magic barrier, but Grace only has to create a loop that keeps the barrier nonstop. So, Grace is already winning by default.

It is really funny that I created the branch, I couldn't present any good result because I'm a Commoner. But Grace had already mastered it after I taught her 2 years ago. Right now she can cast easier spells within a few seconds.

Those magicians must feel very shocked. A spell that must be casted by 6 people together continuously, but Grace just "learned" that within a few seconds.

That's why I said,

I am very proud of Grace.

The street is now a mess. Melon and Grace both won, those poor robbers are now lying on the ground everywhere.

I started to hear horses, and there are people coming this way, lo and behold, it's the soldiers who disappeared, and the landlord's son.

He brought soldiers to save the villagers. Well, that's what a landlord should do, so I should be done with all of these now.

"Oh, yeah, Grace said she needs a ride, I'll have to revise the blueprint later on." I self-talked, jumped down the bell tower, and started swinging.