Arthur was sitting old chair in the backyard of the inn, sipping his coffee. Snowflakes were falling slowly to the ground like leaves in autumn. There was an awkward silence around. The last few days have been pretty eventful. Buying the lamp from the auction, Zack's message, Being followed. He needed some silence to think about all this and clear his head.

When he brought the glass to his mouth, he realized that he had already drunk all the coffee. He entered the lobby of the Inn, thinking that the members of the team might have woken up. And he wasn't too surprised at what he saw. Darkis, Elda, and Rook were having their breakfast. The men of the team were usually still asleep at this time.

“Good morning,” he said, walking towards the table.

“What were you doing in the backyard? We were worried when Rook said he couldn't see you when he got up,” Elda said.

When they returned to the inn last night, they had talked about the Tracking with the Team, nothing like this had happened to the others. The team had decided that no one should leave the inn alone.

“I was outside to clear my head.”

“Did you?”

“What?”

“Did you succeed in clearing your head?” said darkis.

“A little, I guess,” said Arthur.

Then he pulled out the chair and sat down. He remembered the word spells he had been putting off for so long that he had to prepare as much as possible for the North in winter. And he hadn't even touched his word magic yet.

“Elda, can you teach me word magic?” he asked.

"Oh, right, I said I'd teach you up north, we never got started," she said as if she forgot something important.

“It can start when your lesson is over,” he said. Arthur remembered that today was class day. He was confused by yesterday's incident.

"Sure, let's eat dinner," he said.

"What's the topic for today," said Rook.

They did a little introduction to math in the last class. He was sure that Eldan was looking forward to biology. After some thought, he replied.

"How about biology," he said.

“Yes,” said Elda. Joyfully.

After the team quickly finished their meal, Arthur began his lecture.

“All living things are made up of tiny units we call cells.”

"Like atoms?" said darkis.

“No, you can think of them as chambers. There are different cells in different parts of the body, for example, heart cells and muscle cells are different from each other.”

“What about the plants,” said Elda.

“Likewise, they are made up of cells, but plant cells are surrounded by a hard layer. I wish we had a microscope so I could show you."

“What is that?” said Elda.

“It's a kind of magnifying glass that lets you see cells and creatures invisible to the naked eye,” said Arthur.

“Invisible creatures?” Said this time rook. Again, the bombardment of questions seemed to begin. He took a deep breath and began to explain.

“Thousands of little creatures....”

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It was a while since the class was over. Mefzar, Askar and Bill also woke up during the lesson, but they had their breakfast at a different table so as not to disturb them.

Arthur sat with Elda and took a coffee break after class. Now Arthur was going to be a student and Elda was going to be a teacher. Things had turned around. When their coffee break was over, they moved to a quiet corner in the lobby. They told Darkis to come too, but she refused, saying that no matter how hard she tried, she couldn't understand.

“As you know, there are 108 well-known word spells.” said. When they first met in the North, Elda had given him a book, and all his vocabulary was based on them. 'I should buy some books on this subject,' he thought. Arthur.

Elda took out a piece of paper and a pen from her Enchanted pouch. And he began to draw some symbols on paper.

“This is cold, this is hot, this is this flame, this is ice, this is flying, this is wind…..” Elda started counting about 20 symbols, and Arthur was considering how to keep them all in mind.

Elda will have understood this situation of Arthur.

"You don't need to memorize right now, I'm writing as an example"

“You know 108 of them,” he said.

"Of course, they're the simplest, and then things get complicated."

“How so?” he said.

“After learning the 108 word magic symbols, you can combine them, for example, if you combine cold and wind, you get an effect like a blizzard.” Arthur remembered learning this in the north. He had even heard from the elf they had met on the Road how good Elda was at this job. “I have a good teacher,” he said, and continued to listen to Elda.

“You can use word spells both in rune making, and you can use them directly by animating symbols in your mind.” said.

“Uch,” said Elda, looking at the glass.

And the glass took off. It floated off the table for a bit, then was placed back on the table. Arthur could have had the same effect with stone manipulation, but the glass in front of them was made of glass and he couldn't do that.

“This is it,” he said.

"Well, if we embroider on shoes as runes, wouldn't we be able to fly?" said Arthur.

"It's not that easy, I can just lift an object from the ground using [uch], and the bigger the object I use the spell, the more mana I spend, and I used pure mana to steer it, if I tried to do it with pure mana, it would have to spend a lot of mana."

He said, "Well, other word spells, can't you supply with them?"

“I didn't say it's impossible anyway, it's possible, even such shoes are made, but you have to be quite adept at word magic. And it's pretty expensive,” Elda said.

So their long conversations continued. As Arthur listened to Elda, he began to think that word spells were like computer codes. These word spells seemed to tell mana what to do. If he had studied coding, Arthur thought, he could do wonders. When they reached the end of their lesson, she stood up in hand.

“We should get you books on word magic,” Elda said.

“I was thinking about that too.” said Arthur.

"Why don't we go now, there's a little more time before it gets dark so we can go back," said Elda.

“It would be fine, I can read it in the evening,” he said.

Arthur put on the coat he had taken out of his pouch. These enchanted pouches were so useful that Arthur didn't know what to do if he went back to his old world. They went to Mefzar and the others.

“Mefzar, we're going to the bookstore, I want to buy some books,” said Arthur.

Mefzar raised his head. And he looked at Arthur with Elda

"Be careful we still don't know who followed us yesterday," he said.

Askar also turned and said, "Don't come back with a stab wound on your back."

“Don't worry, we'll be careful,” said Elda, and the two of them started walking out of the Inn. The Carriage they were planning to sell was still standing by the inn. The team had given up on selling it for reuse during the Aster journey, but it wasn't well suited for city travel. For this reason, when the team was going to go somewhere, they generally preferred to walk.

As Arthur walked along the road, he saw several low-level water mages clearing the roads of snow. Arthur was still amazed that mages worked in such simple interiors. But life was hard and that's how they made money.

Soon they came to a bookstore. They pushed the door and the bell hung above the door rang as they entered, and the old elf sitting behind the counter lifted his head from the book he was reading and looked at Elda and Arthur who had come in through the Door. Then he closed the book in his hand and stood up.

“Welcome, is there anything I can help you with or would you like to take a look for yourself?” said Adam.

“We were looking at books on word magic.” said.

“Aha word magic…” he muttered.

“Everything about 'word magic' is on that shelf over there,” he said, pointing to the shelf with the books.

Arthur and Elda walked over to the shelf the man was pointing to. Elda immediately began to study the books. He took a book and held it out for Arthur to hold. Elda continued to give Arthur the books she liked. When Arthur had 7 books, Elda looked at Arthur and said, "I think that's enough."

Arthur nodded. He had a feeling that he would use the books as well.

The man did some counting on his head when they put the books on the counter in front of him.

After the man studied what the books were

“All for 2 gold.” he said.

Arthur took out 2 gold coins from his purse and handed it to the man. And they came out of the bookstore. Prices were quite different than in the north.

“Wasn't it very cheap? It seems like it was more expensive in the north.”

“Arthur, a normal worker can work for a year but earns two golds,” Elda said.

Arthur finally realized that he was one of the richest of this world. He met the team as soon as he came to this world. And adventurers were earning a hefty amount of gold that comes with risk. But normal workers barely earned 10-20 silvers a month.

Arthur thinking about how lucky he was. They started to walk on the road, just then a carriage stopped beside them. Arthur recognized the carriage immediately. It was Lady Elise's carriage. The door opened and lady Elise came down.

"Hello, what are you doing here" said lady Elise

"We've come to buy some books on word magic," said Arthur.

“It is a great coincidence that I met you, and I was on my way to the inn to meet you.” said

“Is there a problem in the sale of coffee”

“No, on a different matter. Let's go together if you want," said Lady Elise.

“Sure,” said Arthur, looking at the hand.

They got on the carriage and made their way to the inn.

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The whole team gathered around the table. They were wondering what the news of Lady Elise was. Lady Elise cleared her throat and began to speak.

“If I'm not mistaken, you had a follower yesterday”

“How do you know?” said Arthur, surprised.

“If I'm doing business in manumit, I should at least know the status of my partners,” said lady Elise.

"Do you know who they are," said Mefzar, still angry with himself for missing the follower.

“I got some news from a couple of my guys,” she said. After taking a deep breath, he began to explain.

"Arthur, I told you about the Red Roses rivals, didn't I?" she said.

“Were they gold hoarders?” said Arthur Lady Elise, trying to remember their conversation.

“Yes they lost a lot by selling the Coffee north early, Gold Hoarders have an unofficial partnership with a gang called the Red Dragons in manumit. When the coffee thing exploded, they ordered the gang to investigate who was out of it. The man following you was probably their man.” said Lady Elise.

Team Mefzar and those following Arthur had finally figured out who he was. But there was something Arthur didn't understand.

“How can they be connected, how can city authorities allow it”

“Manumit's underground organizations have the finger and support of the 4 kingdoms. and the red dragons are linked to Compadia”

“Well, can they do something dangerous for us?”

"I don't think so, but be careful." said Lady Elise

“Thanks, we appreciate you letting us know,” Mefzar said.

Lady Elise got up from the table after fulfilling her purpose of coming.

After saying "I have work to do, see you again" she left the inn.