Chapter 219

Chapter 219 Racial Gifts

The image sent from the magic spider was of a voluptuous woman in a white dress sitting in a hidden chamber .

The chamber wasn’t large, but it was well-furnished, with bright lights made of magic crystals, a large bed, a table and chairs, and a wardrobe .

And there were many fruits on the table, as well as golden cups and goblets thoroughly embedded with various gemstones .

The few things on the large bed were all made of silk, and the woman looked extremely well, not at all haggard, and had evidently lived comfortably without any abuse .

Antis, on the other hand, was down on one knee in front of the woman .

Although he couldn’t hear their voices, looking at the several images streaming into his mind continuously, it became clear to Roland that this woman must be the queen .

Just as Roland was thinking about this, a system message suddenly popped up .

He opened it and was slightly surprised .

Quest failed: Find the Next Clue .

He then watched the quest font turn black and finally fade away from the quest list .

So a quest interfered with by an NPC will result in quest failure?

Roland found himself knowing a little more about quests .

The failure and disappearance of the quest was not a big deal to Roland . It was just a quest . It wasn’t a huge loss of character experience or equipment, so obtaining useful information from the failure was a profit .

It seemed that in all future quests, he would have to avoid too much interference from NPCs .

When Kaka saw him lost in thought, he asked, “What’s wrong?”

“Nothing, just some small matter . ” Roland stood up . “I was expecting to be here for a long time, but something went wrong . Now it seems that in two or three days, I’ll be leaving after you’ve successfully turned in your derivative magic . ”

“So soon?”

Roland shrugged . “It’s been a long time since I’ve been back, and without a Magic Tower, I haven’t even had time to test and learn magic, so it’s time to return . ”

Kaka laughed . “Then at least for the next two or three days, you can stay at the manor and help me keep the situation under control . ”

“Sure . ” Roland was indifferent .

Roland then stayed in the manor for a while, and using this time, he started flipping through the magic book given to him by Princess Veronica .

There were two types of magic noted in it, Stone to Mud and Mud to Stone .

In reality, this was the reverse application of the same magic . This was a level-two spell, and although there were quite a few nodes, it was much less difficult compared to Language Proficiency . Besides, now that he was at a higher level than before, and had the experience from learning several spells and creating several derivative spells, he quickly got started with it .

It took Roland three hours and about seven failed attempts to successfully cast Stone to Mud and with a wave of his hand, he directly turned the large grassy area of Kaka’s backyard into a swamp, which was over 900 square meters, and that was with less than a fifth of his mana . If he had cast it with all his mana, Roland reckoned that the area would be much larger .

Using this against cavalry indeed could work wonders .

Not to mention cavalry, the heavy infantry squads would also be instantly annihilated .

There were a few guards who happened to be patrolling the area at this time, and when they saw such a large swamp, they gulped in fear .

Roland then began to learn Mud to Stone, which was easier to learn since it was just a reversal of the previous magic .

It only took an hour to successfully cast it .

With a wave of his hand, he turned the swamp in front of him back into a rocky ground, which was originally just grass and mud-it was now a fairly flat square of stone slabs .

Well… I used a little too much force .

Roland repeated casting Stone to Mud and Mud to Stone several more times before finding the right level of force to turn stone back into normal mud .

Mud to Stone was simple to learn but somewhat difficult to master . Whether it was turning a swamp into mud or stone, it was all up to the Mage’s control .

He practiced these two spells several more times, and feeling almost finished, he was about to leave and return to his room to rest and recover his magic power when a sudden light flashed in his mind .

Roland once again used Mud to Stone . This time he deliberately made the area of the swamp small, then using his mental power, he forced the mud of the swamp to mold into the shape of a ball, and then unleashed Mud to Stone on it .

In the earthen pit ahead, there was a large, round stone with a rather shiny surface .

Roland walked over to the large round stone and stepped on it with his foot, finding it very, very hard .

Then he froze for a moment, then slowly smiled in a Crayon Shin-chan[1] way .

Hehehe!

When Kaka returned from the Association headquarters, he hopped off the wagon and walked at a brisk pace to the backyard of the manor before his eyes widened . The space in the backyard was filled with all sorts of strange things .

A statue of a naked man in a contemplative pose, a cherub showing its bird peeing, a giant octopus, a big round ball with a quirky, squinty-eyed, wacky grin on it, and so on .

All were stone statues, some very crude, but others were clearly quite exquisite .

Then he realized that, looking from left to right, it just happened to be a process of crudeness slowly becoming exquisiteness .

“What the… What the hell!” What’s going on here? Kaka gulped . Didn’t he just go out for a few hours? How did his own backyard become like this?

Roland saw Kaka and smiled somewhat proudly . He said, “I’ve found the correct use of Stone to Mud . ”

He snapped his fingers and all the statues before him turned to mud and fell to the ground, which was rapidly turning into a vast swamp .

Kaka instinctively stepped back .

Then the swamp moved strangely, first bulging out with four walls about two meters high, then synthesizing into a square shape, then the walls continued to rise and synthesized into another two-meter high square shape .

Then a hole began to appear in the square shape on both the upper and lower levels . A larger vertical rectangle appeared on the mud wall facing them on the first level .

At first, Kaka didn’t know what Roland was doing, but seeing this rectangular shape, he suddenly realized that it seemed to be… a door .

At this moment, Roland snapped his fingers again, and this mud hardened at a very fast rate, then turned into a very good quality stone .

In the blink of an eye, a small, square, two-story building with a door and windows appeared in front of Kaka .

“Oh my god!” Kaka felt like his worldview had been refreshed . “You used this magic to build a stone building?”

Roland nodded proudly . “Yeah, I just thought of it while making the statues . With this spell, we Mages will be able to go anywhere in the future—even in the middle of nowhere . As long as we can build this kind of stone building, we won’t have to be afraid of wild animals and poisonous insects, nor of storms . ”

“No one has ever thought that this spell could be used like this . ” Kaka stared blankly at Roland with a frightened expression, as if he had seen a demon . “How does that head of yours work?”

[1] Japanese anime and manga