After Being Sold Out By The Empire, I Decide To Assist The Demon King
Chapter 142 - 11 Vera’s Plan Goes Through

Chapter 142: Chapter 11 Vera’s Plan Goes Through

What kind of mechanism made Magic work? What kind of skill was it?

When Yila first crossed over, he thought Magic was magical, something idealistic that didn’t need to follow any rules, similar to the Magic in Magic X Girl Illya.

However, later on, when Yila initially made a name for himself and was sent to study in the Pure White Tower, he realized that wasn’t the case... Magic here was quite a meticulous study.

It was a replicable technology through experience.

Take Fireball Technique as an example. Without talking about special variants like Marikas Fireball Technique, let’s discuss the most basic Unnamed Fireball Technique.

The first step to learn and use Fireball Technique was to memorize the "original text" of Fireball Technique, which meant reciting large sections of words that sometimes seemed meaningless and irregular, keeping those words in mind.

The word count of the original text varied with different spells, some being as short as a few dozen characters, while the longest reached nine hundred ninety-nine thousand nine hundred ninety-nine characters. The original text for Unnamed Fireball Technique was rather brief:

"It always changed, hot and cold, a miraculous fiery spell searching for the moment to combust... (omitting several hundred words)... passing through, leaving behind charred waste and the blood and fire blooming of sinners."

As long as one could memorize these original texts, and the mage had enough Magic Power to cast the spell, then he just needed to calm his thoughts, simply chant the spell with words, and pull the trigger.

Unnamed Spells didn’t require lengthy invocations; just chanting "Unnamed Fireball Technique" would suffice.

During this process, many factors determined the spell’s power, stability, destruction range, and control, such as the caster’s Mana quantity and quality, the quality of casting tools, and the most important one... Mana Adaptability in the bloodline.

*For Yila, it wasn’t good news... in this world, nobles and officials were inherently more blessed.*

*Or rather, their ancestors were particularly blessed, which allowed them to rise to their positions... Besides the current Isabella, none of the previous emperors in the empire were weak.*

The bloodline would be inherited, and only a minority could become a suitable mage without a fitting bloodline.

Yila wasn’t exempt... The Elkaras Family used Blood Magic quite often, only Yila made the less-known Blood Magic terrifyingly powerful.

Vera’s family didn’t need much mentioning, their ancestor in Yaylimeinoceyatos had emerged as a formidable mage through rigorous Ice Magic training.

However, this was off-topic, the specific key point was... learning Magic required a long time—partly to familiarize oneself with constructing spell models but even longer to memorize the original texts.

Although prioritizing the memorization of Quick Memory spells could help mages accelerate their memory of original texts, the massive word count of the original texts remained difficult... after all, it needed to be memorized accurately.

For instance, the first renowned biographical literature, Records of the Historian, had only five hundred twenty thousand words, while many Legendary Magic spells had seven or eight hundred thousand words. Moreover, many original texts had no logical connection between words and couldn’t have any errors.

The mental strain of learning Magic was unimaginable.

Even governors who had entered the Magic Professions using corresponding spells, though they could omit chanting, still needed the original texts in their heads, so many governors ignored the Mana of magic professions on the battlefield.

Oh, the elves didn’t need to memorize original texts.

"Sometimes, I really envied the elves; they didn’t even need to chant, just a thought... and Mana would obediently follow their commands."

Vera remarked as she watched Yila disperse the Material Devourer, feeling Yila’s hand resting on her shoulder. She looked around and said, "Indeed, all the iron ore had already been exhausted, leaving only some slag."

Because Yila had previously consumed Vera’s Mana using Wing Shattering, she nodded while extracting Mana once more. She noticeably paid attention to the softened stones and gray-white rocks.

Clay and limestone... this mine met both requirements at once.

However, the consumption of clay in cement production was relatively higher, while this mine clearly had more limestone. Maybe they needed to find a clay mine later... clay wasn’t particularly rare, so they could probably find it by digging near rivers.

Thinking about this, Yila removed his hand from Vera’s shoulder, feeling a comforting sense from regaining Vera’s Mana. He watched Vera close her eyes, sensing something, then start digging into the wall with her hands.

Yila initially didn’t know what she was doing, but quickly realized, smiling, "Is the Soul Box that close? You’re really careless, but thinking carefully, if it weren’t for this... Wait, if you resurrect, how do you plan to get out?"

Yila saw Vera effortlessly dig through the wall with her hand, revealing a rather sturdy separate room behind, and he helped by kicking the soil wall down.

"To get out, I left a bunch of Magic Scrolls for Mining Explosion and Mining Magic Bullet inside. If my physical body perished, then I’ll hide here for two days, then use Excavation Magic to dig out."

Vera said, handing Yila a black box from the bed in the room, "This, keep it safe for me. You can hide it in your room later."

"..."

Looking at the small black box, which resonated with some Mana and contained a fragment of Vera’s soul like a matchbox, Yila didn’t know what expression to show.

*To entrust something this important to him, Vera really didn’t seem to be making a mistake?*

Though Yila had almost been convinced (fooled) by Vera’s words before, now seeing her sincerely giving the Soul Box to him, he felt a sense of emotion in his heart.

*It was a feeling of being trusted, just like those leaders and little demons who trusted him unreservedly.*

For Vera’s deed, Yila seriously placed the Soul Box into his pocket, saying, "Vera, I understand. I will definitely protect it... until I am torn apart by powerful enemies first."

"Mm!"

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Vera (Light Yagami face): The plan worked~