Chapter 54 - The Rogue Mage’s Inheritance (2/2)

As though she could see Gawain’s hesitance, Rebecca did not wait for Herti to speak before jumping up. “Ancestor! Ancestor! Give it to me! Give it to me! I can do it!

“Are you sure?” Gawain gave her a deep look. “The importance of this project is far greater than you can imagine. It can be said to be a foundation, the preface to many of my plans for the future… Can you handle it?”

Rebecca stopped jumping momentarily and thought about it seriously before looking at Gawain fearfully. “Then… if I spoil it, would you hit me?”

“…Forget it, Herti, it’s better for you to do it…”

Before he finished, Rebecca mustered up her courage and said with her head held high, “But I still want to try!”

Gawain looked at her interestingly. “Oh?”

“This magical array… I think this magical array is very interesting, there are many areas which are… very good, maybe I can… can…”Rebecca started to stutter and could not continue from her ‘can’ even after a long time. Hence she decided to just be thick-skinned and continued, “Even though I only know the fireball technique, my grasp of theory is very good! My computational skills are great as well! Besides, Aunt Herti is so busy lately and I haven’t been doing anything other than assessing the soil quality and burning the wastelands. I think…”

Looking at Rebecca’s nervous expression, Gawain could not contain his laughter and looked towards Herti. “Herti, what do you think?”

“Rebecca’s theory and computational abilities are strong. Actually, if we don’t consider casting spells, she has better innate abilities than me.” Herti looked at Rebecca with a slightly grudging expression. “Of course, it would be better if she was slightly more mature.”

“I’m definitely mature!” Rebecca puffed out her chest, but her eyes remained fixated on the blueprints that Gawain had laid out on the table, making Gawain curious.

“Are you very interested in this magical array?” Gawain could not help but ask.

“Yeah,” Rebecca scratched her head and continued, “In fact, I thought about this a long time ago. If I could simplify those complex and difficult spells and make the casting of spells simpler, perhaps I could do more than just the fireball spell… this array gave me a lot of inspiration!”

Gawain stared at Rebecca suddenly, causing her to get goosebumps.

However, after a few seconds, Gawain smiled. “Great, you will handle this matter then.”

Rebecca was exhilarated. “Really?!”

“Of course.” Gawain pulled out another piece of paper from beneath his table. It was a rough draft that he drew up for the ‘smithy’. “Just follow this scale, and make sure that the whole courtyard is within the coverage of the ‘magic web’. Also, build the first batch of furnaces here at the same time. You can get the materials necessary for making the magical array from the treasury on the mountain, there are ready-made ones in there. Although the scale of this magical array is large, it is a ‘basic array’. I believe that the ready-made mage metal and the quartz sand which Knight Philip brought back from the Tanzan Town stored in the treasury should be enough for you to use.”

“This is an experimental magic web, let’s name it ‘Magic Web 1’.”

Rebecca, who had been given a huge responsibility left happily while Herti went back to continue instructing the serfs and commoners who had just arrived at the campsite on the construction of tents, leaving only Gawain and Amber in the big tent.

“Why do you look so happy?” The half-elf young lady asked as she sized up Gawain. “You weren’t even this happy when you took the document from that old king—-Is flirting with your great-great-great… great granddaughter so interesting?”

Gawain: “…”

Would it kill her to say something nice?