Chapter 60 - Rebecca’s Big Project (2/2)

To teach everyone to read and write.

Could this really happen? Was it really possible? Would they really do it?

If they really did it, then the little maid would be able to write too.

Upon his arrival at the “smithy”, Gawain discovered that this had become a construction site. The wide yard was filled with many busy “construction workers” and there were a few soldiers guarding the pile of various resources in a corner of the yard. Rebecca was standing in the middle of the yard with a bunch of papers in her hand, familiarizing Hummel the old blacksmith with something, while Hummel’s disciples stood by, listening attentively.

It looked like it was important, and it was also evident that Rebecca had only called for Gawain to come after the construction had begun successfully.

“Ah! Lord Ancestor!” Rebecca spotted Gawain’s almost two-meter tall frame from far away before noticing Herti beside him. “And Aunt Herti…”

This girl was quite in awe of Herti.

“I wanted to come and see your progress..” Herti smiled mildly. Even though she still did not know how well Rebecca would perform, she felt like she had to at least smile and encourage her because of how orderly the place was. “Looks like you’re very confident.”

“Yeah! I’ve been at it for a few days!” Rebecca placed her hands on her hips as she said. Even though she had burned the midnight oil and seemed a little out of it, she was still full of energy. “This magic circle is super awesome! And those formulas… Lord Ancestor, let me tell you how easy it was to use them! They’re so much better than those rigid rune permutations and spell models by a hundred thousand times, and they are applicable to anything, and this magic circle even…”

“Stop, stop, stop. We didn’t come here to hear you brag,” Herti quickly interrupted Rebecca’s boasting. She knew that her niece was very good at calculation and theory, but she was afraid that she would bore her ancestor to death by talking so much. “Just tell us how you intend to complete the magic circle.”

With that, Rebecca nodded vigorously. “Oh okay, I’m going to bury it under the ground…”

“Bury it under the ground?!” Herti was stunned. “I saw all the holes you dug, but you’re really going to bury it under the ground?!”

Gawain had seen Rebecca instructing people to dig those ditches in the ground as he walked into the yard. The lines were curved, straight, crossed each other or were parallel, and formed the rough shape of a magic circle. Also, there were stakes placed around as markers where nodes seemed to be, with auxiliary white lines drawn around them and considering that all of the laborers were illiterate, these guides and markers must have been placed by Rebecca herself.

Firstly, she would draw the lines on the ground before telling the laborers where to dig and how deep to dig. This was probably her work process.

After hearing Herti’s words, Gawain shifted his attention from the ditches and looked at her curiously. “What’s wrong with burying the magic circle underground?”

“No… there’s no taboo regarding that.” Herti shook her head. “It’s just that most magic circle are exposed, because on the one hand, it would take more effort to bury it, and on the other hand, it would be troublesome since the mage would need to control how the circle operates and monitor it.”

What she said was common sense. As a third-level mage (even though she only knew how to cast fireballs), Rebecca should know this. However, she still did this, which meant that jumpy brain had lost control once again… Herti was feeling uneasy and was afraid that Gawain was going to scold Rebecca because of this, which might unfortunately destroy her hard-earned confidence.

However, this child had been through many hardships growing up. She should be fine after a while, right?

Just as Herti’s thoughts were running wild, Gawain spoke again, “Let’s not talk about why you’ve decided to bury the magic circle underground first—I want to know how you managed to get it precisely onto the ground.”

Rebecca was stunned for a moment, not understanding what this old ancestor meant by his question.

Gawain had actually asked this question with great dismay.

Rebecca had drawn a magic circle full of geometric shapes with high precision on a plain up to a 100 meters in diameter using only her naked eyes, which should have produced errors!

In Gawain’s home world, such a thing was not difficult at all. They had countless mapping instruments and mathematical tools which could draw out such diagrams. In this world where magic existed, these things could be accomplished as well—mages usually used the Eye of the Mage or Eagle Vision to obtain an aerial view and then completed their large-scale magic circles, which were both simple and crude methods. However, could Rebecca even use them?

Except for a few stakes and auxiliary lines, she had no advanced tools. No perfect mathematical or geometric system existed in this world to help her either, and other than fireball casting, she was ignorant of other forms of magic.

She was not even capable of casting the Eye of the Mage, a second-level mage skill.

Then how did she do it?

Gawain repeated his question once more. “How did you draw it out on the ground so accurately?”

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