A God Killed Me By Accident, But I Reincarnated As The 4th Son Of The Marquis

Volume 11 Chapter 21: Upside And Downside

Volume 11 Chapter 21: Upside And Downside

It was one of the more relaxed days as Keith was reading his book, waiting for the next class. That was when Scarlet held the back of his body, "What are you reading right now?" 

"Some things about magic tools." 

"Huh? When did you become interested in magic tools." 

"For some time. I need to think about how to expand going forward." If he wanted to improve his cooking equipment, he would need to learn about magic tools. 

"How far are you planning to expand?" 

Keith thought about it, "Umm, expand till I can't?" 

"..." 

"Then expand all the way to my kingdom!" Herrick waved his hand. Hearing how he wanted to expand to the chocolate factory and bakery would be amazing! 

"Same here," Alfia nodded. While that happened, Carolyn asked, "Anyways, Scarlet, shouldn't you get off of him now?" The demon princess was holding onto him tight.

"But I don't want to." Scarlet snuggled up, "And he likes it as well."

"Don't bring me into this." 

"But don't you like it?"

"..." No comment. 

"Still, you're being too close." Carolyn got close to her. 

Alfia whispered to Krystal, "Is there something the matter with them?" This type of interaction wasn't unusual. Carolyn and Scarlet were prepared to duke it out for the past few days.

"What do you think?" Krystal glanced at the cause, still reading his book as if nothing was happening beside him. But the fighting didn't last too long as Shire entered the classroom. 

“Alright, class, today I want to talk about something we have done before, and that’s written magic. It’s something that we have talked about before in general. But it seems to have a new application now.” 

“...” Keith gulped when he heard that. The same could be said about the others as smirks formed on their face as they glanced at one sweating boy.

“I think most of you have seen the recording of Masked Thief and how he used his magic?” The students nodded. That recording stone was basically shown to everyone the whole nine yards! It was difficult to not know about it. 

“I find the applications he used in written chanting quite fascinating as it brought about a new way of using magic together.” Shire was quite amazed by how masked thief used it. Simultaneously weaving the magic with one hand while chanting at the same time was unheard of. But one person was able to pull it off. 

“Student Keith, can you explain the downside and the upside as someone who uses lightning magic?” 

“...” Instructor, are you trying to ruin me? Keith sighed deeply as he got up from his seat, “Professor, the pros of using this magic is the fusion of two spells, creating a stronger one. The problem with using this kind of technique is that it’s next to impossible to use.”

“But we have someone here who did it.” Shire grinned.

“Yes, but the man is an outlier. You have to be quite ambidextrous at doing two things at the same time.” Saying something entirely different while writing was quite hard to do. 

“Indeed. Not only that, but you also have the risk of it exploding on your face. It’s quite a difficult thing to master. Not only this, but to use grand magic as well. That’s why I warn all students not to use this type of technique. It would cause more harm than benefits.”

“Understood.” The students nodded while Keith sat down, “What?” He noticed how a few had mischievous grins as they stared. Carolyn waved, “Nothing, impossible man.”n/ô/vel/b//in dot c//om

“...” 

“But if you can do something like that, wouldn’t it open up a lot more attacks?” 

“Hmm?”

“Think about it; most of the time, regular mages use one spell with a chant. But if you can do the same thing with written magic, two attacks are coming.” The combinations people were able to accomplish using this would be incredible. Alfia wanted to increase her attack power. 

“Good, but I don’t think you can mix and match like masked thief.” Gabriel added, “Some elements probably won’t go well together.” An example was water and fire; fusing the two together and using them as one move would be quite different.

“True.” Alfia turned to Keith, “How did you do it?” 

“...” Keith shrugged, “Why are you asking me this question?

“...” Are you still trying to play the coy man. Everyone at the table had decided that Keith was the person who had done so. Keith only shrugged even more as he explained, "Masked Thief is able to use it because he used two of the same element. Rather than using two different elements, one element was much simpler and forward.