Chapter 6
That day, no travellers visited the campsite and just like that morning came.
Nevertheless, there was a possibility that carriages with merchants or the like may stop by around noon for lunch.
A normal adult would simply be vigilant of a street urchin, thinking they may be a thief. A sly adult, seeing a child with a knife and money on this road without guards, may decide to steal them.
It would be better to think of Feld as a special case and not trust adults so easily.
But still, hiding was not enough, so I began to train my Daily Life magic, while picking wild blackberries again to subsist.
I could feel my own magic power, and while immature, I could use Fire and Water, but it wasn’t at a practical level yet and I couldn’t use any other Daily Life magic.
The next convenient one to learn would be Light, but I was thinking of deliberately learning Hard before that.
Hard was a magic used for hardening earth into a solid mass, which was generally used in construction for fixing a mud wall in place until it dried so other work could be done, shortening the construction time…apparently.
I wasn’t sure because it was an unpopular magic that few people learned, so that woman’s “knowledge” didn’t have much on it.
I looked at the lump of earth in my hand and was a little troubled. What does it mean to “harden” something?
When I grasped the earth in my hand firmly, it took a solid appearance, but when I touched it with my finger it crumbled easily, so this couldn’t be called as “hardened”.
After a few times of grasping and crumbling, the earth, which had dried and turned from a light brown to a yellowish colour, was no longer able to clump together even when grasped tightly.