Chapter 12
Now then, let’s train in light sorcery.
When it came to learning sorcery spells, for a level two sorcery skill…or as was known in sorcery terms, second rank sorcery, if you wanted to learn second rank sorcery or above, you had to become the apprentice of a master just like that woman, or join the Sorcerers’ Guild and pay to be taught the sorcery you wanted.
The exception to this were the nobles, who were admitted into the Sorcery Academy, where they were taught the fundamentals of sorcery.
Then how could normal people learn basic sorcery without even knowing their elements? Apparently they learned from a book the Sorcerers’ Guild released into the market to increase the number of sorcerers, but the book only taught level one, first rank sorcery.
Even so, it was an academic book so its price was five small gold coins, but it was normal for nobles to buy them so the parents could teach the basics to their children.
That woman’s master owned a copy of the book, and she had been ordered to copy it as part of her lessons. …Though she sold it immediately when she became independent.
Training in an elemental magic began with memorising the spell correctly and chanting it accurately.
Alongside that, you also had to learn the meaning of the spell and how it affected the world in order for it to work…was what that woman’s master said.
Firstly, a “spell” was a simplified version of the “spirit language” that spirits used to interfere with the world, which was simplified by the ancient elves so that even humans could use it…well, to put it bluntly, it was more like a degraded version of the spirit language.
Although it was made usable to people, it was originally a language used by existences with a different form of thinking, so for a person to understand the language it would take months…if not years for people without ability.
That woman had a vague recollection of the meaning of the spells she could use herself, but at least she memorised the meaning of the light sorcery spells (even though she couldn’t understand them).
Let’s do a short review of the two first rank light sorcery spells, Heal and Cure.