Chapter 60: Imperial Guard Balthazar
The next day, I was in my room waiting for someone with a cup of herbal tea that Timona made me.
The ‘ceremonial sword’ that I had brought back yesterday was wrapped tightly in a purple cloth in my room.
I asked Timona to find a scabbard for it since I didn’t have one, but that wasn’t the reason why it was wrapped in a cloth; apparently, this was part of the ritual for the coronation. The reddish-purple colour that the cloth was dyed in was called ‘Lothar colour’ and used to be reserved only for the emperor of Lothar. It was a so-called sacred colour. Well, there were no restrictions on the use of the colour nowadays, so I guess it was just part of tradition.
Now, the sword wrapped in the cloth had the ability to draw mana from its surroundings and release it at the user’s discretion. Its ability was something that could be reproduced with a magic tool, but I wanted this sword so badly that I couldn’t wait to get my hand on it.
When you imagine a wizard, you probably imagine him with a wand. I’ve come to understand now that I can use magic in this world, that it was probably theoretically correct to say that a wizard uses a wand.
The ‘easiest’ way to use magic was to use the mana in your body to influence the mana in the air. This was probably the most common method for mages in this world, but it was necessary to ‘imagine the magic you want to use’ and ‘imagine tempering the mana’ when using this method. Well, the magic would still be activated even if you don’t ‘imagine kneading the mana’. You needed to properly ‘imagine tempering mana’ to achieve a certain degree of power.
It was quite difficult to imagine two things at the same time, and you would often devote your attention to other things when you’re in the middle of battle, so you would have multiple thoughts jumbling together.
That was where the wand came in. You would imagine the magic you want to use, but the mana tempering would be done through the wand. In other words, it was a way to organise your thoughts.
If you try to send two images from one starting point then they might get mixed up, so we prepare another starting point, the ‘wand’, and separate the two images from their respective starting points to prevent them from mixing together.