Return of The 8th Class Mage Chapter 50:
‘Never touch this staff . ’
That was the last warning given by Ian before he fainted .
“Urgh… . . ”
Ian woke up four days later .
With a little bit of moaning, he opened his eyes quickly .
An intolerable pain shook his head .
‘This place……?’
After waking up, Ian quickly looked at his surroundings .
There was no luxurious decorations, but it was quite neat and clean .
‘It seems I’m in the province castle . ’
Ian acknowledged the area with haste . There would be no other place clean like this in the Pieric Province at the moment .
‘It seems like I made it . ’
When Ian arrived at the valley, He used up every single mana and health he had . He had literally ‘fainted’ . Did he faint because the King of Shamans had resisted roughly? No . He was an easy opponent . The problem was the staff . ‘The staff of the Great Grass Field’, which was scripted with formulas .
‘I never expected it to cause hallucinations . ’
The formula on the staff wasn’t an incantation that controlled the monsters’ minds . It was a ‘hallucination’ that caused a specific ‘vision’, which Ian also suffered from .
‘It was the vision that the Great Grass Field was burnt by a great flame like **** . ’
Precisely, it was the hallucination that a meteor devastated the Great Grass Field . The king of shaman kept his incantation, and those monsters attacked the border lines to run away from such disasters .
‘Monsters are easily manipulated by hallucinations . ’
Their survival instinct was great . It united every monster as one which hadn’t occurred in history, but also formed order to plan plans to invade us .
‘I better deal with the staff first……’
The formula on the staff wasn’t removed clearly, yet . He just had paused its power for a moment; he barely managed himself to run away from the monsters which had lost their vision .
“Sir Ian?”
Someone entered Ian’s room .
It was the conducted mage, Mcgedie .
“You’re awake!”
He, I mean, she ran into Ian .
She was holding a water bucket and towel .
“How long I have fainted for?”
“For four days straight . ”
“Four days… . ”
After hearing the answer, Ian looked up and down at Mcgedie . He had no idea why the conducted mage was nursing him, but he had another thing to take care of .
“Where is the staff?”
“Ah, the other mages concealed it for you . They said it is in a container which is similar to a mana prison . That……”
At the centre of the room, there was a container .
Mcgedie pointed .
“Nice treatment . ”
It was outstanding treatment .
It must’ve been done by the 3rd class mages .
As satisfied, Ian stood up .
“Y, you still need to take more …… . . !”
“I am okay . ”
Then he approached to the container and opened its cover .
*Screeee… . . *
After opening the long container, a birch staff was there . As it got lightened, its surface was black, and the all of its body was filled with a tiny formula on its surface .
‘I better deal with the hallucinations first . ’
It was impossible to remove a formula once it was scripted . However, Ian could try to change it to another . It could be done by overwriting the script with another formula, or swapping it to a whole new formula .
‘It’s not an easy job . ’
It wasn’t an easy job at all . Not only did he need to deal with the original formula, but he also needed to choose the proper formula that synchronized with the artifact . If Ian chose a bad formula, then the artifact would lose its power and became a waste . A waste that had nothing special about it .
‘That’s sad, isn’t it?’
Ian liked the staff in various points . Especially, it had a branch on its head which let Ian put a communication orb onto it . That was the important part of it .
‘It is the only staff that may be able to fit the communication orb . ’
(ED Note: Jeezus that moment when you realise he went all this trouble to get a mobile phone-stick so he can talk with his mum… . )
Ian possessed various artifact staffs in his former life .
And this was why he chose to find this artifact among those staff he once had .
‘Let’s start . ’
When Ian raised his left index finger, and soon a tiny ice shard was formed . It was the perfect size for as an ice pick for scripting formulas .
*Scratch scratch… . . *
Sounds of scripting a formula on the birch staff filled the quiet room .
It seemed it would take a while .
Scratch, again and again…
‘I better leave quietly like the dead . ’
Ian was focusing on his job deeply . Thanks to that, Mcgedie missed the suitable time to leave the room, so she just watched Ian without interrupting . She even had to breathe quietly so as to not interrupt Ian .
‘What is he doing anyway?’
His action stimulated Mcgedie’s curiosity .
She had graduated only 1 year ago .
She couldn’t dare to expect what Ian was doing .
‘Hmm . ’
She enhanced her eyes with mana .
Then, she started to investigate the staff, from its appearance, to the details of the formula on it .
‘Nope . No idea . ’
That was her evaluation .
Knowledge extends one’s understanding .
She just saw Ian’s face .
His focused face was quite impressive .
“……”
When she saw him during the academy course, he was a young boy . In addition, since he had titles with ‘the youngest’ or ‘boy’, he looked even younger to her .
‘He is not a young boy at all . ’
But now, he had grown up and become a young man .
Most of all, her first impression of Ian was when he came with the blizzard,
‘He’s not bad lookin……’
“Sir Mcgedie . ”
“Ehk!”
(ED Note: eh? possible waifu?)
Mcgedie made a weird sound .
Ashamed, she turned her head .
“Please stand there . ”
“P, pardon?”
“Behind there, near to the window . ”
But Ian seemed to not care about her at all .
He just ordered her .
“Y, yes sir!”
Mcgedie quickly followed his order .
It was an order of an Archmage .
She moved near the window quickly .
“So what should I do now… . . ”
“Just for a second . ”
Soon, a new formula was scripted on the Staff of the Great Grass Field . If it synchronizes well with the formula, it would oscillate with the mana . Otherwise, it would be no more than a useless wooden staff . Ian was about to test it .
‘Just a little bit . ’
As he injected mana into the staff, it started to glow dimly . Not a **** dark aura of hallucinations, but a clean transparent grey light .
‘Good . ’
Firstly, the formula replacement was successful .
The grey light which he intended had occurred .
In addition, the staff didn’t lose its power .
It could be proved since it oscillated with mana .
Now the next step was testing its effect .
And the proper target was there .