Chapter 494

Chapter 494

"Then I can just demonstrate the Charm spell to Little Qing and Little Black?" Stephanie asked, somewhat puzzled after listening to Monroe's explanation, looking at Lorant: "Is there anything else I need to do?"

Stephanie had never taught a live beast before, nor had she taught the young mages in her own Mage Tower, so she felt quite unsure.

Lorant himself was also somewhat unsure. Today was the first time teaching non-general magic to the Bigmouth Book, and everyone present was essentially a novice, feeling their way forward.

After all, all previous live beasts only needed to grow over time to steadily possess powerful abilities. Lorant only needed to ensure they ate well, slept well, and played well under his care, providing a good growth environment was sufficient.

At most, he prepared some live beasts for the live beasts to learn hunting, but that was more of an entertainment activity than a teaching one, aimed at maintaining the pets' inherent bloodthirsty nature to avoid them becoming greenhouse flowers.

But teaching them various skills like teaching children was indeed a first.

Moreover, Lorant himself was also encountering the Bigmouth Book for the first time.

During the first teaching session, everyone was clueless, no one knew how to teach the Bigmouth Book.

Whether it was like those Pokémon, which could learn skills just by watching a demonstration, or like mage apprentices, who needed to first feel the magical imprint of the spell before they could use it, no one was sure.

And perhaps because the higher the level of the pet, the less content was recorded in the ability chart, the records for the Bigmouth Book were also very brief. Apart from needing to learn skills to use their talents, there was basically no other information, leaving it entirely to Lorant to discover.

Fortunately, the mage team was already accustomed to such enigmatic research topics, not finding it troublesome but rather feeling excited and eager.

Thanks to this group of research enthusiasts, when faced with Stephanie's question, Lorant could answer without feeling too guilty: "Well, give it a try, condense the magic runes, show the direction of your magic, that should be enough."

This was the process figured out when teaching general spells to the Bigmouth Book, but whether it would work the same for control and illusion spells, Lorant wasn't sure.

Unlike Lorant's uncertainty, Monroe standing by was quite calm.

"Miss Stephanie, don't worry, we can follow this process step by step. Initial experiments are always like this, we need to walk through countless wrong paths to find the only correct one in the complex thorns," said Monroe, still draped in his strange strip robe, holding a Bigmouth Book with shining eyes, speaking mysteriously.

When it came to spell experiments, this apprentice mage with an unparalleled interest in experiments was quite enthusiastic.

Stephanie was startled by the intense gaze, swallowing back the many questions she had, giving up the idea of turning into a chatterbox.

But her mind was far from idle.

Really?

I don't believe it!

But now she was here, seeing this new live beast known to no more than 20 people so far, and having signed the confidentiality agreement, it was no longer up to Stephanie to believe or not.

Even if she didn't believe, she had to pretend to!

"Then I'll begin!" Pumping herself up, Stephanie slowed her movements, even the action of taking out a piece of fabric dyed pink with an unknown dye from her pocket was done very clearly, aiming to let the Bigmouth Book see her actions clearly.

"First, to cast the simplest control and illusion spell, the Charm spell, the medium we need is any soft object with a color ranging from pink to deep red. The size of the object is not fixed, but all control and illusion mages agree that the best effect is achieved when the total volume of the object is about half the size of the caster's own fist, um..." Stephanie stumbled over her words.

An ordinary mage could indeed make a fist at this point to check the size, but what she was teaching now was not an ordinary mage!

She was facing a beast pet without hands!

It only had a book-like body, and now a pair of eye-like organs bulging from the blank pages looking at her!

How could it confirm the size of the medium?

"But this doesn't matter much, you can try using the medium I prepared first," Stephanie quickly erased the absurd image of the Bigmouth Book growing arms from her mind, deciding to focus her attention on more important matters.

She reached out and handed the cloth knot she was holding forward.

"Ruru!" The Bigmouth Book made a happy sound, wriggling joyfully and floating a bit closer to Stephanie.

Unlike the Codex, another book-type pet, it couldn’t conjure a convenient body to assist in its daily life, as it had no hands.

So, the Bigmouth Book could only plop its body flat on the ground, blinking its eyes at the witch in front of it, signaling her to place the pink cloth knot on its pages.

After giving the Bigmouth Book a magical medium and watching it happily twist back with the cloth knot in its tongue, Stephanie continued her teaching.

"Alright, now you have a magical medium too," she repeated her earlier words, the repetitive words helping to calm her nerves. "Next, channel the magic within your body and try to sketch this symbol in your mental sea."

As she spoke, she opened her palm, and a delicate, small magic rune appeared before everyone.

Using a magical medium to channel magic in the mental sea and construct a fixed rune is essential for casting any spell, from the forbidden spells only legendary mages can use, down to the magical tricks even apprentice mages can perform. None can escape this process.

The Bigmouth Book had also learned basic magic through this process.

So, when attempting something new, it naturally chose this method first.

Stephanie was indeed a good teacher, patiently making her invisible magic flow visible using a special method.

Everyone could clearly see her bright pink magical energy emerging from her chest, gently and lingeringly circling around several special acupoints on her body before slowly and clearly starting to condense a rune in front of her forehead.

Before this, Monroe and other researchers had already taught these Bigmouth Books how to gather magic.

However, without casting a real control spell, no one could be sure if the magic they condensed could achieve the universal compatibility everyone imagined.

Therefore, all eyes in the room were fixed on the Bigmouth Book in front of Stephanie.

It could be said that the success or failure of the past five or six days of work depended on this moment!

But the Bigmouth Book remained unconcerned, fluttering its pages, tossing the pink cloth knot up and down, seemingly treating the pink cloth Stephanie gave it as some kind of fun toy.

It looked quite unfocused, very much like a mischievous child.

This made many mages in the room lose hope.

If it weren't for the shopkeeper watching nearby, a group of mages would have almost grabbed the Bigmouth Book, which seemed to be engrossed in play, shaking it vigorously to make this ancestor get to work!

The Bigmouth Book was unaware of the tense atmosphere, happily playing with its new toy, and even seemed interested in watching Stephanie opposite it. Lorant, with his rich experience in dealing with pets, was certain that it was watching a performance!

When it noticed that Stephanie wasn’t doing anything else and kept repeating the process, the Bigmouth Book realized that the human in front of it wasn't playing or performing something with it. She, like the people from the day before, wanted it to learn!

The little book had just finished playing and stopped playing around, starting to seriously watch the magic around Stephanie to learn.

It turned out that the learning ability of these little ones was indeed genuine.

After it stopped playing around and started learning seriously, it took only about ten minutes for a light pink glow to flow out from the open seam of the book, linearly circling around the book several times, mimicking Stephanie's form, and finally clearly landing a mysterious symbol identical to the magic rune in front of Stephanie's forehead in the middle of one side of the page.

It proudly displayed its remarkable ability to everyone, making the researchers present realize that their imaginations could indeed come true!

Stephanie had been patiently repeating the spell-casting movements in front of the Bigmouth Book.

The usually impatient witch was surprisingly gentle and meticulous in front of the pet, showing a side rarely seen in daily life.

When the magic rune on the Bigmouth Book lit up, she was still automatically repeating her hand movements, causing her to not react in time to dodge the charm spell cast by the Bigmouth Book.

The pink light flashed, and the next second, everyone saw the beautiful witch, as if entranced, walking towards the Bigmouth Book with a blank, dazed expression.

The Charm spell is one of the most basic spells in the Enchantment school of magic.

It is so fundamental that even novice mages can easily use it, hence its strength is not particularly high.

Although caught off guard and momentarily affected, Stephanie quickly regained her composure, shaking her head and stopping in her tracks, looking in surprise at the large book before her that seemed to be flipping its pages with a hint of pride, as if showing off.

Those who fall under the Charm spell will act according to the caster's will.

After being charmed by the Bigmouth Book, Stephanie only took a few aimless steps forward, showing no signs of wanting to harm herself or others, which sufficiently proves that the little one harbored no malice towards the human before it and had only inadvertently cast the spell.