Chapter 94: Snowsilver Swordsman (part one)
Magic Academy City Lindis was located in the center part of the Ichthyes continent.
It was a free city not belonging to any of the four royal houses, but culturally, it was also an old magic city strongly influenced by Hafan.
The Cratonneu River, which was flowing while meandering in the southern half of the city, made a confluence with the southern Alleska River.
The County of Wynt was also located where the Varnalis River flowed, which was about an hour travel by a horse-drawn carriage to the North.
Due to these navigability conditions of the rivers, it was also a land where trade had been prosperous since the olden days.
Its name during the time under Casketia’s rule seemed to be the Fourth Corpse City, Annwn1.
Even to this day, it seemed that this city still sealed the spell for resuscitating the dead deep underground.
A monastery was built to seal this dirty land and monastic dragon knights-in-training as well as mages were gathered here.
This monastery was the foundation of Lindis’ educational institution that continued to this day.
Originally, Lindis Magic Academy was an educational institution for Ignitia’s monastic dragon knights and Hafan’s mages.
For the monastic dragon knights, first the dormitory, the chapel, the large auditorium, and the large stables for their dragons were made.
In accordance with the demand of the mages, facilities such as magic library, phantom beast museum, magic botanical garden, and historical museum were added.
As time passed, Lindis became not only an educational institution for magic, but also for excellent talents in each field.
As for the subjects, healing arts, alchemy, fighting techniques, etc. were incorporated and young influential nobles gathered.
Eventually, the amount of students could no longer fit into the Central Dormitory where the monastery’s old school dormitory was refurbished, hence four dormitories were added.
Due to the abundance of human resources and the navigability of the rivers, other academic institutions began to build their headquarters and branches on the school premises.
Omnia Fluunt2 Alchemy Research Institute.
Lifthrasir3 Medical Association.
Essentia Magical Association.
Ignitia Royal Dragon Species Research Institute, etc.
Furthermore, companies from various places who wanted to be business partners with the above mentioned organizations gathered, resulting in the present situation.
It was the completion of a huge city which covered a great deal of the livelihood of not only the academy staff, but also officials and other people of the academic pursuits facilities.
In Hafan cultural sphere, which was originally exclusivistic, it was an exceptionally multi-ethnic and multi-cultured city.
That was a city called Lindis.
From the window of the carriage, I could see the cityscape of warm colors continue.
The stone walls were in beeswax color, and the stone tiles were gray.
Both stones were high-quality limestone found around Lindis.
Most of the buildings in the city, including the school buildings, were made of the same material stone.
There were figures of boys and girls of the same age as me purchasing class materials.
Surely, they had to be freshmen of Lindis, too.
Our carriage entered from the road along the Cratonneu River to the streets where the workshops were lining in a row.
When we turned at the corner, a conspicuously enormous golem workshop drew our attention.
Here was the place of interest, the alchemy street at Lindis, 〈Flask Street〉.
『Fumu. It has a different atmosphere from both Aurelia and Knot Reed. But, it still has a nostalgic smell.』
『So, Erica, which store sells an athanor?』
“Wait, I’m sure the shop recommended by Onii-sama was……”
Checking the signboards hanging at the stores, I entered the store where a golden athanor was drawn in a green tract of land.
Inside the tasteful shop which was small but clean, there was a shopkeeper who was a well-dressed gentleman.
He looked at me and seemed to know the gist of what I needed.
“Welcome. For students, we have exactly what you need.”
The shopkeeper arranged five kinds of small athanors on the counter with hands which appeared familiar with the task.
They were all about the size of a small water bottle.
While listening to the explanation of each kind, I picked each one up with my hand as I chose.
In the end, I decided to purchase the one made by the same workshop as the one who made my large athanor.
“Can I have this wrapped?”
“Certainly. Oh yeah, for freshmen, I will add three free crystal flasks.”
“Thank you very much.”
I received the purchased athanor and flasks and placed them inside the leather bag that Tirnanog held.
It was a portable Wunderkammer with space expansion.
When a lot of money was rolling in from the sea serpents subjugation, I thought it was a good opportunity to buy it.
It was different from the space expansion / weight reduction combined type that Eduart-oniisama had, so there was a limit to the amount that could be put inside.
Looking at my leather bag, the shopkeeper raised a brief exclamation voice.
“Space expansion magic, huh? Moreover, it’s the one with wonderful durability made by the Twr family.”
“Yes. There happened to be an opportunity to buy it……”
Spatially expanded magic tools were expensive without exception.
Those who personally owned them were either a wealthy person, a distinguished noble house, or a fortunate successor who inherited it from his ancestors.
Since it was too expensive, it was even said that it would be better to substitute with another magic of similar effect than to use space expansion magic.
In my possession, for example, glove of storing.
It was one of the new equipment developed by Harold.
This glove used compression magic, not expansion, and one could store wands inside which had been flattened.
And so it enabled me to take out the wands stored in the hidden pocket of each finger by focusing my thoughts on it.
“Please come again.”
As we went out of the store, the shopkeeper bowed deeply and saw us off.
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