The night of the third day.
I had just enjoyed a long overdue and most satisfying meal, and was now soaking in a luxurious bath.
Marsha has used the magic cards I had given her and combined them to create a simple bathtub. She had also prepared the water and adjusted the heat.
“This really is so useful. The right combination and your imagination are all you need to perform complicated magic.”
“Heeey, where did you get those magic caaards?”
Aina asked as Marsha sighed in awe.
It wasn’t surprising that she would wonder about this.
It was such a convenient magical tool and you would not be able to find them anywhere, no matter how hard you looked. It had the kind of overpowered features that didn’t even exist in ancient Artifacts.
“About that. It was something that Master William received from an old friend. He let me use it as an experiment to test its abilities. He said it would be perfect for helping Satoru.”
“Hmm. I seeee… But, you learned to use them in just one day. Are they reeeeally so easy to use in spite of being so highly effective?”
“Exactly! There is no way that such complicated magic could be controlled by such cards! If I had to guess, there must be a degree of the procedure built-in already, and the Anagram works to activate the magic? But then again, that would be complicated as well…”
Not only Aina, but the other students were also very interested now.
And as was expected for elite students, they had a vague idea of how the cards worked.
It was both correct and yet, incorrect.
The part of achieving different effects through the rearranging of meaning was correct, but merely having the procedure built-in was not enough to be able to activate magic.
Instead of doing that, the words, which were the power itself, were integrated, ensuring that the procedures would not interfere with each other.
To put it simply, the words would rearrange themselves according to the user’s imagination, automatically creating the magic.
That was why it was necessary to select the card with the right meaning.
To be blunt, it was not possible with the current magic technology.
From my perspective, Marsha was a complete amateur, and so seeing how much use she could get out of it helped me understand the level within my troops that I could place it in.
Of course, it was all a state secret.
Well, I was keeping it hidden from everyone, so it was just my secret.
If word of this item got out, people would say, ‘We want it for our army!’ I could see it coming from a mile away.
I didn’t want people to have such high hopes when it wasn’t even finished. Besides, it would be troublesome if my carelessness allowed it to be discovered.
Also, if the decision was all left to me, then it would look like I am favoring some, so I would need a good reason for it.
I thought that I would just randomly pass it on to someone to experiment, but Marsha was not my subordinate and was the perfect specimen.
And in regards to keeping information secret, this island was the optimal test site.
The only thing left was to prevent the students from talking, but I could think of that later.
