CHAPTER 30

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At last, I managed to go out of the castle, I could have snuck out of the castle. But I don’t think it would be worth it to clash with the lord’s order for something like this. We are in the summer and the weather is sunny but the temperature is not warm, it is more like autumn weather . İ think it is around 10 to 15 degrees Celsius, it is a bit cold but this is what passes as summer in the north.

Because today I wanted to hunt and try out my spells, bought a decent short bow and 20 arrows with wrought iron tip. The tips of the arrows are broad heads made for hunting and not steel so it wouldn’t penetrates armor fully but it will penetrate and kill a medium size beast. For self protection I have a sword, a dagger and a few throwing daggers; I have spent 3 gold dragons on all of them.

It took me 1 hour to walk to the Crofter's village it is a small settlement right at the edge of wolfswood. İ bought some rations from the village, I had got out of the castle with the first lights of the day and when I reached here, I think the time is around 6 am. The sun goes down at 7 pm. So I have to leave from here at most around 6 pm. It would leave me with 12 hours of time. Before I try my hand on hunting, want to try out all of my new spells, especially the locater spells, I think they are going to make me a lot of money.

Thanks to promoheba (locate plants) spell, if I have a memory of seeing a plant directly with my eyes without any medium then I can use this spell to find it, I m going to hunt for every precious and helpful herb I can think of. For examples gingko trees can slow cognition decline, help diabetes and influences bone healing or turmeric can be used As an anti-inflammatory, treatment for arthritis and it is delicious or Evening primrose oil and Feverfew have good anti-inflammatory properties or Echinacea can be used to shorten the symptoms of the common cold, because it has antibiotics in it or lavender and chamomile are good anti-anxiety properties when used as tea, the herbology in this world is worse than medieval times on earth, they don’t even know lavender or chamomile effects maybe it is because this world doesn’t have a tea culture, so they don’t try to make tea from every freaking plant.

So, I use the spell “promoheba (locate plants) gingko tree” when I said the words, I feel like big wave started to move in every direction from me but other than the loss of mana and the wave feeling, nothing else happened but then I felt something it is like a pull from one spot and I can also see a glow effect, so there are gingko trees here. It took me a bit to reach one of the spots but this is definitely a gingko tree, there are 10 of them, I don’t think here is their native place. I m thinking they must have come from some place with more rain then snow like Riverland or The Reach but gingkoes are resistant tree they can live in cold areas as cold as -40 degree Celsius. The Wolfswoods are mainly made up of oak, evergreen and black brier, as well as sentinels, soldier pines, and hawthorn, beech, ash, chestnuts, ironwoods, and firs meaning it is rich with timber and stone. I collect enough leaf for myself without hurting the trees. This wood is really big, I mean it is gigantic. I think it is a round 800 square kilometer ( 310 square mile )

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“Promoheba (locate plants) turmeric ” but nothing happens, I don’t lose any mana and there isn’t a wave feeling. So it has a cooldown, let's try another spell while waiting for its cooldown.

“Quersumby ( oakshield )” when the casting finished my right arm started to itch like crazy then I felt something grow under my cloths, hurriedly pulled my shirt and saw a wood like bracer around my right forearm. It looks like made out of oak bark but when you touch it doesn’t feel like wood it is too hard. I m really curious about how hard it is, but I m not going to hack my arm with a sword, it looks 3 cm ( 1 in ) thick. So, I put my forearm on a big rock sideways so I wouldn’t cut or nick my arm, I pull out my dagger from my waist then start to put some weight on the bark armor on my arm. The dagger is not digging in to the thing, but I m not using all of my strength either. When I lifted the dagger there isn’t a hole or a dent in the armor but there is a white mark. This time I casted “volhen gryves (aspect of bear)” and I put my dagger to the edge of the armor and use all of my power and tried to break it. when it didn’t work, then I pulled the dagger with a slashing motion.

Screech!

The sound that comes from it, is not the sound should be coming from steel against wood, sounded more like steel against steel but the armor has a few millimeters deep slash on it. I inspected my dagger to see if the armor damaged its edge but it is not damaged, it still has a sharp edge but it is not as sharp as the other side’s edge, it become a bit dull. I m not going to use my arm for a more dangerous experiment. So, I decided to use it on an animal I would catch. The spells duration was 1 hour, after the time was up, it turned in to a rotten tree bark and fall of my arm.

The next spell I m going to use is Vocadyni (summon beast), to use this spell I had left Erebus at Winterfell, it is not like I wanted to have little bit of peace and quiet, it was for the experiment. so, if the spell has succeeded it means I have enough mana for it, I know it has a range of 20 km ( 12 mi ) but I don’t know how much mana is needed, this spell did not have a specific mana cost.

“Vocadyni (summon beast) Erebus ” it feels like the space right next to me started to bend and started to whirl, after that a black vortex appeared then the vortex started to vibrate in the next second Erebus was flying right next to me and the vortex was gone. In 5 km it took 15 mana to use it, if we go by that logic in 20 km it should take around 60 mana.