Angor didn't know what to say. He was about to kick Magician out of the room.
Magician knew what was going on. He cursed Angor in his mind but didn't show it on his face. "Fine, let's put that aside for now. Let me ask you something. Why did you go looking for Leonrick? "
Angor didn't want to explain, but he suddenly thought of something. "How long have you been staying in Water Grasse?"
Magician was surprised. He came here to question Angor. Why was he being questioned? But he didn't object since it wasn't a secret. "Ten years."
"Since you've been here for ten years, you must have heard about the Shadowless Syndrome that started last year, right? That's why Leonrick asked me to come here. "
"Shadowless Syndrome?" Magician had a look of realization. "I see, I thought he would treat the people who lost their shadows lightly."
Angor raised an eyebrow. "I don't know anything about it, so it's pointless for him to ask me."
Magician's tone was laced with sarcasm. "I know, it seems like I misunderstood you."
"Never mind. I'm just curious. What's this Shadowless Syndrome all about? Do you know anything about it? "
Magician paused, his mind whirling. "I don't know much about this, but if you want to know, I can give it to you. But … I want something in exchange. "
"What do you want?" Angor chuckled.
Magician was glad that Angor didn't refuse. He began to think about what he should do to get the most value out of the deal. He glanced at the white papers on the table and had an idea. "Why don't we exchange the cantrip you just deduced?"
Angor grinned. "Do you know what I just did?"
"No. But it's more exciting. Even if it's not something powerful, or if it's a spell that I already know, I'll accept it, "Magician said shamelessly.
Magician was sure that Angor's cantrip was not something ordinary. Magician applauded himself for his quick wit.
Angor picked up the papers and pointed at a random magic formula. "Do you know the name of this formula?"
Magician shook his head.
"It's called 'Cai Gu's Additional Formula'. It's a common formula for level-1 Occult Sound cantrips."
"So, do you know what I mean?"
Magician's eyes lit up. "You're trying to derive a level-1 cantrip?" He suppressed the glee in his eyes. "Well, I guess I'm lucky."
Angor's chest tightened when he heard Magician's shameless words. He really wanted to dissect this guy's brain and see if he was different from ordinary people. What a weird way of thinking!
He sneered. "Don't play dumb. A piece of information that doesn't matter to me won't get you a level-1 Occult cantrip. That's all I have to say. Let's not talk about Level-1 cantrips. You can't even trade for the Ancient Supplemental Style! "
Magician's expression darkened at Angor's blatant refusal.
— — I used my ability to cheat information, what right do you have to scold me!?
Magician wanted to retort, but when he saw Angor's cold glare, he gave up. Since Angor could derive a level-1 cantrip on his own, Magician knew that he was much weaker than Angor. In the wizarding world where strength was everything, Magician had no choice but to lower his head.
Magician suppressed his anger and muttered, "What do you think we can exchange it for?"
Angor didn't expect this guy to be so flexible. He actually managed to endure it. He already planned to use his strength to force Magician to talk. He even planned to imprison Magician for a while so that Magician wouldn't be able to join the gathering.
But since Magician was willing to do so, Angor didn't have any reason to force him. "What do you want?"
"I don't want knowledge. I want cantrips. Oh, even level-0 cantrips will do. "
If Magician wanted to trade his knowledge, Angor would not agree. After all, knowledge was more important than cantrips. However, Magician chose to give up on the source of knowledge and asked for meaningless "answers". Angor was happy to see this.
It was like doing homework where people only asked for the answers. This kind of matter, which only had results, was over in a few seconds. It was a piece of cake. But if someone asked for the process, Magician would have to spend half a day explaining it to them.
Angor pretended to be hesitant. Under Magician's anxious gaze, Angor finally nodded. "Fine. How about we use the Water Creation Technique in exchange? "
Create Water wasn't an offensive spell, but it was good for showing off in front of mortals. Besides, the information Angor was offering wasn't too valuable, so Magician agreed without hesitation.
Create Water was derived by Angor using his hologram tablet. It was already an overestimation for him to call it a level-0 cantrip. However, an O-level cantrip was already the lowest level of cantrips. There was nothing lower than that.
In Angor's opinion, Create Water was more of a lousy cantrip.
A few minutes later, he finished writing down the basic concept and model of Create Water and handed it to Magician. "Come to me if you have any questions in three days. I won't answer you after the time limit. "
After obtaining the Water Creation Spell, Magician didn't keep them in suspense and revealed what he knew.
"Actually, I don't know much about those who lost their shadows. But I know something that might have something to do with them. "
…
With that, Magician left happily with the Create Water spell.
Meanwhile, Angor was sitting in the living room with his eyes twinkling. Magician didn't know much. In fact, he knew even less than Angor did. At least Angor had seen the palm-sized shadow, while Magician didn't even know what it was.
Although Magician's worldview was strange, he was able to become a self-taught genius, so he must have his own merits. Magician's observation and imagination skills were as good as Angor's. In fact, he was a little better than Angor.
As far as Magician knew, he was very sensitive to mundane matters. He only became an apprentice because he accidentally obtained a wizard's legacy while exploring the mundane world.
When the "Shadowless Syndrome" appeared, Magician knew it was related to mundane matters. Thinking that he might find something useful, Magician secretly went to Ward O of Golden Cross Medical College to observe. He also found the details Angor found.
The details were that all the people who lost their shadows had the same color as their eyes.
Blond and blue eyes.
Everyone from the first man to the count's daughter, Margot, all of them had blond hair and blue eyes. Some were dark, some were light, some were bright, some were bright, and some were mixed in color. It was hard to notice if you looked at them separately.
Angor only noticed it because of Van's observation skills. Magician noticed it as well, which meant that Magician's observation skills weren't inferior to Angor's.
Other than that, Magician's imagination was not bad. When he saw all the patients with blond and blue eyes, he thought of someone — "Shadow".
Shadow joined Van's gathering two years ago. He always kept a low profile and rarely spoke. However, every time he spoke, he would give valuable advice, which helped everyone learn a lot. Magician paid close attention to him and even tried to befriend him in private.
However, Shadow didn't seem to care. Magician didn't want to give up, but he didn't give up on observing Shadow.
He noticed something strange. Every time they met, Shadow would sit next to Kabasha, the beautiful apprentice from Zeal Dominion.
At first, Magician thought that 'Shadow' was lusting after Kabasha's beauty. However, he slowly realized that Shadow didn't seem to have any interest in Kabasha.
This made Magician suspicious. Since he wasn't interested in Kabasha, why was he sitting beside her? Moreover, Magician was in private and Shadow had never contacted Kabatha.
Later, during one of the gatherings, Hardedef, who had been missing for a long time, suddenly showed up. Since Kabasha was absent, Shadow chose to sit beside Hardedef.
Then, half a year ago, Magician met Shadow in Water Grasse and invited him to Charm Tavern in a friendly manner. Shadow didn't refuse. Back then, Magician had arranged for seven to eight dancers to accompany him. In the end, only three of them were able to get close to Shadow, and all three of them happened to be blonde and blue-eyed.
Magician thought about Kabasha and Hardedef. They were a woman and a man, but they had one thing in common — blond and blue eyes.
Magician thought about the patients with "Shadowless Syndrome", as well as Shadow's hobby and his nickname, and came up with a theory.
Shadow might be the cause of "Shadowless Syndrome".
However, Magician never told anyone about it, nor did he pay attention to Shadowless Syndrome. Today, when Angor asked him about it, Magician finally revealed his theory.
Magician's theory wasn't necessarily correct. However, a mortal with blond and blue eyes, and a nickname with "Shadow" in it … all these coincidences weren't coincidences.
Before the magician left, he said something.
"Just wait and see. Next month, Hardedef and Kabasha won't be there. So, if Shadow is sitting next to you, then my guess is definitely correct. "
Angor himself had blond and blue eyes. If Shadow was sitting beside him without Hardedef and Kabasha, Magician's theory would be correct.
"Let's wait and see." Angor shook his head and decided not to think about it for now. After all, this matter didn't have much to do with him. He only cared about it because his intuition told him that this matter could help him escape from this quagmire and return to the real wizarding world.
Now, it seemed that "Shadow" was behind all this. Angor wanted to find Shadow anyway, so he didn't really care about Shadowless Syndrome.
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