Chapter 2: Café Wizard

Like any other day, the owner of Café Wizard, Tae-soo, was in the midst of a regular day.

It had been just over a year since the café had opened but Café Wizard had become quite famous in this area. 

Firstly, including the owner Tae-soo, all the part-timers’ looks were exceptional. 

Among them, the most exceptional was Tae-soo.

Tae-soo took that for granted. Because he was a wizard. 

As a wizard’s skills level up their looks also naturally get better. 

As their mana develops, the body naturally balances out and matches this and, while discharging off body waste their skin also gets better.

On top of that their height also increases. 

Even though Tae-soo could feel people looking at him, as time went on he stopped caring and focused on his work.

The core of Café Wizard was the drip coffee that Tae-soo was making. 

Even though they served coffee made using a coffee machine, adding the drip coffee on top of that was the core to the café’s success. 

Tae-soo put the finished drip coffee into a large container. 

‘And add to that, one spoon of mana’.

After filling the container with the drip coffee, he added mana to it. The amount of mana that goes in is fixed. There was a bit of trial and error when it came to finding the right amount.

Anyway, like that, the completed drip coffee came to possess quite the flavour. 

Adding just a few drops to the coffee made by the coffee machine changes the taste and flavour immensely. 

Of course, making sure to add the right amount is important.  And because the precise cup is prepared in advance, anyone can easily match the correct account.

If you drink the drink laced with mana once, you keep coming back. 

It’s not being addicted per say, rather, you end up wanting more. 

The right amount of mana not only affects wizards, but also has a considerable number of positive effects on regular people.

For example, it helps relieve fatigue or detoxify the body, or burn excess fat and give people more energy. 

Of course, the change isn’t instant. Only after a steady intake over a long period of time can one see even the slightest of effects. 

It had now been 1 year since the café was founded and operation began, and business had now become stable. 

That means Tae-soo didn’t exactly have much work to do. 

If it was another person, usually around this time they would be setting up a branch office or looking to franchise. 

However, Tae-soo had no thoughts of doing that at all.

Because at that time, studying magic even a bit more was much better. 

Tae-soo started his journey with magic on his 17th birthday. Of course, he’s not really sure if that birthday is his actual birthday. Because Tae-soo was an orphan. 

The price for him walking the path of magic was losing all his memories from the past 17 years of his life. 

In return, knowledge about magic naturally flowed within his brain.

The first piece of knowledge he gained was content related to the basics of magic. 

After completely familiarising himself with the basics, mysteriously he naturally recalled the knowledge relevant to the next level. 

After he had perfectly cleared each level, the next level would appear. 

To be honest, losing 17 years’ worth of memories didn’t feel like a waste.  

Rather, the thing he found regrettable was that it was to the level that everything he had learnt up till then was reset, however even that wasn’t much of a regret. After looking into it, it seems he wasn’t much of a good student. 

Anyway, if one intends to study magic, simply having mana is not enough. A fair number of various types of knowledge is needed.

Since then, he has crazily studied various things simultaneously.

From the moment Tae-soo succeeded in using magic, he became captivated. And he had a hunch that he wouldn’t be able to escape from it. 

It was the same in real life too. Because in order to study magic, you really have to study all sorts of things. 

When you become a wizard, you gain magic power and while growing that magic power through training, the body isn’t the only thing that gets better. Your brain function also gets better too. 

As a result of that, Tae-soo got accepted to university.

Although it wasn’t the best university in the country, it was the physics department of a well-known university. 

While attending university, Tae-soo focused on his part-time job and studying.

The strength of a wizard was amazing.

No matter what he did, it was successful. Because his body had become stronger and his brain had become sharper, no matter what he did, it came with ease. 

Although he was inclined to use his brain towards magic, he still had that skill.

When it came to studying things aside from magic, there was no one who could keep up with him.

Like that, 2 years into university, Tae-soo had the thought that in order to study real magic, he would need a sense of stability.  

So, the thing he prepared was this café that he is running right now.

Café Wizard’s foundation was formed after a perfect plan was set.

The café was opened after 1 year of planning, and 1 year after that it had earned a lot of money.

During all that, Tae-soo did not neglect his studies. 

His studies were exquisitely linked with his magic studies which produced a strange synergy and which led to great progress in both his regular studies and magic studies. 

And it was almost time to graduate. 

Despite his mind being somewhere else, Tae-soo continued to pour his drip coffee.  And then he mechanically put it in the container and then added some mana to it. 

As a result, he had filled 8 containers to the brim.

This amount was usual in a week as they usually used one container per day and slightly more on weekends. 

He felt more relaxed now that he had finished doing what he needed to do. 

Isn’t this the kind of stability he wanted?

It was still morning, so; he was relatively free.

 From now until a bit before lunch time, there was nothing much for him to do. 

And the part-timers Seo-young Lee and Seo-hyun Han can cover any unexpected situations. If no group customers came in that is. 

Tae-soo sat in his personal spot behind the counter and read a few academic papers. 

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He was feeling stuck due to his magic studies not progressing much these days. 

To find a breakthrough, he was reading and analysing academic papers from various fields to find something worth applying magic to. 

He usually reads papers related to mathematics.

It wasn’t the first time he had faced an obstacle like this. He had faced countless obstacles and until now, he had overcome them all well. 

When he had felt stuck last time, he had found a breakthrough after reading papers related to physics.

When it comes to magic, the more you learn the more complicated it gets. And having the ability to perform advanced repairs and creating concepts using a variety of methods is important. 

That’s why, these days, when he is not working at the café, he would work on searching up academic papers to do with mathematics. 

Actually, he would also leave one high-performance laptop at the café and sometimes look for papers there. 

Or through surfing the web, he would find various pieces of knowledge or rumours and stories etc.

Wizards should not only focus on simple studying like that. They also have to learn a variety of things.

One’s imagination is just as important as one’s ability to repair things and organise concepts. 

Because being able to bring things from one’s imagination to the real world is exactly what a wizard is. 

‘Will this paper be helpful?’

He kept getting impatient when he felt something would work but it didn’t.

‘I shouldn’t be like this.’

Tae-soo took a deep breath to calm his growing impatience. 

And then looked around his surroundings. 

At some point, the store had become filled with customers. 

They were either having conversations or reading a book, or had their laptops open and were fiercely working on something. 

The sight was no different from usual, it was certainly a peaceful life. 

Seeing that, his impatience quietly subsided. 

That’s right, there’s no need for me to be impatient. I’m still young. It has only been 6 years since I started practising magic. I have so much time left.  

In fact, the more magic a wizard accumulates, the longer their life gets. 

‘And it’s not like I have any reason to get into a fight with another wizard either.’

Like that, while talking to himself, Tae-soo smirked. 

When he first became a wizard, the thing Tae-soo was worried about the most was not himself but the fact that there might be other wizards like him. 

Because he couldn’t estimate what those other wizards were like or how they would react upon discovering his existence. 

That’s why he lived with extreme anxiety for the first few years after he started practising magic. 

Studying magic, his life was halfway on the line. 

That was also because the first piece of magic he mastered was sensing and detection. He intended to use it to sense any traces of mana to find any other wizards around. 

Even now, amongst all the different types of magic, his sensing magic is the best.

Using that sensing skill as a foundation, he travelled around the nation in his spare time looking for other wizards. 

Even though he had invested years like that, he couldn’t find anything. 

‘It was really reckless.’

If by chance there was a wizard whose level was higher than his, would he have been able to find that out when he used detection magic?

On the other hand, it’s practically the same as me just handing over information about myself. In a situation where you can’t be sure how the other party will react, it’s extremely dangerous. 

Anyway, luckily there wasn’t any particular issue, and Tae-soo had now slowly begun to believe he was the only wizard in this world. 

If you think about it, even the process through which he learnt magic was strange. When he had finished learning a piece of magic, the next level would naturally appear in his head. 

Because he was sure that the probability of there being no other wizards was extremely high, he could open a café life this. 

He had engraved magic that he had honed so far around the café. 

He had engraved magic that drew people’s attention and raised their curiosity on the café sign. He had also engraved magic that maintains cleanliness and prevents damage being done to the store. 

That was because the background of the name Café Wizard written on the sign was filled with drawings of magic circle patterns. 

There was also magic engraved in the shop to maintain cleanliness. 

Although the store was cleaned every day, they just brushed through with a broom a few times. Even then, the store was always clean. It was the power of magic.

Other than that, various types of magic were hidden around the store. 

Through the effect of that magic, customers didn’t display bad behaviours. 

They didn’t even make more than necessary nuisance to the employees. 

The employees of course didn’t pay any particular attention to anything other than work.  

In addition to the taste of the coffee, these were some of the reasons why the café was doing well. 

The first goal, opening the café and succeeding was almost complete. 

Tae-soo set up the second goal. 

Purchasing the building that he was running the store in was his second goal. 

Ultimately, he intended to make several self-sustaining businesses.

And then he would focus solely on studying magic. 

Isn’t this a wizard’s dream? 

Tae-soo didn’t doubt that peace and stability would unfold in future. 

While thinking that, he without much thought looked towards the café entrance. 

He saw a couple enter the café after looking at the store sign. 

Tae-soo felt a chill run up his spine all the way to the top of his head. 

‘Wizards?’

A faint reverberation of mana slightly touched his nose and passed by.

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