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Chapter 147 - Showing Off Tricks

 

"Ars-dono, the library is nice, but what are you going to do now?"

"Well, I suppose I'd like to add more books, but I also need more people — people with a certain amount of knowledge."

"Educated people, degozaru. Knowledge is usually passed down from generation to generation. It's rare for ordinary people to be educated, but those from noble or knightly families learn many things from an early age, degozaru."

"In the end, it's connections that get you an education, eh? ....... In the meantime, let's put out a call for applications. I'll have it go something like, 'If you're a person who thinks you're the smartest, come to Barca. The one whose knowledge is recognized as being greatest will be granted magic by the Reed family.' How about that?"

"What kind of criteria do you have for recruiting? You don't want a bunch of random people to come here just for Kyle-dono's magic, do you? Wouldn't it be better to have at least some conditions for applying, degozaru ka?"

"You're right..... hmm. Let's have them bring in a book of any content, and allow them to copy it for the library. If we can talk to the ones that meet those requirements, we can narrow down the number of people we'll have to interview."

"Books. That's a condition that raises the difficulty level quite a bit, degozaru. Most people don't have books, that they don't, Ars-dono. A craftsman such as me would never be able to make it under such conditions."

"A craftsman like Gran? I'm not sure if they would want Kyle's magic, too."

"I'm sure those types of people would, degozaru! Of course, the magic will make calculations easier, that it will, but if there is an opportunity to obtain magic without going to the battlefield, I'm certain there will be people who will raise their hands, that they will."

　I see.

　Some don't like it when the reward they get for risking their lives on the battlefield is magic with no offensive power, but if that's not the case, then there are those who want Kyle's magic, too.

"... Then what about you, Gran? Do you also want Kyle's magic?"

"Yes, that I do, but I need Ars-dono's magic more than that, degozaru."

"My magic? Have I created any spell which will help you create your projects in a more efficient way?"

"Of course, desu. 「Meditation」is the best magic for me, Ars-dono. To be able to work without sleeping for days is a dream come true, that it is!"

　Oh, I see.

　For Gran, the benefits of 「Meditation」 are greater than those of「Speed Reading」or 「Automatic Calculation」.

　It's true that「Meditation 」 is useful for getting rid of fatigue completely after a night's sleep, and recently Gran seems to be using it while working on his crafts.

　He said that he sometimes continues to work for days in a row while minimizing his fatigue.

　I was worried about the possibility of a backlash that would eventually overwhelm his body.

　Well, let's leave the matter of the spell aside for now.

　The problem lies in attracting people.

　We'll use Kyle's magic as bait to gather people with excellent brains.

　The old man who has peddled all over the place, Gran who has traveled to many places, and Leon who was a former knight of an estate, were used to get people to approach this place.

　For now, here's how it goes.

　Spread the word that I will grant magic to anyone who is confident that they are the smartest, compared to others.

　The magic is one which would allow you to read any text instantly and perform any calculation.

　However, there is a condition for the granting of this magic.

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　You must bring a book that isn't in the library at Barcania, and transcribe it for the library's uses.

　Then, the candidate must show us what he think will make me, Kyle, Gran, Leon, and the rest of the team think "Wow."

　If you can impress us, we'll give you a spell.

　After that, you're free to do your research at the university I built, or you can work for me at Barca.

"Well, anyway, let's try something like that. Gran, send a letter to all the people you know, if you want."

"All right, that I will, Ars-dono."

　In this way, Barca began to collect knowledgeable people and books on a large scale.

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"Is this a Worldwide Surprise Show ?" 1TLN: Just wanna say that the pronunciation of this in Japanese, the text, is the same as how you'd pronounce Master Roshi's Thunder Shock Surprise technique from Dragon Ball Z.

　There was a time when I was thinking of using Kyle's magic as bait to gather talented brains.

　But when I lifted the lid, somehow things turned out differently from the way I had thought.

　I don't know where the story got twisted, but it turned out to be unexpected.

"Nice to meet you, Barca-sama. I'm a genius at drawing. As you can see, I can draw elaborate pictures with my eyes closed."

"Nice to meet you. I can eat bread through my nose. No one else can do that!"

"It is my first time meeting you. Please listen to my song. I will sing~."

　I don't know why, but for some reason, they were not the intellectuals I was looking for, but people who were good at one art or another, and most of them showed me things that I would have found at a circus, which is not much of an art.

　Now I was being subjected to a song that was so bad that it was almost deafening.

　This trend apparently had something to do with the movement of people moving to Barca.

　There seemed to be a number of people who were thinking of moving here to Barca, and they seemed to have jumped at my offer to gather the smart and give them magic.

　I don't know why, but the rumor became so that it's not about knowledge, but about showing us judges a trick that no one else can imitate.

　Incidentally, since the definition of a 'book' was not made specific, some people in Barcania started to sell a kind of pamphlet.

　Thanks to this, I'm being shown incomprehensible things every day.

　However, this is not so bad.

　Some of them are really good at their skill.

　A painter I met earlier might be useful for making maps, so I'll ask him if he'd like to work at Barca Castle.

　I'll also find some people who make and sell their own booklets in the city and use them as transcribers.

　In this way, although the flow of events was different from what I had expected, we gradually began to gather some unusual people.

CadmarLegend Lmao... cuz of rumors, Ars' knowledge-gathering became a talent show-like thing.

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