[Dear Shirou... ahem, Dear Mr. Shirou:
I have read your letter.
To me, it feels like not much time has passed, but for humans, five years is quite a long time.
Even so, I never imagined you would grow to this level, that you would be a tutor for the daughter of the lord of the Fittoa territory. I was shocked.
By the way, I actually applied for that job myself, but I was rejected during the interview.
I wonder if it's because my skills were too bad, or because of discrimination against demons.
If I wasn't the prince's tutor now, I might be jealous of your situation.
Also, I didn't expect you to get to know Sword King Ghislaine, and even learn swordsmanship from her. She is the fourth strongest in the Sword God Style school.
Learning swordsmanship from such a strong person, Shirou, you will soon become a Sword Saint, right?
Ah, the thought of being left far behind by you makes me feel unsettled. After all, I am your teacher, I can't lose to you.
Water King level seems far from the goal I should aim for. I should set my sights higher.
——Now, let's get down to business.
The defense-type magic circle barrier you want to create is possible. I have similar information in my own memories and in the libraries of the Shiron Kingdom. I have put it all together and compiled a general outline of defense magic barriers for you to look at.
If that's not enough, there are many unique magic spells that humans don't know about in various demon tribes.
Although there may not be any written records, if you understand the demon language, you might be able to go to the tribal settlements and ask them to teach you those magic spells.
Of course, that requires building a good relationship.
There is another problem. Because of the differences between humans and demons, it won't be easy for humans to learn demon magic. It may even cause chain reactions such as loss of control or rejection. It would be best to have a strong, experienced magician, especially one who has studied magic circles in depth, to help you. That might be safer.
However, I know that strong magicians are not easy to find, and human magicians are even rarer, because humans don't live long lives. On the long road of magic, which often takes hundreds of years, humans have less time than other races.
So, to help you learn those difficult magic spells on your own, I have specially prepared a set of tools for you, and hand-written a set of textbooks to help you quickly get started with various magic spells.
This is my own work.
It took a lot of time, so I hope you will take good care of it and not sell it or throw it away. If I see this book being sold in a bookstore or anywhere else, I might cry...
Speaking of shops, I heard that a blacksmith named Muramasa has excellent forging skills. Recently, one of his famous swords ended up in the Shiron Kingdom, causing a sensation and a scramble throughout the kingdom.
Even the prince I teach cried and demanded to get that famous sword, but he failed and was beaten up by his brothers.
I couldn't get a famous sword of that level, but because of my position, I was able to attend the auction and take a look from afar.
It was a very incredible weapon, not only was the weapon itself unique and full of incredible charm, but it also felt like you could sense the forger's burning and passionate soul.
Master Muramasa must have been forging the sword with his life to create such a soul-stirring sword.
This gave me a lot of inspiration, and made me realize that my own investment in magic was just a superficial thing. I should have more passion for magic.
Although I can't have as much passion as Master Muramasa...
Well, now that I know the address, I will often send you letters in the future, Shirou.
Roxy.
PS: Because of the delay in mail delivery, I don't know when you will receive this letter, so I can only wish you a happy fifteenth birthday in advance.]
Roxy's letter contained the above.
Shirou finished reading the letter, carefully folded it again, and respectfully put the letter in a safe place to make sure it wouldn't get lost.
Although the content of the letter was short, not a long essay, Shirou could feel the effort the writer put into choosing her words carefully.
Roxy must have been carefully thinking about her words when writing this letter, so as not to cause any trouble for herself.
In fact, after reading the letter, Shirou really didn't feel uncomfortable at all, but felt satisfied and happy from the bottom of his heart.
It was so good to have such an excellent teacher like Roxy to teach him magic.
And there was another thing in Roxy's letter that surprised Shirou.
That was that Ghislaine was ranked fourth in the Sword God Style.
Ghislaine was only a Sword King, and above Sword King were Sword Emperor and Sword God.
But according to the ranking, even if Ghislaine was the strongest Sword King, that meant there were only three Sword Emperors and Sword Gods in the world?
Considering there was only one Sword God, that meant there were only two Sword Emperors?
He never expected the path of the Sword God Style to be so difficult.
The higher you go, the more extreme the scenery will be, and the fewer companions you will meet.
For a moment, Shirou felt a chill down his spine.
He could even feel the loneliness and desolation of the Sword God standing alone on the top of the mountain, with no one to walk with or accompany her.
That was probably why someone at the God level valued the inheritance of swordsmanship so much, hoping that someone could inherit their skills.
Also, Shirou didn't expect that one of the weapons he forged had ended up in the Shiron Kingdom.
Although he had forged too many weapons so far, no fewer than ten, he clearly remembered where each weapon was.
He didn't remember selling any weapon to the Shiron Kingdom?
Did someone lose the weapon?
Because there were too many possibilities, Shirou didn't bother to think about it.
Yes, Shirou still didn't know how much chaos and shock the evil sword he forged was causing in the world, or that it was even bringing about huge changes in the world of weapons.
He really had no way of knowing about that.
So after reading Roxy's letter, he began to study the magic information she had sent him.
"This is amazing."
After reading the contents, Shirou couldn't hide his surprise.
While compiling the outline, Roxy even added handwritten notes to each piece of information, explaining every detail to Shirou in the simplest and easiest to understand way.
With Roxy's explanations, even though Shirou was just a beginner who knew little about magic, he grasped the relevant knowledge about defense barrier magic.
You are surprised too soon.
Roxy also listed all the information she knew about the demons who might know defense barrier magic.
Including descriptions of each tribe, and Roxy's subjective explanations.
About the taboos of each race, which races were friendly, and which were too dangerous...
Although the drawings were bad, they basically had illustrations, and even had arrows pointing and writing "This is the characteristic!"
Especially for Roxy's own race, the Migurd race, she spent five pages writing in the most detail.
[Basically, Migurd race all like sweets].
She put a big circle around this sentence.
Shirou silently noted this, and decided to learn more about making sweets, so that he could make them for her when they met in the future.
It could be said that with Roxy's help, it was much more efficient than if Shirou had spent ten years studying defense barrier magic on his own.
Shirou didn't know how to describe his gratitude to Roxy. He only hoped that he could meet his teacher as soon as possible and thank her as much as he could.
However, even with Roxy's help, it would be difficult for Shirou to create a distant ideal land (Avalon) right away.
This was not only because his magic level was far from being high enough to immediately learn advanced defense barrier magic, but also because he still couldn't imagine how to engrave the defense barrier magic on the scabbard.
Of course, these were just basic problems.
As long as he had a plan, he could solve them all sooner or later if he kept moving towards his goal.
So Shirou immediately devoted himself to forging the scabbard, and once again fell into the state of forging weapons day and night, deeply absorbed in it.
Because he was so engrossed, Shirou even forgot the exact date of his birthday.
And the Boreas family didn't tell him in advance because they wanted to give him a surprise.
As a result, while Shirou was sound asleep in the forge, the entire Boreas family was anxiously waiting and looking for him.
Finally, a maid accidentally broke into the forge and found Shirou sleeping soundly in a corner, bringing everything to an end.
"Sorry, I seem to have overslept."
Shirou hurried back to the castle, and what he saw was a hall that was completely different, even completely transformed.
The entire hall had been decorated for a birthday party, even more luxurious than Eris's birthday party.
It was just that no outsiders had been invited this time because of Shirou's special status.
"This..."
Faced with such a grand scene, Shirou didn't know what to say for a moment, only feeling a warm current flowing from his chest.
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