Chapter 41 Spellbook · Cleaning Spell
After a hearty meal.
The bakery closed early today, but it didn’t cause any inconvenience to the people nearby.
In the end, the store manager was dragged away by Ying Shiqian and Senior Tang Yihan.
This time, our group of customers, including the chef, totaled six people, and two of them ended up drunk.
One of them was the boss from the other side.
I could already feel the awkward and helpless expression on that boss’s apprentice.
So in the end, I took a half-day paid leave since I had nothing left to do this afternoon.
The only thing I needed to do was take care of some trivial matters in the store and then close it.
“Wait, Xiao Han, don’t leave yet.”
Just as I was clocking out and preparing to leave, I was stopped by Senior Tang Yihan.
“What’s up, Senior?” I turned around to look at her. She wouldn’t make me stay for overtime, would she? After all, I was on paid leave, even if it was just for half a day, but working overtime would mean extra pay.
“Of course I have something for you; you’re in luck this time.” Senior Tang Yihan rarely played coy, approaching me with an expression that conveyed I had hit the jackpot.
“Lucky? What do you mean?”
“Well, here, take this.” Tang Yihan handed me something that looked like a ball of light.
“What is this?”
I instinctively took the ball of light; it felt weightless and emitted a soft glow, not at all blinding to the eyes.
“This is a spellbook; I got it from the store’s inventory while the manager was in a good mood. It’s the Cleaning Spell we talked about earlier.”
“Really?”
Hearing my senior say so, I immediately widened my eyes. Is this really a spellbook? I thought it would look like a regular book, but unexpectedly, it’s like this?
“Of course! Hurry up and use it. This thing will slowly self-destruct once it leaves the specific storage container.”
“Okay, okay, how do I use this?” I asked a bit impatiently. While I was eager to try it, I still needed my senior to explain how to use it.
“It’s simple. Just smack it on yourself—your head, your heart, or your chest; it’s up to you.” While she was saying this, she demonstrated by lightly tapping her own chest.
“Is it really that simple?” Although I still had some doubts, I ultimately chose to trust my senior.
I held the light ball lightly, feeling its weightlessness and worrying that it would slip from my hands. Nevertheless, I obediently pressed it against my chest.
As I did so, the light ball dissipated in front of me, countless shimmering specks of light trailing long lines and merging into my body.
It didn’t seem like I felt anything particularly extra?
No, actually, there was a connection I could perceive, indescribable, as if it were something innate…
Wait, there’s also a surge of information rushing into my mind!
“Don’t worry; although spellbooks usually require instruction manuals to get familiar with how to use them, the store manager’s spellbooks come with built-in instructional information. Just take your time to feel it and make it your instinct; the spell is merely a tool you can use freely…”
After seeing my reaction, Senior Tang Yihan was not flustered at all because she knew this was normal, so she quickly began explaining to me.
“Mm…”
I was busy trying to absorb the information within, only able to respond to my senior’s words in passing.
I must say, the feeling of having an instruction manual directly enter my brain is truly indescribable, but it’s incredibly convenient.
“Feeling better?”
Seeing me open my eyes and come back to my senses, Tang Yihan asked with a hint of concern.
“Feeling better, thank you, Senior.” I quickly expressed my sincere gratitude; this was my first real spell, not counting the one on the badge—this was the real deal.
Even though it was just a non-offensive application spell, it was still magic!
“No need to thank me, but… from now on, you’ll have to wash those baking tools yourself~”
“Mm, of course!” I nodded in agreement. Even if I had to take care of it all later, it wouldn’t be a problem!
However, I didn’t say that aloud; after all, one must leave themselves a way out and not take on everything alone.
Fulfilling commitments isn’t as simple as just saying it.
After bidding farewell to my senior, I set off on the road back to my large dormitory.
Although the road wasn’t long, I began rehearsing how to use the Cleaning Spell.
While I had the instruction manual to know how to use it, I couldn’t resist trying it out myself.
According to the manual, using a spell requires mental power to release the spell. Once the spell is controlled by mental power, it can draw magic power.
I skipped the part about the mental energy intervening with the magic to release the spell.
As for how the spell used magic power, the manual didn’t explain that.
At this moment, I felt my dormant magic source within begin to awaken under the spell’s influence, a surge of power infusing the Cleaning Spell in a way I couldn’t identify.
“Is this what it feels like to control a spell?”
As the Cleaning Spell activated, I felt a power that I had under my control.
I opened my spirit vision, observing my current state—from the magic source to the spell, and then this gentle power I could now manipulate at will.
The process of transformation here was incredibly complex, but the power I controlled was no longer regular magic.
Moreover, maintaining the Cleaning Spell consumed very little from the magic source; I even sensed that consumption was almost on par with the rate of replenishment.
If I had to evaluate which was more fearsome between the magic source and the spell using spirit vision, I could only say it’s the magic source. Of course, the Cleaning Spell is also complex, and the information gleaned from spirit vision left me puzzled.
However, the nature of the confusion between the two was different.
If I had to use a metaphor, the magic source is like a streamlined version of the mass-energy equivalence equation, straightforward yet terrifyingly beyond my grasp; just expanding it would lead to overwhelming derivations.
Whereas the spell struck me as complex, but once unraveled, it was full of concepts that seemed understandable, and I could even recognize parts of it based on my previous theoretical knowledge. But to truly understand it would require a considerable investment of time.
Although I couldn’t grasp it all right now, I could definitely use it with the instruction manual.
After all, practical application always precedes theoretical deduction.
I used the Cleaning Spell on my clothes, making all the visible and invisible dust vanish.
It was quite miraculous.
However, I also noticed a disclaimer in the instruction manual stating that if the Cleaning Spell removed the inherent outer skin, original color, dye, etc., of the item being cleaned, it isn’t an issue with the Cleaning Spell but rather a problem with the quality of the item being cleaned. Complaints about this could be reported for compensation, and it even kindly included a complaint hotline…
This manual sure pays attention to strange details, yet it doesn’t provide the principles of this spell?
But thinking about it, that seems unlikely; in a world of the extraordinary, knowledge should be something that one has to pay for, right?
Whatever, I’ll hurry back to my dorm and use the Cleaning Spell to clean the entire villa while getting more familiar with how to use this spell.
Though there is that intelligent butler, it seems that robot vacuum cleaner isn’t all that reliable.
