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Ren opened up his spellbook, swishing through the pages to try and find a picture of what he was trying to achieve. He was far too lazy to read all of the titles, especially as he may have stolen a guide to magic that was written in Latin, a language he could barely read.
Look, Ren really wanted to be a wizard, but it wasn’t exactly a cheap nor easy profession to access. It wasn’t his fault he’d had no formal education in the languages! He had a dictionary next to him to make up for it, so he could translate each word as he went.
After flicking past what he assumed was an introduction by a signature and a photo of someone, Ren located a page that seemed to be split into sections. It looked to be the instructions he had been searching for – how to cast your first spell!
There was another long paragraph at the start that Ren skipped over. He assumed it wasn’t important and was just the usual garble about the risk of spell casting.
It was split into five steps, and Ren at least recognised the roman numerals.
- para spatium tuum
Ren opened his dictionary to search up the should be simple three step instructions. It was only three words after all.
Para meant to prepare – that made sense. Ren scratched that onto his parchment next to him, scribing the instructions for later.
Spatium meant space or expanse. Ren wrote that down but didn’t understand how the night sky came into this. Then again, Ren had heard the legends of drawing magic from the stars – maybe this was connected?
Finally, tuum meant your. So, according to his dictionary, he needed to prepare space your? Maybe Latin had some different grammar rules. Surely it just meant to prepare your space.
Ren would go with that translation. He just needed to wait till night for space then – that was an easy instruction.
- Elige magicum
Step two was just as short. Glancing through his dictionary, Ren easily located the word for magicum – magic! Even he could have guessed that. Elige meant to choose, so that short step would be easy to complete.
But how did one ‘choose magic’?
Ren decided that choosing magic was perhaps just deciding he was going to cast. Or maybe it was the school of magic he was doing? He was doing divination magic, so that was an easy pic. With that, Ren decided just to go onto stage three.
- Magiam per virgam magicam ad rem dirige
This step was a little longer, so Ren took a while longer. Luckily, it made perfect sense. Even more so then the other stages. He just needed to direct magic at an object with a magic wand. He was planning to use the magic on his hat, to make it bigger, so Ren put it down on the ground.
Choosing a wand was a little more difficult, but Ren decided to just grab a branch he had snapped off a tree. Surely there’d be no difference, right?
Finally, only two stages left to go.
- dic incantationem "transfigura rem auge"
Once again, another larger step. Ren spent a while translating this one, wanting to make sure he got it right. It seemed to be a phrase he had to say to get the magic working.
Ren grabbed his wand and pointed it at his hat and tried to matter the words. He couldn’t speak Latin, but he was sure the English translation would work the exact same.
“Transfigure matter Grow!” He yelled and…
Nothing happened.
Ren sighed but then realised he still had one step left to go.
- Manus tuas in obiectum pone ut plus mana praebeas.
Ren planned to translate the whole thing, but just gave up halfway. Besides, the first parts of the instructions were detailed enough.
Without further ado, Ren placed his hands on the wizard hat. And almost immediately threw them off as his hat expanded more then ten times in size. It became huge, and Ren laughed as he put it on.
The rim held straight, bit it was huge, blocking half of his vision. The point of his hat was about two feet higher then his head. He might be the tallest person on the server with this hat.
While Rene celebrated, high above in the clouds, the Goddess of Sorcery peered down on him with nothing short of bemusement. That was not what the instructions had intended to be done, but it had worked anyway.
The Goddess of the Wizard would be watching his chaos a little more closely from now on. How the hell had he managed to fail so immensely and yet succeed so perfectly?