During a lull in conversation, Anton told everyone about him playing with the dolphins and the whales again.
“I don’t know if someone will inform you, Father, and might cause trouble but I handled it with the officer in charge of the location already so don’t worry.”
When his father asked how he handled it, Anton told Anders that he gave a couple of enchanted items that he created to the wizard in charge and it seemed like the mage was happy with them.
“I know that you’re probably after a pearl of the ocean why you did do it so did the cute animals give you one?” Anna asked.
Anton was startled by Anna’s insight. Despite looking like a silly blonde girl, he shouldn’t underestimate her sister since mages tend to be very intelligent and Anna was beginning to become an accomplished mage.
“They didn’t give me a pearl of the ocean but gave me a comb made out of pink coral. It’s very beautiful and I studied it already. If you wear it on your hair, it will increase your magical energy by a lot and when used on somebody’s head, it will melt the stress and worries that you’ve been feeling and allow you to rest or sleep calmly,” Anton showed everyone the comb made by nature naturally that was created out of pink coral.
Anton knew what the comb did since when he checked his inventory while the comb was in there and it had a description that said plus one hundred to mana when worn and using on the head would allow the recipient’s worries and stress to drain allowing him a restful nap or sleep.
He had the inkling that the effect would be similar to the pearl of the ocean.
“Can I try it?” Anna asked and Anton gave the comb to her sister.
Anna immediately started combing her hair with the coral comb and after a few seconds, everyone could see that she shivered.
“I feel it. It’s making me so relaxed and it's making me want to sleep. I assume one will have to leave it to one’s hair to wear it?” Anna then twisted her hair in some sort of hairstyle and kept the style in place using the comb.
“Even though my spell slots are full, I feel that I can memorize more spells! The comb does increase my energy by a lot!” Anna exclaimed.
“You can have it then since I don’t need it but please take care of it. It’s a gift from my ocean friends,” Anton said to his sister while smiling.
All of the girls then went to Anna to borrow the comb to try it and soon the ladies were passing the comb to each other after trying it out for a minute or so.
“Can it only be used by women?” Walter curiously asked.
“I don’t think so but since it looked like a pretty accessory when worn in the hair, the accessory tends to be worn by women instead of men. I guess that if a man is comfortable enough in his masculinity to wear a pretty accessory in his hair then they can do so but the other use should also work just fine,” Anton answered.
Walter then went to where the girls were passing around the comb and borrowed it so he could check if it would work on him. Since everyone was curious, they gave the comb to Walter and after using it for a minute or so, Walter exclaimed that he could feel himself relaxing and wanting to go to sleep. He also mentioned that it was not like he was being hypnotized but felt more like he was getting a brain massage if something like that was possible.
“Since the comb is working for everyone we should all use it every night before we sleep since I think that it has a positive effect on mages,” Lunelle said.
Everyone agreed with her since it only took a minute or two for the comb to work. Then they saw Walter putting the comb in his hair as an accessory.
“Hey, I feel something different. It feels like there is something in me that suddenly grew. It feels peculiar,” Walter said contemplatively.
After a couple of minutes of introspection, while everyone was inspecting Walter, Anton gasped.
“The comb was supposed to add a huge amount of energy stats to a mage making them able to memorize and cast more spells but what will happen if a regular person wears the comb? It will add a stat that was previously non-existent and will allow that person to memorize spells, I think. Once he memorized a spell, he should be able to cast it but the problem is, what will happen if he memorize the spell already and then he removes the comb?” Anton said to everyone.
“I’m guessing that once a regular person memorized a spell due to that comb, even if you don’t wear it anymore the spell will remain to allow that person to remain a mage, and just like any other mage, he or she will only need to exercise his mind to grow the power but I’m guessing that the wizardly talent will be very small,” Frederick whispered.
Everyone gasped because if it were true it would basically defy the normal workings of how a mage was found. That any regular people could become a mage and Anton said it to everyone.
“I’m sure that there are other magic items in existence that will allow a person to add the energy stats to their body and if there were, why didn’t we hear anyone becoming a mage even though he was considered a regular person before,” Anton asked.
“Actually, there had always been rumors of regular people who were detected to have no magely powers becoming mages and it was almost always because of an item!” Antonia exclaimed.
“Not only that, those who wore those items will need to consciously memorize a spell while wearing them and they would have to spend hours, even days just to memorize a cantrip so that meant that if a person didn’t know, they wouldn’t try it out,” Frederick added.
“This must be a core wizardly secret and we discovered it accidentally!” Phillip whispered excitedly but everyone heard him.
“I want to try it out! I want to become a wizard!” Walter suddenly said.
“Walter, please remember that all of this talk is just our supposition and we don’t know how dangerous it could be for you,” Anton warned the man.
“Nevertheless, I still want to try it. Can I try it out?” Walter begged and based on Antonia, Lucia, and Phillip’s expressions, they perfectly understood that desire.
Anton remembered what Frederick had told him before that the desire to become a mage consumed him even though the one who tested him said that he had very little talent in magecraft. He could understand as well since there was no other feeling compared to the mana circling in your body allowing you to bend the fabric of the universe in your hands.
“If you want to try it, you have to borrow the comb from my sister since it’s hers now and it’ll be her decision. I will also try my best to make sure that you will be safe but I want to reiterate, I will not give my guarantee that you will be safe,” Anton told Walter.
“I’ll lend you my coral comb so you can practice with us during the day,” Anna said to Walter.
“It might be a good idea for you to lend the comb for a long time until he memorizes a simple cantrip. I recommend that you memorize the cantrip Light since it’s a very small spell,” Frederick said.