Reincarnated as a bamboo rat, it begins its extreme survival struggle.

"First, we must use singing to perceive the magic that exists in nature, and then guide the magic from the outside world into ourselves little by little, and slowly build up the magic cycle in our own bodies."

This process is extremely painful and lengthy; it must be done every day without the slightest slackening.

According to the bard's recollection, people with different talents take different amounts of time on this step.

It took him two and a half years to accumulate magic power, while some talented people of his generation completed the accumulation in just one year.

Among those with less talent, some have spent over a decade failing to accumulate enough magical power. Naturally, these individuals are not suited for this profession.

"When constructing a magic cycle, once external magic enters your body, you need to use the power of words to retain it. The thirty-six syllables are your best help at this time, shaping the magic into words and engraving the words inside your body. The more words you engrave, the stronger your magic cycle will be, and the more magic you will store."

The bard brother demonstrated to Edu how to channel magic and how to build a magic cycle.

He first sang a song, allowing his voice to resonate with the magic in the outside world. Then, he painstakingly used his mental power to guide wisps of magic into his body.

Bell and Edu watched him tinker for half an hour, until he was pale and covered in sweat, before the bard brother...

He opened his eyes and said to them that he had recorded a simple character.

"Kid, don't look at me with that 'can you even do this?' look. You can try it yourself; it's very tiring and painful."

As if to save face, the bard brother stubbornly retorted.

He let Edu try it out himself, and then had Edu hum a popular, upbeat tune while he supervised.

About fifteen minutes later, Edu, who had been drawing on the magic, opened his eyes and looked at the bard with an innocent and puzzled gaze.

"Senior, I've finished burning the character 'good'. It doesn't seem as difficult as I imagined. I feel I can do it faster and better."

After Edu finished speaking, the bard brother's expression became somewhat strained, and a sense of defeat, as if he wanted to cry but couldn't, welled up in his heart.

"Well, you're one of those people who are quite talented too."

The frustrated bard squatted back down in front of his small pot of cooking, ready to soothe his wounded heart with some food.

However, because he and Edu had spent too much time trying to inscribe the magic, the contents of the pot had turned into a charred mess, unrecognizable.

This caused the bard to completely lose his composure, collapsing to his knees and falling into a state of self-isolation.

"Kid, my heart is aching so much..."

The bard, looking utterly dejected, lay on the ground looking at Edu. Finally, he sighed deeply and continued:

"Getting started as a bard shouldn't be too difficult for you. Just keep accumulating magic and building your magic cycle. Next, you can go to the Bard's Guild to learn the basics, and then set off to various music academies to study systematic knowledge. Our profession requires a high level of knowledge."

Moreover, within those music academies lie secret manuals that allow ordinary bards to advance further. It is said that the magical cycles we construct are all imperfect, and those music academies teach how to craft magical cycles into a unique poem. Only in this way can one obtain magical reserves and magical strength far exceeding those of ordinary bards…”

After the bard rambled on for a while, he ran out of things to brag about.

After the exchange was completed, Edu and Bell left, leaving only the bard brother there, who hugged his little pot and became withdrawn.

However, the bard brother specifically instructed Edu to find a master to study the demi-human magic in him.

The magic that Edu's demi-human bloodline brought him made it quite quick and easy for him to learn professions that required magic.

However, according to the bard, if this magic is not handled properly, it will affect Edu's future career development.

Edu responded that they would talk about it another time.

He first translated his conversation with the bard brother that day into a complete form for Bell, both to deepen Bell's understanding of the language of this other world and to let Bell know about the profession of the bard.

Bell had many thoughts on this, especially about the source of magic.

"If I use Earth's writing system as a medium to bind the magic of another world and inscribe it into my own body, what would happen? Could I use this method to gain a large amount of magic and become a bard?"

Oh no, I'm done for, I'm going to bite the lighter now _(°°)

Chapter 40 Magical Chinese Characters

【Edu Wine】

Type: Hybrid Demi-human (bloodline deterioration)

Level: lv.2 (3/15)

Magic Power: 2 (Slowly increasing)

Back in his tent, Bell watched Edu channeling his magic; his [Information Insight] indicated that his total magic power was slowly increasing.

Edu is obsessed with becoming a bard and doesn't care about the pressure he faces when gathering magic.

Bell, who also wanted to try to gather magic, slipped out of the tent, wiggling his hips, so as not to disturb Edu.

He jogged along, and having become familiar with the terrain, Bell squeezed through several narrow gaps to reach the outside of the camp.

When no one is watching, Bell is more adept at causing trouble.

"A fire on the mountain, a police station at the foot of the mountain~~"

Gathering a pile of withered branches and leaves, Bell stood by the campfire, the tuft of hair on his forehead burning fiercely.

With a clear mind and highly activated mental energy, Bell skipped the step of chanting the poem to resonate with the magic and directly absorbed the magic within a radius of two and a half meters to his side.

"Starting with the thirty-six tones, we use sound to define the form and construct the written language..."

Following the method taught to him by the bard, Bell transformed the magic around him into several simple characters.

As his consciousness sank into his body, Bell inscribed these simple characters into his blood. Blood is a common carrier for storing magical characters and is also the easiest magical carrier for beginners to use.

As the burning process progressed, Bell's personal panel in [Information Insight] also changed.

Bear Grylls

Level: lv.5 (36/30)

Health:

Mental strength:

Magic Power: 0 (Growing)

Lucky:

Skills: [Information Insight], [Fire-Loving Wisdom]

Unlike Edu's 'slow growth' entry, Bell can inscribe magical text much faster than Edu.

Edu, who can inscribe a magic character in fifteen minutes, is already considered quite talented among ordinary bards.

But Bell discovered that it only took him five minutes to inscribe a magic character, much faster than Edu.

"To accumulate a little magic power by recording these few simple characters that I know, I would need about a hundred repeated magic characters."

After inscribing six or seven magic characters, Bell stopped inscribing magic characters and used his mental power to shatter all the previously inscribed magic characters.

Each time a magical character is inscribed or shattered, it puts immense pressure on his body and mind.

But for Bale, this level of pressure is still manageable.

More important than mental and physical exhaustion and pain is the exploration of magic.

During the process of inscribing magical characters, Bell astutely discovered that different magical characters could be connected to each other.

After he had previously inscribed two related words to form the word 'sky', the magic of that one word was greater than that of five repeated words.

This is also why Bell gave up on continuing to inscribe the few simple characters he knew. After all, with his level of otherworldly human language, he couldn't inscribe coherent and meaningful magical characters.

"Words possess power."

The songs brought from Earth could influence the magic of this world, so Chinese characters should also be able to achieve a similar magical effect.

With a sharp look in his eyes, Bell began his experiment.

He believed in the power of Chinese characters.

"Let's start by trying the traditional and simplified Chinese characters."

Having chosen a direction, two characters appeared before him within the area visible to Bell's mental energy.

As a script he was extremely familiar with, Bell initially chose the more complex character 'yang' and simultaneously constructed two magical characters.

With a mental strength of 21 points, Bell is able to explore freely, and the skill effect of [Fire-Loving Wisdom] also brings Bell a continuous mental boost.

"In terms of magical power content, 'Yang' carries more magical power than 'Yang', by about 10%. But the pressure that 'Yang' puts on my body is greater than that of the simplified character."

After breaking the two characters into pieces and replacing them with other characters, Bell tested them back and forth and came to a conclusion.

Traditional Chinese characters can carry more magical power, but when they are engraved into the blood, they also require more blood as a carrier.

After much deliberation, Bell ultimately decided against using traditional Chinese characters as the medium for the magic and opted for simplified Chinese characters instead.

The reason for this choice is simple: due to his physical size and lack of skills, Bell's physical attributes are far less powerful than his mental strength.

With only 10 points of life force, Bell couldn't inscribe many magical texts.

“Burning more text and using the resonance and connection between the text to create magic is a more cost-effective solution.”

Having finalized his plan, Bell caught his breath in the fire, using the power of the flames to restore his mental state to about 70-80%, before continuing his magical Chinese character engraving project.

This time, Bell stopped exploring other possibilities and focused solely on constructing magical text.

With focused concentration, Bell's speed in inscribing magical characters increased again, and he could engrave a magical Chinese character in his blood in about four minutes.

'Sun', 'Green', 'Sunlight', 'Lake'...

One magical Chinese character after another appeared in Bell's blood and shone brightly in his spiritual realm.