Full-Time Wizard: Starting with Harvesting Wheat

—You've been reading all night?

The morning light, like molten metal, flowed through the windowpane and over Roy's shoulder. He blinked his sore eyes, and the obscure characters from last night settled into his vision, making everything within them shine brightly.

Soraya was astonished. The boy had already flipped through almost half of the "Ancient Byronian Language," a book so thick it could bend an oak bookshelf. If he had truly memorized it all, that would be astonishing, no, terrifying.

The wizarding world has no shortage of methods to temporarily enhance memory; the improvement of mental strength itself can also incidentally strengthen memory. However, during the apprenticeship stage, a naturally superior memory is enough to become a significant advantage over other apprentices.

Karazhan, lying on the table, was drooling, his mouth watering as he immersed himself in the ocean of knowledge.

The book was stuck on page twelve, which shows how difficult it was for him to read.

"It's morning, shouldn't we head back?" Roy stretched as if he'd had a good sleep, his bones creaking. He'd missed yesterday afternoon's training, and the thought sent a shiver of unease through him.

Yesterday afternoon, they were still practicing breathing techniques, but without any progress. However, someone was looking for you.

"Soraya has a way of monitoring the manor," she replied.

The people looking for you are named Marley and Olivier.

"Olivier..." Roy was somewhat annoyed. He should have known that Olivier would miss them if they left quietly.

To avoid worrying him, I really need to go back first.

"Karazhan. Karazhan!" He slapped the sleeping boy, who slowly woke up, his eyes still glazed.

"M-It's already morning?" Karazhan steadied himself, staring at the page number marked 12, his mind blank.

His original goal was to study 100 pages in one night, but who knew that sleepiness would come so quickly.

Mingming can stay fully energized all night long just by listening to other people tell stories.

"Wait, what were the words on the first page again?" He suddenly realized that he had completely forgotten them, and his expression became even more miserable.

Is learning really this difficult?

"Roy, you didn't sleep all night?" Karazhan glanced at the page number his friend was looking at, noticing the dark circles under his eyes.

1145.

Is this real?

"Am I still dreaming?"

—Your efficiency is very slow.

Karazhan suddenly felt Soraya's cold gaze, filled with undisguised disappointment.

It would take more than ten pages to read in one night, and to learn the entire Old Byronian can probably take three years.

Learning a language requires constantly reviewing previously memorized parts to reinforce the learning; otherwise, you'll forget it quickly.

After spending a year reading through the three thousand pages of the Old Byronian Canon, it often takes two years to memorize it again to ensure it is completely imprinted in the mind.

Moreover, even if you finish learning it, you will only know the words and phrases. To write articles or even have conversations in this language, you will need a much longer period of practice.

—A wizard apprentice who spends more than five years learning basic languages ​​is an unqualified apprentice.

Soraya gave a negative assessment of Karazhan.

The latter was sweating profusely and looked listless.

—Next, I'll check your study progress.

Soraya's thoughts turned to Roy.

The pen tip traced a line across the parchment, leaving a character twisted like a flame. Karazhan was completely bewildered, but Roy, almost without thinking, blurted out:

"This word means fire."

--good.

Then, Soraya wrote a few words on the paper, and Roy answered fluently, seemingly having memorized them quite well. He could even piece together the meaning of a sentence Soraya wrote without understanding the grammar, arriving at a result that was almost identical to the original.

Soraya nodded repeatedly at this ability to apply knowledge to new situations.

She was now certain that Roy had indeed memorized all of the more than a thousand pages of text. Logically speaking, a level five mental strength talent could not possibly support such a terrifying memory ability; it could only be attributed to his innate, extraordinary memory endowment.

It seems that I have unearthed a promising apprentice in the making.

Suddenly, Soraya had the idea of ​​wanting to learn more about his abilities.

—What is the third character on page 684?

She herself didn't know the answer to this question, and she figured no one would bother to keep track of page numbers.

To everyone's surprise, Roy simply raised his head slightly, thought for a moment, and then gave the answer.

"thunder."

Ok?

Although no message was conveyed, Soraya's surprise was immediately apparent on her face.

With a furrowed brow, she opened the book *Ancient Byron*, turned to page 684, and began to read—

The third character was none other than the ancient Byron script representing "thunder"!

This... actually got it right!?

Soraya realized things weren't so simple and started randomly reciting page numbers from a thousand pages ago.

—The fifth character on page 823.

—The seventh character on page 568.

—The second to last word on page 999.

In the end, even her thoughts became somewhat hurried, and fine beads of sweat appeared on her forehead.

Each time, Roy only needed a moment's thought to accurately answer the question, as if searching for information in his mental database.

Soraya had only ever seen this feeling in a handful of wizards before.

The Mind-Body School's magic, the Memory Palace, can create a database in the mind that can be accessed at any time; importing and deleting data is entirely up to the user's will.

The biggest drawback of the Memory Palace is its limited capacity. Incidentally, the amount of data this spell can store can also evolve as the wizard's level increases.

In addition, there is the product of the collaboration between the Bloodline Faction and the Flesh Faction: the [Flesh Memory].

The Flesh faction is responsible for creating biological memory for storing data, while the Bloodline faction is responsible for establishing a remote connection between the wizard and this memory, allowing the wizard to communicate with the database.

The advantage of this method is that the larger the memory capacity, the more data can be stored. The disadvantage is that if the memory is too far away from the wizard, the database cannot be accessed. Moreover, once the memory is destroyed, all unbacked-up data will be lost.

But Roy is clearly neither of those two.

—How...did you do that?

Soraya's voice trembled as she expressed this thought.

"How did you do that?" Karazhan asked, stunned.

"You... just naturally memorized it?" Roy was still not used to it. He had noticed before that even with the Eye of True Sight guiding his movements, he had picked up the forging technique far too quickly.

This feeling is especially profound when practicing horseback riding.

To be able to etch equestrian skills into one's muscles in just one hour—what level of skill is that?

Looking back now, I realize that my memory was just too good, which made me progress very quickly in doing these things.

—There's a memory competition in the Wizarding World...

Soraya's eyes turned resentful again; before this, she could hardly imagine feeling jealousy towards a mortal twice.

That wizarding competition was a contest where wizarding apprentices from all sides used every means at their disposal to try and memorize a 10,000-page book in the shortest possible time.

—I think if you go now, you can get a ranking.

"Me?" Roy pointed to his dark circles.