Reincarnation with AI (Unemployment-Free)

Chapter 92 Half a Year

Half a year has passed in the blink of an eye.

Rudius's life in Roa also settled down.

Thomas disappeared after the kidnapping, along with several of his servants.

Philip didn't tell him the details, and he didn't ask.

This matter is both a family affair and a matter of internal management within the nobility.

Rudius was neither a member of Philip's family nor a true nobleman; that's about it.

Those servants were probably bribed gatekeepers, since Thomas couldn't possibly fly out with Rudius.

However, after learning about this, Sauros made a special trip to see Rudeus and learned about Rudeus's journey with Kyriano to Wedin.

Alice's education was also on the right track.

Rudeus's original plan was to build a good relationship with Alice and then use his personal charm, or rather, his influence as a role model, to give her an uplifting force.

It's a bit abstract to explain.

In reality, it's a form of teaching by example.

Children have a natural inclination to imitate.

Children only care about: Is this person interesting? Is he strong? Does he treat me well?

All you need to do is "live" a "good" life that she approves of while you're by her side.

The power of example is endless.

If it's her intrinsic and spontaneous desire to "become that kind of person," then everything makes perfect sense.

Looking back, Rudius realized that when he and Sauros clashed, the very difference he presented as an "outlier" was the most powerful lesson.

Recently, Alice and Rudius have started to control their volume when they speak, and even their speaking speed has slowed down a bit.

Rudeus thought this might be related to the fact that he had been startled by Alice's sudden loud voice on several occasions—sometimes in the mornings, when Rudeus was with Girenius, he would become confused.

Alice also attends classes obediently every day.

After learning ten characters and solving ten arithmetic problems every day without fail, it's free time.

Whether it's reading and telling stories, practicing swordsmanship, training in magic, running around and playing, or going out for a stroll.

There's nothing specifically set out to do.

Deliberate training is necessary, but education can be internalized into life.

Of course, the arithmetic problems have been upgraded over time; now they consist of ten addition and subtraction problems within one hundred.

Kyrie and Alice can finish the calculation in about ten minutes, and their accuracy is pretty good.

The most frequent setbacks occurred in magic instruction.

Because casting magic is directly related to the brain's cognition, many bad memories can directly become obstacles to casting spells.

For example, Alice is not good at earth magic, while Gilead is not good at water, wind, or earth magic.

Alice lived in the castle for many years, where soil was surrounded by stone flower beds.

There are also dedicated servants responsible for cleaning the courtyard.

Her aristocratic upbringing kept her away from material things like "rustic" culture.

In her environment, soil is rarely present.

Rudius even felt that for elegant nobles, there was no essential difference between dirt and excrement.

This seems to be a disease of the rich?

The little kids in the countryside don't have the luxury of living in stone castles, and their homes certainly don't have wooden floors; they just stand on the ground when they get out of bed.

There's no fundamental difference between a pig running wild in the fields and a pig in a pigsty running into a mud pit.

After Rudeus played in the mud with Alice a few times, Alice successfully unleashed earth magic.

Gilead's situation is more complicated; her experiences are far richer than Alice's.

If Alice's spellcasting disorder was caused by a lack of understanding, then Kyrie Irvine's spellcasting disorder was caused by traumatic stress.

Fortunately, Kyrie Irwin's first successful spell was water magic, which seemed to have a great motivating effect on her.

Afterwards, water magic was released, and although it wasn't successful every time, it would still occasionally drip a couple of drops, like a patient with prostatitis who couldn't urinate completely.

Anyway, the goal of not dying of thirst has been achieved.

Since that was sufficient, Rudeus shifted the emphasis of teaching wind and earth magic to the forefront.

Rudius's inquiry led to more chapters in the story of Girenau.

Swamps and deserts are extreme environments that combine wind, soil, and water.

Alice's eyes sparkled as she listened, while Rudeus thought with a deadpan expression, "You're too hard to kill."

Was it these extreme environments that caused Gilead to develop psychological trauma, making him unable to release, or perhaps more accurately, instinctively resist these elements?

If you've ever almost drowned in a swamp, you'd probably be terrified just thinking about it.

Fear can interrupt one's thinking, and thus the spellcasting will also be interrupted.

Based on this conjecture, Rudius began to teach Gilead various common sense things.

In deserts, the temperature difference between day and night is large. This temperature difference brings wind, which causes water vapor to condense in the early morning.

If you get stuck in a swamp, don't panic or move around. Instead, lie down to increase your surface area.

Rudeus incorporated these teachings into the story.

There is a small insect in the desert that turns itself upside down at dawn to collect the moisture on its body and drink it as dew.

The great adventurer, finding himself stuck in the mud, skillfully shifted his weight and used a crawling position to escape death.

You've already learned water magic. If you can use earth magic to make a stone slab and lay it flat on the swamp, you won't have to worry about sinking in.

After Rudeus demonstrated mud magic while playing with Alice, Kyrie Irvine also learned earth magic.

That was the first time Rudius had seen fear on Girenau's face.

Like a person who thinks he is drowning and is gripped by fear in shallow water, he struggles desperately until the knee-deep water actually drowns him.

At Rudius's request, Girenius stood still, letting his calves slowly sink into the mud.

Gilead, stuck in the mud, had a tense look in his eyes, his tail bristled, and fine beads of sweat on his face.

For Gilead, this was a natural science problem that could not be solved with a sword.

However, the best way to overcome fear is to transform these environments from "unknown fears" into "understandable phenomena."

Once you understand this, the obstacles to casting the spell begin to loosen.

In fact, Kyrie Irris and Rudeus often mentioned these things when Kyrie Irris was teaching them, and she also believed that "understanding" was very important for becoming stronger.

This made Gilead seem to connect with Rudius after he mentioned "understanding," and he became much more insightful, thus saving Gilead a lot of trouble.

Rudeus had assumed that wind magic would be simple.

But unexpectedly, it turned out to be the most difficult.

Logically speaking, wind, as an element, should not cause any effective damage, even to ordinary people.

It cannot form a deadly trap, nor is it powerful enough to kill someone instantly.

Although Kyrie Ion is a beastman, it doesn't really act like a cat, not knowing to hide when it rains or the wind blows.

Severe convective weather poses no threat to the Sword King; it only makes it easier for her to drink water.

Therefore, Rudius used the same comparative method he used when teaching Sylphie, explaining the flow of water and the flow of wind by comparison.

The result was that he was being taught two areas he wasn't good at at the same time, which only made Gilead even more confused.

To solve this problem, Rudius began to review the life of Gilead.

Finally, the word "abstract" was chosen.

A wild child who grows up to learn swordsmanship, knowing nothing about anything else.

So, what would she think if you told her that our lives are full of air?

She recalled, "What are you talking about? What air? Why can't I see it?"

If you can't see it, it doesn't exist.

It's like if you hold up one finger and tell her it's "1", she'll just argue that it's a finger.

You said wind is the movement of air?

She said wind is just wind, and she'd never heard of air.

This is similar to telling a modern person, "Our lives are full of elves."

However, if math can be taught, wind magic can certainly be taught as well.

It's simply about building bridges, transforming the abstract into the concrete.

Speaking of elves, although there are none in the jobless world, they certainly possess magic.

Kyrie Il also possesses the Magic Eye, which allows him to see magic.

Coincidentally, Rudeus is a master of wind magic and also proficient in projecting magic.

By infusing magic into the wind, it can take on the shape of the wind, just as ink dropped into clear water gives the water a specific form.

At this point, Gilead and Alice had learned all the basic magic.

Rudeus began teaching the two to use incantationless magic and intermediate magic, but so far there has been no progress.

According to the original information, learning spells without chanting needs to start from a young age, but Rudeus doesn't think so. Since casting spells is strongly related to the brain, and the brain is an organ that can be molded throughout life, there's no reason why one can't learn it when they grow up.

Alice is not even ten years old yet. Considering that she had to start elementary school at the age of six or seven in her previous life, she is a bit too old.

After discussing with AI, Rudius also clearly understood that starting primary school at the age of six or seven was not chosen randomly, but based on scientific evidence.

But what can we do?

It's okay if it's late; there's not much to learn anyway.

Rudius felt that a year was too long to learn arithmetic and writing.

Teaching magic is just a bit slower and more troublesome.

Speaking of trouble, this experience gave Rudius another layer of insight.

In my past life, I often heard the saying, "Even an upright official finds it hard to settle family disputes."

But now it seems, is it difficult?

Difficult—that cannot be denied.

But what if we look at it in a specific context?

When the two villagers, a married couple, got into a fight at home, the county magistrate came over, took a look, and, finding that no one had been killed, remarked with a sigh, "Even an upright official finds it hard to settle family disputes."

Then he turned and left.

How do the villagers perceive this behavior?

It's not that this task is difficult, but rather that it's "impossible to do".

This leads the villagers to believe that the problem is unsolvable, thus causing them to give up seeking help.

Upon learning the outcome, the villagers spread their hands, tears streaming down their faces, and sat down on the ground, sobbing, "Even the county magistrate can't handle it! It seems there's really no way out! Why is my life so miserable?!"

He accepted the outcome, which could not be changed.

He accepted his fate.

Of course, Rudius would have made the same choice if he were that county magistrate.

Because the big principles told him that he couldn't control this.

But after teaching Alice and Kyrie Irvine, his understanding of why he did it was completely different.

The difficulty of "household chores" lies not in the chores themselves, but in the energy they consume.

For Rudyus, simply understanding the past of Girenus and Iris is enough to diagnose the cause of the illness.

During this six-month period, he didn't seem like a teacher, but rather more like a psychologist.

So, what about the county magistrate in this situation?

At this point, the honest official's motives changed; he no longer wanted to jump into this cesspool.

These household matters are not difficult in the eyes of an "upright official." The real difficulty lies in the inability to explain them to these villagers, because they cannot understand, so it is better to ignore them.

Rudius put himself in their shoes and realized that even if he could see through all the details at a glance, he wouldn't care about the couple.

Does helping you live a happier life help me in any way?

I've spent years of my life just to bring smiles back to both of you.

Of course, as a human being, one cannot deny the value of others' happiness.

But as far as a county magistrate is concerned, as long as you don't cause any deaths, why should I care about your petty affairs and get myself into trouble?

Understanding requires an extremely high cost.

If it were really that easy to understand, would there be so many stupid things happening in the world?

I have the ability to make your lives better and more comfortable, but what obligation do I have to do so?

If you're unhappy, it's a problem with your abilities. You're an adult now. I'm neither your teacher nor your parent, so why should I waste my energy on this?

The long-standing conflict represents a complex interplay of power, responsibility, and ethics, which must be analyzed and resolved meticulously.

The "honest official" used the saying "even an honest official finds it hard to settle family disputes" to draw a line on his responsibilities, thus "deceiving" the villagers and distancing himself from the matter.

It must be said, this is a kind of wisdom.

After all, even if they could truly distinguish right from wrong and see things clearly, for the "foolish" villagers, the result would often be that one side was satisfied while the other side resented them, and it could even intensify family conflicts.

The input-output ratio is extremely poor.

But since we've mentioned "deception," what if there really is actual violence, exploitation, or violation of rights in this household?

All I can say is—it's none of my business, as long as no one died.

This is what an "honest official" is like.

This actually reflects a disconnect in the cognitive framework between the "elites" and the "masses" in traditional society, and even in certain aspects of modern society:

Elites possess the ability to analyze problems, but are unwilling to spend resources on education and guidance because it is costly and slow to yield results.

Lacking analytical tools, the public can only attribute the problem to "inherent difficulty in judgment," thus shirking their rational responsibility.

This ultimately creates a stable, negative equilibrium: the authorities do not actively intervene in the family sphere, and within the family, a cycle of repression and outburst continues.

Why would a teacher gain insights into how to conduct oneself as an official?

Rudius didn't know, and didn't really want to know.

However, now that Alice and Kyrie have both learned magic, Rudeus is prepared to continue the tradition taught to him by Loki and prepare wands for the two of them.

Six months had passed, and he had earned some salary, so he made three of the same wands that Loki had given him.