Just then, Steward Edward walked in from outside. Seeing their helpless expressions, he smiled slightly.
"Mayor Luke, Mayor Butch, are you looking for books?" Edward asked.
Seeing Edward, both felt relieved and hurried to him.
"Steward Edward, so glad to see you! Lord Kael gave us permission to study magic books, but we didn't expect so many. We have no idea where to start. Could you help us?"
Hearing this, Edward shook his head. "You give me too much credit. I only encountered magic a bit earlier than you. When I first came here to find books, I was just as lost as you are now. I gradually figured it out."
Then he led them to the desk.
"You're first encountering magic. Those profound magics that you can't master yet, and the more profound the magic, the more dangerous it is. One misstep could cause irreversible magical accidents. So I recommend starting from the most basic magic.
Books like 'The Standard Book of Spells, Grade 1,' 'Magical Theory,' 'The Dark Forces: A Guide to Self-Protection,' 'A Beginner's Guide to Transfiguration.' You can all read these.
If interested in potions, you can also read 'Magical Drafts and Potions,' 'One Thousand Magical Herbs and Fungi,' but without someone supervising, don't attempt brewing on your own. That's very dangerous."
Both nodded without objection. "We have no experience. We'll follow your guidance completely, Steward Edward."
Seeing that they listened to advice, Edward's attitude softened further. After all, if they didn't listen and wanted to learn those powerful magics immediately, such people didn't deserve to learn magic and would disappoint the lord's favor.
After studying magic for over a month, Edward truly recognized how profound magic was and how little he himself knew. He developed more reverence and caution toward magic.
He also became even more respectful of the lord's magical level.
Because their transformation from ordinary mortals into wizards possessing magic, after Edward encountered magic, he knew how difficult that was.
Moreover, all this magical knowledge they studied came from the lord.
Even that quill is continuously writing on the counter. The lord had imbued his own knowledge and memories into the quill, continuously creating new magic books, thereby making the library's collection grow.
Reining in his wandering thoughts, Edward respectfully addressed the writing quill. "Sir Quill, we need to borrow 'The Standard Book of Spells, Grade 1,' 'Magical Theory,' 'The Dark Forces: A Guide to Self-Protection,' 'A Beginner's Guide to Transfiguration.' Thank you!"
The writing quill paused, then floated to a parchment on the desk, rapidly writing these book names. It flew back to the blank book, continuing where it left off.
The next second, distant bookshelves seemed to sense something. Several magic books left the shelves, flapping like birds, flying to the desk, and automatically stacking closed.
Mayors Luke and Butch both watched this scene with wonder.
Edward didn't take the stack of books but drew his wand, coughing. Under their amazed gazes, he tapped the books with his wand, loudly reciting, "Geminio!"
A white light entered the magic books. The books instantly duplicated another copy.
The two mayors and magic rookies gasped in amazement at this scene. They looked at Edward with worship.
Edward enjoyed such gazes very much. His hard practice of this charm was worthwhile. He could finally show off now.
He unconsciously puffed his chest, casting the Doubling Charm again, making another copy of the magic books.
Then he used Levitation Charms to float the two duplicated sets before them, deliberately suppressing his rising smile.
"These books are all very precious. Many are unique copies that cannot be easily removed from the library. So you'd best learn the Doubling Charm so you can duplicate books to take back and study.
Of course, duplicated books certainly won't exist forever. With my current ability, they can only last a month at most. So you'd better quickly master the knowledge within the validity period, otherwise next time you'll need to duplicate it yourselves."
The two mayors each hugged their magic books, obediently nodding repeatedly.
Their gazes fixed eagerly on the magic books. Especially after seeing Steward Edward demonstrate magic, they wished they could open the books and study magic immediately.
But they also knew not to rush. Moreover, they were still mayors of two cities, needing to manage government affairs. They couldn't devote all their time to studying magic.
After all, the lord transformed them into wizards, giving them such great honor as a reward for managing and developing their cities.
If they abandoned their cities to only study magic, they would betray the lord's intention.
So they took the magic books and wands, bidding farewell before eagerly returning to their respective cities through fireplaces.
Steward Edward waved his wand, erasing the book names on the desk parchment, returning it to blank.
The magic books originally stacked quietly on the desk reopened, flapping as they flew back to their bookshelf positions.
Seeing this, Edward turned and left the library, closing the door.
On Kael's side, after transforming his two subordinate mayors, Luke and Butch, to gain magical abilities, Kael wasn't satisfied with just these few.
He wanted to create a wizard race in Middle-earth that belonged to him.
Like Britain's magical world, a magical civilization with its own society and culture.
To create such a wizarding society, the number of wizards couldn't be few.
Coincidentally, residents of his two cities numbered over 30,000, according to recent statistics.
Add the Dunlendings of Isengard, that was over forty thousand people.
Such numbers, if all became wizards, would be enough to recreate a magical world!
But Kael only thought about it.
To transform an ordinary person into a wizard required not only various rare potion ingredients but also a barrel of dragon blood.
In the last Battle of Isengard, Mordor and Kael's dead wyverns numbered over fifty. Collected dragon blood was in several hundred barrels. Even adding frost dragon blood, it is only nearly a thousand barrels.
Not counting other potion ingredient quantities, just the required dragon blood was only enough for nearly a thousand people to transform.
To collect more dragon blood, they would have to bleed the wyverns living in the dragon ranch.
But without depleting resources, they couldn't extract much dragon blood at once. At most, enough for fifty people to transform.
More importantly, brewing potions one by one for so many people, he simply couldn't manage alone.
Thinking this, Kael began considering how to simultaneously complete the transformation for large numbers of people at once.
He suddenly thought of cultivation novels' "dragon transformation pools."
Though fantastical, perhaps he could reference it. Also, create a magical "dragon transformation pool" that allows ordinary people to enter and emerge as transformed wizards.
This would avoid him having to complete it one by one, which would have been time-consuming and laborious.
Thinking this, Kael felt eager to try.