Bringing Culture to a Different World - Chapter 148
Chapter 148: Chapter 148 – Diary
“This really is… magic from the order system?”
Gallolei accepted Joshua’s offer, believed in the God of Order and accepted what he passed to her. As she had spent all her life on the performance stage, her knowledge of magic was limited to only the magic that elves would frequently use — plant summon, stealth and whatnot.
But, the magic system window that appeared before her eyes had completely surpassed her understanding of magic!
“This is actually compiled using order magic. As for its detailed composition, I think Miss Gallolei would have to spend quite some time in order to understand it.”
Joshua walked to the back of the sofa. He was able to clearly see the window before the Flower of Farucci from this position.
The Blackwood Elf bodyguard was on full alert toward Joshua. Joshua’s unprompted approach caused her to stand up to face him.
“Flay.”
Gallolei quietly called her name. Flay pursed her lips in unwillingness. But, in the end, she disappeared into the shadows.
“Mister Joshua… can you tell me the use of this magic?”
Gallolei was filled with curiosity toward things that are completely new. Joshua has always brought her pleasant surprises, whether it be the movie or the song he wrote for the frost elf.
After the movie premiere finished, Gallolei had stood behind the stage and quietly listened to Tylene’s singing performance all the way till the end. After listening to her performance, she felt like abandoning her profession as an actress and proceeding to save the world or slay a dragon with her friends.
Unfortunately, her physique was very lacking. The most she could do was jump on the movie set.
“This magic possesses many uses. It is able to allow you to share your happiness with the people of the world.”
Joshua pointed to the Mage Forum at the window before Gallolei.
“Share my happiness?”
Gallolei followed Joshua’s hand and tapped the Mage Forum. Soon, the forum interface appeared before her.
But, she did not feel any sense of joy from it at all.
“A laughing spell? Or perhaps a soul-splitting spell? Eh… Young Miss, all the spells I could think of are nothing good,” The Blackwood Elf was quietly whispering to Gallolei.
If one was to share one’s joy with others in a literal manner, the only thing that could possibly achieve that would be a soul-splitting spell, a nefarious and vicious magic.
Unfortunately, a soul-splitting spell was too dangerous and beyond the capability of the magics from the order system.
The Black Swan looked to Joshua with a confused expression. She seemed to be asking him what she should do next.
“Before that, you’d need to create an account first.”
Joshua pointed to the register icon located on the forum’s upper right corner. Gallolei tapped it. Soon, the forum’s registration page appeared before Gallolei.
As it was still a testing prototype, Joshua has yet to formulate an end user license agreement. Following Joshua’s instructions, Gallolei filled out her username and password. But, when it was the turn to fill out her user nickname, she hesitated.
In the end, she decided to use ‘Black Swan’ as her name in this new world.
“On the upper left corner is a ‘camp.’ Tap that.”
The ‘camp’ indicated by Joshua was actually the forum user’s ‘personal space.’ Joshua has not given personal spaces to all users yet.
The only person with the privilege of having a personal space was the Black Swan who had just signed up. Joshua was planning to transform that function into a microblog like Twitter or Weibo.
Following Joshua’s instructions, Gallolei entered her ‘camp.’ Her ‘camp’ was completely empty. Apart from a blank default portrait on the upper-most region, there was a ‘write’ symbol below it. Furthermore, there was a quill pen next to it.
Gallolei directly tapped on the ‘write’ symbol. Soon, a blank square pop up appeared. Then, a virtual keyboard appeared before Gallolei.
“Use that to tap a sentence as a commemorative,” said Joshua.
Gallolei thought she would be able to pick up that quill pen. Unfortunately, Joshua has yet to implement hand-writing as an input. Because of that, Gallolei was only able to use the virtual keyboard.
“What should I… write about?”
Gallolei’s fingers touched the keyboard. But, after she entered the first letter, she started hesitating.
“Anything’s fine. You can write all that you saw today or all that you’re thinking about today.”
Gallolei began to ponder slightly after hearing Joshua’s words. Then, she tapped at the virtual keyboard with her finger.
Gallolei’s input speed was extremely slow and even clumsy. After all, it was this girl’s first interaction with an earth’s keyboard. The letter arrangement on the keyboard was simply a complete chaos to her.
Gallolei spent seven minutes typing the characters she knew on the keyboard. After she finished typing a sentence, she pressed on ‘sent.’
“Mister Joshua, the use of this magic is a diary? But, if it’s a diary… I am more fond of using paper and pen.”
Gallolei took a glance at the sentence she wrote. All of this made her recall a diary.
This Black Swan lady had a hobby of writing diaries. Compared to writing on a paper, the input method for computers was simply too excessive.
“Strictly speaking, it serves the same function as a diary. But, there are still small differences,
Joshua moved his finger in midair before looking back to the system interface before Gallolei again.
The next moment, Gallolei noticed a thumb’s up symbol appeared on the sentence she wrote. There was also a number 1 beside that thumb’s up symbol.
Some of the hand languages in this world were identical to earth. Take for example the thumb’s up, it also meant good.
But, what made Gallolei realize even more that writing a diary on the magic network was different from a book was… there was a comment that appeared below her diary entry.
‘You’d understand with this, no? Miss Gallolei.’
That was the content of the comment. The nickname of the person who commented was ‘Firebringer.’
Gallolei turned to Joshua with a look of disbelief, “Mister Joshua, you’re able to see what I wrote on there? Further… furthermore, you’re able to reply to me?”
“It would be more accurate to say that I’ve ‘commented.’ If the diary is akin to you practicing on your own, then the content of what you wrote will be akin to stepping onto the stage before audiences. Everyone’s opinions will be left behind on the comments.”
Joshua used a relatively appropriate method to explain things to Gallolei. After saying that, another comment appeared below Gallolei’s entry.
‘It’s not only limited to words, you can also include pictures and all.’
The username of the person who wrote that was ‘Ciri.’ When she saw that name, Gallolei immediately turned to look at the mage lady. Ciri waved her hand at the sitting Gallolei.
Ciri did not hide her real name in the Mage Forum. But, she attached a portrait of a dwarf to her comment. It was a very… comical looking dwarf.
It was something Ciri just drew at passing. Joshua inputted all her random drawings into the forum, making them the visual memes and emoticons collection.
When Gallolei saw the picture of that dwarf, she couldn’t help but cover her mouth and laugh. Through this, she once again realized how interesting the world revealed to her was.
