Chapter 46: New Spells
Alex practically cleaned the old woman out by the ti he left Celeste’s shop. As he was walking out of the town of Vrung’s Quarry yet again, Alex had a new backpack practically stuffed with items on his shoulders, and his dinsional bracelet filled as well. It was an imnsely satisfying feeling to Alex’s inner earth-gar to be loaded with items and loot.
Besides the basics of food, water and new clothing for his journey, Alex managed to haggle with Celeste enough to bring along so healing and stamina potions. He got a nice Glyphcrafting and alchemy kit from her as well, under Obby’s insistence.
He also managed to keep enough coin to buy a new spear again from Tarvin. The man was sowhat surprised to see Alex again, but was more than happy to make so coin. So a new spear as well as a new dagger joined Alex’s inventory of assets.
Alex had thought about getting another sword, but based on his experience using one against the Badger Bodyguards, he knew that he just didn’t have a knack for the weapon.
Advanced aether gathering techniques were still out of the question. While Alex couldn’t cultivate with his broken core, his allies could, and he had hoped to get ones better suited for their elents. Unfortunately, he had learned that anything that was not a basic technique was either created by soone exclusively for their own path to power, or very jealously guarded secrets within Kingdoms or sects.
Spells, on the other hand, were sothing Celeste could help with.
Alex had left with a spell scroll for everyone who was being held by the kobolds (even Kate). Once he got them all un-kidnapped, he wasn’t going to waste ti in getting them more powerful. Magic spells for everyone!
He learned more about spells in general as well, as Celeste was imnsely intrigued when Alex explained he could still cast an altered version of his [Flare] spell, prompting her to go into a deeper magic lesson.
Every spell had an elent, as Alex already knew, but also a designated rank and type. The later two designations were ones Alex saw in his spell info, but not necessarily knew what they ant. Spell ranks essentially followed the mage core ranks. Beginner spells, like his [Flare] spell, were basically Tier 1 spells. They continued on to Novice, Interdiate, Advanced, Expert, Master and maybe... Grandmaster.
Celeste also explained these were the nas that The System used, and that other species and cultures may refer to them by the mage core tiers instead. Master ranked Magic being Celestial Stage magic as an example.
The reason being that, an Advanced rank spell would require an amount of aether energy and proficiency that only Sage Tier mages or above could cast. So calling it a Sage Tier spell wasn’t entirely wrong.
The last part of a spell’s info, its type, was slightly more complicated. The basic idea was that Spells or item effects had five different effect types. Transmitter, Warder, Constructor, Augntor and Supporter.
Transmitter spells like [Flare] were the most straight forward. Attacks that create a strike or barrage to assault an enemy. From what he could tell, Alex assud basics like a Fireball or Lightning Bolt spell were transmitters.
Warder spells were the AOE spells. Creating an effect in a given area. Freezing a section of air, turning a spot of ground into sand, or even just making a defensive bubble, hence the na “Warder”.
Constructor spells made so sort of tangible result. Creating an object or energy structure to attack or defend, like a mana shield or an energy sword.
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Augnters seed to be the buff or debuff effects. Applying a status to a person or transforming a creature. Damage over ti effects also seed to fall into this category. Alex even wondered if he made a power-up spell that turned his hair golden and spiky, if it would be in the Augnter category.
Supporter effects just seed to be the healing spells, and anything else The System decided to throw in there. Alex guessed that if his [Aether Sight] had been a spell instead of an ability, it might have been designated a supporter type spell.
Of course there were so spells that broke the boundaries of these categories or fell into two or more at the sa ti. But it was already enough theory for Alex, and he didn’t press Celeste for more specifics.
Out of all this, Alex and Celeste tried an experint of sorts. The woman had handed him a spell scroll and asked him to learn the contents.
The item turned out to be like the scroll Alex had learned the [Glyphcraft] skill from. After reading it over, so system shenanigans fed him the information and the item crumbled to dust swiftly after. The pop up he got next was a welco surprise.
Spell: Wave Shield
Type: Warder
Elent: Water
Rank: Beginner
Effect: Forms a curved circular shield of aether and water one foot from your body in a direction of your choosing. Sustained energy is required to keep the shield active. Resilience and protection of the shield are determined by spell rank, your intelligence stat, and Core Rank.
“Wave Shield, to Protect and Soothe.”
A new spell in his arsenal, and a defensive one at that. It was sothing Alex was very much wanting during the fight against the Den Mother to protect his friends.
Celeste was astonished he could even learn the spell, being that it was a water spell instead of a fire spell, but it appeared that having his core broken ant he was no longer beholden to a specific elent.
When he cast the spell in Celeste’s shop, performing the single-word chant and energy pattern was easy and the energy in his body sprung from his hand to form a semi transparent azure half-do in front of him. There were no hints of water in the spell when Alex cast it, just as there was no longer fire in his [Flare] spell. He was limited to only pure aether energy it seed, and of that, only the energy he had in his body at the mont.
The [Wave Shield] spell cost very little to initially cast, but Alex could only sustain it for thirty seconds before he felt his body start to weaken from the energy expenditure. He would have to limit its use to strategic, fast bursts of shielding instead of sustained protection.
Alex was ecstatic by the discovery regardless and wanted to learn every spell he could. Celeste’s hand slapping his arm when he reached for the other scrolls was what stopped him from devouring the small pile of spells.
“Think knowing twenty spells is going to be any good for you? You barely know anything about the two you have, nor know how to use them effectively.” She scolded his greed. “I know only nine spells, and I was nearing Sage Tier. Its not the number of items you throw in your cauldron boy, its how you cook them.”
“Alright, understood.” Alex acquiesced with a pain in his heart. He still wanted those spells, even if he understood Celeste’s point.
After all the new lessons and Alex’s shopping spree, he felt like a new person. His new clothes and armor weren’t enchanted or breaking into the Adept tier at all, but were at least slightly better quality than what he had before.
As he entered the forest and made his way east further away from the village there was a spring in his step that he simply hadn’t had when he had entered the village earlier that sa day.
New Alex who dis? He chuckled to himself.
“Quite a disappointnt in most regards actually. There’s so many things to do to make —I an us stronger. Working on your aether body attunent is one. Your [Glyphcraft] is still lacking. Don’t even get started on the fact you still have experience points unspent.” Obby fractured Alex’s rose-colored vision of the present with the harsh fact that there was still so much to do.
“Fine,” Alex stabbed the hilt of his spear into the ground, the tal spike cap on the end sinking a couple inches from his heightened strength. “Let’s spend so points, do so experints, and then get a move on. You said these kobolds will keep my friends alive, but I doubt they are treating them very well at all. So I want to get to them sooner rather than later.”
“Okay, so the plan is to power up, follow all my orders, and then go kick so lizard tail. Schedule made.” Obby made his rock flash brightly and sohow created a ping noise that sounded suspiciously like a cellphone ringtone.
Alex could only roll his eyes. “Alright Obby, let’s start.”
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