Reborn As A Ghost: Time To Build My Undead Army! Chapter 399 Magic Classes

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“I hate to admit it, Maria, but magic is not your thing.” Eraldine said reluctantly. “Sohow, despite being able to conjure “magic” with your Unique Skill, if you try any traditional approach you just… you simply can’t.”

“Eh?!”

I was currently inside a large room within the Demon King’s Castle. Yesterday Eraldine had said she would include in the Magic Conjuration Classes. There were several people with talent for that, so adults, and so children. Even my twins were here learning magic!

However, things ended turning badly as I tried using the conjurations, which were a complicated ss to use! You have to sohow combine runes you create through words and then gather them inside a magic circle… and then infuse mana again to create magic! Seriously?! How can I do that in just a few seconds like Eraldine does?

She gets help from the Spirits, of course! S-So that’s why I am failing there!

…Or I am just relying on my Unique Skills so much that my actual talent for magic is just atrophied.

That’s also a possibility.

“I-I’ve already made you try the lowest possible Darkness Attribute Spell, Black Dot, and you still can’t bring it traditionally… I would say your Magic is sothing akin to what I would call “Imagination Magic” which is still fairly limited. You can intuitively learn and use magic spells of your attributes.” Said Eraldine. “But traditional spell casting, with its intricacies and more, seems hopeless for you.”

“Ugh… You’re so ruthless with …” I sighed, feeling down. I wanted to use traditional magic because I had heard that if I combine it with Skills, even stronger magic can co out. However, it appears I am terribly untalented at it.

“Auntie, look!” Takeshi called , as he suddenly generated a basic magic circle, and then another, and another. His limit was three, and they all shone bright blue. In re seconds, three spears made of water erged. “I learned Spiraling Water Spear!”

“G-Good job, Takeshi! I am so proud of you…!” I said while containing my disappointnt on myself for being outperford by a child. Takeshi seed to be naturally gifted with good mory and magic comprehension, so he was able to bring out magic easily.

“And this too!”

Suddenly, he conjured Darkness Magic, several small spheres of darkness nad Black Dot, which can be sued as small bullets. They all floated around his other hand. Wow, this child was a genius magician! And he still got that magical fishing rod thingy too…

“I seem to also have Darkness Attribute affinity!” Laura quickly spoke after Takeshi, as if she wanted my attention or that of Eraldine. She went one step ahead, generating arrows made of darkness and then conjuring floating Fireballs. “And Fire!”

“That’s amazing… Well done, Laura!” I said with a forced smile.

Wow, must be nice to have colorful elents such as Water and Fire! I only got dark, dark, and more dark- Well, actually, I have Darkness, Death, Poison, and Illusion.

But even trying my best affinity, Darkness, was futile. So trying the other elents through a traditional way would be probably quite hopeless. I just suck at this.

“Children, it seem all of you are quite good at this!” Eraldine said, quickly trying to ignore my gloomy face as she praised everybody else. Everyone except managed to bring out their magic potential and got new Skills out of it. I even saw so with Life and Light Magic, we had more variety than we thought.

“Yaaaay!”

Everyone seed happy about their lessons and continued practicing magic. Eraldine was quite versed for soone that can only use Light and Nature elents. It seems she had learned a lot back in her village, and with the many books I had stolen before, we had a lot of source for the creation of magic circles of various elents.

When Classes ended, Eraldine sat down at my side and began caressing my head as if I was a lost puppy or sothing. I might be slightly sad again but not for her to just pity !

“It’s alright, we can keep trying tomorrow.” Eraldine said with a gentle smile.

“Ugh… Okay.” I sighed.

Honestly I didn’t wanted to continue trying. It was getting stressful… But I can’t say no to that smile.

“I believe your talent at using traditional magic has simply been… slightly atrophied.” Said Eraldine. “I am sure that you’ll eventually awaken it. In that mont, when you rge your Magic Skills with Traditional Magic Circles, you will be able to unleash even stronger magic, and also make it more complicated, surpassing what you can actually imagine within the limits of your powers.”

Eraldine seed very decided to teach magic, I wasn’t going to be able to escape from her grasp, no matter how hard I would try.

“Okay, teacher, I’ll do my best. Are there any books with Death, Poison, and Illusion Magic spells?” I wondered. “My imagination regarding them is limited to be honest. I need a bit more of examples to increase what I can bring with them.”

“Ah yes! Are you going to study? Then these, this one as well! And this!” Eraldine threw a pile of five books over my desk. “These should be good!”

“A-Ah… I guess I will, thank you.” I sighed, grabbing them, and storing them inside my Inventory.

I suppose delving in the true origins of magic, how people discovered it alongiside their Soul Books, and everything else, will be rather important for to figure out ways to make my magic even stronger than rely leveling up. We’ll be going to the Dwarf territory in about a month from now, so I’ll use this opportunity to grow stronger as much as I can.

Monsters around here are rare though, and if we find them, they give pitiful amounts of EXP as well. Slaying my Dungeon Monsters also give pitiful amounts of EXP, so there’s no other way for than to sit and wait for a challenge to co my way one day. I believe the Dwarves might have so dungeons there.

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