[A Flicker of Hope!]
It was the skill that I got after killing the boss of the [Dungeon of Naphalm]. I could say I was lucky too with this one. Though it was mostly a choice based reward, where I had to choose between this skill, an overpowered item and another weapon which would have been bound to me.
'I wonder what it will do,' I thought as I had never heard of this skill before. It seemed like the person who cleared the [Dungeon of Naphalm] chose the other rewards instead of this one.
The surrounding area turned dark as letters of blue light appeared in front of me.
'[You need to ascend your Mana Base to at least level 7!]
[You need to ascend your Mana Control to at least Level 5!]
[You need to ascend your Mana Concentration to at least Level 2!]
[You need to find a way to unlock your Mana Mastery!]
[You need to learn the [Skill: Reversion] and advance it to Level 2!]
[You need to find that one probability to escape!]
[You need to understand the Advanced Concepts of Dark Magic!]
[You need to understand the Advanced Concepts of Light Magic!]'
A set of windows appeared in front of me, making me a bit surprised to look at them. Honestly, when it said 'flicker' I thought it would be really hard to get, but to think it would be something like this. Under normal conditions without the ability to return in time, it's really impossible, isn't it?
"Well, it seems like we're doing it the hard way," I mumbled before opening the System again.
[Loading Save Point!]
[Loading Complete!]
I woke up again, and this time I went down to the shop area. Looking at the number of things there, I went to the books section. There were a lot of books to choose from, so I decided to go on 'Beginner's Guide to Magic.' Instead of buying it I rented it for 24 hours while I was in the guild.
Taking it back to the room, I set a timer of 6:50 AM and began reading it from the starting page. Perhaps, I had done the Basics of Magic quite thoroughly. It became easier for me to skim through this one.
[Your understanding of magic has increased!]
[Mana Base unlocked!]
[Your understanding of magic has increased!]
[Mana Base increased by 0.1]
[Mana Control +1]
-Ring! Ring! Ring!
2 hours passed pretty quickly as I was engrossed in my studying. Looking at the page number and giving a quick look at what I just read, I then went to the [System] again.
[Loading Complete!]
I once again rented the book before starting to study it properly.
Time passed as I once again reloaded and then again and again. The book was only a beginner's book, but it had a lot of fundamentals, enough to make the book 300 pages thick. And that was only the first of the 4 volumes.
I kept reloading as I went into learning mode, trying to understand everything one by one, doing it over and over, until I was finally able to grasp all the concepts of 'Beginner's Guide to Magic.' Once I was done with that, I brought the first volume again, and started from the beginning. It is a general concept that you can never master a book in one try, so I needed to give multiple tries.
Time passed as I read that book once… twice… thrice… ten times… 20 times… 50 times… 80 times… and finally when I touched 100 and I was sure that I could literally copy down the book on my own, I decided that it was time to move to the Intermediate Magic Application books.
From here onwards, the books were divided into different elements, depending upon the person, but they didn't teach about how to use spells, but rather how spells can be formed from a basic string.
In a way, the intermediate books made sure that you understand the basic principles behind a spell of a particular element. But since I was someone with all affinity… I decided to take it one step ahead and learn all the books present in the shop.
Though intermediate books were harder to complete than basic. Not only because the theory part got complex, but also because there were a lot of practical applications involved.
For example, when it came to air, it was based on moving the wind from one part to another, and when it came to lightning magic, it was to light a bunch of papers at the given spot without lighting the others. For healing, it gave a blood spot, where you had to make sure that blood fills the entire circle, but nothing more than that.
Honestly, it was a pain in the ass to finish each and everything, but after a long, long time… and I mean a copiously long time, I was able to finish that as well.
[You have unlocked the mana path to Wind!]
[You have unlocked the mana path to Water!]
[You have unlocked the mana path to Fire!]
[You have unlocked the mana path to Earth!]
[You have unlocked the mana path to Life]
Other than [Light] these were the only books available, so I couldn't unlock the other paths. But honestly, the fact that I could unlock them without being able to use skill stat points… Makes me smile like crazy.
"Now that we are done with that… let's move to Advance Magic!
'Though in the nation of Light, only Light Advanced Magic is available for learning. And anything beyond Advanced Magic is classified as well… seems like I will be hitting a wall after this," I sighed on the inside before moving down to the shop once again.
The shopkeeper gave me a sideward glance before he passed the book to me. It cost me 3 gold just to rent it for 3 hours, but since I was going to repeat it anyway, I decided to go with it.
Unlike Intermediate Magic, Advanced Magic actually had spells that one can use for combat and healing alike. In total, there were 15 magic there, but the concept was a bit hard to put your head around.
'Did they think that without a magic teacher, one won't be able to learn Advanced Magic? Is that why they put so many complicated theories in a single spell,' I thought as an exciting smile formed on my face.
'All I need to do is to break the language and simplify it and then make it mine… ' I thought before beginning to read this book as well.