241 Third Concept

Cerlius watched as the other students struggled to record everything but his own quill didn't move. The lecture's every word was on Cerlius's paper before Lance even spoke. The ink was already dry. 'I wonder…' Cerlius thought, his hand moving over the ink well at the top right of his desk. 'Rippling isn't unique to water. It happens with most liquids. Could ink be considered an element?' He raised his hand but Lance reluctantly shook his head.

The designs on the billboard shifted, restoring the magic circle, now with a strange characteristic on the exterior. "For the third spell," Lance spoke a little faster, wanting to reach the end of the lecture. "I added a characteristic along the exterior of the magic circle. This is allows us mages to modify the property and change the output. This is not without cost as, depending on the type of characteristic, more mana is expended and the spell requires more focus."