Magical masteries II

Beyern was walking along the street, towards the inn he was staying in at the moment, he passed a catherdral, where people in white and yellow robes were giving out food to the poor.

They were priests and priestesses of the god of light and order Cercil.

If they were just any normal mom and pop shop doing some philanthopy, Beyern would sneer at them and laugh at them mentally. But not for them 'Entrepreneurial bastards!'

He couldn't help but respect the grind even if they didn't get a class like the rest of them, they got it with a ceremony, overwriting their previous one; And no, you can only overwrite a class, you can't give the priest class or whatever to an Ord.

Priests and priestesses gained achievement from following the will of their god, aligning with the god's aspects, and spreading the faith. And one of those aspects of Cercil was; 'Charity'.

They were getting achievement by merely giving out food to the poor!

Apperantly, in the holy kingdom of Vercil, everyone within the slums were completely dependant on the church's charity, and had stagnated so much that no one even tried to escape serfdom.

How they did that, Beyern didn't know, but he wished to know, just if he had to go and become a priest of Cercil. Like he could understand if they were had 'Beggar', 'Slave' and 'Serf' as their class, but apperantly there's even a really good class hidden inside those halls.

Now, how did Beyern know this? Rumors, a lot of gossip is good for your social well-being.

Though it didn't matter too much right now, he'd still look into their secrets!

-Later.

When he returned to his resting place of choice, he thought for a moment 'The next one on the chopping block is... {Aspect-attribution}.'

This one would be a good bit easier than {Arcane-manifestation}, since, remember, [Necromancy] had a bit support for this matter hidden inside.

-Oh, and that matter about the 10-star {Mana-manipulation}? He gave up after he realized it was far beyond his means.

He was a mere novice, how could he dare to try and understand the system's many mysteries? He was a proper fate-fearing child of the heavens.

But back to {Aspect-attribution}, this was actually quite simple, though also confounding for the average everyman. So simple that it became complex; 'Think hard enough about a concept, and then force it onto the mana'.

Well, the wording differed a bit between the necromancy knowledge and he book's description, but it was basically that.

It was reccomended to choose an aspect close to you, or deal a lot with an aspect you wish to use, for your own ease. And Beyern took this too heart, and used the aspect of 'Silence'.

Now, why did he try this one, instead of 'Death' like what he would need. Well, 'Silence' is supposed to go unnoticed, right? And he's in an inn, don't want to get thrown out for using death magic.

There was no deep thoughts about he was born in the silence, and that the others only adopted it. It's just better to use a less noticeable aspect while close to the rest of society.

After an hour of attempts, he stopped and went to sleep.

The next day he went out to the forest again, quickly picked up more Yri herb, and started to train with the 'Death' aspect, which went far smoother.

At some point he found himself no longer thinking of the word 'Death', but the picture of an old, decaying, skull.

And with that change, the process had smoothened quite a bit 'I seems that just thinking of the word isn't enough... Maybe...'

He took the thought of the first dead body he could see, Simmons', and then the aspect attribution process went even better than before!

Then he put in the lifeless head of the murderer of Simmons, but it went a bit less well than with Simmons' corpse. But he was smart, and thought 'Why not both'?

So he tried to think of both things at the same time -And that didn't work. So then he had the genius thoughts to make a bigger thought and put those two thoughts inside.

Then he thought of that big thought, and it worked!

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Congratulations, Beyern, due to the attribution of the death aspect apon your mana, you have gained the mastery {Aspect-attribution}.

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Beyern finally understood why one should use aspects close to one self, you had to have a lot of mental pictures to use.

'It's good that I finally got it, so {Mental grimoire}?'

{Mental grimoire}'s name was a bit unique, since it wasn't the translation of an action to a mastery name. To gain {Mental grimoire}, one must record a certain act within one's 'Mental space', specifically a spell, which will make it far easier to repeat and all that.

So if Beyern recorded the creation of a ball of mana from the 1st ring, it'd become easier to do so. Same with closing one's hand, or swinging a sword. But this is only based on the mental aspect, not the physical aspect. It allows one to lessen the mental energy and thought required to do something by litterally ingraining it into one's mind.

Though {Mental grimoire} focuses more on a more non-permanent form of this, with spells, but it does hold a close relation to non-class locked {Mental archiving}, which is about the scarring of one's mental space to make things easier like previously described, on a permanent basis. Though it also includes memories, making it practically impossible to forget them.

So; Beyern was going to pick it up at a later date, just so that it becomes practically impossible to change his current personality, and also a few things to make it practically impossible to be mind controlled.

Now, why do most people not pick up {Mental archiving}? Because it is the scarring of one's mind, the changing of one's personality is not always a negative thing, and the things that he could think up to be resistent to mind control are... Something most people would consider... Last ditch.

But that was also a long ways away, things that could actually do stuff like that were high-ranked, or at least mid-ranked.

He was eying 0-rank {Mental grimoire} right now, and to make it an easier process, he had to get a system recognized spell, aka an official spell.

The only official spell he knew of, from the panphlet of course, was 'Magic missile'. A classic!

-Apperantly.

Pretty obvious why, it was super simple. Just a manifested ball of mana 10 cm in diameter, stretched a bit, and then fired out. Very simple, right?

Well, yea, it is. But sadly, the amount of mana required for a 10 cm diameter sphere was a lot more than a 2 cm one. It took a very long time to build that much mana up, and looking at the sky, it was pretty obvious it took a few hours to do so.

Then he stretched the ball with his 10-star {Mana-manipulation}, and shot it out, the front (The side with the least surface area in this case) of the ball towards a tree after having manifested it.

Leaving a good wound on the tree's bark.

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Congratulations, Beyern, you have been recognized to have learnt the spell 'Magic missile'.

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Mission; complete!

'I really need to open up the circuit, I can't even take out mana faster than I'm regenerating.' He had stolen this from another magic book he had gone through, one of the smaller ones, he didn't have the time to research the... 'Principles of magical farming'?

The quality of books in that library was subpar at best, really... Beyern wanted to learn about cool death magic that caused one's body to decay into a corpse of bone.

He wasn't a farmer, he was a necromancer!- Though a few of his undead servants might find themselves working the soil later on, afterall, the world works in mysterious ways.

But now, back to {Magical grimoire}, now that he had an official spell to record in the mental space, it was time to go all out, in his room at the inn.

Having quickly taken his 3 bronze for the day and walking back from the mages' guild which he had used as a liason between him and the the person paying him 4 bronze a day- Yes, the guild was taking 25% of his money.

Don't question it, it'll be explained at a later date.

Now, sitting on his bed once more, he looked at his mind scape with his spirit, this time not siphoning mental energy from it, but entering it.

He imagined himself as a scribe, blessing the mortal realms with knowledge in the mysterious mental space infront of him. With his eraseable ink pen, he wrote into very earth of this place, the path to create a mana bolt.

Having finished his great deed, the ruler of his mental space, also an extension of him, sactioned it's creation and continued existence with great fanfare, able to see the greatness it would bring to the whole of his imagined empire.

The legendary scribe retreated from world, cutting all secular ties-

'-What the hell? Why was I a scribe?! Why was I the emperor of a nation! I'm so confused-' He thought, ignoring the screen awarding him his skill '-Oh, being in my mind scape does that, probably, maybe, I hope so.'

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Congratulations, Beyern, due to the recording of 'Magic missle' within your mental space, you have gained the mastery {Mental grimoire}.

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Beyern nodded proudly at himself, being able to it on his first try was reasonable if it were him, with his star skipping ways.

He looked at his bed, and then thought for a moment.

'I'm going into the mind scape again.' He jumped into the mental space, becoming a great hero, fighting with an evil demon who had forced him into a contract, with the price being his soul, the only way to stop the dreaded fate, to fight and kill the foul being!

After that was done, he went to bed.