Magic
Three weeks has passed since Teufel's condition was known to everyone.
Currently, Teufel was using his break from training to check out the Royal Library. There was a huge book that was titled "An Ill.u.s.trated Guide to The Monsters of the North Continent" that Teufel read a lot of.
Why read such a book? Because even after training for 3 weeks, his talentless showed even more. Since he was not strong, he decided to study to gain knowledge and wisdom to use.
Teufel looked through the book for quite a while, but eventually sighed and threw it back onto the desk. When the book made a loud noise, the librarian glared at Teufel.
Teufel slowly took out his Status Plate and rested it on his palm.
Name
Teufel Caligo
Age
17 Years Old
Gender
Male
Level
2
Class
Air Whistler (Primitive Job)
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Strength
12
Vitality
12
Resistance
12
Agility
12
Magic
12
Magic Resistance
12
Skills
Language Comprehension
Air Current Reading
Air Piercing Music
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This was the result of 3 weeks of hard training.
What a big increase!
By the way, Jacob's status plate.
Name
Jacob Heilig
Age
17 Years Old
Gender
Male
Level
10
Class
Hero
Strength
200
Vitality
200
Resistance
200
Agility
200
Magic
200
Magic Resistance
200
Skills
Aptitude All Attribute
Resist All Elements
Resist Physical
Complex Magic
Swordplay
Herculean Strength
Quick Movement
High-speed Magic Recovery
Magic Perception
Limit Break
Language Comprehension
His growth rate was 5 times that of Teufel's.
He discovered that he had an unknown class and skills in his status plate.
When, Teufel asked the priest about his class the priest laughed saying that it was a trashy job of whistling in the battlefield. He said that in the ancient times the ones with this job whistle to enrage their enemies making them be squashed in to corpses by their enemies.
MotherF#cker!!
Just as a bonus, Teufel found out that he had no magical aptitude. What happens if you have no magical aptitude?
Let's explains the concept of magic in this world.
The magic in Phaetul is process where magic from within the body is utilized with a formula and magic formation. The magic will then proceed through the magical formula in the magic formation to achieve the results. There is no way to directly manipulate magic in its base form, so you must correctly set up the magic formation you want to use.
Also the amount of magic used is directly related to how long the incantation lasts. The amount of formulas and formations in the magic formation also dictates its complexity and scale of effect. all of this is necessary to perform stronger spells.
Even to just cast a simple "Fireball", it takes a 25 cm diameter magical formation to cast it.
The basic concepts are: attribute, power, range, scope and mana usage all of this is required. There can be other things added to the formula like inductivity and sustain duration to create stronger magic.
However, there are exceptions to these concepts. These are "aptitudes".
With this, some parts of the formula can be omitted. For example, if you have an aptitude with Fire, you can skip writing the attribute section of the magic formula. This omission is done because the person can imagine it. Instead of writing it out, the person can imagine the fire when chanting the spell.
Because most human beings have some kind of aptitude, the 25 cm diameter magic formation is about average. In Teufel case, because he has no aptitude, he has to add a lot of to his formula to get the same affect.
He has to add concepts like: speed, trajectory and much more. For his case, it would take a 3 m magic circle to perform that "fireball" spell. This was totally useless in combat.
For magic, there is two ways to engrave the magic formula, into special metals or minerals that allow for reuse or disposable special paper. The former is more expensive and more powerful than the disposable version.
Since the non-paper version are bulky, you can't carry around much of them. Both of the variations have their own advantages and disadvantages. The staff that Carthis has is the permanent type.
Because of how magic worked, it was not practical in close combat, it would be impossible if the person did not have an aptitude.
For a collecting and searching class, "Scavenger" was stuck with useless skills that just collected and analysed the forms of objects. There was no artifact that helped with the collection, just gloves that had the collect magical formula drawn on it.
Well, he can search for dried wood to make fireplaces and hidden objects on the ground. Teufel had been able to do it on the ground and gradually he could up the scale. Well, it was useless in combat.
All his classmates labeled him useless after they saw his stats and his progress after 3 weeks.
Reluctantly, he started to accumulate knowledge. He did not see a bright future ahead for him, this caused him to sigh increasingly each day.
Teufel considered, while looking at the blue sky from the library window, whether he should take a trip.
Teufel had begun to be lost in wondering where he wanted to go, while he was learning things that he tried so hard to learn these past 3 weeks. He in these weeks acquired some knowledge about other races besides humans.
To Teufel's knowledge, the Demi-humans were a race that was discriminated. They lived in the Corfus Forest that spread north and south on the east side of the continent. They are discriminated against because they do not have any magical power at all.
In ancient times, this world was created by ancient magic that was performed by their God Isc. The magic used in this age is a degrade version of those ancient magic.
Therefore, it is believed that magic is a gift from God. Well, that is what the Church taught everyone.
So, for a race to not have any magical power, it is perceived by humans that they were scorned by God.
Then, how did monster come into being? The monster's are not to be gifted by God, but rather they were just a natural disaster that occurred. They were only vermin.
Teufel was disgusted inwardly by the interpretation people had on them.
The Devils worshipped a different God than the ones that the Church worshipped. This was similar to how the Demi-humans thought too.
Devil's all had a very high aptitude for magic. They were able to perform stronger magic with shorter incantations and smaller magic formations than humans.