CHAPTER 14 – Grinding my ML like crazy (Part 2)

"Exevo Flam Hur"-I incanted and from the tip of my wand, a wave of flames started to appear, but this time, instead of just one single wave, the wand kept spurting out flames, while I pointed towards the different targets that stood in front of me, letting the flames spread in front of me, swallowing every target until I had to stop.

"Huff… Huff… Huff… Huff…"-I panted while dropping my arm down. "Well… I guess that's my limit for the moments… *sigh…*"

For the last two hours I've been testing different ways to use my spells, and I made a few important discoveries.

First of all, was the possibility of keep using the spells. While the strikes couldn't be kept and had to be incanted again and again to use them multiple times, the flame wave spell could be kept indeed.

Though there were some problems to it, first was the fact that it needed too much focus to do it, and that wasn't even the greatest problem, that place was left to the stress it put over my magic core.

For the moments, I could only keep the spell up to 5 seconds before getting tired, but not like physically tired, it was more like a mental type of tiredness as if all my magic was getting out of my body. Though it wasn't as if I used up all my magic, it was only as if I needed time to rest before use the spell again.

Using game terms, the spell had a casting time, a limit to how much time I could use it continuously. And once I use it, I need a slight rest to use the same spell again. Though, this resting time increased the more time I kept the spell activated, so, in the end, it was a matter of choice, of whether it was better to keep the spell to increase the damage, or make a quick hit before changing the spell in use.

By the way, I tried to do the same with the energy beam spell, but the time I could keep it was even less, at much, it was up for 3 seconds, and I got tired even more than when I used the fire wave spell.

Thinking about it, I guess it has something to do with my magic stage, more likely with my magic core. While my ML might influence this ability to keep up the spell, I have this feeling that the more my magic stage goes up, the more my magic core evolves, the more time I'll be able to keep these spells, and may be able to even do more things.

"*sigh…* For the moments, I think it's okay to stop with the instant spells… Now… Let's test what I've been postponing for so long."-I said while opening the system store.

Thankfully, I didn't have to go through the system interface to do that, as only thinking of the specific function would let me go to it, saving some time. Not that it matters, actually, but it's good to have instant access to things.

[Store! / 505pts

Spell Books

Wands/Rods

Runes

Vocations

General Items

Equipment (Sealed)

Spells (Sealed)]

"*sigh…* I have the points to buy my wand… But… I already have one, and the amounts of points I've been gaining lately are increasing with time, and just with a little bit of testing and practicing… So… For the moments, I don't think that buying a wand is important."

With that said, I went directly towards the runes.

[Runes / 505pts

- Blank Rune (10pts)

- ???]

"Mm? I did saw this page before, but now… What are those interrogation signs? I'll be able to directly buy runes from the store? That would just be a waste of points… Unless there're runes that I'm not able to make or things prepared for other vocations… Interesting… Well, let's do what I came to do."

With that said, I continued to buy 20 blank runes.

{Go big or go home…}-I thought while stopping the tears trying to fall from my eyes at the sudden disappearance of 200pts. {It's okay… From now on I'll win a lot of points each day!}

After making the buy, I grow a little bit curious, so I went quickly towards the vocation store.

[Vocations / 305pts

- Druid (1000pts)

- Arcanist (1000pts)

- Summoner (1000pts)

- Tactician (1000pts)

- ???]

"…"-I just looked at the window. "Well, it was good that I didn't see this thing the first time I opened the store… If I did… I would cry blood at the measly number of points I could gather in 10 years…"-I said, sweeping my eyes to clean the tears falling from my eyes thanks to the measly number of points I gathered in 10 years.

After that, I just opened the inventory, trying to focus on more productive things, and took out the runes, that appeared right in front of my eyes.

"Mm? These are smaller than I thought they would be… Well, it's hard to compare with a game like Tibia's graphics…"

What was in front of me, were 20 small and flat stones, each with a slightly irregular figure that wasn't either a square nor a circle.

I could grab each of these rocks with one hand, as they weren't bigger than my palm, I could actually grab two at a time.

{With the picture they had in the game, I thought they would be at least of the size of a tablet… Oh well, this works better for me.}-I thought, before looking at the wolf that suddenly came to smell the little mound of rocks that was on the floor.

"Relax buddy, they're blank runes, special stones that would let me create magical runes that will add new powers to my arsenal. Want to see?"-I ask the wolf.

*Wof, wof*-It barked at me as if approving the idea.

"You know, I've been thinking this from the start… But for you to be such a big wolf, you sure sound more like a dog to me… Albeit, a slightly big one…"-I said while rubbing its head. To which it only tilted its head.

"Well, let's think… Mm… With which rune should I start…"-I look at the blank rune in my hand. "Well, let's go with the destroy field rune."-I then stood up and held a blank rune in my hand.

"Adito Grav"-I incant the rune spell, and the blank rune in my hand started to absorb the magic power from my core, slightly changing its color, going from a light grey, to a darker shade of grey, and right in the center of it, a symbol was being carved by what seemed to be magic power of a whitish-grey color.

After a few seconds, the symbol was completely carved in the rune, it had two wavy lines, one beside the other in the center of the now darker-grey colored stone. Turning the flat stone, on the back of it I could see three horizontally joined lines, that seemed to resemble the roman number three.

[Congratulations! You've completed a hidden quest! You've created your first rune after years of not even looking at the runes page of the store! Now the path is open to increasing your power even more!]

[25pts have been earned]

"That's a nice surprise. Now I'll just have to earn 175pts more to restore the 200pts I wasted on the blank runes."

*Wof, wof*-The wolf suddenly barked at me.

"Fine, fine, I'll start now…"-I then looked at some of the targets on my left and pointed my wand to send a fire wave spell, which created a path of flames where it hit, that would surely be recognized as a fire field.

"Now… How the heck do I use this?"-I said while looking at the rune. "Well, let's try to send some magic power to it first."-Focusing on the rune, I sent magic power to it, and once I did, it started to shine in a grayish light. Still, nothing happened.

"So?"-I looked at the shining rune on my hands, but nothing was happening. "Mm… In the game you normally add hotkeys to this thing, or use the mouse to use the rune and then just point towards the target you want it to be used… Well, until now, will mostly do the trick, so I guess it's just about focusing my will on the target instead of using a mouse."

I tightened my grip on the rune and looked at the fire field in front of me. It was at that time, that a grey light went out of the rune and impacted the starting point of the field, turning into a somewhat grey wave of light that ran through the field and extinguished the flames.

[Congratulations! You've completed a hidden quest! You've successfully used your first rune! And with a great combination of countering spells!]

[15pts have been earned]

"Well… This is a good surprise!"

After the rune was used, the light on the rune disappeared, but the rune was still there.

"Oh, right! Some runes had multiple uses. Mm? Of course!"-I then turned the rune and looked behind, and just as I imagine it, the roman number three transformed into a roman number two. "So, this number here was the number of uses the rune had… Well, certainly, while the amount of magic power needed to conjure them depends on the rune, the amount needed to activate them is almost unnoticeable, just a slight touch of magic power can activate them… The rest is up to will."

With one rune tested, I left it inside my inventory and then got to the next blank rune.

"Now, what I'll do with you?"-I said while looking at the blank rune on my hand until a new idea got into my head. "Right. Let's do one field rune of each."

With that said, I grabbed two more blank runes, two in one hand and one in the other.

"Let's start with you. Adevo Grav Pox."-I incanted the spell, and the rune on my right hand started to suck my magic power, turning its color into a green that would remind you of a swamp, with the same two wavy lines that the other rune had. Once the symbol was carved, the rune was ready. Behind it, the same roman number three appeared.

"Well, that's one."-I said while dropping it on the floor, and taking another rune from my left hand to my right hand. "Adevo Grav Flam"-Once again the magic power got sucked out of my body, turning the blank rune of a light-grey color into a flaming red color, with the same two wavy lines and the roman number three behind.

After dropping the rune on the floor next to the other one, I grabbed the remaining rune in my hands.

"Adevo Grav Vis"-I incanted, and once again, the magic power was sucked from inside my body into the blank rune, slowly turning it into a purple color, and engraving the same two wavy lines on the front of the rune and the same roman number three on the back.

"Huff… Huff… Huff…"-Once the rune was over, I had to sit down for a little while, as I was completely tired. "It… Seems… That making runes constantly… It's hard… It must have something to do with the spirit points… *sigh…*"

Originally, in the game, you have to invest something called spirit points, which limited the number of runes you could make in a day, so, all in all, I think that in this universe, it mostly translates to 'stop trying to make a lot of runes continuously unless you have enough power to sustain it.'

[Congratulations! Your Magic Level increased by 1!]

"Well… I got a nice reward then… *sigh…* I should probably rest…"-I said before standing up.

After that I collected the runes and the blank runes, putting them inside my inventory, and stretching a little bit. Looking at the hour, it was almost time for lunch.

"Well, I should probably get going. Take a lunch, save some stuff to bring here, and then keep training…"-I said before turning to look at the wolf.

"Mm… What should I do with you?"

"Wof?"-It tilted its head.

"Sorry man… But as much as I would like to keep you… There's just no way to have such a big wolf walking with me around the castle… Well… Not for the moments, at least… So… Is there a spell to cancel this?"

Thinking about it, there's just no spell to dispel the summoning one. But there sure is one to cancel the magic shield one.

"Mm… What if…"-I closed my eyes and focused all my will into the image of the wolf disappearing, in the same way, I could cancel the magic shield. I tried to focus as much as I could on that image, before opening my mouth.

"Exani Res Wolf"-I said with the image in my mind as clear as possible. Thankfully, training my occlumency helped improve my ability to imagine things inside my mind.

*swish*

I opened my eyes to a slight sound, and just as I did, particles of magic light were now dispersing in the air where the wolf once was.

"I did it!!!!"-I shouted, and at the same moment my Magic Spell Book appeared in front of me, with a page in the middle of it shining brilliantly, it then opened in the first blank page, next to the added spell of Wingardium Leviosa, which was the page that was shining.

[Congratulations! You have created your own original spell, albeit a simple one. It is your first creation and will surely put the foundations to create even more complex and powerful ones!]

[40pts have been earned]

"Wow… I knew it! Hail the RoR!!!!"-I shouted once again. Since coming to Hogwarts, not only did I increase my ML by two in a single day, but I also created a new spell. I'm not expecting this trend to keep going up, as each passing level my ML gets harder to increase, but still, I'll surely be able to prepare for my third year, when Harry gets here and all sort of stuff starts happening.

"Until then… If I'm not as strong as Dumbledore, I'll surely be at least the most powerful wizard after him and Tom… And that's just the beginning… With so many things happening from that year onwards… I'll surely be able to grow stronger."

After that, I cleaned up everything, meaning just putting my Magic Spell Book inside my inventory to go towards the Great Hall for lunch.