Chapter 39 – Learning magic / new body.
"Huh…. So, this is your new body, eh buddy?"
"So, is it working properly?"
Ariava stared at the dungeon master as it started inspecting its new body.
At first the appearance of the dungeon master looked similar to its long limbed form… However, it limbs weren't just plainly shaped. They were very well made and they were no longer fully wooden.
Joints were metallic while area around its chest, waist, feet, arms and head looked reinforced.
Not only that, but unlike before where it normally it kept somewhat humanoid appearance, this time was different as the dungeon master had an extra pair of arms that were fully operational.
"So, you want with four limbs, eh? Let me guess, for crafting and combat?"
"YES" – puppet replied by taking out piece of paper with reply written on it.
(Having extra set of limbs should make job easier… But I think I will need some time to somewhat get used to them.) – thought Thauma as he started moving around his body.
"…"
"Welp, I guess everything is working fine…. But after the last checkups, I'm already saying this."
"We will be practicing magic."
[Few moments later.]
"From what I know, you do now how to precisely use mana, but at basic level since you lacked enough mana to conduct any real practices when it came down to mana."
"And learning both mana handling and magic will be necessary if you want to advance your golem research."
"So, let us see what you have."
"From what I know you have acquired two different affinity magics."
"The element of mana magic, the arcane magic."
"And element of earth, the earth magic."
"Arcane magic is one of most common and easiest to use types of magic, while earth magic is focuses on controlling earth, for example creating an fist made out rocks and also straightening it, causing the first to gain so much power that it would be able to destroy metallic shield."
"When it comes to affinities…. It depends on the people."
"Some prefer an mastery over one or two elements, making them extremely strong in that area OR focus on learning multiple affinities in order to be more versatile."
"But for now we should only focus on your two affinities you have obtained."
"Now, besides affinities there are multiple different ways of using magic." – said Ariava as she took out different pieces of papers.
"When it comes down to magic, you need to learn the "form" of your magic."
"For example, this."
"[Ignite]." – above Ariava finger an small flame manifested.
"[Flame Magic: Ignite], is a magic that has simple goal, make a small fire."
"This is something called "Deistaiontion" magic, an magic with simplest form and function."
"Next is this."
"{Burn in my palm and show me the light: [Fire Lanter]}." – Ariava opened her palm, manifesting an sphere of bright fire.
"This is called "Chanting" type of magic."
"Changing is an form of support where you either use it to manifest some magic much more easier or strengthen it."
"Some spells requires chant to be activated."
"Chanting isn't really necessary and honestly, that chant I just did was completely useless."
"However, some people that don't have yet strong connection with fire element, their control is lacking or they are having some other problems, they would use chants to help them stabilize the their spells."
"You don't really need to say chat out loud, you can whisper it or say it in your head."
"However, you do it ONLY when you need it. The base chanting is only meant to help when it comes down to casting IF you are having problems."
"In short, chanting could be consider… Pretty much useless."
"But! There are huge expectation for this."
"Some magic require special form of chanting or form of symbolisms that is necessary to activate specific form of magic."
"Now, there is a magic circle."
"Magic circle is this thing." – said Ariava as she snapped her finger and magical circle appeared.
"Magic circle is somewhat to the core coding, simple put its commands or to be more specific a gate way."
"This gateway is something you control and use to manifest magic through it."
"Complicated and powerful spells will require use of magic circle."
"Magic circle can also be used to modify or change spells."
"When it comes to "destination" and "magic circle", the difference is clear, but is also sometimes unnecessary."
"Sometimes people are so good at one specific form of magic that they can easily recrate some not extremely complicated magics without help of magic circle."
"However, this can be used with spells that are not that complicated, simple put there is a limit."
"AND there is interesting thing."
"You can do it in reverse."
"Turning non magic circle spells into magic circle spells."
"For example, look at this."
"[Fire Bolt]."
Ariava aimed with her hand and fired off an bolt of fire from her palm that hit the training dummy.
"I didn't used magic circle, right?"
"Then how about this?"
"[Fire Bolt Barrage]!"
Ariava manifested an giant magic circle in front of her before then using it to fire off a barrage of fire bolt all at once at the dummy, bombarding it.
"I've use magic circle version in order to upgrade the very simple spell."
"However, I can use this spell without using magic circle…. Now, are there any downsides of using magic circle? Sure, there are."
"Magic circle are manifested using your own energy A.K.A mana."
"The more powerful the circle and more complicated it is, the more mana it would use."
"And there is also one more important thing."
"As I had said before with chanting, that some spells requires chanting no matter what, there are also spells that cannot operate at all without magic circle."
"Or some spells may end up taking an huge hit in their performance."
"There are also some people that use magic circle for the very basic beginner level spells when since they could have some problems w
"…"
"Honestly, there is still… Well, there is extremely LOT of things we need to talk about and disuses about magic, since magic isn't really something you can just pick up and master in few days or something, it is physically impossible."
"Like the swordsman that needs to learn the way of handling the sword, so does the mage needs to learn the ways of handling magic."
"The things I've just said are pretty much the very minimal amount of informations you will need for now on the start, but later on I will have you to give you some other lessons."
"I will also give you some books containing knowledge about magic, so you won't have to just hear me and run my mouth all the time."
"But for now, let's us start our first lesson."
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