79 Chapter 79 Flame Blade (1/2)
When Joseph woke up, only a few minutes later according to Stella, he could feel the autonomous magical calculation center, or AMCC. It was trying to finish FLAME JET. After only a moment of consideration, he swapped it over to PREPARE GAME. He wanted to do FLAME JET himself.
'Thank you ENACRA,' he thought.
(HE SAYS YOU ARE WELCOME.)
'Uhh, cool?' He wasn't sure about having a G.o.d actually talk to him, even if it was through the system.
Since his time was split up with having to be a king, or learning to be a king, this AMCC would more than double the speed he was advancing in magic. He was still half in disbelief that PURIFY FOOD actually worked. Intermediate level must be more impressive than he thought.
”Stella, I was given a blessing from the G.o.d of magic.”
She made a somewhat troubled face, ”Congratulations, Master.”
”Thank you.”
”What was his name?”
”ENACRA, though I think it's just arcane spelled backwards.”
”Arcane means magic. Backwards names are interesting…”
He nodded and ducked his head as he thought.
”Stella, the mana here should return to normal soon. I want to stay until it does. I'm not sure when I'll have the opportunity to practice in an environment as rich as this one ever again. I really don't want to have to murder a whole bunch of people to create another one.”
”That's rea.s.suring, Master Joseph.”
He started by practicing maintaining a small CREATE FIRE as he did other tasks. After only a few hours he could maintain it without effort. After a few more hours he could imbue runes with a lasting effect.
Instead of putting 10 points of mana into CREATE FIRE and making a giant fire, he learned to make it leak slowly so that it was a 2 point fire for five times as long.
After he let it go, the rune simply hung in the air and maintained the spell. It wouldn't work for instant spells, like IGNITE FIRE, or spells that have to change targets, but this was good enough to expand his abilities.
As soon as he got the new ability, mana control ate it and added time to the mana control skill. It was his only grand skill, and he had to admit it was very mysterious.
After all of that, he started practicing drawing the same rune with both hands at the same time, and then different runes at the same time. His success rate was really poor, but he was able to do it because of the high mana in the area. It allowed him to train two spells, mana control, inscribing, and work on the quests for ambidexterity and high manual dexterity all at once, so every hour was counting for a lot. Practicing both hands, drawing the same rune together, was odd. It didn't circulate if you started from the points together and go inscribing and end them together. It was a faster way to cast spells like a normal mage but he couldn't think of a use for it. Mana control allowed him to form the rune directly so he was inscribing this way just for the quests.
The fog had lifted by dawn, and the temperature was slowly recovering. He had stayed up all night to take advantage of the situation. FLAME JET was complete.
”Stella, stand back, I want to do something impressive.”
He started to gather mana from the surroundings. Envisioning the rune slightly above his palm, he held out his hand and saw himself shooting something.