Chapter 209: Elemental Spell (1/2)

After that meeting with Arland and Fleur, I was welcomed by them into the city and was given a room and an office inside the Academy as a guest Dean who doesn't need to work at all. For now.

Also, since the two were curious, I showed them the interior of the Black Mist and like I thought, their staves have the same effect. It increases their energy output as well as add-ons which complemented their spells

Zenith Magus Arland's Main Element is Earth but he also formed one Darkness and two Fire Secondary Cores during his Elemental Forming Realm. The other two Secondary Cores were the same as his Main Element.

Elemental Supreme Fleur's Main Element is Water and due to her race being an Elemental, she's a pure Water Elemental Supreme.

Fleur teleported back to the Elementals Territory after accompanying us back into the city to gather her disciples and those close to Transcendence to undergo the training that I will put them through. And since Arland needed to talk to Hikari and the other 5 survivors, he left me to my own devices.

Of course, my first destination was the library. The students of the academy were all busy with their studies. Most of them were still at the Elemental Absorbing Realm while quite a few were at Elemental Condensing Realm.

Just looking at that, it's fairly easy to see that the Human Race of this world was already in decline. Most of their elites were mostly dead and the new generation has just started their path on the Elemental Pathway.

When I passed by the Main Hall where the students of the academy were congregating, most of them only threw a curious glance towards me because they're all busy talking about the Metal Giant which appeared outside the city and the appearance of a new Zenith Magus... which is me. Apart from Arland and Hikari's group, no one knew the face of the Zenith Magus they're talking about however that didn't stop them to be excited about the future prospect of the Human Race.

Those who saw me probably thought that I'm just another student so they didn't bother me and continued in their discussions.

Before long, I entered the huge library which probably holds thousands of books. I went to the aisle where the Basic Books were located and picked one book from numerous choices.

I flipped open the book named 'The Basic of Elemental Spells' from one of the shelves and started absorbing the knowledge in it.

”To cast a spell, one needed to at least be in the Elemental Absorbing Realm where one already awakened their Elemental Core.”

Now that I think of it, the books that we got from the higher dimension were unreadable but here, I can read it just fine. Is it because it's a language of a much higher dimension? In any case, I didn't really need to spend much time reading these books. I can just skim through it and most of the knowledge written in it will be absorbed by me, considering my high stats.

Like that transmigrator from a novel who only needed to touch a book to copy it inside his mind. Afterwards he could casually absorb the knowledge contained in those books all at once.

Of course, it's not as exaggerated as that.

”By using the Main Element as the base, one has to use the Elemental Energy stored in one's Elemental Core as well as extract the correct variation of Elemental Energy from the surrounding.”

With my Flux Energy, I can use any other variations of the Elemental Energy despite it not being my Main Element. After reading this, I immediately related it to the Spells, Skills and Blessings in the World of System. Or even the Augmented Skill from the World of Barbarians just that, those weren't as complicated as using a Main Element.

”If one failed at that, the spell will disintegrate and one will receive an Elemental Backlash. It is the most basic knowledge and method so one is expected to perfect it before thinking of casting a real spell.”

That backlash should be what I saw when I passed by one student earlier. He's an Elemental Absorbing Realm kid, trying to use a Spark Spell, a very basic Fire Elemental Spell. He's successful at using his Main Element as a base but he failed at extracting the correct variation from the surrounding Elemental Energy.

Though it should be fairly easy since it is his Main Element, newbies like him will always have times where they will make a mistake.

”There are 5 steps to cast a spell.

1. Identifying the Main Element base.

2. Establishing the Spell Nucleus.

3. Arranging the Elemental Nodes.

4. Enclosing it with the Magic Trigger.

5. Unleashing the Spell by activating the trigger.

The five steps can be reduced into 1 through raising one's Proficiency of the Spell which requires constant repetition or raising the intensity of the spell.”

It sounds complicated if it was written in the book like this but in reality, it was fairly easy. And those at the level of Zenith Magus Arland and Elemental Supreme Fleur could instantly activate their Spells. There's probably a change that would happen on the later stages of the Elemental Pathway. This is the basics for the Beginners in Elemental Pathway.

Due to that, I decided to try it. By producing a Flux Energy I used it as the base for a spell.

This is the uniqueness of my own Energy. It can be whatever it wants to be as long as I have adapted to it. This time, it is Elemental Energy.

There's a sample spell written on the book so I tried following that. The Spark.

”After successfully casting a spell, one will start at Beginner proficiency. The next proficiency level will skip one of the five steps.

At Dabbling Proficiency, one can skip the identification of the Main Element Base and start at establishing the Spell Nucleus.

The Spell Nucleus is the basic step of combining one's own Elemental Energy and the extracted Elemental Energy from the surrounding. If there's no Elemental Energy existing in one's immediate surroundings, one can double their own Elemental Energy for the establishment of the Spell Nucleus.”