Chapter 161: Selecting Spells (1/2)
”Nine thousand five hundred,” Kadyn looked at the energy points in the virtual window with a pleasantly surprised expression. ”I didn't think that in just a single day our shop would do such a good business. Maybe it is because our shop is new and everyone is curious about it, but still. I am just five hundred short of reaching ten thousand, and then I'll be able to upgrade it to rank 2.”
It was 9 o'clock in the night as he sat at the centre of the Meditation Formation. He thought briefly and went out. After ten minutes he arrived in front of the library that was at the very top of the building. He had already built around twenty per cent rune, but he had yet to learn any Rank 1 spell.
Spell Casters were different from Elementary Rank. At this stage, people didn't cast spells using magic stars. Instead, they used Spiritual Energy. Every spell had a unique pattern that people called Spell Glyph.
Furthermore, some of the elements needed a few more things other than Spell Glyph to cast the spell. For example, summoning element. To summon above elementary rank magical creatures, mage needed the True Name of the beast. Summoning Spell Glyphs were useless without the True Name of the creature. Or a Curse Element, it needed the hair, nail, or anything related to the person on which one wanted to cast the curse — or of course, one could just use True Name.
[Note: Creatures have the True Name of one word, but humans True Name is different — the date of birth, the place of birth, the time of birth, the parent's full name, and the victim's full name. All these elements together made the True Name of humans.]
As Kadyn read the information he frowned, as he remembered the time when he summoned a rank 1 creature at the time of his escape from the Magic Alliance — if it was impossible to summon Rank 1 magical creature without its True Name then how did he succeed the last time?
”That creature didn't reach Rank 1 yet,” at this moment a voice sounded in Kadyn's head.
”Oh, you are still alive?” Kadyn said surprisingly.
”Of course, I am,” the system replied.
”Anyways, what do you mean the creature wasn't Rank 1?”
”Because it wasn't,” the system replied. ”The magical beasts don't make a breakthrough to the Rank 1 in one go like humans. They merge a single star each time. That beast had merged nine stars, but he had yet to merge the last one, so it was still short to reach the Rank 1 magical beast.”
”Doesn't that mean for beasts it's easy to reach the Rank 1 as compared to humans?”
”Easy? You are thinking too much. They need years to awaken just a single star, while you used just a few months to become a Spell Caster. Moreover, they need a huge amount of treasure to progress if they don't have a powerful bloodline.”
”Oh,” Kadyn nodded in understanding. After that he went to search for the spells. There were thousands of spells of all kinds and he had ten, uh… no, nine elements. The Blessing Element wasn't an element but a kind of ability. There was no shelf for the Blessing Element in the library either. He didn't know how and why he had such an element, but he thought it might be related to other elements and the system. Or maybe his… parents.