Chapter 254 - Reinforcing Spells (1/2)
For some time after this strange occurrence, Evan tried to understand what had happened to him. All the strange energy had already disappeared, but Evan remembered every moment clearly.
<I can't think of anything, I can't think of any reasonable explanation this is some kind of nonsense. There aren't even spells that could pull something like this off. That energy turned pieces of stone into swords and my flesh and blood into butterflies. I don't understand it.> Evan thought and left the room.
He decided to take up training. Evan got stronger, but his spells stood still. Even though he had long since learned and used Level 1 spells, he had yet to increase Awareness in any of them. Evan was curious to see how to improve ”Ball Lighting,” ”Ghost Step,” and ”Touch of the Abyss.”
Evan decided that he had to fix this disappointing situation. While he had no plans to return to Vextin, he was fine with Darkfil. Evan wasn't worried that anything could happen to Malespera, he had warned her long ago that he could disappear at any time for his own reasons.
This girl was not yet strong enough to be useful to Evan as a living weapon. Moreover, Evan had no idea how to make Malespera feel truly desperate again. Attacking or killing her would not have had the same effect. First, there would be misunderstanding, then resentment, and then death.
But, Malespera was only a unique specimen, Evan wasn't going to build experiments using her as a core. He wanted to gather many ordinary people in one place and make them experience different emotions, but mostly negative ones. It was much easier to evoke pain, anger, or apathy than joy or happiness. For the same reason, Evan decided not to leave Darkfil for at least a while. He was confident that Virion could help him with the fulfillment of that goal.
”When mage raises Awareness, the spell becomes stronger and gets a special effect. I hope I won't be disappointed.” Mumbled Evan and began training.
He could have used the power of the 71st demon, Duke Dantalion, and forcibly increased the ”Awareness” of his spells, but it would have cost him at least twenty years. He had already broken through the second ”Barrier” and was much stronger, so the cost would have been much less.
But, Evan didn't want to spend that much life force on raising Awareness by just one stage, it was too wasteful. Also, just recently, Evan had sacrificed a hundred years of his life, it was necessary, or Virion would have killed him, and he wouldn't have gotten the blood magic spell. But still, a hundred years was a huge amount. That's about how long the average person lived. He also wanted to figure out what his Class was and if he had one at all.
...
Evan spent the next three months training. It took him about a month per spell, but he increased Awareness in each of the three spells to the first stage.