drip.

drip...

drip....

"augh" i wipe my face. The leaky roof of my tent has drenched my face. the seam doesnt connect well enough to stop water from seeping through. After selling my house and everything else. i find it uncomfortable any place i go. i just want to go home and take a good nights sleep. unfortunately i dont have a home anymore.

i am inside a tiny tent, that i bought for 60 Coins. one time purchase, compared to spend money overtime in a hotel or renting an apartment. i am starting to regret being stingy. My back hurts, like it never had before. i dont have a physically inclined focus anymore. i am fully magical now.

Speaking of magic, my education is moving along smoothly. i absorbed the focus, i have everything set up in a heavy backpack, the psychic orb has alot of amazing knowledge. Its contents are a little too thick, so i need to absorb it over a long time. I drank the 4 potions. the blood skill is hidden deep inside the bag, not daring to learn it yet. The hiding skill has leveled up once. until it reaches level 15 or 20, i will be able to hide stuff from army inspectors.

Everything worked perfectly, luckily nothing seems to be lied about. i was paging through my ritual master book. i learned that the ritual master focus is a rarer variant of the ritual mage focus. i lucked out not in just the price, but also the quality. The reason it was so cheap, could be because it was forcefully taken or created through a forbidden method. it doesnt show any indications in its status information. so it doesnt matter to me.

A ritual master focus is 120,000 Coins if you bought it with the proper methods. The proper methods also include you needing to have an education. so i would never have been able to buy it. Certain focuses are controlled by organizations that monopolizes certain focuses.

i lounge inside the tent. i already did everything, that need to be done. what i am waiting on is leveling up my skill and fully absorb the psychic orb. look at my status board.

Status Board

Name:

Eleir Lukegh

Wealth:

2,180 Coins

heritage:

Syla Human

Focus:

Ritual master

level: 10

Stats

strength 9 + 0 = 9 Weapon skills + amount:0 vitality 10 + 0 =10 Manifestation skills + amount:1 finesse 12 + 0 =12 Meta skills + amount:1 cognitive 11 + 50 = 71

Natural skills +

amount:0 academia 5 + 90 = 95 Magic skills+ amount:3 spirit 27 + 60 = 77 Unique skills+ amount:0

Titles

Primary title:

none

Effect: none Blessings of arcane:0 Blessings of Primal:1

Secondary title:none

Effect: none Blessings of Divine: 0

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Status focus

Focus: Ritual master level: 10

Great quality focus gives 20 stats

Enhancement: No enhancement attached to focus.

Stat distribution

Strength: 0 + 0 = 0 vitality: 0 + 0 = 0 finesse: 0 + 0 = 0 cognitive: 0 + 6 = 6 academia: 0 + 9 = 9 spirit: 0 + 5 = 5

Skills

Gained on level 1: Spell storage(precast spells for instant effects later. A time limit will be determined for spells, the duration can be reset by casting the spell again or spending 1000 for every quality level. spell slots gained on increases of level. every 10th level receive a auto-cast slot, cast when certain conditions are met. Max level 50)

Gained on level 5: Instant effigy(form the basic foundation for rituals. with magic. Every 10th levels you receive magically manifested substitute material. Quality of material decrease if higher amounts are manifested and increases if lower amounts are manifested. Max level 100)

Gained on level 10 Champion skill: spiritually imbue(infuse magic circles, items and spells with a part of your spirit. To artificially create a limited intelligence. The use of this skill will damage your spirit and you will require recovery. damage is proportional to spirit size and strength separated from main spirit. Separation efficiency and damage to both spirits will improve with skill level. Every 50 levels, the skill will evolve and improve control over spirits. Max level 200.)

i experimented with all my skills, except the "Spiritually imbue". i heard to many horror storys and fear for soul based skills. i am to scared to use it. Especially if it says that it hurts my soul everytime i use it. The blood theft skill is also that same, but it hurts others, so i can make my peace with that.

I spent the most time with instant effigy. Trying to create the 'spell magnification' circle. The materials are cured salt, blood of a fey creature, certain runes on a Great quality wood and casting the spell over the circle to empower it.

For any mage, they would have had to drag the circle everywhere they go to. I can use the main staple of my focus, spell storage. to circumvent that. Its an amazing skill, if you can get it. Without having it attached to a focus. It still is amazing.

The wood plate was surprisingly cheap for a Great quality material. I think, thats because wood is usually used in larger amounts than a small cup holder sized square. Its also great the a i can reuse the wood plate without having to replace it for every casting of the ritual.

I am abusing instant effigy. to draw the symbols on the plate and move the ingredients in the right amount. The ritual master focus doesnt have any offensive spells, so it was lucky to have bought telekinesis.

You cant use it offensively most of the time, but you can find creative methods to fight with it. For example. You find a big rock, very low mana amount in it, Just pick it up with telekinesis. Raise it very high over a creature and drop it. 9 out of 10 time, you miss. But most of the creatures you fight at this level of strength arent smart enough to know from where it came from.

With the magic circle. It just really opens up the possibilities. Pick up a pebble and blast it towards the monsters, killing them like a gun would. Force the ground to blast upwards to zone control the area. Pushing up dirt and dust to obstruct vision. There are definitely many more, but i am not creative enough to think of them right now.

my spell storage is still level 1. It has only 3 spell slots. The ritual will empower only one spell. my experiments with telekinesis storage showed that if i try to keep a pebble afloat for an hour. I could make it float at that area and imbue my will to sustain its position, The amount of mana i leaved with the pebble is how long the pebble stays afloat, as long as the mana is still there then you can keep it there forever. The psychic orb really helped me learn about this trick of the mechanics of mana.

With will imbuements, i can create really complex behavior between the spell storage and telekinesis skills. Spell storage works by willing a spell to cast, you can also set up different activation triggers. Such as vocal or tactile. it doesnt work if you dont consciously activate it. so no accidental casts.

With such customization you can theoretically, store a spell where you set up a will imbued telekinetic effect. That makes a flat piece of wood float and fly away with a bomb towards your enemies. Homing in to the enemies seem to be impossible to preset. Maybe if i used the 'spiritually imbue' skill, than the spells would truly ascend.

Enough theory crafting. Lets decide on what effect to put on my empowered spell. I have 77 spirit worth of mana, To put in the spell. If i tell it to shoot a bolt, then that would place all that preparation on my aim. If i set it to spin a metal thing very fast around the tip of stick, that would work better. Maybe i could set it to get a metal spike to go back and forth next to the tip of a stick.

Okay, i am going to get a blade and spin it like a saw around a long stick. to gives distance and requires no strength to move a stick. Mind you, the telekinetic spell moves the blade relative to the stick tip. Its not connected to the stick at all, so there isn't any push back.

The other 2 spell slots aren't empowered so what i can do with them, is very limited. considering that telekinesis is only level 2. It leveled up while experimenting with it. 'hmm' maybe i could use them for defense. Set up a shield to float relative to my forearm, not having to deal with the weight, telekinesis can handle that part.

For the last spell slot, i can get a devil piss sprayer. Devil piss, is a flammable liquid. It doesnt require any major strength to move around a liquid. The liquid would also be limited, so there is no reason to put in alot of mana to maintain it.

ok everything is set. i just need to cast the empowered spell and go buy a shield and a bottle of devil piss.

I bring forth the magical energy inside me. Both the stick and a knife that had its handle removed, are set on the ground. a spell circle beneath my hands, It glows with wild magic. Sparks flying everywhere, as intense amounts of energy are moving around in a clearing in front of my tent.

A portal appeared between my self and the target of my magic. The portal absorbs the magic with even greater intensity than i could let out of my body. I start pouring in more intensely, my eyes go blood shot from the exertion. My hands are less flesh and more glow of magic. I can feel the amount of mana in the stored spell increasing.

I start pushing my self even further, pulling at every bit of mana i have. Thinking that every bit helps. The portal seems completely unfazed, as im pushing my everything at it. It continues to floating there, absorbing every last bit of mana. The magic sparks flying out of the magic circle. Start heating up the ground and it self, as it tries to keep up with my mana output.

As i completely empty my reserves. The magic circle beneath me, starts popping and crackling. With a final pop, it completely falls apart. Ruining the wood and all the materials used. My body instantly felt extreme exhaustion, when i stopped moving mana through me. Before doing anything else, a system notification showed up.

Gained 5 levels for Telekinesis Gained title 'Mana Conduit'

Just as i finished reading the notification. I lost consciousness. Falling face first into the ground.