In the Tier 6 Meditation Chamber,
Maximus stood up, to try and cast an original spell without a manual.
After all, what he had studied was equivalent to the very nature of a Tier 0 spell, not the spell itself, so creating a new spell should be easy.
Starting with a simple fire element spell, he tried to imagine a fire dragon-shaped spell.
With some Initial mastery of tier 0 fire spells, he succeeded after a few seconds.
However, instead of a majestic fire dragon, a misshapen, bloated fire snake emerged from his spell, deviating from his intended image.
“What the…” Maximus’s face darkened at the sight of the distorted fire dragon he had imagined.
Maximus sat down glumly, contemplating what had gone wrong.
Then it hit him, His mastery in all types of spells is only initial, so of course his mastery in creating original fire-type spells is also Initial mastery, which is not enough.
Although he can cast the fire spell he learned previously without any deviation, the spell he created with only Initial Mastery is a failure.
Maximus just sighted, it was great and all to master all types of spells.
Unfortunately, it consumed too much time. With his daily acquisition of LP, studying all of it simultaneously was a pipe dream.
He realized that he was too reckless and greedy.
After all, who in their right mind would spend 500 years just to master all types of Tier 0 spells?
Just finding a complete inheritance of all types of Tier 0 spells is close to impossible.
And even then, the lethality of such a low-tier spell was almost close to zero.
Will you practice creating spells from scratch just for the sake of cool party tricks?
So, of course, most of the mages just study one or two for their safety and meditate to further their strength.𝔬𝐕𝗅xt.𝗇t
When they’re strong enough and have enough life span that is when they started to seriously create their spell.
Maximus suppressed the uncomfortable feeling in his heart.
He had thought he could study it all, but his low LP acquisition forced him to focus on individual types of spells.
Maximus returned from meditation, hoping to calm his wounded heart and consider which type of spell he should concentrate on first.
…
The next day, Maximus opened his eyes, feeling refreshed.
The life and potential point is refreshed.
[LP: 9,300
PP: 115,112]
After a day of meditating and pondering which types of spells he should concentrate on.
He decided to focus on ten types of spells: the five elements—Fire, Water, Wood, Earth, and Metal; the three supreme elements—Space, Time, and Fate; and finally, spells for the Soul and the Body.
His affinity towards these spells is only Rank 0 Trash, considering his previous talent.
After all, His meditation method only improved his comprehension, not affinity.
For the first type of spell, he started on soul-type spells since his main profession was a mage.
Furthermore, after he mastered the art of the soul, maybe it could enhance his training speed as he is at the nascent stage which is the stage to temper the soul.
Looking at the panel, he first upgraded his soul affinity to Rank 4 Legendary.
[Soul Affinity: Rank 0 Trash (0/50)]
[+55,550 PP]
[Soul Affinity: Rank 4 Legendary (0/500,000)]
Tier 0 Soul Spell Volume: Initial (15,253/320,000)]
Then, he tried adding 1 LP to see how many points he would gain per day.
[+1 LP = 900]
It seemed that improving his Soul affinity had an effect.
Based on this rate, it would only take him a year to fully master the Tier 0 soul spell volume, which was a significant difference compared to the 500 years it would take to master all types of spells.
This reminded him once again of his previous hastiness.
Despite nearly a hundred years of comprehension, he could only cast a worm-like fire dragon.
He upgraded the Initial mastery to Proficient mastery.
[+339 LP = 305,100]
Almost a year of comprehension was quickly absorbed by Maximus, compared to the hundred years of comprehension before, a mere year felt like a child’s play.
[Tier 0 Soul Spell Volume: Proficient (353/640,000)]
With Proficient mastery, he attempted to create a soul spell and casted it.
After a few seconds, it manifested just as he had imagined.
It was a soul-like puppet that could provide him with information about what it sensed.
He tried to control it, and it effortlessly passed through the wall as if the array in place meant nothing.
This shocked him; it seemed that he would need to add formations specialized in soul restriction in the future.
The soul was indeed strange, capable of traversing any obstacle as if it were nothing.
As the soul puppet floated forward, it reached its limit when it was about 10 meters away.
This was the limit of a normal Tier 0 soul spell so it’s not surprising.
He dispelled the spell and continued adding points.
[+711 LP = 639,000]
[Tier 0 Soul Spell Volume: Expert (253/960,000)]
This time, his mastery reached expert level, and he tried casting the same spell as before.
With a single cast, multiple soul puppets were conjured instantly.
Earlier, it took a few seconds to manifest the spell, and he couldn’t cast the spell multiple times simultaneously.
But now, he could do it effortlessly, as if it were nothing.
He then tested the distance limit of the soul puppets, but it remained within the limits of a Tier 0 spell.
So he continued to add points.
[+1,067 = 960,300]
[Tier 0 Soul Spell Volume: Perfect (553/1,280,000)]
This time, it took nearly 3 years of comprehension.
He tried the same spell once again to observe the changes in the soul puppets.
This time, controlling them felt as natural as moving his arms.
After casting the spell, he could still modify it even after he cast the spell, much like molding a finished pottery piece.
He experimented with the casted soul puppets that he summoned from that of a cat, dog, book, or chair, and all of these changes happened in an instant.
He tried various postures, making the puppets bigger or smaller, and after a few minutes of playful experimentation, he had seen enough.
During these few minutes, his consumption was only about 10% of what it had been earlier.
Meaning he can cast the spell 10 times that of normal.
As for the distance limit, it remained at 10 meters.
With a flick of his hand, he added more points.
[+1,422 LP = 1,279,800]
[Tier 0 Soul Spell Volume: Transcendent (Max)]
This time, it took nearly 4 years of comprehension, and now it had reached its maximum level.
Unless he used Potential points or acquired further knowledge, it could not be upgraded any further.
With a wave of his hand, the meditation room was suddenly flooded with soul puppets.
This gave him a shock, after all, soul puppet is somewhat translucent, and having a bunch of them squeezing in a tight room is eerie.
Maximus quickly dispersed the soul puppets.
He heaved a sigh and contemplated what had just happened.
Even though he had tried to use less than 1% of the normal mana consumption for the spell, the soul puppets he conjured still flooded his room.
After a few minutes of testing, he confirmed what was happening.
If perfect mastery only cost 10% of the normal consumption, then transcendent mastery would only cost 0.1%.
This meant that he could cast a transcendent mastery spell a thousand times compared to normal.
Furthermore, the distance limit surpassed the Tier 0 spell’s restrictions.
10 meters became 1,000 meters, which was slightly longer than a Tier 1 spell.
But that wasn’t even the main benefit of transcendent mastery.
His transcendent soul mastery had a tremendous effect on his mage training.
He tried it just now, with his control tempering his soul was twice as fast as before, meaning ten times faster than when he only had Tier 4 legendary talent.
Moreover, this is just tier 0 soul spell mastery.
He pondered whether he should concentrate on buying Tier 1 soul spell knowledge or improve his mastery of other spells.
Maximus first checked his points.
[LP: 5,760
PP: 59,612]
After some deliberation, he decided to focus on soul spells first.
After all, there is a saying that it’s better to be excellent at one thing than to be mediocre at everything.
Maximus then browsed through the Hexen Library for a complete Tier 1 soul spell volume.
His consciousness materialized in his system inventory, where he saw a small pile of books about tier 1 soul spells.
The tier 1 soul spell volume was stacked together, with just a sweep of his consciousness, all the information was stored in his mind.
[Tier 1 Soul Spell Volume: Initial (1/960,000)]
Without further hesitation, he allocated all his LP to it.
[+5,760 LP = 5,184,000]
[Tier 1 Soul Spell Volume: Expert (2,304,000/2,880,000)]
Despite more than 15 years of comprehension, he only reached expert mastery, which was somewhat disappointing.
However, he knew that with just a few more days, he would master it until it reached the transcendent level.
…
After adding points and feeling the thrill of rapid mastery, Maximus patted his clothes and walked out of the meditation chamber.
As for meditation training?
Heh, who cares?
It’s not as useful as adding points, so why bother?
He would wait until he upgraded his talent a little more so that training would become more enjoyable.
After all, he was not a native in this world, and he didn’t have the patience to sit quietly and slowly absorb mana to temper his soul.
If it were you, even if you knew you would eventually learn something after spending a long time on it, would you still learn it?
Sure, if forced by circumstances and with no other choice, you might push yourself to the limit without much complaint.
But for him, who had a cheat, his mentality now was that if he couldn’t master something immediately, why bother?
Besides, there wasn’t much of a threat to him at the moment.
Of course, that didn’t mean he would be lazy.
His plan now was to increase the daily generation of life and potential points, starting by personally training his wives and children.
As for finding more wives or having more children?
Additional wives would not be of much help, as the life points added were based on strength and talent.
He suddenly thought of Isabella, who possessed both strength and talent.
As for having more children, he was working hard for it, spreading his seeds whenever he had the time.