He remebered something important when he dumped all the scrap metal he had at a forge nearby the White Tower. A [Unique] level chest and book.
[Master Mage Grimoire
Even a Master Mage is not expected to memorize every spell in their arsenal.
given it's {Unique} status, you can store 100 spells in this book!
Bound to Luther Blackstone]
"This is amazing!" he smiled, before angrily puting it in his inventory. "Is what i would say if i had any spells. Time to open the unique chest."
[Goblin Shaman Grimoire
Be it Man or Monster, Magic users need successors. Having killed 4 Shamans and their successors, you have collected their knowledge. 40 spells and 5 rituals are held within.]
"This is more like it." he cracked open the book and flipped through it's pages. "I think i'll get executed if i teach these to the students, but i have 'Other Mana' so this might be good for me."
[Spells] and [Skills] are different. [Skills] are direct applications with no additional directions, like [Mana Steal] and [Slash]. Single action abilities. [Spells] are more complicated. Typically, circles filled with symetrical patterns that tell the Mana imbued what to do, what shape to take, and whether to attack, heal, defend, or whatever. Elemental insignias that were in the center required a specific Mana Type to activate and use the Spell.
[Blood Arrow] and [Blood Ball] were pretty simple, and pretty similar to each other. [Leech] was a spell version of [Mana Steal].
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What Luther noticed was that [Spells] were repeated with variations in the patterns. 20 arrows, 20 balls, and the same ritual printed 5 times. All with varying patterns that weren't quite straight, or some ines touching when they shouldn't.
"Thank God for architecture." Luther muttered as he pulled out all of the [Arrow] spells and stacked them on top of each other. He lifted them up against the window. a pop up appeared while he was comparing them all at once.
It looked like one of those video game maker engines. 3D models of the spells were lined up, one on top of the other.
9 of them were exact replicas and were discarded. 11 variations of the spell were left. Looking closer, he separted them into 2 groups based of how complicated they were.
"5 Arrows and 6 Greater Arrows. All Incomplete, but not for much longer!" He said as he discarded the messy ones, the one that had arcs that were too wide and touching.
"2 Arrows and 3 Greater.But they are all different. How do I?" They were all different enough to work, but they looked like, "They complete each other?!"
The 2 Arrow spells were merged together, and Luther was Alerted.
Doing the same with the Greater Arrows produced another Alert
Luther was satisfied and disappointed all at once. He was satisfied that he technically MADE spells. But, he was disappointed because he couldn't really use these spells.he didn't have Blood Mana.
A stray thought passed through his head as he looked at the two spells. "Are they required?"
He then took out the elemental insignia in the center and closed the hole it made.
He put the two spells in is Master Grimoire and relaxed in his office chair. "I can use that. Spells dont need to be element locked. But i wonder..." He quickly headed to the Training/ Mana Gathering floor.
He called his Mana in his right and his Other in his left. He then activated the Arrow spell, one in each hand. They fired with increased speed and hit the wall. Thankfully it didn't even leave a scratch.
"It worked! This is perfect for the students! Spells don't require element locks, We supply the element used when we use our Mana. At least for the beginner spells. I should probably go back to the Mage Hall. But first i got to check the ritual."
The ritual was a lot more complicated. It was a lot like a spell, but sacrifices were required. there were little empty nodes that needed to be filled for the ritual to work. After using the Spellcraft tab to clean up the patterns into one, he got another Alert.
"This could be useful. If i make sacrifces to the Blood Mood, it will either Curse or Bless me. Either way i can tear it apart and give dad and Aerith some more power." Heading out to the Mage Hall, Luther didn't notice he was being spied on using a spell.
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He was surrounded by tomes from each branch of magic. Learning the spells; [Bomb], [Lance], [Barrier], and [Chains] got him to Level 15.
"These are all the basic ones i could find." There are a couple more that require specific types of Mana and can't be converted. Holy spells, which are protected by the Gold Tower, can't be used by other types of Mana. Cures, purification, and purging could be properly be used by Mana Types if they are used against exact opposites. in theory. Having only pure basic [Mana] and [Other] this point was moot.
"I don't have enough information on differences between noraml and [Greater] spells. I may be a master, but i've only been one for a day. Good things come to those who wait. but I think i have a good enough grip on curriculum."
"'Mana and Spellcraft' sounds like an interesting enough class, right? I just need more Mana and Spells." An alarm went off saying it was 7:30. time to wake up and go to school.
"It's kind of funny, School ends in 3 weeks for me and then I become a teacher."