"You’re always as greedy as a Dragon, lil bro." Tista said. "If I didn’t know you better, I’d worry that keeping your hybrid form for so long is influencing your judgment. Stop thinking with your wallet and use your head.
"In the memory, Menadion taught Solus that a Forgemastered artifact is nothing but a perfect combination of spells. It means that by studying a pseudo core, it’s possible to learn all the abilities that the Forgemaster imbued it with.
"This piece of information might help us to understand secret disciplines like Runesmithing, Light Mastery, and even Spirit Magic."
"Yeah, maybe that was true centuries ago. Nowadays Runesmithing applies cloaking runes that make it impossible to study a pseudo core. On top of that, Nalrond is teaching me Light Mastery and Faluel will teach us Spirit Magic when the moment comes." Lith replied.
"Well, you might be okay with things as they are because of Nalrond, but Solus’s dream still gives me and Tista a shot at Light Mastery. On top of that, there are no cloaking runes on ancient relics like your gravity ring or those written in Huryole’s Forgemastering book." Phloria said.
"Think about it. Gravity magic is as powerful as it’s elusive and maybe from your double magic holding ring, we might learn how to cast two copies of the same spell at the same time.
"All we have to do is to find a way to craft their pseudo cores, break them down into the runes they are comprised of, and then convert them into spells that don’t require an artifact to work."
Phloria’s words opened countless possibilities to them. Now that they knew about runes and about how they could be woven to reproduce complex skills, even teaching props became relevant.
The effects they produced were worthless for an artifact but they could still teach them ways of manipulating the elements that only ancient bloodlines had mastered.
They spent so much time discussing where it was better to start from that they completely forgot about their duty as teachers until a magical beast knocked on their door.
Lith had Solus quickly go back to her ring form while the upper floors of the building slid down to give the impression that they had yet to finish working on their apartments.
"Seriously? A whole building for three people?" A yellow-furred Xogh (fox-type magical beast) said with disbelief.
"We quarrel a lot and we need our personal space." Lith’s ability to make up bullshit at a moment’s notice never failed to impress his companions, making also them wonder how often he did the same with them.
"Then maybe you shouldn’t keep two females. One is more than enough and once the cubs start coming, things will only get worse." The Xogh said with a tone that implied he spoke from experience.
"I’m just their mentor and that’s my sister!" Lith said in outrage while pointing at Tista.
"Right, sure. I wonder how I failed to notice the resemblance. Maybe you are my Dad as well." The Xogh poked at Lith’s scales with enough sarcasm to fill the building.
"Listen, kid, I’m not interested in your personal life. Aren sent me here to remind you that humans aren’t going to learn Tyris’s language on their own. If you want to get a share of our resources, you have to contribute to the daily activities.
"Otherwise you are on your own, even for small stuff like food. Are we clear?"
"Crystal." Lith replied.
Comments
The readers' comments on the novel: Supreme Magus