Unusual World 56 Everyone Starts Somewhere

In the sewer with the area around him being illuminated by his magic sight, Desmond was waving his hands in the air as fast as he could casting the spell produce water. Which simply collected the water in the air and condensed it into a ball of water that could be sprayed out in a stream.

The spell was good for nothing more than making drinkable water when you had none, but Desmond would never drink the water he had just produced because he was in a sewer making the freshest water source the p.i.s.s and s.h.i.+t filled streaming by next to him.

With the ball of water in hand Desmond cast another spell he had learned shape water this allowed him to change the shape and state of the water from liquid to ice, or make it evaporate. Making it a great spell on hot days when you need something to dry your sweat.

Desmond combined the two spells forming a water shaped blade than froze it turning it into a blade of ice. He then grabbed the ice blade and chucked it at a rat pa.s.sing by while at the same time activating the spell gust.

Giving it enough thrust to skewer the rat this scared the other rats in the area, but they always come back so he was not worried. Not long ago Desmond's aim was terrible he couldn't even hit a still target, but after a few months of practice, he was good enough to hit a moving rat when they weren't paying attention.

Desmond has also been experimenting with other spells like shape stone which let him mold earth like clay and harden it again. None of Desmond's creations were beautiful or detailed enough to be called anything other than trash.

That didn't discourage him he kept at making things with the spell like polls, spikes, spiked rocks, shuriken, and hammers. His philosophy was if he can make something bleed he can kill it, if his weapon was pointy, sharp, or heavy enough he can kill something with it, but if he meets someone like the Mirror Man again he is going to get killed so run like a b.i.t.c.h.

It was a simple code to live by and one Desmond planned on following to the letter if it meant he got to immerse himself in magic longer. The kind of spells a person can use follow science fairly closely except for the high level stuff and more abstract fields of magic which he can't even get the chance to see at the moment. All this allowed Desmond to have an easy grasp on the concept of magic allowing him to perform low grade spells fairly easily.

How electrons and ions change and interact with each other to the different s.h.i.+fts in matter where all things Desmond had known and understood, but to truly perform magic you have to understand a much deeper meaning in everything. Understanding that is the key and what Desmond is after so he can create his own spells.

Many magicians customize their own spells the spells provided in books while usable are tailored to the person who made it. This can increase the consumption of magic when following how a book does things. Also leave a person open to attacks from an enemy because if another mage sees someone else's magic circle they will most likely instantly know how it works ahead of time. Giving them the opportunity to counter the spell or if they are strong enough alter the spell in the middle of being cast warping it against the caster or something else.

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That's why mages keep their magic circles hidden from other mages and add fake runes, glyphs, along with other miss leading elements.

Desmond knew this from all the books he had read, but didn't dare try any of that because of all the potential danger that follows such actions. He knew he was too weak and too ignorant in magic to try any of that stuff doing so would only result in his own death.

That's why Desmond stuck to the simple things at his level like using the spell mage hand to grab rats from a distance than bring them close to him and taser them to death with the spell shocking touch.

Desmond had been tasing rats in the sewer for a while he had so much fun with it at one point he pretended to be a sith lord like emperor Palpatine as he shocked the rats to death.

While laughing maniacally in the sewers and shocking rats to death Desmond started to talk to himself "if I become a powerful mage and decide to write an autobiography there is no way I'm telling anyone about this. I'll just say I was fighting trolls or I was being baptized in the blood of dragons by the dragon G.o.d making me his stepson. Something as corny as that is way better than the truth."

Finding no more rats to torment Desmond moved on to testing the beginner grade spells in the field he was planning to specialize in illusions. Illusion magic is complex magic that has many moving parts.

Desmond can only cast the beginner grade spells in the field of illusion magic along with all the other fields since he has not finished carving out the intermediate grade rune in his core. A mage must first reach the peak magic capacity and spiritual strength for whatever level they are on before they could proceed further.

Desmond's spiritual strength far surpa.s.sed what a normal beginner grade apprentice would have because of all the soul's Desmond ate. Letting the only requirement left to fill was increasing his magic capacity to the peak of beginner grade which took Desmond less than a month to do because of his strong spirit.

The thing that always takes a long time for him is the inscription of runes because the margin of error allowed is small and becomes smaller the higher a person's rank is. A normal person would take many years to increase their spirit strength which can be improved through meditation, training, and life experiences like life or death combat. Carving runes on your own core is difficult for everyone even high ranking mages. Making Desmond's lack of speed on something that complicated to do normally.