While reading, I begin to understand more about magician's path and their world. Like my mother said, there are many specialties inside the magician's path.
There is an infinite possibility of the usage of spells. The usage of spells are very different from skill. If skills rely on physical body and exercise then spells rely more on research, calculation and mind.
Commonly, they sort the spells based on the effect, strength, potency, and scale. The higher they are the higher their level.
So far there are ten level stars to measure the spell's strength. Cast one and two-star spells can be considered as level 1 magician.
Master three and four-star spell means level 2. Five and six is level 3. Using seven star and eight-star means level 4. Can using five seven and eight-star means level 5.
However, for nine and ten-star spells it does not mean you got lvl 6. As the level 6 is a little bit special level be it for magician and warrior.
The nine-star spell is called an ancient spell while a ten-star spell is a forbidden spell. Both of them are different kinds of spells than the others. They have a large scale effect or have very strong effects that could affect the world itself.
From an earthling point of view, it is like a nuclear based weapon. These spells also do not use "old tongue" language like the other eight star spells.
For nine star spells they used "Ancient language" and for ten star they used "forbidden language". Both of the languages are very dreadful that can even kill the caster if they are not strong enough to withstand it.
I learned this knowledge from my mother but she told me to keep this information a secret. The only reason my mother told me is because as someone with perfect affinity elemental, I will know about this secret sooner or later.
Mother also mentions that only few people know about this information. Apparently, magicians only know until eight stars while they don't even know the existence of nine and ten star spells as it is a very dangerous spell.
The legend said that one of the ten star spells is the one that is responsible for this planet creation. This news comes from an old antique. It does not even explain the name of the spell but the story of its effect.
Some magicians called these spells with the forgotten spells or the nameless spells. The spell's name is in the forbidden or ancient language which not everyone can use and already forgotten through the passage of time.
However, that doesn't mean a low star spell is useless. I learned that the spell itself is very versatile with various effects that even a 1 star spell could determine life and death in a particular situation.
To use spells, first I need to learn old tongue language to construct spell diagrams. Mother told me to master the old tongue language first before learning any spell diagram or formula..
The reason is the speed of the construction spell's diagram called 'casting' is heavily related with the old tongue language. The higher my comprehension over old tongue language, the better my casting speed.
Usually people begin by directly learning the spell's diagram and formula after comprehending a small part of the old tongue language to learn the spell as fast as they could.
Although it is more convenient as people could cast spells immediately, it also shunned their progress in casting faster spells along with complicated and high level spells.
Old tongue language is a very complicated language and interconnected from one word to others. Learn one word, you need to learn 100 more other words to fully understand it.
Old tongue language also has so many vocabularies. It is about 1000 times more compared to English language on Earth.
This is also the huge reason why my father and brother give up learning under mother lecture about magic.
My mother always emphasizes to master the 'old tongue language before learning any spell's diagram or formula. Even after I mastered the old tongue language, I could only look at the spell's formula, not the spell's diagram.
Spell's diagram and spell's formula are almost the same but also quite different. Spell's diagram contains only fixed spells while formulas contain only the principle of the spell and how to construct the spell's diagram.
Basically, the formula is the concept and the diagram is the already fixed things from the concept.
Another real example, if I use a spell diagram of a [fire bolt] spell, it will only produce a [fire bolt] with the same speed, heat, rotation, mageforce consumption, etc according to the diagram.
However, by only using the [fire bolt] formula, I need to construct the diagram from scratch without a copy and must calculate the balance element, stability of diagram, consumption of mageforce, and many other things to take account.
Of course it also takes more time to cast a spell in this way then just copy the diagram and often has less stability spell. Unstable spells can lead to break apart and result of backlash to the caster. The five star spell's backlash could even kill a person instantly.
So, why does mother insist on forbidding me to learn the spell's diagram, if the diagram has more advantage over spell's formula.
There are two reasons, the first is I could easily alter all my spells to become even more effective, destructive, or potent. The other reason is to help me practice creating my own spell.
High level magicians always have their own signature spells. Not only that, they could even create new spells in a matter of minutes. The only limitation is their own mageforce and creativity.
In the afternoon, I go back to my room as my mind is too tired to learn more about old tongue language.
Don't get me wrong, I am not giving up, I just need to take a break. Besides, I already understand a quarter of the old tongue language which for normal people will take months or even years.
I can learn it fast due to fast processing thinking and high comprehension technique from Greed. It also gives me a sort of eidetic memory with control. Sometimes I even wonder from whom he got this technique.
As I walk back to my room to rest, once again I notice Moru begin following me from the shadow. Then, I began planning to put another prank on her. In the middle of my thought, I saw teacher Gene approaching me.
She said anxiously, "Ehem.. Sep, I am really sorry about yesterday's spar. Since you also learn magic now, let's make your lecture in the morning"
"Then, in your afternoon you can learn magic. T-That's if you don't mind?" while her voice becomes lower at the end of sentence.
It seems she still felt very guilty but also wanted to keep taking care of me as her student. I gesture my hand and to make her face me at my level height before I flick her forehead.
Then, I hugged her while saying, "It's me who is the wrong one, teacher. Beside, after the spar I realize many things." In a sad tone.
Confusing sudden change of my mood she patted my head which I found pleasant despite my mental age.
Shortly, I loosen my hug, "Then, see you tomorrow teacher. You still need to teach me more about skill and some stuff. Also, please don't hold back because I feel your teaching is the best."
As I walked toward my room while leaving her alone which I know she felt grateful from my sentence.
While I walked toward my room I thought, 'Haaa… Why is it always troublesome after I got this Lust's technique that could predict people's mood and emotion just from their behaviour.'
'Well, it is quite nice to look at your enemy however, for ally it is like a curse. The problem is this technique will always work every time which means I cannot turn it off. At least now I can see through lies and betrayal.' I thought inwardly
During my thought, "Back to the room again, younger brother?" suddenly a voice heard from the corner.
Then, without turning around I sighed, "Huft… Yeah, it was quite tiring day, brother Fernan. How long will you be in here?"
Still in the cold demeanor he said, "The holiday is only one month before I need to go back to academy. Why did you miss me already?" as he smirked widely and walked towards me.
All of sudden, he ruffled my hair while saying, "Hahaha.. what's with that cold attitude? Are you beginning to look after me, the best and the coolest brother? Or did you fry your brain from mother's lecture?"
"Don't worry, even your coolest brother in the world cannot understand your mother lecture. Beside, my dear brother…" He stops his sentence and I curiously look at him.
"Don't you find me more handsome and cooler lately?" as he went back into his narcism mode.
At this instant, I face palm myself while asking myself why I respond to this idiotic narcissistic brother.
Also the reason why he has a cold personality is not because he has a dark side or something but because he thinks that cold demeanor is cooler. Which is I think it is stupid because he always hates arrogant and cold person while he mimics them.
Moreover, he only shows his cold personality to other people, even our parents. But, he will only show this narcissistic side with me. His true personality is an easy going person with a little bit too much narcissist side which makes him look like an idiot.
If William is a muscle idiot than brother Fernan is a huge narcissistic idiot. Sometimes I also ponder why two of my brothers are not normal like others.
While he keeps bragging about his looks, I also noticed my stupid second brother come to here. Then, Like I predicted, my second brother ran here while thinking that looks like quite angry thinking that I was being bullied by brother Fernan.
Soon, they began arguing with one another. I took this opportunity to slip away from them and I entered my room silently.