Roland really didn't think that Aldo would actually know what it was.
Honestly, he wondered at first if it could possibly be the doodle of some bored artist.
"A magic array?" Roland was stunned. He had recently read many of the books in the Magic Tower's collection, and he hadn't seen any book mentioning this at all.
Aldo laughed meaningfully and said, "Do you think that the noble's monopoly on knowledge means spell models? There are others."
Roland sat down, a yearning look on his face.
"Enchantment and scroll-making, you should have seen these two things in books!"
Roland nodded.
"These two techniques are used by the advanced subclasses of mages, and they are quite difficult to learn. But the true unheralded secret is the magic array."
Roland frowned. "Magic array… what kind of thing is it?"
