Grey was standing in front of his table in his study, he was looking at his master piece, the Engraving Language was finally done, it was enough to suit his needs for the next few years. Grey had spent four months to get the engravement language to the initial testing.
Grey had spent the time he said he would when he told Miranda about his schedule, by the time he finished the initial testing he had reached 12 years old, not that age really matter in this world of mages, none of the mage children were considered to be children.
However after finishing the initial testing, Grey realised that he could further improve the language to do certain things that magic rings made from the engravement language created by the people of this world could not do.
The abilities that Grey was most enthusiastic about were the ability to make a magic ring to have the ability to hold more than one Activation. The second ability was to allow the effects of a magic ring to affect the magic to the next tier. In this world magic ring effects can only affect the magic of the tier of the magic ring or lower.
An example is the tier 3 magic ring, [Strengthened Fire Magic], the magic ring can strengthen all fire magic in tier 3 and lower, but not higher. However using Grey's language would allow the same magic ring, [Strengthened Fire Magic], to affect fire magic from tier 4 to the lower tiers, however depending on the Activation used, the second ability would have reduced affects.
These findings almost made Grey get caught up in the passion of magic ring design and neglected his other responsibilities. However Grey managed to remember the prayer he made to his current self from his past self about the importance of self control.
Grey had noticed something whilst reading reports about the use of magic crystals, he was sure other curious people would have seen it too. Normally it took 5 years for a tier 0 mage to reach tier 1, however the use of magic crystals reduced the time by approximately 70% which means the time taken to reach tier 1 was about 1.5 years.
The same could be said about reaching tier 2 from tier 1, however the time reduced is by approximately 60%, which means the time to reach tier 2 from tier 1 with using magic crystals is only 4 years.
Grey used this finding to figure out that if he did not get caught in the passion but kept a steady schedule and not neglect his magic accumulation, he would reach tier 2 by the time he is 16 years old. Reaching tier 2 would help him very much during the war that does not seem to be slowing down.
Because of that it took him another 1 year to get where he is currently, looking at the all finished engravement language. There was shine in the eyes of the 13 years old young man who stood at 1.65m, Grey could not help but laugh like an idiot when looking at his magnus opus.
"Hahahaha"
The last time Grey laughed like this was three years ago when he finished his Source Ignition.
'Finally it's done, these two abilities of this language has elevated the magic ring to the next level, if such findings were released, the result might incite war in the whole continent, that would be cool to watch though.'
The full guideline of the first ability was such that at tier 1 and tier 2, magic rings would be able to support up to 2 Activations, at tier 3 and tier 4, magic rings would be able to support up to 4 Activations and lastly at tier 5, magic rings would be able to support up to 5 Activations.
Given the second ability, this whole systems kind of strengthens its self, Grey could not design magic rings for Arc Mages, thus he only stopped to tier 5 magic rings. Grey stopped laughing to start thinking about the design for his personal magic ring design for tier 1.
'A Record Activation is not really useful in tier 1, there is hardly enough space to make a meaningful cast time reducing magic ring like [Half Time Cast]. Even my engravement language could not change the lack of space in a tier 1 ring.'
'A strengthening Activation is not a bad choice, it could also strengthen the chosen effects if those effects are found in tier 2, but heavily reduced. With my engravement language it should not be a problem to make a Strengthen Activation more meaningful.'
'A Change Activation would not even fit on a tier 1 magic ring regardless of my engravement language, I would not mind to have an increased mana regeneration, I will need battle endurance for the war.'
'An Effect Addition Activation can be very useful depending on the effect chosen, a Slowing effect upon being hit by magic is good. But I like magic casting interruption upon being hit by magic, this can be a bane on any mage in tier 1, but on mages with a higher tier than myself would not be really useful.'
'A Dual Cast Activation would fit on a tier 1 ring, and if I use it people would only think I am casting genius having such an ability before reaching tier 3. This Activation would be giving me a second gun for use during the war.'
Grey had research multiple Activations that are possible over the period of his research, some ideas he got from thinking about games from his previous life, others already existed in this world.
'A Strengthen Activation is required on my magic ring, any advantage is required to survive the war.'
Grey smiled at this point, many Strengthening Activations at tier 1 would only strengthen a single spell, completely useless. Grey's engravement language could do much better, it could allow for the strengthening of all magic of single magic element.
Grey believed that by the time he reached tier 2, there should be enough space on the magic ring to allow all of three elements to be strengthened.
'I will obviously Strengthen the Light element, with my engravement language the true strengthening value should reach 9.2%. I still lack experience to do any better, Master Wagner can reach 9.3% with an old language, I must not stop learning.'
'The Record and Change Activation are off the table for now.'
There was no further thoughts on those two Activations.
'The Effect Addition Activation could give interesting results, but in order to survive it's better to have two guns than one. I guess it's Dual Cast Activation, but I must get Effect Addition Activation next time.'