Even if he was first, Toz didn't choose the more expensive spell. He picked the grimoire containing a spell labeled Fireball.
The grimoire itself didn't look that extraordinary. A thumb-thick book bound with brown leather and with a few golden decorations on the spine and the front. The decorations looked like golden thread snaking around the surface of the cover.
Toz ran his hand over the front cover before carefully opening it, revealing a sturdy page of paper thicker than what was used in ordinary books.
At first, the page was empty, but strange symbols began appearing as if they were burned into the page.
Weirdly enough, only Mindle and Toz could see those figures. Though Mindle quickly looked away, and after satisfying his curiosity, Nil began reading his own grimoire, where a similar phenomenon happened. He was the only one who could see the symbols appearing as if liquid metal was poured into set shapes.
