Basic Magic Knowledge Manual Edition 15
Looking at the book she picked up from the large stack, Beatrice took a deep breath before opening it.
Unlike most other books that Beatrice had read before, this book went straight to the point, and began explaining magic from it's most basic form, causing Beatrice to become entranced in it.
Even though much of the content of the beginning pages was explained to Beatrice by Mr. Errol, the added details gave Beatrice chills down her spine from excitement.
But even though it was merely the beginning, it also included some details that Mr. Errol did not mention, or that he thought Beatrice could understand from reading.
For example, both mana and Elemental energies have units of measurement, Points, with one point being the amount of mana necessary to create 0.00453 kgs of materialized mana or elemental energies, with this metric being created by something called the Magic Council.
As Beatrice has not yet read the book describing the political situation among Mages, Beatrice did not yet know what the magic council was, but even so, Beatrice could already see that this organization had great authority among mages.
With her memory being enhanced by the Basic Meditation Technique, Beatrice earnestly remembered every single word recorded in this book, as if she feared she would forget any single word.
Although this book did not contain any spells nor any wonderous techniques, right now, Beatrice felt as is this was even more valuable than that.
From what defined Mage Apprentices, to all sorts of different, normal, or supernatural plants and animals, to all definitions ranging from how attack power was defined, with the regular attack power of all spells being tested in the magic council under regulated conditions, to what defined defensive power, to how both physical and spiritual strength was tested.
With one point in both categories being an average created by the magic council after testing over a million normal humans and calculating the results.
As such, right now, Beatrice has more Spiritual strength than eleven normal people put together, of course, descriptions and images of all sorts of plants and animals dotted three-fourths of the book, as without knowing these, a mage might be helpless against an easily countered supernatural creature.
Even extinct creatures, like Warevolves, vampires, harpies, orcs, and other such beings were described, from their strengths, weaknesses, and distinguishing characteristics.
But as Beatrice got to the end of the book, what she encountered was not a description, but a warning.
Even through the page, looking at the huge dragon represented in the picture, Beatrice felt a chill in her heart.
"That's at least five hundred meters tall," mumbled Beatrice as she looked at the hill and the utterly tiny trees next to the dragon.
"In case of a meeting with a dragon, the recommended tactic is to leave all your valuables behind before running away," read Beatrice as she looked at the bright red text that seemed to be imprinted with the blood of those foolish enough to challenge dragons.
As soon as Beatrice finished reading that sentence, she turned her eyes to the clock on the wall.
"It's been five hours," mumbled Beatrice before realizing for how long she had been reading, turning her head to the other books on the table next to her, which included Basic Biology, Physics, First Aid, and the thinnest book of all, 'A guide to rank 0 and rank 1 spells', Beatrice sighed before putting her eyes back on the book in her hands before returning to the first few pages, more specifically, a little bit after the section on Mage Apprentices.
"Innate Talents are the effects of random body or soul mutations under the effects of elemental energy, they can appear when a mage first becomes an apprentice or more rarely at birth, as the Bodies of Official Mages are much more resistant to mutations, See page 378 for more information," read Beatrice as she touched the book with her long nails, as an Official Knight, the sharpness of her nails was undeniable, as such, small cuts appeared in the book.
"Innate talent huh," mumbled Beatrice before once turning the pages of the book, now to a page she has not yet read, page 378.
The first sentence Beatrice read caused her to feel an ache in her heart.
"Innate talents can be divided into perfect and imperfect, those imperfect having various side effects either caused by the mutation or the effect of the talent itself," read Beatrice as her grip on the book tightened.
"Is it here," mumbled Beatrice as she looked at the huge list of innate talents listed below alongside their side effects and way of identification.
"This is almost a worst-case scenario," mumbled Beatrice as she finished flipping through the over a dozen pages of innate talents, finding not one that matched her symptoms.
Of course, Beatrice would not deny the possibility that she was wrong and this was not an innate talent, but based on the information she has right now, that seemed like the most likely possibility.
"At least it's not one of those," mumbled Beatrice as she looked at the list of Innate talents with horrifying effects on their user, but even so, worry appeared on her face as she seemed no closer to finding out what that feeling was than before.
After putting in a bookmark on the page she was on right now, Beatrice placed the book back on the pile.
Beatrice then took a suspicious piece of leather from the table and began staring at it while sitting crosslegged, trying to imitate the rune etched onto it in her mind.
Even though it seemed simple, this rune that looked like a butterfly seemed to have many different layers, causing Beatrice a lot of trouble as she tried to recreate it in her mind.
Of course, Beatrice wouldn't give up, as such, she began memorizing only a small part of the rune, starting from there and continuing to increase the size of the piece she memorized, of course, this would take a very long time.