Greg sat in silence within his teacher's cave. Carefully holding a quill, Greg's hand moved at a steady pace across the piece of parchment before him. Ever since his teacher's admonition on the importance of correctly drawing magic runes while they were trying to close the convergence, Greg had made it a point to improve his handwriting. Until he was reasonably capable of writing out the strange alphabet of this new world with consistency, then it would be risky for him to start taking on the arcane tongue. Unlike the other languages of the world, the arcane tongue had the capacity to interact with mana and bring about all manner of effects. If he didn't get the runes exactly correct, then the best he could hope for is that they didn't work. There was, however, a very real chance that they could backfire and harm him if he wasn't careful.This time, Greg hadn't been as lucky as when they fought the abyssal creature. It took him two whole weeks for him to awaken from the coma that usua

The method to train precision was the one Greg found the most calming. Here, speed and control didn't matter, instead one's ability to recreate patterns was all that was tested. A board with several runes engraved onto it would project a 3D pattern in the air just above it. It was the task of the mage to recreate the pattern displayed. Once the mage had recreated the pattern to the best of their ability, they would try to overlay it with the pattern above the board and it would judge how close or how far one was from successfully recreating the pattern. At the start, the patterns presented were simple shapes and symbols. The more one progressed, however, the harder they became. His teacher had shown him one of the more advanced patterns available and Greg couldn't even make heads or tails of what he was looking at. Part of him was almost certain that the pattern changed every time he looked away then looked back. According to his teacher, there were other games that trained a combinat

Deprived of this energy, a plant will wither even if placed in the most fertile of soils. Deprived of this energy, even the most well-fed beast will go still and breathe their last, the same for the intelligent races. The reverse is also true, a plant, beast, or person full of vitality will thrive even in the harshest of conditions if full of life force. Of course, this is survival purely in the physical sense, the sanity of the persons or beasts is not factored in here." "This is a natural first aspect for many healers as it drastically increases the efficacy of our healing spells by about two to three times even at just nascent insight. A spell that would have only healed a small injury when cast by one without the aspect, would be able to close up a serious injury when cast by someone who had mastered this aspect. A spell for big injuries could be life-saving if cast by one with insight into the aspect of vitality. With deep enough insight, one could even regrow limbs with a simp

One day for each limb, one for her head, and two for her torso which had the highest concentration of mana pathways. The only problem with this approach was that Greg wasn't certain how stable the rest of her mana circulation system would be once he started cutting parts off. "I can think of a number of potions that will weaken the walls of my mana pathways," The healer spoke when Greg shared his findings and conclusions with her. "If we keep increasing the concentration of your mana and lower the strength of my mana pathways, I believe we can cut that time in half. Also, I suspect you have mana-draining crystals in your Magic Shop. If you have the tier three version, It'll be enough to leave me with almost no mana. If you don't have them, there are formations that can still achieve the same result, your familiar can operate it while you're working. That way you won't have to fight against my mana when dissolving my mana pathways," She continued to list out ideas for tackling the ch

In the far reaches of the Eldaria region lies the solution to what ails you. However, take care not to provoke the visitor from another world, lest you die!"The sound of the priestess played out in Lothar's mind from the message crystal. Because of this short prophecy, Lothar had spent the past two months on this ship flying all over the remote regions of the Eldaria region looking for signs that it was true. The high priestesses of the temple of Ozan were known for their accurate prophecies. Still, after everything he'd been through, Lothar couldn't help the seed of doubt that had been eating away at him. With the first part having come true, however, Lothar couldn't help but focus on the last part.What did the priestess mean by a visitor from another world?No one knew for sure how it was they of their revelations as it was a closely guarded secret of the temple. Lothar, however, had heard rumors that they went into a trance and got possessed by an external entity that spoke throu