One second? Jack looked again into the image in his mind. You must be sh*tting ! He cursed in his mind. His record of casting the Barrier spell which consisted of only one rune was just a tiny bit below one second, most of the ti it still took him a full one second to complete. This spell formation here had five runes, and the symbols on the runes looked more complicated than the spells he had encountered thus far. There were more lines on it, which ant he would need more ti to complete each individual rune.
"The image will stay in your mind, you just need to think of the Order of Magi to summon the image again. You can take your ti to practice. Once you can reach the required casting ti, you can co back here to process your admittance into our faction."
It seed like there was no way for him to beco this faction's mber today, Jack sighed in his mind.
"What is the spell of this spell formation?"
"It isn't a spell," Janus replied. "It was just a special rune designed for the admission test."
"Oh, ok." Jack was disappointed, he thought he had just gotten a new spell for free.
"All right, I will take my leave then," Jack said as he turned away and walked to the door.
"Hope to see you again, mister Storm Wind," he heard Janus said.
He turned around in consternation. The guy was already back to focus on his to. Jack stood there with uncertainty before turning back again and walked out the door.
After he was out of the hut and closed the door, he started cursing, "Bloody hell! So he knew all the ti I am Storm Wind. Then why the hell did he make
go through all the trouble of pretending to be a formal mage? Does he have to act so enigmatic?"
"I can still hear you." He heard a voice from behind the door.
"Oh…" Apparently, despite existing in a separate dinsion, the soundproofing was not that good.
With the order of the day completed. He had nothing else to do. It's a bit late to start going outside for monster grinding. He thought about going to Commander Quintus' house again for training skills' proficiency, but then decided to just go back to Amy's Bakery and tried learning this spell formation that Janus had given him.
He went by Ellie's restaurant first to collect the weekly profit. Today was coincidentally the day the profit could be collected. Once he departed on the expedition, he would not be able to collect them for so ti. This ti he got only 19 gold coins for the profit.
Ellie explained that it was less not because the business was decreasing, it was because she used so of the inco to purchase more registered recipes. Such recipes were safer so if player cooks decided to leave, they would not take the knowledge of the recipes with them, as the recipes were tied to the restaurant.
She ntioned that she had gotten access to these registered recipes via a league faction called House of Culinary. She and Bill had beco mbers of this faction. Jack told her she had full authority to make the purchase. He did not mind a decrease in inco for improving the restaurant.
After making sure with Ellie and Bill that everything was fine, he could leave without worry. He told them that he would be unavailable for quite so ti.
Afterward, he went back to his room and started casting Janus' spell formation. He spent almost three seconds forming the first rune. Considering it took him six seconds when he first ford the runic symbol for the Barrier spell, this could be considered as an improvent already? He shook his head. No, he could not allow himself to be satisfied by such petty excuse. Three seconds for the first rune, to make five runes he would have wasted fifteen seconds. He had a whole fourteen seconds to improve, this would require imnse training.
In the end, he spent sixteen seconds completing the spell formation for the first ti. It was even worse than he had predicted. The spell formation quivered before disintegrating into small particles of light.
There was no cooldown for this spell formation, so he started forming the runes again.
He slowly got accustod to the symbols of the rune, it took him less ti as he got more familiar. Yet, the ti it took him to complete was still around ten to eleven seconds. It was still far from the required casting ti.
"How about you tried that multiple runes forming thod that I ntioned in the past?" Peniel suggested. She had been flying around the room, bored with nothing to do as Jack was focused on his training.
Jack rembered again after she brought it up. It was a thod that ford multiple runes at the sa ti. Since he had never tried before. He tested with forming two runes at the sa ti first.
It was sluggish at first, as he had to concentrate on two things at a ti. The runes even fizzled before breaking apart while they were still half-ford.
"You failed," Peniel said.
"Duh," Jack stated. The lines he ford on the runes were all over the place, no wonder the spell formation failed.
He did not get discouraged. It was common to not get the best result on the first try. He repeated the process again. He ceaselessly continued casting the spell formation, two runes at a ti. He still failed another four tis. He finally succeeded in completing two runes on his sixth tries, but it took him five seconds to complete.
"Crap! This takes even more ti than if I form them one at a ti," he complained. He roughly spent around two seconds when he was casting a singular rune from this spell formation.
"You are just unfamiliar with it. If you can get used to it, you should be able to get a better result than a single rune forming," Peniel said. "That is considering if you truly have that multi-task trait that you claid you have."
"Hmph! Don't you underestimate , little lady," he said as he felt fire up.
"Show it to , big boy!" She shot back.
Damn it, if soone was outside the room hearing them, they might get the wrong idea, Jack thought
He continued practicing until the night before he was disturbed by a ssage from Jeanny. At the ti, he had shortened his simultaneous two runes casting to less than three seconds.
Jeanny told him that Trinity Dawn was interested to join the expedition, together with her other friends that had just passed their advanced class trial. They were waiting at Raven's Den. She also inford him that The Man was also there, and he had two of his subordinates whom he ntioned yesterday that would be joining as well.
Jack stopped his training and headed to that tavern. A bit of fresh air would be good. He was not making such a big leap of improvent anyway. One second for all five runes, he wondered how long it would take for him to get there, if ever.
Jack t with them in the tavern. The two of The Man's subordinates were level 19 Knights. Trinity Dawn was already level 21 as well. The other friends of Jeanny were Bitter Rain who beca another mage at level 19, Wondrouslife who had beco a level 19 Archer, and Sweet Talk, a level 19 Fighter. Huh? A Fighter? Jack inspected her again to make sure he was not mistaken.
Jeanny saw her confusion and explained that she had still failed her trial, which was a pity. She was very eager to join as well. She even expressed if she could just join even if she was still a basic class. Jeanny talked her out of it. It would be a pity if he kept on leveling up but was unable to change her class due to having no access to the academy. He would have lost all those potential attribute points.
She expressed again how that she didn't want to spend her ti alone in the city while all her friends were sowhere else. Jeanny advised her that it was only temporary and that her top priority at the mont was to focus on becoming an advanced class. They would co back again after the expedition was over.
Jack tried to console her as well by saying, "don't worry, you might not need to wait so long. The road is dangerous. So of us will most likely die and they will be revived in this city. Then you can hang out together again."
The others gave him a weird stare.
"You have a really strange way to cheer people up," Viral Cora said.
Jack accompanied them for a while and bought them all a round of drinks before he excused himself. Before he left, he reminded them to not be late the next morning.
He went straight ho and continued his rune-forming practice. It took him a while but he finally managed to complete the dual runes in almost two seconds.
He decided to try doing it with three runes at the sa ti. As expected, it failed. Doing three runes at the sa ti was way harder than two. He kept on failing even after ten tries. Even when he slowed it down, it was still extrely difficult to concentrate on three things at the sa ti.
"This is hard!" He exclaid.
"Hey, don't stay up too late," Peniel told him.
He looked at the ti and realized it was past midnight already. He quickly decided to stop the practice and went to bed. He had told the others not to be late, it would be unseemly if he was the one that was late.
Before his mind went to sleep, he wondered how fast it would be if he cast the Arcane Turbulence spell which had three runes using the multi-runes forming thod. The runes of that spell were more simple than this spell formation from Janus, so in theory, he should be able to form them faster. He felt eager to test them out, but he cald himself down. It would be bad if he caused damage to the room.
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