Chapter 148
“Can I drink this? Should I?
Abel was hesitant, but he trusted the Horadric Cube . After all, it gave him all the skills he had in this world . With that in mind, Abel poured the strange-smelling potion into his mouth .
As he swallowed, Abel felt the blood rushing towards his brain . At this moment, his mind was like the CPU of a supercomputer, running faster and faster .
All the knowledge he learned in the past few months, the 3rd-level, 4th-level, and 5th-level apprentice wizard’s rune, ‘fireball’ pattern, ‘frozen armor’ pattern, the noble tongue of the elves and so on, they had been reanalyzed by his brain — the two spell patterns, especially . After learning how to draw their rune patterns, he just kept using the Horadric Cube to cast them .
It was convenient with the Horadric Cube’s skill tree, but the only way for him to memorize the patterns was to do them manually . Without the correct understanding of these runes, there was no way that he could learn the extended versions of them .
The long noble tongue of the elves for issuing the spell was an important reason for limiting the speed . In Abel’s brain, a virtual Abel was using this tongue, and each ‘fireball’ pattern was reflected in his mind . As the virtual continuously issued the spells, he mastered the spell gradually .
Inside Abel’s imagination, he would have an infinite amount of mana . Not only that, but the number of words he needed to chant out in the noble tongue of the elves was also reduced . It was cut from the original four sentences to three, to two, and finally just one sentence .
As Abel imagined himself firing the fireball one by one, he tried to deconstruct the entire spell . He tried to alter the sentence structure of the spell enchantment, which, in the end, made it possible to activate the spell “fireball” with just the word “fireball . ”
Abel didn’t have to go so far to do this . The noble elves that invented this spell could’ve done the same thing, but they decided to add words of praise into the enchantments . They probably did this so that everyone would subconsciously praise them when the spells were activated .
Next was the ‘frozen armor’ spell . When the frozen armor was placed on Abel (the imagined version), it automatically disappeared so that the virtual one could continue to perform it .
Again and again, the spell was completely mastered by him . Just as he attempted to reduce the spell enchantment of this technique, his brain suddenly ended the simulation .
The effect of the soul potion had passed . Abel felt like he just got a strong adrenaline rush, but it quickly reduced after a few minutes .
This soul potion was very powerful . So powerful that it almost brought him into the state of realization . Like some sort of high-quality fuel, it forced his brain to exceed his limit to imagine and analyze things .
Shockingly enough, Abel fully recharged his mana in a very short time . After realizing, he decided that he want to try the spell that he had just mastered .
“Fireball!” As Abel said, his finger flicked in the air . In just spent half a second, a fireball was thrown from his hand . Yes, even without the help of the Horadric Cube . From what Uncle Sam told him, he had spent more than 20 years to decrease the speed of his fireball to 1 . 5 seconds .
What Sam also told Abel was that the Yveline Wizard could release a fireball just half a second . Half a second was just as fast as Abel’s fireball just then . So, with just one bottle of the soul potion, Abel became as good as the Wizard Yveline .
“O the Ice elf! Use your divine power to weave pure white armor around me!” Abel sang as he drew the pattern in the air . A second and half seconds later, a frozen armor was placed around him .
Because the ‘frozen armor’ spell was more complicated than the fireball, the speed of the pattern drawing was much slower . And because Abel didn’t finish his simulation in time, the enchantment for this technique was not yet simplified .
Abel was a bit unsatisfied, but under normal circumstances, each spell must be used for tens of years before their activation time could be reduced . He had reached the level of others who spent many years learning spells, which was already a remarkable achievement . That being said, there was always a chance for improvement .
“Huh?”
As Abel checked inside his head for the other progress that the soul potion has helped him to make, he found a small ball next to where his second-level novice wizard runes were . It was so small that he had almost missed it .
Actually, how did it get inside his mind at all? When Abel used the power of the Will to examine it, he could see that this tiny ball was a part of him .
With the infusion of the will power, this tiny ball seemed to come alive . Abel’s mouth opened wide . He found that there were two of himself, one looking at the ball and one looking out of the ball .
Is this his soul? Or was it the original Abel that died when he was a kid? But didn’t their souls fuse already?
The original Abel’s soul had traveled through time and merged with the current Abel’s soul . What was left behind was a small fragment of itself, and because of how small weak it was, it would disappear slowly over time .
As it turned out, despite Abel using most of the soul potion for his training, some of the liquid was used to strengthen this tiny soul shard . Because of this, the shard was starting to share its mind with Abel . Like a new-born baby, it wasn’t capable of complex thoughts, but that was not to say that it wasn’t alive at all .
Abel didn’t know this was the soul shard, but he knew one thing: there was one big and one small soul inside his body . He could think like two people now . The other half was not fully developed yet, so he wasn’t going to let it deal with matters that were too hard for it .
Abel was eager to get another soul potion . Because of this meditation, both mana and combat qi had been full, and he could fight again .
Looking at the piles of dead quill rats on the ground, Abel turned them over one by one . He wanted to look for more potions, but there was nothing among them . After chopping up a few rats’ bodies, he still couldn’t find anything .
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