Rise of the Godking - Chapter 132

Free. That was the main thing he felt as he sensed the frae relish in the breakthrough, before suddenly hungering for energy so that it could fill up the new stores that had just been created.

He obliged, breathing in to pull from the crystals around his waist. He felt a faint hint of panic, though, when he saw that he was running dangerously low…but recalling the windfall that was soon going to come his way, he calmed himself down and stood up. 

He really wished that he could continue sitting there to gather even more insights and even more information about what magic really was using his own sensations and his own reasoning, but it was too dangerous. If anyone came this way, a lot of questions would definitely arise about the one he had kidnapped, so grudgingly, he picked up the mage's body and took out a crystal to begin the teleportation.

On the way back to Larefa, he did reflect, a lot, on everything that had just happened. Magic was fundamentally different here from what it had been on Angaria, but already, he could draw a few similarities that he knew would help him in the future if he proceeded along his path, right now, and kept getting stronger.

On Angaria, magic was all about one's mageroot, which was similar to the frae, but also different as it had nothing to do with energy. There, all that mattered was the size of the mageroot, which was directly tied to the complexity of one's unconsciousness, or in other words, the ability of one's mind to perform increasingly complex tasks. Depending on the level of both of these, the particles that freely floated in the air could be controlled to cast bigger and stronger spells, so the way to train as a mage was to temper the mageroot in energy, and allow it to grow by repeatedly casting spells.

These last two aspects were similar here, too…but the main differing aspect was that the frae had energy of its own. This was clearly so to counteract the additional step, here, where particles needed to be attracted from the other realm to be used in spell casting.

At first glance, it might seem as if magic here was weaker…but already, he had seen so much that said the exact opposite. He was confident that the mage he had fought was definitely not above the Tyro level. They were still in the first realm, and in the third level of that realm, but already…spells of the sort that he had just seen could be cast. 

It was incredible! Of course, he didn't know how many realms there were, but he knew, with certainty, that if two mages with the same amount of training but different origins fought, then the one who had trained on the Mainland would definitely win by a landslide. 

He had known, beforehand, of such a difference, but it hadn't been as clear before. Now that he knew exactly how they were different…the ramifications were astounding.

First, the ceiling of power had definitely changed. There, the Hero level was the limit even for those in the ancient Empire, who had had access to an atmosphere which was much more abundant with energy, but here, he was confident that a peak at least a couple of realms above that could be achieved as one could just do so much more with these particles, and with being in close contact with the source of all magic. 

Second, he could already see how spells that one might never have been able to imagine back on Angaria could be cast here. After all, instead of using the types of particles present in the air, one could split what was obtained from the beyond to what they wanted, so it was very possible that subtypes that were not present on Angaria, or at least did not conform to the traditional classification of elements could be found, and used with incredible effects.

Feeling giddy due to all the things he was understanding so easily without having to be taught about them or taking the help of the system, he continued, studying the exact cause of the breakthrough, and what he had learned about the frae in the process.

They were too many problems present with the entire process of absorbing external energy and using it to cast spells. True, it allowed one to do things that they definitely would not be capable of doing at that level, but it truly wasted too many resources.

Also, there was a delay, a latency caused by the fact that energy had to be absorbed, collected, then used. It was very, very difficult to maintain the level required while also weaving those complex patterns, and if he didn't have the system, he would definitely not have been capable of defeating that mage in the way he just had.

Hell, now that he thought about it, he saw that it had been so hard to skip over those few levels without making him faint that all the system's abilities, which had been upgraded so many times with so much painstaking and frustrating effort on his part, had been stressed, meaning that what he had done was definitely impossible for anyone else, unless they were also some God-level being who was trapped in the body of a Novice Mage, for some reason.

Slowly, his thoughts veered to the reason behind his breakthrough, in the first place. Was it really so easy for a Novice to go to the next level, simply by casting a few spells forcefully? For some reason, this just did not feel right. So, to find out whether he had overestimated the distance between two realms, he asked the system, and the answer it gave made him freeze where he was. 

[Responding to host. The topic which has just been asked about was being researched by system extensively until a few moments ago. The conclusion reached is as follows:

The connection to a Will was made through hosts 'frae'. At the moment of connection, the 'frae' was bathed in a nourishing aura, of sorts, which can even be called a type of energy. Due to this process, the distance between the realms was greatly reduced, allowing host to shorten the time to a breakthrough. This is a one-time amplification in the case of each Will, directly proportional to the size of the Will, and thereby, the size of the island that is inhabited by the Will. It is possible that host can quicken his pace of improvement through the realms by connecting with different Wills from different locations. The two connections made were the reason behind host's breakthrough.]

Power, Will, and energy. Suddenly, it felt as though every step he had taken since coming here had somehow unconsciously helped his goal, and the moment he realized this, he saw the hints of a prophecy guiding his actions.

'Am I really the chosen one? Logic dictates that anyone meant to free the inhabitants of these islands should have a means to be more powerful than anyone else here...and I'm pretty sure that being able to connect to a Will is no small thing. Ah...who cares? If I'm not the frelsar, the real chosen one is really lucky 'cos he's gonna have all his work done for him before he can lift a finger. All right, then, for now, onwards, for the end of the scam awaits!'