Only Wisdom Awakened - Chapter 194

Chapter 194: Layering
“The Frostbane family…

Hasn’t always been the one to reign our lands.

Our legacy seems short when compared to the pillar that held the empire before our rise to the top.

My first ancestor’s constitution was special, so special that his ability was sought after even by a god.

The goddess of ice, even if incredibly powerful, had never been able to express her powers because of the terrible repercussions on her apostle’s bodies.

If for us, Froatbanes, the curse would take less than thirty years to kill us, any normal talented mage would’ve barely lasted a couple of years before becoming a block of ice.

That’s why, faithless people ruled the land.

It was a family known as royals, and they were the ones who united the continent, promoting the great houses as their vassals to look after the territories.

At the time, our house was just a low-rank vassal of the royal family.

There was a reason why those bastards were able to keep their reign for thousands of years… And that reason is the spell I am going to teach you.”

Caelan explained to Hans in the plain of darkness.

“A spell different from any you have ever seen, which has an incredible potential.

It does not have a name, since it has been lost with time, but for the last few generations, we called it {enchance}.

This technique was unknown to the world and was passed down to the members of the Frostbane family together with a mana pact that forbade them from sharing this skill with anyone.”

“Hold up”

Hans interrupted Caelan’s explanation.

“If you are forbidden to teach it by the mana pact… how are you going to teach it to me”

“Well, a mana pact is theoretically done to the soul, which should mean that even after changing bodies somehow or dying, one should not be allowed to break it, however, the penalty for this mana pact was…

Death”

“Oh… I see”

“Can we continue now?”

“Yes, please go on”

“Alright, as I was saying, this spell must not be taught to anyone, and no one knows how to use it.

Even we, Frostbanes, cannot use it, since this spell does not work for people who possess the goddess’s blessing.”

“Wait… aren’t you like the villains then? You’re keeping a knowledge that could give everyone wings just to stay at the top of the world”

“That’s… let me finish will you?!”

“Alright alright I’m sorry”

“Sigh…

Even though what we did when defeating the royal family might seem like just taking the power for ourselves to you, we actually did it to take it away from them.

From what we have studied, and even I have studied, we came to the conclusion that the spell we now call {enchance} is born to contrast the power of the gods, our hypothesis is that the royal family’s first progenitor had an inferiority complex because of the winter goddess rejection, and being the mage genius that he was, he created a spell aimed to upgrade a normal person’s spell as if he had a blessing.

We have no clue about that person, but we know he must’ve been damn talented.

That wasn’t the problem, his personality probably was, and we deducted that from observing his descendant’s actions.

The royal family treated everyone as if they were slaves, and felt no shame in what they did.

Everyone, even the most loyal vassal would’ve been killed and publicly humiliated for as much as talking back to any of them.

Not to talk about the citizens, their lives were nothing but playthings for their imperial family, so much so that thousands of people were killed every year in the royal palace to entertain them.

They were crazy bastards, and the reason why we kept this spell for ourselves was exactly because of this reason…

We feared another family such as theirs would arise, and we wouldn’t have been able to stop them.”

“What?! You wouldn’t have been able to stop them?! Wasn’t your father a ninth-circle?”

“He was, but even our ancestor, who is believed to have entered the realm of the archmage, had to sacrifice his life in order to kill the old king, so if someone talented had gotten their hands on the spell, not only father, even I might’ve not been able to stop them.

Well… of course all because I was still young, if I had more time to grow I would’ve beaten even the ancestor of that damn royal family.”

“And how did you come to know all of this?”

“The spell was handed down to me by my father when I was still little, and this story was told to me by the goddess after I became her apostle”

“Shouldn’t I just learn this spell for myself then?”

“I mean… yeah, but your path has been set already as a high-ranking mage, so changing the way you cast spells could make you weaker instead of increasing your strength”

“Still… if you want to at least give it a try it’s up to you”

“Alright then… please enlighten me”

“This time, Hans couldn’t directly just copy the spell he wanted to learn, since even Caelan had never cast it, but with the guidance of a tenth-tier mage, and being able to freely watch the spell tome from the man’s memories, when the sun was about to set, he had already started to grasp it.

“In his room, Hans cast the simple spell {flame burst}(tier-1) and a little flare appeared on his hand.

Then, after closing his eyes to attain a better concentration, he enveloped the flame in mana.

Swirling in the silent room, the fire that once seemed small had formed into a proper flame, comparable to that of a flamethrower.

The young man was sweating from the fatigue, but his lips twitched as a smile appeared on his face:

“Finally… I made it”

‘Congratulations!

It’s really interesting to see someone use this spell, I’ve actually always wanted to test it, but my body didn’t allow me to.

Now that I see it, I understand why the goddess said that man was driven by an inferiority complex when comparing himself with her apostle.”

“What do you mean?”

“The way the spell improves the other spells is incredibly similar to how the goddess’s powers enveloped my attacks when I was her apostle, it’s as if he was trying to improve his spells by playing the both role of the god and the apostle at the same time.

This is really a marvel of magic, I don’t think anyone would’ve been able to create something like this without a heaven-given talent.

If only, instead of using it the wrong way he could’ve created a sturdy foundation for the future, maybe our world wouldn’t have fallen prey to her schemes.”

“It does seem amazing indeed.

And this feeling… it’s as if this spell was made up of two…

Hans’s reasoning was interrupted by the status window that popped up in front of his face.

[congratulations, you have learned the spell {layering}.]

… as if it was made up of two layers”

Concluded Hans.

“Let’s see….

[{layering.

Rank: none

Description:

This spell does not have a rank, its effectiveness and power will be determined by the spell it amplifies.

Creating a boost layer, this spell allows any other active spell’s firepower to increase many times.

Effect: multiplies the power of the spell with itself, effectively upgrading it by one tier or even more.

Note: proficency=tier-1

The proficiency implies the maximum tier the spell can be at the moment.

If the proficiency is lower than the spell one wants to enhance, the spell {layering} won’t work or could produce underwhelming results.}]

“This one is simply… insane.

I can’t wait to get it up to the seventh circle and try it out coupled with my strongest spells”

“Alright alright, I guess that’s the usual reaction, but don’t forget to use the mana pact trick when you teach it to someone because it can be used to amplify any spell, even the evil ones.”

“Yes”

“Oh… that’s right, I almost forgot to tell you”

“What?”

“This spell can only be taught to people above the third tier, otherwise they probably won’t be able to learn it”

“Ah…..”

Hans had almost forgotten that if he took a whole day with the assistance of a tenth-tier archmage and full access to his memories just to learn that spell, it would not be so simple for second-tier beginners to learn it.

“Damn… couldn’t you have just like… told me earlier?”

“Mh…. I forgot, and I don’t even have any spells to teach you other than this one, I only had contact with other people for twenty years so…”

“Yeah, alright, I guess it’s my fault.… I should’ve thought about that earlier, now, it seems like I will have to wait a while before I can teach them anything”

‘I can only hope… that you have all been training diligently my dear students’

As Hans thought about the spell, his phone vibrated on the desk….

[1 message from: Aiden]