Skendus spent a few hours reading through the sixty-page book that he was given, he read through it thhly, about three times. He didn’t want to miss aails, because even though it was a book featuring three basic powers, these powers were still one of the greatest things that he had run across! They were bound to be very effective.

  The learning process for illusionists was very iing as well, because new abilities weren't easy to achieve. It wasn't simple.

  Skendus had to prehend the tent that he was reading, aiced that the moment he uood what he was reading, something unique happened. Not only did he feel more enlightened itively, but there was also this pair of eyes that appeared in front of him as a result of his prehension, and they popped up when he had been reading the first chapter of the book!

  The inner meics of its appearance was difficult to uand, he couldn’t figure it out. For that matter, he focused on the simpler parts instead, aually noticed that this pair of floating eyes kept growing, the more he read!

  “Fasating!” He excimed, “They’re really trag everything I’m doing!”

  Although it was very tempting to stare this pair of eyes down, he had to stop paying attention to them eventually, because at that point he had only been on the first chapter. There lenty more to read, he couldn't get distracted.

  Once he fully uood the first chapter, both of the floating eyes had grown to the size of his head, and they looked a bit creepy now. Thankfully, they started dissipating moments after. The pair of eyes colpsed within themselves, and turned into this sparkly, blue mist, and Skendus ended up inhaling this mist afterwards. The huffs he took, allowed the mist to go directly towards his brain, and as a result, he felt enlighteo the point of euphoria!

  “Okay, it makes a lot more sense now.” He sighed, and then summoned a bolt on his palm.

  Skendus summoned a Blunderous Bolt with ease, and this was the result of reading, and uanding the first chapter of the book that he was givewirled the bolt on his palm, a very happy that this bolt only cost forty mana points to summon. He was vihat this ability would be more than useful to him, not only throughout the following days, but forever!

  Therefore, he was more thaed to read the rest of the book, and in the end, he had reasons to read through the book multiple times! He e thhly, and was happy to feel overpowered with abilities that were sidered basi the world of illusion.

  “I've been surviving with the little power I have, for decades even… Anything new is overpowered in my hands, so maybe joining this sect isn't a bad idea after all?” He thought, as he was very ptive at the end of his studies.

  “I have to think about this for a while,” He figured, and then he asked to leave the floating building that he was in. “I hought that I'd read anything fht hours straight, heless a modern book. Timothy, and his unbreakable spirit brought me to this city, so that little menace deserves all the respect he gets. Well… I should express my respect for him more often, though, I'd guess that he doesn't even care about who respects him?”

  Anyway, he was escorted out of the premises moments ter. He was ready to face the world with three new offensive abilities in his arsenal, and he was quite excited about it, but now it was almost night time, so he went to the main Guard Barracks in order to find a bed to sleep in. He did enough work today.

  …

  Arvena spent four hours at the local library, but she was distracted often, so she ended up studying for two hours only. She made goress heless, and the experience she had with learning a new ability was simir to what Skendus went through, though not identical.

  The little goblin dy discovered that while she studied, a certai monitored her progress. A thin line of fire twirled around her head, and this fire moved around much like a ese Dragon!

  The fire didn't burn her hair, nor did it harm her in any way, but as she absorbed more knowledge from the book in front of her, the line of fire thied. In the end, the fire looked as wide as a cymore sword's bde, which hihat she uood the book's chapter properly, and thhly! Her mana quality was det, so she didn't have to spend too much time in order to learn a new ability, this was a fact, and the Laser Shot was a good example. It was a ability, it wasn’t basid yet she lear in just two hours, she officially added it to her arsenal of powers.

  “B,” She grunted after, as she was not so amused here. “How could the authors of this book fortably say the word ‘fire’, over four-huimes in a single chapter?! This is more than b, I feel mentally abused!”

  Plenty of mages would think otherwise if they had the same luck as her, but that was just how she felt right now. She was fairly depressed about losing aire realm of her mana a couple of days ago, so she didn't want to be bothered to learn something new.

  This was very uncharacteristi her side, because she had goo extreme lengths for knowledge's sake before, she had risked everything for pure, superior knowledge, but she wasn't as enthusiastic today. She didn't even bother cheg out the rest of the book, and walked over to put it ba its shelf.

  Arvena had another power to her arsenal now. She had breathed in the fumes of the thick fire that had twirled around her head, and after the fire disappeared, even the euphoria that came from obtaining a new ability, didn't lift her spirits. The fire dissipated, which also meant that she was officially free to explore the town for a while, as she pleted her little task here.

  “I want duck meat,” She decided, and walked into the town to find a restaurant that sold it.