Chapter 42
Drayken looked at the book and flipped it open while muttering in his heart:
“This should work.”
The first page that caught his eyes was the definition of Aura. Aura was the manifestation of desire and emotions.
The first basic spell that everyone takes to take the first step of Aura was the Aura spell itself. This spell lets one unleash their inner desire and emotions outward, making one enhanced and strengthened.
“Wait, what? This skill related to the emotions of beings?”
Drayken was stunned for a moment. He closed his eyes and supplied mana to his first spell: Aura. Immediately, he was covered by a black haze.
He calmed his emotions. The black flicker flickered ever so slightly and increased a bit; it was faint but noticeable.
“Hmm?” Drayken thought about the image of Eleanor, and anger surged in his heart. The aura around him rapidly grew and strengthened.
“It really works.”
He muttered in his heart. Although it was very minimal, there was definitely a certain effect according to his own emotion. But at the same time, another thought appeared in his head.
If this Aura could only manifest his emotion, then it would be extremely limited in use. No matter what, there is a certain limit to how far you can go. Just shouting won’t cause such a fluctuation, and his power will only be temporary.
The three basic spells that he had gotten were thoroughly explained here, and Drayken felt his understanding of Aura as a whole seemed to increase little by little.
Drayken flipped through the book, page by page, line by line, and word by word, his eyes glued to every single and minute detail.
After finishing the book, he flipped open the second book: Basics of Aura. This taught the simple principles of Aura.
“Eh, he already completed it?” Synthia looked from the corner of her eyes as Drayken finished the first book in just a few moments.
“How is this even possible?”
She muttered in disbelief. She felt like her eyes were playing tricks on her, so she rubbed her eyes again and again, trying to clear her vision, but it was still the same as ever.
Although it might look like Drayken had taken a lot of time, in essence, it only took him a few minutes. The power of five thousand destiny points was already showing!
But Drayken wasn’t privy to her thoughts. His focus was still on the book. A book is the container of knowledge, and he truly respected them by consuming everything that it had to offer.
The basics of Aura, well, this book was literally filled with illustration after illustration of weird patterns.
Drayken was confused for a moment, and he just stood there, not knowing what it meant. With curiosity, he flipped to the other pages, and it was a different illustration again. After flipping over fifty pages, gradually he felt a certain pattern in these illustrations.
There seemed to be something that he couldn’t pinpoint, but there was definitely a sense of similarity in every single illustration he had seen till now, even though they were completely different.
He started to flip the pages again, and in the next fifty pages, they were also completely different illustrations and patterns, but the growing doubt in his heart was gradually coming to fruition.
“What is its similarity?”
Drayken closed the book and sat cross-legged on the ground. Calming his mind with a breath of hot air, he focused.
It felt like there was a certain meaning behind this pattern.
“It’s as if someone has drawn them with a certain intent behind it.” His mind drifted back to the spell he had inscribed till now.
“This feeling is similar to the patterns of the magic sigils. But if these are magic sigils, how many spells are in this book?”
Drayken quickly shook his head. This was an unrealistic thought, spells were very rare and hard to create, and each one was kept as a treasure until their very death by the Dragons.
You are telling him that all these patterns are different spells of Aura?
Impossible!
That is unlikely to be true, even if this is the royal library itself.
“Wait.” Drayken used his Aura spell, and immediately a black haze surrounded him. He closed his eyes to feel the magic sigils inscribed in the mana core, then he opened his eyes and flipped through every page of the illustrations again.
He fell into a daze, his pupils suddenly brightening with understanding.
“All of these patterns are the most basic Aura spell.”
Drayken murmured in his heart. Even though they looked completely different, they were actually the same spell.
“But what made them the same?”
He thought hard in his heart. As he thought further, his pupils dilated, and he froze on the spot, becoming completely still.
“Eh, what happened to Drayken?” Synthia, who had just completed a page, was stunned to see Drayken completely frozen in place. Motionless, he fell to the ground with a thud, but even then, he remained completely still as a rock.
She walked up to him with an extremely worried expression. For some reason, her heart felt anxious and tearful at the same time:
“Hey, Drayken, don’t play with me. I know you’re joking with me.”
But no matter how she called, Drayken didn’t reply. Synthia began to sob and called out:
“Grandpa, Grandpa, what happened to Drayken?” she shouted instinctively.
Just as she was shouting, a figure appeared in front of her, picking his nose:
“Stinky girl, keep quiet. Drayken is only in a form of trance.”
“Trance?”
“In this state, one reaches harmony with the body and the mind, and it is the perfect state for comprehending things. Which book was he reading?”
The old man glanced at the fallen book.
“Basics of Aura?” He raised an eyebrow. “How lucky is this guy, as expected from the one chosen. Now he should be able to have a complete understanding of ‘Intent,’ and making spells will be much easier for his further progress.”
“What do you mean by ‘Intent,’ Grandpa?”