Chapter 02

Path to Magician II

I enter the massive doors. I can see round hall with statues of mages. Must be someone great, otherwise no one will make statue of gold. I can see counter with two receptionist lady's. One of them spotted me.

-"Can I help you?"

-"Yes, I'd like to learn magic profession."

-"To find a magic mentor you need to go there"

Points into one of the hallways.

-"Third door on the right side."

-"Thank you. bye"

-"Bye, come again"

I walked there and knocked the door. No answer... Knocked again and this time sleepy voice answered.

-"Come in!"

I walk in. Inside this room is dark and only light source is dim lamp on the desk. There sits man and wipes his eyes. I was right he was sleeping. From the looks of it he is around 35 years old. He claps and the room becomes brighter. I come closer to his desk.

-"What do you want?"

Not a friendly type I guess.

-"I want to become a mage!"

I have a feeling that this is the only thing I talk about.

He looked at me with a scorn eyes.

-"Can't help."

Eh? No, no, no I clearly know that you can! Otherwise I won't be sent here. Oh, maybe..

-"What can I do to become one?"

-"What do you know about magic?"

-"Hmm... it's a skill that uses mana?"

-"See, you don't know a thing about magic. Go to the library and read books about magic!"

Thats why I didn't like name institute!!

~Ting~

Quest! Learn about magic 1 You're total noob in magic. Gain some knowledge first! Difficulty level: E Quest requirements You need to find and read books about magic. The more you read the better reward! Books read 0/5 Reward: varies

Thought so. Well nothings free even in this world. I go to the 2 receptionist lady's to about library. Fortunately library is in this building on 3^rd floor. Sprint on the stairs and here I am. There is only one door on whole floor. Past the door what awaits me is a three-storeyed library with thousands of books. I bet I can take any random book and it will be about magic. There's a librarian girl here, so it's safer to ask.

-"Hello, are you a first time here?"

-"Yes, my name is TroyI need books about magic. Preferably begginer level."

-"Name's Ann, first you need library card. It will cost you 10 copper coins."

-"Here you go."

-"Now you need to personalize this card by drop of blood, here you go"

She gave me card and needle. I puncture my finger and se that I got damage for 1 HP. Nevermind it I touch card with punctured finger and card started to shine a little. After a second light dissapeared and I can see my name on card.

-"Now that you have a card, you can read all you want 24 hours a day. Library is never closed."

-"Then why do I need a card?"

-"First: card automatically register books that you read so that you can see if you already read this book. Second it register any book that you take outside and automatically teleport them after a week. This function is for those who travel. Third function is called "Personal Library". You can read all books that you already read and it categorized by theme. This is basic card that can store up to 50 books. To get next rank card you need to read 50 books in total. And lastly, library have protective spell that prevent anyone without library card to take books."

-"Travel feature is cool. And about the books..."

-"Come here"

She walked into one of the rows.

-"You can browse this bookshelf for beginner material about magic. Further is more advanced material if you need."

-"Thanks for helping me."

-"It's my work"

She bowed lightly and walked to her counter.

I started to look for books titles. “Advanced Magic Theory”, “History of Famous Magicians (Book 1 of 4)”, “Adventure of Magicians Party”..., “Magic for Dummies (Book 1 of 2)”. I decided to read this suspiciously named book, both of them to be precise. Back in a hall there was 2 rows of tables. I sat at the one closest to Ann. It seems this library not so popular, because except for me and Ann there was no one. I started to read volume 1.

Magic for Dummies (Book 1 of 2) Introduction for magic Magic is one of the miracles of our world. Magic uses mana as fuel. Mana is a source of energy that resides in every living being. Even non-magic users use mana for their need...

After awhile I finally get to some useful, but still noob information.

Magic Elements and their Characteristic There are 7 elements in total, they are: Fire; Water; Earth; Wind; Light; Dark and Non-Elemental. Every element can do varies functions such as attacking, defending, healing, support. Depending on purpose and use, the same element can be trained in all directions. Depending on what magic magician uses he can be named differently (example: Priests for healing magic, Enchanter for support, etc.). Every element, except non-elemental, have affinity that can be cultivated by using this particular element. The more you use, for example fire, the more affinity you gain with fire the more damage you can do...

Reading all of it really hurts my head, but I tell myself that it's all for a game and continue to read. With such thoughts 6 hours passed and I finally done with this book. Despite looking like normal book for about 300-400 pages, in reality it's about 100 with others just some pictures that sometimes even don't belong to theme of reading content. I guess they too needed to fill it with something. As I wanted to start reading next book my stomach made particular noise, notifying me that it wants to eat. So I take “Bread Slice” and “Water Bottle (small)” and that do the trick. One of the good things about this bottle is despite it saying small it's actually:

Water Bottle (small)
Type	Magic Item	Durability	-/-
Quality		Normal
Small bottle that can be filled with normal water. Can contain up to 25 liters of water. Remaining water 24,5 liters

Yes it's actually magic item. From information I know, only medium sized bottle was found and it can contain up to 100 liters of water. As my stomach stopped rumbling, second book was already opened. Another 6 hours passed and this useless book finished. Why useless? Because there was nothing important in it. At least there was one good thing.

Notice!! You read both volumes of Magic for Dummies and gained basic magic knowledge. Intellect +1

My first stat upgrade. It's good but too much time consuming. At least they somehow made that 1 hour in real world is equal 4 hours in virtual world. But beside that real body is in sleep trans, so I can play for about 14 hours in real life today and that will be 2 days and 8 hours.

And again I'm hungry, meal time~. I guess It's every 6 hours.

3 books to go. What do I read next? After thinking for awhile I decided on book called “Compound Magic”. Another 6 hours later. In short this books tells about combining 2 or more elements into 1 magic. Again almost nothing new for those who played some games. One particular part is that non-elemental magic is combination of every element. But despite that non-elemental magic is called weakest magic of all. Mostly because there's not many attack spells and they are weak comparing to other element. It's actually so tiring to read this boring books. Next book that attracted my attention is called “Category of Magic”.

Story short, magic can be categorized as:

Tool magic – magic tools like my water bottle.

General magic – all basic magic that is learned at the beginning.

Area magic – magic that cover area about 10m.

Siege magic – powerful magic that can't be used inside dungeons or houses, used during siege and covers area up to 100m wide.

Disaster level magic – magic that can turn whole city to dust!

The last, disaster level magic, is unconfirmed because no one used such magic in ages. The only reminder is some old books that can't be trusted since they were wrote long before oldest institute was formed 1500 years ago! I thought so, magic is awesome! As my tension started to grow, I again stared at bookshelf. One more to go. But before that I'm mentally and physically exhausted so I decided to make little break and stretch my body. There's a window on second floor so I decided to go there. View is not that impressive since I'm not that high and many buildings obstructing my view. But I can see street and people there. I didn't gave a thought when was running here, but there's really quite a lot different races. Even though it's “just a small part” of all, as developers says. Sexy dark elves, bombastic cow tribe females and others are all pleasure to male eyes. Back to body stretching, I decided to make a round trip on this floor and because it's boring to just walk, I decided to search some book to read. After round trip I found 2 books that picked my interest. One was “Stats and their description” and the other one “Calamity Bringer”. Since I don't know if non-magic books are counted I decided to read both of them.

Stats and their description Every living being can use magic called “Window”. This magic projects window in your mind. It can be equipment, or bag or any other. In this particular book we will talk about “status”. Starting from basics: Health point (HP) – your life. If it ends you're dead. Mana point (MP) – your mana capacity. If it's empty you can't use active magic. Stamina – hidden stat, influence your fatigue. Strength – power of you physical attack. Additionally give you 5HP per 1STR. Vitality – your defence stat. Give you 10HP per 1STA. Agility – affect your speed, both physical and mental. In case of mental speed it reduces cool down of skills. Intellect – power of your magic attack. Give you 10MP per 1INT. Wisdom – affects your regeneration time of HP and MP. Give you 5MP per 1WIS. Luck – affects many aspects of life. Monster drop rate, critical rate etc. Leadership – ability to command group of people. That was all of the basic stats. Secondary stats affect different aspects of many professions. You can gain these stats by gaining profession or through hard work. Toughness – influence defence stat. Fate – influence healing rate. …...........

There's more to this stats but the more noticeable stats are:

Fire Affection – your fire spells are stronger. This stat can go over 100%. .........

Except for non-elemental magic, every element have affection. The same is with resistance, but with additional “physical resistance”.

~Ting~

Quest Updated! Learn about magic 1 You're total noob in magic. Gain some knowledge first! Difficulty level: E Quest requirements You need to find and read books about magic. The more you read the better reward! Books read 5/5 Reward: varies

I guess since it tells about intellect and elemental affections it counts. It's good to know what you need to increase and in general. 

Notice!! For reading many books and gaining knowledge, you are awarded with bonus. Intellect +1 Wisdom +1

And now for the last one!