Chapter 317: The Power Of An Inner Magic Circle, Time To Create A Spell

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Ding!

[x10,000 Reward Multiplier Activated!]

[Passive Effect: {Intelligence Link} has been multiplied by x10,000!]

[You have received the Skill: [Skadi’s Blessing – Titan’s Magic Circle: Level 1]: You share 30% of Elisa’s Intelligence Stat multiplied x10,000. Your Titan Mana Heart has developed a Titan Magic Circle by condensing Mana into Runes, which will empower your ability to conjure Spells, your Mana Aura, and your Mana Nature. Alongside the power to create Unique Spells by combining Created Runes.]

"Titan Magic Circle...?"

Riven felt shocked by what he heard, it seemed to be a completely new type of Cultivation, which was likely connected to how several Magician Families cultivated their own Magic Powers.

He read the skill description again to make sure he understood every part of the effect.

Magic Circle was a type of Magic and Mana Cultivation done by exceptionally talented wizard and magician families, no normal awakened or hunter could do them, and special guidance and cultivation method manuals or grimoires were required, usually kept tightly hidden from the public by these big Wizard Families, who mostly dominated Europe.

Those manuals were almost never sold or shared outside the bloodlines that owned them.

Due to the existence of Cultivation aside from the System and Skills, there would always be a massive difference between an A-Rank Wizard from a Prestigious Family, in the possession of a Inner Magic Circle, compared to an A-Rank Wizard Class Hunter, who only relied on a couple of skills for all their magic.

The family wizards could shape their mana in ways that regular hunters simply could not match, no matter how high their skill levels went.

The difference, quite honestly, was like heaven and earth! Riven sat still for a moment longer and let the new circle settle fully inside his Titan Mana Heart before he even tried to test it.

While the Hunter with no background or family would be able to unleash potent magic spells with his skills, they would always be limited and have as much Mana as their own System and Levels allow them.

Their spells stayed locked to whatever the class provided, and the mana pool rarely grew beyond the standard rank limits.

Meanwhile, the Wizard from a prestigious Family would have cultivated their Mana Pool and Magic Circle since they were children, possessing, sometimes, hundreds of times the Mana than a regular awakened even within their same rank, and with their own inner magic circles, they can weave and create new spells by aligning runes, instead of relying on the skills given by their classes alone.

That single difference let them invent solutions on the spot instead of waiting for a new skill to drop.

It was a massive advantage, the same as Martial Artists who cultivated their bodies through body tempering techniques and also learned martial arts from special methods, compared to a warrior who relied on their class and skills and armor...

The body cultivators could keep improving long after a regular warrior hit the ceiling of their equipment and skill set.

This was one of the many ways how the big families around the world kept these sources of power from the general population.

They guarded the manuals and the training methods so tightly that most outsiders never even learned the techniques existed.

However, Riven now held the unique advantage of having his own Magic Circle within a Skill, gifted to him by his Authority.

He still found it hard to believe the system had handed him something the old families spent generations protecting.

"But isn’t this too strong?"

As he looked at the message again, his eyes widened, there was more information coming.

The windows kept updating before he could close them.

Ding!

[x10,000 Reward Multiplier Activated!]

[Passive Effect: {Intelligence Link} has been multiplied by x10,000!]

[You have received the Skill: [Skadi’s Blessing – Titan’s Magic Circle: Level 1]: You share 30% of Elisa’s Intelligence Stat multiplied x10,000. Your Titan Mana Heart has developed a Titan Magic Circle by condensing Mana into Runes, which will empower your ability to conjure Spells, your Mana Aura, and your Mana Nature. Alongside the power to create Unique Spells by combining Created Runes.]

[You have refined 1,000 Runes; you have formed your First Magic Circle.]

[You gained +5,000,000 Intelligence.]

[You gained +2,000,000 Mana.]

[You gained +1,000,000 Spirit.]

[Your Runes are currently Element-less and like a blank slate.]

He read the final line and realized he would need to decide how to shape those runes before he could make full use of the new circle. And just as he thought that more notifications appeared, as if responding to his own thoughts.

[You can create 1 Special Spell by aligning them together with your own Knowledge, Techniques, and Skills.]

[Created Spells linked to the Magic Circle will grow along with it as the Skill Level Ups, becoming increasingly more powerful and capable of branching into new forms.]

The system made it clear that only one spell could be formed right now, no matter how useful the others looked.

[Calculating Three Possible Spell Constructs...]

[Calculation Complete.]

Three windows opened at the same time and waited for him to read them.

[Ghostly Sword Garden – Spell Tier 1]: When conjured, summons a pseudo domain around the user that unleashes from 10 to 50 consecutive slash attacks combining Sword Energy with Ghost-Attribute Magic, capable of dealing +200% physical and soul damage per attack, ignoring from 10 to 30% of defenses.

Riven read the numbers and noted how the spell focused on volume rather than single heavy hits.

[Abyssal Guillotine – Spell Tier 1]: When conjured, unleashes a large concentration of abyssal shadows and darkness into a powerful, descending cutting attack toward any direction within the range of your Abyssal Shadow, ignoring 50% of Defense and dealing +1500% physical, magical, and soul damage.

This one looked closer to the kind of finishing move he already used in close combat.

[Poisonous Snake Swarm – Spell Tier 1]: When conjured, your Poisonous Mana transforms into a swarm of gigantic snakes of all sorts of shapes and sizes, each one with their own Stats and Unique Poisons, such as Freezing Poison Viper, Explosive Blazing Poison Rattlesnake, etcetera. Snakes can combine to summon a stronger form "Yamata-no-Orochi" to deal devastating poison-attribute damage based on how many snakes made it, leaving a poisonous cloud that weakens and drains life from foes.

The last option would give him extra bodies on the field and a way to control space with poison.

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