Kobold Wizard's Journal

Chapter 161 Spells and Books
Even though it was late, the sleep was still sweet, and Luger slept soundly until he naturally woke up.

He wiped his drool and slowly got up, looking at Green beside him. He raised an eyebrow and then peeked at the old wizard across the hole. The two of them had now become identical, both holding a book and looking down at it, their eyes unfocused. Moreover, the books in their hands looked the same, blood red in color, large and thick.

Ruger did not disturb them.

He stroked his chin, and judging from their posture, he roughly understood that this was what the bald old wizard wanted them to do.

Reading a book? Using divine artifact techniques to read a book?
Ruge nervously took out the spellbook of divine artifacts that the old wizard had given him.

The long-awaited spellbook slowly unfolded before his eyes. As if influenced by the focused atmosphere of the two people, he felt his breathing become heavy after opening the book.

So-called unranked spells are spells that grow on their own under specific conditions. From the moment Ruger heard about them, he was always curious about what such spells would look like and how their spell models would differ.

This old spellbook looks as thick as a palm, but it actually has very few pages. Moreover, the thickness of each page is different, and some are wrinkled and look dirty.

As Ruger turned the pages, his mind and spirit were involuntarily drawn into the book.

If all books in the world were done this way, there would be no problem with lack of concentration.

Gradually, he could no longer feel the hand that was constantly turning the pages. An exquisite spell model appeared before his eyes, revealing itself to him little by little. At first, he was surprised to see only three nodes in front of him. He had never seen a spell with so few nodes before. The spell model of the Bull's Power had twenty-one nodes, and the spell model of the Hair Removal Spell had nineteen nodes. But as his curiosity grew and as the mental energy he invested approached, the spell model began to show a fourth node, and then a fifth.

As the number of nodes increased, Ruger gradually discovered that this spell model seemed to be adapting to his mental power. He didn't know if it was because of the unranked spell or the special nature of the divine object spell. If it was really as he guessed, wouldn't everyone who learned this spell have a unique spell model?

Ruger became increasingly convinced of the second possibility, which was due to the unique nature of the Divine Object Technique.

After all, the Divine Artifact Technique is a spell that acts on the caster's mental power. To achieve such an unprecedented effect and such subtle influence, this uniqueness is inevitable.

As the number of nodes increased, Luger gradually began to struggle, but this was a different kind of struggle compared to when he was learning the art of stinginess. Since the bald old wizard had said that he would have a chance to learn the spell if he could finish reading the spellbook, it was probably related to the characteristics of the spell. Being able to finish reading the spellbook might not be related to the level of his mental strength, but rather to the quality of his mental strength. After Luger constructed the fourth magic mark, his mental space became more stable. If the quality of his mental strength could withstand it, even if the amount was small, it would generate the corresponding spell model, just like the theory of unranked spells, which states that any level can be learned.

Ruger suddenly realized that as long as he could withstand it, this might actually be the spell he could learn the fastest on his own.

The increase in nodes slowed down. Luger was in a daze, maintaining the stability of his mental energy. Each additional node was like a lesson in front of him, adding another piece to the puzzle in his mind, and gradually he understood the meaning of this spell.

The node gradually approaches the twenty-fifth one; the common zero-ring spell model has around twenty nodes.

Ruger's understanding of magic continued to improve, and he realized that some of his previous guesses were largely correct. With his mental strength, which was slightly higher than that of a fourth-level wizard apprentice, constructing the model for the Divine Artifact spell would actually be simpler than for Grimm. This wasn't because lower levels were inherently easier—after all, high-quality mental strength was required—but because there would be far fewer nodes. Condensed mental strength allowed nodes to be created faster, naturally leading to a faster completion time. However, because he was only at the level of a fourth-level wizard apprentice, he could only sustain the spell for a shorter period.

He could already imagine that as his mental strength grew, this spell model would continuously generate new nodes on its own, making his ability to read divine artifacts stronger and stronger.

When the twenty-seventh node appeared, Ruge had a strange premonition that it was about to end. It was his spirit guiding him not to give up, and of course he wouldn't give up, because he hadn't reached his limit yet. But when the long-awaited twenty-eighth node appeared, Ruge finally felt that he was about to be unable to maintain it, as if he was about to leave this wonderful state, but the birth of nodes was not yet over.

When the twenty-ninth node was generated, Ruger felt a sense of peace wash over him, sensing that this was the last one. It was this moment of relief that allowed him to instantly exit that state.

He looked at the book in front of him, which had dozens of pages in total. He had long since turned to the last page, but he was still holding the book.

Even more miraculously, the spell model of that divine artifact technique already existed in his mental space. The long spell model looked like an anchor, squeezed among a bunch of spell models, floating and rotating around the four magic marks.

After meditating and recovering for a while, Luger withdrew from the mental space.

He rubbed his stomach; he had eaten a big meal after waking up, so the construction of this bizarre spell model took quite a while.

He took out some food and ate while looking at Green and the old wizard in the distance.

These two guys were just like the last time I saw them, as if they had turned into statues that only knew how to hold big books.

With a thought in his mind, Luger quickly stuffed the meat strips that Ais King Kong had grilled into his mouth, finished them in two or three bites, and wiped his mouth.

He didn't bother Green, nor did he rush to find the old wizard.

Instead, he took out his own black book.

He licked his lips and slowly opened this familiar old book, which had served as a table, chair, bench, pot, pan, bowl, pillow and other bedding.

With a thought, the divine artifact spell model was fully activated, and the spell was cast on the black book.

The instant the spell succeeded, Ruger felt as if he had gained a pair of eyes, or rather, a new kind of perception. At the same time, he was pulled into complete darkness. His body seemed to have ceased to exist; there was no place for him in this darkness, yet he seemed to be omnipresent.

As the darkness gradually receded, Ruger vaguely saw runes appearing before his eyes, but they were indistinct, as if something even stronger was breaking through the darkness.

A tall, elegant female insectoid appeared before him. She had a fair, slender neck and beautiful tentacles. She seemed to be looking at him, but he knew that she was not looking at him.

More beautiful insectoids appeared, some with resolute faces, others with gentle smiles, and all with bright, piercing eyes that exuded a fearless and heroic aura.

(End of this chapter)