Unbound: A Dark Fantasy LitRPG (Arcana Unlocked Book 1) by Gregory Blackburn

Author:Gregory Blackburn [Blackburn, Gregory]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Mountaindale Press
Published: 2021-04-13T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirty-Four

City of Sunblade, Kingdom of Eastmere

Back at the library, things were good for Korrash. Actinos had been suitably impressed with his Clearance level, raising one whole eyebrow and part of another.

It turned out that Adept Clearance was a both bit higher than he actually needed and far, far less than he wanted. Clearance worked like Skill ranks did, falling into categories from Initiate to Paragon, with Adept right in the boring middle and Legendary superseding everything. Had he been given true Legendary Clearance, he would have had access all the way through Master-level texts along with the few works that transcended even that classification. No reading aloud incorrectly from the Necronomicon (again, apparently), it seemed, and he wouldn’t be trusted with the location of the Seven Dragon Orbs, either.

No, Adept tomes were mostly Lore-increasing historical works and Magical Theory treatises which talked about all the boring parts of magic.

Well, he had to admit that there actually weren’t any boring parts to magic, at least that he’d found. He’d picked up Ambrosius’ Musings on Aetheric Transubstantiation and it had almost killed him. Not literally, of course.

The existence of aether as something discrete from aetherium is something that is largely arbitrary if one understands the methods not only of transubstantiation, but also those of Aspect Correspondence, Metaphysical Dynamics, Aetheric Meditation, and of course, Aetheric Projection and the Aura. It is by these that we are able to prove through reduction, induction, and no shortage of abstract empiricism that they form the axioms on which not only Aetheric Transubstantiation, but also the Universal Application of Primordial Magic Theory, rest. (Lore 5 failure)

Korrash shook himself awake. Even remembering the introductory passage of the book almost put him in a coma. At least it had clued him in to what he hoped were more Secondary Skills.

His departure from the Adept section had been almost a run. It had simultaneously amused and upset Actinos, who managed to tell him to stop running in the library while frowning and suppressing a laugh. The man must be part ooze, for him to be able to move his face like that.

Instead, he’d retreated all the way back to the beginning of the Journeyman section. Here he found several useful tomes of spellforms that were only mostly beyond his comprehension. He also found that this Ambrosius fellow was quite the prolific author, as he had written Dramatic Magic, Ritual Casting, and the Abasement of Art for the Journeyman crowd. It started out as a long-winded discussion of commonalities between the two types of magic but quickly descended into a rambling diatribe against the “youthful wizards of this Age” who “eschew the overwhelming evidence of a Unified Magical Theory in favor of simplified, emotional symbology devoid of meaning to all but themselves, the Laws of Magic included.” Ambrosius must have been a crotchety old man. Awesome.

He would have abandoned the book half-read, but he caught sight of a diagram which the author had included to highlight the differences between a

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