The owner welcomed me as I was walking inside the store.
"Welcome, what do you want young sir? I was just about to close our store," he asked.
"Sorry for the sudden intrusion. I would like to check if you have any books regarding Magic Circles?" I answered with a question.
"Follow me sir." the owner instructed. "Although we can't match the sects and academies with their number of scrolls and books, I can say that we have quality literature in store here."
He then pointed at a book rack. "These 5 books here are Magic Circle related. The <Arcane history>, <Arcane Language and Uses>, <Basic Magic Circles for Stupid people by Kernel>, <A Research about Magic Circle>, and <Effective Magic Circle Traps>. These 4 all came from known academies and sects or famous people."
"How much is the Arcane history book?" I asked curiously.
"This one doesn't really tell anything about Magic Circle. We only sell this for 10 gold. Are you fine with this young sir?" the owner answered.
"Really?" I was shocked by his pricing.
"Yes. This book is been here for like a decade now. Nobody seems to like it, saying that the history of the arcane is already taught to anyone who is into cultivation. It's nice that you took a liking to this one." the owner explained.
"Then how about this Basic Magic Circles for Stupid People?"
"That is kinda expensive as it was authored by a famous one. Kernel wrote a lot of books that help a lot of newbies in cultivation. You can even say that he is an indirect master of thousands of people. So this book cost around 5 ether stones." the owner declared.
So there is such a wonderful person that he is regarded as an indirect master. Then this book might be really good.
"Mister I'll take these two," I said as I handed him 5 ether stones and 10 gold coins.
"Thank you for your patronage!" the owner thanked.
I went out of the store carrying the two books I bought. When I reached the two they were already done eating and just sat there meditating. Maybe next year they'll reach the golden foundation.
Not wanting to disturb their meditation, I went ahead and ate my fill. As I was chewing the barbequed meat, I thought of asking Nullus about something.
Pulling out the antique bell and ringing it.
"That pie was godly Lorenzo you're doing a good job as an Avatar keep up the good work." Nullus Deus commended.
"I'm glad you liked it. Sir Nullus I would like to ask you about my cultivation. How much food do I need for you to help me reach the golden foundation?" I asked.
"I don't like the thought of having your fate in my hands. That would be a pain in the ass. How about this, if you reached the golden foundation and decides to cross over the 1st step of cultivation just ring me and I'll give you something." he negotiated.
"How about my cultivation then?"
"You can do it yourself. I already fixed you, that in itself is a boon. Alright now that I answered you, I'll be cutting you off. I'm still eating the remaining pie." Nullus break the communication off.
But my atman is just a regular one. Well, at least he would give me something. I need to work hard and not rely on other people too much.
With nothing to do, I opened the <Basic Magic Circles for Stupid people by Kernel>.
The first part talks about the rules of a magic circle.
There are two rules in making a magic circle and those are condition and contract.
<Condition> is the use of arcane text to communicate with entities, elements, and concepts. Arcane text is the common language used for communication with the 3 kinds of magnates. In <Condition>, the user will set up how the contract works. What will be the request? Who is the recipient? What will be the compensation? After answering the 3 questions you can now start to make your magic circle.
<Contract> is the next step after <Condition>. It is the activation of the magic circle. An exchange will happen between the user and the 3 kinds of magnates. If the magic circle activates that means the condition is justified and the sacrifice/offering/compensation is of equal value to the request. The contract is then fulfilled.
The second part is the types of activation.
In the book, there are 3 listed types of activation.
The first one is the <Invoke> type, which requires the user to chant the arcane text at an approximate distance of 10 meters away from the magic circle. This chanting will start the contract between the user and the 3 kinds of magnates.
Second one is <Trigger> type. This one is commonly used in traps. This type is an already established contract, but the conditions made it so that it will not activate right away. It is either step, touch, or other certain conditions that will make the magic circle activate. The philosophy behind this type of activation is that the 3 kinds of magnates will fulfill the contract, leaving behind their ability or power to perform what the magic circle requested in the written condition.
Lastly the <Arbiter> type. It is also an already established contract but has two or more magic circles connected to one another. One magic circle will be placed on things while an adhesive magic circle will be placed on a target. When the adhesive magic circle is placed, a connection is established. Any harm that's done to the object will afflict the target. This is the famous voodoo doll cursing activation.
The 3rd part of it talks about the types of a magic circle.
The types of magic circles are what a magic circle is able to generate and what are its uses.
Attack types are a magic circle that deals damage to an opponent.
Defend types are magic circles that prioritize protecting the user.
Control types are magic circles for stopping the movement of a target.
Transport types are for traveling to a distance
Assist types to help the user with a temporary increase of might, potential, regeneration, or ability
Cripple types are magic circles akin to a curse that temporarily remove the target's senses.
Communication types are the transmission of sound from one person to another receiver using two magic circles.
The last content talks about the different elements, entities, and concepts which are also called the 3 kinds of magnates.
The 3 kinds of magnates are your trading partners. It is basically paying for their service through an exchange that is happening within the magic circle.
The element magnates offer diversity and are also cheap on the lesser side, but the greater elements charge more than ever. If greater elements see your offering is a little off they won't accept the contract. There are 7 elements which are fire, metal, water, earth, air, ice, and wood.
Fire elements are purely attack based even using them as obstruction it will still likely cause damage. Metal and earth elements have 4 uses, to stab, guard, restrict, or fortify but with different effects. Water elements are helpful in water transportation, healing, and canceling movements. Air elements focus on flight transportation and attacks. Wood elements are better in healing and restricting. Ice elements are powerful when it comes to controlling, attacking, and cripple.
The concept magnates are the building blocks of reality. Concepts are considerate types of magnates. They rarely deny a contract because the offering is not enough, albeit they fairly serve your request equal to the price you offered.
If I remembered correctly, I offered the concept of soul and consciousness using the life of the 5 ducks as compensation. They gladly helped me even though the duration is lower. If I had the Arboar as the offering I might not be stuck with hungry man Nullus.
As the book stated, there are 8 available concept magnates that are happy to do business. They are sound, time, space, gravity, soul, light, dark, and energy. The concept magnates have preferences when making a type of magic circle.
Sound concept preferred communication and rarely does attacks. Time concept liked assist-type magic circles though they charge more than the others. It's worth the cost if you actually established a contract with it. Space concept is never ending and generous too, it likes transportation more than anything but also has its own magic circle called storage.
This storage magic circle is a different one. The user will actually buy a space of different sizes to the space concept. Place the magic circle inside an item, then the item can store many things inside as long as the space allows it. Also, the magic circle will not be erased and forever be engraved unto that item.
The gravity concept loves restricting.
Soul concept prefers assisting.
Light and Dark concepts like to blind anyone. They also assist with lighting something or hiding in the shadows.
The energy concept is the cruelest of the 8. It won't accept ether stones of any kind and would terminate the contract, even harming you in the process if you offer that item. As a concept of Energy, it doesn't need ether stone that is also part of the energy concept, doing so would be disrespecting it.
What it wants is something of importance like life, body parts, vitality, age, or anything that is part of living. When offered this kind of compensation, the energy concept will store away what was taken. It will reveal its cruelty hidden in the facade of benevolence.
The compensation that was taken can be returned in exchange for someone else life of equal value.
This weird exchange is chaotic and evil. That's why this is what most evil cultivators do.
The last magnates are the entities. The entities are basically gods that aren't patrons of any avatars but do business with the lower realms. They are also cheaper in asking for compensation, much cheaper than lesser elements.
These entity magnates are masters of their crafts.
Illusion magnate Memoir, is known for his control and cripple illusion magic circle.
Curses magnate Panini, is a menace in attacking, controlling, and crippling magic circle.
Senses magnate Ran Dam, solo's senses removal magic circle.
Healing magnate Haiou, is the best in healing magic circles.
Transformation magnate Tsan Jie, is known for his assist magic circles that improve bodily functions or reactions. He also had the self-variation magic circle just like the space magnate Storage magic circle. It is called the Transformation magic circle, where objects' substance can be transformed.
And with this, you can now finally make your own magic circle. Do it at your own cost. That is what the author said.
That's all the summary of the book. All and all it was well explained. Really, a book made for stupid people like me.
Now the next book I would check is this one.
Magic Circle I'll be using assist type to strengthen and expand my. . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . Horizons
have a nice
day
bless you
I picked up the <Arcane history>. Looking at it, its features are looking new. It doesn't have the smell of old books or even dust. It feels like it was made this day. But the store owner said that it was there for how many years, not attracting any buyers.
The contents of the first quarter are introductions about the arcane text. Thoroughly scanning it, maybe there was a text that I didn't learn. Fortunately, I know all that was written here.
The next part is about the origin of the arcane text.
It was when everything is dark, bleak, and silent, devoid of any hope or warmth. This space is full of floating rocks that jet from one another. And when they hit one another sparks ablaze the dark nothingness.
One of those floating rocks cracked. Out of stress or constant hits the surface of the rock was slowly shed. When the surface completely peeled off, a radiant green glow appeared. It was a seed that popped out of the rock.
This seed had a solid property. No rocks can scratch it, even destroying some of them when they crashed. Time went and goes. The space slowly expands due to this seed's fluctuations. A sprout was slowly growing out of it, while roots slowly crawled below it.
A whirlpool swirled, the seed right at the center of it. The seed consumed the primal energy around it. It sucked all it can take.
The sprout grew leaves, leaves grew wide, and its stem hardened. The rocks that flew right next to it got caught by the net of its roots. Slowly those rocks clumped together from a single rock to a massive landmass.
At this point, the seed is now long gone. The once sprout became a massive tree towering inside this emptiness without match. Its roots reached the deepest deep, sucking nutrients of the abyss.
It had an unstoppable growth devouring every ounce of energy it can take. The space was stretched wider by the tree's mysterious force. The landmass also expanded with the roots.
Three gigantic flowers bloomed and then fell off. The first flower went to space waking up the concept of space, the second to time, and the third to gravity. This is the first payback of the tree to the emptiness and its devouring of the primal energy.
What is consumed must be returned. For greed will only bring ruin to this expanse. The spot on the tree where the 3 flowers bore fruits. With this, the tree is intensely consuming primal energy.
As for the 3 main concepts, they brought balance to the expanse. Space slowed down the tree and its expansion, Time set the limit on everything that can't replace what is consumed, and Gravity holds everything down keeping the heavenly bodies to collide with one another.
The 3 fruits slowly ripened with the passing of time. When it got ripe, it had fallen off the tree. The shell cracked, exposing 3 godly beings. They were the Jade king, Order, and Chaos.
The Jade king who is brimming with life and power, Order whose beauty is without a match, kind and just, and Chaos filled with anger who summoned calamity and famine.
When Order came to being she refined the primal energy creating the order ether. She created the Order realm where she gave birth to the concept of soul and light. When the concept of light was born, stars appeared on the vast expanse. Her order realm was located resting on top of the tree.
Chaos also refined the primal energy creating the chaos ether. He went to the abyss building his own realm the chaos realm on the tree's roots. This realm is the place to remove the bad karma out of the souls sending them to the Order realm to be cleansed and to collect good karma. Chaos made his minions on the abyss making the elements. The elements brought color to the world, not only to the chaos realm but also to the whole expanse.
While the Jade king was left alone on the massive land mass walking endlessly, examining the wonder of this whole expanse.
The Jade king ruled all in this domain. His 2 siblings, the concepts, elements, and even the tree listen to him. The only thing he can't rule is the nothingness because there was nothing even before the tree was born.
Out of his boredom, the Jade king created flora and fauna. He commanded the elements to erect mountains and seas, germinate the forest, the wind to blow, fire to give warmth, glaciers, and icebergs brought a chilling cold, and metal brought firmness to everything.
He also created two beasts the dragon who roams the seas and skies and the chimera who roams the lands. The chimera is a beast with a body of a chicken with its feathers and wings, the heads of a lion and goat, its tail the head and body of a snake, and its front legs were claws while the hinds were of horses.
The Jade king gifted the dragon to his sister Order and the chimera to his brother Chaos. They love these gifts because it is befitting to them, the dragon's shiny scale and elegance, and the chimera's ferocity and its odd form.
These two beasts were the ancestors of every beast and animal that roams the earth. Dragon fathered the fishes and birds, while chimera gave birth to all land animals.
The once dry landmass is now filled with vigor. This made the Jade king happy and he loves all the creatures. He asked the soul concept to give these creatures souls. The Jade king created the concept of sound and energy.
The sound concept provided the creatures hearing and every creation their own sound. The energy concept gave everything vitality and regulates the use of the order, chaos, and all ether below it. But it is not in control with the primal energy for it is way above his.
With all this done the Jake king took a rest. He became happy but also started getting weaker. When Chaos and Order revealed their love for one another this elated the Jade king and volunteered to organize their wedding.
In the grand altar below the tree, there stood Chaos and Order facing each other. All creatures, elements, and concepts are guests. The Jade king was right at the center of his two siblings, bearing witness and acknowledging his siblings' love.
The Jade king peeled off two barks of the massive tree. With that, he started to write. Using their language he created the primordial inscriptions, writing down the vows of Chaos and Order. Jade king also wrote his blessing to his two siblings.
He gave this to each of them as a sign that they are already married and their love for one another is recognized. Being born from the tree, they were able to read its contents without the need to study it. They can feel its meaning. The concepts and 2 ancestor beasts were able to read it, except the creatures.
And after the wedding, everything was full of festivity. The Jade king was joyful but also started to show signs of weakness. This made his siblings worry. Even the world tree, as they called it, also started to wither.
Many years passed Order was pregnant and was starting to show signs of giving birth. Order was in such pain because of the intensity of energy inside of her. The concept of energy can't even calm this raging pure energy. Afraid of what might happen to his wife, Chaos asked the Jade king for his help. He asked him to calm the energy inside of her wife.
When the Jade king saw this he was taken aback. This mixture of refined energy of chaos and order ether is wreaking havoc inside Order. Without anything to do, the Jade king gave his siblings a choice, to remove the energy completely or let the child inside die. Chaos and Order looked at each other, not wanting his child to die they agreed with the Jade king's request.
The Jade king grabbed the unstable energy and dispersed it to the expanse. This energy then returned back to its primal state. And with that Order gave birth to an already grown girl. She is bright and cheerful, beautiful like his mother and unruly like his father.
Yet when they saw her they were saddened. She is a mortal, with a life expectancy of only a hundred years. She tried to speak with them but her voice sounds inaudible to them and she can't also understand her parents' voices.
Without any idea what to do, Chaos and Order asked the only person they know who can solve this dilemma, their brother the Jade king. The couple entrusted their daughter who they named Ei'Thona to their older brother.
The Jade king asked Ei'Thona to try and talk to him. He can't also understand her language which made him silent. He noticed that Ei'Thona had her own language. This might be the cause of the unstable energy that was removed from her.
Left with no other choice, the Jade king who was now weaker than usual used his remaining energy. He created a simplified version of the primordial inscriptions. And he infused this knowledge inside Ei'Thona's head.
The Jade king also infused it with the world so that everyone and everything will understand this language. And finally, Ei'Thona and her parents were now able to understand each other.
Chaos and Order were happy with the Jade king's benevolence. But the Jade king's physique started becoming worse. This made Ei'Thona concerned.
When his knees fell down, the whole expanse cried in anguish. The Jade king who was full of life is now grey. He is slowly returning back to the primal energy.
Wanting to extend his life span, Chaos commanded the elements to make a body modeled after Ei'Thona while Order commanded the soul concept to make a blank soul for the Jade king to possess.
The Jade king wanted to refuse but Chaos and Order requested him to do so. He, the loving brother of his sibling can't say no to them and followed their request. He possessed the body and soul they provide and shed any primal energy that he had. The Jade king became mortal.
Chaos and Order then beseech their daughter Ei'Thona to accompany the Jade king. Ei'Thona who can't enter the realms of her parents accepted what her parents asked for. She remembered that the Jake king was always by her side right when she was born.
The Jade king who was now called by his mortal name, Yu started living together with Ei'Thona.
With the transformation of the Jade king regressing into a mortal, the world tree now was totally withered. The world tree crashed shaking the whole expanse and separating the massive landmass. Without the world tree, Chaos and Order cannot visit their brother and daughter. They are now stuck and only the concepts and elements can roam the whole expanse freely.
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