Chapter 170: Increased Spell Uses?

The patterns that were on Lucius' soul and extended into his soul were far more complex than before. If one looked at them now, they would think that they were veins that permeated his body.

The only difference was that the number of veins were far less than there were in a normal person's body. If one were to compare, they would find that there were less than three percent.

"This is peculiar… A Hell Imprint is all encompassing in itself and doesn't need anything else. And yet… this one has expended more than should be possible. Can this even be called a hell imprint at this point?" Lucius said to himself.

He then checked the pattern for the nexus on the back of his soul and found it to be the same as before. 

"This part is normal. Hmm… could it be?" Lucius muttered to himself before withdrawing from the soul space.

He stood up from the chair and left the lab, directly heading to his bedroom. He closed the door and sat down on his bed cross legged before entering his mind where the spell matrices for the two spells floated.

Lucius looked at the Enrage spell matrix and the Basic fireball spell matrix. Both of them were floating around gently and didn't seem to be unstable before. Earlier when he had formed them, it was as if it was a house of cards that would fall with a single touch.

And that was what usually happened as the spell matrices only lasted for a single use before collapsing, which made Lucius form them again for repeat use.

'The stability is indeed far better than before. Let's see if it is significant enough though…' Lucius thought to himself before opening his eyes.

He looked at the basin of water in the distance and flicked his finger. 

~shua~

A small yellow fire ball formed above the finger tip and shot out towards the basin of water.

~fizz~

A steaming sound came from the water as the fireball was doused out by it. But as soon as the fireball was gone, Lucius smiled.

"Ahahaha! It increased! It truly increased!" Lucius laughed out.

He flicked his finger again and sent out another fireball.

~fizz~

The fireball was also doused by the fire.

~Crack~

A cracking sound that was audible only to Lucius was heard. He quickly entered his mind space and saw the spell matrix for the basic fireball collapse. Though when he looked at the other spell matrix for Enrage, it still seemed to be stable.

"So the number of uses for this spell is at two now. Though is it the same for the Enrage spell as well?" Lucius wondered and decided to try it out.

While Enrage did need a target to use on, Lucius could still make it activate forcibly. It's just that it would have no effect and would just end up consuming the hell energy.

"Just as I thought," Lucius said after using Enrage.

He used it once more and the spell matrix cracked too, confirming his hypothesis that the current use limit for him was at two. He felt pleased with this and went back into his soul space to observe the hell imprint more.

"The glow of the 'veins' is still the same as before. Hmm… what else can be done?" Lucius muttered to himself and an idea presented to him a minute later.

Returning to the mind space, Lucius started to make a new spell matrix. This time, the spell matrix was one that he needed the most and was also far more complex than the other two that he had made till now.

In fact, this spell matrix was something that even he, in his past life, found it hard to make. 

'Doesn't matter how many tries this takes, I'll do it!' Lucius thought to himself with determination. 

He ended up spending the entire night in building and rebuilding the spell matrix and was still unable to do it. It was close to five am when Lucius decided to stop and go to sleep. He knew that he had already strained his body enough and that it needed to rest.

The next day, he woke up quite late in the afternoon. Though Kiana had somewhat expected this and had thus told the servants to not disturb him for the day. Lucius appreciated this and called for a servant.

"You called for me, Lord Asher?" Neta questioned.

"Yes, send the food to my bedroom today, I'll be taking a break today from everything. Inform this to Kiana and mother as well." Lucius spoke.

The servant Neta couldn't help but raise his brows upon hearing these words from Asher.

'Lord Asher taking a break? Though… he has been working hard and tirelessly these past days, so I guess a wait is understandable. Even I get a break once a week…' Neta thought to himself.

He didn't let his confusion show on his face and simply nodded his head.

"I'll do as you wish, Lord Asher." Neta said before leaving to execute his given orders.

Lucius had decided that, till he managed to build the spell matrix, he would not do anything else. Plus, he had already set up most of the plans in motion and they didn't need his direct interference for now.

Even the arbitrator was at least ten days away from them at the earliest, and this gave Lucius some free time. The only thing that he would be missing out on was the swordsmanship practice, but that was something that he could afford with no problem.

He thus left the door open and meditated on the bed, waiting for the servant to return with the food. Food was something he could not skip on as his body needed the nutrients to endure the stress of what he was about to do.

About fifteen minutes later, Neta appeared with two more servants. They were all carrying trays of food with them and put them in the bedroom before taking their leave.

"I've informed miss Kiana and Countess Lita, they are fine with it and told me to tell you to rest well."