Chapter 143: Hard

Chapter 143: Hard

Tears are fighting their way out of my eyes while my sinuses are swollen; they make breathing through my nose harder but not hard enough. It feels wrong to breathe this easily when Im failing.

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The guiding spell is not working. The [Light] properties are much more obscure and arcane than I had imagined. We lack fundamental research on the nature of the soul-shroud and even though we are now advancing magical theory to new heights, we are still in the dark. The amount of knowledge needed to solve our problem is unavailable to us. More precisely, its like trying to build a gun with scrap iron. The gun would just explode in your hand at first use.

If I dedicated my life to this type of research and consorted with renowned scholars around the world, in less than a decade, I would be able to create thousands of spells like this. But now? This is too much. For me. And even for Lord Juler.

The [Supreme Archmagus] has been working non-stop on the algorithm responsible for building an image from the data. However, we have barely been able to get a vague shape to appear on our screen. And the progress was so minimal we are not even sure we are on the right path. We might have made some improvements by pure chance. And we both know that.

I leveled.

[Luxmancer Level 29]

And I gained a new class.

The studying has taken a toll on my energy. Im tired beyond relief. Sadly, I agree with Lord Julers first proposition. I need to rest. He needs to find inspiration somewhere else. If we just keep drilling and drilling, we wont find anything.

Its frustrating. Ive always believed that the day I hunkered down and tried, stuff would come easy to me. But another part of me also knows that this is exactly what I have always been afraid of. Failure. A reality-check.

Even with the new levels, even with the hat. Even with a veritable [Supreme Archmagus] on my side, Im far from being able just to do anything. And the problem is that the guide is a more powerful version of the guiding spell needed for a hypothetical [Gamma Knife]. Sure, if I want to blast someones brain, it just takes aiming in the general space inside the skull. I wouldnt need the surgical precision that, instead, I need for Antoninuss mothers procedure.

There are ways that are very un-scholarly to solve this problem, Joey Luciani.

Are there, now?

Levels mean much more than anything the best of us could understand. Our world fills in the blanks for us when we have enough pieces. If you can already work out the basics of radiation, you might get a skill after you level up. Given how deadly it would be, its pretty sure that you would get an inferior version of it with many kinks. When I say un-scholarly mind you I mean that it doesnt really help you. Its a fast way to do it; its the road that the weak follow. The more you go to the deep end of magic, the bigger the burden on you will be unless you know what you are doing, that is.

Not going into the Dungeon and killing hordes of monsters to have this stupid system finish my research, then.

Well, I didnt say that.