Chapter 43 Evolution

"Look at this"

Said Elric as he opened his spell book in front of them.

Under their gaze, an inscription suddenly floated out of it.

"I believe you are all familiar with this inscription, yes it's the fireball inscription which I had you three practice earlier"

"Although you two if you succeed however in my eyes none of you passed"

Pushing up his nonexistent glasses, Elric suddenly entered teacher mode

"Why do I say none of you succeed? That's because although you created a fair ball then, did you really create it?"

"Do you know how it was produced and why it was produced? "

"All you did was follow my instruction, but if you want to be a wizard in the future, you have to possess an inquisitive spirit!

As Elric spoke, the three of them lowered their heads, although not completely sure of what they did wrong, however they knew it was not the time to interrupt Elric.

And Elric seeing their reaction with their heads down he couldn't help but not in satisfaction.

"Seeing that you understand what I'm saying, I'll explain it to you"

"Based on my discovery and investigation, the so called inscription or rune is actually a special pattern by which special powers of nature can be mobilised by following a certain rhythm or fluctuation"

"During this process of mobilisation, it has been discovered to have a slight enhancement on mental power"

Saying this, Elric kept quiet giving them a chance to digest this new information

"Um young master, I have a question"

However, just as he was about to continue speaking, Alvin raised his hand to ask a question

"Since magic is carried out by using patterns, what happens if two or more patterns are joined together?"

Saying this, Alvin looked at Elric hoping he hadn't asked a dumb question

However contrary to what he thought, Elric couldn't help but be stunned as soon as he heard the question

"Haha good! As expected of someone who joined me in pioneering the wizarding way"

After a bit of silence, Elric burst into laughter as pure joy could be seen on his face

*By the way, why didn't I think of that? The combination of two or more runes is sure to have miraculous effects!"

Thinking of this, under Alvin's astonished gaze Elric used his mental power to draw the flame pattern and the body-strengthening pattern

*Boom!*

Before anyone could react, with a loud bang, Elric's body suddenly turned red with his veins protruding from his body

*Boom!*

With another boom, Elric's body suddenly burst into flames

"Young master!(×3)"

Seeing the flames, the three Alvin, George, and Davis simultaneously cried out in shock

However, just as they were about to go and help Elric, the sound of his laughter suddenly came through

"Haha so this is what a combination of runes feels like"

"More! More!"

"Hahaha burn it my youth!!!!"

*Boom!*

With Elric's shout the flames' temperature suddenly increased by a few degrees.

"More mor-"

*Arghhhh!*

Unfortunately, just as he was about to continue, a huge headache suddenly came interrupting the spell completely returning him to normal

Looking at his body which had returned to normal coupled with the headache, Elric realised he had once again run out of mental power; however, he was satisfied with the results of this experiment.

"As you can see Alvin, two runes can be combined together, however the effects of each combination may be unpredictable"

"Like now, I just combined the body strengthening and flame rune resulting in my body seeming to be powered by the flame"

"Compared it felt about five times stronger normal body strengthening, unfortunately while in that mode, my emotions seemed to be affected, all I wanted to do was burn everything till I eventually burned myself out"

"And it seems the mental power and physical strength consumed seemed to be double if not triple what a regular rune consumes"

Facing Alvin, Elric began to explain what just happened however the slight fear in Elric's eyes could be seen when he mentioned wanting to burn himself.

While this was happening, George and Davis on the side looked at Elric with glistening eyes.

Although there seemed to be huge side effects, but think of the huge pressure they felt from Elric in that mode, the two of them couldn't help but imagine having such power

Soon As Elric continued to explain and explain more on the basics of magic, Alvin, George and Davis found themselves asking more and more questions

Soon the four of them found themselves in San trance before they knew it asking each other and learning from each other without a care for the time or their environment

Little did they know that this small conversation had made huge changes take place in Elric.

Right now as each of them spoke, learned or carried out an experiment, the small world in Elric's soul would glow little by little, although negligible however as time went by the effect could be seen.

Inside the small world, unlike the earlier empty space it was this time a particular change seemed to have taken place giving the space a hint of vitality.

At the core of the space in a place where Elric didn't notice, a chip could be seen floating there wrapped in a white ball

If Elric were there he would surely scream

"Isn't this my A.I chip?"

But unfortunately he wasn't.

At this moment the A.I. chip began to flicker slightly, soon vogue patterns appeared all around it, upon closer inspection it could be seen that these patterns were the runes recorded in the spell book.

However at this time, each rune was resonating with the A.I chip at the same frequency bringing about a strange change to the small world and Elric as a whole

Unfortunately the change seemed to be happening extremely slowly meaning that there wouldn't be any qualitative change within the small world for a long time

At this time on the outside world, Elric had already finished giving them the basics of magic unaware of what just happened within his soul

"So now that you've seen the basis of magic and its potential, do you believe that after studying these corpses plus all four of us working together, we can't create a spell to get us out of here?"

Ending the teaching lesson, Elric suddenly spoke to three of them

"Your right young master, we believe in both you and magic, we'll surely find a way out of here"

Taking the lead George Said this as he looked directly at Elric

"Good, now you three assist me, apart from the slight amount of meat we need for meals, let's study these corpses plus the earlier runes we had, to create a way to escape from here!"

With a light nod of affirmation, under Elric's command, the four of them went to the nearest corpse and started experimenting