My Muscle System in the Mage World

Chapter 48: Intelligence Attribute

"The dawn has just arrived. I should have the time, but even if I don't go, it doesn't matter much anyway," Aur casually shrugged and touched the container with the golden solution, closing his eyes.

The instant he opened his eyes, he was greeted by pitch darkness.

However, from the corner of his eyes, Aur could see the golden solution faintly gleaming while hovering in mid-air in the darkness. The container was nowhere to be seen.

Aur's eyes lit up as he willed it, and the golden solution instantly moved, creating a round path around him.

"Now let's start," he sighed. Now he had to use this golden liquid to inscribe Aur's first spell in his mental space. Although he couldn't fail in this process, it took the most time.

In the book, it was written that the spell needed a day to be inscribed for an ordinary individual.

Aur wasn't too hopeful about this, as he wasn't very intelligent to begin with.

Although he might be better at plotting, who said that you need to be smart to plot?

As a man who was already over thirty years old if he combined both his lives, he had plenty of experience to outsmart these youngsters who would have a tent in their pants the moment they saw a woman.

So, Aur didn't set his hopes too high as he sat down on the floor and closed his eyes.

He fully focused on the golden liquid, and his vision changed as he saw himself sitting on the floor with closed eyes.

He willed it, and Aur fully saw his own face, which surprised and disappointed him.

"My facial features aren't too great," Aur muttered to himself.

Although he had seen his own face countless times in the mirror, it was his first time seeing it from a third person's perspective.

Aur's vision was connected to the golden liquid and had become like a body of his now.

"Let's quickly finish the job now."

The golden solution slowly started to move in a circular shape, thinning each time it completed a loop.

By the time Aur was done, the golden solution was at least one-fifth thinner than before.

"Huh, that was quick. Let's move on to the next steps." Aur began inscribing ancient symbols and various spells inside the circle.

From his perspective, although Aur didn't know which language this was written in, it felt more like mathematics and physics. Then again, he was a college dropout, so he wouldn't know any better.

The more he inscribed, the less the golden solution became.

By the time Aur had completed the inscriptions, the golden solution had completely vanished.

"This seemed way too quick," Aur frowned as he stood up and opened his crimson eyes.

The strange pattern remained in the air, with the golden solution's glow on the surface, but it had already become solid.

"Anyway, time for the final step," he willed, and the circle started to float up in the air in the center of the mental space.

A thin string came from the ground, connecting to the circle.

The instant the string connected, Aur didn't have to make the circle float as it hovered on its own, emitting a faint light.

"Finally, it is completed," Aur heaved a sigh of relief as he rubbed his temples.

He closed his eyes, and his vision instantly returned to the real world. Seeing the remnants of his work, a bitter smile appeared on his face.

"I need to clean this up."

After Aur had cleaned the entire place, he slowly sat down on his bed in a comfortable position.

He focused on his mental space again, and upon seeing the circle, he felt a little excited.

Aur could sense a strange connection to the spell, as if it were a part of his own body, even deeper than when it was in the golden solution form.

Magic had always been foreign to him in his previous life since magic didn't exist in his own world; the most there was science, which this world also had.

Aur quickly willed the circle, and it started to rotate.

Whoosh!

Suddenly, mana was instantly attracted toward Aur's physical body and entered him directly, appearing in his mind.

Just like that, a transparent liquid, almost like water, slowly started to fill his mental space.

Seeing this, Aur nodded his head with a satisfied expression.

"However, this is a little too slow," Aur thought as he looked at the small amount of colorless liquid that had filled his mental space.

He abruptly opened his red eyes and gazed at his simple room again.

With a practiced step, Aur took out some low-grade mana crystals and held them in his hand, closing his eyes once more to cultivate.

The circle started to rotate again, and colorless liquid began to fill his mental space, but it was much faster now than before.

After fifteen minutes of cultivation, Aur's ears twitched as he slowly ended his practice session.

Seeing the cracked low-grade mana crystals, he sighed and tightened his fist, turning the low-grade crystals to dust.

"A low-grade mana crystal barely satisfies my appetite," Aur thought with a frown. "Let's exchange some low-grade mana crystals for middle-grade crystals," he mused to himself as he checked the time.

It was only 10 am, which honestly surprised Aur.

"It took me four hours just to complete this..." he said with widened eyes.

Aur went into deep thought. He wasn't that talented to be able to imprint the spell so fast.

Suddenly, an idea popped into his head, and he summoned his system.

"Muscle system," Aur muttered in a hushed tone.

Instantly, a blue panel materialized in front of him.

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[Muscle System]

[Name: Aur Cromwell / Auriel

Talent: Future Seer (Use: 0)

-Muscle: 1

-Blood and Qi: 0.90 (+)

-Intelligence: 1

Stat Points: 46

Quest: Daily (ongoing)]

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"Is intelligence the reason for it?" Aur thought as he connected the dots.

When he first met Williama, his intelligence had seemed to drop, but somehow he resisted it and the hypnotism from that holy magic book.

Aur felt like he could resist it if he had enough time.