The Greatest Sinner

Chapter 196 - The Flow Of Time

Besides training and "Creation," Evan had two main tasks. First, he had to find an informant to try to contact the "Demonic Tree" members. He was going to become part of this organization to learn about the dark side of this world.

Secondly, Evan wanted to do his own experiments to understand better how this mysterious force, namely "Gust," worked. To do this, he needed a quiet place, test subjects, and the resources to organize the whole experiment.

Moreover, he also had one small task - he needed to earn money. Evan wanted to buy a spatial ring and various medicines.

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Two years had passed since Evan had chosen his new spells. All that time Evan had been training, "Creating," and completing tasks. He often consulted with Draven about many things related to magic. Sometimes Evan would come to classes that interested him.

Two years was quite a long time, and Evan had managed to earn a huge amount of coins during that time. A couple of months ago, he spent almost all of his money on a 100 cubic meter spatial ring. It cost him an incredible 300,000 "Moon Coins."

He'd earned this money by doing various high-difficulty tasks and fighting in the arena. About a year and a half ago, each student who regularly fought in the arena had been given a certain rating. The more students won, the higher they were ranked. The students who were at the top of the table were not only famous but also rich. Many people watched their fights and made bets.

Evan had grown much stronger during this time and was now one of the three strongest students of the first rank.

After buying the spatial ring, Evan had almost no money for a while, but he had managed to accumulate enough "Moon Coins" to buy a house in the second zone.

Unfortunately, during this time, Evan was not able to find out precisely what Class he had. Moreover, even the 71st demon, Duke Dantalion, could not tell exactly what Class Evan had. This annoyed him because there was only one way left to find out what his Class was. And it was the most extended way of all.

He had to achieve "Awareness" of the first stage in all his spells to compare the results. Naturally, without using the demon's power, otherwise, all the time and effort would go to waste.

Regardless of the Class, any magician could achieve "Awareness" of the first stage in any spell. But, that didn't mean that the effectiveness of those spells was on the same level.

If an Amplifier in the "One-Pointed Star" stage increased his "Awareness" in a "Summoning Magic" spell in his hands, it would be much weaker than a spell of the "Amplification Magic."

Moreover, the stronger a magician was, the more the difference between the three Classes became. Among the newbie magicians, these differences were barely noticeable. Among those who were at the "One-Pointed Star" stage, the differences were more significant. But, they were felt only when a magician raised his "Awareness" in some spell to the first or second stage.

For the same reason, Evan needed to reach the first stage of his "Awareness" in all spells to determine his Class.

Evan also assumed there were two other possibilities, the first was very unfortunate, and the second was terrific. He thought he might have had poor compatibility with spells of all Types of Magic. That option was quite possible, as was the reverse. If he could use spells of all Types of Magic without any penalties, there would be nothing to limit him in this world anymore.

In those two years, Evan hadn't been able to increase "Awareness" in any of his first-level spells. It was indeed a difficult task.

He had spent a lot of time on "Creation" and was able to make some progress. He had long ago condensed 1.333 drops of "Void Liquid." This was the maximum if the magician had not broken through any "Barrier" yet.

Breaking through the first "Barrier" at the "One-Pointed Star" stage was a real challenge. The higher the magician climbed, the harder the next step was.

Nevertheless, Evan felt that he was close to breaking the first "Barrier." He estimated it would be within the next few months. He believed that such a low rate of progression was not only due to the complexity of the process itself. It was also since he had never been in a deadly situation in the last two years, although it was well-known to have a powerful effect on a magician's progress.

When Evan could no longer continue to condense his mana into the "Void Liquid," he began to channel his mana into the chains on the Pillar. It took him a long time, but he had unlocked 100 chains, but he could not fill the last chain with mana. Evan didn't know the reason, but he couldn't get any further so far.

The last thing worth mentioning was Evan's tries to create his own blood magic spell. In brief, there was no success there.

But, that was only Evan's own opinion of what he had been able to achieve in the meantime. In fact, he had no problem learning how to change the color of his spells. Simply put, he had successfully passed the first stage of spell creation and made it to the second. To have that kind of progress in just two years was an incredible success, even though Evan thought it was a real failure.

Evan had only reached the second stage a few months ago, so he hadn't yet been able to change any of the characteristics in any of his spells. So far, it was beyond him.

He had done countless experiments and many different manipulations with runes and symbols in Magic Circles over those two years.

Much of his experience with demons` sigils had helped him, but he definitely had a talent for creating spells. All that was left to do was to keep working and hope that he would reveal himself at some point.

He could create the versions of "Ball Lightning," where the electrical discharge would be red or yellow instead of blue. What's more, even changing the black color of the "Touch of the Abyss' to white wasn't a problem. Of course, Evan wouldn't use these spells, they were no different than any other color, and he wasn't sure if such changes had any negative effect.

Evan was at the very beginning of this way, and until he created his first spell, he had no right to be called a spell maker.

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Step. Step. Step.

Evan headed slowly toward the bulletin board, he muttered quietly: "Looks like it's time to leave the Academy, at least for a while."