Jace sitting in the room figures out what hex he wants to create. 'I am going to create a hex that creates a blast of fire. What I saw from Tyler on the TV after he got stronger was very impressive. Also, in the future fire would be helpful in many different scenarios and places'.
Jace, happy with his idea, begins to plan his hex formula. 'I think it should be like the flame icon I always see. That way with the curved bottom the mana knows to head out the top and it can be somewhat controllable'.
Jace then puts mana to his finger and starts to draw the formula in front of him. Jace is moving along at a solid pace and gets around half way done. At this point it had taken Jace around 15 minutes in his time.
Which was a long time for Jace and surprisingly it was a lot easier that Jace had expected. This meant that Jace's mind had started to wander from boredom. This was not a recipe for success because as soon as that happened Jace started to feel the mana in the formula start to activate.
Jace, realizing this, tried to control it but was too late. Jace watched as the formula he had spent 15 minutes on disintegrated in front of him. Jace stands there while looking in disbelief 'Man I am so stupid. I was close but I had to ruin it. It's fine, It's fine, let's just try again.'
Jace recovers and starts again this time with more determination to not mess up. Jace takes around 25 minutes to complete the hex formula. This surprised Jace as he was expecting it to take longer. 'It must have gone quicker because I was completely focused'.
Jace then following the lessons puts the finger he has mana in, to the middle of the hex formula he drew. This allowed Jace to move it and touch his head with the hex formula. Jace feels a pull from his own mind and feels his conscious move into the room.
When Jace wakes up the hex is there in the room but at a much bigger scale. As Jace walks up to the hex he needs to look up to see the top. When Jace arrives before the hex he puts his hand out and starts pumping mana into it while thinking of burning flame of fire.
As Jace is doing this he sees the hex before him start to slowly light up from the bottom with red hot mana. Jace finishes putting mana into the hex and sees it activate in a massive flame before jolting awake in his safe house.
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As Jace awakes he realizes that it is day and he went into the hex creation insight at night. Jace checks his watch and realizes he was in the hex creation insight for over 12 hours.
'That's weird, it usually never takes that long for an insight'. Jace snaps out of his thoughts however when he hears a notification. "Ding, Successfully learned Hex (novice level)" "Ding, please choose name for new hex." Jace immediately opens the hex spell library to inspect his new hex.
??? Hex (novice level)
User draws a flame symbol in the air using 5 points of mana, after the symbol is completed it takes 0.1 seconds to arm and then can be detonated by command to create a flame that last for 5 seconds, is 6 inches high, 3 inches in width and at a temperature of 212 degrees fahrenheit.
Jace seeing this is very excited as it completed a hatching condition of his companion and that it was the flame that he wanted. Jace however still had some questions 'why is the hex I make at novice level whereas the exploding hex has a level?'.
This time however the system responded "Ding, the reason is the exploding hex is a hex that has been dumbed down for you. Its base level is a lot higher than novice level. The more you use it and the better you get with it the closer it arrives to its base form."
'I see, it is a higher level hex that was put at the lowest level but still holds its power'. Jace, satisfied with the answer to his question, starts to think of a name for his new hex. Jace decides on the name after a little bit of thinking.
"The name is the Flame Hex ''. After all the adrenaline wears off Jace starts to feel the effects of using his mana for Hex Creation. Since he now can collect mana passively he starts to plan out his plan for tomorrow while resting in his safe house. To which the day passes with nothing happening to Jace. The next day as Jace wakes up he reviews his plan.
At the same time at the demon base the Leader is looking over his new plan that he put into effect with his aid. "How is the construction speed?" the Leader asks.
"It has more than doubled, Leader" the aid responds. "Good, and how are the infected taking to there new jobs?" the Leader asks as he turns to them working.
"They complained at first, but after they were informed that they would not receive medical treatment if they did not cooperate. They changed their minds and got to work, Leader" the aid responded.
"Good, how long at this pace will construction be finished?" "It is predicted to be finished in around 10 night cycles here, Leader." "On schedule, any messages from home base?" the Leader asks, turning to his aid.
"Yes, Leader there is a new message that was delivered today" the aid responds "I put it on your desk." The Leader then turns and heads to his tent. When he arrives at his desk and reads the message he becomes a little scared.
The leader sets down the message shaking his head. The leader then says under his breath "of all demons for them to send it had to be him." The Leader then proceeds to fill out papers on their progress to send to home base.