This madman's book was terribly rationally written. It dealt with new ideas, calling the other magicians "barn owls, ignoramuses and quacks". In fact, he almost laughed at what he said if he hadn't known what this man was capable of.
Some of the experiments were still floating through his mind.
Magna was not against animal testing on principle, but whatever this man did bordered on heresy of the worst kind. The rows of books he found in the separated room seemed to be alive. In this one book he described the discovery of a ruin, how he would have hired some mercenaries and made preparations, because in the ruin he hoped to find forgotten knowledge in order to create new knowledge from it. The unknown magician was not satisfied with simply learning something, but wanted to develop everything he learned. The book seemed somehow out of place among the other books on the history of magic, even if it treated things from a different perspective and was sometimes reminiscent of a diary.
But he hadn't expected much from the writings themselves, because when looking at historical sources of modernity, one always had to read with a certain source of criticism. Translations were mostly incorrect, translated, falsified or changed countless times.
Things were written out from perspectives. So the works of Sallust, who once was a strong sympathizer of Cesar about the decline of the Roman Republic, corruption and its decline, in whom he saw a future for the Roman Empire. Many ancient writings on history were their first copies and were not formalized, nor were there written sources of origin. Much was passed down orally only to be captured on paper for the first time. There were so many variables involved that today's historical research was still caught up in a controversy over some events, including their dates.
Basically, one could look at these self-written scriptures in a similar way, although some of them were already the beginning of growing research. There were references to known magics and their creators! On historical events in between. Unfortunately, dating should be almost impossible here as well. Even if the majority spoke Common, he shouldn't be surprised if they all had different calendars, if they had one at all. The Greeks, for example, are a real torture for historians, because each Greek city-state basically had its own calendar, whereas Rome had a single calendar for its entire empire.
The books themselves seemed thicker, although most of it seemed to come from the paper itself, rarely the books were really thick. The writing was also much clearer and larger to make it easier to read. Handwriting tended to become illegible.
The paper was of much higher quality than the material in the little hunter's diary and you could also see the difference in wealth.
The pages were not filled endlessly down to the smallest space, but left enough space. In some even magical representations could be found and finally after a few days he finished the crudest traits of the history of magic from these books.
His next interest was his reward, the books on alchemy I-III, which formed a complete contrast to the other books. Not only was the paper high quality, but it also appeared to have been typed. In his opinion, the reward granted by the system was of an entirely different quality.
It did contain images of plants, some of which he already owned, which turned out to be common mana herbs. The illustrations included detailed explanations of the nature, use, harvest, processing methods, storage and handling.
The material thus possessed immeasurable value in its entirety. The paper even had the unadulterated smell of his own world, fresh off the press, which he almost couldn't get enough of. In addition, everything was described in a modern way, structuring it like a guide to chemistry or like a scientific thesis.
That was really "hot shit" in his own words and that finally made him really horny for alchemy. He spent almost the entire next week in the library, moving the three books on alchemy from the shelves back to his attic, where they were much safer.
From there he would call one out whenever he could and read it, whether it was while eating, before going to sleep or while sunbathing. Magna endeavored to internalize these works. Leica seemed to have found what it was looking for after a while, but the live capture of the test animals was, at best, still suboptimal. On the other hand, he finished the third book after three weeks. Before he even ventured into the brewing process, he first wanted to internalize the whole theory. There were some building process related skills that he had to transform. The interesting thing about these books was that they not only used the magically spread method, but also his own to make this happen. Probably it would be restricted in some things, because as with the cleaning magic he had to translate it into German in order to convey the necessary connotations to the words.
In addition to their obvious structure, the first book seemed to deal with light potions and poisons. The second book seemed to focus on normal potions and the third on medium ones. The differences in the brewing processes could also help better understand the lower or simpler processes by comparing their differences. In the first book there were still a lot of warnings against certain poisons, while in the second book it was already assumed that this knowledge was internalized. The footnotes that referred to the first book were almost surreal. It felt like he was reading a book from the university library himself. Probably some alchemists in the world would kill for these works. He could well imagine that the system would produce the books according to his standards, while someone from this world would get the same reward with a book full of esotericism.
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The first book dealt largely with the basic elements of alchemy, as well as the spells related to the subject itself. It also contained some light healing potions, ointments, poisons and even mana potions. Ridiculously, it even contained the manufacture of soap and some other care products, which could be created with worldly methods.
One of the spells that interested him most were the magical hands and the related telekinesis, which required a constant expenditure of mana. Although these magics were intended to safely process dangerous materials, they also had a powerful combative value.
For telekinesis he already had a few ideas that could be used if he could use it to move a few smaller needles the size of knitting needles. That would give him a lot more options in a confrontation. However, learning these magics turned out to be more difficult than expected, which is why he chose the method of translating language and adjusting its variables somewhat to his mana supply.
Finally he sorted the magic hands, which were classified by the system as [Mana Hands], and the [Telekinesis] under his Mana tab. There was also talk of a mana control somewhere, which was in stark contrast to the manipulation, but the explanation for it simply made no sense to him. It was in the third book and dealt with the combination of skills that led to different results.
Of both, he found telekinesis much easier to use, whereupon he began to use it frequently in everyday life. He formulated the spell with the help of a few variables, which were used to adjust the consumption and to keep the spell itself flexible.
In fact, he had to be careful not to suffer from muscle wasting or to get too used to the skill, although it made some things a lot easier. He even used it for turning the pages, holding the book, turning meat on the grill, and some other related practices. Once he used telekinesis, as well as the mana hands, for his sleep practice and the associated experience exceeded all his expectations. It took the whole game to a whole new level.
Unfortunately, since he didn't have any drinking vessels like glasses, he tried to remember how to make glass, if he wasn't mistaken, then he needed either quartz sand, feldspar, or lime. There were other fabrics, too, but they seemed unlikely to be acquired. Which would be easiest of quartz sand, but he had no idea where to find anything like it, which brought his brewing practice to a standstill. With which he took on other books again. Above all, he seemed to be fascinated by the works of enchantment that had previously been left behind.
The scriptures contained therein very soon revealed why they were left behind, for they were all written exclusively by the madman himself. If he didn't already know what was in it, then they would probably have had a different priority level and would have disappeared from the dungeon before Magna could loot them. Perhaps the magician even believed that he was not even able to take his books with him.
There were also a few books on alchemy in his collection, but these were either written as narrative or esoteric as expected. Even if the Unknown Duke's notes in the margin gave him some clues. He was shocked that there was more to this man than he was ready to admit. This magician filtered out the valuable information and almost certainly the results were summarized in one of the vanished volumes.
But first he should deal with the enchantment. Hell, he was even grateful that these books were written by him, albeit primitively, they followed a few simple rules that made it much easier to understand and understand. This is how the first book began with a listing of the different types of enchantments. The moment he read elven arrays and dwarven runes, his heart skipped a beat with every word. The arrays were more efficient than the dwarf runes when stationary. The dwarf runes, on the other hand, were more resistant and especially suitable for weapons, so they could be taken with you.
Humans basically combined both branches of technology to create their own, because the elven arrays, as well as the dwarven runes, were almost unknown to humans. They had only a fragmented knowledge of the technologies of the two peoples, which is why some of their works can also be found in the books. But these works had been modified so that people could use them. This came about through a very long process of trial and error.
Although its technology did not compete with the disciplines of the other peoples in its special sub-areas, it offered a great deal more variability. So the people created a new font, the spelling of which was very reminiscent of the patterns he found all over the dungeon. That exactly these patterns were a font surprised him even more and the magician apparently adapted the pattern for his purposes, but did not note this in this literature, only cut it.
The variability was found, for example, in the various sources of power. Although those of the dwarves or elves were not listed, people apparently used the mana crystallized from the beasts for the general public, which were much less valuable than pure mana crystals which apparently represented a much more stable source, as well as a richer source . Pure mana crystallizations were often found in dungeons, because there the mana formed almost something like a primordial soup in its abundance before it formed crystallites. Mana mines were also known in which these crystals could be found. However, their occurrences were rare and mining appeared to involve some risks.
The first patterns in the book could be created with stone molding, provided that they were attached to walls. If you want to create them on equipment, then special materials would be required, such as the skin of mana-sensitive creatures. Metals were also suitable for this purpose, but had to be refined with portions of silver, gold or mithril.
Unfortunately, the book itself did not keep a list of the composition of the finishes, but referred to various metals that could be embroidered as threads into equipment or how these could be sketched with a Mana conductive pen. For this one could also use telekinesis, the mana hands or other skills, which, however, required an astronomical degree of sensitivity. The whole practice almost made him dizzy. There was too much information in its abundance for a single evening. So he spent the next few days studying the series of books about it over and over again.
The book allegedly referred to two books that were already missing when he arrived. One should deal with dwarf runes and the other with the arrays. It pained him that the magician didn't leave these volumes behind, but that knowledge must have been part of the real treasure of his collection. In fact, much of what he got from this foray was basically basic knowledge. At least the basic characters for the enchantments were fully documented, as were some simple beginner drawings.
There were also human arrays and runes that were stolen and alienated from other races, but basically only dealt with very basic things. Since the elven way of drawing could not be reproduced by humans, humans had to improvise in it. They looked a bit coarse, in some places. But for example the rune for self-repair or an array for cleaning, warming and a few others were there. They were found in the later volumes which he began to read towards the end of the month.
Finally he felt ready to try at least something ...