As Noah landed back in the Odir estate, he was given no time to rest before Archmage Draven came up to him and handed Noah his agenda of things he had to do with a war on the horizon. Lazily skimming his eyes over what was written, he handed it back to Draven and headed straight for the study, with Archmage Draven closely accompanying him.

There, he found Archmages Lirael and Seraphina waiting for him, ready to brief him.

The habit of meeting the three once a week had formed, where they would brief him on updates on their research regarding his current path to cultivating power he had visualized for himself. They would then occasionally touch on their defensive strategy for the invasion, refining it so that they could propose a flawless plan to the other important military figures of Haldor during the upcoming war room meetings.

‘Haah, meeting after meeting is all I'm doing these days.’

It was through these meetings that he learned important things about spirit splitting and mimicry he would previously be hard-pressed to discover without the empirical data that these archmages gathered.

For example, a major tidbit that had recently come to light was how mimic stacking vs mimic layering affected his performance. When it came to strength, choosing mimic layering might allow for larger muscles that could linearly generate more power the more they were layered, but he would miss out on the explosive power of a smaller and more dense physicality if mimic stacking was chosen instead.

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For mimic stacking, the raw physicality was multiplefold that of the performance of just three monsters linearly added together, which was the case for mimic layering. However, with a monster like the wyvern, layering could provide more lift due to the larger size of the wings, so stacking was not always preferable.

He had already had a general idea of this, but what he hadn't known was that mimic stacking yielded diminishing returns past three stacks, and he was advised against stacking a monster thrice in any form to maximise efficiency if he was forced into a situation where he needed to change into a form that was not calculated for.

Of course, exceptions existed, such as the Kvasir form where quantity of slimes became important, or the Zephyr form, where vampire blood and ogre physicality augmented wyvern wings, resulting in what the archmages referred to as cross-mimic influence, where, as the name suggested, the biology of different monsters within a single body resulted in interactions between mimics that yielded a net effect. In the case of the Zephyr form, the cross-mimic influence was used as an advantage, but the reverse could also happen if mimics were recklessly placed in the same form, such as the goblin and ogre, where the ogre’s primary advantage of its large physical body would be negated by the goblin’s small stature.

With the help of the archmages, he further optimized his forms, such as the Zephyr form, such that two wyverns were stacked and two were layered, unlike before, where they were merely stacked four times, now allowing the vampire blood and ogre muscles to bring out a remarkable doubled maximum speed of the already ludicrous speed of the Zephyr form.