Chronicles of the True Wizard

The next day he turned his attention back to Flame Thrower. Prior to his tangent with rapid firing spells, he realized the issue with his previous attempt was that it didn't need a shaping component at all. He should be able to simply summon and push fire out in a constant stream. He entered his library and tinkered with the spell form on paper until it was less awkward looking. Without the shaping component, it looked like a chunk of the spell form was simply missing, which was accurate. He increased the size of the fire component to compensate for the missing portions then adjusting the surrounding components and connections to better fit the new spell. Finally, he tested it out.

Pushing mana into the spell, a stream of fire poured out in front of Felix. The spell worked exactly as he had predicted. He managed to add some leaks into the spell form as well as some pain points, where he felt the mana pushing against the spell form, but he quickly ironed out the kinks. The spell was admittedly awesome, with one small downside, it guzzled mana. It took about eighty mana per second to cast the spell, which meant he could currently cast the spell for a grand total, of thirteen seconds.

With all that done, he decided to try something that he figured should now be possible with all his work on spell form construction. Ultimately, it took him three tries to construct and cast three Fire Bolt's at once. He practiced for an hour or so until it didn't take his entire focus and he could do it with three different spells.

Well that was relatively painless. All those improvements I made practicing channeled spells just doubled their returns. I was expecting to practice this for at least a few days. Now all that's left is trying to use Gust to run faster, which is likely going to result in a lot of tripping, hooray.

Felix left the town towards the field so he had lots of open space. He passed by the warehouse on the way and saw that not much progress had been made since he last saw it, the walls looked higher, but Felix wasn't certain. There also didn't appear to be anybody actively working on it.

I can't really complain cause it's not like I'm paying them, although maybe I should be? Whatever gets done is a bonus anyway, it's not like I need this stuff to get done at all, it's just a nice to have.

Running with Gust pushing him was easy, but that was just a small tailwind, what he wanted was to overcharge the spell to drastically increase his speed. He positioned Gust behind him pointing forwards and up at an angle then doubled the spell size but the effects were negligible compared to the normal spell. It took him a while to realize the issue. The targeting of the spell was way too big so he ended up with a large wind all around him but that wasn't helpful at all. He tinkered with the spell form replacing the targeting component with the Fire Bolt spell's targeting component. It was better, but dangerous this time, it felt like he might blow a hole open in his back if he increased the power anymore because the target was too small.

Next he worked on finding the balance between the targeting component of Gust and Fire Bolt, something right between the two should be ideal. Once he found the right balance then he upped the power in the spell. Over the course of the rest of day he found a good method of traveling, he would use the modified Gust behind him with a normal one in front of him to reduce air resistance. One of the biggest increases was giving up on the boots movement speed. He had been trying to maintain having both feet touching the ground at all times for the movement speed increase but it got too complicated. Once he let go of that, he started flying.

It looked like he was running on air, with each jump he flew forwards multiple meters. To Felix, it felt like he was skipping which was a little awkward, but ultimately worth it he decided. He was moving almost five times faster than his top running speed. He couldn't fly quite yet as he didn't have enough control over the wind and he definitely didn't have enough mana.

As it is, he barely had enough mana to make it to the combat dungeon, draining almost all of his mana batteries. Then he would have to let them recharge before making the trip back. It did save a lot of time though.

The idea of flying with Gust did give him an idea though, he should be able to both slow his fall and jump really high with Gust. It only took him an hour to figure out both. First, he adjusted Gust to remove the channeling and instead turn it into a burst focused in an area slightly bigger than his body. He adjusted the strength and tested it by jumping off of floors without windows in the castle. He jumped first from the second floor, a fall that wouldn't even hurt him with his new stats. Then he tried using the exact same spell, with a bigger burst to jump. With a little practice, he managed to jump back to the floor he started from.

The hardest part was the timing, when to use the spell to get the maximum effect and not throw him off. It took many times more mana and force, but it was doable. He then moved up as he tuned the spell. He managed to make it to about three stories with a jump that cost an insane amount of mana and required multiple pushes with the non channeled Gust in the air. Theoretically, he could fall from much higher, but didn't test it now. Worst case scenario, if he didn't get the force exactly right the first time, he would just hit himself multiple times until he slowed to a safe velocity.

Finally, Felix had accomplished everything he planned on before claiming rewards in the combat dungeon so he decided he would head there first thing in the morning. Before sleeping for the night, Felix checked his notifications. He had muted them before training as they started to annoy him while he was focused on training when most of the notifications were people joining his map. Thinking about it now, he set those to never show. He could change it back in the future if he needed to, but he couldn't think of any reason why he would. He did have other notifications though, going through them, he made sure the repeated ones were collapsed into one summary notification.

Ding You have gained 13 levels in [E - Special] Arcane Engineer

Holy shit, I guess I must be doing something right. I suspect this is mostly catch up experience in a sense. As in, I show the proficiency of someone at a much higher level, then I gain experience as if I was at that level. Sort of how, I assume, killing a higher level monster works. I gain more experience for killing them over lower level creatures since the experience they award is meant for someone at their level. Anyways, that's a lot of free points. Intelligence to 200, 2 in Strength, 4 in Vitality, 1 in Endurance and the rest in Agility, for the nice round numbers.