Mage Among Superheroes

After directly training spells over the course of the next weeks, I had to say the effects were quite fruitful. I had to imagine it would get slower but… the results were significant. No, astounding. Familiar Bond increased in rank, I presumed through Midnight's active efforts, but we did work together still. Nothing else he was training had increased in Rank, so it was either much slower or didn't apply for him.

An interesting surprise progression was Mage's Reach. I hadn't intentionally improved it, but I did certainly make use of it. It was relatively low level and less upgraded than many other things. Did that help? I honestly didn't know. Information was only gained from Master Uvithar in short daily snippets, and I had so many things I wanted to ask. So far we'd exchanged the equivalent of two short letters.

On that topic, Sending increased in rank. That was a massive achievement, because it would have been 11 points to do that. That was still almost half a level's worth, as I gained points equal to each new level to spend. Another valuable skill that leveled up, mostly at the behest of Calculator, was Scrying. That one was 12 points worth, though it had actually improved more rapidly. Perhaps my practice beforehand had paid off? So many questions. But I was quite pleased with my growth. I'd suddenly gotten almost a whole 'free' level!

Non-combat abilities that wouldn't help me level up and progress suddenly had the ability to improve on their own. That was a strange thought. I tried to imagine what things would have been like if I could do this from the beginning, though in truth I still needed the maximum mana that came from levels so I was still glad to have come to Earth.