Overpowered Wizard

Zarian was thankful his room’s personal kitchen area was enormous. It had a long kitchen island that was perfect for laying out multiple meals or a few bodies in Para’s case.

The wizard and his cloak ate their ravenous fill. Empress Ruvaria provided more food until their hunger was sated. Then Zarian was back on his gravity spell study, but this time he included Para more.

She worked as his soundboard as he discussed some of his ideas aloud. She either debated with him or pointed out the parts he’d overlooked.

Despite being a parasitic article of clothing, she was hooked up well to his body where she could pull from his senses, his memories, and even his thoughts, which made it easier for her to predict when he was going too far down into the rabbit hole. Then she would pull him out and help him refocus.

Eventually, they included some spectral spiders for experimental purposes. They used their arcane webbing to play with gravity runes that were tiny pieces that made up the whole gravity spell.

There was no other spell that allowed him to try out pieces of itself before learning the complete spell. Only with the gravity spell could Zarian attempt mini trial runs, and he wouldn’t have known to do this if Para hadn’t suggested it.

Hours became days. Ruvaria remained in his room, watching his process. Para moved about with multiple arms and hands to jot down notes or flip through grimoire pages for Zarian while he was making notes on the living room screen.

Spectral spiders looked at the notes and tried to replicate certain runes for practice in their webbing. Most of the time, nothing major happened other than tiny fluctuations of gravity – they once sent a mug flying across the room.

Zarian kept encouraging them to go bigger.