Chapter 87: More than what goes on the page
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Caius left Arlette’s office with a slightly more reserved smile than he usually did. He walked his way through the grounds and past the gates to where Gareth and the others were waiting with the Carriage.
"Young Lord."
He acknowledged their greetings with polite nods as he sat in the Carriage and when it began to move a minute later, he had already taken a large book that was his self-composed Grimoire from out of his Storage Ring.
Now that lust and a thirst for Arlette’s arousal-charged blood weren’t clouding his thoughts as much, he was able to better assimilate what she had been trying to teach.
In truth, he had been making discoveries into Dark Magic on his own. It was his one unique Element and he had a High Affinity with it, so naturally, when he pored through the Arcane Codex, he was drawn to those symbols specifically.
Caius flipped through the pages he had filled thus far. Every Arcane symbol was drawn with precision with proper depictions of the required hand seals for each and notes included to explain exactly what they were as well as what other symbols they could potentially have synergy.
As Caius looked through his perfect penmanship and artistic talent (which were two of the things he had brought along from being Kevin), he remembered how, yesterday, he had asked Arlette about the binding factor he had been lacking so far for spell creation.
Instead of just giving him the answer, she had used that as a Segway to continue talking about the Divinity of Dark Magic because, as she felt, telling him the binding factor, would still be spoiling him if he did not really understand the core of the Element.
"The ’binding factor’ as you call it, can vary from person to person. It’s why spells can be signature to the person creating them. It’s why Mages treasure the spells they create..." Arlette had said.
"Like the spells you taught me," Caius had interrupted to say.
Arlette had smiled at him and nodded.