Chapter 187: Self Help Books
Prince Alex took a book from his storage ring and handed it to Dominic.
"I’m not sure if you can learn this, but if you can, it might really speed up your progress. It’s the art of making mana crystals. Normally, only mages make them, but it’s possible that Sorcerers do too if they know the technique.
Our Father is much more relaxed about nonhumans than his father was, but there is still a lot that is kept secret about Dragonkin magic because the Wavemates Kings didn’t trust others not to use it against them.
You should be able to make a crystal up to your current innate level, but I don’t know how that will work for you, as you’re not a mage. For me, my innate level is five. The level that I can increase new spell gems to based on the level of my Battle Mage Core.
But that takes too much work for most people, so they just stop when they get a level one or two crystal and call it good.
To get a newly attuned gem to the peak of level one, it takes about five levels of mana cores. That increases with every level of the spell gem or trade skill core. It’s not static for everyone, the higher your affinity, the lower the increase.
But in general, the most proficient are around a fifty percent increase with every level. The least compatible users need around double the mana per level.
That will vary with every spell and magitech device that you get.
Some Magitech devices take inordinately high amounts of materials to increase, but that is usually because they have an exceptional effect, or combination of multiple different effects built into them, which don’t perfectly align with each other.
Now, at first, it’s not bad. Even if you needed ten levels to reach the peak of level one, most mages will need around sixty to get to level five. That’s a reasonable number that most common guards and workers can expect to reach.