Samuel, who was overwhelmed by a series of questions in his mind, counted the days and finally decided to find something to distract himself. He went to the National Library of Calenta to transcribe over a hundred books before returning home to begin his arcane studies.

Samuel's theoretical level in arcane art is quite high, and during his military career, he has written papers in his spare time that have been published in the next top arcane journals many times. If it weren't for his busy military schedule, he might even have become a top theorist.

Unfortunately, Samuel was previously constrained by his poor talent for spell casting, and even though his understanding of arcane theory was far beyond that of ordinary people, he still could not step into the realm of high-level mages.

Fortunately, these are no longer problems at this time, in addition to the series of troublesome problems brought to Samuel, this mutation has also brought him some surprises, his spell-casting qualifications at this time are enough for him to impact the archmage's realm, and the high-level realm is no longer a problem.

It only took 1 hour for Samuel to successfully complete his first high-level spell. It was a dissociation technique, one of the Variation School's signature high-level spells, that could easily dissociate objects into powder. The spell was so successful that the gray rays from Samuel's fingertips hit the flower pot on the windowsill, and the latter was reduced to a cloud of ashes.

After the mage entered the high-level realm, he was faced with the problem of school selection, and the arcane system has developed to this day, and the knowledge system has become very large, and individuals cannot exhaust all the arcane knowledge. Mages can only selectively devote their energies to one or two of these directions.

And that's just for the theorists of the arcane, as mages who want to use it in combat have more reasons to specialize. When it comes to this, we have to mention the principle of the mage's spell casting.

Even a formal-level spell requires the mage to operate dozens to hundreds of magic streams in parallel at the same time, which is very cumbersome and consumes the mage's mental power, which has become a bottleneck for many casters who are not strong in spirit. To overcome this difficulty, the mages summarized the mana manipulation of various spells into a series of fixed patterns, and designed a circle to handle these fixed patterns automatically. This circle is the mage's "main circle".

The main circle is carved into the mage's soul, and the mage can mobilize it to manipulate the flow of mana when casting spells, while the mage himself only needs to assist the main circle to deal with some mana flows that the main circle cannot handle. The "spells" mentioned by the mages, whether it is the fireball technique of the plastic energy system, or the dissociation technique of the change system, or the death finger of the necromantic system, are all "magic formulas" designed according to the main magic circle, and if the main magic circle is redesigned, then these spells need to be reconstructed to achieve the purpose of being completely equivalent to the previous one. After hundreds of years of optimization, the main circle of the modern arcane system has been basically finalized, and mages only need to copy it, and few people need to redesign the main circle themselves.

However, the main circle sacrifices a lot of efficiency in order to support all spells of all spell schools, making it unoptimal for any spell school. Therefore, in order to optimize a particular school or a particular spell, additional circles need to be added. This is what mages often refer to as "auxiliary circles". The auxiliary circle is also carved into the soul. Both the main circle and the secondary circle require the mage to spend a lot of money to carve and will be a burden on the soul itself, so there is an upper limit to the number of auxiliary circles that can be carried at a given soul strength. Soul strength can be strengthened through meditation and other means, but at any point in life, this strength is limited, so as a battle mage, you can only use a limited number of auxiliary circles to strengthen a few aspects. It is often better to use them to strengthen a school or type of spell than to use them for all schools of strengthening. As a result, Battlemages are also more inclined to specialize in certain areas, rather than choosing to become generalist mages who know everything but are not proficient in anything.

Out of habit, mages also generally refer to the secondary circle as "refinement", if a mage has a secondary circle of plastic energy, then others will often say that he/she has a refinement of the plastic system

Like most mages, Samuel chose to specialize in a few. Unlike the average mage, who tend to specialize in only one school, Samuel chooses to specialize in both the Variation and the Force. On the one hand, this is because Samuel thinks that his theoretical attainments are much higher than his peers, and on the other hand, because Samuel's soul strength is much higher than that of mages of the same age, reaching more than twice that of the latter, which allows him to carry more than twice the number of auxiliary magic circles. With this capital backing up, Samuel believes he can specialize in two or more realms like many legends in the arcane realm.

The Department of Change is the study of how magic can be used to drive changes in matter and energy. Dissociation, Hurricane Spear, Stonewall and other spells all belong to the Transformation system.

The Force focuses on the study of magic itself, so mages of this school are better able to use or prevent others from using it. Mages in this realm are adept at dispersing, stealing other people's spells and are one of the caster's most feared enemies. The Force also has offensive spells such as Magic Missile, Arcane Spear, and Star Fury, which are often less powerful than the same level spells in the Plastic Energy and Necromantic systems, but they have higher spell penetration and can better fight enemies with high spell resistance.

Even though his soul was far stronger than his peers, and therefore could carry far more auxiliary circles, Samuel thought about it for an afternoon before finally deciding which ones to carve.

He was busy carving his first auxiliary circle at the moment. There is no cool light and shadow effect in the process of carving the magic circle, everything happens in the spiritual world, and the ups and downs of the process are only known to the parties.

At this moment, he immersed himself in his spiritual world, "looking" at the magnificent circle carved into his soul. That's Samuel's main circle. Below the main circle is a huge whirlpool that is constantly rotating, and a large amount of lilac liquid floats in the whirlpool, and there is the existence form of magic in the soul, and that huge vortex is the mage's "magic pool".

As we all know, releasing spells requires the consumption of mana, which can be extracted from magic crystals and other mana containers outside the body, as well as from the mana pool in the depths of the soul.

If there was another high-level mage here, he/she would have been amazed at the size of Samuel's mana pool, the huge vortex beneath the main circle was almost 3 times the diameter of a wizard of the same level, and the magic in it was much more refined.

But compared to the huge vortex below, the top of the main circle is very lonely - there are usually a large number of auxiliary circles floating above the main circle, but since Samuel doesn't have any auxiliary circles, it is empty above.

This will soon be a thing of the past. Samuel, who had been preparing for a long time, now began to carve the first auxiliary circle in his life.

Samuel's mind moved, and the magic pool suddenly stirred, and a large number of water droplets flew upward, constantly deforming and reorganizing in the air, and finally turned into slender silver threads. Dozens of silver lines streaked through graceful trajectories, and finally converged to a position in the sky above the main circle. Immediately after, these dozens of silver threads are intertwined, looking extremely messy, but if you look closely, you can still see the law of their actions, about a minute later, the place where the silver threads converge has been faintly seen the rudimentary shape of a magic circle, the magic circle is not yet complete, but it is difficult to hide its mystery. The main body of the circle is six concentric circles of different sizes, and a large number of runes are densely distributed in each ring, and if you look closely, you will find that these runes have converged into hundreds of nodes, and there are still lines between many nodes. The dense network of nodes and connections is enough to make any layman dizzy, and only mages can appreciate the subtle beauty of it.

After a few minutes, all the silver threads disappeared, and a circle much smaller than the main circle floated on the side of the edge of the main circle, which belonged to the third sector of the main circle, which was mainly responsible for mana processing for the transformation spells.

So Samuel finally completed his first auxiliary circle. The corresponding refinement of this circle is "Spell Penetration-Change"

In the next few free days, Samuel carved the five auxiliary circles of "Spell Penetration - Force", "Spell Enhancement - Change", "Spell Enhancement - Force", and "Combat Cast" on the soul.

Spell penetration increases the ability of a spell to penetrate an enemy's spell resistance, preventing spells from being resisted. Spell boosts can increase the power of spells by about 30%.

Combat casters, on the other hand, can help casters cast spells in complex conditions, such as in motion, or in areas where mana is disturbed.

Samuel could carry far more than five auxiliary circles, but by the time he finished carving the fifth, there was not much time left before he could set off to carve the sixth circle. The rest of the work can only be left to be done in the middle of the trip.

Just like most wealthy mages, Samuel has space rings that can be used to carry a large number of items, the only difference is that Samuel is more affluent than them, so the rings are of a higher grade and more numerous. He easily stuffed hundreds of books into the Space Ring, and even had plenty of space for some arcane materials. With these things, Samuel can also continue to carve auxiliary circles while on the ship.

With a little free time left after packing, Samuel returned to the mirror. Black smoke quickly enveloped his body, and soon he was back in tentacle form. Compared to when he first awakened, Samuel was a big circle, and in addition to the original six tentacles, he grew a new tentacle. The new tentacle is not yet fully grown, only thirty centimeters long, and Samuel estimates that at the current rate, it will be as long as the other tentacles in two months.

During this time, Samuel had become accustomed to his tentacle form, and he even felt that compared to a human with only two hands, there were six ...... The Seven Tentacles have a more convenient life on their own, and they can even cook three dishes at the same time while cooking...... But Samuel is still not completely reassured, he does not know if there is any hidden danger in his current state.

Fortunately, I will take a boat to Gureg today, and after finding my adoptive father, all my questions will be answered.

A knock at the door interrupted Samuel's thoughts, and he knew that it was someone sent by Toft to pick him up, which meant that the time for departure had come.