Overpowered Wizard

Feeling hyped, Zarian couldn’t stay in bed anymore.

He drained the last dregs of his cool coffee and used Aura Mastery to send it flying out of his room. He guided it down to the kitchen on the ground floor, where Bianca took it and washed it super fast.

He used more Aura Mastery to send a verbal thanks all the way to Bianca’s ear. When she replied, he used Aura Mastery again and captured the sound of her words to bring it back to him.

“De nada,” said the air with Bianca’s voice.

He could’ve spoken with her directly with the spider network or sent some impressions. But these little Aura Mastery tricks were both fun and great for practicing his fine tune control.

Practicing control was important because he knew what he was going to do with his 74 Free points. He placed them all straight into Wonder, and he felt the change like he had bursting fireworks inside of him and his aura.

Zarian whooped as he flipped off his bed and into the air. He entered a hover and rotated around like a zero-g astronaut.

He closed his eyes and felt a significant expansion in his aura, his supernatural senses, his feeling for lucky encounters, and his sense of faith.

That last attribute was interesting, because it didn’t exactly mean all of his fears and worries were gone. It felt like he could have better access to divine circumstances, which might seem useless to him as a Freedom Leader.

Maybe there were other ways that faith could play a part even if it wasn’t overt. Maybe it might play more of a part with how the gnolls worshiped him like a god.

Regardless of that, Zarian wanted his Wonder higher for its best attribute: aura power.

Higher Wonder meant higher aura power. This way, he could strike with more weight while using Aura Mastery. This also had a huge effect on his void spells and hell gator spells.

Honestly, most, if not all, of his spells would benefit because he could push them harder or craft them smartly with Aura Mastery itself, even if they didn’t scale with Wonder.

No, wait, a lot of my spells scale with Wonder and Mysticism. Zarian checked. Huh, I’ve actually been hurting myself by not raising Wonder as much as I should’ve.

He should still focus on Mysticism. He really needed the aura recovery, after all.

There were so many little tricks and nuanced ways to overlap stats and abilities as a wizard, Zarian could only imagine how perfected and complex Ruvaria’s profile could be. His dear teacher was the type who would be the envy of god wizards up in God Land while she was still bound to the Lesser Worlds.

Zarian stopped flipping around and remained floating upright. His cloak fluttered around the entire room.

The weird morphs grimoire scrambled from one long wavering strand to another. Para formed multiple feminine hands and playfully chased and pinched at the grimoire.

Zarian watched them play and bond before turning his attention to his total stats.

Willpower: 453

Strength: 52

Agility: 54

Wonder: 450

Mysticism: 573

Free: 0

Everything looked nice to him. Wonder had finally caught up to Willpower. He planned to keep those two on par with each other and return more of his focus to Mysticism.

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Surprisingly, he didn’t even have the highest Mysticism.

If Hannah was still the same level and had gained nothing from a new side quest, she would be at 583 Mysticism. Her other stats were drastically lower, but that was perfectly fine for her specific build and abilities.

Bianca had the highest Wonder at 683, which made perfect sense for her. That was the main reason her new legendary battle dress needed stacks of aura recovery enchantments. She could burn through aura pretty fast on her own.

Gilbert fell behind everyone else in many small ways, but he didn’t – and shouldn’t – min-max much. For his role, Gilbert could mostly cruise his way up the levels and worlds and still be one of the most vital adventurers around.

Naomi hadn’t talked too much about her changes last night. She wanted to wait until this morning.

He did a quick ping on the spider network, asking for her condition. She responded with an impression that she was feeling horrible.

Zarian used Aura Mastery more directly and nudged her on the shoulder while she was buried under layers in her bed. He focused on the vibrations from her open mouth. It seemed like she was moaning in pain.

Yup, that’s what you get for screwing around so much yesterday, Zarian thought, ignoring the fact that he was being a hypocrite.

He was curious about her gains, however. How much stronger had she gotten?

Zarian would go see soon. He returned his focus to himself while Para and the weird morphs grimoire continued playing around. He smiled a little at their antics as he pulled up his profile.

He checked on the three Level 0 skills he hunted for after the fall of the Chimera Tyrant Lair.

<Red Artillery Shot (Level 0): Conjure and charge a magic projectile that can hit like an explosive ordnance. The red glow represents your anger, which intensifies the damage potential. Scales with Wonder.>

<Wild Acid Force (Level 0): Focus a portion of your aura into an acidic force that’s both energy-based and physical. This force can be wild and unpredictable while delivering corrosive damage. Scales with Mysticism.>

<Crushing Constriction (Level 0): Use your size and strength to constrict and crush a target. Once you have a hold of them, it’s unlikely they’ll get out alive. Scales with Strength.>

Zarian had taken the best alpha skills from a godless watcher, a chimera ghoul, and a giant serpent. He couldn’t find any warp fey last night.

They must’ve flown the coop when the lair was undone after the Chimera Tyrant died.

I lost out on the High Warp Manipulation, but I think Warp Adaptation makes up for it, Zarian thought. Besides, I’m pretty damn capable of beating warp users as a void user now.

Before Zarian made some final decisions, he considered his other options.

He could tell that the grimoires would refuse to turn other grimoire skills into spells. That would flat out fail. There were also his older Level 0 skills, such as Willful Might, Wondrous Speed, and Mystic Toughness.

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I still want to keep them, Zarian thought. They scale decently and I can push them fairly harder with Aura Mastery. I also like how I have to focus on my aura and fill in the gaps that are missing because they are Level 0s.

Making these three older Level 0 skills work for him was excellent practice for Aura Mastery. They helped with the day-to-day stuff. Or when he just wanted to show off as an impossibly strong, fast, and tough wizard. They worked very well with his body buffs from Para and Floridian Mindset.

Zarian turned his attention to the balcony and floated over. He used his Aura Mastery to slide the Glacial Stone door out of his way.

Out on the balcony, he took in the view as sunbeams from the east shone more on the castle structures in the west. The light drew closer to the edge of the lake.

He didn’t enjoy the view alone.

The weird morphs grimoire scrambled onto the balcony’s railing. It made gurgling sounds of wonder and amazement as Para’s hands pet over its bristly white-yellow top.

Zarian shook his head and smiled before he sent a heads up impression to the other Floridians. They gave him confirmation in return that they’d gotten the heads up.

He was good to go.

Zarian extended his hand and used the Red Artillery Shot skill.

He pumped aura into the profile skill runes attached to the perimeter of his soul. He filled the gaps where there were missing runes because it was Level 0 and incapable of growing.

Fizzling red sparks gathered in front of his palm before rapidly merging and growing until it was the size of a bowling ball.

He imagined Sinfeast.

His anger ballooned.

The Red Artillery Shot grew to the size of a beach ball. It shone a furious red over Zarian and the lakeside face of the hotel.

“Hey!” Gilbert stuck his head from over the side of his balcony while down below. “Don’t shoot that into the lake!”

“I want to shoot something,” Zarian grunted while trying to maintain both the skill and his anger.

“Not the lake!” Gilbert shouted back.

“Ugh!”

“And don’t forget about the back-blast!”

“UGH!”

Zarian lunged off of his balcony, which scared the weird morphs grimoire and sent it scrambling backward. Para rescued the timid grimoire and held it in five caring and maternal arms formed from the cloak.

Zarian floated above the hotel until he located a spot far outside of the ring of castles and hills. He saw a lone fort hillock that was quite large. He turned, hardened his aura around into a large tube pointed forward, and released the Red Artillery Shot.

He suffered the back-blast alone while the aura tube funneled most of the recoil forward and back. By the time he could see, he noticed the weird morphs grimoire was screaming and crying in Para’s caring arms.

Then he looked and saw that the formation of forts fused into one hillock was mostly gone. There was a big smoky cloud, a smoking crater, and some debris raining down from all over.

Zarian breathed some slow and deep breaths to cool down. He put aside his absolute hatred for Sinfeast.

Then he thought critically about where Red Artillery Shot would serve best as a spell. Once he came to a decent conclusion, he checked with Para to see if she would object.

“I do not object,” Para said from a single palm. “I can already predict which goes where and approve.”

<Which skill would you like to turn into a spell for the Advanced Grimoire of Black Magic +1?>

<You’ve chosen Red Artillery Shot (Level 0) to become a spell for the Advanced Grimoire of Black Magic +1! Please wait as your skill change into a spell.>

Zarian followed the entire journey closely. He noticed how his skill decoupled from his soul. Then it winked away far too quickly for him to track.

Before anything else happened, Zarian summoned the black magic grimoire from his soul. It appeared with a flash of black light and a rattle of spectral chains that covered the covers and kept it linked to him.

He was right on time to feel a new spell forming in his grimoire at a near blinding speed. Runes. Geometric symbols. Strange and eerie text.

Zarian flipped over to the pages just as the Star System finished jotting down a completely new spell.

<Your Advanced Grimoire of Black Magic +1 gained a new spell!>

The pages glowed with a dangerous orange light.

But he didn’t know the spell.

“Oh, of course, I have to study it now.” Zarian chuckled. “However, I can already tell this is far more advanced than the previous skill. And it’s likely more flexible, too. Hm.”

Interesting. Very interesting.

Zarian pulled up his skill description for the black magic grimoire.

<Advanced Grimoire of Black Magic +1 (Level 13): You have grown more studious in the arts of dark and evil magic, which is reflected in this advancement. You can evoke spells without summoning the grimoire. Your studying prowess and creativity are greater as a wizard of nefarious means. You can further advance old or new spells. You currently have 3 out of 8 learned spells: Bloody Lifesteal, Deploy Expert Skeletons, and Black Fire.>

“It used to be three out of seven learned spells. Now it’s three out of eight,” Zarian said. “Yeah, I have to get to studying those new ones.”

He’d spent so much time on the gravity spell he let the other spells fall to the wayside.

He went as far as he could go with the gravity spell right now. It felt like he’d run into a natural roadblock after what he did in the Chimera Tyrant Lair to defeat the doomsday spell device.

He needed to let the gravity spell sit for a little while. He would come back to it later, after he grew a little more powerful or gathered some new insight and epiphanies.

Zarian dismissed the black magic grimoire. He traveled through the void and went out a few miles away from the lake. Then he used the Level 0 Wild Acid Force and observed how portions of his aura turned into frenzied radioactive neon green acid energy with a physical presence.

The scary part was how Wild Acid Force could conjure just anywhere, as long as he had his aura present in the location. With some focus, he could specify where most of the Wild Acid Force formed.

He found some Level 60 monsters that reminded him of wendigoes. They were chasing down a Level 65 sheep beast.

He thought of making the frenzied energy fall on the monsters like acid rain. But Wild Acid Force didn’t work that way.

Instead, he gathered enough until he could fill a half-sized pool and shoved it down onto the monsters. The Wild Acid Force struck with a push while eating through the monsters’ flesh rapidly. The force also burst, rippled, and twisted in weird ways that turned the melting monsters into slurries of their former selves.

In a few seconds, Zarian cleaned off their bones, and even those were dissolving under the berserk press of the Wild Acid Force. Then there was nothing left.

“Void acid?” Zarian asked aloud. “Yeah, let’s do it.”

First, he summoned the voidling exile grimoire. Then he prompted the Star System to do its thing, and he observed as closely as possible.

He paid attention to how the skill departed from his soul before disappearing and ending up printed with a more in-depth explanation of runes, non-Euclidean symbols, and raving texts on the metallic pages of the voidling exile grimoire.

<Which skill would you like to turn into a spell for the Advanced Grimoire of the Voidling Exile +1?>

<You’ve chosen Wild Acid Force (Level 0) to become a spell for the Advanced Grimoire of the Voidling Exile +1! Please wait as your skill change into a spell.>

<Your Advanced Grimoire of the Voidling Exile +1 has a new spell!>

<Advanced Grimoire of the Voidling Exile +1 (Level 18): The exiled prince of the mad voidlings has left behind the most advanced teachings of his mastery. You can evoke spells without summoning the grimoire. You can promise the safety of friends. Your void abilities are more powerful. You can further advance old or new spells. You currently have 4 out of 8 learned spells: Void Waltz, Void Authority, Void Layer, and Void Shout.>

Zarian didn’t bother testing the Level 0 Crushing Constriction skill. Nobody could confuse what that did. He was curious how the hell gator grimoire would take it as he dismissed Voidling and summoned the more predatory grimoire.

Immediately, the weird morphs grimoire scrambled around in fright while surrounded by Para’s caring arms. The hell gator grimoire hovered over Zarian’s shoulder before turning the toothy edges of its covers toward the new grimoire.

Gator could smell the weakness inside of Morph.

I’ve never considered giving them capitalized names before, Zarian thought. But now that there’s four, I might as well. Black. Gator. Voidling. Morph.There, simple and easy to remember.

With that in mind, he went through the motions for Gator.

<Which skill would you like to turn into a spell for the Advanced Grimoire of the Hell Gator +1?>

<You’ve chosen Crushing Constriction (Level 0) to become a spell for the Advanced Grimoire of the Hell Gator +1! Please wait as your skill change into a spell.>

<Your Advanced Grimoire of the Hell Gator +1 has a new spell!>

<Advanced Grimoire of the Hell Gator +1 (Level 10): Your mastery of this folktale is frightening and advanced. You can evoke spells without summoning the grimoire. You can triple cast or intensify any section of the folktale with super hellish effects. You can further advance old or new spells. You currently have 4 out of 9 learned spells: Quagmire Pit, Dread Mire Bite, Dread Mire Bellow, and Dreadnought Hell Gator.>