The Arcadia System - Chapter 233

A week later.

Reve was on his campus. He sat on his chair as read from a new piece of paper with old scroll papers wandering beside him.

He had finished cracking the sacred papers he got in the auction.

‘Damn. Who would have expected the sacred teachings to be concerning domains? It’s a compact study of domains.’

Domains were the main feature of the fourth circle of Arcane. It was a term too technical to be taken for just its literal meaning.

What were they?

Well, Domains were a type of spell where one displays excellent control over his immediate surrounding. In truth, it is a complex array of spells held together by good skills. The technicality of this spell led it to it being one of the toughest complex skills ever.

To gain a domain, there were a lot of skills needed for it.

The first one was domainhood, a mystical state where one gains control over his area. It was the main skill as even the mages seemed to acknowledge this part.

The second skill was spell linking. Reve had talked about this before.

Spell Linking was the ability to link the effects of two or more spells together. For example, if the right conditions are met, the possessor of this spell would be able to link the magic circles for [fireball] and [ice shard] together, creating a union spell with attributes of both spells.

Now, this may sound easy, but one needs to understand that the attributes of two or more different spells would always contradict, so an impressive feat of control was needed.

Spell Linking was a variant of Layered Casting, another skill that was needed for his domain to work.

The third most important skill was the ability to successfully activate the domain spell. It was very easy to lose control over this spell. This was to be expected as a domain is operated by a single domain spell.

It was delicate and, thus, could backfire on the mage easily. At the academy, some teachers recounted how some of their friends lost their lives when studying domains.

‘I need to be careful,’ cautioned Reve.

While he was in a hurry for greater strength, he wasn’t going to compromise his safety in doing so.

Back to the topic, apart from those three main skills, there were other skills that could easily vie for the main three. Skills like Layered Casting, Multi-Casting, Chain casting.

‘The others would heavily depend on the domain spell, and some of them I already have. So, I need to focus on the main three skills.’

‘Scratch out domain spell since it would only be useful after I have mastered the other skills. Spell Linking is something I haven’t mastered, but I am already well on my way to mastery. So, I’m left with domainhood, huh?’

If Reve remembered correctly, Circe had once made a random comment about how domainhood could be attained through meditation.

Now that he thought of it, he could see a certain direction worth pursuing.

Domainhood was a state most associated with meditation. As long as he tried advancing his meditative state, he could find his way to domainhood.

‘Ahhh, finally, the period of advancement is near!’

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Day in. Day out.

Reve’s routine was a tough one.

Apart from a few unique events, Reve’s lifestyle was almost too robotic.

He would train in the morning and inspect the training of the first generation in the afternoon. After he was done, he would continue his training at Devil’s cave.

Sometimes, some of the first generation like to watch him. So, he changed their training. The current one wasn’t that different. The only change was that it now included study hours.

While Reve took his breaks at Devil’s cave, he would be ambushed by Marya, who had plenty to say. The loud lady had somehow found her way to him.

She had also found her way to his organization.

Reve lamented the time when he discovered Marya had created a sub-group under the Tribe of Somnia called the Secret Order. Apparently, she was grooming one prospect mage among the first generation.

What was even more shocking was that she was teaching the young female mage the other magic arts, like alchemy, enchantment, pseudo-divination.

Reve couldn’t possibly deter her. Well, he tried to since she was taking everything too seriously, but since when did his words ever stop her?

That day, he wept at the fact that he was only the leader of The Tribe of Somnia in name only.

Anyway, back to the topic, Reve’s training routine continued till the night when he would rest by reading books and studying magic spells.

The latter was necessary. Reve needed to expand his array of magic spells. For someone of his level, it was embarrassingly small.

Of course, there were sometimes when he wouldn’t be able to train due to external factors. Those factors came in the form of events, meetings, or even little things like a friend coming over.

Since he didn’t have that many friends, Tribe of Somnia’s activities caused most of his irregular time.

As the leader of the organization and only known member, he had to be present anytime the tribe was invited to an underworld ball or meeting.

It was vexing, but he had to do it.

However, nowadays, Reve guessed he was just too much of an influence to be casually invited, as he rarely receives invitations anymore.

After all this while, the Tribe of Somnia had finally reached the point he envisioned. It was small progress, but well enough for now.

Having survived through the chaotic period, the tribe had cemented its position as one of the top underworld organizations in Starhold.

It had gotten to the point where dragontail expanded to other regions through the help of Black Viper. His tribe was well known, and it just needed time to enter the upper echelon of the Underworld.

He had even started a project with Marya. The project was about finding another magical drug that can stand side-by-side with dragontail. Marya was given full control over the project.

She had dedicated her time to experimenting with all sorts of recipes.. Having gained a vast wealth, Reve was in the position to cover for her wastage.