"Huh…. So, this is your new body, eh buddy?"

"So, is it working properly?"

Ariava stared at the dungeon master as it started inspecting its new body.

At first the appearance of the dungeon master looked similar to its long limbed form… However, it limbs weren't just plainly shaped. They were very well made and they were no longer fully wooden.

Joints were metallic while area around its chest, waist, feet, arms and head looked reinforced.

Not only that, but unlike before where it normally it kept somewhat humanoid appearance, this time was different as the dungeon master had an extra pair of arms that were fully operational.

"So, you want with four limbs, eh? Let me guess, for crafting and combat?"

"YES" – puppet replied by taking out piece of paper with reply written on it.

(Having extra set of limbs should make job easier… But I think I will need some time to somewhat get used to them.) – thought Thauma as he started moving around his body.

"…"

"Welp, I guess everything is working fine…. But after the last checkups, I'm already saying this."

"We will be practicing magic."

[Few moments later.]

"From what I know, you do now how to precisely use mana, but at basic level since you lacked enough mana to conduct any real practices when it came down to mana."

"And learning both mana handling and magic will be necessary if you want to advance your golem research."

"So, let us see what you have."

"From what I know you have acquired two different affinity magics."

"The element of mana magic, the arcane magic."

"And element of earth, the earth magic."

"Arcane magic is one of most common and easiest to use types of magic, while earth magic is focuses on controlling earth, for example creating an fist made out rocks and also straightening it, causing the first to gain so much power that it would be able to destroy metallic shield."

"When it comes to affinities…. It depends on the people."

"Some prefer an mastery over one or two elements, making them extremely strong in that area OR focus on learning multiple affinities in order to be more versatile."

"But for now we should only focus on your two affinities you have obtained."

"Now, besides affinities there are multiple different ways of using magic." – said Ariava as she took out different pieces of papers.

"When it comes down to magic, you need to learn the "form" of your magic."

"For example, this."

"[Ignite]." – above Ariava finger an small flame manifested.

"[Flame Magic: Ignite], is a magic that has simple goal, make a small fire."

"This is something called "Deistaiontion" magic, an magic with simplest form and function."

"Next is this."

"{Burn in my palm and show me the light: [Fire Lanter]}." – Ariava opened her palm, manifesting an sphere of bright fire.

"This is called "Chanting" type of magic."

"Changing is an form of support where you either use it to manifest some magic much more easier or strengthen it."

"Some spells requires chant to be activated."

"Chanting isn't really necessary and honestly, that chant I just did was completely useless."

"However, some people that don't have yet strong connection with fire element, their control is lacking or they are having some other problems, they would use chants to help them stabilize the their spells."

"You don't really need to say chat out loud, you can whisper it or say it in your head."

"However, you do it ONLY when you need it. The base chanting is only meant to help when it comes down to casting IF you are having problems."

"In short, chanting could be consider… Pretty much useless."

"But! There are huge expectation for this."

"Some magic require special form of chanting or form of symbolisms that is necessary to activate specific form of magic."

"Now, there is a magic circle."

"Magic circle is this thing." – said Ariava as she snapped her finger and magical circle appeared.

"Magic circle is somewhat to the core coding, simple put its commands or to be more specific a gate way."

"This gateway is something you control and use to manifest magic through it."

"Complicated and powerful spells will require use of magic circle."

"Magic circle can also be used to modify or change spells."

"When it comes to "destination" and "magic circle", the difference is clear, but is also sometimes unnecessary."

"Sometimes people are so good at one specific form of magic that they can easily recrate some not extremely complicated magics without help of magic circle."

"However, this can be used with spells that are not that complicated, simple put there is a limit."

"AND there is interesting thing."

"You can do it in reverse."

"Turning non magic circle spells into magic circle spells."

"For example, look at this."

"[Fire Bolt]."

Ariava aimed with her hand and fired off an bolt of fire from her palm that hit the training dummy.

"I didn't used magic circle, right?"

"Then how about this?"

"[Fire Bolt Barrage]!"

Ariava manifested an giant magic circle in front of her before then using it to fire off a barrage of fire bolt all at once at the dummy, bombarding it.

"I've use magic circle version in order to upgrade the very simple spell."

"However, I can use this spell without using magic circle…. Now, are there any downsides of using magic circle? Sure, there are."

"Magic circle are manifested using your own energy A.K.A mana."

"The more powerful the circle and more complicated it is, the more mana it would use."

"And there is also one more important thing."

"As I had said before with chanting, that some spells requires chanting no matter what, there are also spells that cannot operate at all without magic circle."

"Or some spells may end up taking an huge hit in their performance."

"There are also some people that use magic circle for the very basic beginner level spells when since they could have some problems w

"…"

"Honestly, there is still… Well, there is extremely LOT of things we need to talk about and disuses about magic, since magic isn't really something you can just pick up and master in few days or something, it is physically impossible."

"Like the swordsman that needs to learn the way of handling the sword, so does the mage needs to learn the ways of handling magic."

"The things I've just said are pretty much the very minimal amount of informations you will need for now on the start, but later on I will have you to give you some other lessons."

"I will also give you some books containing knowledge about magic, so you won't have to just hear me and run my mouth all the time."

"But for now, let's us start our first lesson."

<<Learning proper magic was…. Bit complicated.>>

<<I think I now understand firsthand when she said that I would only start practicing magic.>>

<<The basic usage of magic was…. Well, it wasn't complicated or hard…. But learning how to cast properly spells. Was…. Hard.>>

<<Just as when it comes down to crafting, the magic had different forms, purposes and paths.>>

<<Honestly…. I don't know if I would use the magic as my main weapon or not…. I'm more used to claws and weapons.>>

<<Still, I can't say that I'm not interested… If anything, I may really needed it to improve my golems.>>

<<….. And besides the magic there was also another change.>>

<<My growth rate.>>

<<I've….. I've started to grow!>>

<<Unlike it took days to even see small change, but now? My skills growth had started moving at "proper rate" according to Ariava.>>

<<Not only that, but learning and improving my craft had also became much more easier after obtaining this brand new body I've had crafted myself and this brand new core is doing its job way better than I've could had ever imagined.>>

<<Not only that, but learning magic helped me better at handling mana crafting that normally took AGES to even improve a bit AND thanks to having more mana, I can now properly train mana crafting, without relying on Ariava when it came down to everything mana related.>>

<<Before when we were making golem core, the part of a work I was doing was design, but the one that really used mana was Ariava since I've lacked enough mana to do my own work when it came down to creating this golem core that is inside of my body now.>>

<<All I've I could do was observe and take notes…. But now?>>

<<NOW I could practice not some very basic stuff that require minimal amount of mana which also caused my research to take extremely slow steps….. I'm….. THIS GROWTH!>>

<<IT IS UNLIKE ANYTHING BEFORE!>>

<<Was I really THAT slow when it came to growth!? Was I really THAT pathetic?!>>

<<This is…. I think I'm really an bran new being right now!>>

<<I've only recently assembled this body and finally implanted this core…. But this….. ABONORMAL?!>>

<<….>>

<<No….. I was really….. I was really just a prey back then…. THIs is the truth.>>

<<I've never really grown stronger before…. The thing I did before… They did not made me "strong enough".>>

<<Honestly…. She said before that there was no need for the reinforcements to come here and destroy me… She said that they could beaten me if they calmed down and didn't rushed things…. Honestly… I've only thought that she said that to scare me…. But seeing it now from my new perspective?>>

<<I was dead.>>

<<They really could have killed me if they didn't panicked.>>

<<…. And this isn't enough.>>

<<This body is not enough!>>

<<According to her, I've could still had lost if I fought them right now in this new body.>>

<<I'm not "developed" …. I need to continue learning, improving…. And modifying this entire body.>>

<<There is so much to learn! So much to improve!>>

<<…..>>

<<…>>

<<And honestly…. This is fun!>>

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